ter. Like vile stones lying in saffron'd tin, To wash over a coarse or insignificant mean Or warts, or weals, it hangs upon her skin. ing, is to counterfeit nature's coin. Collier. Donne. Shall poesy, like law, turn wrong to right, In painting, the warts and moles, adding a And dedications wash an Æthiop white? Yours. likeness to the face, are not to be omitted. To WASH, V. n. Dryden. 1. To perforin the act of ablution. 2. A protuberance of trees. I will go wash; Malpighi, in his treatise of galls, under which And, when my face is fair, you shall perceive he comprehends all preternatural and morbose Whether I blush or no. Sbakspeare tumours of plants, doch demonstrate that all Wash, and be clean, 2 Kings. such warts, tumours, and excrescences, where Let each becalm his troubled breast, any insects are found, are excited or raised up Wasb and partake serene the friendly feast. by some venenose liquors, which with their eggs Pope. such insects shed; or boring with their terre- 2. To cleanse clothes. bræ, instil into the very pulp of such buds. Ray. She can wasb and scour, WA'RTWORT.N.S. (wart and wort; ver- -A special virtue; for then she need not be rucaria, Lit.) Spurge. Hinsworth. washed and scoured. Sbakspeare WA'RTY. adj. (from wart.] Grown over WASH. n. S. '[from the verb.) with warts. 1. Alluvion; any thing collected by waWA'Rworn-adj. [war and worn.] Worn with war. The wasb of pastures, fields, commons, and Their gesture sad, roads, where rain-water hath a long time settled, Invest in lank lean cheeks and warmorn coats is of great advantage to all land. Mortimer. Presented them into the gazing moon 2. A bog; a marsh; a fen ; a quagmire. So many horrid ghosts. Sbakspeart. Full thirty times hath Phæhus' car gone round WA'RY. adj. (pær, Saxon.] Cautious; Neptune's salt wasb, and Tellus' orbed ground. scrupulous ; timorously prudent. Shakspears. The best part of my power Were in the wasbes all unwarily fore it behoveth our words to be wary and few. Hooter. Devoured by the unexpected food. Shakspeare. Lcontius, their bishop, although an enemy to 3. A medical or cosmetic lotion. the better part, yet rary and subile, as all the Try whether children may not have some heads of the Arians faction were, could at no wasb to make their teeth better and stronger. Bacon. time be plainly heard to use either form. Hooker. They paint and patch their imperfections of intellectual conplections, for on a day his wory dwart had spyd, And daub their tempers o'er with wishes As artificial as their faces. Hadihras. Of captive wretched thrats, that wailed night and He tried all manner of wasbes to bring him to day: Sjensor. a better complexion; but there was no good to be done. Each thing feigned oughe more w.lry be. L'Estraige. Spenser. None are welcome to such, but those who Each warns a murier carriage in the thing, speak paint and wash; for that is the thing they Lest blind presumption work their ruining. love; and no wonder, since it is the thing they Daniel. need, South. Ochers grow wary in their praises of one, who To steal from rainbows, ere they drop in show'rs, sets too great a value on them, lest they should raise him too high in his cwn imagination. A hrichter wach. Pope Speriator. Here gallypets and vinls plac'!, Some till d with coastes, some with paste. Swift. WAS. The preterit of To Be. Enoch walked with God, and was not; for 4. A superficial stain or colour. God took him. Genesis. Imagination stamps signification upon his face, TO WASH. v, a. (pascan, Sax. W'Asschen, and tells the people he is to go for so much, who oftentimes being deceived by the w.sh, never Dutch.) examine the metal, but take him upon content. 1. To cleanse by ablution. Colfer, How fain, like Pilate, would I was's my hands 5. The feed of hogs gathered from washed Of this most grievous guilty murther done! dishes. The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar, That spoil'd your summer-fields and fruitful vines, thus washing her bands. Sbakspeare. Swills your warm blood like wasb, and makes Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and his trough cleanse me from my sin. Psalms. In your embowcll'd bosoms. Sbakspenres 2. To moisten; to wet: as, the rain 6. The act of washing the clothes of a wasbes the powers; the sea wasbes many family; the linen washed at once. islands. WASHSALL. n. s. (wash and ball.] Ball 3. To affect by ablution. I asked a poor man how he did; he said he Be baptized, and wash away shy sins. Mets. was like a wasbball, always in detay. Sins of irreligion must still be so accounted Szeift. for, as to crave pardon, and be wasbed off by re WASHER, 1. s. [froni wash.] One that pentance. Taylor. washes. Recollect the things you have heard, that they Quickly is his laundress, his wasber, and his may not be wished all away from the mind by a wringer. Shakspeare. torrent of other engagements, Watts, WA'SHPOT. 1. s. (cash and pot.) A ves4. To colour by washing. sel in which any thing is washed. made of soap. I'll use you Behold sev'n comely blooming youths appear, state of the distemper there is generally a great And in their hands sev'n golden wasbpots bear. deiection of appetite. Blackmore. Cowicy. 2. To destroy wantonly and luxuriously; Wasshy. adj. [from wash.]. to squander. 3. Watery ; damp. The people's praying after the minister, they On the washy ouze deep channels wore, say, wasteth time. Hookt. Easy, ere God had bid the ground be dry. There must be providence used, that our ship Milton. timber be not tasted. Bacas. 2. Weak; not solid. : : No ways and means their cabinet empiny, A polish of clearness, evenly and smoothly But their dark hours they waste in barren jov, Garth. spread, not over thin and wesby, but of a pretty solid consistence. Wotton. 3. To destroy; to desolate. WASP. n. s. (rearp, Sax. vespa, Latin ; He only their provisions wastes and burns. Daniel. guespe, Fr.] A brisk stinging insect, ,Peace to corrupt, no less than war to taste. in form resembling a bee. Miliar. More wasps, that buz about his nose, First vegetive, then feels, and reasons last; Will make this sting the sooner. Sbakspeare. Rich of three souls, and lives all three to zasti. Why, what a wasp-tongued and impatient Dryda. Art thou, to break into this woman's mood, The Tyber Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own? Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds. Sbakspeare. Dryers. Encount'ring with a quast, Now wisting years my former strength cusHe in his arms the fiy doth clasp. Drayton. found, WA'Spish. adj. [from wasp.) Peevish; And added woes have bow'd me to the ground; Yet by the stubble you may guess the grain, malignant; irritable : irascible, And mark the ruins of no vulgar man. Bruese. for my laughter, 4. To wear out. When you are waspisb. Sudspeare. Here condemn'd Come, you wasp, you are too angry. - If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Shaks. To waste eternal days in woe and pain. Hiles. By the stern brow and waspish action, 5. To spend ; to consume. Which she did use as she was waiting of it, O ivere I able It tears an angry tenour. Sbakspeare. To waste it all myself, and leave you none! The taylor's wife was only a good hearty To Waste, v. n. To dwindle; to be in shrew, under the impotency of an unruly wuspa isb humour : she would have her will. a state of consumption. L'Estrange. Man dieth and wastetb away. 7. Upon this gross mistake the poor washish Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; creature runs on for many leaves. Stilling Acet. wasting and destruction are in their paths. Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace Isaiab. This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhiming race. The latter watch of wasting night, Pope. And setting stars, to kindly sleep invite. Dryi. WA'Spishly. adv. [from waspish.] Waste. adj. (from the verb.) Peevishly 1. Destroyed ; ruined. WA'SPISHNESS. n. s. [from waspish.] The Sophi leaves all waste in his retreat. Peevishness : irritability. The multiplication and obstinacy of disputes, which have so laid waste the intellectual world, health, Saxon.] is owing to nothing more than to the ill use of 1. A liquor made of apples, sugar, and words. Lada ale, anciently much used by English When thus the gather'd storms of wretched good-fellows. love, 2. A drunken bout. In my swoln bosom, with long war had strave, The king doth wake to-night, and takes his Laid all the civil honds of manhood raste, And scatter'd ruin as the torrent past. Prior. rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swagg’ring upspring 2. Desolare ; uncultivated. reels. Sbakspeare. There be very waste countries and wider. Ainsitorih. 3. A merry song. nesses; but we find not mention whether any do inhabit there. WA'SSAILER. 1. s. [from wassail.] A He found him in a desert land, and in the toper; a drunkard. waste howling wilderness. Deuteronsry. I'm loth to meet the rudeness and swill'd in 3. Superfluous; exuberant; lost for want solence of occupiers. Milton. Of such late wassailers. Quite surcharg'd with her own weight, WAST. The second person And strangled with her waste fertility. Miltes To be. 4. Worthless; that of which none but file TOWASTE. v. a. (apestan, Sax. woesten, uses can be made : as, wasie wood. Dut. guastare, Ital. vastare, Latin.) 5. That of which no account is taken, or 3. To diminish. value found. The fire that mounts the liquor till 't run o'er, It may be published as well as printed, that so Seeming t'augment it, wastes it. Shakspeare. much skill in Hebrew derivations may not lie Coulă sighs furnish new breath, or draw life for waste paper. and spirits from the wasting of yours, your Dryecm friends would encourage your passion. Temple. WASTE. n. š. (from the verb.] 1. Wanton or luxurious destruction; the and he is the more so, because in his confined act of squandering. was, Freedom who loves, must first be wise and How has kind heav'n adorn'd the happy land, good; And : carter'd blessings with a wasteful hand! But from that mark how far they rove we see, Adsison, For all chis waste of wealth, and loss of blocd. 4. Desolate ; uncultivated; unoccuried. Milton. In wilderness and wasteful desarts stray'd, So foolish and lavish are we, that too often we To seek her knight. Spenser. lise some words in mere waste, and have no Outrageous as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild. ideas for them. Watts. Milion. 2. Consumption ; loss. WA'STEFULLY. adv. (from wasteful.] Reasons induce us to think it a good work, With vain and dissolute consumption. which they, in their care for well bestowing of Never any man would think our labour mistime, account waste. Hooker. spent, or the time wastefully consumed. Hooker. To her new-made favourite, Morat, serveth the sound better from waste. Bacon. Her lavish hand is wastefully profuse. Drydenta It was providently designed to repair the waste daily made by the frequent attrition in mastica Wa'sTEFULNESS. n. s. [from wasteful.] tion. Ray. Prodigality. 3. Useless expence: WA'STENESS. n. s. [from waste.] DeBut youth, the perishing good, runs on too fast, solation ; solitude. She, of nought afraid, past. Drych Through woods and wasteness wide him daily Secure the workings of your soul from run sought. Spenser. ning to waste, and even your looser moments That day is a day of wrath, a day of wasteness. will turn to happy account. Watts. Ziphaniah. See the man, who spacious regions gave consumes dissolutely and extravagantly; Divers Roman knights, Locke. So threaten'd with their debts, as they will not 5. Ground, place, or space unoccupied. Run any desperate fortune. Ben Jonsona Lifted aloft, he 'gan to mount up higher, Plenty in their own keeping makes them And, like fresh eagle, made his hardy flight wanton and careless, and teaches them to be Thro' all that great wide waste, yet wanting syuanderers and wasters. Lucke. light. Spenser. Upon cards and dice never learn any play, These gentlemen, on their watch, and so be incapacitated for those encroaching In the dead waste and middle of the night, wasters of useful time. Locke. Had been thus encountred. Sbakspeare. Sconces are great wasters of candles. Swift. Forty days Elijah, without food, WA'STREL, n. s. [from waste.] Wander'd this barren waste. Milton. Their works, both stream and load, lie in seLords of the world's great waste, the ocean, veral or in wastrell, that is, in inclosed grounds or in commons. Carew. Whole forests send to reign upon the sea. WATCH. n. s. (pæcce, Saxon.] Waller. 1. Forbearance of sleep. 2. Attendance without sleep. Such length of years, suth various perils past. All the long night their mournful watch then Dryden. keep, Thee I pursue, oh great ill-fated youth! And all the day stand round the tomb and weep. Through all the dismal waste of gloomy death. Addison. Smitb. 3. Attention; close nhservation. $. Region ruined and deserted. In my school days, i hen I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellov., of the cli-same fight, Dryden. To find the other forth; by vent'ring both, 7. Mischief; destruction, I oft found both. Shakspeare. The spirit of wantonness is, sure, scarce out 4. Guard ; vigilant keep. • of him: if the devil have him not in tee-simple, Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and he will never, I think, in the way of waste, at ward. Spenser tempt us again. Sbakspeare. Hie thee to thy charge; 8. (A law term.] Destruction of wood or Use careful watot, chuse trusty centinels. Shaka other products of land. Love can find entrance not only into an open You are but tenant for life, and shall make no heart, but also into a heart well fortited, if watch be not well kept. Bacon, waste. Shadwell. WASTEFUL. adj. [waste and full.] s. Watchman ; nei set to guard. It is used in a collective sense. 3. Destructive; ruinous, The folly of man Before her ga e nigh God did! sweat ordain, Spenser, Such stand u narrow lanes, Sbuk scare. The ports he did shut up, or at least kept a is wasteful and ridiculous excess. watch on them, that nore should pass to or tro Shikspeare. In such cases they set them off more with wit that was suspected.' Bacon. When by God's mercy in Christ, apprehended and activity, than with costly and wasteful ex- by faith, c ir hearts shall be purified, then to set penees. Bacon. wat.b and ward over them, apd to keep them 3. Lavish; prodigal; luxuriantly liberal, with all diligence Perkins, Vah, IV. we Milia a sorrow. The towers of heaven are filled They under rocks their food Wish armed watcb, that render all access In jointed armour watcb. mpregnable. Milton. 3. To tend. An absurdity our Saviour accounted it for the Paris watcbed the flocks in the groves of Ida. blind to lead the blind, and to put him that cane Broches not see to the office of a watch. Soutb. 4. To observe, in order to detect of pre6. Place where a guard is set. vent. He upbraids lago, that he made him Brave me upon the watch. Sbakspeare, WATCHER. n. s. (from ratch.] 9. Post or office of a watchman. 1. One who sits up; one who does not go As I did stand my watch upon the hill, to sleep. I look'd toward Birnam, and anon methought Get on your night-gown, lest occasion call us, The wood began to move. Sbakspeare. And shew us to be watchers. Sbakspeare 3. A period of the night. 2. Diligent overlooker or observer. Your fair daughter, Love hath chas'd sleep from my enthralled At this odd, even, and dull walch o'th' night, eyes, is now transported with a gundelier And made them watöbers of mine own heart's To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor. Sbakspeart. Sbakspeare. It is observed by those that are more attentive All night he will pursue ; but his approach watcbers of the works of nature. More. Darkness defends between, till morning watch. WATCHET. adj. (pæced, Saxon, weak. Milton. Skinner.) Blue; pale blue. The latter watch of wasting night, Whom midst the Alps do hanging throats And setting stars, to kindly sleep invite. Dryd. surprise? 9. A pocket clock; a small clock moved Who stares in Germany at watcbet eyes? by a spring. Dryden. 'A watch, besides the hour of the day, gives WA'TCHFUL. adj. [wa!ch and full.] Vic the day of the month, and the place of the sun. gilant; attentive; cautious; nicely obin the zodiack. Hale. servant. It has of before the thing to On the theatre we are confined to time; and be regulated, and against before the though we talk not by the hour-glass, yet the mratib often drawn out of the pocket, warns the thing to be avoided. actors that their audience is weary. Dryden. Call home our exil'd friends, That Chloe may be serv'd in state, That fied the snares of watepful tyranny. Slak. The hours must at her toilet wait; Be watebful, and strengthen the things ready Whilst all the reasoning fools below to die. Renatis s. Wonder their watches go so slow. Prior. Nodding a while, and watchful of his dlos, He fell; and falling crush'd th' uugrateful TO WATCH. V. n. (pacian, Saxon.] nymph below. Dnta. 1. Not to sleep; to wake. Readers should not lay by that caution which I have two niglits watch'd with you; but can becomes a sincere pursuit of truth, and should perceive no truth in your report. Sbakspeare. make them always watcbful against whatever Watcbing care will not let a man slumber, as might conceal or misrepresent it. Lorie. a sore discase breaketh sleep.' Ecclesiasticus. Be watchful of their behaviour, and as ready Sleep, list'ning to thee, will watch. Milton. to require of them an exact observance of the 2. To keep guard. duties of christianity, as of the duties of their I will watch over them for evil, and not for servänts. good. Jeremiah. WA'TCHFULLY. adv. [from watchful.] In our watching we have watcbed for a natiun Vigilantly; cautiously; attentively; that could not save us. Lamentations. He gave signal to the minister that watch’d. with cautious observation ; heedfully. Milton. If this experiment were very pat:lfully tried 3. To look with expectation. in vessels of several sizes, some such things may be discoverod. Begle. My soul waitch for the Lord, more than they that watch for the morning. Psalms. WATCHFULNESS. 11. s. [from watchjul.) 4. To be attentive; to be vigilant. 1. Vigilance; lieed; suspicious attention; Watch thou in all things, endure afflictions. cautious regard; diligent observation. 2 Timotby. The experience of our own frailties, and the s. To be cautiously observant. consideration of the waicbfulness of the teruptel, Watch over thyself, counsel thyself, judge discourage us. Hammodo thyself impartially. Taylor. Love, fantastick pow'r! that is afraid 6. To be insidiously attentive. To stir abroad till catchfulness be laid, Undaunted then o'er cliffs and valleys strays, Watcbes, no doubt, with greedy hope to find And leads his voi'ries safe through pashless His wish, and best advantage us asunder, ways. Prisr. Hopeless to circunvent us join'd. Milton. Husbands are counselled not to trust to TO WATCH. v.a. much to their wives owning the doctrine of ur limited conjugal tidelity, and so to neglect a due 3. To guard; to have in keep. watchfulness over their manners. Arbutéru. Flaming ministers watib and tend their Prejudices are cured by a constant jealousy charge. Milton. and watchfulness over our passions, that they B. To observe in ambush. may never interpose when we are calls to pass Saul sent messengers unto David's house to a judgment. fratch him, and to slay him. 1 Samud. By a solicitous cvatebjulaess about one's beha. He is bold, and lies near the top of the water, viour, instead of being mended, it will be come witching the motion of any water-rat that strained. swims betwixt him and the sky, Walter 2. Inability to sleep. a Watchfulness, sometimes called a coma vigil, to be pervious on all sides. Their often precedes too great sleepiness. Arbuthnot. smoothness accounts for their sliding WATCHHOUSE. n. s. [watch and house.] easily over one another's surfaces; their Place where the watch is set. sphericity keeps them also from touchWhere statues breath'd, the works of Phidias' ing une another in more points than hands, A wooden pump or lonely watcblouse stands. one ; and by both these their friction Gay. in sliding over one another is rendered WA'TCHING. n. s. [from watcb.] Inabi- the least possible. Their hardness aclity to sleep. counts for the incompressibility of waThe bullet, not having been extracted, occa- ter, when it is free from the inter mix. sioned great pain and watchings. Wiseman. ture of air. The porosity of water is WA’TCHMAKER. n. s. (watch and maker.] so very great, that there is at least forty One whose trade is to make watches, or times as much space as matter in it; pocket clocks. for water is nineteen tines specifically Smithing comprehends all trades which use lighter than gold, and consequently forge or file, from the anchorsmith to the watch rarer in the same proportion. Quincy. maker; they all using the same tools, though of My mildness hash allay'd their swelling griefs, several sizes. Moxon. My mercy dry'd their water-flowing tears. 1 WATCHMAN. n. S. [watch and man ] Sbakspeure. Guard ; sentinel; one set to keep ward. Your water is a sore decayer of your whoreOn the top of all I do espy son dead body. Sbakspears. The watchman waiting, tydings glad to hear. The sweet manner of it forc'd Those waters from me, which I would have Turn him into London streets, that the stopp'd, watchmen might carry him beiore a justice. But I had not so much of man in me; Bacon. But all my mother came into mine eyes, Drunkenness calls off the watchmen from their And gave me up to tears. Sbakspeare. towers; and then all evils that proceed from a Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues loose heart, an untied tongue, and a dissolute We write in water. Sbakspeare. spirit, we put upon its account. Taylor. Those healths will make thee and thy state Our witilmen from the tow'rs, with longing look ill, Timon: here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left eyes, Expect his swift arrival. Dryden. Sbakspeare. The melancholy tone of a watchman at mid Water is the chief ingredient in all the ani. night. Swift. mal fluids and solids; for a dry bore, distilled, WATCHTOWER. n. s. [watch and tower.] affords a great quantity of insipid water: thereTower on which a sentinel was placed fore water seems to be proper drink for every animal. Arbuthnot. for the sake of prospect. 2. The sea. In the day-time she sitteth in a watchtorver Travel by land or by water. Common Prayer. and dieth most by night. Bacon. By water they found the sea, westward from Up unto the watchtooney get, Peru, always very calm. Abbot. If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, The senses in the head, as sentinels in a I would applaud thee. Sbakspearl watchtower, convey to the soul the impressions Go to bed, after you have made water. Swift. of extemal objects. Ray. 4. To bold Water. To be sound; to be WATCHWORD, n. s. (watch and word.] tight. From a vessel that will not leak. The word given to the sentinels to A good christian and an honest man'must be know their friends. all of a piece, and inequalities of proceeding will never bold water. L'Estrange. All have their ears upright, waiting when the watchwurd shall come, that they should all arise s. It is used for the lustre of a diamond. inco rebellion. Spenser. 'Tis a good form, We have heard the chimes at midnight, mas And rich: here is a water, look ye! Shaksp. ter Shallow, 6. Water is much used in composition That we have, sir John: our watchword, for things made with water, being in hem! boys. Shekspere. water, or growing in water. A watchword every minute of the night goeth She might see the same water-spaniel, which about the walls, to testify their vigilancy before had hunted, come and fetch away one of Sandys. Philociea's gloves, whose fine proportion shewed WA’TER, n. s. [waeter, Dutch; paten, well what a dainty guest was wont there to be Saxon.] lodged. Sidnry. 1. Sir Isaac Newton defines water, when On that I were a mockery king of snow, Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke, pure, to be a very fluid salt, volatile, And melt myself away in water-drops. Sbaks. and void of all savour or taste; and it Poor Tom eats the wall-newt, and the waterseems to consist of small, smooth, hard, Sbakspeare. porous, spherical particles, of equal Touch me with noble anger! diameters, and of equal specifick gravi O let not women's weapons, water-drops, ties, as Dr. Cheyne observes; and also Stain my man's checks. Sbakspeare Let nor the water-flood overflow me. Psalms. that there are between them spaces so They shall spring up as among the grass, as large, and ranged in such a manner, as willows by the water-courses, Isaiab. 3. Urine. newt. |
