Sir-loins and rumps of beef offend my eyes,
Pleas'd with frogs fricaffeed and coxcomb-pies. Bramfton.

"To COY. v. a. To allure.

2. To ftroke lovingly.

Come, fit thee down upon this flowery bed,

While I thy amiable cheeks do coy.

CRABTREE. n.

Shakfp. Midf. N. Dream. The tree that bears crabs. We have fome old crabtrees here at home that will not Be grafted to your relish.

"CRACK. n.

1. A boy of genius.

Shakspeare's Coriolanus.

If we could get a witty boy now, Eugine, That were an excellent crack, I could inftruct him To the true height. B. Jonfon's Devil is an Afs. I faw him break Scogan's head at the court-gate, when he was a crack, not thus high. Shak/p. Hen. IV. P.II. To CRADLE. v. n. To lodge as in a cradle.

Wither'd roots, and husks

Wherein the acorn cradled. Shakspeare's Tempeft. CRAFTY-SICK. adj. Craftily pretending to be

fick.

Where Hotfpur's father, old Northumberland, . Lies crafty-fick. Shakspeare's Introduction to Hen. IV. P. II. CRAKE. n. [cpecca, Sax. crepido.] A boaft. Leafinges, backbytinges, and vain glorious crakes. Sp. F.Q. B.II. C.XI. ft.10. [Johnson makes this line an example of the fame fenfe of crack (No. 10.); but the word in Spenfer • must be crakes, to rhyme to Snakes and brakes.] To CRAKE. v. a. [from the noun.] To utter boaftingly.

And further did uncomely fpeeches crake.
Sp. F.2. B.V. C.III. ft.16.
To CRAKE. v. n. [from the noun.] To boast.
Then is the mortall born, how-fo ye crake.
Sp. F.2. B.VII. C.VII. ft.50.

CRANTS. n. [Danish] A chaplet.
Yet here fhe is allow'd her virgin crants.

CRA'PLE. n. A hooked claw.

When about the cream-bowls sweet
You and all your elves do meet.

B. Fonfon's Entertain.
CREA'TRESS. n. A female that creates anything.
As her creatrefs had in charge to her ordain'd.
Sp. F.Q. B.III. C.VIII. ft. io.
CREET. n. [See CREAGHT in Johnfon.] Cattle.
That he fhall find nowhere fafe to keep his creet in,
nor hide himself.
Spenfer's Ireland.
To CREST. v. a. [from the noun.] To ferve as a
creft for.

"To CRISP. v. a.

Shakfp. Hamlet.

Soon as they did the monftrous Scorpion vew
With ugly craples crawling in their way.

Sp. F.2. B.V. C.VIII. ft.40. CRARE. n. [called crayer, Stat. 2. J. I. c. 32.] A fmall carack.

3. To indent; to run in and out. "How from that faphire fount the crifped brooks, &c. "Milton."

To fay nothing of the confufion which this double interpretation makes between active and neuter fenfes, the compiler of thefe fheets can by no means. agree with Johnson in his conftruction of crifped in Milton. Surely it relates to the twifted and eddying form of the furface of the ftreams, and not their winding courses. CRISS-CROSS-ROW. ". CRISS-CROSS-ROW. n. [a cant term for] Alpha

Southerne.

A fingular, opinionated, obftinate, crooked-tempered, jealous-pated fool. CROSS-BILL. n. A bill in Chancery brought by a defendant against the plaintiff.

The defendant, if he has any relief to pray against the plaintiff, must do it by an original bill of his own, which is called a cross-bill. Blackflone.

CROSSING. n. [from to cross.] A thwart.
From many men I do not bear thefe croings.
Shakfp. Hen.IV.P.I.
CROSSLET. n. [from croifueil, old Fr.] A kind of
crucible.

Your crosslets, crucibles, and cucurbites.

“CROUP. n.

Chesterfield.

2. The buttocks of a horfe." This, or crupper, may be its meaning in Spenfer.

Him fo transfixed the before her bore
Beyond his croupe the length of all her launce.

F.Q. B.III. C.IV. ft.16. CROWN. n. [In law.] The king's executive power, more efpecially as fountain of justice.

Criminal law is denominated, with us in England, the pleas of the crown, because the king is fuppofed by the law to be the perfon injured by every infraction of the public rights.

Blackflone.

The court of king's bench is divided into a crown fide, and a plea fide. On the crown fide, or crown office, it takes cognifance of all criminal caufes.

Ib.

"CROWNET. n.

CUN

"1. The fame with coronet."

Sixty and nine that wore

Their crownets regal. Shakfp. Prologue to Troil, and Crefs. CRU'CHED. adj. [from crux, Lat.] The title of an order of Friars.

Their first cloister was at Colchester, their greatest monastery was near unto the Tower-hill, London, as yet called by the name of Cruched Friers. Weever. CRUDITIES. n. pl. An indigefted publication.

The modefteft title I can conceive for fuch works would be that of a certain author, who called them his crudities. Shaftesbury.

• CRUMPLING. n. A fmall degenerate apple." Yet one fort of it is in efteem.

Norfolk's the place for a pudding or dumpling,
Stepney's the place for a cake or a bun;
Kent is the place for a codling or crumpling.

"CRUSA'DE. n.

"1. An expedition against the infidels."

rope.

Song on Farinelli.

Motives of bigotry, not of policy, produced all thofe enterprizes, which in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, under the name of crufades, almoft difpeopled EuLyttelton. Nicetas was prefent at the facking of Conftantinople by the barbarians of Baldwin's Crufade. Harris's Philolog. Inquiries. CRUSADER. n. One employed in a crufade.

They fent diftaffs to all the young men of their acquaintance or neighbourhood, who had not yet enrolled themselves among the crufaders. Lyttelton.

They obtained commercial privileges and establishments of great confequence in the fettlements which the crufaders made in Palestine. Robertfon.

CU B-DRAWN. part. adj. Suckt dry by her whelp. This night wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch. Shak. Lear. CU'LLIS. n. A kind of jelly.

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Cullifes made of diffolved pearls and bruifed amber; the pith of parkets, and canded lambftones are his perpetual meats. Marfion's Fawne.

First a strong cullis In his bed, to heighten appetite. Mafinger's Emp. of the Eaft. 'CULPRIT. n. [about this word there is great dif"pute. It is ufed by the judge at criminal trials, "who, when the prifoner declares himself not "guilty, and puts himfelf upon his trial, anfwers,

culprit, &c." What could poffels Johnson to attribute to the judge himfelf what is done by the clerk of arraigns? Blackflone fuppofes the word compounded of two abbreviations: Cul. (for culpable, which the clerk declares the prifoner to be) and prit, (Fr. for ready to prove him fo).

“ CULTIVATION. n.

"1. The art, or practice of improving foils."

The state of cultivation among this rude people was fo imperfect that it was with difficulty they could afford fubfiitence to their new guests. Robertfon. "CU'MBER. n.

Distress.

"Thus fade thy helps, and thus thy cumbers fpring. "Spenfer." This line is not in Spenfer but in Fairfax, B.II. ft.73.

In

CUR

In the boldness of my cunning I will lay myfelf in hazard. Shak. M. for Measure.

I have fome fport in hand, Wherein your cunning can affift me much. Introduction to the Taming of the Shrew. Unlawful longing.'

"CUPIDITY. n.

If prefcription be once fhaken, no fpecies of property is fecure, when it becomes an object large enough to tempt the cupidity of indigent power. Burke. CU'RB-STONE. n. A thick kind of ftone placed at the edge of a stone pavement. CU'R-DOG. n. A Dog of the cur kind.

Thereto right well this cur-dog by my coft (Meaning the fox) will ferve my sheep to gather. Spenfer's Hubb. CURIET. n. [either a diminutive of cuiras or from cuiffe, Fr.] Armour for the thighs.

And put before his lap an apron white
Inftead of curiets and bafes for the fight.

"CURIOSITY. n.
"1. Inquifitiveness.”

Thy fhips are safe

I know as much as my curiofity requires. Congreve. Curiofity methinks fhould lead us to trace this matter both in its principles, and its conclufion.

“CU'RRANT. n. [ribes, Lat.]"

Conybeare's Sermons.

The barberry and currant muit escape, Though her small clusters imitate the grape.

Tate's Cowley.

CU'RRICLE. n. [curriculum, Lat.] An open two wheeled chaife, made to be drawn by two horses abreaft.

CU'RSER. n. One that curfes.

A man of pleasure, in the vulgar acceptation of that phrafe, means only, a beaftly drunkard, an abandoned whore-mafter, and a profligate fwearer and curfer.

Chefterfield. CU'RSING. n. The act of uttering curfes. Somewhat allied to this, though in an inferior degree, is the offence of profane and common fwearing and curf ing. Blackftone.

CURTAL. n. A fmall horfe docked.

Enters a dwarf, poft from hell, riding on a curtal. B. Jonfon's Mafques. More ftrange horfe trickes, than Bankes's curtal did Dekker. ever practise.

I'd give bay curtal and his furniture, My mouth no more were broken than these boys. Shakfp. All's Well. CURTAX. n. [the fame as CURTELAX in Johnfon.] A cutlafs.

With curtax used Diamond to fmite. Sp. F. Q. B.IV. C.II. ft.42. CURTILAGE. n. [curtillaige, old Fr.] A garden, yard, field, or piece of void ground, lying near, and belonging to the meffuage. Termes de la Ley. CU'RULE. adj. [curulus, Lat.] The epithet given to the chair in which the chief Roman magiftrates

were carried.

pyholder.

Copyholders and cuftomary-tenants differ not fo much Calthorpe on Copyholds.

in nature as in name.

CUT. n. [formerly] A jade of a horse. The milk-maids' cuts fhall turn the wenches off. Merry Devil of Edmonton. T. CUT. v. a. [perhaps in a fenfe peculiar to Irev. land.] To levy.

I have known, when thefe lords have had the leadings of their own followers, that they have for the fame cut upon every plow-land within their country forty fhillings. Sp. Ireland. "CUTTER. n.

Armstrong.

The Cynorrhodon with the rofe For fragrance vied. CY'TISUS. n. A fhrub, of which are many varieties. There tamarisks with thick-leav'd box are found; And Cytifus, and garden pines abound. Congreve. "CZAR. n. The title of the Emperor of "Ruffia." Which I can fhew in my now ruined gardens at Say Court, thanks to the Czar of Mufcovy. Evelyn. CZARINA. . ---- The Emprefs of Ruffia." Sweden hath already felt the effects of the Czarina's calling herself the guarantee of its prefent form of goChefterfield.

vernment.

CZARISH. adj. Of the dignity of a Czar.
I learn'd it from his Czarish Majefty's retinue. Congreve.

inland of Savu.

They engaged to fupply annually a certain quantity of
Hawkefworth.

rice, maize, and calevances.

Wanting the fun why does the Caltha fade?

H 2

Prior's Solomon. DAC

"DÆ'DAL. adj.

"I. Variegated."

Then doth the dadale earth throw forth to thee
Out of her fruitful lap abundant flowres.

Sp. F.2. B.IV. C.X. ft.45. 2. Skilful: this is not the true meaning nor fhould "be imitated." Yet (befides Johnson's example from Philips) it has the authority of Spenfer. All were it Zeuxis or Praxiteles, His deedale hand would fail.

F. 2. Introduction to B.III.

D'MONISM. n. Worship of Dæmons.

All these forts, both of dæmonifm, polytheifm, atheifin, and theifm may be mixed. Shaftesbury. DÆMONIST. n. A worshipper of Dæmons. Perfect Dæmonists undoubtedly there are in religion. Shaftesbury. To DAFFE. v. a. Johnson has ftrangely turned this Shak fperian word into daft, by attending only to the paffages where the preterite occurs, and overlooking thofe where the prefent tenfe is used. Neither does it only mean to throw off, but alfo] To put off evafively.

Canft thou fo daffe me. "DAG. n. [dague, Fr.] "1. A dagger.'

Dags, and piftols!

To bite his thumb at me.

Much ado. A.V.

DAT

All the preachers in the world, whether jocofe, fatiric, fevere, or damnatory, will never be able to bring about a reformation of manners. Walpole in the World, No. 160. DA'MOSEL. n. [Fr.] Damfel.

I prefent was, and can it witneffe well,
When armes he fwore, and ftraight did enterprize
Th' adventure of the errant Damofel.

Sp. F. 2. B.II. C.I. ft.19.
I was taken with a damofel. Shakfp. Love's Labour Loft.
DANCING. adj. Fit for a dancer.
Our mother unadvis'd

Gave you a dancing rapier by your side.

DARII. n. A logical term.

Titus Andronicus.

I could, thou feeft, in quaint dispute, By dint of logic, ftrike thee mute, With learned fkill now pufh, now parry, From Darii to Bocardo vary. DA'RING-HARDY. adj. Fool-hardy. On pain of death no perfon be fo bold Or daring-hardy, as to touch the lifts.

Prior's Alma.

Shakspeare's Rich. II. "To DARRAI'N. v. a." As to the derivation of this verb, it most probably comes from defrainer, old Fr. defendre en juftice.

DARREIN-PRESENTMENT. n. [law Fr.] The laft prefentation to a benefice.

An affize of darrein-prefentment, or laft prefentation lies, when a man, or his ancestors under whom he claims, have prefented a clerk to a benefice, who is inftituted, and afterwards upon the next avoidance a stranger prefents a clerk. “DART.

n.

"2. [In poetry.] Any miffile weapon."

And from about her fhot darts of defire Into all eyes, to wish her ftill in fight. “DASH. n.

5.

Entrance on any undertaking.

She takes upon her bravely at first dafh.

Blackflone.

Milton.

Shakip. Hen.VI. P.I. DA'SHING. adj. [from to dah.] Hafty; inconfi-. derate.

Deferving the fecular applaufe of dashing Machiavelian politicians. Burke.

DATA. n. pl. [Lat.] Allowed premifes.

Like thofe who explain the ftructure of the human body, and the nature of difeafes and medicines from mere Mathematics without fufficient data. Butler's Analogy.

Thefe are geometrical data; and we may learn from geometry, what is determined by their means. Reid's Inquiry. 2. It is alfo ufed in its Latin fingular number.

All the rules relating to purchafes perpetually refer to this fettled law of inheritance, as a datum or firft principle. Blackstone. "DATE. ".

"I. The

"4. [In poetry.] Any [female] defcendant." Adam, the goodlieft man of men fince born His fons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. DAUPHIN. n. [from Dauphiny.] Heir apparent to the crown of France.

Milton.

Tell us the Dauphin's mind. Shakspeare's Hen.V. DAUPHINESS. n. The wife or widow of the Dauphin of France.

The latter concluded with a reprefentation by wax figures, moving by clock-work, of the whole labour of the Dauphinefs. Walpole in the World, No. 6. DA'WNING. n. [from to dawn.] Dawn of Day. Alas poor Harry of England, he longs not for the dawning as we do. Shakspeare's Hen.V. DAY-DREAM. n. A vifion to the waking fenfes. Here fhadowy glades,

Where the tremulous foliage darts the ray, That gilds the poet's day dream. Mafon's English Garden. "DEACONE'SS. n. A female officer in the an"cient Church."

In his examination of the two unfortunate women, who were deaconeffes, and affifted at their private affemblies, he fhews a more than ordinary cruel purpose.

"DEAD. adj. -

18. Inanimate by nature.

If in that picture dead

Bryant.

Such life ye read. Sp. F.Q. B.II. C.IX. ft.3.
The very dead creation from thy touch
Affumes a mimic life.
Thomfon's Summer.

19. Unvaried.

In a dead plain the way feemeth the longer, because the
eye hath preconceived it shorter than the truth. Bacon.
DEAD-KILLING. part. adj. Killing at once.
Or else I swoon with this dead-killing news.
Shak. Rich. III.
DEADST. n. [from the dead of. The midft.
Sicknefs's pale hand.

Laid hold of thee even in the deadft of feafting.
Dekker's Honeft Whore.

* To DEAL. v. a.

Of the death practised duke. "To DEBATE. v. n.

Shafpeare's Leare.

With him in bloody armes they rafhly did debate.
Sp. F.Q. B.II. C.VIII. ft.11.

"DEBATEFUL. adj. ·

"2. [Of things.] Occafioning quarrels."
Debatefull ftrife, and cruel enmitie,

The famous name of knighthood foully fhend.
Sp. F.Q. B.II. C.VI. ft.35.
Controverfy.

"DEBATEMENT. n.

2. Fight.

He with Pyrrochles fharpe debatement made.

Sp. F.2. B.II. C.VI. ft.39. "DEBATER. n. --- A difputant.' Rather, One 'who takes part in a debate.'

It is only knowledge and experience, that can make Chefterfield. a debater.

DEBO'SHED. adj. [from debauché, Fr.] 1. Debauched.

Thou deboh'd fish!

Debo'd and daily drunkards.

Shakspeare's Tempeft.

Beaum. and Fletch. Monf. Thomas.

2. Spoilt for fervice.
Laft year his barks and gallies were debofh'd."

Fuimus Troes.

If a perfon indebted to another makes his creditor or debtee his executor, the law gives him a remedy for his debt, by allowing him to retain fo much as will pay himfelf, before any other creditors, whofe debts are of equal degree. Blackfione. "DECA'NTER. n. A glafs veffel made for "pouring off liquor clear from the lees." The Doctor feems here to have facrificed common Engith to etymological conjecture. Ever body knows, that a decanter means A glafs veffel for holding decanted, or other, liquors. To DECA'RD. v. n. [a term at cards.] To put a Can you decard, Madam. Machin's Dumb Knight. DECA'YEDNESS. n. Decayed state.

card out of one's hand.

A fourth duty to the parent is to affift, and minifter to them in all their wants; whether weakness and ficknefs of body, decayednefs of understanding or poverty, or lowness in eftate. Whole Duty. DECAYING. n. Decay.

These indeed are not
So fubject to decayings, as the face.

Shenflone.

Mafinger's City Madam. "DECE'MVIRATE. n. --- The dignity and of "fice of the ten Governors of Rome, appointed inftead of Confuls."

To prevent the introduction of any new invented magif