CHU

CHAMBERING, n. (Lat. camera = a chamber) sensual living: Rom. 13. 13; in pursuit whereof men seek corners and dark places (Latimer's Rem., p. 18). Affected motions, chambering, splendid and swelling words.

H. Vaughan, iš. p. 240.

CHAMPAIGN, n. (Lt. campus = a plain; Ital. campagna) flat country: Dt. 11. 30. Serrave is situated in a champaign, at the edge of the wolds,

Burton's Anat., p. 332.

CHANGEABLE, adj. (Fr. changer, to change) of garments - that may be changed to have many changes of raiment was a sign of wealth and luxury): Isa. 3. 22. This is the simple sense of the original, but possibly in A. V. it shot, as that word is now used of silk.

Thy doublet of changeable taffeta.
Shaks. Twelfth N., ii. 4. 77.

CHAPITER, n. (Lat. capitulum, Fr. chapitre) the capital of a column: Ex. 36. 38, &c.

CHAPMAN, n. (A. S. ceapmann, Germ. kaufmann =) a merchant 2 Chron. 9. 14. The first syllable is connected with cheap, cheapen, chaffer, which at first had only the sense of market, marketing. Cp. Cheapside, Chipping, Chepstow, i.e. place of market (see Bestow). Soformerly, 'good cheap' bon marché - cheap.

After chapman's wonted guise, What strange contents the title did rehearse

Nash's Pierce Pennilesse, p. 92. CHAPT, adj. cracked, Jer. 14. 4 (of the ground). Akin to chip, chop, &c.

CHARGE (to give in), v. t. (Fr. charger, to load. So) to lay as a load, to enjoin as a duty or obligation, to prescribe, order, command: 1 Tim. 5. 7. CHARGEABLE, adj. burdensome, a cause of expense: 1 Thes. 2.9. I hear some complain that all things be now so chargeable.

Lever's Serm., p. 115.

CHARGER, n. (Fr. charger, to load: still used of guns. Same root in

[GLOSSARY.]

CIELED, p. p. This word should be written seeled. To seel a room was to wainscot it: 2 Chron. 3. 5, &c. From a false spelling the word has been connected with Lat.ca: lum heaven, Fr. ciel, and is used now of the roof of a room only. Thou which hast thy cicled chainber, furred stomacher, and good cheer.

Bp. Pilkington's Works, p. 55. CITHERN, n. (Gk. kithara, Germ. zither), guitar: 1 Mac. 4. 54. A kind of harp; form unknown. CLEAN, adv., entirely, quite: Josh.

3. 17, &c.

You can not only look through a millstone, but clean through the mind.

Lyly's Euphues, p. 289. CLEAVE, v. i. (A. S. clifan=) to stick to: Gen. 2. 24, &c. The O. E. clip to embrace, to hold to. The caterpillar cleareth unto the ripest fruit. Lyly's Euphues, p. 3. CLOSET, n. (Lat. clausus, Eng. close, cloister) any closed private room: Mat. 6. 6.

In a closet of the church there is St. Hilary's bed to be seen.

Burton's Anat., p. 29. CLOUTS, (A. S. cleot, a patch) patches, rags: Jer. 38. 11, 12. Children play with babies of clouts (ie. rag dolls). Burton's Anat., p. 20. CLOUTED, p. p. patched: Josh. 9. 5. See Cast.

feet.

I put my clouted brogues from off my Shaks. Cymb., iv. 2. 214. COAST, n. (Lat. costa, a rib-side.) Used in O. E. for any border-land, 1 Sam. 5. 6.

God, throughout all coasts of the world,

hath them that worship him.

Edward VI.'s Catechism, p. 47. COCKATRICE, n. (a corruption of the word crocodile, Fr. cocatrix, O. Eng. cockedrill. The change in the spelling led to the fable of an animal hatched by a cock from the egg of a viper.) In the A. V. the name is used as adder, Prov. 23. 32, and margin: Isa. 11. 8; 14. 29, &c. The cockatrice was fabulously reported to fascinate or kill by its glance, like the basilisk.

They will kill one another by the look, like cockatrices, Shaks. Twelfth N., iii. 4. 215.

CON

COME BY, v. t. to acquire, to get

hold of: Acts 27. 16.

He is loth to come by promotion so dear. I

Earie's Microresinag, P. H

COMFORT, n. and v. t. late Lat. confortare, to strengthen. from. Latin fortis, strong. Hence strength, support: Job le. 20; Ps. ' 119. 50, &c. and as verb. = to strengthen: Gen. 18. 5; Jude. 19. 5, 8; Ps. 23. 4, &c.

They saw there was no comfort coming, to him (ie, troops to aid him i

L'Berners' Froissart, L. 46. Comfort is that by which in the n of all our sorrows we are confortati, LR¦ strengthened. Ep. Andrews, IL 13,

COMMEND, v. t. (Lat. com mendert ¦

to procure favour for. Hence, Rom. 3. 5, to set off, make illus trions. The Gk. more nearly = establish.

COMMON, adj. (Lat. commi= shared in by all. So comanos death, such as happens to all; Num 16. 29: common salvation, offered to all; Jude 3: common faith; Tit. 1. 4: common bread, of which all may eat; 1 Sam. 21. 4. And thence as a term for all things of general use which the Law prohibited to Jews, and therefore unclean : Mark 7. 2, marg; Acts 10. 14: Rom. 14. 14, marg.

COMMUNE, v. i. (Lat. communi common. So) to make me " our thoughts, to converse, confer: Ex. 25. 22; 1 Sam. 19. 3.

COMPASS, n. Fr.compom, a cir

cuit. The expression to fetch a compass', Sam. 5. 23; 2 Kin. 3.9; Acts 28. 13 to go round abom, make a circuit; and to compen sea and land to spare no pains: Mat. 23. 15.

The ends of the island. fetching about a compass of 500 miles, fashion it the to the new moon.-More's Ctupan, bà. E. 1 COMPREHEND, T. t. (Lat, coa m together, prehendo to take bold of. So) lit. to bring together, collect, include: Is. 40. 12; Rom. 13, 9. Į CONCISION, (fr. Lat. comade, to cut) is used as a terin of contempt, ; instead of circumcision: Phil. 3.2 i

laid, a dish: Mt. 14. 8; Mk. 6. 25. An altar loaded with plate, flagons, beakers, salts, chargers, casting-bottles.

"Albumazar" (in Dodsley), L. 3. 91. CHARGES, n. (Fr. charger, to load; hence) something laid upon a man, cost, expense: Acts 21. 24.

They might buy honey cheaper than being at such charges in keeping of bees.

Nash's Pierce Pennilesse, p. 71. CHARITY, n. (Lat. caritas =) love, 1 Cor. 13. The Gk. word is translated love in many places in N. T.; charity has now lost that sense. CHEER, n. (Fr. chère) the aspect of the face. So, 'be of good cheer' =show the signs of happiness in your countenance: Mat. 9. 2, &c. So, CHEERFUL = with round happy face: Prov. 17. 13.

Bid your friends welcome, show a merry cheer.-Shaks. Mer. of Ve., iii. 2. 314. CHURL, n. (A. S. ceorl, a peasant, serf) a rude and miserly person: Isa. 32. 5, 7. So CHURLISH, adj. rude, ill-natured: 1 Sam. 25. 3. Although churis be niggards, and will not part with it.

Bp. Pilkington's Works, p. 150.

Ecclus. 30. 9.

COCKLE, n. (A.S. cocel =) darnel, tares: see Job 31. 40, margin.

Good seed degenerates, and into corkle strays. Donne's Verse Letters, p. 39. COLLOPS, n. (perhaps Lat. and Gk. colaphusa slap, which word is cognate with slab, and so, perhaps, is clap with collop. The word pat has similarly the two senses of a stroke and a small portion.) Slices of flesh, slices generally: Job 15.27. I have no salt bacon, Collops for to maken. Piers Plowman, 4969. Make them restore back such a collop out of their gain. North's Plutarch, p. 146. COLONY, n. (Lat. colonia) of Romans sent out to occupy some important portion of a conquered district, e.g. Philippi at the time of St. Paul's visit: Acts 16. 12.

COLOUR, n. (Lat. color=) a pretext: Acts 27. 30.

Under this eclour and pretence the king hath gathered abundance of money. More's Utopia, p. 59.

class together, to comprise in one. list: Rom. 11. 32; Gal. 3. 2 CONCUPISCENCE, n. Lat. comm piscential ardent desire, lust: Col. 3. 5; 1 Thes. 4. 5.

One love expelleth another, and the remembrance of the latter quencbeth the concupiscence of the first.

Lyly's Euphers, In. CONEY, n. a rabbit: Lev. 11.5, ko. Old Eng. form coayag. Etymology uncertain, perhaps conn with Germ. königa king, both words having at first the sense of knowBohemian ing, clever. cunning. word for rabbit little king.

Applause makes men fat and lean, se frost doth conics.-Burton's Amat., p. LING

CONFECTION, n. (Lat. confectio any compound made up by an apothecary: Ex. 30. 35.

Your humour is not to be purged by the apothecaries' confections.

Lyly's EupAres, 596 In 1 Sam. 8. 13, the derived nona CONFECTIONARIES makers of unguents, sweetmeats; confec tioners.

COT

CONFIDENCES, n. (fr. Lat. confido

to trust in.) Objects in which trust is placed: Jer. 2. 37. CONFOUND, v. t. (Lat. confundo, to pour together). Now mostly = to confuse. But in A. V. a stronger sense often belongs to this word, for in Jer. 1. 17, it is used for the same Hebrew word which in Isa. 9. 4 is rendered to break: it sometimes means to break in pieces, destroy: Ps. 35. 4; Zech. 10. 5.

As a galled rock doth overhang, and jutty his confounded base.

Shaks. Henry V., iii, 1. 13.

CONSCIENCE, n. (Lat. conscientia) knowledge, a knowledge within one's self, consciousness: 1 Cor. 8.7; Heb. 10. 2.

Whoe'er thou be, That hast the noble conscience, thou art she.

Donne's Elegy on Prince Henry, l. 92. CONSENT, v. i. (Lat. consentire) to agree with. In Ps. 50. 18, the original means thou didst take pleasure in'; the A. V. Thou consentedst with them' seems to imply active participation; cp. Acts 8. 1.

CONSORT, v. i. (fr. Lat. consors,

one who casts in his lot with others) to associate with: Acts 17. 4.

Let's not consort with them.

Shaks. Mucb., il. 3. 141.

[GLOSSARY.]

dovecote.) Sheepfolds, 2 Chr.32. 28;
cp. 1 Sam. 24. 3.
Watching where shepherds pen their
flocks at eve,
In hurdled cotes.

Milton's Par. Lost, iv. 186.

COUNTERVAIL, v. t. (Lat. contravaleo-to prevail against) to counterbalance: Esther 7. 4.

The three fleets did hardly make the benefit of the voyages to countervail the charge. Howell's Letters, 4. 12. CRACKNEL, n. a biscuit: 1 Kin. 14. 3 (so called from the crackling noise made when it is broken).

Cakes, simnels, buns, cracknels made with butter. Burton's Anat., p. 146. CRAFT, n. (A. S. craft strength:

preserved

crock.

Sink'st thou in want, and is thy small cruse spent?-Quarles' Emblems, iii., The Entertainment.

munion.

Rubric after Marriage Service. CONVERSANT, adj. (fr. Lat. conર CONVERSATION, n. 3 versor = to associate and live with) abiding with: Josh. 8. 35; 1 Sam. 25. 15. The noun is employed disposi tion (Heb. 13. 5), citizenship (Phil. 3. 20), and manner of life (Gal. 1. 13).

Choose friends with whom they may seem, being asunder, to be conversant. Lyly's Euphues, p. 48. The love of a court conversation drew him often from Cambridge.

Walton's Life of Herbert. Earth was the common seat, their conversation

In saving love, and ours in adoration.
Lord Brooke's Of Monarchy, i. 5.

CONVERT, v. i. (Lat. converto-to turn) to be converted: Isa. 6. 10.

Let us learn to contert, to repent, and ammend our lives.-Latimer's Serin,. p. 31. CONVINCE, v. t. (Lat. convinco, to overcome and so to convict.) (1) To convict: John 8. 46.

Then might the wise convince me of folly. Lyly's Euphues, p. 179. (2) To refute by argument: Job 32. 12, &c. See Lightness.

O that persuasion could but thus convince me.-Shaks. Troil., iii. 2. 171. COTES, n. (A. S. cot, cyte-a small shed. The root is found in cottage,

to encumber, to occupy wastefully: Luke 13. 7. CUMBERED, i.e. troubled, distracted: Lk. 10. 40. CUMBRANCE, Dt. 1. 12, trouble

someness, worry.

Despise costly apparel be it never so Lyly's Euphues, p. 111.

D.

DEF

that temporal chastisements are the 'damnation' or 'doom' contemplated by St. Paul there. In 2 Pet. 2. 3, the Greek word is different and destruction. "Damnable heresies', 2 Pet. 2. 1, is literally 'heresies of destruction', the same Gk. word rendered destruction in that same verse.

DAY, n. (Lat. dies, a day.) Sometimes signifies appointed time'. So the day of the Lord' = the time when He will interpose : Isa. 2. 12, &c.

DAYSMAN, n. an umpire, arbitrator: Job 9. 33. In 1 Cor. 4. 3, 'man's judgment' is in the Gk. man's day (i.e. trial by man). The notion of fixing a day for a trial may have given rise to the word.

Some common arbitrators or dayamen in every town, that made a friendly composition between man and man.

Burton's Anat., p. 47.

DAYSPRING, n. break of day, before sunrise: Job 38. 12; Lk. 1.78; cp. Judg. 19. 25; Ps. 65. 8.

We trudge and we trot from dayspring to midnight. Roister Doister, p. 33.

DEAL, n. (A. S. dol, G. theil =) a part, portion, Exod. 29. 40, &c.: (from A.S. dælan, to divide, which survives in the verb to deal, e.g. cards, justly). Dole is a more common form now. 'Tenth deal' = tenth part. So the verb to deal with to give a share or portion to: Gen. 19. 9, &c. Halfendeal= half part.

The heavenly lamps were halfendeal y-brent. DEAR, adj. (A.S.deōre) beloved, preSpenser's F. Q, iii. 10. 53. cious, of great value, Ps. 72. 14; 116. 13, Pr. Bk. Ver.; Acts 20. 21, &c. So dearth first implies costli ness, and then the scarcity which makes things costly.

DEBATE, n. (Fr. débattre, to struggle) active and physical contention: Isa. 58. 4; Rom. 1. 29; 2 Cor. 12. 20. Comp. bate = quarrel. 'Make-bate' a fosterer of quarrels; see margin, 2 Tim. 3. 3; Tit. 2. 3.

DEBTOR, (Lat. debitor= one under an obligation, not necessarily connected with money. Hence) one who feels, or is, bound to do something: Rom. 1. 14; Gal. 5. 3. DECEIVABLENESS, n. (L. decipio

to deceive.) Deceptiveness: 2
Thes. 2. 10. The adj. deceivable ==
deceptive, is very common, the
noun rare.

This is a deceivable argument.
Latimer's Serm., p. 116.

DECLARE, v.t. (L. declarare =) to
make clear, explain. Pr. Book
Collect for 11th Sund. after Trin.,
'O God, who declarest thy al
mighty power most chiefly in
shewing mercy and pity'.
DECLINE, v. i. (Lat. declino) to
deviate: Ex. 23. 2; Deut. 17. 11.
My mind is to set forth the sense of
God's Word, and not to decline from the

same.

DEFENCED, p. p. (Lat. defendo = Ridley agst. Transubstantiation. to defend.) Of towns - fortified: Isa. 25. 2, &c. (like Fenced).

In high and defenced towers we are safe from the enemy.

Cawdray's Treas. of Similics, p. 555.

DIS

DELECTABLE, adj. (Lat. delectabilis) delightful: Isa. 44. 9.

To disport in some pleasant plain must needs be a delectable recreation. Burton's Anat., p. 240.

See Mount. DELICATES, n. (Lat. delicia-delightful things) dainties: Jer. 51. 34. &c.; Ecclus. 30. 18; 31. 3.

She spared not to feast her friend with all kinds of delicates.

Lyly's Euphues, 51. So the adv. DELICIOUSLY and DELICATELY, Rev. 18.7; Prov. 29.21, &c. luxuriously. In 1 Sam. 15. 32, Agag came unto him delicately', the Heb. = pleasantnesses, and perhaps indicates the cheerfulness of the king's manner, as his life had been spared, and he thought himself out of danger. DELIGHTSOME, adj. delightful:

Mal. 3. 12.

The poet by his delightsome vein, so gulled the ears of men.

Webbe's Dise. of Engl. Poetrie, p. 32. DEMAND, v. i. (Fr. demander =) to ask, 2 Sam. 11. 7; Lk. 3. 14, &c.; without any notion of asking with authority. So Require (which see.) See Muse.

To them that demand what fruits the poets of our time bring forth, thus I answer. Nash's Pierce Pennilesse, p. 41. DEPUTY, n. used as a translation of the Roman pro-consul's title (Sergius Paulus, Acts 13. 7,8; Gallio, Acts 18. 12; 19. 38), Lord deputy was the former title of lordslieutenant of Ireland.

Cambyses was a great Emperor, such another as our Master is; he had many lord-deputies under him.

Latimer's Serm., p. 79. DESCRIBE, v. t. (Lat. describere= write down). So, mark out: Josh. 18. 6, &c. DESCRY, v. t. (O. Fr. descrier) to raise a cry on discovering something) then to discover, reconnoitre, spy out: Judg. 1. 23. DESIRED, p. p. (Lat. desiderium, regret for, and missing of what is removed. So =) missed, regretted, (not) desired: 2 Chr. 21. 20. DESPITE, n. (Lat. despicio= to despise.) To do despite' to treat with contempt: Heb. 10. 29.

My lord hath thrown such despite upon her. Shaks, Oth., iv. 2. 116.

DETERMINATE, p. p. (Lat. determinatus marked out by boundaries) determined, fixed: Acts 2. 23. A worm on earth to rebel against the Lord's determinate pleasure in heaven!

Bp. Pilkington's Works, p. 418. DISANNUL, v. t. (Fr. annuler=) to bring to naught: Job 40. 8, &c. The prefix dis strengthens this word; cp. dissever, to undo. DISANNULLING, n. Heb. 7. 18. If any one word be misplaced all is disannulled. Burton's Anat., p. 48. DISCIPLINE, n. (Lat. disciplina=) instruction: Job 36. 10.

Womankind is no less apt than men are to take all manner of disciplines or faculties of learning.

Udall's Apopth. of Erasmus, p. 31.

DISCOMFIT, v. t. (Fr. déconfire-) to put to flight, Ex. 17. 13, &c., to scatter, disperse (of armies). Jonathan and his page discomfited all the host of the Philistines.

Bp. Pilkington's Works, p. 134. DISCOVER, v. t. (dis a negative prefix, and Fr. courrir to cover) to uncover, lay bare: Ps. 29.9, &c. Marvel not that I discover so much of our estate to thee.

Nash's Pierce Pennilesse, D. 77.

[GLOSSARY.]

DISPOSITION, n. (Lat. dispositioTM administration) appointment : Acts 7.53.

We are not at our own disposition, but

are still commanded by Lucifer.

Nash's Pierce Pennilesse, p. 77.

DISSOLVE, v. t. (dis and Lat. solto = to loose) to solve difficulties, 'doubts': Dan. 5. 12: (rare). DISTAFF, n. (A. S. distaf) the staff which spinners roll the flax upon: Prov. 31. 19.

Truly a dista doth better become a maiden than a lute.

Lyly's Euphues, p. 194. DIVERS, adj. (Lat. diversus = turned different ways) various, different Dent. 22. 9, &c.

Thus divers men with divers veins did write. Gascoigne's Steel Glass, p. 46. DIVINE, v. i. (Lt. divinare to fore

tell). Hence to use divination'== (1) to discover what was unknown, as Joseph did by Divine endowment, Gen. 44. 15; (2) to foretell (or pretend to foretell) the future: Ezek. 13. 9, &c. So DIVINER, Deut. 18. 14, DIVINATION. DIVORCEMENT, n. (Lat.divortium =) a divorce: Dent. 24. 1. &c. Divorcements and such mischiefs to the evil example and slander of our realm. Latimer's Serm., p. 34. DOCTOR, n. (L.doctor) a teacher: Luke 2. 46; 5. 17; Acts 5. 34. DOCTRINE, n. (L.doctrina-) teaching. In his doctrine' = As he was teaching: Mark 4. 2.

DOTE, v. i. (Dut. doten, dotten =) to be foolish: Jer. 50, 36: 1 Tim. 6. 4.

Noah preached, and was called an old dotyng fool. Latimer's Serm., p. 96. (2) To dote upon, show foolish fondness: Ezek. 23. 5, &c.

She, sweet lady, dotes upon this inconstant man.-Shaks. Mid, N. D., i. 1. 108.

DOUBLE TO, Job 11. 6 double. DRAG, n. (A. S. dragan to draw) a large fishing net, Hab. 1. 15, 16; cp. John 21. 8, dragging the net, Lk. 5. 9, draught of fishes. DRAUGHT, n. (from the same root as drab, drabble, draff, dregs, all conveying the idea of refuse, dirt) a privy; so Mat. 15. 17; Mk. 7. 19. DRAUGHT-HOUSE, 2 Kin. 10. 27. This year a Jew fell into a draught on a Saturday, and would not be drawn out for the reverence of his sabbath day. Grey Friar's Chronicle, p. 3. Muckhills, draughts, sinks.

Burton's Anat.. p. 156. DREAD, n. and DREADFUL, adj. (A.S. andradan to fear.) These words often signify not terror, but awe and reverence: e.g. Ge. 28. 17; Mal. 1. 14; Is. 8. 13. DREDGE, n. (Fr. dragee =) mingled corn, Job 24. 6, inarg., where the word is so explained. In later English it is called mestin.

Take thee all kinds of grain, wheat and barley and beans and lentiles and fitches, and make bread of this meslin.

Bp. Hall's Hurd Texts (Ezek. 4. 9.)

DUKE, n. (Lat. dur == a leader.) The

title was extinct in England in 1611 when the A. V. was made, and the word was used in its literal sense of any chief: Gen. 36. 15, &c. The excellent dukes and judges, Joshua, Gideon, and other more.

Coverdale's Works, p. 70.

DULCIMER, n. Dan. 3. 5, &c. A primitive sort of harpsichord, played by striking the strings with hammers. But the Hebrew word

ENL

gives no clue to the kind of instrument intended.

DURE, v. i. (Lat. durare, Fr. derer

to last, endure: Mt. 13. 21. The participle of this verb still survives in during, now used like a preposition.

For in this wo I may no longer dare
Chaucer's Man of Law, line 133.

E.

EAR, v. t. (Lat. aro, A. S. erian' to plough: Deut. 21. 4. &c. (Hence earth, arable, i.e, earable ground. EARING, part. as n., Gen. 43. 6, &c. They set debate between their lords, By earing up the balks that part their bounds.

Gascoigne's Steel Glan, p. EARNEST, n. (0. Fr. erres, W. ernes, Lat. arrha, all having the sense of earnest-money paid to clench a bargain. The form perhaps originally Hebrew. A pistes or security: 2 Cor. 1. 22; 3. 3; 1 Eph. 1. 14.

Take it, it is an earnest of a further good that I mean to thee. Shaks. Cymb, L5 &

EDIFY, v. t. (Fr. édifer, Lat. edi
Acare) to build: Rom. 14. 19, 46.
EDIFICATION, n. Rom. 15.2. Used
in Scripture of building up the
moral and spiritual character.
Shall we think that a few preachers may
suffice to edify the spiritual temple of
Christ? Grindal's Kering, p. 23.
ELEMENTS, n. (Lat. elementa =) |
rudiments: Gal. 4. 9. This &E-
sion to the ABC of one learning
to read compares the poverty of
legal observances with the fulness
of blessing offered by the Gospel.
The Law was a poor stepping
stone to the fuller revelation
Christ.

EMERODS, n. (Gk. kæmorrhoides -
Piles (the disease: 1 Sam. 5, 6, &c.
EMULATION (L.amulatio), rivalry : ¦
Ro. 11. 14, envy, jealousy: Galla
An envious fever of pale and blowes
emulation.
Shaks, Troi, 1 2 134

ENABLE, v.t. (Lat. habilis) to make · able, qualify; 1 Tim. 1. 12

Men have entered into a desire of learning sometimes to enable them Do victory of wit.

Bacon's Advancement, LL11 ENCHANTMENT, n. (Lat, incestamentum =) incantation, magic powers: Ex. 7. 11, &c.

Some mist had bleared mine eyes, or some strange enchim me altered my mind. Lyly's Aupdues, p. 444. ENDAMAGE, v. t. (Fr, endommager to endanger), damage, Ezra &.15; cp, endure, dure; entangle, &c. The deceitful physician recourteth al things that may end am ng his patent Lyly's Lugshines, p. 172 ENDEAVOUR, v. i. (connected with Fr. devoir duty; Lat, debere to owe. For the prefix ep. edamage.) To work at as at a solemn duty: Eph. 4. 3; 2 Pet. 1. 15 Much stronger than modern use. I'll endeavour deeis to match these words. Shaks Trea!,, iv. 5. 1580 Often used redexively, as 'datly endeavour ourselves to follow the blessed steps of His most bolj life'.-Pr.Bk. Col. 2 S. after Easter. ENLARGE, v. t. to set at large, to release, to set free: 1 Sam. 2. 1; Ps. 4. 1; 18. 36, &c. Enlarge the man committed yesterday. Shaks. Henry F., IL 2. al

EXO

Hence ENLARGEMENT: Esth. 4. 14.

They would go near to poison his keepers if that might procure his enlargement. Nash's Pierce Pennilesse, p. 14. ENSAMPLE, n. (Lat. exemplum =) an example: Phil. 3. 17, &c.

For his meekness and his good deed
Take ensimple here of Pers.

Robt. Brunne's Handlyng Synne, 5939. We still use sample, sampler. ENSIGN, n. (Fr. enseigne, Lat. insigne) a standard, a banner, flag: Num. 2. 2; Is. 5. 26, &c.

Let a Roman and a British ensign wave friendly together.-Shaks. Cymb. v. 5. 480. ENSUE, v. t. (Fr. ensuire, Lat. insequor) to follow after, 1 Pet. 3. 11, to pursue and overtake: as in Ps. 34. 14, P. B. Vers.

With close following

One reason doth another so ensue.
Davies' Orchestra, 94. 6.

ENTREAT, v. t. (L. tractare) to
treat, Acts 7. 6, &c. [EVIL.]
Fairly let her be entreated.

Shaks Rich. II., 3, 1. 37.

ERE, adv. (A. S. ar=) before: Ex. 1. 19.

There will be many Cæsars ere such another Julius.-Shaks. Cymb., iii. 1. 12. ESCHEW, v. t. (Old Fr. eschiver, eschuir) to flee from, shun (shy): Job 1. 1.

How should a man know to eschew vices ?
Nash's Pierce Pennilesse, p. 57.

We have the root still in shy.

[GLOSSARY.]

F.

ESPY, v. t. (Fr. expier, Lat. aspicere FASHION, n. (Fr. façon =) the make

=) to look at, to observe, discover (spy): Gen. 12. 27.

The bee, when she espieth the fair flower flieth to the sweetest.

Lyly's Euphucs, p. 58, ESTATE, n. (L. status)=(1) condition, 1 Chron. 17. 17; Lk. 1. 48, &c., used exactly as state is in Gen. 43. 7. So mind, body, or estate', Pr. Bk. See Discover. Advertise me by letters what estate thou art in. Lyly's Euphues, p. 431. (2) rank, order, Acts 22. 5; Mk. 6. 21. So Pr. Bk. Coll. for Good Friday, all estates of men in thy holy church'.

Here is meet matter for all estates. Latimer's Serm,, p. 26. EVANGELIST, n. (Gk. euangelistes =) a bringer of good tidings, 2 Tim. 4. 5; cp. O. E. gospeller. A minister of the early church appointed to assist the Apostles : Acts 21. 8; Eph. 4. 11.

EVENTIDE, n. evening: Gen. 24. 63. TIDE, (A. S. tid, G. zeit ==) time. Smil'd like to a clear and rosy eventide. Davies' Orchestra, 14. 2. EVIDENTLY, by evidence: Gal. 3. 1. EVIL, adv. ill, 'evil entreated', &c.: Ex. 5. 22, &c. EVILFAVOUREDNESS, n. (from favour look, countenance, which see) ugliness: Deut. 17. 1.

Death and hell took... this evil-favoured face of sin Latimer's Serm., p. 186. EXCHANGER, n. (Fr. changer) a money changer, banker: Mt. 25. 27. EXERCISED, p.p. (Lat. exercitatus) trained, made familiar: 2 Pet. 2.14.

Toby, a man likewise exercised in affliction, saith. Grindal's Remains, p. 101. EXORCIST, n. (Gk. horkos - an oath, or adjuration.) One who by adjurations professes to cast out evil spirits: Acts 19. 13.

You may add the knavish impostures of juzzlers. exorcists, mass-priests, and mountebanks.-Burton's Anat., p. 280.

of anything, Gen. 6. 15; James 1. 11; manner, form: Lk. 9. 29, &c. See Foursquare, Will.

There be many buildings almost like in fashion to the buildings of Gallia. Lyly's Euphues, p. 247. He will, after his sour fashion, tell you what hath proceeded.

Shaks, Jul. Cæsar, i. 2. 180.

FAST, adv. (1) close by (cp. hard by), near, Ruth 2. 8; (2) firmly set, fixed: Ps. 33. 9.

(1) Most opportune I have a vessel rides fast by. Shaks, Wint. Tale, iv. 4. 512. (2) Stand fust, Titinius; we must out and talk. Shaks. Jul. Cæsar, v. 1. 22. FAT, n. (A. S. fæt, Germ. fass) a vessel; now a vat: Joel 2. 24; 3. 13. Our English belly-gods shall not grow so like dry fats as they do.

Nash's Pierce Pennilesse, p. 51. FAT, v. t. (A. S. fætt fat) to fatten, make fat: Lk. 15. 23.

It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse. Lyly's Euphucs, p. 104. FAVOUR, n. (Fr. faveur =) favour. But the word is constantly used= face, expression: Prov. 16. 15, &c. Sowell' or 'ill-favoured' = good or ill-looking.

To alter favour ever is to fear.

Shaks. Macb., i. 5. 73.

FEAR, n. meaning an object of fear. God is called the fear of Isaac': Gen. 31. 42, 53; cp. Prov. 1. 26, 27. All these bold fears, thou seest with peril I have answered.

Shaks. 2 Pt. Henry IV., iv. 5. 196. FELLOES, n. (A. S. fælge) = the curved pieces forming the circumference of a wheel: 1 Kings 7. 33. The more frequent form is fellies. Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel. Shaks. Hamlet, ii. 2. 517.

FELLOW, n. (A. S. felaw)

comIn Pr.

panion: Judg. 7. 13, &c. Bk., Ps. 45. 15, fellows is used for A. V. companions (of virgins). Cp. fellow heirs, -helpers, -labourers. Yonder lady o'er her fellones shows.

Shaks. Rom, and Jul., i. 5, 51. Keep your fellows' counsels and your Shaks. Much Ado, iii. 3. 92.

own.

FOR

Also used contemptuously, e.g. this fellow: 1 Sam. 21. 15, &c.

If a gallows were on land this fellow could not drown. Shaks. Temp., v. 1. 218. FETCH, v. t. in 'fetch a compass' (which see) to make a circuit, go round about: Acts 28. 13. As if they cared not to go to hell, so be it were not the nearest way, but that they might fetch a far compass round about. Fuller's Holy State, ii, 12. FILL, n. enough to satisfy: Lev. 25. 19; Dt. 23. 24, &c. 'Ye shall eat your fill', i.e. till ye are satisfied.

I shut my glass before you gazed your fill. Gascoigne's Steel Glass, p. 82. FINE, v. t. (Germ. fein) delicate, FINING, n.(fy metals: Job 28. 1, &c. FINER, n. thin. To refine, to puri

As gold is wont to be fined, so shall the whole world be purified with fire.

Edward VI's Catechism, p. 39. FIRMAMENT, (Lat. firmamentum

a prop or stay). The A. V. rendering of the Gk. stereoma (LXX.) represents the old idea that the sky was a fixed dome, The Heb. word in Gen.1. 6--the expanse, and so the verb is translated in He that spread forth the earth', Isa. 42.5.

FIRSTLING, n. the first offspring: Gen. 4. 4, &c. In the Bible used only of animals.

A shepherd next came with the firstlings of his flock. Milton's Par. Lost, xi. 437. FITCHES, n. (Lat. vicie) vetches (the word's present form), Isa. 28. 25; Ezek. 4. 9; but the plant intended is some kind of rye or wheat.

The fitch is one of the pulses whose tender branches trail upon the ground. Gerard's Herbal., p. 1051

FLAG, n. the Iris or Flower-de-luce:
Ex. 2. 3, &c. The Heb. weed,
probably the papyrus reed.
The water flag is like unto the garden
FLAGON, n. (Fr. flacon =) a flask, a
flower-de-luce. Gerard's Herb., p. 45.
large bottle, Is. 22. 24. In 2 Sam.
6. 19; 1 Chron. 16. 3; Song 2. 5
Hos.3.1, 'flagon' or 'flagon of wine'
should be 'cake of raisins'.

One frisks and sings and cries, A flagon
more To drench dry cares,
Quarles' Embl., i. 8.

flow.