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Bacen.

use.

being much altered not only by the change of is the word now used.] Lying under the stylc, but by addition and substraction.

the earth ; placed below the surface. Denham.

Metals are wholly subterrany ; whereas plants 2. [In arithmetick.] The taking of a lesser are part above earth, and part under.

number out of a greater of like kind, In subterranies, as the fathers of their tribes, whereby to find out a third number,

are brimstone and mercury.

Bacon

The force being or declaring the inequality, ex

of subterranean wind transports a hill cess, or difference between the numbers

Torn from Peiorus, or the shatter'd side given.

Cocker.

Of thund'ring Æua, whose combustible SUBSTRU'CTION. 1. s. [substructio, from And fuei'd entrails thence conceiving fire, sub and struo, Lat.] Underbuilding. Sublim’d with mineral fury, aid the winds. To fornd our habitation firmly, exaniine the

Milton bed of earth upon which we build, and then the Alteration proceeded from the change made underfillings, or substruction, as the ancients call in the neighbouring subterraneal parts by that it.

Wotion.
great conflagration.

Beyle. SUBST Y'LAR. adj. (sub and stylus, Lat.]

Tell by what paths, what subterranean ways, Substylar line is, in dialing, a right line,

Back to the fountain's head the sea conveys
The refluent rivers.

Blackmore. whereon the gnomon or style of a dial

Let my soft minutes glide obscurely on, is erected at right angles with the plane. Like subterraneous streams, unheard, unknown. Dict.

Norris, Erect the style perpendicularly over the sube

This subterraneous passage iras not at first destilar line, so as to make an angle with the dial- signed so much for a highway as for a quarry. plane equal to the elevation of the pole of your

Addises. place.

Moxon. Rous'd within the subterranean world, SUBSU'LTIVE. adj. [subsultus, Latin.] Ti' expanding earthquake unresisted shakes SUBSU'L.TORY.) Bounding; moving by

Aspiring cities.

Tbomson.

SUBTERRA'NITY. ». s. [sub and terra, starts. SUBSU'LTORILY.adı. [from subsultori.]

Lat.] A place under ground. Not in In a bounding manner; by fits; by

We commonly consider subterranities not in starts.

contemplations suficiently respective unto the The spirits spread even, and move not subsula

creation.

Breas. torily; for that will make the parts close and SUBTILE. adi. [subt:le, Fr. suhtilis, Lat. pliant.

Bacon. SUBTANGENT. N. s. In any curve, is the

This word is often written subtle.]

1. Tiin; not dense; not gross. line which determines the intersection

Froin his eyes the fleeting fair of the tangent in the axis prolonged.

Retir'l, like subtle smoke dissolv'd in air. Drgd. Dict.

Duny Des Cuit his subiile matter, TO SUBTE'ND. V. a. (sub and tenda, Lat.) You leave him neither fire por water. Prior. To be extended under.

is not the leat conveyed through the vacuum In rectangles and triangles, the square which

by the vibrations of a much subtiler medium than is made of the side that subtunnist's the right in

air, which, after the air was drawn out, remaingle, is equal to the squares which are made of

ed in the vacuum?

Nevica. tie sides containing the right angle. Broren.

2. Nice; fine; delicate; not coarse. From Aries rightways draw a line, to end

But of the clock, which in our breasts we hear, In the same round, and let that line subtend The subtilo mocions we forget the while. Droves. An equal triangle: now since the lines

Thou only know'st her nature and her pow'rs; Must three times touch the round, and meet ller subtile form than uniy canst dehne. Davies.

I do disting ish plain Where'er they meet in angles, those are trines.

Each subtile line of her inmortai face. Davies.

Greech. 3. Piercing ; acute. SUBTE'NSE. N. s. [sub and tensus, Latin.] Pass we the slow disease, and subtile pain, The chord of an arch.

Which our weak frame is destin'd to sustain; SU'PTER. [Lat.] In composition, signi

The cruel stone, the cold catarrb. Prior. fies ander.

4. Cunning; artful; sly; subdolous. In SUBTERFLU'ENT. I ad;. [senter fro, Lat.)

this sense it is now commonly written SUBTE'R FLUOUS. Running under.

subile. Milton seems to have both. (See

SUBTIE.] SU'ETER FUGE. n. s. [subierfuge, Fr. :bter

Arrius, a priest in the church of Alexandria, a and fugio, Lat.] A shift; an evasion ;

subtile-uitted and a marvellous fiir-spoken man, a trick.

was discontented that one should be placed be The king cared not for subterfuges, but would fore himn in honour, whose superior he thought stand envy, and appear in any ibing that was to hinıself in desert, because through eiwy and stom his mind.

B.com.
mach prone unto contradiction.

Hooker. Notwithstanding all their sly subterfuges and

Think rou shis York studied evasions, yet the product of all their en- Was not incensed by his subtle mother deavours is but as the birth of the labouring To taunt and scorn you?

Shaispeare. anonntains, wind and emptiness. Ginoille. O subtil: love, a thousand wiles thou hast

Anect not littie shifts and sulterfuges to avoid By luble suit, by service, or by hire, the force of an argument. Watts. To win a maiden's hold.

Fairfax. SUITERRANEAL. adi. [sub and terra,

A woman, an hariot, and subtila of heart.

Proverts. SUBTERRANEAN. Lat. sousterraine, Nor thou his malice, and false guile, contemn: SUBTERRANEOUS. Fr. Subterranean

Subtile he necds must be, who could seduce SUBTERRANY. or subterraneous Angels.

Milien.

three signs,

a

SUB 5. Deceitful.

How shall we this union well express?
Like a bowi upon a subtle ground,

Nought ties the soul, her subtilty is such. Dacies.
I've tumbled past the throw.

Slakspeare. The corporeity of all bodies being the same, 6. Refined ; acute beyond necessity.

and subtiliy in ail bodies being essentially the Things remote from use, obscure and subtle. same thing, could any body by subtilty become

Milton. vital, then any degree of subtilty would produce SC'BTILELY. adv. (from subtile. ]

some degree of life.

Grew.

Bodies, the more of kin they are to spirit in 1. In a subtile manner; thinly ; not

subtilty and refinement, the more spreading and densely.

self-dixiusive are they.

Norris. 2. Finely; not grossly.

2. Niety ; exility: The constitution of the air appeareth more Whatsoever is invisible, in respect of the finesubtilely by worms in oak-apples than to the ness of the body, or subtilty of the motion, is sense of man. Bacon. little enquired.

Bacon. In these piaisters the stone should not be too 3. Refinement ; too much acuteness. subtilely powdered; for it will better manifest its

You prefer the reputation of candour before attraction in more sensible dimensions. Brown,

that of subtilty.

Boyle. The opakes' bodies, if subtilely divided, as metals dissolved in acid inenstruums, become per

Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtilty in nice divisions.

Locke. fectiy transparent.

Newton.

Greece did at length a learned race produce, 3. Artfully ; cunningly.

Who needful science mock'd, and arts of use; By granting this, add the reputation of loving Mankind with idle subtilties embroil, the truth sincerely to that of having been able And fashion systems with romantick toil. to oppose it subiilily. Boyle.

Blackmore. Others have sought to ease themselves of af- They give method, and shed subiilty upon ficrion by disputing subtilely against it, and per- their author.

Baker. tinaciously maintaining that aiflictions are no

4. Cunning; artifice; slyness. real evils.

Tillotson.

Finding force now faint to be, SU'BTILENESS. n. s. [from subtile.]

He thought grey hairs afforded subtilty. Sidney. 1. Fineness; rareness.

The rudeness and barbarity of savage Indians 2. Cunning ; artfulness.

know not so perfectly to hate all virtues as some To SUBTILIATE. v. a. [from subtile.]

men's subtilty.

King Charles. To make thin.

Sleighis proceeding

As from his wit and native subtlety. Milton. A very dry and warm or sultilialing air opens the surface of the earth.

Harvey. SU'BTLE. adj. [written often for subtile, SUBTILIATION. n. s. [subtiliation, Fr. especially in the sense of cunning.] Sly;

from subtiliate.] The act of making artful; cunning. thin.

Some subtle headed fellow will put some quirk, By subtiliation and rarefaction, the oil contain- or devise some evasion, whereof the rest will ed in grapes, if distilled before it be fermented, take hold.

Spenser. becomes spirit of wine.

Buylc.

Shall we think the subtle-witted French SUBTILIZA'TION. n. s. (from subiilize.]

Conj'rers and sorc'rers, that, afraid of him, 1. Subtilization is making any thing so

By magick verse have thus contriv'd his end?

Sbakspeare. volatile as to rise readily in steam or . The serpent, subtiest beast of all the field. vapour. Quincy.

Milton, Fluids have their resistances proportional to The Arabians were men of a deep and subtle their densities, so that no subtilization, division wit.

Spratt, of parts, or retining, can alter these resistances. Su'btly. adv. [from subtle.]

Cbeyne.

1. Slily; artfully; cunningly 2. Refinement; superfluous acuteness. Thou see'st how subtly to detain thee I devise; To SUBTILI'ZE. v. a. (subtilizer, Fr. from Inviting thee to hear, while I relate. Milton. subtile.]

2. Nicely; delicately. 1. To make thin; to make less gross or

in the nice bee, what sense so subrly true, coarse.

From pois nous herbs extracts the healing dew! Chyle, being mixed rith the choler and pan

Popes creatick juices, is further subtilized, and render. To SUBTRACT. v. a. [subtractio, Latin, ed so fluid and penetrant, that the thinner and They who derive it from the Latin finer pare easily finds way in at the streight orifices of the la reous veins,

write subtract; those who know the

Ray. Body cannot be vital; for if it be, then is it so

French original, write substract, which either as subtiliced or organized, moved or en

is the common word.] To withdraw

Grew. part from the rest. 2. To refine; to spin into useless niceties. Reducing many things unto charge, which, by

The most obvious verity is subtilized into nice- confusion, became concealed and subtracted from ties, and spun into a thread indiscernible by

the crown.

Davies.
Glanville.

What is subtracted or subducted out of the ex-
To talk with too

tent of the divine perfection, leaves still a nomuch refinement.

tient intinite.

Halen Qualities and moods some modern philoso

The same swallow, by the subtracting dai y of phers have subtilicud on.

Digby,

her eggs, laid nineteen successively, and I en SI'ETILTY. n. s. [subtilité, Fr. from

gave over.

Rayo

SUBTR A'CTER. n. s. (subtraho, Lati..] 1. Thinness; fineness ; exility of parts.

The number to be taken out of a larger The subtilties of particular sounds may pass

number. through small craunies not confused, but its

SUBTRACTION. n. so See SUBSTRAC. maguity not so well.

Bacon,

dowed with lite.

common opticks. To SUBTILIZE. V. n.

suhtile]

TION.

Ous unto castonecm.

SUBTRA HE'ND.n, s. [subtrahendum, Lat.]

spirits are unchanged, if they always strod in the The number out of which part is taken.

suburbs and expectation of sorrows. Taylor SUBTRIPLE. adj. [subtriple, Fr. sub and

SubU'RBAX. ad;. [suburbarus, Lat. from triplus, Latin) Containing a third, or

suburb.] Inhabiting the suburb,

Poor clinches the suburban muse affords, one part of three.

And Panton waging hurmiess war svith words. The power will be in a subtriple proportion to

Dryder. the weight.

Wilkins.

Then weds an heiress of suburbia nould, SUBVENTA'NEOUS. adj. [subventaneus, Ucly as apes, but weil endow'd with gold. Harte Latin.] Addle; windy.

SUBWO'R KER. 2. so I sub and worker.] Suitable unto the relation of the mares in Underworker; 'subordinate helper. Spain, and their subventancous conceptions from He that governs well leads the blind; but ho the western wind.

Broron.

that teaches gives him eyes: and it is glorious ta To SUBVE'RSE, v. a. (subversus, Latin.] be a subwork or to grace, in freeing it from some

To subvert; to overthrow. Spenser uses of the inconveniences of original sin. Souto. subverst in the same sense.

SUCCED A'NEOUS. adj. (succedaneus, Lat:] Empires subvers'd, when ruling fate has struck

Supplying the place of something else. Th' unalterable hour.

Thomson.

Nor is Ælius stric:ly to be believed when he SUBVE'RSION. n. s. [subversion, Fr. sub

prescribech the stone of the otter as a succedane

Bromur. versus, Latin.] Overthrow ; ruin; de.

I have not discovered the menstruum: I will struction.

present a succed.incous experiment made with a These seek subversion of thy harmless life.

common liquor,

Boyles Sbakspeare. SUCCEDA’NEUM. n. s. (Latin.] That It is far more honourable to suffer, than to prosper in their ruin and subversion. K. Chartes. which is put to serve for something else,

These things refer to the opening and shutting To SUCCEED. v. n. [succéder, fr. suce the abyss, with the dissolution or subversion of cedo, Latin.) the earth.

Burnet. 1. To follow in order. Laws have been often abused, to the oppres

If I were now to die, sion and the subversion of that order they were "T were to be most happy; for Licar intended to preserve.

Rogers.

My soul hath her consent so absolute, SUEV E'R SIV E. adj. [from subvert.] Hav- That not another comfort like to this ing tendency to overturn : with of

Succeeds in unknown tate.

Sbakspeare. Lying is a vice subversive of the very ends Those of all ages to succeed will curse my head. and design of conversation. Rogers.

Milton, TO SUBVE'RT. v. a. [subvertir, Fr. sub

2. To come into the place of one who has

quised or died. terte, Latin.]

Workmen let it cool hy degrees in such rea 1. To overthrow; to overturn; to destroy; lentings of nealing beats, lest it should shiver in to turn upside down.

pieces by a violent succeciding of air in the ran God, by things deem'd weak,

of the fire.

Dista. Subverts the worldly strong and worldly wise,

Enjoy till I return

Mi/1699. Short pleasures; for long woes are to succeed. No proposition can be received for divine re

Milten. relation, if contradictory to our clear intuitive If the father ļoft cnly daughters, they equally knowledye; because this would subvert the prin- sudseekid to him in co;artnership, without pres ciples of all knowledre.

Laike. lation or preference of the eldest to a double Trees are subverted or broken by high u inds.

Hase Noriim.r. Revenge succeeds to love, and rage to grief. 2. To corrupt; to confound.

Dryden, Strive not about words to no purpose, but to

While these limbsche vital spirit feeds, the subvcrting of the hearers. 2 Timoily.

'tic d. to night, and night to day sheeen's

,

Burnt-oit'rings mou and ev'ning sabe chine, SUBVE'R TER. n. s. [from subvert.) Over- Awtires eternt in rhyteniles shine. Dryder. thrower; destroyer.

Diese dll harmless' makers of lampoons are O traitor! worse than Sinon was to Troy; yet of dangerous example to the publick: some O vile subverter of the Gallick reign,

wirty men may succeed to their designs, and, mix, More false than Gano was to Charlemagne ! ing sense with malice, blast the reputation of Dryden. the most innocent.

Dryden. They anathematize them as enemies to God, The prettrisions of Saul's family, who receive and sebverters of souls.

Waterland, ed his crown fron the immediate appointment SU'BURB. n. s. [suburbium, Latin.)

of God, ended with his reign; and David, by the

sanie citle, silczecuted in his throne, to the exclu1. Building without the walls of a city:

sion of Jonathan. There's a trim rabble let in: are all these your faithful friends o'th' suburts? Sbatsp. 3. To obtain one's wish ; to terminate an

What can be inore to the distaluatica of vie undertaking in the desired effect. power of the Spaniard, then to have marched 'T is alnıost impossible for poets to seeeeed seven days in the heart of his countries, and without ambition: imagination must be raised by lodged three nights in the skburts of his princi.

a desire of Faine to a desire of pleasing. Dryda. pal city?

Daron. This adjress I have long thought oiing; and 2. The conf.105; the outpart.

if I had never attempted, I migh: have been sain The suburbs of my jacket are so gone,

enough to think I might have suceded. Drydrea I have stop left cne skirt to sit upon. Cleaveland.

A knave's a knave to me in ev'ry state; They cat's smoothed plank;

Alike my scori, if he suced or fail: Thesiurbi i ceir straw-built citadel,

Sporus at comt, or Japhet in a jail. PAS raciate.

Milion, 4. To terininate according to wish ; 10 Wien o::foriulles are violcntly chargei, our have a good effect.

puition.

Locke care

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If thon deal truly, thy doings shall prosper

He obsery'd the illustrious throng, ously succeed to thee.

Tobit. Their names, their fates, their conduct and their This was impossible for Virgil to imitate, because of the severity of the Roman language: In peaceful senates and successful war. Dryd. Spenser endeavoured it in Shepherd's Kalendar; This is the most proper and most successful

but neither will it succeed in English. Dryden. season to meet and attack the advancing enemy. s. To go imder cover.

Blackmore. Please that silvan scene to take,

The early hunter Where whistling winds uncertain shadows make;

Blesses Diana's hand, who leads him safe Or will you to the cooler cave succeed,

O'er hanging cliits; who spreads his net successo Whose mouth the curling vines have overspread?

ful,

Dryden. And guides the arrow thro' the panther's heart. To SUCCE'Ed. v. a.

Prior. 1. To follow; to be subsequent or conse

SUCCESSFULLY. adv. (from successful.] quent to.

Prosperously; luckily; fortunately. In that place no creature was hurtful unto

He is too young, yet he looks successfully.

Sbakspeare, man; and those destructive effects they now discover succeeded the curse, and came in with

They would want a competent instrument to thorns and briars.

Brown.

collect and convey theic rays successfully, or so 2. To piosper ; to make successful.

as to imprint the species with any vigour on a Now frequent trines the happier lights among,

dull prejudicate faculty.

Hammord. And high rais'd Jove from his dark prison freed,

The rule of imitating God can never be suiThose weights took off that on his planet hung,

cessfully proposed but upon chriscian principles; Will gloriously the new laid works succeed.

such as that this world is a place not of rest, but of discipline.

Atterbury. Dryden. Succeed my wish, and second my design,

A reformation successfully carried on in this The fairest Deiopeia shall be thine,

great town would in cine spread itself over the And make thee father of a happy line. Dryden.

whole kingdom.

Swift.

Bleeding, when the expectoration goes on su.co SUCCE'EDER. n. s. [from succeed.] One cessfully, suppresseth it.

Arbithnot. wbo follows; one who comes into the

Suctt'SSFULNESS, ». s. [from successful.] place of another.

Happy conclusion ; desired event; seNow this great succeeder all repairs;

ries of good forturie. He builds up strength and greatness for his heirs, An opinion of the successfulness of the work is Out of the virtues that adori'd his blood. Dariel. as necessary to found a purpose of undertaking

Nature has so far imprinted it in us, that it, as the authority of commands, or the persuashould the envy of predecessors deny the secret

siveness of promises.

Hammond, to succeeders, they yet would tind it out. Suckling. Succu'ssli n. 1. s. [succession, Fl. succiso

They make one man's particular fancies, per- sio, Latin.) haps faiiings, confining laws to others, and con

1. Consecution; series of one thing or per. vey them to their succeeders, who afterwards misname all unobsequiousness as presumption.

son following another. Boyle.

St. Augustine, having reckoned up a great SUCCE’SS. n. so[succès, Fr. successus, Lat.]

number of the bishops of Rome, saith, in all this 1. The termination of any affair happy or

order of succession of bishops there is not one found a Donatist.

Hooner. unhappy. Success without any epithet is Reflection on appearances of several ideas, one commonly taken for good success.

after another, in our minds, furnishes us with For good success of his hands, he asketh abi- the idea of succession.

Lucke. lity to do of bin that is most unable. Wisdom, Let a cannot-bullet pass through a room, and

Perplex'd and troubled at his bad success take with it any limb of a man, it is clear that The tempter stood.

Milton, it must strike successively the two sides of the Not Lemuel's mother with more care

room, touch one part of the flesh first, and anDid counsel or instrucs her heir;

other after, and so in succession.

Locke. Or teach, with more success, her son

2. A series of things or persons following The vices of the time to shun.

Waller.

one another. Every reasonable mau cannot but wish me

These decays in Spain have been occasioned success in this attempt, because I undertake the

by so long a war with Holland; but most by proof of that which it is every man's interest that

two successions of inactive princes. Bacon, Tillotson,

The smallest particles of matter may cohere Whilst malice and ingratitude confess, They ’ve strove for ruin long without success.

by the strongest attractions, and compose bigo Garth.

ger particles of weaker virtue; and many of

these may cohere and compose bigger particles, Gas sulphuris may be given with success in any

Arbutbrot.

whose virtue is still weaker; and so on for diMilitary successes, above all others, elevate the

vers successiuais, until the progression end in the

biggest particles, on which the operations in

Atterbury, 2. Succession). Obsolete.

chymistry and the colours of natural bodies de. pend.

Neuton, All the sons of these five brethren reigned By due success, and all their nephews late,

3. A lineage; an order of descendants.

Cassibelan,
Even thrice eleven descents, the crown retained.

And his succession, granted Rome a tribute.
Spenser.

Sbakspeare.
SUCCESSFUL, udi. [success and full.] A long succession must ensue ;
Prosperous ; happy; fortunate.

And his next son the clouded ark of God They were terrible arms to persons gro:rn

Shall in a glorious temple enshrine, Milton. bealthy by a long and successful imposture, by 4. The power or runt of coming to the persuading the world that men might be honest inheritance of ancestors. and happy, though they never mortified any What people is so void of common sense,

Şouib, To vote succession from a gative prince? Drydowe

I should be true.

disease of the lungs.

minds of a people.

a

gorrupt appetites.

rise.

crown.

SUCCE’SSIVE. odi. [successif, Fr.]

middle] One that follows in the place 1. Following in order; continuing a course or character of another: correlative to or consecution uninterrupted.

predecessour. Toree with ficry corrige he assails,

This king by this queen had a son of tender Ani ench successive after other quils,

29c, but of great expectation, brought up in the Still wond'ring whence so many kings should hope of themselves, and already acceptain of

Daniel. the inconstant people, as successor of his father's God hath set

Sidney. Labour and rest, as day and night, to men

Tne successor of Moses in prophecies.
Successive.
Milton.

Ecclesiasticus. God, by reason of his eternal indivisible na- 'The fear of what was to come from an unacture, is by one single act of duration present to knowledged successourto the crown, clouded much all the successive portions of time, and all succes- of that prosperity then, which now shines in sively existing in them. Soutb. chronicle.

Clarendon Send the successive ills through ares down,

The second part of confirmation is the prayer And let each weeping father tell his son. Prior. and ben diction of the bishop, the successour of 2. Inherited by succession. Not in use. the apostles in this office.

Hammond. Countryman,

The surly savage ottspring disappear, Plead my successive title with your swords.

And curse the bright successor of the year; Sbakspeare.

Yet crafty kind with daylight can dispense. The empire being elective, and not successive,

Dryden. the emperors, in being, made profit of their own Whether a bright successor, or the same. Tate. times.

Ral-ich.

The descendants of Alexander's successors cui. Successively.adv. [successivement, Fr.

tivated navigation in some lesser degree.

Arbuthnot. from successive.] In uninterrupted or. der; one after another.

SUCCINCT. adj. (succinct, Fr. succinco Three sons he left,

t15, Latin.] All which successively by turns did reign. I. Tucked or girded up; having the

Fairy Queen. clothes drawn up to disengage the legs. Is it upon record ? or else reported

His habit fit for speed succinct. Milior. Successively from age to age ? Shakspeare. His vest succirct then girding round his waist, That king left only by his six wives three child- Forth rush'd the swail.

Popes ren, who reigned suscessively, and died childless. Four kraves in garbs succinct.

Popes Bacon.

2. Short; concise; briet. We that measure times by first and last,

A strict and succinct style is that where you The sight of things successively do cake, When God on all at once his view doth cast,

can take no.hing away without loss, and that lois manifest.

Ben Yonsa, And of all times doth but one instant make.

Dvies.

Let all your preeepts be succinct and clear, I inclined the paper to the rays very ohiique

That ready wits may comprehend them scon.

Roscommon. ly, that the most refrangible rays might be more copiously reflected than the rest, and the white

SUCCINCTLY. adv. [from succinct.] ness at length changed successiredy into blue, in

Briely; concisely ; without superlluity digo, and violet.

Nascon.

of diction. No such motion of the same stom can be all I shall present you very succinitly with a few of it existent at once: it must needs be made reicctions that most readily occur. Beyle. gradually and successively, both as to place and I'll recant, when France ein shew me wit time; secing that body call'ot at the same in- as strong as ours, and as succinci y vrit. Roscom. stant be in more places than one. berty. We have a trèdition coming down to us from

Sve 'I'NCTNESS, 1. s. [fron succinct.] our fathers; a kind of inheritance sucussively

Bravity ; conciseness. conveyed to us by the priinitive saints from the Su’econy, n. so Trichorium, Latin.! A apostles themselves.

Watertund.
p'ant.

Miiller, SUCCESSIVENESS. 91. s. [from successive.]

A garden-sullid
Of an live, radishes, and succory.

Dryde. The state of being successive.

The medicaments to diminish the milk are All the notion we bave of duration is parely by the successiveness of its own operations, and

letiuce, purslane, endive, and secuery. IViscindi. partly by those external measures that it firids To SUCCOUR. J. a. (sécourir, Fr. sül: in motion.

Hile.

Curro, Lat.) To help; to assist in dit. Succa'sLESS. adj. [from success.] Un. ficulty or distress; to relieve. lucky; unfortunate ; failing of the event

As that famous queca desired.

Of Amazons, whom Pyrrhus dii destroy,

Did shew herself in great triumphunt jov, A second colony is sent hither, but as successo less as the first.

To suecour the weak state of sad aplicted Troy. Herlin.

Spenser. The hopes of thy successless love resign. Dryd. The Bavarian duke,

A grateful beast will stand upon record, against Bold champion ! brandishing his Noric blade,

those that in their prosperity forget their friends,

that to their loss and hazard stood by and susBest temper'd steel, siti cessiess prov'd in ricid.

coured them in their adversity. L'Estrange.

Philips. Passion unpity'd, and successless love,

Su'ccour. n. s. [from the verb; sécours, Plant daggers in my heart.

Addison. French.]
Successless ail her soft caresses proin,
To banish from his breast his country's love.

1. Aid; assistance; relief of any kind; Pepe.

help in distress. Su'CCESSOUR. N. s. [ successeur, Fr. skices

AT; father, sor, Lat. This is sometimes pronounc

Fising for succour to his servant Banister,

Bing distress u, was by that wretch betray'd. ed shirts Sour, with the acount in the

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