A'BERD. n.

TAF

A herald's coat."

"TA Conferver of the records of either foreft, as wit.

neffeth the brief taberd, or coat-armour, he carries. B. Jonfon's Underwoods. "TABLATURE. n. - Painting on walls or cielings.' This definition ferves only to indicate in its author a total ignorance of the thing to be defined. To fuch expofitions as these the following extract may appear as a contrast.

By the word tablature we denote (according to the ori ginal word tabula) a work not only different from a mere portraiture, but from all those wilder forts of painting, which are in a manner abfolute and independent, fuch as paintings in fresco upon the walls, the cielings, the ftair-cafes, the cupolas, and other remarkable places either of churches or palaces. It is not merely the dimenfion of a cloth or board, which denominates a piece or tablature. - - - 'Tis then, that in painting we may give to any particular work the name of tablature, when the work is in reality a single piece, comprehended in one view, and formed according to one fingle intelligence, meaning, or defign.

Burke.

The taboo alfo prevails in Atooi to its full extent, and feemingly with more vigour than even at Tongataboo. Cook & King's Voyage. The taboo, which Eappo had laid on it the day before at our request, not being yet taken off.

2. The prohibition itself.

Take me with you, Lady. "TALBOT. n.

Shaks. Rom. & Juliet. Middleton's Mad‍World

A hound." The bold Talbot kind

Of these the prime, as white as Alpine fnows. Somerville. "TALL. adj.

4.

Courageous.

He's as tall a man as any's in Illyria. Shaks. Tw. Night. That has fraid in any a tall thief from a rich purchase. The Widow by B. Jonfon, Fletcher & Middleton.. By heaven, as tall a man as ere drew fword. Ram Alley. TA'LLOW-FACE. n. One of a fickly complexion, like the colour of tallow.

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They neither can fpeak, or attend to the difcourfes of others, without being roufed by fome external taction. Chesterfield.

"TA'EN, the poetical contraction of taken."
The Prince hath ta'en it hence. Shak. Hen.IV. F.II.
That you have taken thefe tenders for true pay
Which are not sterling.
Ib. Hamlet.

Why fhould all honour then be ta'en
From lower parts to load the brain?

Prior's Alma.

TAFFAREL. n. The upper part of a fhip's ftern, being a curved piece of wood, ufually ornamented with fculpture. Hawkefworth's Nautical Terms.

The first thing he did after coming on board, was to

The Legend, Talmud, nor the Alcoran

Have not fuch doubtful tales as thefe. Davenant's Wits. TAMBOUR. n. [Fr.] A cufhion, in the shape of a drum, for facilitating a particular kind of work, refembling needle-work.

“TA'NSY. n. --- An odorous plant."

Tanfy hot and cleanfing; but with regard to its domineering relifh, fparingly mixed with our cold fallet. Evelyn. My winding-feet of taufies.

Beaumont and Fletcher's Woman-hater. Strong tanfey, fennel cool, they prodigally wafte. Drayton's Polyolbion, Song 15. ΤΑΝΤΙ.

THA

TERRE'NE. n. [from the adjective.] The furface of the whole earth.

The teeming rav'nous brutes Might fill the fcanty fpace of this terrene. Somerville. TERRETENANT. n. [In law.] The tenant who occupies the land.

The fuperior lords obferved, that by this method of fubinfeudation they loft all their feodal profits of wardships, marriages, and efcheats; which fell into the hands of these mefne or middle lords, who were the intermediate fuperiors of the terre-tenant, or him who occupied the land. Blackflone. "TESTAMENT. n.

"2. The name of each of the volumes of the holy fcriptures."

The belief we give to teftimony in many cafes is not folely grounded upon the veracity of the teftifier. Reid. TESTOO ́N. n. [Ital.] A filver coin of King Henry the Eighth.

His fhilling was called testoon from the Italian, because it had the King's head upon it. Leake. TETRA METER. adj. [TEтgauerpos, Gr.] Confisting of four meafures.

Every reader who has an ear for metre will eafily perceive, that it is written very exactly in verfes of fifteen fyllableswithout rhyme, in imitation of the most common species of the Latin tetrameter Iambic. Tyrwhitt.

To TETTER. v. a. [from the noun.] To infect with

The languages of Europe are derived from the fix fol. lowing: the Greek, Latin, Teutonic or old German, the Celtic, Sclavonic, and Gothic. Guthrie.

THAN and THEN (adverbs) have mutually exchanged their original fignifications. Each in old English had the meaning which the other has now. The cafe however was partially altered before Spenfer's time; and thenceforward to about the middle of the feventeenth century, the orthography for both meanings was then. Spenfer however (for rhyme's fake) twice ufes than in the prefent fenfe of then.

That may not be, faid then the ferryman,
Leaft wee unweeting hap to be fordonne;
For those fame iflands, feeming now and than,
Are not firm land nor any certein wonne.

F.2. B.II. C.XII. ft.11.
Whom by his name faluting, thus he gan:
Haile, good Sir Sergis, trueft knight alive,

Well

But you, faire Sir, whofe pageant next enfewes, Well mote ye thee, as well can wifh your thought, That home ye may report thrice happy newes. Sp. F.Q. B.II.C.I.ft.33. So taking courteous congé, he behight Thofe gates to be unbard, and forth he went. Fayre mote he thee, the proweft and most gent, That ever brandifhed bright steel on bye.. C.XI. ft.17. THE FT-BOTE. n. [In law.] The offence of receiving ftolen goods again from the thief by way of amends.

Of a nature fomewhat fimilar to the laft is the offence of theftbote, which is where the party robbed not only knows the felon, but also takes his goods again, or other amends, upon agreement not to profecute. Blackflone. THEISM, n. [from theift.] The belief, that there is a God.

Theism can only be opposed to polytheism or atheism. Shaftesbury. THE'IST. n. [from 80s, Gr.] One who believes in God.

To be a fettled chriftian, it is neceffary to be first of all a good theift. Shaftesbury. THEISTICAL. adj. Pertaining to a theift.

There remains for us to to confider a yet further advantage to virtue in the theistical belief above the atheistical. Shaftesbury.

THEN was the prevailing orthography of than till about the middle of the 17th century.

He can no more abide to have himfelf concealed, then his land. Overbury, as printed in 1630. "THEO'GONY. n. --- The generation of the "gods."

The theogony of the heathens could admit of fuch different rurns and figurative expreffions, as fuited the fancy and judgment of each philofopher or poet. Shaftefoury. THEORETIC. adj. [theoretique, Fr.] Speculative.

What had Mr. Burke's opinion of the danger of introducing new theoretic language into a parliamentary proceeding, to do with the French Affembly? Burke. "THEREAFTER. adv. According to that."

2. Ufed by Spenfer for] After that.

Herfelfe then tooke he by the flender wast

In vaine loud crying, and into the flood

Over the cattle walle adowne her caft,

And there her drowned in the dirty mud.- -
Thereafter all that mucky peife he tooke,
The fpoile of people's evil gotten good,

The which her fire had fcrap't by hooke and crooke.
F.Q. B.V.C.II.ft.27.
By means of that.”

"THEREBY', adv.

2. By that place.

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There was an holy chappell edifyde,
Wherein the hermite dewly went to say
His holy things each morne and eventyde:
Thereby a christall ftreame did gently play,
Which from a facred fountaine welled forth alway.
Sp. F.2. B.I. C.I. ft.34.

Whom he likewife right forely did conftraine Like fcatter'd fheepe to fecke for fafetie,

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After he gotten had with bufie paine

Some of their weapons which thereby did lie. Ib. B.VI.C.VI. ft. 38. THEREFORE. adv. [as ufed by Spenfer] For that purpose.

So to his fteed he got, and gan to ride As one unfitt therefore, that all might fee He had not trayned bene in chevalree. THEU'RGIC, adj. [from theurgy.] Imploring fupernatural help from a deity.

F.2.B.II.C.III.ft.46.

The most learned Philofophers and Emperors were addicted to the practice of theurgic and diabolical rites. Leechman's Sermon. "THE URGY. .--- The power of doing fuperna"tural things by prayer to God." This explanation does not exactly accord with the following:

There were two kinds of magic in the heathen world; the one was called Theurgy, and the other Sorcery. The first was employed in the worthip of the good and benefi cent demons, Note to Leechman's Sermon. THIEF-STOLEN. adj. Stolen away by a thief. Had I been thief-ftolen

Like my two brothers, happy! "THIE'VERY, n.

3. Stolen joys.

But to declare the mournful tragedyes,

Shak. Cymbeline.

And fpoyles wherewith he all the ground did ftrew,
More eath to number with how many eyes

High heaven beholdes fad lover's nightly thieveries.
Sp. F.2. B.III. C.XI. ft. 45.
"THIRD-BOROUGH. n. An under conftable."
I must go fetch the third-borough.

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Shak. Introd. to Tam. of the Shrew. [Headborough and thirdborough are two distinct perfons of the drama in B. Jonfon's Tale of a tub.] "THISTLE. n. A prickly weed growing in "corn fields." As if thiftles did not grow upon land in general, whether cultivated or wafte, not too poor to beer them. THISTLE-CROWN. n. [thifile and crown.] A gold. coin of James I.

Thifilecrowns at four fhillings and four-pence threefarthings. Leake.

The Thiftle-crown has a rofe flipt and crowned between I. R.

March.

THOLE. n. [tholus, Lat.] The centre of the arched.

Let altars fmoke, and tholes expect our fpoiles.

Fuimus Troes.

Fairfax.

"To THOU. v. a. To treat with familiarity;"

or with obloquy.'

I will thou thee, thou falfe traitor.

Sir Edward Coke on Sir W. Raleigh's Trial. THOUGHT-EXECUTING. adj. Executing as quick as thought conceives.

You

To comb your noddle with a three-legged stool
Shak. Taming of the Shrew.
THREE-NOOKED. adj. [from three and nook]
Triangular.

Be this a profperous day, the three-nooked world
Shall bear the olive freely.

Shak. Antony and Cleopatra.
THRID. n. [ufed by Spenfer for] Thread.
Sad Clotho held the rocke the whiles the thrid
By griefly Lachefis was fpun with paine,
That cruell Atropos eftfoones undid,
With curfed knife cutting the twift in twaine :
Moft wretched men whofe dayes depend on thrids fo
Sp. F.2. B.IV. C.II. .4S.
"THRIFTILY. adv. - - - Frugally."
2. [Formerly] To good purpose.

vaine.

How often have we feen (and worthily) these cenfors of the family undertaken by some honeft ruftick and cudgelled thriftily. B. Fonfon's Difcoveries, THRIST. n. [by tranfpofition of and r means] Thirst.

Who fhall him rew, that fwimming in the maine
Will die for thrift, and water doth refuse?

Sp. F.2. B.II. C.VI. ft.17.
THRI'STY. adj. [from thrift.] Thirsty.
Not all fo fatisfide, with greedy eye
He fought all round about, his thrifty blade
To bathe in blood of faithlefs enimy,

Who all that while lay hid in fecret shade.

THROW. n. [called Sax. by Tyrwhitt.] A fhort period of time present.

His wearifome purfuit perforce he ftay'd,
And from his lofty fteed difmounting low
Did let him forage: downe himfelfe he layd
Upon the graffy ground to fleepe a throw.

Sp. F.2. B.III.C.IV. ft.53.
You can fool no more money out of me at this throw.
Shak. Tw. Night.

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3. To urge noifily, to inflict with vehemence.
Tho forth the boafter marching brave begonne
His ftolen fteed to thunder furioufly.

Sp. F.2. B.III. C.X.ft.33.
Therewith they gan, both furious and fell,
To thunder blows, and fiercely to affaile
Each other bent his enimy to quell. Ib. B.I. C.VI. ft.43.
Now at his helm, now at his hawberk bright
He thunder'd blows, now at his face and light.

Fairfax.

THUNDER BEARER. n. The fuppofed thunderer of the Heathens.

I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot,

Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove. Shak. Lear. THUNDER-DARTER. n. The fuppofed wielder of thunder among the heathen deities.

O thou great thunder-darter of Olympus.
Shak. Tro.& Crefida.
THUNDER-MASTER. n. The fictitious mafter of
thunder, Jupiter.

No more, thou thunder mafter, fhew
Thy fpite on mortal flies:

With Mars fall out, with Juno chide. Shak. Cymbelino. THU'YA. ». A plant.

Thuya, by fome called arbor vita (brought us from Canada) is an hardy Green all the winter, though a liule tarnished in very sharp weather. Evelyn.

THWART. adv. [ppin, Sax. obliquè.] Obliquely.

Yet whether thwart or flatly it did lyte,
The tempred steele did not into his braynepan byte.
Sp. F.2. B.VI.C.VI.ft.30.
THY'MY. adj. Abounding with thyme.
Guide my way

Through fair Lyceum's walk, the green retreats
Of Academus, and the thymy vale,

Where oft inchanted with Socratic founds
Iliffus pure devolv'd his tuneful stream
In gentler murmurs.

TIB. n. A term in the game of gleck.

Akenfide.

The welcomeft thing to Mrs. Abigail, but tib and tom in the stocks. TICK-TACK. n. [trictrac, Fr.] A game at tables." Killigrew's Parfon's Wedding. This word may poffibly be a kind of diminutive of trirac, as both are games at tables; but it is not the fame.

As for the enjoying of thy life, who I fhould be forry should be thus foolishly loft at a game of ticktack. Shakspeare's Measure for Measure. He'll play

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At fayles and ticktracki

B. Fonfon's Every Man in his Humour.

which is the Saxon original of] Thirft.

But over all the countrie fhe did raunge

To fecke young men to quench her flaming thrust, And feed her fancy with delightful chaunge.

Sp. F.2. B.III. C.VII. ft. 5o.

To THRUST. v. n. [from the noun in laft article.]
To thirst.

Is this the joy of armes ? be thefe the parts
Of glorious knighthood, after blood to thrust,
And not regard dew right, and juft defarts.

Sp. F.2 B.II. C.II. ft.29.
THUMB-RING. n. A ring worn on the thumb.
I could have crept into an Alderman's thumb-ring.
Shak. Hen.IV. P.I.
To THUNDER. v. a.

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ticktack an

error for tricktrack-from not knowing that they are two different games, though both at tables.]

TIGHT for tied. Spenfer.

And thereunto a great long chaine he tight, With which he drew him forth even in his own defpight. F.2. B.VI. C.XII. û.34.

“To TILL. v. a.

2. To prepare.

To cultivate."

Nor knows he how to digge a well,

Nor neatly dreffe a fpring:

Nor knows a trap nor fnare to till. W. Browne'sSteph. Pitt. TILLER. n. [A technical word with wood-men.] A young timber-tree in a growing ftate.

" TILTH.