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Who want, while through black life they least good-nature; what, would you accuse him dream along,

wrunu fully..?

Dryden. Sense to be right, and passion to be wrong:

He who suffers wrong fully in a man's opinion, Young

resolves to give him reason for his suspicion. WRONG. adv. Not rightly; amiss.

Spectator. If he go wrong, she will give him over to his Wro'ngHEAD. 2 adj. [wrong and head.] own ruin.

Ecclesiasticus. WRONGHEA'DED. S Having a perverse A thousand odd capricios men's minds are understanding: "acted by, may make one man

Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace man's words wrong.

Locke.

This jealous, waspish, wrong head, rhyming race. Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

Pope. Pope. WRO'NGLESSLY. adv. [from wrongless.] TO WRONG. V. a. [from the noun.) To Without injury to any.

injure ; to use unjustly, either by doing Dearly esteemed of her for his exceeding good injury, or imputing evil without jus- parts, being honourably courteous, and wrongtice.

lessly valiant; considerately pleasant in converSo worthy a part of divine service we should

sation; and an excellent courtier, without unfaithfulness.

Sidney. * greatly wrong, if we did not esteem preaching as the blessed ordinance of God.

Hooker.

WRO'NGLY. adv. [from wrong.] UnFor fear the stones her tender foot should justly; amiss. wrong,

What thou wouldst highly, Be strew'd with fragrant fowers all along. That wouldst thou holily; woulust not play false,

Spenser. And yet wouldse wrongly win. Skaksp. Judge me, you gods! wrong I mine enemy? Madmen having joined together some ideas

Sbakspeare. very wrongiy, err, as mien do that argue right Once more farewel! from wrong principles.

Locke. And know thou wrong'st me, if thou think'st WROTE. The pret. and part. of write.

Ever was love or ever grief like mine. Addison. No man has the estate of his soul drawn upon WRONGDOʻER. n. s. [wrong and doer.]

his face, nor the decree of his election wrote An injurious person.

upon his forehead. He who would know a man

thoroughly, must follow liim into the closet of She resolved to spend all her years in bewail

his heart; the inspection of which is only the ing the wrong, and yet praying for the wrongdoer.

prerogative of omniscience.

South. Sidney, If any seat be taken away by a stranger, the

WROTH. odj. [prad, Saxon; vrod, Dan.] 'churchwarden may have action against the Angry. Out of use. wrongdoer.

Aylife. The Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou WRO'NGER. n. s. (from wrong. ] He

wrotb?

Genesis. that injures; he that does wrong.

WROUGHT. (prozs, Saxon. The pret. That cuckold lives in bliss,

and part. pass. as it seems, of work; as Who, certain of his fate, loves not his

wronger. the Dutch wercken makes gerocht; or, Sbakspeare.

more analogically, of the old word Many times a prince is driven to spend far

turcak.] more of his treasure in punishing by war the aurangers of his people, than the loss of his peo

1. Effected; performed. ple diù amount unto.

Raleigh.

Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath

wrought a good work upon me. Matthew. WRO'NGFUL. adj. [wrong and full.] In- The Jew's wanied not power and ability to jurious; unjust.

have convinced the world of the falsehood of I am so far from granting thy request,

these iniracles, had they never been wroubt. That I despise thce for thy wrongful suit.

Stephens. Sbakspeart. 2. Influenced; prevailed on. He that hath wronged so in daily trade, that Had I thought the sight of my poor image he knows not in what measure he hath done it, Would thus have wrought you, for the stone is must redeem his fault by almıs, according to the . mine, value of his wrongful dealing. Tujlor. I'd not have shewed it.

Slakspeare. Those whom forms of laws

If thou be one that hast, by che help of God's Condemn’d to die, when traitors judg'd their

grace, been wrouglt upon by these calls, and cause,

brought from a prophane, or worldly, to a chrisNor want they lots, nor judges to review

tian course of life, thou art surely in the highest The wrongful sentence, and award a new, degree tied to magnify and praise his goodness. Dryden.

Duty of Man. WRO'NGFULLY. adv. [from wrongful.]

Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve froin truch.

Milton. Unjustly.

Do not I know him? could his brutal mind Dorus, said Pamela, you blame your fortune

Be wrought upon? could he be just or kind? very wrongfully, since the fault is not in fortune, but in you, that cannot frame yourself to

Dryden.

This Artemisa bv her charms, your fortune; and as urong fully do require Mopsa to so great a disparagement as to her fa

And all her sex's cunning, wrouzli the king. ther's servant.

Rewe.
Sidney.
This pocr fellow

3. Produced ; caused. He had thought to murder wrong fully. Sbaksp.

All his good prov'd ill in me,
Salius then, exclaiming loud,

And wrought but malice.

Milton. Urges his cause may in the court be heard, They wrought by their faithfulness the publick And pleads, the prize is wrong fully conferrd. safety.

Dryden, Dryden. This arought the greatest confusion in the I cry thee merry, for suspecting a friar of the unbelieving Jews, and the greatest conviction in

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up to.

the Gentiles, who every where speak with which so many successes had wrcugbt the nation astonishment of these truths they mel with in

Swift. this new magazine of learning which was opened. Whatever littleness and vanity is to be observed

Addison. in the minds of women, it is, like the cruelty of His too eager love

butchers, a temper that is wrought into them by Has made him busy to his own destruction, that life which they are taught and accustomed His threats have wrought this change of mind in to lead.

La Pyrrhus.

Pbilips. 13. Guided ; managed. 4. Worked ; laboured.

ship by skilful steersman wrougét. Milte. They that wrought in silver, and whose works 14. Agitated; disturbed. are unsearchable, are gone down to the grave. We stay upon your leisure

Baruch.

-Give me your favour; my dull brain was Moses and Eleazar took the gold, even all

wrougbt wrought jewels.

Numbers.
With things forgot.

Sbaksp.
Celestial panoply, divively wrought. Milton.
What might be crought

WRUNG. The pret. and part. pass. of Fusil, or graven in metal.

Milton. wring 5. Gained ; attained.

He first cald to me; then my hand be trung. We ventur'd on such dang’rous seas,

Cbajzas. That if we wrought out life, 'twas ten to one.

No mortal was ever so much at ease, but his Sbakspeare. shoe wrung him somewhere.

L'Estrert? 6. Operated.

The tender anguish parare shouts
Such another field

Through the wrung bosum of the dymg mari. They dreaded worse than hell: so much the fear

1a. Of thunder, and the sword of Michael,

WRY. adj. [froin writbe.] Wrongbt still within them.

Milton. 1. Crooked; deviating from the right di7. Used in labour.

rection. Take an heifer which hath not been wrougbt Sometimes to her news of myself to tell with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke. I go about, but then is all my best

Deuteronomy. Wry words, and stamm’ring, or else doltish 3. Worked ; driven.

dumb; As infection from body to body is received Say then, can this but of enchantment come? many times by the body passive, yet is it by the

Sidhani good disposition thereof repulsed and wrought 2. Distorted.

out, before it be formed in a disease. Bacon. It is but a kick with thy heels, and a way 9. Actuated.

mouth, and sir Roger will be with thee. Artus. Vain Morat, by his own rashness wrought,

Instructive work! whose wry-mouth'd pore Too soon discovered his ambitious thought;,

traiture Believ'd me his before I spoke him fair,

Display'd the fates her confessors endure. Pepe. And pitch'd his head into the ready snare. Cutting the wry neck is never to be practised,

Dryden. but when the disorder is a contraction of the 30. Manufactured.

mastoideus muscie.

Sterp. It had been no less a breach of peace to have 3. Wrung; perverted; wrested. wrougbs any mtne of his, than it is now a breach He mangles and puts' a wry sense upon proof peace to take a town of his in Gujana, and testant writers.

Atterbury burn it.

Raleigh. To WrY. v.n. (from the adjective.) TO 11. Formped.

be contorted and writhed; to deviate He that hath wrongls us for the same thing, from the right direction. is Code

2 Corinthians. 35. Excited by degrees; produced by de

These wry too much on the right hand, ascrib

ing to the holy scripture such kind of perfectijn grecs.

as it cannot have.

Suse. The spirit is wrought, To dare things high, set up all end my thought.

To WrY. v.a. [from the adjective.] To Chapman.

make to deviate ; to distort. The two friends had wrought themselves to

To what pass are our minds brought, that such an habitual tenderness for the children un

from the right line of virtue are wrzeit these der their direction, that each of them had the

crooked shitis?

Sitey. real passion of a father.

Addisun. WRY'NECK. n. s. (torquilla, Latin.) Á Advantage was taken of che sanguine temper bird.

X.

X

Is a letter, which, though found in Saxon words, begins no word in the English

language.

Y

YAR

Y A W

Dexte

[ Y , At the beginning of words, is con- YARELY. adr. (from yare.)

monly er rouslyskilfully roneously, for a consonant ; at the end,

The silken tackles and when it follows a consonant, is a

Swell with the touches of those flower-soft

hands, vowel, and has the sound of i. It is used at the end of words, and whenever Yarn. n.'s. (gearn, Sax.) Spun wool;

That garely frame the office.

Sbakspeare. two ii's would come together; and in

woollen thread. words derived from the Greek, to ex

You would be another Penelope ; yet they press the u. Y was much used by the

say, all the yarn she spun in Ulysses's absence Saxons, whence y is found for i in did huc fill Ithaca full of moths. Sbaksp. the old English writers. r is, in oid The web of our life is ut a mingled yarn,good English, sometimes prefixed as an in

and ill together; our virtues would be proud, if creasing syllabie to preterits and pas

our faults whipt them not; and our crimes

would despair, it they were noi cherished by our sive participles of verbs. It seems bor. virtues.

Sbakspeare. rowed from ye, the Saxon augmentum Yarn is a commodity very proper tothis counof the preterit. It is sometimes put be- try, which of all others ought to be most encoufore present tenses, but I think erro- raged.

Temple. neously.

It may be useful for the reeling of garn.

Wilkins. YACHT. n.s. [a Dutch word.] A sınall

The fates but only spin the coarser clue, ship for carrying passengers.

The finest of the wool is left for you. YARD. n. s. (jeand, Saxon.]

Spare me but one small portion of the twine; 1. Enclosed ground adjoining to a house.

And let the sisters cut below your ne: One of the lions leaped down into a neigh

The rest among the rubbish may they sweep, bour's yard, where, nothing regarding the crow- Or add it to the yarn of some old miser's heap. ing of the cocks, he eat them up. Brown.

Dryden Xanthus one day sent Esp into the yard, T. YARR, V. n. (from the sound; birrio, and bade him look well about him. L'Estrange. Lat.) To growl or snarl like a dog. His wanton kids, with budding horns prepar’d,

Ainsworth. Fight harmless baceles in his homely gard, YA'RROW. n. s. (millefolium, Latin.) A

Dryden. 2. [gend, Sax.) A measure of three feet.

plant. A peer, a counsellor, and a judge, are not to :

YAWL. n.s. A little vessel belonging to be measured by the common yard, but by the

a ship, for convenience of passing to pole oi special grace.

and from it. The arns spread cross in a straight line, and To YAWN. v. n. (peonan, Saxon.] measured from one end of the long finger on one hand to that of the other, made a measure equal

1. To gape; to oscitate ; to have the tu the stature, and is named a fathom. Half of

mouth opened involuntarily by fumes, that, viz. fiom che ed of the long finger of

as in sleepiness. either arın, so spread, to the middle of the breast, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly huin, is with us cailed a yari.

Holler. Delivering o'er to executors pale An aqueduct of a Gothick structure, that The lazy yazı'ning drone.

Sbaksp. conveys water from Mount St. Francis tó Spo- 11 yatining, the inner parchment of the ear letro, from the foundation of the lowest arch to is extended. When a man yawueth, he cannot the top, is two hundred and thirty yards.

hear so well,

Bacon. Addison. At length hook off himself, and ask'd the

daine, 3. The supports of the sails. A brecze fron shore began to blow ;

And asking yawn'!, for what intent she came? The sailors ship their cars, and cease to row;

Dryden.

To whom the yawning pilot, fast asleep, Then hoist their yards a-tris, and all their sails Ler fall to court the wind.

Dryden.

Me didst thou bid to trust the treacherous deep? YARDWAND. n. s. (yard and wand.) A

Dryden. measure of a yard.

2. To open wide. All the revolutions in nature can give it no

The gashes, thing more than different degrees of dimensions.

That bloodily did yarn upon his face. Sbaksp. What aftinity has thinking with such attributes?

'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards gatun.

Sbakso no more than there is between a syllogism and a yurdmund.

Now will I dam

up this thy yaqoming mouth,

Collier, VARE. udj. (gearpe, Saxon.] Ready;

For swallowing up the treasure of the realm

Sbakspeare. dexterous ; eager.

He shall cast up the wealth by him devour'd, Yare, yare, goud Iros, quick. Methinks I Like vomit from his yawning entrails pour'd. bacar Antony call. Shaksfcare.

Sandys. I du desire to learn, sir; and I hope, if you

Hell at last have occasion to use me for your turn, you shall 1 awning receiv'd them whole, and on them

Sbuksp.
Mos'do

Meston,

Bacon.

find me jare.

Pope.

The sword pierc'd his tender sides;
Down fell the beauteous youth; the yawning

wound
Gush'd out a purple stream.

Drylen. High she rear'd her arm, and with her sceptre

struck The yawning cliff: from its disparted height Adown the mount the gushing torrent ran.

Prior. 3. To express desire by yawning.

The chiefest thing at which lay-reformers yawn, is, that the clergy may, through conformity in condition, be poor as the apostles were. In which one circumstance if they imagine so great perfection, they must think that church which hath such store of mendicant friars, a church in that respect most happy,

Hooker. YAWN, 1. s. [from the verb.] 1. Oscitation.

Thee, Paridel, she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair; And heard thy everlasting yawn confess

The pains and penalties of idleness. 2.

Gape; hiatus.

Hence to the borders of the marsh they go,
That mingles with the baleful streams below;
And sometimes with a mighty yawn, 'tis said,
Opens a dismal pass..ge to the dead;
Wbo, pale with fear, the rending carth survey,
And startle at the sudden flash of day.

-1.Hison. YA'WNING. adj. [from yawn.] Sicepy; slumbering

Ere to black Hecate's summons
The shard-born beetle, with his drowsy bums,
Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be

done
A deed of dreadful note.

Shaksp.
YCLAD. part, for clad. Clothed.

Her sight did ravish, but her grace in speech,
Her werd felad with wisdom's majesty',
Make nie from wond'ring tall to weeping joys.

Sbakspeare, Ycle'red. (the participle passive of clepe, ..to call; clepan), Saxon; with the increasing particle y, which was used in the old English, in the preterits and participles, from the Saxon ge.] Called; termed; named.

But come, thou goddess fair and free,
In heav'n gelend Euplirosyne,
And by men 'hcare-easing mirth. Atilton.
YDRA'D. The old pretcrit of To dread.

Spenser,
Ye. The nominative plural of thoil.

Te are they which justify yourselves. Luke, YEA, adv. sea, or zea, Saxon; ja, Da

nish, German, and Dutch.) 1. Yes. A particle of affirmation; meaning, it is so, or, is it so ?

Yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree in the garden?

Ganesis.
Let your conversation be yea, yea; nay, naj.

Matbu.
Why do disputes in wrangling spend the day?
Whilst one says only yea, and t’other nay.

Denbaanse 2. A particle by which the sense is in

tended or enforced ; not only so, but
more than so.
I am weary; yea, my memory is tir'd.

Sbakspeare.
A rascally, yea, forsooth knave, to bear a
gentleman in hand, and then stand upon secu-
Eity.

Sbakspeare,

From these Philippinæ are brought costly spices, yea, and gold too.

Abbott. All the promises of God are gea, and amen ; that is, are verified, which is the importance of yea; and confirmed, which is, meant by amen, into an immutability:

Hazard.
They durst abide
Jehovah thund'ring out of Sion, thron'a
Between the cherubim; sea, often plac'd
Within his sanctuary itself their shrines. Min.

Notwithstanding this great proximity of man to himself; gea, and notwithstanding the obser. vations made in all ages, we still remain igace rant of many things concerning ourselves.

Hale. To Yead, or Yede. v. n. preterit yule,

[This word seems to have been corruptly formed from geod, the Saxon preterit of gan.] To go; to march, Obsolete.

They wander at will, and stay at pleasure,
And to their folds geade at their o'n luisure

Spenser.
Then bad the knight this lady gede alcoi,
And to an hill herself withdraw aside,
From whence she might behold tha: battle's

proof,
And eke be safe from danger far descry'd.

Spess.
Yet for she gode thereat half aghast,
And Kiddy the door sparred after ber fast.

Spenser.
That same mighty man of God,
That bloud red billows like a walled front,
On either side disparted with his rod,
Till that his army dry-foot through them yod.

Spesser, TO YEAN. 1. n. (eanian, Saxon.) To bring young. Used of sheep.

This I scarcely drag along,
Who yeaning on the rocks has left her young,

Dr. Ewes gean the polled lamb with the least dane ger.

Mercier. YEA'NLING. 1. s. [from jean.)

The young of sheep.

All the yeanlings which were streak'd and pied Should fall as Jacob's hire.

Slika YEAR, 1. s. (gear, Saxon.] 1. If one by the word year mean twelve

months of thirty days cach, i. e. three
hundred and sixty days; another intend
a solar year, of three hundred sixty-five
days; and a third mean a lunar year, or
twelve lunar months, i.e. three liun.
dred sixty-four days, there will be a
great variation and error in their ac.
count of things, unless they are well
apprized of each other's meaning,

See the minutes, how they run :
How many make the hour full compleat,
How many hours bring about the day,
How many days will tinish up the

year: How many years a mortal man may live,

With the year
Seasons return, but not to me returns
Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn.

Though we suppose but the addition of one
man for every thousand years, yet long before
'this time there should have been a greater
number than there could be sands in the earth.

Sbakspealla year old.

The doctor, upon occasion, calculating his ex

Yet for all the yearning pain pences on himself, found them to be not above Y' have suffer'd for their loves, in vain, tive pound in the year.

Fell. I fear they'll prove so nice and coy, Oviparous creatures have eggs enough at first To have, and t'hold, and to enjoy. Hudibras. conceived in them, to serve them for many Where our heart does but relent, his melts ; years laying, allowing such a proportion for where our eye pities, his bowels yearn. South. every year as will serve for one or two incuba- At beholding the miseries of others, they find tions.

Ray. such yearnings in their bowels, and such sensible He accepted a curacy of thirty pounds a year. commotions raised in their breasts, as they can Swift, by no means satisfy.

Calamy. 2. It is often used plurally, without a Your mother's heart

yearns towards you.

Addisosi plural termination.

Shakspeare. I fight not once in forty year.

Unmoy'd the mind of Ithacus remain'd;

But Anticlus, umable to controul, 3. In the plural, old age.

Spoke loud the language of his yearning soul. Some mumble-ners,

Pope. That smiles his cheek in years, and knows the

To Yearn, v.a. To grieve; to vex.
trick

She laments for it, that it would
To make my lady laugh when she's dispos'd,
Told our intents.

Sbaksp.

Y earn your heart to see it. Sbakspeare. There died also Cecile, mother to king Ed

I am not covetous of gold, ward iv. being of extremne years, and who had

It yearys me not if men my garments wear. lived to see three princes of her body crowned, YEAST. n. s. See Yest.

Sbakspeare. and four murthered.

. He look'd in gears, yet in his years were seen YELK. n. 5. (from gealepe, yellow, Sax.] A youthful vigour, and autumnál green. Dryd. The yellow part of the egg. It is comYe’ARLING. adj. [from year.] Being a monly pronounced, and often written

jolk. A yearling bullock to thy name shall smoke, The yolk of the egg conduceth little to the Untam’d, unconscious of the galling yoke. Pope. generation of the bird, but only to the nourishYE'ARLY. adj. [from year.] Annual ;

ment of the same : for if a chicken be opened, happening every year; lasting a year.

when it is new-hatched, you shall find much of the yolk remaining.

Bacon. The yearly course that brings this day about,

That a chicken is formed out of the yelk of an Shall never see it but a holiday. Sbakspeare. egg, with some antient philosophers, the people Why the changing oak should shed

still opinion.

Brotun. The yearly honour of his stately head;

All the feather'd kind Whilst the distinguish'd yew is ever scen,

From th’included yolk, not ambient white, arose. Unchang'd his branch, and permanent his green.

Dryden. Prior. YEARLY. adv. Annually; once a year.

To YELL. V. n. To cry out with hor.

rour and agony. He that outlives this day, and sees old age, Will yearly on the vigil teast his neighbours,

Nor the night raven, that still deadly yells, And say, io-morrow is Saint Crispin. Shaksp.

Nor grisly vultures, make us once affear'd. For numerous blessings yearly shower'd,

Spensen

Each new morn,
And property with plenty crowo'd;
For freedom still maintain'd alive;

New widows howl, new orphans cry; new sorrows For these, and more, accept our pious praise.

Strike heav'n on the face, that it resounds,
Dryden.

As if it felt with Scotland, and yelld out
Not numerous are our joys when life is new,

Like syllables of dolour.

Sbakspeare

Now worse than ere he was before, And yearly some are falling of the few. Young.

Poor Puck doth yell, poor Puck doth roar, TO YEARN. v. n. [eannan, Saxon.) To

That wak'd queen Mal), who doubted sore feel great internal uneasiness. In Spen- Sone treason had been wrought her. Drayton, ser it is sometimes earn. It is by Spen.

Welling monsters that with ceaseless cry
Surround me.

Milton. ser used for desire, or the pain of longing; it now implies tenderness or pity.

Night-struck fancy dreams the yelling ghost.

Thomsonha He despis'd to tread in due degree, But chaltd, and foam’d, with courage fierce and Yell. 1. s. [from the verb.] A cry of

horrour. stem, And to be cas'd of that base burden sull did Wich like tim'rous accent and dire yell, Fearn.

Spenser. As when, by night and negligence, the fire Make the libbard stern

Is spread in populous cities. Shakspeare, Leave roaring, when in rage he for revenge Hence are heard the groans of ghosts, the pains

Spenser. Of sounding lashes, and of dragging chains.
Though peeping close into the thick,

The Trojan stood astonish'd at their cries,
Mighi see the moving of some quick;

And ask'd liis guide from whence those yells
But were it fairy, fiend, or snake,

arise.

Dryden.
M; courage earned it to wake,

Others in frantick mood
And manfully thereat shot. Spenser. Run howling through the streets; their hideous
Falstaff, he is dead,

yells And we must yearn therefore.

Shakspeare.
Rend the dark welkin.

Philips. Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn YELLOW. adj. (gealepe, Sax. gheleuwe, upon his brother; and he sought where to weep, and he enter'd into his chamber. Genesis,

Dutch; giallo, Italian.) Being of a When the fair Leucothoe he spy'd,

bright glaring colour, as gold, To check his steeds impatient Phæbus yearn'd,

Only they that come to see a fellow Though all the world was in his course con- In a long motley coat, guarded with yellow, corn'd. Waller Will be deceiv'de

'Sbakspeare.

did yearn.

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