Than from the giant-angels: thee that day grand; great; noble. Proper, but little used. If these magnifick titles yet remain, Milton's Paradise Lost. 3. Thy thunders magnify'd; but to create Is greater than created to destroy. Milton. } Your matrons, and your maids, could not fill up Shakesp. Shakesp. To raise in pride or pretension. 4. To encrease the bulk of any object to 5. Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence pous. Man he made, and for him built Magnificent this world. Milton's Paradise Lost. It is suitable to the magnificent harmony of the universe, that the species of creatures should, by gentle degrees, ascend upward from us toward his perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards. Immortal glories in my mind revive, When Rome's exalted beauties 1 descry, Magnificent in piles of ruin lie. Locke. Addison. Fond of splendour ; setting greatness to shew. If he were magnificent, he spent with an aspiring intent: if he spared, he heaped with an aspiring intent. Sidney. MAGNIFICENTLY. adv. [from magnificent.] Pompously; splendidly. Beauty a monarch is, Which kingly power magnificently proves, We can never conceive too highly of God; so Heither too magnificently of nature, his handy work. Grew's Cosmol. MAGNIFICO. n. s. [Ital.] A grandee of Venice. The duke himself, and the magnificoes Of greatest port, have all proceeded with him. Shakesp. MAGNIFIER. n. s. [from magnify.] 1. One that praises; an encomiast ; an extoller. The primitive magnifiers of this star were the Egyptians, who notwithstanding chiefly regarded it in relation to their river Nilus. Brown. 2. A glass that increases the bulk of any object. To MAGNIFY. v. a. [magnifico, Lat.] As things seem large which we through mists descry, Dulness is ever apt to magnify. Pope's Essay on Cri. A cant word for to have effect. My governess assured my father I had wanted for nothing; that I was almost eaten up with the green sickness: but this magnified but little with my father. Spectator. Greatness; grandeur. MAGNITUDE. n. s. [magnitudo, Lat.] This tree hath no extraordinary magnitude, touching the trunk or stem; it is hard to find any one bigger than the rest. Raleigh. Never repose so much upon any man's single counsel, fidelity, and discretion, in managing affairs of the first magnitude, that is, matters of religion and justice, as to create in yourself, or others, a diffidence of your own judgment. King Charles. When I behold this goodly frame, this world, Of heav'n and earth consisting; and compute Their magnitudes; this earth, a spot, a grain, An atom, with the firmament compar'd. Milton Convince the world that you're devout and true; Whatever be you're birth, you're sure to be By this maiden blossom in my hand I scorn thee and thy fashion. Shakesp. Hen. VI. MAIDENHAIR. n.s. [maiden and hair; adiantum.] This plant is a native of the southern parts of France and in the Mediterranean, where it grows on rocks, and old ruins, from whence it is brought for medicinal use. June is drawn in a mantle of dark grass green, upon his head a garland of bent, king's-cup, and maidenhair. Peachum. MAIDENHEAD. MAIDENHOde. MA'IDENHOOD. n. s. [from maiden.] MAGPIE. n. s. [from pie, pica, Lat. and 1. Virginity; virginal purity; freedom mag, contracted from Margaret, as phil is used to a sparrow, and poll to a parrot.] A bird sometimes taught to talk. Augurs, that understood relations, have By magpies and by choughs, and rooks brought forth The secret'st man of blood. Shakesp. Macheth. Dissimulation is expressed by a lady wearing a vizard of two faces, in her right hand a magpie, which Spenser described looking through a lattice. Peacham on Drawing. So have I seen in black and white, A prating thing, a magpie hight, Majestically stalk; 2 Newness; freshness; uncontaminated] MAJESTY. n. s. [majestas, Lat.] The devil and mischance look big Upon the maidenhood of our affairs. Shakesp. Some who attended with much expectation, at their first appearing have stained the maidenhead of their credit with some negligent performance. Wotton. Hope's chaste kiss wrongs no joys maidenhead, The spousal rites prejudge the marriage-bed. Crashaw. MAIDENLIP. n. s. [lappago.] An herb. Ainsworth. MAIDENLY. adj. [maiden and like.] Like a maid; gentle, modest, timorous, de cent. 2. 'Tis not maidenly; Our sex, as well as I, may chide you for it. Shak. You virtuous ass, and bashful fool, must you be blushing? what a maidenly man at arms are you become? Shakesp. MAIDHOOD. n.s. [from maid.] Virginity. 3. By maidhood, honour, and every thing, I love thee. Shakesp. Twelfth Night. MA'IDMARIAN. n.s. [puer ludius, Lat.] A kind of dance, so called from a buffoon dressed like a man, who plays tricks to the populace. A set of morrice-dancers danced a maidmarian with a tabor and pipe. Temple. MAIDPALE. adj. [maid and pale.] Pale like a sick virgin. Change the complection of her maidpale peace To scarlet indignation. Shakesp. MAIDSERVANT. n. s. A female servant. It is perfectly right what you say of the indifference in common friends, whether we are sick or well; the very maidservants in a family have the same notion. MAJESTICAL. }adj. [from majesty.] Swift. 4. Surely there is more cause to fear, lest the want Not so deep a maim, The voice of the Lord is full of majesty. Sire Chuse to reside, his glory unobscur'd, Milton's Par. Lost. Shakesp. Rich. II. A noble author esteems it to be a maim in history, that the acts of parliament should not be recited. Hayward. Pope. MAIN. adj. [magne, old Fr. magnus, Lat.] 1. Principal; chief; leading. Thine, O Lord, is the power and majesty. The title of kings and queens. Most royal majesty, Dryden. I crave no more than what your highness offer'd, Waller. He, who had been always believed a creature of Dryden. 1. A coat of steel network worn for de- 1. August; having dignity; grand; im-2. Presence majestical would put him out: And bear the palm alone. Shakesp. Julius Cæs. Shak. Hamlet. In his face A royal robe he wore with graceful pride, 2. Stately; pompous; splendid. It was no mean thing which he purposed; to perform a work so majestical and stately was no Hooker. small charge. 3. Sublime; elevated; lofty. Which passage doth not only argue an infinite abundance, both of artizans and materials, but likewise of magnificent and majestical desires in Wotton Being advised to wear a privy coat, the duke Gay. Fairfax. Some wore a coat-armour, imitating scale, To MAIL. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To arm defensively; to cover, as with armour. The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit To MAIM. v. a. [maitan, Goth. to cut You wrought to be a legate; by which power Matthew xv. 31. 2. In every grand or main publick duty which God requireth of his church, there is, besides that matter and form wherein the essence thereof consisteth, a certain outward fashion, whereby the same is in decent manner administered. Hooker, There is a history in all men's lives, He is superstitious grown of late, Davies on Ireland. Which now divided into four main streamis, I should be much for open war, O peers, Main reason to persuade immediate war, Milton's Par. Lost. All creatures look to the main chance, that is, L'Estrange. food and propagation. Our main interest is to be as happy as we can, Tillotson. and as long as possible. Nor tell me in a dying father's tone, Swift. 1. Privation of some essential part; lame. 2. The sum; the whole; the general. They allowed the liturgy and government of the church of England as to the main. King Charles. MA'INPERNABLE. adj. Bailable; that| He enforced the earl himself to fly, till twenty- Blackmore. Here ten thousand images remain MA'INPRISE. n. s. [main and pris, Fr.] In tragedy and satire I maintain against some of Where's the king? Dryden. Why to its caverns should it sometimes creep, Give its poor entertainer quarter; On the lov'd bosom of its parent deep? Prior. Davies. Hudibras. To MA'INPRISE. v. a. To bail. They committed themselves unto the sea, and MA'INSHEET. n. s. [main and sheet.] The Strike, strike the top-sail; let the mainsheet fly, With sharp hooks they took hold of the tackling Defensible; justifiable. Being made lord-lieutenant of Bulloine, the walls sore beaten and shaken, and scarce maintainable, he defended the place against the Dauphin. Hayward. MAINTAINER. n. s. [from maintain.] Supporter; cherisher. He dedicates the work to Sir Philip Sidney, a special maintainer of all learning. Spenser's Pastorals. The ma ntainers and cherishers of a regular de. votion, a true and decent piety. South's Sermons. MAINTENANCE. n. s. [maintenant, Fr.] 1. Supply of the necessaries of life; suste nance; sustentation. It was St. Paul's choice to maintain himself, whereas in living by the churches maintenance, as others did, there had been no offence committed. Hooker. God assigned Adam maintenance of life, and To MAINTAIN. v. a. [maintenir,__ Fr.] The ingredients being prescribed in their sub- This place, these pledges of your love, maintain. 3. To vindicate; to justify; to support. Lord Roberts was full of contradiction in his dicular intervals of the strata, was originally 4. To continue; to keep up; not to suffer 2. Greatly; hugely. It was observed by one, that himself came hardly to a little riches, and very easily to great riches: for when a man's stock is come to that, that he can expect the prime of markets, and overcome those bargains, which, for their greatness, are few men's money, and be partner in the industries of younger men, he cannot but increase maraly. Bacon. MA'INMAST. n. s. [main and mast.] The chief or middle mast. 5. to cease. To keep up; to support the expence of. It was St. Paul's choice to maintain himself by They knew that no man might in reason take upon him to determine his own right, and according to his own determination proceed in maintenance thereof. Hooker. The beginning and cause of this ordinance amongst the Irish was for the defence and maintenance of their lands in their posterity. Spenser on Ireland 3. Continuance; security from failure. Whatsoever is granted to the church for God's honour, and the maintenance of his service, is South. granted to God. MA'INTOP. n. s. [main and top.] The From their maintop joyful news they hear plies. Addison 1. Greater in number, quantity, or extent. They bind none, no not though they be many, saving only when they are the major part of a ge neral assembly, and then their voices being more in number, must oversway their judgments who are fewer. Hooker. The true meridian is a major circle passing through the poles of the world and the zenith of any place, exactly dividing the east from the west. Brown. In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character: he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies. Watts's Logick. 3. The first proposition of a syllogism,| containing some generality. The major of our author's argument is to be understood of the material ingredients of bodies. Boyle. 4. Major-general. The general officer of the second rank. Major-general Ravignan returned with the French king's answer. Tatler. Fr.] 5. Major-domo, n. s. [majeur dome, One who holds occasionally the place of master of the house. MAJORATION. n. s. [from major.] crease; enlargement. En There be five ways of majoration of sounds: enclosure simple; enclosure with dilatation; communication; reflection concurrent; and approach to the sensory. Bacon's Nat. Hist. MAJORITY. n. s. [from major.] 1. The state of being greater. It is not plurality of parts without majority of parts that maketh the total greater. Grew's Cosm 2. The greater number. [majorité, Fr.] 3 It was highly probable the majority would be so wise as to espouse that cause which was most agreeable to the publick weal, and by that means hinder a sedition. Addison. As in senates so in schools, Majority of voices rules. Prior. Decent executions keep the world in awe; for that reason the majority of mankind ought to be hanged every year. Arbuthnot. [From majores, Lat.] Ancestry. Of evil parents an evil generation, a posterity not unlike their majority; of mischievous progenitors, a venomous and destructive progeny. 4. Full age; end of minority. Brown During the infancy of Henry the IIId, the barons were troubled in expelling the French: but this prince was no sooner come to his majority, but the barons raised a cruel war against him. Davies. 5. First rank. Obsolete. Shakesp. Hen. IV. Douglas, whose high deeds, Whose hot incursions, and great name in arms, Holds from all soldiers chief majority, And military title capital. 6. The office of a major. MAIZE, or Indian Wheat. n. s. The whole maize plant has the appearance of a reed. This plant is propagated in England only as a curiosity, but in America it is the principal support of the inhabitants, and consequently propagated with great care. Miller. Maise affords a very strong nourishment, but more viscous than wheat. Arbuthnot on Aliments, To MAKE. v. a. [macan, Sax. machen, Ger. maken, Dut.] 1. To create. Gen. i. 26. Let us make man in our image. Remember'st thou 2. To form of materials. He fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf. Exod. xxxii. 4. God hath made of one blood all nations of men. Acts. We have no other measure, save one of the moon, but are artificially made out of these by compounding or dividing them. Holder. 3. To compose: as, parts, materials, or ingredients. One of my fellows had the speed of him; Who, almost dead for breath, had scarcely more Than would make up his message. Shakesp. The heav'n, the air, the earth, and boundless 4. 5. A pint of salt of tartar, exposed unto a moist air, will make more liquor than the former measure will contain. Brown. To form by art what is not natural. There lavish nature, in her best attire, Pours forth sweet odours, and alluring sights; And art with her contending, doth aspire T'excel the natural with made delights. Spenser. To produce or effect as the agent. If I suspect without cause, why then make sport at me; then let me be your jest. When their hearts were merry they said, Call Shakesp. 9. for Samson, that he may make us sport. Judges. Give unto Solomon a perfect heart to build the palace for the which I have made provision. 1 Chron. xxix. 19. Thou hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and hast made thee a name. Jer. xxxii. 20. Joshua made peace, and made a league with them. Joshua. Both combine To make their greatness by the fall of man. Dryd. 6. To produce as a cause. 7. 8. To do; to perform; to practise; to use in action. In respect of actions within the reach of such a power in him, a man seems as free as it is possible for freedom to make him. Locke. To bring into any state or condition. I have made thee a god to Pharaoh. Erod. vii. 1. Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel. Genis Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? Exodus ii. Ye have troubled me to make me to stink an ong the inhabitants. Gen. xxxiv. 30. He made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant. Phil. ii. 7. He should be made manifest to Israel. John i. 31. Though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the 1 Cor ix. 19. more. He hath made me a by-word of the people. Job xvii. 6, Make ye him drunken; for he magnified himself against the Lord. Jer. xlviii. 26. Joseph was not willing to make her a publick example. Matthew i. 19 By the assistance of this faculty we have all those ideas in our understandings, which, though we do not actually contemplate, yet we can bring in sight, and make appear agaii., and be the objects of our thoughts. Locke. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company, and sh. wing them what a beast he made of himself. Watts. 10. To form; to settle; to establish. Though she appear honest to me, yet in other places she enlargeth her mirth so far, that there is shrewd construction made of her. Shakesp She made haste, and let down her pitcher. Gen. xxiv. 46. We made prayer unto our God. Neh. iv. 9. He shall make a speedy riddance of all in the land. Zephaniah. They all began to make excuse Luke xiv 18. 11. It hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor. To hold; to keep. Rowe. Deep in a cave the sybil makes abode. Dryden, To secure from distress; to establish in riches or happiness. Rom. xv. 26.12. The Venetians, provoked by the Turk with divers injuries, both by sea and land, resolved, without delay, to make war likewise upon him. Knolles. Such musick as before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung. He hath given her this monumental ring, and thinks himself made in the unchaste composition. Shakesp. This is the night, That either makes me, or foredoes me quite. Shak. Each element his dread command obeys, Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown, Who as by one he did our nation raise, So now he with another pulls us down. Dryden. 13. To suffer; to incur. Milton. All the actions of his life were ripped up and surveyed, and all malicious glosses made upon all he had said, and all he had done. Clarendon. Says Carneades, since neither you nor I love repetitions, I shall not now make any of what else was urged against Themistius. Boyle. The Phoenicians made claim to this man as theirs, and attributed to him the invention of letters. Hale. What hope, O Pantheus! whither can we run? Where make a stand? and what may yet be done? Dryden. 14. While merchants make long voyages by sea To get estates, he cuts a shorter way. Dryden. To what end did Ulysses make that journey? Eneas undertook it by the commandment of his father's ghost. Dryden. He that will make a good use of any part of his life, must allow a large portion of it to recreation. Locke. Make some request, and I, She may give so much credit to her own laws, as to make their sentence weightier than any bare and naked conceit to the contrary. Hooker. Lev. xxvi. 31. them void on Numb. xxx. 12. room, he set it Wis. xiii. 15. I will make your cities waste. Her husband hath utterly made the day he heard them. When he had made a convenient in a wall, and made it fast with iron. The loss was private that I made; 'Twas but myself I lost; I lost no legions. Dryd He accuseth Neptune unjustly, who makes ship wreck a second time Bacon To commit. I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I have made. Dryden. 15. To compel; to force; to constrain. That the soul in a sleeping man should be this moment busy a thinking, and the next moment in a waking man not remember those thoughts, would need some better proof than bare assertion to make it be believed. Locke. They should be made to rise at their early hour; but great care should be taken in waking them, that it be not done hastily. Locke. 16. To do: in this sense it is used only in interrogation. He may ask this civil question,-Friend! What dost thou make a shipboard? to what end? Dryden Gomez! what mak'st thou here with a whole brotherhood of city-bailiffs? Dryd. Spanish Fryar. 17. To raise as profit from any thing. He's in for a commodity of brown. pepper; off which he made five marks ready money. Shakesp. Did I make a gain of you by any of them I sent? 2 Corinthians. If Auletes, a negligent prince, made so much, what must now the Romans make, who govern it Arbuthnot. so wisely? If it is meant of the value of the purchase, it was very high; it being hardly possible to make so much of land, unless it was reckoned at a very low price. Arbuthnot. ¡8. To reach; to tend to; to arrive at: a kind of sea term. Acosta recordeth, they that sail in the middle can make no land of either side. Brown's Vulg. Err. I've made the port already, Dryden. And laugh securely at the lazy storm. I have made way Milton. Now mark a little why Virgil is so much concerned to make this marriage; it was to make way for the divorce which he intended afterwards. Dryden's Æneid. 20. To force; to gain by force. Rugged rocks are interpos'd in vain ; 31. To make away. To kill; to destroy. He will not let slip any advantage to make away Clarence was, by practice of evil persons about Trajan would say of the vain jealousy of princes My mother I slew at my very birth, and since Give poets leave to make themselves away. Rosc. When they never mean to pay, Waller. 33. To make account. To reckon; to be- They made no account but that the navy should ceremony. tary, is reckoned nine hundred miles long, run-35. To make free with. ning over rocks, and making way for rivers through mighty arches. Temple. 21. To exhibit. When thou makest a dinner, call not thy friends but the poor. Luke xiv. 12. 22. To pay; to give. He shall make amends for the harm that he hath done. Leviticus. 23. To put; to place. You must make a great difference between Hercules's labours by land, and Jason's voyage by sea for the golden fleece. Bacon. 24. To turn to some use. Whate'er they catch, Their fury makes an instrument of war. Dryden. 25. To incline to; to dispose to. It is not requisite they should destroy our reason, that is, to make us rely on the strength of nature, when she is least able to relieve us. Brown. 26. To effect as an argument. Seeing they judge this to make nothing in the world for thein. Hooker. You conceive you have no more to do than, having found the principal word in a concordance, introduce as much of the verse as will serve your turn, though in reality it makes nothing for you. 27. To represent; to show. Swift To treat without The same who have made free with the greatest names in church and state, and exposed to the world the private misfortunes of families. Dunciad. 36. To make good. To maintain; to defend; to justify. The grand master, guarded with a company of most valiant knights, drove them out again by force, and made good the place. Knolles. When he comes to make good his confident undertaking, he is fain to say things that agree very little with one another. Boyle. I'll either die, or 1 make good the place. Dryd. As for this other argument, that by pursuing one single theme they gain an advantage to express, and work up, the passions, I wish any example he could bring from them could make it good. Dryden. I will add what the same author subjoins to make good his foregoing remark. Locke on Education. 37. To make good. To fulfil; to accomplish. This letter doth make good the friar's words. Shak. 38. To make light of. To consider as of no consequence. Matth. xxii. They made light of it, and went their ways. How happy each of the sexes would be, if there 40. To make merry. To feast; to partake A hundred pound or two, to make merry withal? A gentleman and his wife will ride to make merry 41. To make much of. To cherish; to foster. The king hearing of their adventure, suddenly falls to take pride in making much of them, extolling them with infinite praises. Sidney. The bird is dead That we have made so much on! Shakesp. Cymbeline. It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first. Bacon's Essays. The easy and the lazy make much of the gout; and yet making much of themselves too, they take care to carry it presently to bed, and keep it warm. Temple. 42. To make of. What to make of, is, how to understand. That they should have knowledge of the languages and affairs of those that lie at such a distance from them, was a thing we could not tell Bacon. what to make of. past the summer here at Nimmeguen, without the least remembrance of what had happened to me in the spring, till about the end of September, and then I began to feel a pain I knew not what to make of, in the same joint of my other foot. Temple. There is another statue in brass of Apollo, with a modern inscription on the pedestal, which I know not what to make of Addison I desired he would let me see his book: he did so, smiling: I could not make any thing of it. Tatler. Upon one side were huge pieces of iron, cut into strange figures, which we know not what to make of. Swift. 43. To make of. To produce from; to effect. I am astonished, that those who have appeared against this paper have made so very little of it. Addison. 44. To make of. To consider; to account; Widows, who have tried one lover, Trust none again till th' have made mer. Hudibras. The wise betimes make over their estates. Make o'er thy honour by a deed of trust, And give me seizure of the mighty wealth. Dryd. To transfer. 47. To make over. The second mercy made over to us by the second covenant, is the promise of pardon. Hammond. Age and youth cannot be made over: nothing but Collier. time can take away years, or give them. My waist is reduced to the depth of four inches by what I have already made over to my neck. Addison's Guardian. Moor, to whom that patent was made over, was forced to leave off coining Swift. 48. To make out. To clear; to explain; to clear to one's self. Dryden. Make out the rest.-I am disorder'd so, It may seem somewhat difficult to make out the bills of fare for some suppers. Arbuthnot on Coins 49. To make out. To prove; to evince. There is no truth which a man may more evidently make out to himself, than the existence of a God. Locke. Though they are not self-evident principles, yet what may be made out from them by a wary deduction, may be depended on as certain and infallible truths. Locke. Men of wit and parts, but of short thoughts and little meditation, distrust every thing for |