Bacon. The courfe and nature of the fap not being as yet uni- | ARCH-POLITICIAN. n. Tranfcendant politician. verfally agreed on, leads, our arborators into many errors and mistakes. Evelyn. ARBORE'SCENT. adj. [arborefcens, Lat.] Growing like a tree. Evelyn. Nonius fuppofes the tall rofea (arborescent holihocks) that bears the broad flower, for the beft. ARBU'TEAN. adj. Of arbute. Arbutean harrows, and the myftic van. Evelyn's Virgil. ARCA'DIAN. adj. [from Arcadia. ] Pleasant to the view. Such the ftream On whofe Arcadian banks I first drew air. Armstrong. "ARCA'NUM. n. In the plural arcana. A Latin "word, fignifying a fecret." It is chiefly used in English for fome deep axiom, fome hidden operation of nature. Is this the arcanum that has escaped the penetration of all inquirers in all ages? Walpole in the World, No. 28. Knowing nothing of the arcana or fecret movements of either, they are feldom or never in the right. Butler's Characters. Burke. Whereas he was indeed an arch-politician. ARCH-PO'NTIFF. n. Supreme priest. This arch-pontiff of the rights of men. ARCH-TREASURER. n. High treasurer. The Elector of Hanover claims the poft of Arch-trea Guthrie. ARCH-TREASURERSHIP. n. Office of Arch furer. Auftin exempted this abbey from all archiepifcopal jurifdiction. Weever. Lucius procured three Archiepifcopal feats to be erected. "A'RCHITECT. n. Milton. Th' arch-chemic fun, so far from us remote, Produces, with terrestrial humour mix'd, Here in the dark so many precious things. ARCH-DA'PIFER. n. An eminent title in the German Empire. To the high and mighty Prince Charles Lodowick, Prince Elector, Arch-Dapifer, and Vicar of the facred Empire. Dedication of Camden's Remains. ARCH-DU'CAL. adj. Of an arch-duke. It would be difficult to enumerate all the different quarterings and armorial bearings of the arch-ducal family. Guthrie. ARCH-DU'KEDOM. n. The territory of an arch duke. Auftria is but an arch dukedom. Which when th' Arch felon faw, With goodly architect, and cloifters wide, With groves and walks along a river's fide. Heylin. W. Browne. ARCHITECTURAL. adj. [from architecture.]— Belonging to architecture. All adventitious ornaments of sculpture ought either to be accompanied with a proper back-ground, or introduced as a part of architectural scenery. Mafon. A'RCHLY." adv. [from arch, adj.] Jocofely. This he archly fuppofes. Thyer's Notes to Butler. A'RCHON. n. [Gr] A chief ruler (as of old Athens) for a limited period. Stanyan. Guthrie. Milton. They confined their Archons to the space of ten years. "To ARE'AD, or AREE'D. v. a. 2. To declare; to appoint. 1 Milton. To advife." Hobbinol gan thus to him areads Spenfer's Paftorals. His name Ignaro did his nature right aread. F.Q. B.I. C.VIII. ft.31. And time and place convenient to aread, In which they two the conteft might darrain. Sp. F.Q. 3. To make out; to perceive. So hard this idol was to be ared. For in that ftroke he did his end aread. The arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have ARE'AR. adv. [arriere, Fr. Johnson spells it arrear, intelligence, is a man's felf. He accounts it blafphemy to speak against any thing in prefent vogue, how vain or ridiculous foever, and arch-herefy to approve of any thing, though ever fo good and wife, that is laid by. Butler's Characters. ARCH-HE'RETIC. n. Grand heretic, Let go the hand of that Arch-heretic. ARCH-MO'CK. n. Chief mockery. O! 'tis the fpight of hell, the fiend's arch-mock, To lip a wanton in a fecure couch, And to fuppofe her chafte. Shak, K. John. Shakspeare's Othello. Spenfer. Fairfax. and interprets it only by behind.] Backward; behind. But ground he gave, and lightly lept arcare. ARE'CA. n. The name of a tree in India. ARM AREO'PAGUS. n. ['ApEos mayos, Gr. or Mars's hill, where the court fat in Athens.] A certain fupreme Court of judicature. The Court of Areopagus at Athens punished idleness. Blackflone. ARE W. adv. [Tyrwhitt derives arew (in Chaucer) from rue, Fr.] In a row. All her teeth arew. And all her bones might through her cheeks be read. Sp. F.Q. B.V. C.XII. ft.29. "A'RGAL. n. Hard lees fticking to the fides of "wine veffels, more commonly called tartar. Dia." In B. Fonfon the word is A'RGAIL. n. [argalh, old Fr. a fewer.] ARS Where Andromache celebrates the anniversary of her flain husband arme-puiffant Hector. Weever. ARMI'NIAN. n. One who held the doctrine of Arminius. The Arminians finding more encouragement from the fuperftitious fpirit of the church, than from the fanaticifm of the puritans, gradually incorporated themselves with the former. Hume's Hifi. ARMINIANISM. n. The tenets of Arminians. Laud, Neile, Montague, and other bishops were all fuppofed to be tainted with Arminianifm. Hume's Hiftory. "ARMISTICE. n. ---- A fhort truce." Many reafons of prudence might incline the king of England to think this armiftice more defirable than a continuance of the war. Lyttelton, "ARMORIAL. adj. Belonging to the arms or efcut"cheon of a family." It is the bufinefs of this court to adjust the right of armorial enfigns. Blackftons. AROMATIZER. n. [from aromatize.] Communicator of spicy quality. Of other ftrewings, and aromatizers, to enrich our fallets, we have already spoken. Evelyn. ARQUEBUSA'DE. adj. [Fr.] Diftilled from particular ingredients. You will find a letter from my fifter to thank you for the arquebufade water, which you fent her. Chefterfield. ARRECT. adj. [arrectus, Lat.] Earneftly attentive. Around the beldame all arrect they hang. ARRE'T. v. a. [arréter, Fr.] To allign. The charge, which God doth unto me arret Of his dear fafety, I to thee commend. Akenfide Sp. F.2. B.II. C.VIII. A.8. But after that the judges did arret her Unto the fecond beft that loy'd her better. ASS ARTIFICIALITY. n. [from artificial] Appearance of art. Trees in hedges partake of their artificiality. Shenflone. To ARTILISE. v. a. [This word has been framed in English to answer its fictitious pattern in French: the writer of these theets, unable to define its meaning precisely, can only produce his authority.] If I was a philofopher, fays Montaigne, I would naturalife art, instead of artilifing nature. The expreffion is odd, but the fenfe is good. Bolingbroke to Pope. A'RTS-MAN. n. A learned man. Arts-man, præambula; we will be fingled from the barbarous. Shakfp. Love's Labour Loft. A.V. fc.1. [This word is not omitted because not meant by Shakspeare for a blunder, though plainly for an affected creation of the fpeaker.] AS. n. [Lat.] The Roman pound. The as, or Roman pound was commonly used to exprefs any integral fum. Blackflone. ASCA'UNT. prep. [The very exiftence of this word depends upon a doubtful reading of a line in Shakfpeare, fome editions having aflant.] Slanting over. There is a willow grows afcaunt the brook. "ASCENSION-DAY. n. Hamlet. A.V. fc.7. Holy Thursday.' 2. ASS To whom his courfe he haftily applied, [In Shakspeare.] Semblance. Care I for the limb, the thews, the ftature, the bulk, Hen. IV. P. II. and big affemblance of a man? "ASSENTATION. n. --- Compliance with the opinion of another." Abject flattery and indifcriminate affentation degrade. Chefterfield. ASSIGN. n. [a law word, from the verb. The perfon to whom any property is, or may be affigned. A man feems to have been at liberty to part with all his own acquifitions, if he had previously purchased to him and his affigns by name; but if his affigns were not fpecified in the purchase-deed, he was not empowered to alien. Blackflone. A'SSIGNAT. n. [Fr.] The paper coin of France fince its revolution. Burke. Is there a debt which preffes them-iffue affignats. ASSI'SE. n. [Fr.] 1. A commiffion of affife, directed to the Judges, and Clerk of aflife, to take affizes. Blackfione. 2. A Court of affife. See Johnson's ASSIZE. 4. 3. A particular fpecies of jury called an affife, fummoned for the trial of landed difputes. Blackftone. 4. A particular fpecies of trial by jury. Henry II. by confent of parliament introduced the grand affife, a particular fpecies of trial by jury. Black. 5. A certain ordinance or statute. 6. By an ordinance in 27 Hen. II. (called the affife of arms) it was provided, that every man's armour thould defcend to his heir. Blackflone. A particular species of rent. Rents of affife are the certain established rents of the freeholders and antient copyholders of a manor, which cannot be varied. 7. A particular species of writ. Blackflone: The writ of afife is faid to have been invented by Blackflone. Glanvil. "To ASSOCIATE. v. a. 66 5. It has generally the particle with." This feems to be one of the misplaced additions, which ought to have been put to the verb neuter, and might then be illuftrated by the example following: Affociates with the midnight fhadows drear. Thomfon. To ASSOIL. v. a. [affoiler, old Fr. from abfolvo, Lat.] 1. To abfolve. Till from her bands the fpright affoiled is. 2. To deliver; to release. Blackstone. 3. Sp. F.2. B.I. C.X. ft.52. She looked up, to weet what wight Had her from fo infamous fact affoiled. Therefore I will their fweaty yokes affoyle. At this fame furrow's end. To put an end to. Sp. F.2. Ib. old end of B.III. She foundly flept, and carefull thought did quite affoile. F.Q. B.III. C.I. ft.18. 4. To determine. A pair of weights with which he did affoile. Both more and lefs, where it in doubt did ftand. Spenfer. F.2. B. VIL. C.VIL. A.38. To range in claffes, as one thing fuits with another." It extends to perfons, as well as things. They 2, 2. A mafs or quan Societies are the cafual or arbitrary assortments of human inftitution. "ASSURANCE. n. - Shenftone. 14. [In law.] Evidence of conveyance of property. The legal evidences of the tranflation of property are called the common afurances of the kingdom. Blackstone. ASTERI'TES. n. [from regios, Gr.] A kind of opal fparkling like a star. Afh's Dia. ASTHMATIC. n. One troubled with an asthma. Afthmatics cannot bear the air of hot rooms, and cities where there is a great deal of fuel burnt. Arbuthnot on Air. "ASTONISHMENT. n. Amazement." 2. Matter of aftonishment. Thou shalt become an aftonishment, a proverb, and a by-word among all nations, whither the Lord fhall lead thée. Deuteronomy, Ch. XXVIII. v. 37. To ASTONY. v. a. pret, and part. paf. aftonied, aftond, aftound [eftonner, Fr.] To confound. Do hide themselves from her aftonying looks. Stood all aftonied. Aftond he stood. Sp. F.2. B.V. C.II. ft. 54. F.2. Ib. ль. All fuddenly with mortal stroke aftound No puiffant ftroke his fenfes once astound. Fairfax. ASTRA. n. [Lat. for the Goddefs Juftice, but ufed by Milton for] Virgo, the fixth fign in the Zodiac. Th' Eternal, to prevent fuch horrid fray, Hung forth in heav'n his golden fcales, yet feen Betwixt Aftrea, and the fcorpion fign. Par. Loft. B. IV. v. 998. ASTRICT. adj. [afiritus, Lat.] Compendious. An epitaph is a superfcription, or an aftrict pithy diaWeever: ASTRINGENT. n. [from the adjective.] An aftringent medicine. grain. Notwithstanding the application of rougher aftringents. Berdmore. A'STRINGER, A'USTRINGER. n. [from austour, Fr. a gofshawk.] A falconer, that keeps a gofshawk. Enter a gentle Aftringer. Stage-direction in Shakfp. All's Well. We ufually call a falconer, that keeps that kind of hawk, an auftringer. Cowel. ASTROFE'LL. n. The name of fome weed. My little flock, whom erft I lov'd fo well, And stinking smallage, and unfavory rue. ATT What hellish fury hath at-ert thee hent? How great a hazard fhe at-erft had made At last, at length. 16. B.VI. C.III. A.39. Full loth am I (quoth he) as now at-erft When day is spent, and reft us needeth moft, &c. Sp. F. 2. B.VI. C.III. ft. 39. For from the golden age, that first was named, It's now at erft become a ftonie one. Ib. B.V. ft.2. ATELLAN. adj. [from Atella in ancient Italy, whence fuch reprefentations first came.] Dramatic mixt with ridicule. Their Fefcennin, and Atellan way of wit was in early days prohibited. ATHANA'SIAN. adj. Compofed by Athanafius. Shaftesbury. He who cannot affent to the Athanafian creed, would receive no better quarter than an atheift from the generality of the clergy. Bolingbroke. ATHLETE. n. [abans, Gr.] A contender for victory. - for having opposed to him a vigorous athlete. A. Smith's Theory. ATO'NE. adv. [at one, as "would have fet them at one again." As Ch. VIII. v. 26.] Reconciled. So bene they both atone. Sp. F. 2. B.II. C.I. ft.29. "ATTACHMENT. n. 66 5. 3. An apprehenfion of a man to bring him to anfwer an action;" or for a contempt of the court. If the defendant difobeys this verbal monition, the next process is by writ of attachment. Blackflone. 6. [In the plural.] The name of a foreft-court. The court of attachments, wood-mote, or forty days court, is to be held before the verderors of the foreft once in every forty days. Blackfione. " ATTAINT. n. 4. [In law.] A writ fo called. A writ of attaint lieth to enquire, whether a jury of twelve men gave a falfe verdict. Blackflone. ATTELLANE. n. [from Atellan, adj.] A dramatic fatyr. The Romans imitated the fatyrs in their Attellanes. "To ATTEMPT. v. a. Rofcommon 3. To tempt. Why then will ye, fond dame, attempted be Sp. F. Q. B.V. C.XI. At.63. ATTENDEMENT. ». [from attend.] Attendance (or waiting) on another. Yet for no bidding, nor for being fhent, That all his fenfes feem'd bereft attons. Sp. F. 2 ATTO'NE. adv. Spenfer's Daphnaida L. At once. Sp. F. 2. B.II. C.I. ft.42. As white feems fairer, match'd with black attone. The knights in couples match'd, the ladies linkt attone. D Ib. To AVI To ATTORN. v. n. [from attournance, old Fr.] To acknowledge (as tenant) a new lord. If one bought an eftate with any leafe for life or years ftanding out thereon, and the leffee or tenant refufed to attorn to the purchafer, and to become his tenant, the grant or purchase was in moft cafes void. Blackflone. To ATTRAP. v. a. [from trappatura, Barb. Lat.] horfe-cloathing. 1. To array with horse-furniture. And all his steed "To AVA'LE. v. n. To fink." 3. The act or state of becoming vacant." AVOUR. n. [from avouer, Fr.] Vindication. 2. To defcend; as from horse-back or any kind of" And from their fweaty courfers did avale. To whom avaunting in great bravery, As peacock, that his painted plumes doth pranck, Its She mightily aventred towards one, Ib. B.IV.C.VI. ft.11. "openly declared." may be This management, when no avowable reafon could.be given for it, gave fufpicious and refining perfons occa. fion to throw out a great deal of flander. AURICULA. n. A flower.” Auriculas enrich'd Bolingbroke. With fhining meal o'er all their velvet leaves. Thomfon. AURIST. n. [from auris, Lat.] One who profeffes to cure diforders in the ear. All's Dict. AURORA BOREA'LIS. n. [Lat. So called from being peculiar to the more northern latitudes.] The appearances of the aurora come under four fferent defcriptions. 1ft. A horizontal light, like the break of day. 2dly. Fine, flender, luminous beams of denfe light. 3dly. Flashes pointing upward, or in the fame direction with the beams,' which they always fucceed. 4thly. Arches, nearly in the form of a rainbow. Adams's Lectures. To AU'SPICATE. v. a. [from aufpice.] To give an aufpicious turn to. They aufpicate all their proceedings, by ftating, &c. &c. Burke. "AU'SPICE. n. 4. Aufpices were, thofe, that handfafted the married "omens." She was probably the foundrefs of that school of female learning, of which (with herself) there were no lefs than four authorefes in three defcents. Walpole. "AUTHORITATIVELY. adv. |