ORIGINALITY. n. The quality of being original. The owners really believed thefe pictures to be origi. nal, and among the beft of the respective mafters, to whom they were attributed; and it would have been the highest affront to have expreffed a doubt of their originality. Gough. "To ORIGINATE. v. n. To take exiftence." I confider the addrefs as originating in the principles of the fermon. Burke. To ORNAMENT. v. a. [ from the noun. ] To adorn. This study will go hand in hand with their other purfuits: it will obftruct none of them; it will ornament and affist them all. Blackflone. ORPHANAGE. adj. [a London law term, from orphan.] Belonging to orphans. In London the fhare of the children (or orphanage part) is not fully vested in them till the age of twenty-one. Blackfione. ORTHO'EPY. n. [from 'ogos and inos, Gr.] Right fpeaking. This word is in Afh's Supplement. The compiler has not met with orthoepy himself any where elfe, but inferts it on the authority of a friend, who minuted the word down when he read it fomewhere, but cannot recollect either the paffage or author. O'STIARY. n. [from oftium, Lat.] An officer belonging formerly to churches. Weever. The office of the oftiarie was to open and fhut the church doors, to look to the decent keeping of the church, and the holy ornaments laid up in the veftrie. O'STMEN. n. pl. [from eaftmen, as coming from a country east of Ireland.] Danish fettlers in Ireland. Anlave was chief of the Oftmen in that island and ftiled King of Dublin. Lyttelton. OTACOUSTICON. n. [See "OTACOUSTICK" in Johnson." An inftrument to facilitate hearing.” Sir, this is called an otacoufticon. OTHER. pron. Albumazar. 9. [Ufed in Spenfer for] Left, in oppofition to right. - F.Q. B.II. C.XI. ft.23. lb. B.V. C.XII. ft.36. [In this laft example (any more than in the preceding one) the word other cannot poffibly be conftrued in its ufual way, as no hand at all is previously mentioned; but the fenfe left equally accords with both paffages, and makes each an explanation of each.] O'VER-BUILT. part adj. Built over. OVER TEE'MED. adj. Worn down with teeming. Where late the diadem ftood; and for a robe, Shakspeare's Hamlet, O'VER-WENT. [ufed by Spenfer for] Overthrown. But OUT But he like hound full greedy of his pray, Continued fill his course, and by the way, Thought with his fpeare him quight have overwent. F.Q. B.V. C.VIII. ft.7. «OUGHT. verb." Johnson properly makes this verb have the fenfe of owe, and gives owe an old fenfe of own; but he should likewife have shewn that ought fignified owned. There of the knight, the which that caftle ought, To make abode that night he greatly was befought. Sp. F.2. B.VI. C.III. ft.2. OU'STER. n. [law Fr. for] Difpoffeffion. OYE To OUTPEE'R. v. a. [from out and peer.] To furpafs in nobleness. Great men, That had a court no bigger than this cave, Could not outpeer thefe twain. Shakfp. Cymbeline. OUTRECUIDANCE. n. [Fr.] Prefumption. God doth often punish fuch pride and outreçuidance with fcorn and infamy. Eafward Hoe by B. Fonfon, Chapman, and Marfion. To OUTREIGN .v. a. Toreign through the whole of. In wretched prifon long he did remaine, Till they outreigned had their utmost date. Sp. F., B.II. C.X. ft.45. Ouffer, or difpoffeffion, is a wrong or injury that car-OUT-TE'RM. n. [òut and terminus, Lat.] Outward ries with it the amotion of poffeffion. Blackftone. OU'STERLEMAIN. n. [old law Fr.] Livery. When the male heir arrives at the age of twenty-one, or the heir female to the age of fixteen, they might fue out their livery or oufterlemain, that is, the delivery of their lands out of their guardian's hands. Blackflone. OUT-CEPT. adv. [by change of ex Lat. into out Eng.] Except. Look not fo near, with hope to understand, "OUTCRY. n. "3. A public fale; an auction. Ainfw." In your unqueftion'd wisdom, I beseech you, Mafinger's City Madam. Butler's Characters. OUTLIER. n. One neither refident, nor poffeffing property in the district with which his duty con nects him. The outliers are not fo eafily held within the pale of the laws. Marq. of Halifax. To OUTPA'RAMOUR. v. a. To exceed in whoreAʼRAM dom. Wine loved I deeply; dice dearly; and in woman, Out-paramour'd the Turk. Shakspeare's Lear. To figure. Not to bear cold forms, nor men's out-terms, Without the inward fires and lives of men. B. Johnson's Poetafter. OUT. WI'N. v. a. To get out of. It is a dark fome delve far under ground, With thorns and barren brakes environd round, That none the fame may eafily out-win; Yet many waies to enter may be found, But none to iffue forth when one is in. Sp.. F.2. B.IV. C.I. ft.20. OWCHE. n. [derived by Tyrwhitt from nufca, Barb. Lat. for fibula, and fuppofed to be corrupted from nowche.] A jewel, properly fet. And on her head fhe wore a tyre of gold Adorn'd with gemmes and owches wondrous fayre, Sp. F.2. B.I. C.X. ft. 31. O'WLING. n. A particular offence against public trade. Offences against public trade are felonious, or not felonious. Of the first fort is owling, fo called from its "being ufually carried on in the night, which is the of fence of transporting wool or fheep out of the kingdom. Blackflone. "O'X-EYE. n. A plant." Bring corn-flag, tulips, and Adonis flower, Fair ox-eye, goldy-locks, and columbine. B. Fonfon's Mafques. "OXGANG of land. n. Twenty acres. Ainfworth.' A bovate, or oxgang of land contains generally only about fifteen acres in the county of York, but varies according to the difference of foil. Beckwith on Tenures. O'XHEAD. n. The head of an ox. I'd fet an oxhead to your lion's hide, And make a monster of you. Shakspeare's K. John. O YES. n. [from these words being ufed by public criers before any proclamation or advertisement.] The crier of a court. Good faith! he looks like an O Yes. Suckling's Goblins. P. Mid. and Dek. Roaring Girl. Hence, you whore-mafter knave, God's my paffion, get a wench with childe, Thou naughty packe, thou haft undone thyfelfe for Rowley's Shoomaker a gentleman. “PA'DDOCK. n. A small inclofure for deer or other "animals." ever. Evelyn. Delectable country feats and villas environed with parks, paddocks, plantations, &c. "PA'AN. n. A fong of triumph." 2. [In Gr. and Lat.] A metrical foot. The foot thus defcribed is no other than the Pean, confifting either of one long fyllable and three short, or Harris's Philological Inquiries. three fhort and one long. "PAIGLES. n. - - - Flowers, called alfo cowlips." Blue harebells, pagles, panfies, calaminth, Flower-gentle and the fair-hair'd hyacinth. "PAINSTAKING. adj. "ous." B. Jonfon's Mafques. - - - Laborious; induftri All these painstaking men, confidered together, may be faid to have completed another fpecies of criticism. Harris's Philological Inquiries. PAINTER. n. [a fea term.] Painter is a rope employed to faften a boat either along That I have feen in Mother Redcap's hall, Each one prov'd a fool, Yet three knaves in the whole, Butler's Remains. To PAIRE. v. a. [for empaire.] To impair. taken. PAL The fubject of our next enquiries will be the nature and method of the trial by jury; called alfo the trial per Blackflone. pais, or by the country. PALACE-COURT. n. A court of legal jurisdiction, now held once a week (together with the court of Marshalfea) in the borough of Southwark. Charles I. in the fixth year of his reign by his letters patent erected a new court of record, called the curia palatii, or palace-court, to be held before the Steward of the houfhold, and Knight-marshal, and the Steward of the court, or his deputy, with jurifdiction to hold pleas of all manner of perfonal actions whatsoever, which shall arife between any parties within twelve miles of his MaBlackflone. jefty's palace at Whitehall. PA'LADINE. adj. [Paladinus, Barb. Lat.] An epithet for a Noble of eminent rank in the time of Charlemagne. Harrington. Such hath Orlando, Countie Paladine. "PALANQUIN. n." [In Johnson this word is accented on the middle fyllable; which accent is here regarded as a mere erratum of the prefs, and rectified accordingly.] "A kind of covered carriage "ufed in the eastern countries, that is fupported on "the fhoulders of flaves, and wherein perfons of "distinction are carried." He appeared with all the pomp known among a fim. ple people, being carried in a fort of palanquin upon the Robertfon. fhoulders of four men. To PA'LATE. v. a. [from the noun.] To difcover He merits well to have her, that doth feek her bars. Bufkins he wore of costlieft cordwayne, The counfell of the Turke had not palefated itself The PAR The learned library of Don Quixote, And fo fome goodlier monfter had begot; Or fpun out riddles, and weav'd fifty tomes Of Logogriphes, and curious Palindromes, &c. B. Jonfon's Underwoods. "To PALL. v. n. [Of this word the etymologifts give "no reasonable account." This remark muft be meant of the original verb appall, of which this verb neuter (for a in Johnson is an erratum,) is certainly an abbreviation. See Gloffary to HoCCLEVE. "PAMPHLET. n. [par un filet, Fr. Whence this "word is written anciently, and by Caxton, paunflet.]" For a full answer to this idle conceit, founded merely on the vague orthography of Caxton, fee Gloffary to HOCCLEVE. "PANACE'A. n. An herb." It is named (from the Greek) all heal. There, whether it divine tobacco were, Or Panachea, or Polygony, She found, and brought it to her patient deare. "PA'NDECT. n. A copy of Juftinian's pandects being newly discovered at Amalfi, foon brought the civil law into vogue all over the weft of Europe. Blackfione. PANDO'RE. n. [Pandora, Lat.] A woman endowed with all perfections. To frame the like Pandore Fuimus Troes. The fhifts enormous, that in vain he forms To patch his paneless window? Shenfione. "PA'NICK. --- A fudden fright without caufe." There are nany panicks in mankind, befides merely that of fear. Shaftesbury. And ever, when he came in companie Sp. F.2. B.VI.C.IX. ft.39. "PARAPHERNALIA. n. [Lat. paraphernaux, Fr.] "Goods in the wife's difpofal." The very great infufficiency of what is here cited from Johnfon is rea-. fon enough for making the word a new article. PARAPHERNALIA. n. [from apa, præter, and egun, dos.] Goods, which a wife has a legal property in, befides her dower. In one particular inftance the wife may acquire a property in fome of her husband's goods, which fhall remain to her after his death, and fhall not go to his executors. These are called her paraphernalia; which is a term borrowed from the civil law, and is derived from the Greek language, fignifying fomething over and above her dower. Our law ufes it to fignify the apparel and ornaments of the wife, fuitable to her rank and degree: the jewels of a peeress usually worn by her, have been held to be paraphernalia. Blackflone. PARAPHRA'STICALLY. adv. In a paraphrastical way. Some copies of verfes tranflated paraphraftically out of Anacreon. Title to Cowley's Imitations of Anacreon. "PARAQUITO. n. A little parrot." Come, come, you paraquito, answer me Directly to this queftion that I afk. Shaks. Hen. IV. P. I. "PA'RASOL: n. A fmall canopy or umbrello carried "over the head to fhelter from rain, and the heat of "the fun. Dia." Umbrellas against rain are of different materials and fize from mere parafols, whose ufe (according to their name) is only against the fun. Their French name for umbrellas against rain (though not Anglicifed) is parapluie. PARAVAIL. adj. [law Fr.] The epithet for the loweft tenant of a fee. The king was ftiled lord paramount; A was both tenant and lord, or was a mefne lord; and B was called tenant paravail, or the lowest tenant; being he who is fuppofed to make avail or profit of the land. Blackflone. PARAVAUNT. U 2 PARA'VAUNT. adv. [par avant, Fr.] In front; in | PA'RROT-FISH. n. A fish of the pacific ocean. the face of the world. Tell me fome marke, by which he may appeare, If chaunce I him encounter paravaunt. Sp. F.Q. B.III. C.II. ft. 16. And praise her worth, though far my wit above. Sp. Colin Clout. [Upton's interpretation of this word by peradventure by no means well accords with the foregoing ufages of it.] "PA'RCENER. n. &c." The definition of this JER. law word in Johnson is faulty, by being confined to daughters or fifters; as will appear by the following example of it. Where a person seised in fee-fimple (or fee-tail) dies, and his next heirs are two or more females, his daughters, fifters, aunts, coufins, or their reprefentatives; in this case they shall all inherit, - - - - and these coheirs are then called coparceners; or, for brevity, parceners only. Parceners by particular cuftom are where lands defcend, as in gaveikind, to all the males in equal degree, as fons, brother, uncles, &c. In either of these Cafes, all the parceners put together make but one heir. Blackstone. "PARDONER. n. 2. One of the fellows, that carried about the Pope's indulgencies, and fold them." The compiler defpairs of producing an example equally elegant with this definition; but hopes his readers will accept of the following. The pardoner was an itinerant ecclefiaftick. Tyrwhitt. To PARGET. v. n. [from the noun: formerly a cant term for] To paint the face. She's above fifty too, and pargets. B. Johnson's Epicene. To PARLE. v. n. [from the noun.] To converse. Their purpose is to parle, to court, and dance. Shak. Love's Labour Loft. PA'RMASENT. n. Parmafan cheese, or cheese of Parma. My mafter faid, he loved her almost as well as he loved parmajent. Ford's 'Tis Pity she's a whore. PAROCHE. n. [ parochia, Barb. Lat.] A parish. Saint Peter is patron of the paroche and dedication of Westminster. Spelman. PARO'L. adj. [from the noun.] By word of mouth. Proofs (to which in common fpeech the name of evidence is ufually confined) are either written, or parol, that is, by word of mouth. Blackflone. He is tenant by custom to the planets, of whom he holds the twelve houfe by leafe paroll. Overbury. PARONO MASY. a. [paronomafia, Lat. from the Gr.; which Latin word Johnson has inferted in his dictionary instead of the English, but rightly defines it] "A rhetorical figure, in which by the change "of a letter or fyllable, feveral things are alluded "to." Some words are to be called out for ornament or colour, as we gather flowers to make garlands; but we must not play or riot too much with them, as in paronomafies. B. Jonfon's Difcoveries. The other forts were chiefly parrot-fish. Cook and King's Voyage. "PA'RSONAGE. n. - The benefice of a parish." 2. The houfe appropriated to the refidence of the parfon. In a garden of modern difpofition belonging to the parfonage, formerly called the orchard, ftands a Grecian temple. Clubb's Wheatfield. Dined by two o'clock at the Queen's Head, and then ftraggled out alone to the parfonage. Journal in Gray's Letters. PA'RTED. adj. Endowed with parts. He is a gentleman, and has fomewhat to take to; a youth of good hope: well friended, well parted. Eaftward Hoe. PARTHENIAD. n. [from magpεvos, Gr.] A poem in honour of a virgin. Divers pieces of partheniads, and hymnes in praise of the most praife-worthy. Harrington's Apologie of Poetrie. "PARTICIPIAL. adj. --- Having the nature of a "participle." That thefe participial words are fometimes real nouns is undeniable; for they have a plural number as fuch. Lowth. PARTITIVE. adj. [a term in grammar, from partitio, Lat. Diftributive. Sometime of a noun partitive, or diftributive. Lilly. PARTITIVELY. adv. In a partitive way. Nouns of the comparative and the fuperlative degree, being put partitively, that is to fay, having after them this English of or among, require a genitive cafe. Lilly. PA'RTURE. n. [for] Departure. The tydings bad, Which now in Faery Court all men do tell, Which turned hath great mirth to mourning fad, Is the late ruine of proud Marinell, And fudden parture of faire Florimell To find him forth. "PARTY. n. - - -” Sp. F.2. B.III. C.VIII. ft. 46. 9. [An usage perhaps peculiar to Spenfer.] Opposite party. It often fals in courfe of common life, "PARTY-CO'LOURED. adj. 2. Motley in a figurative fenfe. - The mixture of fool and knave maketh up the parti-. coloured creatures that make all the buftle in the world. Marq. of Halifax. PACE. n. [pais, Fr.] Country; diftrict. Faire Britomart, whofe conftant mind Would not fo lightly follow beautie's chace, Ne reckt of ladie's love, did ftay behind; And them awayted there a certaine fpace, To weet if they would turne back to that place: But, when the faw them gone, fhe forward went, As lay her journey through that perlous pace. Sp. F.Q.B.III. C.I. ft.19. "PA'SSAGE. n.. II. A game at dice, to be played at but by two, and performed with three dice. Sool. |