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The stately beast the two Tyrrheidz bred, He is forsworn, if e'er those eyes of yours Snatch'd from his dam, and the tame youngling Echold another day break in the east. Sbaisp. fed.

Dryden. While the sword this monarchy secures, YOU'NGLY. adv. (froin young.)

'Tis manag'd by an abler hand than yours. Dryshe 1. Early in life.

My wealth, my city, and myself are yours. Say we read lectures to you,

Dryden. How youngl; he began to serve his country,

It is my employment to revive the old of past How long continued, and what stock he springs

ages to the present, as it is yours to transmit the

young of the present tu the future. Pope. 3. Ignorantly; weakly.

YOURSE'LF, n. s. { your and self:] YOU'NGSTER./1. s. (from young.) A

1. You, even yon; ye, not others. YOU'NKER. Ś young person : in con- If it stand, as you puurself still do,

Within the eve of benour; be assurd, tempt.

My purse, my persun, iny extremestineans, What, will you make a younder of me? shall

Lie }} univer'd to your occasions. Sbakspeare. I not take mine ease in minu inn, but I shall so

O heav'ns! have my pocket pick'd ?

Sbalspeare. If you do love old men, it your sweet sway See how the morning opes her golden gates, Allow obedience, if yourselves are old, And takes her farewell of the glorious sun: Make it your cause.

Sbakspeara How well resembles it the prime of youth,

2. In the oblique cases it has the sense of Trim'd like a yonder prancing to his love.

Shakspeare.

reciprocation, or reference to the same While Ulysses slept there, and close by subject mentioned before : as, you love The other yonkers, he abroad would ly. Chapm.

only yourself; you have betrayed yourFame tells, by age fame reverend grown, selves by your rashness. Thát Phæbus gave his chariot to his son;

Whenever you are more intent upon adornAnd whilst the youngster from the path deciines, ing your persons than upon perfecting of your Admiring the strange beauty of the signs, souls, you are much more beside your selves ihan Proud of his charge, he drove the fiery horse, he that had rather a laced coat than a healthful And would outdo his father in his course. Creecb.

body:

Law. The youngster, who at nine and three

3. It is sometimes reciprocal in the nomi. Drinks with his sisters milk and tea,

native. From breakfast reads, vill twelve o'clock, Burnet and Heylin, Hobbes and Locke. Prior.

Be but yourselves.

Pops. YOUNGTH. n. s. [from young.) Youth. YOUTH. n. s: [yeozuð, Saxon.] Obsolete.

1. The part of life surceeding to child. The mournful muse in mirth now list ne mask,

hood and adolescence; the time from As she was wont in youngth and summer days.

fourteen to twenty-eight.

Spenser. But could yo tb last, and love still breed, Your. pronoun. [eoper, Saxon.)

Had jovs no date, and age no need; 1. Belonging to you. It is used properly

Then these delights my mind might move, when we speak to more than one, and

To live with thee, and he thy love.

His starry helm unbuckled show'd him prime ceremonjously and customarily when to In manhood, where youtb ended. Milton. only one.

The solidity, quantity, and strength of the Either your unparagoned mistress is dead, or aliment, is to be proportioned to the labour or she's outprized by a trifle. Sbuts; care. quantity of inuscular motion, which in youth is Impute your danger to our ignorance;

greater than any other age.

Arbuthnot. The bravest men are subject most to chance. 2. A young man,

Dryden.

Siward's

's son, Ye dauntless Dardans hear,

And many unrough youths even now, Think on the strength which once your

fathers

Protest their first of manhood. Sbakspeare. bore.

Pope.

If this were seen, 2. Your is used in an indeterminate sense. The happiest youth viewing his progress through,

Every true man's apparel fits your chief; if it What periis past, what crosses do ensue, be too little for your thief, your true man thinks. Would shut the book and sit him down and die. it big enough. If it be too big for your thiet, your

Shakspeare. thief thinks it little enough; so every true man's O'er the lofty gate his art emboss'd apparel tits your thiet,

Sbakspeare:

Androgeo's death, and off'rings to his ghost; There is a great affinity between coins and Sev'n youtbe irom Athens yearly sent, to meet poetry, and your medallist and critic are much The táto appuinced by revengeful Crete. Dryd. nearer related than the world imagine. Addison.

The pious chief A disagreement between these seldom hap- A bundred youths from all his train elects, among your antiquaries and schoolinen. And iv the Latian court their course directs. Feniun.

Dryden. 3. Yours is used when the substantive goes 3. Young men. Collectively. before or is understood: as, this is your

As it is fit to read the best authors to youth book, this book is yours.

first, so let them be of the openest and clearest; Pray for this man and for his issue,

as Livy before Sallust, Sidney before Donne. Whose heavy hand hath bow'd you to the grave, And beggar'd yours for ever.

About him exercis'd heroic games That done, our day of marriage shall be yours,

Th'unarıned youth of heav'n. Milton One feast, one house, one mutual happiness.

Tl.e graces put not more exactly on
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Th' attire of Venus, when the ball she won,
This kiss, if it durst speak,

Than that young beauty by thy care is drest,
Would stretch thy spirits up into ihe air:

When all your youth prelers her to the rest. Conceive and fare thee weti.

Waller. Yours in the ranks of death, Shakespeare. You'THFUL. adj. [ gouth and full.]

3

Raleigb.

pens, but

Ben Jonson.

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course,

1. Young.

Yo'UTHLY. adj. [from youth.) Young Our army is dispers'd already:

early in life. Obsolete. Like youthful steers unyok'd they took their True be thy words, and worthy of thy praise,

That warlike teats dost highest glority, East, west, north, south.

Shakspeare. Therein have I spent all my youtbly days, There, in a heap of slain, among the rest, And many battles fought, and many frays. Two youthful knights they found beneath a load

Spenser. opprest

You'rhy. adj. [from youtb.) Young ; Of slaughter'd foes.

Dryden. 2. Suitable to the first part of life.

youthful. A bad word.

The scribbler had not genius to turn my age, Here be all the pleasures

as indeed I am an old maid, into raillery, tor That fancy can beget on youthful thoughts, When the fresh blood grows lively, and returns

affecting a youtbier turn than is consistent with my time of day.

Spectater. Brisk as the April buds in primrose season.

Milton. Ypi'ght. part. (y and pight, from pitch.] In his years were seen

Fixed. A youthful vigour and autumnal green. Dryden.

That same wicked sight The nympti surveys him, and beholds the grace

His dwelling has low in an hollow care, Of charn.ing features, and a youthful face. Pope.

Far underneath a craggy clift ypighi, 3. Vigorous, as in youth.

Dark, doleful, dreary, like a greedy grave. How is a good christian animated by a stedfast

Secas.T. belief of an everlasting enjoyment of perfect fe- Yuck. n. s. (jocken, Dutch.] Itch. licity, such as, after millions of millions of age, YULE. n. s. (zeol, yeol, jehul, Saxon.] is still youthful and flourishing, and inviting as at the first! no wrinkles in the face, no grey hairs

The time of Christmas. on the head of eternity.

Bentley. Yux. n. s. (yeox, Saxon; sometines proYou'THFULLY.adv. [from youthful.] in nounced yex.] The hiccough.

a youthful manner.

Z.'

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1. S.

ZAN

Z EA

Oh, great restorer of the good old stage, down by grammarians, but is read

Preacher at once, and zany of thy age.

Pets, in no word originally Teutonick: its ZA'RNICH. 1, s. A substance in which sound is uniformly that of a hard s.

orpiment is found; it approaches to the No word of English original begins

nature of orpiment, but without its lus. with z.

tre and foliated texture. The common kinds of Zarnich are green and yellow.

Hill. Powder the calx of cobalt fine, and mix it ZEAL. 1. s. [2rdes; zelus, Latin.] Paswith three times its weight of powdered fints; sionate ardour for any person or cause. this being wetted with common water, concretes In this present age, wherein zeal hath drowned into a mass called zafre, which from its hard- charity and skill, meekness will not now suffer ness has been mistaken for a native mineral.

any man to marvel, whatsoever he shall hear Hill. reproved by whomsoever.

Hooker. Cobalt being sublimed, the flowers are of a If I hid had time to have made new liveries, blue colour; these German mineralists called I would have bestowed the thousand pound I

I!'00.dward. borrowed of you: but it is no matter, this poor The artificers in glass tinge their glass blue shew doch beiter; this doth infer the seal l'had with that dark mineral zaphra. Boyle.

to see him.

Sbakspeare. ZA'NY. 11.5. (Probably of zanei, the con..

O Cromwell, Cromwell! traction of Giovanni: from sanna, a Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal scoff, according to Skinner.] One em

I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age

Have left me naked to mine enemies. Suckså. ployed to raise laughter by his gestures, The bare fervour and zeal is taken in com. actions, and speeches; a merry Andrew; mutation for much other piety, by many che a buffoon.

most eager contenders.

Hermonde Some carrytale, some pleaseman, some slight

Among the seraphims

Abdiel, than whom none with more zeal ador'd Some mumblenews, some trencher knight, some The Deity, and divine commands obey'd, Dick,

Stood up, and in a fiame of zcal severe, Told our intents before.

Sbalspeare. The current of his fury thus oppos'd. Miltak. Then write that I may follow, and so be

Had zeal anciently armed itself against sove. Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy many, reignty, we had never heard of a calendar of I shall be thought, if mine like thine I shape, saints

Helydis. All the world's lion, though I be thy ape,

We must look our prayers be with zeal and Donne. earnestness: it is not enough that we so far ago

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Z EU tend them, as barely to know what it is we say, but then it should be only for good things, a but we must put forth all the affection and de- rule that does certainly exclude all manner of votion of our souls.

Duty of Man. zeal for ill things, all manner of zeal for little Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. Dryd. things.

Sprat. She with such a zeal the cause embrac'd,

Being instructed only in the general, and zego As women, where thy will, are all in haste; lous in the main design; and as finite beings not The father, mother, and the kin beside,

admitted into the secrets of government, the W'ere overborne by the fury of the tide. Dryd. last resorts of providence, or capable of disco The princes applaud with a furious joy,

vering the final purposes of God, they must be And the king seiz'd a flambeau with zeal to de- sometimes ignorant of the means conducing to stroy.

Dryten. those ends in which alone they can oppose each Seriousness and zeal in religion is naturai to other.

Dryder. the English.

Tillotson. Being thus saved himself, he may be zealous Good men often blemish the reputation of in the salvation of souls.

Laste their piery by overacting some things in their ZEALOUSLY. adv. (from zealous,] With religion; by an indiscreet zeal about things wherein religion is not concerned. Tillotson.

passionate ardour. True zeal seems not to be any one single af

Thy care is fixt, and zealously attends, fection of the soul, but rather a strong mixture

To fill thy odorous lamp with deeds light, of many holy affections; rather a gracious con

And hope that reaps not shame. Milton stitution of the whole mind, than any one par

To enter into a party as into an order of

friars, with so resigned an obedience to supeticular grace, swaying a devout heart, and filling

riors, is very unsuitable with the civil and reliit with all pious intentions; all not only uncounterfeit, but most fervent.

Sprat.

gious liberties we so zealously assert. Swifi. When the sins of a nation have provoked God ZEAʼLOUSNESS. n. s. [from zealous.] to forsake it, he suffers those to concur in the The quality of being zealous. most pernicious counsels for enslaving con

ZE'Chin. n. s. [from Zecba, a place in science, who pretend to the greatest cell for the liberty of it.

Stilling fleet.

Venice, where the mint is settled for This rebellion has discovered to his majesty,

coinage.) A gold coin worth about who have espouscd his interests with zeal or nine shillings sterling. indifference.

Adilison, ZE'DOARY. n. s. [zedooire, Fr.] A spicy A scorn of flattery and a zeal for truth. Pope.

plant, somewhat like ginger in its There is nothing noble in a clergyman but

leaves, but of a sweet scent. burning zeal for the salvation of souls; nor any

thing poor in his profession, but idleness and ZED. n. s. The name of the letter 2. worldly spirit.

Law.

Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter. ZE A’Lot. n. s. [zeloteur, Fr. 31Awtos.] Ze’nith. n. s. [Arabick.] The point

Sbakspeare. One passionately ardent in any cause. Generally used in dispraise.

over head opposite to the nadir.

Fond men ! if we believe that men do live But now, whereas these zealots complain of

Under the zenith of both frozen poles, us for partaking with the Roman church in things lawful and good, they themselves comply

Though none come thence advertisement to with the same in articles and actions which are

give, of no good quality.

White,
Why bear we not the like faith of our souls ?

Davies. The fury of zeolots, intestine bitterness and division, were the greatest occasion of the de

These seasons are designed by the motions of struction of Jerusalem.

King Charles.

the sun; when that approaches nearest ouir zeAre not those mea too often the greatest zea

nith, or vertical point, we call it summer. lots, who are most notcriously ignorant? true

Browr. zeal should always begin with true knowledge, ZE'PHYR. n.s. [zephyrus, Lat.] The and thence proceed to an unwearied passion, for ZEPHYRUS.) west wind; and, poetiwhat it once kuows to be worthy of such pas- cally, any calm soft wind. sion.

Sprat.

They are as gentle No wonder that so many of these deluded cealots have been engaged in a cause which they

As zephyrs blowing below the violet.

Shaksp.

Zephyr you shall see a youth with a merry at first abhoried, and have wished or acted for

countenance, holding in his hand a swan with the success of an enterprize, that might have

wings displayed, as about to sing. Prachama ended in the extirpation of the protestant reli- Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds, gion.

Addison.
Eurus and Zephyr.

Miltes.
ZEA LOUS. adj. [from zeal.] Ardently

Mild as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes. passionate in any cause.

Milton Our hearts are right with God, and our inten- ZEST. n, S. tions pious, if we act our temporal affairs with a

1. The peel of an orange squeezed into desire no greater than our necessity, and in ac

wine. tions of religion we be zealous, active, and

operative, so far as prudence will permit. Tagfor.

2. A relish ; a taste added. This day, at height of noon, came to my sphere

Almighty vanity! to thee they owe A spirit zealous, as he seem'd, to know

Their zest of pleasure, and their balm of woe. More of the Almighty's works. Milton.

Young. We should be not only devout towards God, To Zest. v.a. To heighten by an addibut zealous towards men; endeavouring by all tional relish. prudent means to recover them out of those ZETE'TICK. adj. [from 17sw.] Proceed. snares of the devil, whereby they are taken cap- ing by inquiry: tive.

Decay of Pinry: ZEUGMA. n. s. [from Levyuca] A figure It is not at all good to be zealous against any person, but only against their crimes. It is in grammar when a verb agreeing with beter to be zcalows for things than for personsa divers nouns, or an adjective with di

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Browa.

vers substantives, is referred to one ex. contained between the tropick of Capricorn and pressly, and to the other by suppie

the polar circle: the frigid zures are circum

scribed by the polar circles, and the poles are in ment; as, lust overcame shame, bold.

their centers. ness fear, and madnesa reason.

True love is still the same : the torrid zones, Zo'cle. n. s. (in architecture.) A small And those inore frigid ones,

sort of stand or pedestal, being a low It must not know: square piece or member, serving to sup

For love grown cold or hot,

Is lust or friendship, not port a busto, statue, or the like, that

The thing we shov: needs to be raised; also a low square For that's a fiaine would die, meinber serving to support a column Held down or up tou high : instead of a pedestal, base, or plinth.

Then think I love more than I can express,
Dict.
And would love more, could I but love the less

Surkling. ZO'DIACK. n. s. [zodiaque, Fr. Swdianos,

And as five zones th' etherial regions biud, ex Two (wwr, the living creatures, the

Five correspondent are to earth assign'd: figures of which are painted on it in The sun, with rays directly darting down, globes.)

Firts all beneath, and fries the piddle zeze. 1. The track of the sun through the

Drydes. (welve signs; a great circle of the 3. Circuit; circumference.

Scarce the sun sphere, containing the twelve signs.

Hath finish'd half his journey, and scarce begins The golden sun salutes the morn,

His other half in the great zone of heaven. And having gilt the ocean with his beams,

Milter. Gallops the zodiack in his glist'ring coach.

Sbakspeere.

Zoo'GRAPHER. n. s. [{wn and yfzw.] Years he number'd scarce thirteen,

One who describes the nature, properWhen fates turn'd cruel:

ties, and forms of animals. Yet three fill'd zodiacks had ne been

One

kind of locust stands not prone, or a little The stage's jewel.

Ben Jonson.

inclining upward; but in a large erectness, ele It exceeds even their absurdity to suppose the

vating the two fore legs, and sustaining itself in zodiack and planets to be efficient of, and ante- the middle of the other four, by zowrofi-T cedent to, themselves, or to exert any influences

called the prophet and praying locust. before they were in being.

Bentley Here in a shrine, that cast a dazzling light, ZoO'GRAPHY. [of Lon and wozow.] A Sat fixe in thought the mighty Stagyrite; description of the forins, natures, and His sacred head a radiant zodiack crown'd, And various animals his sides surround. Pope.

properties of animals,

If we contemplate the end, its principal final 2. It is used by Milion for a girdle.

cause being the glory of its Maker, this leads us By his side,

into divinity; and for its subordinate, as it is As in a glist'ring soliack, hung the sword,

designed for alimental sustenance to living crezSatan's dire dread; and in his hand the spear.

tures, and medicinal uses to man, we are thereMilton. by conducted into zoograpby.

Glartille. ZONE. 1. s. [lwor; zona, Latin.]

Zoo'logy. n. s. [of (wor and noge.] A 1. A girdle. The middle part

treatise concerning living creatures. Girt like a starry cone his wais:, and round Zo'OPHYTE. n.s.. {uoqutor, of 349 and Skirted his loins and thighs with dou ny gold, OUTO..] Certain vegetables or substances And colours dipp'd in heaven. Wilton.

which partake of the nature both of An embroider'd zone surrounds her waist.

Dryden.

vegetables and animals. Thy statue, Venus, though by Phidias' lands

Zoo PHORICK Column. 11. s. [In architec. Design'd immortal, yet no lon er stands; ture.] A statuary column, or a column The magick of thy shining wine is fast,

which bears ur supports the figure of But Salisbury's garter shali for ever last

an animal,

Dior Gruneille.

Zoo'paORUS. s. {wcfocos.] A part Scarce could the goddess from her nymphs be

between the arcbittaves and cornice, so know, But by the crescent and the golden 2002. Pope.

called on account of the orniments 2. A division of the earth.

carved on it, among which were the The whole surface of the earth is divided into figures of animals.

Dict. five zones: the first is contained between the ZooʻTOMIST. n. s. [of Lorouba.] A distwo tropicks, and is called the torrid zine. secter of the bodies of brute beasts. There are cwo temperate zones, and iwo fuirid 2016. The northeru temperate zone is termi.

200ʻTOMY. n. s. [SHTO2, of Swer and Tiared by the tropick of Cancer and the arctick Towww.] Dissection of the bodies of polar circle: the southern temperate zore is

beasts.

THE END.

T. Be acy, Pranter, Bult Count,

Fiect Sheel, London.

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