WAN Win All the charms of love, From this nuptial bow'r How shall I part, and whither wander down Milton. Why so pale and wan, fond lcver? They give the reins to wand'ring thoughts, Till, by their own perplexities involvid, They ravel more. Milton. Looking ill prevail? Suckling. Fiere should my wonder dwell, and here my Their course through thickest constellations praise; held, But my fixe thoughts my wand'ring eye betrays. Spreading their bane; the blasted stars lock'd Denisam. Aliion. A hundred years they wander on the shore. How chang'd from him, Dryden. Companion of my arms! how wan, how dim, Virgil introduces his Eneas in Carthage, beHow faded all thy glories ! Dryden. fore he brings him to Laurentum; and even afWAN, for Won; the old preterit of win. ter that he wanders to the kingdom of Evander. And those with which th'Eubaan young man Dryden. 2. To deviate; to go astray. Swift Atalanta, when through craft he heroutran. O let me not wander from thy commandments. Spenser. Psalms. Th’ report of his great acts that over Europe To WA'NDER. v. a. To travel over, ran, without a certain course. In that most famous field he with the emperor The nether flood Drayton. Runs diverse, windring many a famous realm. He won the king with secrecy and diligence; Milton. but chiefly because he was his old servant in his Those few escap'd less fortunes. Bacon. Famine and anguish will at last consume, W' and'ring that wat'ry desert. Milton, 1. A small stick, or twig; a long rod. See harness'd steeds desert the stony town, And winder roads unstable not their own. Gay. Shakspeare. WA'NDERER. n. s. [froin wander.] Ro. With a whip or w.und if you strike the air, the ver; rambler. sharper and quicker you strike it, the louder Nor for go sound it giveih. my peace will I far, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home. B.Jonsona He here to every thirsty wanderer, By sly enticement, gives his baneful cup. Milt. The whole people is a race of such merchants blows of a wand on his back, who would have as are wonderers by profession, and at the same cried for an unkind word. Locke. time are in ail places incapable of lands or offi. 2. Any staff of authority, or use. Spectatore, Though he had both spurs and wand, they Taste, that eternal wanderer, which dies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes. Pope. Milton. 1. Uncertain peregrination. He asks the god, what new appointed home Addison. If any man's eagerness of glory has made him Decay of Piety, wandelen, Dutch.] 3. Uncertainty; want of being fixed. 1. To rove; ta ramble here and there ; A proper remedy for this clandering of thoughts would do great service to the studious. Locke. to go without any certain course. It When a right knowledge of ourselves enters bath always a sense either evil or slight, into our minds, it makes as great a change in all and imports either idleness, vitiousness, our thoughts and apprehensions, as when we or misery. awake from the wanderings of a dream. Law, Sbakspeare. Saxon.] 1. To grow less; to decrease. Applied to the moon : opposed to wax. The old duke is banished; four loving lords The husbandman, in sowing and setting, upon have put themselves into exile with him, whose good reason observes the waxing, and waning of revenues enrich the new duke, therefore he the moon. Hakcwillo gives them good leave to wander. Svaksp. Waning moons their settled periods keep, To swell the billows, and ferment the deep. Addison. Sbakspeare. A lady far more beautiful Hebrew. I will interchange Sbakspearen ces. por uses it. Your father were a fool God, who sees all things intuitively, does not To give thee all; and in his waining age want helps; he neither stands in need of logick, Shaksp. Baker. Set foot under thy table. In these confines slily have I lurk’d, 6. To wish; to long; to desire. To watch the wining of mine enemies. Sbaksp. Down I come, like glist'ring Phaeton, Nothing more jealous than a favourite, towards Wanting the manage of unruly jades. Sbakso. the waining time, and suspect of satiety. Wotton. What wants my son? for know l'in waining in his favour, yet I love him. Dryden. Addisse. You saw but sorrow in its waining form, Men who want to get a woman into their A working sea remaining from a storm; power, seldom scruple the means, Ricbardsen. When the now weary waves roll o'er the deep, And faintly murmur, ere they fall asleep. Dryd. TO WANT. v. n. Land and trade ever will wax and wane toge. 1. To be wanted; to be improperly abther. Cbild. sent; not to be in sufficient quantity. Her waining form no longer shall incite Nor did there want cornice or freeze. Mit. Envy in woman, or desire in man. Rowe. Finds wealth where 'uis, bestows it where it WANE. n. s. (from the verb.] Wants ; 1. Decrease of the moon. Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants. Denb. The sowing at the wine of the moon is thought We have the means in our hands, and nothing to make the corn sound. Bacon. but the application of them is wanting. Addissa. Young cattle that are brought forth in the full As in bodies, thus in souls, we tind of the moon, are stronger and larger than those What wanis in blood and spirits, swellid with that are brought forth in the wane. Bacon. Pet. This is fair Diana's case; The design, the disposition, the manners, and For ail astrologers maintain, the thoughts, are all' before it; where any of Each night a bit drops off her face, those are wanting, or imperfect, so much zamis When mortals say she's in her wine. Savift. in the imitation of human life. Dyees. 2. Deciine ; dimninution ; declension. 2. To fail; to be deficient. You're cast upon an age in which the church Nor shall I to the work thou enterprisest is in its wane. South. Be wanting, but afford thee equal aid. Niiller, Wang. n. s. Jaw teeth. Ainsworth. Though Engiand is not wanting in a learned WA'NNED. adj. [from wan.] Turned nobility, yet unhappy circumstances have coapale and faint-coloured. fined me to a narrow choice. Digica. Is it not monstrous that this player here, Whatever fortune, good or bad, beride, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, No time shall find me wanting to my truth. Could force his soul so to his own conceit, Dryds That, from her working, all his visage wund? Religion will never be without enemies, nuk Sbakspeare. those enemies be wanting in endeavours to erWA'NNES S. 11. s. [from wan.] Paleness ; pose it to the contempt of makind. Rezers. languor. Several are against his severe usage of you, and would be glad of an occasion to convince the T. WANT. v. a. (pana, Saxon.] rest of their error, if you will not be weating ! 1. To be without something fit or neces- yourself. Si, sary. 3. To be missed ; to be not had, Want no money, sir John; you shall want Twelve, wanting one, he slew, My brethren: I alone surviv'd. Dryder. A man to whom God hath given riches, so Granivorous animals have a long colon and that he wantetb nothing for his soul of all that cæcum, which in carnivorous are waatin, he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to Arbubele eat thereof. Ecclesiastes. WANT. n. s. 2. To be defective in something. I. Need. It infers the good By thee communicated, and our want, Milter, Obedience to the law. Milton. 'Parents should distinguish between the starts of fancy, and those of nature. Leste 3. To fall short of; not to contain. Here learn the great unreal wants to feign, Nor think, though men were none, Unpleasing truths here mortify the vain. Sar. That heav'n would want spectators, God want Ev'n to brute beasts his righteous care extends, praise. Milton. He feels their suff'rings, and their wants be4. To be without; not to have. friends. Hay . By descending from the thrones above, Those happy places thou hast deiga'd a while 2. Deficiency. To want, and honour thesc. Milton. * This proceeded not from any mat of knowHow loch I am to have recourse to rites ledge, but of judgment. Dryder. So full of horror, that I once rejoice One objection to Civita Vecchia is, that the I want the use of sight. Dryden and Lee. air is not wholesome: this proceeds from Tiri The unhappy never want enemies. Richards. of inhabitants The blood lows through the ressels, by the 5. To need ; to bave need of; to lack. excess of the force of the heart above the inIt hath caused a great irregularity in our ca cumbent pressure, which in fat people is excese lendar, and crants to be reformed, and the equi- sive; and as want of a due quantity of motion nox to be rightly computed. Holder. of the fluids increaseth fat, the disease is the The sylvans to their shades retire; cause of itself, Arbushner Those very shades and streams new shades and Wants of all kinds are made to frame a plea, streams require, One learns to lisp, another not tu see. Yery. And want a cooling breeze of wind to fan the raging ire. Dryden. 3. The state of not haviog, none. You shall have no reason to complain of me, Peace, my wantons; he will do for want of a generous disdain of this world. More than you can aim unto. Ben Jonso. Pope. TO WA'NTON. v. n. [from the noun.] 4. Poverty ; penury; indigence. 1. To play lasciviously. Nothing is so hard for those who abound in He from his guards and midnight tent riches, as to conceive how others can be in want. Disguis'd o'er hills and vallics went Særift. To wanton with the sprightly dame, $. [pand, Saxon.) A mole. And in his pleasure lost his fame. Prior. A kind of hare resembling a want in his feet, 2. To revel; to play. In Otway it may and a cat in his tail. Heylin, be an adjective. by Minshew from want one, a man or Speak things of him might charm the ears. woman that wants a companion. This Otway. Nature here etymology, however odd, Junius si Wanton'd as in her prime, and play'd at will lently adopts. Skinner, who had more Her virgin fancies. Milton. acuteness, cannot fordear to doubt it, Oye muses! deign your bless'd retreat, but offers nothing better.] Where Horace wantons at your spring, s. Lascivious ; libidinous į lecherous; And Pindar sweeps a bolder string. Fenton. lustful. 3. To move nimbly and irregularly. Thou art froward by nature, enemy to peace, WA'NTONLY. adv. (from wanton ] Las. Lascivious, wanton ; more than well beseems civiously; frolicksomely ; gayly; sporA man of thy profession. Shaksp. tively; carelesly. Entic'd to do him wanton rites. Milton. Into what sundry gyries her wondered self she 2. Licentious ; dissolute, throws, My plenteous joys, And oft inisles the shore, as wantonly she flows. Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves Drayton. In drops of sorrow. Sbakspeare. Thou dost but try how far I can forbear, Men grown wanten by prosperity Nor art that monster which thou wouldst ape Study'd new arts of luxury and ease. Roscomm. pear : 3. Froliçksome; gay; sportive ; airy. But do not wantonly my passion move, As flies to wanton boys, we are to th' gods : I pardon nothing that relates to love. Dryden. They kill us for their sport. Sbakspear.. WA'NTONNESS. P.s. (trom wanton.) Note a wild and wanton herd, 1. Lasciviousness; lechery. Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds. Sbakspeare. The spirit of wantonness is scar'd out of him. How eargerly ye follow my disgrace, Sbakspeare Bulls and goats bled apace; but neither the As if it fed ye! and how sleek and wanton violence of the one, nor the wantonness of the Y'appear, in every thing may bring my ruin. Sbakspeare. South. 2. Sportiveness; frolick; humour. To wayward winter reckoning yields. Raleigh. As sad as night, . Only for wantonness. Sbakspeare, 4. Loose ; unrestrained. Love, rais’d on beauty, will like that decay; How does your tongue grow wanton in her Our hearts may bear its slender chain a day: praise ! Addisuni. As flow'ry bands in wantonness are worn, s. Quick and irregular of motion. A morning's pleasure, and at evening torn. She as a veil down to the slender waist Pope. Her unadorned golden tresses wore, 3. Licentiousness; negligence of restraint. Dishevell’d, but in wanton ringlets wav'd, The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of As the vine curls her tendrils. Miltan. grace, and turn them into wantonness. 6. Luxuriant; superfluous. King Charles What we by day lop overgrown, Wantonness and pride One night or two with wanton growth derides, Raise out of friendship hostile deeds in peace. Tending to wild. Milton. Millon, Women richly gay in gems and wanton dress. WA'NTWIT. n. s. [want and wit.] A Milton, fool; an idiot. 7. Not regular; turned fortuitously. Such a wantpit sadness makes of The quaint mazes in the wanton green, That I have much ado to know myself. Sbaksp. For want of tread, are undistinguishable. Milt. Wa'nty. n. s. [I know not whence deWA'NTON. 1. s. rived.] A broad girth of leather, by 1. A lascivious person ; a strumpet; a which the load is bound upon the whoremonger. horse ; a surcingle. To lip a wanton in a secure couch, A panel and wanty, pack-saddle and ped, And to suppose her chaste. Sbaksp. With line to fetch litter. Tusser. An old wanton will be doating upon women, WA'PED. adj. [Of this word I know not when he can scarce see without spectacles. South, the original, except that to whape, to 2. A trifler ; an insignificant flutterer. shock, or deject, is found in Spenser ; Shall a beardless boy, from which the meaning may be gaA cocker’d, silken wanton, brave your fields, thered.) Dejected ; crushed by misery. Mocking the air with colours idly spread, This makes the waped widow wed again. And find no check? Siakspeare. Shakspeara Pass with your best violence; WA'PENTAKE. 1. s. [from pæpun, Sax. I am afraid you make a wanton of me. Sbaksp. and take; wapentakjum, wapentagius, 3. A word of slight endearment. low Latin.] me, ; tral country. Wapentake is all one with what we call a hun, We seem ambitious God's whole work dred: 'as, upon a meeting for that purpose, they undo; touched each other's weapons, in token of their With new diseases on ourselves we rar, fidelity and allegiance. Correll, And with new physick, a worse engine far. Hundred signifieth a hundred pledges, which Danne, were under the command and assurance of their His next design alderman; which, as I suppose, was also called a Was all the Theban race in arms to join, wapentake; se named, of touching the weapon And war on Thesus. Dryden. or spear of their alderman, and swearing to fol. To the island of Delos, by being reckoned low him faithfully, and serve their prince truly. sacred place, nations warring with one another But others think that a wapentake was ten hun- resorted with their goods, and traded as in a neudreds, or boroughs. Spenser. Arbutbust. WAR. n. s. [werre, old Dut. guerre, Fr.] TO WAR. v.a. To make war upon. Not 1. War may be defined the exercise of vio. used. In Spenser it is probably falsely lence under sovereign command against printed for zvarrail. withstanders; force, authority, and re. And them long time before great Nimrod was, That first the world with sword and tire warred. sistance, being the essential parts there Spenser. of. Violence, limited by authority, is To them the same was rerder'd, to the end, sufficiently distinguished from robbery, Towar the Scot, and borders to defend. Dani and the like outrages; yet, consisting To WARBLE. v.a. [werben, old Teutoin relation towards others, it necessarily nick; wervelen, German, to twirl, or requires a supposition of resistance, turn round.] whereby the force of war becomes dif- 1. To quaver any sound. ferent from the violence inflicted upon Fountains, and ye that warble as ye fow slaves or yielding malefactors. Raleigh. Melodious niurmurs, warbling tune his praise. Milten. On, you noblest English, Whose blood is fetcht from fathers of war proof. 2. To cause to quaver. Sbakspeare. Follow me as I sing, After a denunciation or indiction of war, the And touch the varbled string. Miltes. war is no more confined to the place of the quar- 3. To uiter musically. Yel, but left at large. Bacon. She can thaw the numbing spell, I saw the figure and armour of him that head- If she be right invok'd with warbled song, ed the peasants in the war upon Bern, with the Miltan, several weapons found on his followers. Addis. T. WA’RBLE. V. n. 2. The instruments of war, in poetical 1. To be quavered. language. Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat. The god of love inhabits there, Gay: With all his rage, and dread, and grief, and care; 2. To be uttered melodiously. His compliment of stores, and total war. Prior. A plaining song plain singing voice requires, 3. Forces; army. Poetically. For warbling notes from inward cheering fick. On th' embatt'ed ranks the waves return, Sidnes. There birds resort, and in their kind thy praise And overwhelm the war. Milton. Among the branches chant in warbling lays. 4. The profession of arms. Wijn. Thine almighty word leapt down from hea 3. To sing. ven, as a fierce man of war into the midst of a Creatures that liv'd, and mov'd, and walkid, land of destruction. Wisdom. or flew; 3. Hostility; state of opposition ; act of Birds on the branches warbling; all things smild. opposition. Miltor. Duncan's horses She warbled in her throat, Turn'd wild in nature, broke their stalls, Aung And tun'd her voice to many a merry note, out, But indistinct. Dryden. Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would A bard amid the jovous circle sings Make war with man. Sbaksp. High airs attemperd to the vocal strings; To WAR. V. n. [from the noun.] To Whilst warbling to the varied strain advance Two sprightly youths to form the bounding make war; to be in a state of hostility. dance. Pepe Was this a face WARBLER. n. s. [from warble.] A singe To be expos'd against the warring winds ? er ; a songster. Sbakspeare Hark! on ev'ry bough, Why should I war without the walls of Troy, In lulling strains, the feather'd marblets woo. That tind such cruel battle here within ? Sbaks. Ticket Make peace with God, for you must die, iny lori', WARD. A syllable much used as an Have you that holy feeling in your soul, affix in composition, as beavenward, To counsel me to make my peace with God; with tendency to heaven ; hitberward, And are you yer to your own souls so blind, this way; from peand, Saxon : it notes That youi will war with God by murd'ring me? Sbakspeare. tendency to or from. He teacheth my hands to war. Before she could come to the arbour, she saw 2 Samuel. This charge I commit unto thee, son Timo walking from her-ward a man in shepherdish thy, that thou by them mightest ‘war a good To WARD. v. a. (peardian, Sax. warali, apparel. Sidney warfare. 1 Timotby. He limited his forces, to proceed in aid of the Dutch ; garder, French.) Britons, but in po wise to war upon the French. 1. To guard; to watch. Bacon, He marched forth towards the castle wall, a Whose gates he found fast shut; ne living wight 5. [warda, law Lat.) District of a town. To ward the same, nor answer comer's call. Throughout the trembling city plac'd a guard, Spenser. Dealing an equal share to every ward. Dryden. 2. To defend ; to protect. 6. Custody ; confinement. Tell him it was a hand that warded him That wretched creature, being deprehended From thousand dangers, bid him bury it. Shaks. in that impiety, was held in ward. Hooker. 3. To fence off; to obstruct or turn aside Stopt there was his too veh'ment speech wich any thing mischievous. It is now used speed, with off, less elegantly. And he sent close to ward from whence he stood, Not once the baron lift his armed hand Daniel To strike the maid, but gazing on her eyes, 7. The part of a lock, which, correspondWhere lordly Cupid seem'd in arms to stand, ing to the proper key, hinders any No way to ward or shun her blows he tries. other from opening it. Fairfax. In the key-hole turns Th’intricate wards, and ev'ry boit and bar. Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again. Milton, Daniel. As there are locks for several purposes, so Toxeus amaz'd, and with amazement slow, are there several inventions in the making and Or to revenge or ward the coming blow contriving their wards, or guards. Moxon. Stood doubting; and, while doubting thus he The keys, as well as the locks, were fitted stood, ward to ward by the same wisdom. Grew. Receiv'd the steel bach'd in his brother's blood. Dryden. 8. One in the hands of a guardian. The pointed javelin warded off his rage. Addis. The king causeth bring up his wards, but beThe provision of bread for food, cloathing to stoweth no more of their rents upon them than is useful. ward off the inclemency of the air, were to be Drummonda first looked after. Woodward, You know our father's ward, The fair Monimia : is your heart at peace? of warding of the force of objections, and of dis- Is it so guarded that you could not love her? covering and repelling the subtle tricks of so Otway. phisters. Watts. Thy Violante's heart was ever thine, TO WARD. V. n. Compell’d to wed before she was my ward. Dryden. 1. To be vigilant; to keep guard. When, stern as tutors, and as uncles hard, 2. To act upon the defensive with a We lash the pupil, and dotraud the ward. Dryd. weapon. Titles of honour, and privileges, the rich and So redoubling her blows, drove the stranger the great can never deserve, unless they employ to no other shift than to ward and go back. them for the protection of these, the true wards Sidney. Sprat. 9. The state of a child under a guardian. And on their warding arms light bucklers bear. I must attend his majesty's command, to Dryden. whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjecWARD. n. s. [from the verb.] tion. Shakspeare. 1. Watcb; act of guarding. Lewis the eleventh of France having much Still when she slept he kept both watch and abated the greatness and power of the peers, ward. Spenser. would say, that he had brought the crown out Sublime on these a tow'r of steel is rear'd, of ward. Bacon. And dire Tisiphone there keeps the ward; 10. Guardianship; right over orphans. Girt in her sanguine gown, by night and day It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the Observant of the souls that pass the downward Tards and marriages of gentlemen's children way. Dryden. should be in the disposal of any of those lords. 2. Garrison ; those who are intrusted to Spenser. keep a place. WARDEN. n. s. [waerden, Dutch.) By reason of these two forts, though there be 1. A keeper ; a guardian. but small wards left in them, there are two good 2. A head officer. towns now grown, which are the greatest stay of The warien of apothecaries hall. Garth. both those iwo countries, Spenser. 3. Warden of the cinque ports. A magistrate that has the jurisdiction of those Their stedfast staunds did mightily maintain. havens in the east part of England, commonly Spenser. called the cinque ports, or five havens, who has 3. Guard made by a weapon in fencing. there all that jurisdiction which the admiral of Thou know'st my old ward; here I lay, and England has in places not exempt. The reason thus I bore my point. Sbakspeare. why ove magistrare should be assigned to these Come from thy ward, havens seems to be, because, in respect of their For I caa here disarm thee with this stick. situation, they formerly required a more vigi Sbakspeare. Jant care than other havens, being in greater Now by proof it shall appear, danger of invasion by our enemies. Cou'ell. Whether thy horns are sharper, or my spear. At this I threw: for want oto other ward, 4. (pyrum volemum, Latin. I know not He litted up his hand his front to guard. Dryd. whence denominated.] A large pear. Nor must all shoots of pears alike be set, 4. Fortress; strong hold. She dwells securely on the excellency of her Crustumian, Syrian pears, and wurdens great. honour. Now could I come to her with any May. Ox-cheek when hot, and wardens bak'd, some detection in my hand, I could drive her from the ward of her purity, her reputation, and a thou cry: King. sand other her defences, which now are too WA'RDER. n. s. [from ward.] strongly embattled against me. Shaksp. 1. A keeper ; a guard. |