to aftonish. Atheous, P. R. i. 487, atheistic, godless. To attune, P. L. iv. 265, to make any thing mufical, Azurn, P. the fame as azure, blue, faint blue.

B

Bandite, P. a man outlawed. Barbaric, P. L. ii. 4, foreign, far-fetch'd, To batten, P. to fatten, or make fat, to feed plenteously. Bebeft, a command, precept, mandate. Beldame, P. an old woman; generally a term of contempt. Beryl, P. L. vi. 756, a precious ftone of a fea-green colour. Befprent, P. fprinkled. Beffrown, P. L. i. 311, iv. 631, fprinkled over. Bevy, P. L. xi. 582, a company, an affembly; of the Italian beva, a covy of partridges. Bickering, P. L. vi. 766, fighting, and thence deftroying; from the Welch bicre, a conteft, a combat. Blanc, or blank, white, P. L. x. 656; confufed, difpirited, fubdued, P. L. ix. 890, P. R. ii. 120. Bland, P. L. v. 5, ix. 855, 1047, foft, mild, gentle. To blank, S. A. 471, to confufe, to difpirit. Blear, P. dim, obfcure. To bolt, P. to dart, to shoot, to fift. Dr. Johnson thinks it fignifies here to blurt out, or throw out precipitantly. Bofky, P. woody; from the Belgian bofche, and the Italian bofco, a wood. Bourn, P. a bound, a limit; from the French borne. Brand, P. L. xii. 643, a fword. Brando in Italian too fignifies a sword.

C

Cacias, P. L. x. 699, the north-weft wind. Caparifon, P. L. ix. 35, a horfe-cloth. Caravan, P. L. vii. 428, P. R.i. 323, a great convoy of merchants, which meet to put themselves inte a condition of defence from thieves, who ride in troops in fe veral defert places upon the road in Perfia and Turkey. Care buncle, a jewel that fhines in the dark, like a lighted coal or candle. To career, P. L. vi. 756, to run with fwift motion. Careering fires, are lightnings darted; a metaphor taken from the running in tilts, fays Dr. Newton. Carol, P. L. xii. 367, a fong of devotion. xarabpácow' armis munio. Catarrh, P. L. xi. 483, a defluction of sharp ferum from the glands about the head and throat. Cates, P. R. ii. 348, viands, generally employed to fignify nice and luxurious food. Cedarn, P. of or belonging to the cedar tree. Ceraftes, P. L. x. 525, a ferpent having horns, or fuppofed to have horns. Chimera, P. L. ii. 628, a vain and wild fancy. Chryfolyte, P. L. iii. 596, a precious stone of a dufky green, with a caft of yellow. Cimmerian, P. which fees no fun, obfcure, dark. The Cimmerians lived in caves, and never faw the light of the fun; whence comes the phrafe Cime merian darkness. Colures, P. L. ix. 66, two great circles fup pofed to pass through the poles of the world, interfecting each other at right angles, and encompaffing the earth from north to fouth, and from fouth to north again. Corny, P. L. vii. 321, horn, horny; of the Latin corneus, horny. To couch, P. L. ii. 536, to fix or place the fpea: in the reft, in the posture of at

tack. Couchant, P. L. iv. 4c6, lying down, fquatting. Crank, P. twifting or changing the form or meaning of a word. To craze, P. L. xii. 210. S. A. 571, to crush, bruife, to weaken. Craffet, P. L. i. 728, a great clazing light fet upon a beacon, light-houfe, or watch-tower. Cuiraffers, P. R. iii. 328, horsemen armed with cuiraffes, which covered the body quite round, from the neck to the waift. Curfeu, P. (of the French couvre feu). William the Conqueror commanded that in every town and village a bell fhould be rung every night at eight of the clock, and that all perfons fhould then put out their fire and candle, and go to bed; the ringing of which bell was called curfeu. Cynojure, P. the ftar next the north pole, by which failors fteer; the conftellation of Urfa Minor.

D

To dapple, P. to streak, to diverfify with colours. To damask, P.L. iv. 334, to variegate, to diverfify. Darkling, P. L. iii. 39, in the dark, without light; a word merely poetical. To debel, P. R. iv. 605, to overcome in war: of the Latin debello. Diapafon, P, a perfect concord through all the tones. To dight, P. to drefs, to embellish, to adorn. Dingle, P. a narrow valley between two steep hills. Dijas, P. L. x. 526, a ferpent, whofe bite produces the fenfation of unquenchable thirst; of a thirst. Discontinuous wound, P. L. vi. 329, said in allufion to the old definition of a wound, that it feparates the continuity of the parts. Divan, P. L. x. 457, any counfel affembled. To doff, S. A. 1410, to put off dreis. Dole, S. A. 1529, gifts and portions. Doughty, S. A. 1181, brave, valiant. Drop ferene, P.L. iii, 25, a dil afe of the eye, proceeding from infpiffation of the humour. Dryad, P. L. ix. 387, a woodnymph.

E

Eld, P. old age. Elfe, P. a wandering fpirit, fuppofed to be feen in wild unfrequented places. Elops, P. L. x. 525, a dumb ferpent, that gives no notice by hiffing to avoid him. To embow, P. to arch, to vault. Emprise, P. L. xi. 642, an old word for enterprize. Ens, P. any being or exiftence. To envermeil, P.. to paint with vermilion. Epicycle, P. L. viii. 84, a circle upon another circle; or a little circle whofe centre is in the circumference of a greater. Epilepfy, P. L. xi. 483, a convulfive motion of the whole body, or of fome of its parts, with a lofs of fenfe. Eremite, P. L. iii. 474, P. R. i. 8, a folitary, an anchoret, one who retires from fociety to contemplation and devotion. Erft, at firft, in the beginning, P. formerly, long ago. Euphrafy, P. L. xi. 414, the herb eyebright, to named from its clearing virtue. Eyry, P. L. vii. 424, the nest of a bird of prey.

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F.

Favonius, S, the western wind that blows in the fpring.Faya, P. a fairy, an elfe. To fet, P. R. ii. 401, to fetch, to bring. Flamen, P. a priest. To freak, P. to freckle, to fpot, to variegate. Frequence, P. R. ii. 130, crowd, affembly. To frett, to form into raifed work, P. L. i. 717, to hurt by attri tion, S. Fret, P. L. vii. 597, that ftop of the mufical inftrument which regulates the vibrations of the fting. Frore, P. L. ii. 595, an old word for frofty. To frounce, P. to crifp, to curl. Fugue, P. L. xi. 563, (ot fuga, a flight) in mufic, the correfpondency of parts, anfwering one another in the fame

notes.

G

Galaxy, P. L. vii. 579, the milky way, a stream of light in the fky. Garish, P. gaudy, fplendid. Garrulity, S. A. 491, loquacity, incontinence of tongue, inability to keep a fecret.→→→ Gear, P. furniture, accoutrements. To gem, P. L, vii. 325, to put forth the fift buds; of the Latin gemmaire. To gloze, to flatter, to infinuate, to fawn. Gonfalon, P. L. v. 589, a kind of banner, a standard. Gorgon, P L. ii. 628, a monfter with inaky hairs. Greaves, S. A. 1121, armour for the legs, a fort of boots. Grunfel, P. L. i. 165, the groundfil, the lower part of the building. Gryphon, P. L. ii. 943, a fabulous creature, faid to be generated between the lion and eagle, and to have the head and paws of the lion, and the wings of the eagle. Guerdon, P. a prize, a reward, a recompenfe. Gurge, P. L. xii. 41, whirl-pool, gulf. Gymnic, S. A. 1324, fuch as practise the athletic or gymnaftic exercifes. Gyves, S. A, 1093, fetters.

H

Habergeon, S. A. 1120, a coat of mail for the neck and fhoulders. Hermes, P. L. iii. 603, mercury or quick filverHippogrif, P. R. iv. 542, an imaginary creature, part like a horfe, and part like a gryphon: a winged horfe. Holocauft, S. A. 1706, an entire burnt offering. Horrent, P. L. ii. 513, terrible, prickly. To hoft, P. L. vi. 93, to encounter in battle. The word hofting (fays Newton) feems to have been first coined by Milton. It is a very expreffive word, and plainly formed from the fubftantive boft. Hutcht, P. coffered; from butch, a corn cheft. Hyacinthin, P. L. iv. 301, dark or black. Hyaline, P. L. viii. 619, a glaffy fea. Hydra, P. L. ii. 628, a monster with many heads. Hydrus, P. L. x. 525, the water snake.

I

Il Penferofo, P. the thoughtful melancholy man. To impregn, to fill with any matter or quality. Incubus, P. R. ii. 152, the night-mare. Infuriate, P. L. vi. 486, enraged, raging. Joust, P. L. ix. 37, tilt, tournament, mock fight. To jouft, P. L, 1. 583, to run in the tilt. Iris, P. L. iv. 698, the flower-de

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luce; fo called from refembling the colours of the rainbow.-
Irrigueus, P. L. iv. 255, well watered, full of springs and rills.
Kercheft, P. dreffed, hooded; from kerchef, a a head-dress;
French couvre-chef. Kirtle, P. a woman's gown.

K

L

Lair, P. L. vii. 457, the couch or bed of a boar or wild beast. L'Allegro, P. the cheerful merry man. Lares, P. houfhold gods. Lazar-boufe. P. L. xi. 479, a house for the reception of the diseased; an hofpital. Lee, P. ground enclosed, paftures, or corn fields. Lemures, P. night fpirits, hobgoblins. Levant, P. L. x. 704, rifing, eaftern. Leviathan, P. L. i. 201, a water animal defcribed in the book of Job, by some imagined to be the crocodile, but in poetry generally taken for the whale. Libbard, P. L. vii. 467, a leopard, a fpotted beaft of prey.— Libecchio, P. L. x. 706, the fouth-weft wind. Limbec, P. L. iii. 605, a ftill, Lithe, P. L. iv. 347, flexible, eafily bentLore, leffon, inftruction. Lubbar, P. a sturdy drone, an idle, a booby.

M

Madrigal, P. a pastoral fong. Marafmus, P. L. xi. 487, a kind of confumption, accompanied with a fever, wafting the body by degrees. Marish, P. L. xii. 630, an old word for marth; a bog, a fen. Meed, P. reward, recompence. Midriff, P. L. xi. 445, the diaphragm, a nervous muscle feparating the breaft from the belly. Minum, P. L. vii. 482, a Imall being, a dwarf. Murky, P. L. x. 280, cloudy, tainted, wanting light. Murren, P. L. xii. 179, the}plague in cattle. Muft, P. L. v. 345, new wine.

N

Naptha, P. L. i. 729, a very pure, clear, and thin mineral fluid, or a very pale yellow, with a caft of brown in it. Nard, P. L. v. 293, fpikenard. Nepenthes, P. a drug that drives away all pains. Nocent, P. L. ix. 186, hurtful, mifchievous.

Ommific, P. L. vii. 217, all-creating. Ocze, P. L. vii. 303, foft mud, flime. Opal, P. L. ii. 1049, a precious stone of divers colours. Orc, P. L. xi. 835, a large kind of fea-beaft. Oread, P. L. ix. 387, a mountain nymph. Orgies, P. L. i. 415, mad rites of Bacchus, frantic revels.

Р

Palmer, P. a pilgrim; called alfo votarifs. Pandemonium, the capital or chief refidence of the devils. Parim, P. L. i. 765, P. R. iii. 343, pagan, infidel. Panoply, P. L. vi. 527, armour from head to toot. Panfy, P. L. ix. 1040, a kind of violet. To paragon, P. L. x. 426, to compare, to be equal to. Paranymph, S. A. 1020, a brideman, one who leads the bride to her marriage. Peccant, P. L. xi. 70, guilty, criminal.

Pennon P. L. ii. 933, vulgarly fpelt pinion, a wing; from penna. Petrific, P. L. x. 294, having the power to change to stone.Phalaftery, P. a bandage on which was infcribed fome memorable fentence. Pied, P. variegated, particoloured. Platan, P. L. iv. 478. the plane-tree. Pleiades, P. L. viii. 374, à northern conftellation. Ponent, P. L. x. 704, fetting western. Pontifical, P. L. x. 313, bridge-building. Pontifice, P. L. x. 348, bridge-work, edifice of a bridge. Portcullis, P. L. ii. 874, a fort of machine like a harrow, hung over the gates of a city, to be let down to keep out an enemy. To prank, P. to drefs, to decorate. Procin, P. L. vi. 19, complete preparation, preparation brought to the point of action. To purfle, P. to decorate with a wrought or flowered border, to embroider. Purfled, flourished, or wrought upon with a needle.

Quaternion, P. L. v. 181, a fourfold mixture and combina tion. Quip, P. a fharp jeft, a taunt, a farcafm.

R

Rathe, P. early, coming before the time. Realty, P. L. vi 115, loyalty. A word peculiar to Milton. Rebea, P. a threeftringed fiddle. To reck, to care, to mind, to make account of. Recreant, P. R. iii. 138, apoftate, falfe. Rhomb, a figure of four fides, which, being converted into one of three, makes a wedge, P. R. iii. 309. Ruth, P. pity, mercy, tenderness; forrow for the mifery of another.

S

Saw, P. a maxim, a faying, a proverb. Scape, P. R. ii. 189, a loofe act of vice or lewdnefs. To fcathe P. L. i. 613, to damage, to wafte, to destroy. Scrannel, P. vile, worthless, grating to the found. Scull, P. L. vii. 402, a fhoal or vaft multitude of fish. To fdeign, P. L. iv. 50, to difdain. Senefhal, P. L. ix. 38, one who had, in great houfes, the care of feafts or domeftic ceremonies; a fteward. Sere, P. L. x. 1071, dry, withered. To ferry, P. L. i. 548, vi. 599, to press clofe, to drive hard together, to cling and clafp together. Sewer, P. L. ix. 38, an officer who ferves up a feaft. Sextile, P. L. x. 659, a pofition or afpect of two planets when at fixty degrees diftant, or at the diftance of two figns from one another. Sheen or fheeny, bright, glittering, fhowy. Sheer, clean, quick.Shoon, P. Shoes. Sideral, P. L. x. 693, ftarry, aftral. Sirocco, P. L. x. 706. the fouth-eaft or Syrian wind. Smouldring, P. burning and smoking without vent. Soldan, P. L. i. 764, a Sultan, the Emperor of the Turks. Sord, P. L. xi. 433. turf, graffy ground. Statift, P. R. iv. 354, a statesman, a politician. Succinct, P. L. ii. 643, ready, prepared; the metaphorical fenfe of the word. Literally it fignifies girded or tucked up.-Suffusion, P. L. iii, 26, that which is fuffufed or fpread. Swart, black, gloomy, malignant. Swart ftar, P.