The geant, tho he sey hym come, began ys Wilt thou believe me, sweeting? by this light I was adreamt on thee too. O. Pl., vi, 351. I was adreamt last night of Francis there. City N. Cap, O. Pl., xi, 335. I was even now adream'd that you could see with either of your eyes, in so much as I waked for joy, and I hope to find it true. Wits, Fittes, and Fancies, 1595, p. 94. (2) Dosing. Oxfordsh. ADREDE, V. (4.-S. adrædan.) To dread. Ganhardin seighe that sight, Sir Tristrem. ADROP, S. A species of aurichalc, mentioned by Jonson in the Alchemist, ii, 1. ADROWED, adj. Dried. Devon. ADRY, adj. Dry; thirsty. "Doth a man that is adry, desire to drink in gold?" Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 329. It is still retained in various dialects. How pleasant 'tis to drink when a man's adry! The rest is all but dully sipping on. Behn, The City Heiress, 1682. ADRYE, v. (from the A.-S. adreogan.) To bear; to suffer. ADULABLE, adj. (Lat.) Easy to be flattered. Minsheu. ADUB, ADOUBE, ADDOUBE, To dub a knight. "Charlemayne adoubbed many a knyght." Palsgrave, f. 138. ADULTERATE, adj. (Lat.) Adulterous; also false, in a general sense. Th' adulterate Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, Aye, that incestuous, that adulterate beast. Shakesp. Ham., i, 5. ADULTERINE, adj. Adulterous. Mir. for Mag., p. 85. ADUMBRATION, 8. (Lat.) According to Huloet, the "light description of a house side or front, where the lyne do answer to the compasse and centrye of everye parte." Abcedarium, 1552. ADUN, adv. Down. ADUNATION, 8. (Lat.) Union. ADUNCITY, 8. (Lat.) Crookedness. ADURE, v. (Lat. aduro.) To burn. Bacon. ADUST, part. p. (Lat. adustus.) Drye and adust, and a gret wastour. ADUTANTE, adj. Astonishing. Skelton, Works, ii, 429. ADVANCE, v. To grace; to give The second branches of a buck's horn. Howell. See Avanters. ADVANTAGE, v. To give advantage to another. Thus Venus first, to help love's pollicie, ADVERSE, v. (4.-N.) To be unpropitious. ADVERSER, S. (4.-N.) An adversary. Myn adversers and false wytnes berars agaynste me. Archæologia, xxiii, 46. ADVERSION, 8. (Lat.) Attention; animadversion. The soul bestoweth her adversion So though the soul, the time she doth advert, The bodies passions takes herself to die; Yet death now finish'd, she can well convert Herself to other thoughts. And if the eye Of her adversion were fast fix'd on high, In midst of death 'twere no more fear nor pain Than 'twas unto Elias to let flie His uselesse mantle to that Hebrewe swain, While he rode up to heaven in a bright fiery wain. More's Philosophical Poems, p. 29 k. ADVERTASH'D, part. p. Advertised. North. ADVERTATION, 8. Information. Digby Mysteries, p. 106. ADVERTENCE, s. Attention. Chau cer. Of life, it be; then better doe advise. Spenser's Faerie Queene, IV, viii, 15. But when they came again the next day and viewed it likewyse, the kepers of the said castell, suspectyng some fraude to lurcke in their lokyng, demaunded of theim what was their entent, and why they vewed and advised so the castel. Hall, Henry VII, f. 48. ADVISED, part. p. Acquainted. "I am not advised of it." Used in the North, and, according to Grose, in Norfolk. Shakespeare uses it in the sense of acting with sufficient deliberation. My liege, I am advised what I say; ADVISEMENT, 8. Resolution; observation; consultation; advice. St. Augustine noteth how he saw the tooth of a man, wherof he took good advisement, and pronounced in the ende, that it would have made 100 of his owne, or any other man's that lyved in his tyme. Harrison's Descript. of Brit. ADVOCATRICE, 8. ADVOUCH, v. To avouch. Revealing Sir Thomas Overburies words to the countess of Essex, lord Rochester's advoutress, she was much enraged at it, and from that moment resolved on revenge. Bib. Topog., vi, 5. ADVOUTRIE, s. (from A.-N. advoutrie, avoutrie.) AVOUTRIE, ADVOWTRY, Adultery. We giffe nozte oure bodyse to lecherye; we do nane advowtrye, ne we do na synne wharefore us sulde nede to do penaunce. Lincoln MS. And so the good sely man spake and made the pese betwene them both. yea and farther he gave them a gallon of wyne: addynge to his wives advoutry the losse of his wine. Tales and Quicke Answers. This staff was made to knock down sin. There shall be no advowtry in my ward At home, because duke Humfrey aye repined, Calling this match advoutrie, as it was. Mirror for Mag., p. 342. ADVOWE, v. (A.N. advouer.) To avow; to plead. ADVOYDE, V. To avoid. And so he, whiche ought and whose duetie was to have advoyded and put from me the injuries of all other persones. Hall's Union, 1548. Hen. IV, f. 27. ADWARD, S. and v. Award; judgment; sentence. Spenser. ADWAYTHE, v. To wait for. Monast. Letters, p. 202. ADYLD, part. p. Earned. Towneley Mysteries, p. 195. Addle. See There is a grant, in which the "harts and hinds, wild boars and their kinds, and all aries of hawks," are reserved. Hutchinson's Hist. of Cumb., i, 523. And a petit serjeantry was held in Cumberland, "by keeping the king's aeries of goshawks." Blount's Joc. Ten., p. 165. (2) v. To build its nest. And where the phoenix airies. ESTIVALL, adj. (Lat.) Appertaining to summer. Rider's Dic tionarie, 1640. Drayton. ESTIVATE, V. (Lat.) To remain in a place during the summer. ESTIVE, adj. (Lat.) Of summer. ÆTITES. A pebble, sometimes called the eagle-stone. The ancients believed that it was found in the eagle's nest, and that the eggs could not be hatched without its assistance. According to Lupton, it is a charm to be used by women in childbirth, and brings love between man and wife. A singular account of its virtues may be seen in Cooper's edition of Elyot's Dictionarie, 1559, Sig. Civ. AEWAAS, adv. Always. North. AEY, adv. Yes. Var. dial. (A.-N. afaiter.) To prepare; to instruct; to tame, to subdue. v. AFAITEN, T AFFAYTEN, AFAYTY, MS. Arund., 83. v. (A.-S. afæran.) To terrify. The flom the soudan nam, Richard for to Langtoft's Chron., p. 187. affere. And it afereth the fend, For swich is the myghte. Piers Pl., p. 395. Each trembling leafe and whistling wind they heare, As ghastly bug, does greatly them affeare. Spenser's Faerie Queene, II, iii, 20. AFEDE, V. (4.-S.) To feed. Chaucer. AFEFE, V. (A.-N.) To feof; to give fiefs. AFELD, adv. (A.-S.) In the AFELDE, field; in fight. Ant hou he sloh afelde Him that is fader aquelde. AFELLE, V. (4.-S.) To fell; to cut down. Horn, 997. AFERE, }adj. (4.-S.) Afraid. AFERRE, Sche that is aferre lette her flce. Ritson, Anc. Songs, p. 77. AFETID, part. p. (A.-N.) Wellshaped, or featured, applied to deer. AFFABROUS, adj. (Lat. affabre.) Perfect. AFFADIL, 8. (A.-N.) A daffodil. A form of the word common in the 15th and 16th centuries. AFFAIED, part. p. (4.-N.) Affrighted; affected. Langtoft. AFFAIES, S. (A.-N.) Burdens. Langtoft. AFFAINED,part.p. (A.-N.) Feigned. AFFAMISH, V. (A.-N.) (1) To famish with hunger. Spenser. (2) To die of want. There is a curious clause in one of the Romish Casuists concerning the keeping of Lent, viz, that beggars which are ready to affumish for want, may in Lent time eat what they can get. Hall's Triumphs of Rome, p. 123. AFFABULATION, 8. The moral of a fable. AFFECT, v. (Fr.) To love. Who make it their taske to disparage what they affect not. Ashmole's Theatr. Chem., p. 461. AFFECT, S. Affections; passions; AFFECTS, f love. For every man with his affects is born. Marston's What You Will, iii, 1. All overcome with infinite affect Spenser. It shall be so. Grime, gramercie, Greene's Pinner of Wakefield, 1599. |