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to Hearse, to put in a coffin. MV. 3, 1. H.1, 4. Į
Heart, the very essence of a thing, the utmost
of it possible. AC. 4, 10. TA. 1, 1.
Heartburnt, affected with pain at the mouth
of the stomach. MA. 2, 1. aHd. 3, §.

to Heat, to run a heat, as in a race. WT. 1, 2.
Kin to the gr. aithō, lat. aestus, germ. Hitze.
to Heave, to lift up. KJ. 5, 2. He. 5. ch. bHƒ.
5, 1. Co. 2, 2. Kin to heft, by the gr. keō,
keuō, to be hollow, and light, gr. kuphos,
whence heaven, that which is raised.
Heaves, sighs, groans. H. 4, 1.
Heaviness, sadness, melancholy. MV. 2, 8.
Rb. 2, 2.

Hebenon, ebony, the juice of which was sup-
posed to be a deadly poison. H. 1, 5. Grey
deemed it to be the same word with henbane;
Steevens, Nares and Douce Ill. of Sh. II, 225.
deny it. The transposition alone, however, can
not decide; and the last syllable bane seems to
conceal some root like the lat. venenum, gr.
pheno, phonos, to kill, murder, as hen perhaps
canna, which in Lat. is sometimes cicuta, gr..
kōneion. It is curious, that also hemlock has
this assonance. Henbane is hyoscyamus.
to Hedge, to inclose with a hedge. JC. 4, 3.
to hide one's self, to creep into a corner. MW.
2, 2. Hh. 3, 2. TC. 3, 1. Hedge is the sax.
hegge, germ. Hag, kin to haw, Häcke, fr.
haye, middlelat. haga, haya, heia, haia.
Hedgepriest, priest that has no parish. LL.
5, 2.

Heed, care, caution, screen, LL. 1, 1. He.
5, 2. Hh. 3, 2. Co. 5, 5. Confounded with head,
wh. s.
Kin to the gr. keuthō, to conceal,
hat, lat. cutis, germ. Haut, Kutte, Hütte,
Schote, Hut, hüten.

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Heel. Out at heels, almost ruined. MW. 1, 3. KL. 2, 2. To show a fair pair of heels, to leap off, to run away, to desert. aHd. 2, 4. Sax. hel, hele, lat. calx, kin to the gr. chēlē, gyllos.

to Heel, to move the heel, to dance, jump. TC. 4, 4. Perhaps from the gr. hallesthai. Heft, heaving, reaching. WT. 2, 1. Tenderhefted, heaved, agitated by tenderness or weighed. KL. 2, 4. Perhaps it is in this meaning from the germ. heften, to join, to compound. The reading hested is too artificial. Heifer, a young cow. WT. 1, 2. TC. 3, 2. distinguished from the calf. bHd. 2, 2. blƒ. 3, 2. Sax. heafore, from the germ. Far, Farre, hebr. phar, gr. poris, porrhis, portis, portax. Heir, heiress. LL. 2, 1.

and henxman are but varieties of spelling. To
this attendance belonged also the bhaird, the
blaidier, or master of ceremony, the gillymore,
or armsbearer; the gilly casflue, that bears
him on back through fens; gilly comstraine,
who leads the horse at the bridle on steep ways;
gillytersh harnish, who bears the wallet; and
the piper. S. Burt's letters on Scotland II, 61.
Walter Scott's Waverley I, 239.

to Hend, or hent, to seize, take, hold. MM.
4, 6. WT. 4, 1. From hand. Hence
Hent, hold, opportunity. H. 3, 3. To substi-
tute it 0.1, 3. for it was my hint, and upon
this hint, seems unnecessary, at least in the
last passage.

Heralds. Their office was to inquire into the
lineage of combattants, to announce war or
peace (KJ. 4, 2.), to be messengers, hence for
sign, annunciation (MA. 2, 1.), to arraign feasts.
Their chief was called king of arms, chief of
12 marshals, or pursuivants. The gr. word
in keryx, kin to the hebr. kara, to cry, pro-
claim.

to Herald, to marshal. M. 1, 3.
Heraldry, art of blazoning. MD. 3, 2; coat
of arms. AW. 2, 3. O. 3, 4; field, ground of
an escutcheon armorial in colours, or generally
colour. H. 2, 2. TL. 7.

Here's no- an ironical exclamation, implying
that there is a great abundance of this or that.
aHd. 5, 3. TAn. 4, 2. So here's much (wh. s.)
AL. 4, 3.

Herod, represented in the old moralities as a tyrant of very violent temper. H. 3, 2. AC. 1,2. 3, 3. 3, 6. MIV. 2, 1. He. 3, 3. Douce's ill. of Sh. I, 136.

Hest, anciently heast, command, order. T. 1, 2. 3, 1. Kin to hight, sax. haetan, icel. heita, germ. heissen, Geheiss.

Heyday, transport, licentiousness, extravagancy, rashness. H. 3, 4. (LL.5, 1. hey). Haydigyes, a sort of rural dance, spelt also hydaygies, hydegy, heydayguise, seem to be but varieties, partly lengthened, partly glozed, of heyday; for day is the sax. daeg, and hey the interjection of admiration, mirth, joy (MA. 2, 3.), answering the gr. io, or eua, euoi, iauoi, might very fitly be used as substantive or adjective, like hum. He. 4, ch. Co. 5, 4. Hide, skin. H. 5, 1. TS. 2, 1. KJ. 2, 1. From the gr. kytos, skytos, sax. hyd, hyde, germ. Haut, by keuthein, to cover, conceal. S. heed. Hide for and all after, a sport among children, the same as hide and seek, whoop and hide. H. 4, 2.

Hell, jocularly, an obscure dungeon in a prison. CE. 4, 2. Sax. helle, hylle, goth. halje, from to Hight, to be called, ycleped. LL. 1, 1. MD. helan, old engl. to hale, heal, hil, tegere,

5, 1. S. hest.

germ. hehlen. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 877. High proof, highly. MA. 5, 1. Helm, steerage. cHf. 5, 4; helmet. AW. 3, 8.. Hild for held, for the sake of a rhyme. TL. 180. Rc. 3, 2. 5, 3. Co. 4, 5. TC. 1, 2. 5, 2. Helterskelter, on a hurry. bHd. 5, 3. Hem, border, skirt, edge. TA. 5, 6. To cry hem MA. 5, 2. AL. 5, 2. Tyrrwh. explains to cry courage; may be only expression of indifference and want of interest, like to cry humph a Hd. 3, 1.

Hemlock, cicuta L. M. 4, 1. He. 5, 2. KL.

4, 4. Sax. hemleac. Lock in this word, points at leek, wh. s. gr. lachanon. Hem is from ōmos. Henchman, page, attendant. MD. 2, 2. also henchboy. From haunch, wh. s., therefore the confident of a chief, that on drinking bouts stands attending near his haunch. Henshman

Hilding, base, low, menial wretch. Cy. 2, 3. He. 4, 2. coward. AW. 3, 6. TS. 2, 1. RJ. 2, 5. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 814. and others derive it from the sax. hyldan, to squat, so that it would be analogous to coward, wh. s. Another etymology is hinderling a devonshire word signifying degenerate; or hireling, hindling. Perhaps there assonates the gr. kylla for skylax, kin to kyōn, dog. Kynteros is an epitheton of women in Homer, and signifies more impudent, or shameless.

Hilt, handle of a sword, broad sword. aHd. 2, 4. From to hold. S. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 66.

Hoiden, anciently a leveret, animal remarkable for its vivacity and was formerly applied to the youth of both sexes, though now confined to designate a wild romping girl. CE. 4, 2. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. VI, 171.

Him, for the nominative, the person. WT.1, 2.
Hind, servant. MW. 3, 5. CÊ. 3, 1. LL. 1, 2.
aHd. 2, 3. bHf. 3, 2. 4, 2. RJ. 1, 1; roe. Rc.
2, 4. MD. 2, 2. From the gr. hynnas, hynnos,
hinnus, germ. Hinde, Hindin, kin to ginny;
and in the first meaning the middlelat. hindeni,
homines societatis contubernii. Dufresne, un-
doubtedly those who are behind a chief, who
follow.

Hinges, hooks; of a door. O. 3, 3. where it is
used metaphorically for that upon which turns,
on which may be hanged (a doubt); of the knee.
H. 3, 2. as to hinge the knee TA. 4, 3. to bend.
It is kin to haunch, wh. s. Horne Tooke Div.
of P. II, 358. refers it to hang, that may assonate.
Hint, suggestion, intimation; cause, subject
T. 1, 2, 2, 1. 0.1, 3. (S. hent.). Horne Tooke
II, 352. from hentan, capere, to take hold of.
It seems,
however, rather to be derived from
the goth. sind, sintha, way, journey, and of
course kind to the germ. senden, the gr. hodos.
Hip, haunch, waist; CE. 3, 2. To have on the
hip, to have at an entire advantage; a phrase
originated from hunting. MV. 1, 3. 4, 1. O.
2, 1; fruit of a brier; or a wild rosebush.
TA. 4, 3.

Hiren, a corruption of the name of Irene, the
fair Greek, first broached perhaps by G. Peele
in his Turkish Mahomet and Hiren, the fair
Greek. bHd. 2, 4. it seems the name of Pistol's
sword.

His was supposed the legitimate formative of
the genitive case of nouns. Hence phrases as
Vincentio his son TS. 1, 1. the duke his gallies
TN. 3, 3. Sir Robert's his shape. KJ. 1, 1.
Hive, habitation or cell of bees. AW. 1, 2.
a Hf. 1, 5.

Hoar, hoary (Cy. 5. endsong) white or grey
for frost or age. TA. 4, s. RJ. 2, 4. H. 4, 7.
Kin to the hebr. chur, bask. churia, albus.
to Hoar, to make white, to bleak. TA. 4, 3.
Hoard, store, stock, treasure. MD. 4, 1. bHd.
4, 3. Sax. hord, germ. Hort, kin to herd, hurd,
by the gr. horan, fr. garder, germ. wahren,

warten.

to

Hoise, hoist, to heave, lift. bHf. 1, 1. Bc. 3, 4. AC. 4, 10. H. 3, 4. From the fr. hausser, lows. hissen.

Hold, fort, citadel. bHd. 1, 1.

To cry hold, an authorative way of separating fighting persons. M. 1, 5. Hold was also the word of yielding. M. 5, 7.

to Hold, to fit, to fit well, aHd. 1, 1; to
endure, be avouched, confirmed Rc. 2, 3,
To hold off, to keep off; to abstain, to refuse.
TC. 1, 2. It holds current, it is done, agreed,
sure. aHd. 2, 1. To take hold, to requite. Rc.
2, 1. To hold the bent, to stand out, to keep
ground, to endure. TN. 2, 4.

Holding, burden, chorus. AC. 2, 7.
Hole, perforation for a peg of a musical in-
strument. TS. 3, 1.

Holidame. TS. 5, 2. S. Halidam.
to Holla, to cry or call Holla, to make re-
sound. TN. 1, 5.

Hollowmas. Rb. 5, 1. S. Hallowmas.
Holly, ilex aquifolium L. AL, 2, 7: Germ.
Stechpalme, Walddistel.

Holp, holpen, old preterit and participle of to
help. KJ. 1, 1. Co. 5, 3. 4, 6. CE. 4, i.
Holyday. To speak holyday, to speak in a
Holyrood day, festival in honour of the cross.
fustian style. MŴV. 3, 2.

alld. 1, 1.

Home, to the point, complete in its full extent, round on, strictly, soundly, courageously. AW. 5, 3. WT. 5, 3. M. 1, 3. TɅn. 4, 3. Cy. 3, 5. 4, 2. KL. 3, 3. 0. 2, 1. Sax. ham, from haeman, coire. Horne Tooke Div. of P. IL 847. kin to humus, hebr. am, people, gr. homu, hama, amydis, totality, icel. heima, heimar, germ. heimlich, heimeln, anheimeln, Heimath.

Homely, plain, coarse, rude, clownish, harsh, unmannerly. TG. 1, 1. WT. 4, 8. bHd. 4, 4. cHf. 2, 5.

Honest as the skin between his brows, a proverbial saying. MA. 3, 5. of unknown origin.

Honey stalks, clover flowers, which contain a sweet juice. Cattle overcharge themselves often with clover and die. TAn. 4, 4.

to Hoard, to heap up, to pile up, to spare. Rb. 1, 3. Co. 4, 2. bHf. 3, 1. cHf. 2, 2. Hobbyhorse, a small horse; a personage belonging to the ancient morris dance, when complete, to Honey, to sweeten, delight, coax, flatter; and made by the figure of a horse fastened as a neuter verb, to court, to call each other round to the waist of a man, his own legs honey. H. 3, 4. going through the body of the horse and enabling him to walk, but concealed by a long footcloth, while false legs appeared, where those of the man should be at the sides of the horse. Latterly it was frequently omitted, whence a popular ballad, in which was this burden 'For O, for O, the hobbyhorse is forgot' LL. 3, 1. H. 3, 2. The Puritans were particularly inveterate enemies against the hobbyhorse. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. II, 463. Hobby to Hoodwink, to hood, wh. s., to blench, is kin to the gr. hippos.

Hobgoblin. MD. 2, 1. S. goblin.

Hobnail, a nail used in shoeing a horse. aHd. 2, 4. bHf. 4, 10.

Hobnob, most evidently a corruption of habbe, or nabbe, have or have not, habnab, used convivially to ask a person, whether he will have a glass of wine, or not, also to mark an alternative of another kind. TN. 3, 4. Hogshead, a measure of liquids, containing 63 galloons. LL. 4, 2. WT. 3, 3. bHd. 2, 4.

to Hood, to cover with a hood. (Hh. 3, 1.) or cap properly the hawk's eyes, when he is not to fly. He. 3, 7. MV. 2, 2. MM. 5, 1. Kin to heed, wh. s.

Hoodmanblind, the childish sport blindman's buff. H. 3, 4.

blind, cover the hawk's eyes; to hide, conceal,
abscond. T. 4, 1. Cy. 5, 2. RJ. 1, 3. to deceive.
AW. 3, 6.

Hook, battle-ax. aHd. 2, 4; a bent pin for fish-
ing. MA. 2, 8. Cy. 5, 5. Kin to hinge, wh. s.
and to hatch, gr, onkos etc.
Hoop, wooden or iron circle to bind casks. T.
1, 2. bHd. 4, 4. AC. 2, 2; quart pot, being
anciently made with staves, bound together
with hoops, as barrels are. They were usually
three in number; hence threehoop'd pot, bHf.

4, 2. giglot, strumpet, drab. LL. 3. end. Kin to Kufe, Küpe, Hafen, gr. kymbe by kyō, kao, chaō; further to upupa, gr. epops, fr. huppe.

to Hoot, to cry scornfully. WT. 5, 8. JC. 1, 2. Co. 4, 6. The provincial germ. utzen, from the gr. ōtos, owl. Cf. to gleek.

to Hop, to jump, skip lightly. AC. 2, 2. bHf. 1, 3. TS. 4, 3. Germ. hüpfen, kin to heave. Hope, expectation. aHd. 1, 2. to hope. AC. 2, 1.

Hornbook, crossrow. LL. 5, 1.

Horologe, clock. 0.2, 8. Lat. horologium. Horse. A catalogue of horse diseases is TS. 3, 2.

Horse leech, bloodsucker. He. 2, 3.

Hose, breeches, or stockings, or both in one. MW. 3, 1. aHd. 2, 4. LL. 4, 8. Fr. chausses, (perhaps from the lat. calceus) kin to the gr. keuthō, chitōn, germ. Kutte, Kittel, fr. cotillon, boh. calhotti, fr. culottes. Host, army, head of war. KJ. 5, 2.

to Host, to take up abode, to lodge. CE. 1, 2. AW. 3, 5.

Hotspur, warm, vehement, or a person of vehement and warm disposition. aHd. 5, 2. cf. bHd. 1, 1.

Hothouse, bagnio, from the hot bathes there used, brothel. MM. 2, 1.

Hovel, cabin, cottage. KL. 3, 2. Kin to hob, germ. Hube, Hufe, scot. howf, houff, hoff, hove, hoif, hufe; scyth. apia, earth, may be to sheaf.

to Hovel, to shelter in a hovel, to harbour. KL. 4, 7.

Hounds of Crete He. 2, 1. and of Sparta
MD. 4, 1. were bloodhounds.
Hour as dissyllable. S. Malone to S. 5.
Howlet, little owl. M. 4, 1.

to Hox, to hough, to cut the hamstrings. WT.
1, 2. Kin to hatch, hacher, germ. hauen.
to Huddle, to do speedily and carelessly, to
throw together in confusion. MA. 2, 1. MV.
4, 1. Germ. hudeln, kin to fuddle, by the gr.
hyō, hydō, hyzō, whence hythlos.
Hue, colour, die. MV. 2, 7. LL. 4, 8; coil,
tumult, chiefly joined with cry. aHd. 2, 4.
towards the end. The sax. hiw, hiwe, hiu, the
same word, it seems, as die, from the gr.
deuo, to benet. In the second meaning it is
the interjection iō, iu, likewise as iō is for
ia, iōë, cry.

to Hug, to be put in a stable, to be stabled. KJ. 5, 2; to embrace, clasp, fondle, treat with tenderness. MV. 2, 6. AW. 2, 3. TA. 4, 8. JC. 1, 2. Kin to the germ. hegen, or hägen; to hedge, and hätscheln. Huggermugger, in secrecy or concealment. H.4, 5. It is spelt also hokermoker, huckermucker. Perhaps there assonates the germ. hocken (cf. to hack) and muchsen, mucksen,

to mutter.

Hulk, ship, particularly a heavy one. TC. 2, 3. aHf. 5, 6. Kin to the gr. holkas, and to bulk, belly, gr. koilos, and other words of this kind. to Hull, to float by the effect of the waves on the mere hull, or body of a vessel, to drive to and fro upon the water without sails or rudder. TN. 1, 5. Hh. 2, 4.

Humour was a fashionable word in the time of

humour, and by Sh. in his foolish Nym. Jonson II, 16. defines it 'whatsoe'er has fluxure and humidity. As wanting power to contain itself. By metaphor it may apply itself unto the general disposition, as when some one peculiar quality does so possess a man, that it doeth draw all his affects, his spirits and his powers in their confluctions, all to run one way.' This definition arose from the natural philosophy of that time, by which man's disposition was supposed to be modified and determinated by one of four humours, or fluids, prevalent, which was his very humour. Blood, phlegm, choler and melancholy were the four humours, from whom arose the sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric and melancholic temperament, as so many mental humours. The earliest and oldest philosophy, however, deemed fire and water to be the elements or principles of bodily being, so that, where water prevailed or got the better, a thing was more bodily and dispirited, of course also the word or speech, as embodied spirit, or mind, a thoughtless babble, fleering, and flirting indeed, but destroying itself by this self-same nature, and restoring in this way the originary clear calm of mind. The kumour of poetry was therefore intermediate passage from the sensible and perceptible world into the mental and innermost life. This idea has been explained chiefly by german philosophers. S. Solger's Erwin, oder vier Gespräche über das Schöne und die Kunst (Berl. 1815. II, 8.) und Wagner der Scherz. Leips. 1822. 8. Humorous, moist, humid, wet. RJ. 2, 1; capricious. bHd. 4, 4. AL. 1, 2. TC. 2, 8. to Hunt counter, to pursue the game by going the wrong way. CE. 4, 2. where counter is a quibble for compter prison. cf. bHd. 1, 2. Hunt's up, noise made to rouse a person as a young bride in a morning; originally a tune played to wake the sportsmen and call them together, the purport of which was The hunt is up. RJ. 3, 5:

Hurdle, texture of sticks woven together. S. hoard, hard; grate, dray, sledge. RJ. 3, 5. to Hurl, to fling, throw. Rc. 1, 4. AC. 1, 2, TN. 3, 2. Kin to whirl, germ. querlen, wirreln, ferlen, gr. gyrun, cf. carol.

Hurly burly, alarum, trouble. M. 1, 1. aHd. 5, 1. There assonates perhaps hurl and broil. Hurricano, hurricane, anciently herocane, herricane, waterspout. KL. 3, 2. TC. 5, 2. From the goth. horra, hurra, hyra, to drive, to move vehemently, kin to the gr. orō, to excite, orgazō, orgainō.

to Hurtle, to clash together, to move with impetuosity and tumult. AL. 4, 8. JC. 2, 2. Amplified form of to hurt.

to Hush, to silence. Co. 5, 3. TN. 5, 1. Hush, still, silenced, calm. H. 2, 2. Kin to the germ. huschen, husch, fr. cacher. Husks, shells that remain of the barley or malt. TC. 4, 5. AL. 1, 1. aHd. 4, 2. He. 4, 2. Kin to hose, cod, wh. s.

Huswife, country-woman. AL. 4, 8. Co. 1, 8 ; drab. He. 5, 1.

1.

Shakspeare, abused and misapplied exceedingly I for aye. TG. 1, 14. RJ. 3, 2.

often, therefore ridiculed by Jonson in Every I pronoun, sometimes repeated in colloquial man out of his humour, and Every man in his use. bHd. 2, 4. RJ. 3, 1.

I'fecks, corruption for in faith. WT. 1, 8.
Imagined speed, MV. 3, 4. either for ima-
ginable, or for like that of imagination.
to Imbare, to uncover. He. 1, 2.
Immediacy, immediate representation, the
deriving a character directly from another so as
to stand exactly in his place. KL. 5, 3.
Immoment,

AC. 5, 2.

not momentous, unimportant.

Immure, enclosure of wall, fortification. TC. prol.

Imp, graff, slip, scyon, sucker; child, son, boy, in jocular style. LL. 1, 2. 5, 2. bHd. 5, 5. He. 4, 1.

to Imp, to insert a new feather into the wing or
tail of a hawk, in the place of a broken one.
Rb. 2, 1. From the gr. emphyteuein, emphyein,
whence the germ. empten, impten, impfen,
to graff.

to Impair, to diminish, weaken, enfeeble,
waste. MD. 3, 2. cHf. 2,6. The fr. word
rer, from the lat. peiorare.
Impair, unequal, unworthy. TC. 4, 5.
to Impale, to encircle as with a pale. cHf. 3, 2.
From the lat. palus, germ. Pfahl.
Impartial, partial; im being made intensive
instead of negative, unless it has its usual
force, when partial, wh. s. is used for impar-
tial. MM. 5, 1. Impartial in the modern sense
for unpartial. Rb. 1, 1.

In few, or in a few, in few words, in short.
a Hd. 1, 2. TS. 1, 2.

Inaidable, incapable of receiving aid, aidless,
helpless. AW. 2, 1. From the fr. aide.
Incapable, unconscious, not having any com-
prehension of circumstances II. 4, 7. From the
lat.
capere, capax, gr. chaō.
Incardinate, incarnate. Unusual, or rather
an intended blunder. TN. 5, 1.

to Incarnardine, incarnadine, to make red,
or of a carnation colour. M. 2, 2.

to Incense, insense, to put sense into, to instruct, inform. Rc. 3, 2. 5, 1. MA. 5, 1. It is said to be a provincial expression in Staffordshire, aud probably Warwickshire. It seems not quite exceptionless, to derive it absolutely from sense, since the meaning of to inflame, kindle may produce also the notion of abetting, and has an analogy in the root of this latter word.

empi-Inch, an erse word for island. M. 1, 2. In all kindred dialects, an abridgement of the latin insula. The engl. inch is from uncio. Inches (of some body) seem to mean the whole complexion till at the meanest strokes and elements. So when Cleopatra AC. 1, 3. says to Ant. I would I had thy inches, she means, I would I were thyself. Hence of his (her, their etc.) inches, or to his iuches TC. 4, 5. is wholly, fundamentally, from the bottom, radically, to the bottom. Cf. Ben Jons. IV, 513. VI, 26. VII, 401. ed. Gifford.

Impartment, act of imparting, communication. й. 1, 4.

Impasted, incrusted, formed into a paste. H. 2, 2. From the fr. pâte, by the gr. pessō. to Impeach, to stop, hinder; to bring into question, to taint, hurt, prejudice, disparage. MD. 2, 2. MV. 3, 1; to accuse. KJ. 2, 1; to blame. Rb. 1, 1; appeach. AW. 1, 3. In the first meaning it is the fr. empêcher, lat. impedire; in the second the lat. petere, petessere. Impeach, impeachment, trial, accusation. CE. 5, 1.

Impeachment, hinderance, obstruction. He. 3, 6.

Imperseverant, strongly persevering. Cy. 4, 1.
Impeticos, impeticoe, purposely corrupted
for to put into the pocket. TN. 2, 3.

to Impone, to lay down, or lay as a stake or
wager. Affected word. H. 5, 2. S. article.
to Import, to signify, be of moment, to involve.
0.4, 2. KL. 4, 3. TC. 4, 2. KL. 4, 5. RJ. 5, 1
H. 3, 2.5, 2.

Importance, importunity. TN. 5, 1. KJ. 2, 1.
Important, importunate, violent. AW. 3, 7.
ĆE. 5, 1. MA. 2, 1. Fr. emportant.
Importless, not important, of no serious im-
port. TC. 1, 3.

Importunacy, importunity. TG.4, 2. T4.2, 2.
Impose, imposition, command. TG. 4, 8.
Imposition, imposture, deceit. MV.3,4. AIV.

4, 4; order, duty imposed. MV. 1,2. AW.4,4
Impostume, sore. H. 4, 4. Gr. apostēma.
to Impound, to lock, pen up, to inclose. He.
1, 2. S. to pound.
Impregnable, impenetrable, invincible, in-
expugnable. Rb. 3, 2. From the fr. prendre,
on account of the nasal sound.
Imprese, impresa, impress, device, emblem,
symbol, motto, favourite sentence on a shield.
Rb. 3, 1; pressure, (impress) TG. 3, 2. To
press seems, however, the root also in the
first meaning, those emblems being no doubt
impressed or engraved.

to

Inchased, laced, quartered. bHf. 1, 2.
Inchmeal, by inchmeal, by pieces of an inch
long at a time, by and by. T. 2, 2.
Incision. To make incision is partly an act of
romantic gallantry by which young men,
show their devout attachment to their mistresses
punctured or stabbed their arms with daggers
and mingling the blood with wine, drank it off
to their healths. LL. 4, 3. MV. 2, 1. partly
and originally a surgical operation, either of
phlebotomy, transferred to fighting. bHd. 2, 4-
cf. He. 4, 2. Rb. 1, 1. or of couching a cata-
ract, whence AL. 3, 2. god make incision in
thee, god open to thee the intelligence, god
give thee understanding. A similar phrase is
in Germany einem den Staar stechen.

to Inclip, to close up, to encompass; embrace.
AC. 2, 7. S. to clip, clasp.

to Include, to conclude, close, or shut up.
TG. 4, 4.

Incontinent, incontinently, suddenly, im-
patiently. AL. 5, 2. Rb. 5, 6. 0. 4, 3.
Incony or kony, sweet, pretty, delicate, fine.
LL. 3, 1. 4, 1. From in intensive, and to con,
whence cunning. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. Vi,

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to Indent, to notch, carve. AL. 4, 3. to make agreement, to bargain. aHd. 1, 3. From dens ;' the contracts in former times being counterparts written on one sheet with a word between in great characters, that was cut or carved and must fit when laid on each other. Gifford Ben Jons. VI, 209. explains 'to make an impression on the wax of the seal with the teeth, which, before writing was common, was the mode of testifying the execution of covenants, deeds. etc.

Indent, indentation, bending inwards. aHd. 3, 1.

indenture, contract, compact. KJ. 2, 1. Index, summary of the chapters annexed to a book. Rc. 2, 2. It was commonly prefixed. TC. 1, 8. Sometimes a preparatory sketch in dumb show, prefixed to the act of a play. H. 3, 4. 0. 2, 1; index to a pageant was a painted emblem carried before it. Rc. 4, 4. Indictment, action, bill of accusation. bhd. 2, 4. Rc. 3, 6.

Indifferency, impartiality. KJ. 2, 2; tolerableness. bHd. 4, 3.

Indifferent, impartial. Hh. 2, 4; ordinary, tolerable, common, pretty good. H. 2, 2. TS. 4, 1. Indigest, indigested, disorderly, confused. S. 114; as substantive for confused chaos, stuff. KJ. 5, 7.

Indign, unworthy. O. 1, 3. Indirection, that which is not straight, or direct. H. 2, 1; indirect or crooked moral conduct, dishonesty. JC. 4, 3. KJ. 3, 1.

to Indite, to indict, convict, impeach. O. 3, 4. H. 2, 2; to invite, by designed corruption, it seems. bhd. 2, 1. Inducement, allurance, bait. Rc. 4, 4. AW. 3, 2. Induction, introduction, beginning, a sort of prologue in a detached scene. aHd. 3, 1. Rc. 4, 4; a leading thing, by a conjecture of Warburton restored for instruction. 0. 4, 1. to Indue, to inure. H. 4, 7.

to Infamonize, a mockword from to defame, or report evil of. LL. 5, 2. Infect, infected. TC. 1, 3.

Informal, out of wits. MM. 5, 1. 8. formal. Infortunate, unfortunate. KJ. 2, 1. bHf. 4, 9. Infusion, endowing. H. 5, 2. Courtcant. S. article.

an example of this word, there will be enough of like misaccentuation. Or should we prefer perhaps if trembling I obey not then? Inhabitable, uninhabitable. Rb. 1, 1. to Inherit, to possess, obtain. TG. 3, 2. Rb. 1, 1. T. 4, 1.

Inhoop'd, inclosed in a hoop. Quails were placed in a circle, and he whose quail was driven out of this circle, lost the stake. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. II, 87. Hanmer's incoop'd AC. 2, 4. is therefore unnecessary. Iniquity, the Vice, or buffoon in the old moralities, dressed in a cap with ass's ears, a long coat and a dagger of lath. aHd. 2, 4. Rb. 3, 1.

Inkhorn mate, bookish or scribbling man. a Hƒ. 3, 1.

Inkling, hint, private intelligence. Co. 1, 1.
Hh. 2, 1. Kin to the germ. Wink.
to Inlink, to link by chains. He. 3, 3.
to Inn, to lodge, to lay up, to gather in the
barn, to house corn. AW. 1, 3.
Inn, dwelling house of fashion.
harbour for persons of quality.
3, 3.

Innocent, idiot, natural, fool.
Gifford's Ben Jons. III. 406.

aHd. 3, 3; Rb. 5, 1. M.

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AW. 4, 3.

to Inscroll, to write in a scroll, wh. s. MV. 2,7.

to Insculp, to carve in relief, to engrave on any solid substance. MV. 2, 7. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 259.

Inseparate, not to be separated, or that ought not to be separated. TC. 5, 2. to Inshell, to contain within a shell. Co. 4, 6. to Inshelter, to embay. O. 2, 1. to Inship, to put into a ship. aHf. 5, 1. to Insinew, to strenghten as with sinews, to join firmly. bHd. 4, 1. S. sinew. Insisture, regularity, or station. TC. 1, 3. Instance, motive, cause. H. 3, 2. Rc. 3, 2. MW. 2, 2. He.2, 2. proof, example. TC. 5, 2. TN. 4, 8; message, advice, information. bhd. 3, 1. MM. 4, 3.

Ingene, ingine, genias, wit. From the lat. ingenium. Gifford's Ben Jons. I, 153. This word is to be restored instead of the corrupt ingeniver 0. 2, 1. where to tire the ingene means, as Nares justly explains, to fatigue the mind, or genius in attempting to do it justice; the subject being the excellence of Desdemona. Steevens quotes from T. 4, 1. to outstrip all Insuppressive, insuppressible, not to be suppraise and make it halt behind her. Other readings are absurd or glossematical, and destroy

the verse.

Insuit, suit, request, AW. 5, 3.

pressed. JC. 2, 1.

Iutelligencer, mediator gobetween. bHd. 4, 2. to Intend, to pretend, affect, cloak under a to Inhabit. M. 3, 4. where Horne Tooke Div. pretence. Rc. 3, 5. TS. 4, 1. MA. 2, 2. where of P. II, 52. against Pope's arbitrary and Pope's pretend is glossematical. TA. 2, 2 glossematical conjecture inhibit thee, defends Intendment, intention, design. AL. 1, 1. He. the common reading: And dare me to the 1, 2. VA. 3, 7. 0. 4, 2.

desert with thy sword; If trembling I inhabit Intenible, unable to hold. AW. 1, 8. then, protest me etc. and explains: if then Intentively, attentively. O. 1, 3.

I do not meet thee there, if trembling I stay at Intercepter, waylayer, that lies in ambush. home, or within doors, or under any roof,

TN. 3, 4. 1, 1.

or within any habitation, if, when you call me to Interess, original form of to interest. KL. to the desert, I then house me, or through

fear, hide myself from thee in any dwelling. Intermission, pause, delay. MV. 3, 2. KL. Douce Ill. of Sh. I, 380. defends inhabit as 2, 4. M. 4, 8.

trencher.

varied orthography for inhibit, allowing how- Intituled, having a title, a claim. TL. 69. 'S. 37. ever the difficulty to extract a sense adapted Intrenchant, not permanently divisible, not to the occasion, since the required was to keep retaining any mark of division. M. 5, 7. From back, or hesitate. In this difficulty it seems reasonable to approve of Horne Tooke's interpretation, unless one would perhaps admit of a word unprecedented indeed, but not wholly incompatible with the bard's powerful and free ase of the language, nor with the analogy; viz if trembling I unobey then. The confusion of both words inhabit and unobey by hearing was very possible; and though we know not

Intrinse, intrinsecal, intrinsecate, intrinsic, intrinsicate, intrinsical, inward, innermost twisted, or intricate. No doubt from the lat. intrinsecus, and confounded by the interpreters only on account of the kindred meaning. intricate is kin to the lat. trica, gr. thrix, trichōma, ital. treccia, intrecciare, intrigare engl. betray, betrash, betrass, betraise, fr.

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