Through these labyrinths, not my grov'ling wit, But thy silk twist, let down from heav'n to me, Did both conduct and teach me, how by it To climb to thee. About his chin the twist He ty'd, and soon the strangled soul dismiss'd. Dryden. 4 Contortion; writhe. Not the least turn or twist in the fibres of any one animal, which does not render them more proper for that particular animal's way of life than any other cast or texture. 5. The manner of twisting. Addison. Jack shrunk at first sight of it; he found fault with the length, the thickness, and the twist. Arbuthnot. TWI'STER. n. s. [from twist.] 1. One who twists; a ropemaker. 2. The instrument of twisting. To this word I have annexed some remarkable lines, which explain twist in all its senses. When a twister a twisting will twist him a twist, For the twisting of his twist he three twines doth intwist; But if one of the twines of the twist do untwist, He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine Wallis. To TWIT. v. a [edpitan, Sax.] To sneer; to flout; to reproach. When approaching the stormy stowers We mought with our shoulders bear off the sharp showers, And sooth to saine, nought seemeth sike strife, That shepherds so twiten each other's life. Spenser. When I protest true loyalty to her, She twits me with my falsehood to my friend. Shakesp. Esop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what's amiss. L'Estrange. This these scoffers twitted the Christians with. Tillotson. Galen bled his patients, till by fainting they could bear no longer; for which he was twitted in his own time Baker. To TWITCH. v. a. [zpiccian, Sax.] To vellicate; to pluck with a quick_motion; to snatch; to pluck with a hasty motion. He rose, and twitch'd his mantle blue, Milton. Mighty physical their fear is ; To TWITTER. v. n. 1. To make a sharp tremulous intermitted noise. This must be done ; Swallows twitter on the chimney-tops. Dryden. They twitter chearful, till the vernal months Invite them back. Thomson. 2. To be suddenly moved with any inclination. A low word. A widow which had a twittering toward a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the job. L'Estrange. TWITTER. n. s. 1. Any motion or disorder of passion; such as, a violent fit of laughing, or fit of fretting. The ancient errant knights Won all their ladies hearts in fights, To put them into amorous twitters. Hudibras. The moon was in a heavy twitter, that her cloaths never fitted her. L'Estrange. 2. An upbraider. TWITTLETWA'TTLE. n. s. reduplication of twattle.] [A ludicrous Tattle; gab ble. A vile word. Insipid twittletwattles, frothy jests, and jingling witticisms, inure us to a misunderstanding of things. L'Estrange. TWIXT. A contraction of betwixt. Twilight, short arbiter 'twixt day and night. Milton. Two. adj. [twai, Goth. rpu, Sax.] 1. One and one, Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth; Between two blades, which bears the better temper; Between two horses, which doth bear him best; Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye, I have some shallow spirit of judgment. Shakesp. Three words it will three times report, and then the two latter for some times. Bacon's Natural History. Fifteen chambers were to lodge us two and two They lay By two and two across the common way. Dryden. 2. It is used in composition. Next to the raven's age, the Pylian king Was longest liv'd of any two-legg'd thing. Dryden. Her register was a two-leaved book of record, one page containing the names of her living and the other of her deceased members. Ayje Two'EDGED. adj. [two and edge.] Har ing an edge on either side. Pape Clarissa drew, with tempting grace, A twoedg'd weapon from her shining case. Two'FOLD. adj. [two and fold.] Dou ble; two of the same kind; or two different things coexisting. Our prayer against sudden death importeth 1 twofold desire, that death when it cometh may give us some convenient respite; or if that be des nied us of God, yet we may have wisdom to p vide always before-hand. Through mirksom air her ready way she makes, Her twofold team, of which two black as pitch, And two were brown, yet each to each unlike Did softly swim away. Fairy Queen O thou! the earthly author of my blood, Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate, Doth now with twofold vigour life me up, To reach at victory above my head, Add proof unto mine armour with thy prayers, And with thy blessings steel my lance's point. Shaker Our twofold seas wash either side. Drydes Time and place, taken for distinguishable por tions of space and duration, have each of them a twofold acceptation. Locke Ewes, that erst brought forth but single lambs, Now dropp'd their twofold burdens. Holiness may be taken in a twofold sense: for that external holiness, which belongs to persons or things, offered to God; or for those internal graces which sanctify our natures. Atterbury TWO'FOLD. adv. Doubly. A proselyte you make twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. Matt. xxiii. 15. TWO'HANDED. adj. [two and hand. Large; bulky; enormous of magni tude. With huge twohanded sway, Brandish'd aloft, the horrid edge came down, Wide wasting. Milton's Paradise Log. If little, then she 's life and soul all o'er; An Amazon, the large twohanded whore. Dryden Two'PENCE. N. s. A small coin, valued at twice a penny. You all shew like gilt twopences to me. Shakesp To TYE. v. a, To bind See TIE. TYE. n. s. See TIE. A knot; a bond or obligation. Yet, gracious charity! indulgent guest! Were not thy pow'r exerted in my breast, My speeches would send up unheeded pray'r: The scorn of life would be but wild despair: A tymbal's sound were better than my voice, My faith were form, my eloquence were noise. Prior. YMPANITES. n. s. [Tupπaning.] That particular sort of dropsy that swells the belly up like a drum, and is often cured by tapping. 'Y'MPANUM. n. s. A drum; a part of the ear, so called from its resemblance to a drum. The three little bones in meatu auditorio, by firming the tympanum, are a great help to the Wiseman. hearing. Y'MPANY. n. s. [from tympanum, Lat.] A kind of obstructed flatulence that swells the body like a drum; the wind dropsy. Hope, the Christian grace, must be proportioned and attemperate to the promise; if it exceed that temper and proportion, it becomes a tumour and Hammond. tympany of hope. He does not shew us Rome great suddenly, adj. [typique, Fr. typicus, Lat.] Emblematical; figu rative of something else. The Levitical priesthood was only typical of the Christian; which is so much more holy and honourable than that, as the institution of Christ is more excellent than that of Moses. Hence that many coursers ran, Hand-in-hand, a goodly train, To bless the great Eliza's reign; And in the typic glory show What fuller bliss Maria shall bestow. TYRANNICALLY. adv. [from tyrannical.] In manner of a tyrant. Atterbury. TYRANNICIDE. n. s. [tyrannus, and cado, Lat.] The act of killing a tyrant. Prior. TYPICALLY. adv. [from typical.] In a typical manner. This excellent communicativeness of the divine nature is typically represented, and mysteriously exemplified by the Porphyrian scale of being. Norris. TYPICALNESS. n. s. [from typical.] The state of being typical. To TY'PIFY. v. a. [from type.] To figure; to shew in emblem. The resurrection of Christ hath the power of a pattern to us, and is so typified in baptism, as an engagement to rise to newness of life. Hammond. Our Saviour was typified indeed by the goat that was slain; at the effusion of whose blood, not only the hard hearts of his enemies relented, but the stony rocks and vail of the temple were shattered. Brown's Vulgar Errours. TYPOGRAPHER. n. s. [Túros and yęápw.] A printer. The little body grew so large and high. Suckling. TYPOGRAPHICAL. adj. [from typo Others, that affect A lofty stile, swell to a tympany. Roscommon. graphy.] Pride is no more than an unnatural tympany, 1. Emblematical; figurative. that rises in a bubble, and spends itself in a blast. L'Estrange. 2. Belonging to the printer's art. Nor let thy mountain-belly make pretence Of likeness; thine's a tympany of sense. A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ, TYPOGRAPHICALLY. adv. [from typographical.] 2. After the manner of printers. But sure thou'rt but a kilderkin of wit. Dryden. 1. Emblematically; figuratively. He that has a little tyny wit, Clean renouncing The faith they have in tennis, and tall stockings, Short bolster'd breeches, and those types of travel, And understanding again the honest men. Shakesp. Thy emblem, gracious queen, the British rose, Type of sweet rule, and gentle majesty. 2. That by which something future is prefigured. Informing them by types And shadows of that destin'd seed to bruise The serpent, by what means he shall achieve Mankind's deliverance. Prior. Milton. The Apostle shews the Christian religion to be in truth and substance what the Jewish was only in pe and shadow. Tillotson. 3. A stamp; a mark. Not in use. Thy father bears the type of King of Naples, Yet not so wealthy as an English yeoman. Shakesp. What good is cover'd with the face of heav'n' To b discovered, that can do me good? -Tn' advancement of your children, gentle lady! -Up to some scaffold, there to lose their head! -No, to the dignity and height of fortune, The high imperial type of this earth's glory. Shak. Which, though in their mean types small matter doth appeare, Yet both of good account are reckon'd in the shiere. Drayton. 1. A printing letter. 10 TYPE. v. a. To prefigure. He ratified ceremonial and positive laws, in respect of their spiritual use and signification, and cy fulfilling all things typed and pre-figured by tbem.. White. TYPOGRAPHY. n. s. [typographie, Fr. typographia, Lat.] 1. Emblematical, figurative, or hieroglyphical representation. Those diminutive and pamphlet treatises daily published amongst us, are pieces containing rather Brown's Vulgar Errours. typography than verity. 2. The art of printing. TYRANNESS. n. s. [from tyrant.] A she tyrant. They were, by law of that proud tyranness, Provok'd with wrath and envy's false surmise. Spenser. The tyranness doth joy to see The huge massacres which her eyes do make. Spenser. TYRANNICAL. adj. [tyrannus, Lat. TYRANNICK. tyrannique, Fr. TugasVIOS.] Suiting a tyrant; acting like a tyrant; cruel; despotick; imperious. Charge him home that he affects Tyrannick power. Shakesp. Coriolanus. You have contriv'd to take From Rome all season'd office, and to wind Yourself into a power tyrannical. Shakesp. Domitian had been tyrannical; and in his time many noble houses were overthrown by false accuBacon. The whole world's mistress, other than a queen; All had been rivals, and you might have spar'd, Or kill'd and tyrannis'd without a guard. Waller. He does violence to his own faculties, tyrannises over his own mind, and usurps the prerogative that belongs to truth alone, which is, to command by its own authority. Locke. TYRANNOUS. adj. [from tyrant.] Tyrannical; despotick; arbitrary; severe, cruel; imperious. Not in use. It is strange to see the unmanlike cruelty of mankind, who, not content with their tyrannous ambition to have brought the others virtuous patience under them, think their masterhood nothing without doing injury to them. Sidney. Lately grown into a loathing and detestation of the unjust and tyrannous rule of Harold, an usurper. Spenser. Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father, And, like the tyrannous breathing of the north, Shakes all our buds from blowing. Shakesp. "Tis excellent TYRANT. n. s. [rugavos; tyrannus, Lat. Rowland contends that this word, with the correspondent Greek and Latin, is derived from tir, Welch and Erse, land, and rhanner, Welch, to share; q. d. tirhanner a sharer, or divider of land among his vassals.] 1. An absolute monarch governing imperiously. 2. A cruel, despotick, and severe master; an oppressor. Love to a yielding heart is a king, but to a resisting is a tyrant. Sidney. I would not be the villain that thou think'st For the whole space that's within the tyrant's grasp, And the rich east to boot. Shakesp. Macbeth. Dissembling courtesy! how fine this tyrant Can tickle where she wounds! Shakesp. Cymbeline. The house of woe, and dungeon of our tyrant. Milton. Consider those grand agents and lieutenants of the devil, by whom he scourges and plagues the world under him, to wit, tyrants; and was there ever any tyrant who was not also false and perfidious? South. Thou mean'st to kill a tyrant, not a king. Dryd. When tyrant custom had not shackled man, But free to follow nature was the mode. Th TYRE. n. s. [properly tire.] See TIRE I have seen her beset and bedecked all over v emeralds and pearls, ranged in rows above them of her head. Habre TY'RO. n. s. [properly tiro, as in the Lat One yet not master of his art; one in his rudiments. There stands a structure on a rising hill, Where tyros take their freedom out to kill. Garth's Dispensary VAC VHAS two powers expressed in modern English by two characters, V consonant and U vowel, which ought to be considered as two letters; but as they were long confounded while the two uses were annexed to one form, the old custom still continues to be followed. U, the vowel, has two sounds; one clear, expressed at other times by eu, as obtuse; the other close, and approaching to the Italian u, or English oo, as obtund. V, the consonant, has a sound nearly approaching to those of b and f. With b it is by the Spaniards and Gascons always confounded, and in the Runick alphabet is expressed by the same character with f, distinguished only by a diacritical point. Its sound in English is uniform. It is never mute. VACANCY. n. s. [from vacant.] 1. Empty space; vacuity. How is 't, That thus you bend your eye on vacancy, 2. Chasm; space unfilled. The reader finds a wide vacancy, and knows not how to transport his thoughts to the next particular, for want of some connecting idea. Watts's Logick. 3. [Vacance, Fr.] State of a post or employment when it is unsupplied. They were content to bribe them with the nomination of some bishops, and disposal of the revenues of some churches during the vacancies. Lesley. In the vacancy of a bishop, the guardian of the spiritualities was summoned to parliament in the bishop's room. Ayliffe. 4. [Vacances, Fr.] Time of leisure; relaxation; intermission; time unengaged. If, sometimes, each other's eyes we meet, Those little vacancies from toil are sweet. Dryden. The daily intervals of time and vacancies from necessary labour, together with the one day in seven in the Christian world, allow sufficient time. Watts. 5. Listlessness; emptiness of thought. When alone, or in company, they sit still without doing any thing, I like it worse; for all dispositions to idleness or vacancy, even before they are habits, are dangerous. Wotton. VACANT. adj. [vacant, Fr. vacans, Lat.] 1. Empty; unfilled; void. VAC 1. Intermission of juridical proceedings, or any other stated employments; recess of courts or senates. Why should the air so impetuously rush into the cavity of the receiver, if there were before no vacant room to receive it? Royle. A better race to bring into their vacant room. Milton. Free; unencumbered; uncrowded. Religion is the interest of all; but philosophy of those only that are at leisure, and vacant from the affairs of the world. More's Divine Dialogues. A very little part of our life is so vacant from uneasinesses, as to leave us free to the attraction of 2. remoter good. Locke. Not filled by an incumbent, or possessor. Lest the fiend invade vacant possession. Milton. Others, when they allowed the throne vacant, thought the succession should immediately go to Swift. the next heir. Being at leisure; disengaged. They which have the government scatter the army abroad, and place them in villages to take their victuals of them, at such vacant times as they lie not in the camp. Spenser. vacant. Sir John Berkley was the more vacant for that service, by the reduction of Barnstable. Clarendon. Besides those portions of time which the necessities of nature and of civil life extorted from him, there was not a minute of the day which he left Fell. The memory relieves the mind in her vacant moments, and prevents any chasms of thought, by ideas of what is past. 5. Thoughtless; empty of thought; not busy. The wretched slave, Addison. Who with a body fill'd, and vacant mind, To VACATE. v. a. [vaco, Lat.] 1. 2. To annul; to make void; to make of no authority. That after-act vacating the authority of the precedent, tells the world that some remorse touched even Strafford's most implacable enemies. King Charles. The necessity of observing the Jewish sabbath was vacated by the apostolical institution of the Lord's day. Nelson. Vacation is all that time which passes between term and term at London. Cont As these clerks want not their full task of labour during the open term, so there is for them whereupon to be occupied in the vacation only. Bacon's Office of Alienaton Leisure; freedom from trouble or perplexity. Benefit of peace, quiet, and vacation for plety have rendered it necessary, in every Christia... commonwealth, by laws to secure propriety. Hammond's Fundamentals VACCARY. n. s. [vacca, Lat.] A cowhouse; a cow-pasture. Bailey. VACI'LLANCY. n. s. [vacillans, from racillo, Lat. vacillant, Fr.] A state of wavering; fluctuation; inconsistency. Not much in use. I deny that all mutability implies imperfection, though some does, as that vacillancy in humat souls, and such mutations as are found in corporea. More's Divine Dialogue matter. VACILLATION. n. s. [vacillatio, from vacillo, Lat. vacillation, Fr.] The act or state of reeling or staggering. The muscles keep the body upright, and prevent its falling, by readily assisting against every vacillation. Deria VACUATION. n. s. [from vacuus, Lat.] The act of emptying. Dict. VACUIST. n. s. [from vaccum.] A philosopher that holds a racuum: opposed to a plenist. Those spaces, which the vacuists would have to be empty, because they are manifestly devoid of air, the plenists do not prove replenished with subtile matter. Boyle. VACU'ITY. n. s. [vacuitas, from vacuns, Lat. vacuité, Fr.] Space unfilled; space unoccupied. 1. To make vacant; to quit possession of: as, he vacated the throne. 2. In filling up vacuities, turning out shadows and ceremonies, by explicit prescription of substantial duties, which those shadows did obscurely repreHammond's Fundamental. He, that seat soon failing, meets A vast vacuity. Naiton Body and space are quite different things, and & vacuity is interspersed among the particles of Bentley. matt r. God, who alone can answer all our longings, and fill every vacuity of our soul, should entirely possess our heart. Rogers Redeeming still at night these vacuities of the day. Fell. 3. Inanity; want of reality. The soul is seen, like other things, in the mirror of its effects: but if they'll run behind the glass to catch at it, their expectations will meet with vacuity and emptiness. Glanville. VACUOUS. adj. [vacuus, Lat. vacué, Fr.] Empty; unfilled. Boundless the deep, because I AM who fill Infinitude: nor vacuous the space. Milton's P. Lost. VACUUM. n.s. [Lat.] Space unoccupied by matter. Our enquiries about vacuum, or space and atoms, will shew us some good practical lessons. Watts. To VADE. v. n. [vado, Lat.] To vanish; to pass away. Spenser. A word useful in poetry, but not received. Be ever gloried here thy sovereign name, That thou may'st smile on all which thou hast made; Whose frown alone can shake this earthly frame, And at whose touch the hills in smoak shall vade. Wotton. Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Their prayers by envious winds Blown vagabond or frustrate. VAGABOND. n. s. [from the adjective.] 1. A vagrant; a wanderer; commonly in a sense of reproach. We call those people wanderers and vagabonds, that have no dwelling-place. Raleigh's Hist of the W. Reduc'd, like Hannibal, to seek relief From court to court, and wander up and down A vagabond in Afric. Addison's Cato. 2. One that wanders illegally, without a settled habitation. Vagabond is a person without a home. Watts. VAGARY. n. s. [from vagus, Lat.] A wild freak; a capricious frolick. They chang'd their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell, As they would dance. Milton's Paradise Lost. Would your son engage in some frolic, or take a vagary, were it not better he should do it with than without your knowledge? Locke on Education. VAGINOPE'NNOUS. adj. [vagina and penna, Lat.] Sheath-winged; having the wings covered with hard cases. VA'GOUS. adj. [vagus. Lat. vague, Fr.] Wandering; unsettled. Not in use. Such as were born and begot of a single woman, through a vagous lust, were called Sporii. Ayliffe. VAGRANCY. n. s. [from vagrant.] A state of wandering; unsettled condition. VA'GRANT. adj. Wandering; unsettled; vagabond; unfixed in place. Do not oppose popular mistakes and surmises, or vagrant and fictitious stories. More's Div. Dialog. VOL. II. Prior. Her lips no living bard, I weet, May say how red, how round, how sweet; Old Homer only could indite Their vagrant grace, and soft delight: They stand recorded in his book," When Helen smil'd, and Hebe spoke. VA'GRANT. n. s. [vagant, Fr.] A sturdy beggar; wanderer; vagabond; man unsettled in habitation. In an ill sense. Vagrants and outlaws shall offend thy view, Train'd to assault, and disciplin'd to kill. Prior. You'll not the progress of your atoms stay, Nor to collect the vagrants find a way. Blackmore. To relieve the helpless poor; to make sturdy vagrants relieve themselves; to hinder idle hands from being mischievous, are things of evident use. F. Atterbury. Ye vagrants of the sky, To right or left unheeded take your way. VAGUE. adj. [vague, Fr. vagus, Lat.] 1. Wandering; vagrant; vagabond. Pope. Gray encouraged his men to set upon the vague villains, good neither to live peaceably, nor to fight. Hayward. 2. Unfixed; unsettled; undetermined; indefinite. The perception of being, or not being, belongs no more to these vague ideas, signified by the terms whatsoever and thing, than it does to any other ideas. Locke. VAIL. n. s. [voile, Fr. This word is now frequently written veil, from velum, Lat. and the verb veil, from the verb velo; the old orthography commonly derived it, I believe rightly, from the French.] 1. A curtain; a cover thrown over any thing to be concealed. While they supposed to lie hid in their secret sins, they were scattered under a dark vail of forgetfulness. Wisdom. 2. A part of female dress, by which the face and part of the shape is concealed. 3. Money given to servants. It is commonly used in the plural. See VALE. To VAIL. v. a. To cover. See VEIL. To VAIL. v. a. [avaler le bonet, Fr. Addison writes it veil, ignorantly.] 1. To let fall; to suffer to descend. They stiffly refused to vail their bonnets, which is reckoned intolerable contempt by seafarers. Carew. The virgin 'gan her beavoir vale, And thank'd him first, and thus began her tale. Fairfax. 2. To let fall in token of respect. Certain of the Turks gallies, which would not vail their topsails, the Venetians fiercely assailed. Knolles's History. Before my princely state let your poor greatness fall, And rail your tops to me, the sovereign of you all. Drayton. Let no man speak again To alter this; for counsel is but vain. Vain is the force of man, Shakesp To crush the pillars which the pile sustain. Dryd. 2. Empty; unreal; shadowy. 3. 4. 5. Before the passage horrid Hydra stauds, Gorgons, Geryon with his triple frame, And vain Chimera vomits empty flame. Dryd. Æn. Unmov'd his eyes and wet his beard appears; And shedding vain, but seeming real tears. Dryd. Meanly proud; proud of petty things: with of before the cause of vanity. No folly like vain glory; nor any thing more ridiculous than for a vain man to be still boasting of himself. L'Estrange. He way'd a torch aloft, and, madly vain, Sought godlike worship from a servile train. Dryd. The minstrels play'd on every side, Vain of their art, and for the mastery vy'd. Dryd. To be vain is rather a mark of humility than pride. Vain men delight in telling what honours have been done them, what great company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these honours were more than their due, and such as their friends would not believe, if they had not been told: whereas a man truly proud thinks the honours below his merit, and scorns to boast. Swift. Ah friend! to dazzle let the vain design; To raise the thought, and touch the heart, be thine. Pope. Here learn the great unreal wants to feign, Unpleasing truths here mortify the vain. Savage. Ye vain! desist from your erroneous strife; Be wise, and quit the false sublime of life; The true ambition there alone resides, Where justice vindicates, and wisdom guides. Young. Shewy; ostentatious. Load some vain church with old theatrick state. Pope. Idle; worthless; unimportant. Both all things vain, and all who in vain things Build their fond hopes of glory, or lasting fame, Or happiness. Milton's Paradise Lost. He heard a grave philosopher maintain, That all the actions of our life were vain, Which with our sense of pleasure not conspir'd. Denham. To your vain answer will you have recourse, And tell us 'tis ingenite active force. Blackmore. 6. False; not true. 7. In vain. To no purpose; to no end: ineffectually; without effect. vain. Milton. He tempts in vain. Providence and nature never did any thing in L'Estrange. Strong Halys stands in vain; weak Phlegys flies. Dryden. The philosophers of old did in vain enquire, whether summum bonum consisted in riches, hodily Locke. delights, virtue, or contemplation. If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. Addison's Spectator. If from this discourse one honest man shall receive satisfaction, I shall think that I have not written nor lived in vain. West on the Resurrection. VAINGLORIOUS. adj. [vanus and glorio sus, Lat.] Boasting without performances; proud in disproportion to desert. Vain-glorious mau, when fluttering wind does blow, Spenser. In his light wings is lifted up to sky. Strength to glory aspires Vain-glorious, and through infamy seeks fame. Milton. This his arrogant and vain-glorious expression witnesseth. Fiale. VAINGLORY. n. s. [vana gloria, Lat.] Pride above merit; empty pride; pride in little things. He had nothing of vain-glory, but yet kept state and majesty to the height; being sensible, that majesty maketh the people bow, but vainglory boweth to them. Bacon's Henry VII. Expose every blast of vain-glory, every idle thought, to be chastened by the rod of spiritual discipline. Taylor. This extraordinary person, out of his natural VALENTINE. n. s. A sweetheart chosen 2. Value. A sense not used. Now all nature seem'd in love, Wotton. aversion to vain-glory, wrote several pieces which VALET. n. s. [valet, Fr.] A waiting he did not assume the honour of. Addison. A monarch's sword when mad vain glory draws, Not Waller's wreath can hide the nation's scar. VAINLY. adv. [from vain.] Pope. 1. Without effect; to no purpose; in vain. Our cannon's malice vainly shall be spent Against th' invulnerable clouds of heav'n.Shakesp. In weak complaints you vainly waste your breath; They are not tears that can revenge his death. 2. Proudly; arrogantly. Dryden. Humility teaches us to think neither vainly nor vauntingly of ourselves. Delany. 3. Idly; foolishly. Nor vainly hope to be invulnerable. Milton. If Lentulus be ambitious, he shall be vainly credulous; presuming his advancement to be decreed by the Sybilline oracles. Grew's Cosmologia. VAINNESS. n. s. [from vain.] The state of being vain. Pride; falsehood; emptiness. Is richly furnished with plate and gold; decorate with drapery. Old friend, thy face is valanc'd since I saw thee last; com'st thou to beard me? Shakesp. VALE. n. s. [val, Fr. vallis, Lat.] In Ida vale: who knows not Ida vale? adj. [valetudi servant. Physic, ty purging noxious humours, prevents Shifting from the warmer vallies to the colder hills, or from the hills to the vales, is a great henefit to the valetudinarian, feeble part of mankind. Derham Some patients have been liable to this symptom, and reduced by it to a valetudinary and very unequal state of health. Blackmore Shakes To thee and thine But you, loud Sirs, who through your curls kok Criticks in plume, and white vallancy wig. Drud VALLEY. n. s. [vallée, Fr. vallis, Lat.] A low ground; a hollow between hills. Vallies are the intervals betwixt mountains. Cold of winter, by stopping the pores of perspiration, keeps the warnith more within; whereby there is a greater quantity of spirits generated in healthful animals, for the case is quite otherwise in valetudinary ones. Cheyne's Philosoph. Prin. Valetudinarians must live where they can command and scold. VA'LIANCE. n. s. [from valiant; vail-VA'LOROUSLY. adv. [from valorous.] In lance, Fr.] Valour; personal puissance; a brave manner. fierceness; bravery. Not in use. Spenser. With stiff force he shook his mortal lance, Farewel, kind lord; fight valiantly to-day; As hotly and as nobly with thy love, It eats the sword it fights with. Shak. Ant. and Cles, For contemplation he, and valour form'd; Milten Valour gives awe, and promises protection to those who want heart or strength to defend themselves. This makes the authority of men ameng women; and that of a master-buck in a numeroas herd. Temple's Miscellanies. VALUABLE. adj. [valable, Fr. from value.] Thy valiantness was mine; thou suck'dst it from 1. Precious; being of great price. Shakesp. Achimetes having won the top of the walls, by 2 Worthy; deserving regard. the valiantness of the defendants was forced to retire. Knolles. Since our knights and senators account To what their sordid, begging vails amount; Judge what a wretched share the poor attends, Whose whole subsistence on those alms depends. Dryden. His revenue, besides vales, amounted to thirty pounds. Swift. VALEDICTION. n. s. [valedico, Lat.] A 1. farewel. A valediction forbidding to weep. Donne. VALEDICTORY. adj. [from valedico, Lat.]] A difference in their sentiments as to particular questions, is no valid argument against the general truth believed by them, but rather a clearer and more solid proof of it. Stephens. VALIDITY. n. s. [validité, Fr. from valid.] Force to convince; certainty. You are persuaded of the validity of that famous verse, 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear. Pope. |