Volume 2

A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar / by Samuel Johnson.

  • Samuel Johnson
Date:
1755
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Credit: A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar / by Samuel Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3. To break into openings. Poor naked wretches, wherefoe’er you are. That bide the pelting of this pitilefs ftorm, How Ihal! your houfelefs heads, and unfed fides. Your loop’d and window’d raggednefs, defend you From feafons fuch as thefe? Sbak. King Lear. Wi'ndpipe. n.f [wind and pipe.] The paffage for the breath; the a/pera arteria. Let gallows gape for dogs, let man go free, And let not hemp his windpipe fuffocate. Shake/. H. V. The wezzon, rough artery, or windpipe, is a part infervient to voice and refpiration: thereby the air defcendeth unto the lungs, and is communicated unto the heart. Brown. The quacks of government, who fat At th’ unregarded helm of ftate, Confider’d timely how t’ withdraw. And fave their windpipes from the law. Hudibras. Becaufe continual refpiration is neceffary for the fupport of our lives, the windpipe is made with annulary cartilages. Ray. The windpipe divides itfelf into a great number of branches, called bronchia: thefe end in fmall air-bladders, capable to be inflated by the admiflion of air, and to fubfide at the expul- fion of it. Arbuthnot on Aliments. Wi'ndward. A [from wind.] Towards the wind. Wi'ndy. adj. [from wind.] I. Confuting of wind. See what fhowers arife. Blown with the windy tempeft of my foul Upon thy wounds, that kill mine eyes and heart. Shakefp. Subtile or windy fpirits are taken off by incenlion or evapo¬ ration. Bacon. 1. Next the wind. Lady, you have a merry heart. *-Yes, my lord, I thank it, poor fool. It keeps on the windy fide of care. Shake/peare. 3. Empty; airy. Why fhould calamity be full of words ? ..Windy attorneys to their client Woes, Poor breathing orators of miferies. Shah. Rich. III. What windy joy this day had I conceiv’d. Hopeful of his deliv’ry, which now proves Abortive as the firft-born bloom of Spring, Nipt with the lagging rear of Winter’s froft. Milton. Look, here’s that windy applaufe, that poor tranfitory plea- fure, for which I was dishonoured. South. Of ev’ry nation, each illuftrious name Such toys as thefe have cheated into fame. Exchanging folid quiet to obtain The windy fatisfadtion of the brain. Dryden's Juvenal. 4. Tempeftuous; molefted with wind. On this windy fea of land the fiend Walk’d up and down. Milton. It is not bare agitation, but the fediment at the bottom, that troubles and defiles the water; and when we fee it windy and dufty, the wind does not make but only raife duff. South. 5. Puffy; flatulent. In fuch a windy colic, water is the beft remedy after a fur- feit of fruit. Arbuthnot on Aliments. Wine. n.f. [pin, Saxon; vinn, Dutch.] 1. The fermented juice of the grape. The wine of life is drawn, and the meer lees Is left this vault to brag of. Shake/p. Macbeth. Do not fall in love with me j For I am falfer than vows made in wine. Shake/. The increafe of the vineyards for the wine-cellars. Chron. Be not amongft wine-bibbers, amongft riotous eaters. Prov. Thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-fat. J/. They took old facks upon their affes, and zw«*-botties old and rent, and bound up. Jo/ ix. 4. Where the wine-prefs is hard wrought, it yields a harfh wine that taftes of the grape-ftone. Bacon. His troops on my ftrong youth like torrents rufht; As in a wine-prefs, Judah’s daughter crufht. Sandys. With large zc/w-offerings pour’d, and facred feaft. Milt. Shall I, to pleafe another zww-fprung mind, Lofe all mine own ? God hath giv’n me a meafure. Short of his canne and body: muft I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleafure? Herbert. The firftlings of the flock are doom’d to die j Rich fragrant wines the cheering bowl fupply. Pope. If the hogfhead falls Ihort, the uw^-cooper had not filled it in proper time. Swift’s Directions to the Butler. 2. Preparations of vegetables by fermentations, called by the general name of wines, have quite different qualities from the plant; for no fruit, taken crude, has the intoxicating quality of wine. Arbuthnot. WING. n. /. jgehping, Saxon; winge, Daniflb.] I. The limb of a bird by which flic flies. As Venus’bird, the white fwift lovely dove, Doth on her wings her utmoft fwiftnefs prove. Finding the gripe of falcon fierce not fur. Sidney. Ignorance is the curfe of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heav’n. Shake/p. An eagle ftirreth up her neff, fpreadeth abroad her unngs> taketh them, and heareth them on her wings. Deut. xxxii. A fpleenlefs wind foftretcht Her wings to waft us, and fo urg’d our keel. Chapman. I he prince of augurs, Helitherfes, rofe; Prefcient he view’d th’ aerial tratfs, and drew A fure prefage from ev’ry wing that flew. Pope’s Odyffey. 2. A fan to winnow. Wing, cartnave, and bufhel, peek, ready at hand. Puffer. 3. Flight; paffage by the wing. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th’ rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop and drowze. While night’s black agents to their prey do rouze. Shah. Thy affections hold a wing • Quite from the flight of all thy anceftors. Shake/p. H. IV. I have purfued her as love hath purfued me, on the wing of all occafions. Shakefp. Merry Wives 0/ Wind/or. While pafilon is upon the wing, and the man fully engaged in the profecution of fome unlawful objedt, no remedy or con- troul is to be expedted from his reafon. South. You are too young your power to underftand; Lovers take wing upon the leaft command. Dryden. And ftraight, with in-born vigour, on the wing, Like mounting larks, to the new morning fing. Dryden. Then life is on the wing; then moft fhe finks, When moft fhe feems reviv’d. Smith’s Phcedra and Hippol. 4. The motive of flight. Fearful commenting Is leaden fervitor to dull delay ; Delay leads impotent and fnail-pac’d beggary : Then fiery expedition be my wing, Jove’s Mercury, and herald for a king. Shake/p. R. IIT. 5. The fide bodies of an army. The footmen were Germans, to whom were joined as wings certain companies of Italians. Knolles's Hijt. of the Turks. The left wing put to flight, The chiefs o’erborn, he rufhes on the right. Dryden. 6. Any fide piece. The plough moft proper for ftiff black clays is long, large, and broad, with a deep head and a fquare earth-board, the coulter long and very little bending, with a very large wing. Mortimer’s Hu/bandry. To Wing. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To furnifti with wings; to enable to fly. The fpeed of gods Time counts not, tho’ with fwifteft minutes wing'd. Milt. Who knows but he, whofe hand the lightning forms. Who heaves old ocean, and who wings theftorms. Pours fierce ambition in a Cadar’s mind, Or turns young Ammon loofe to fcourge mankind. Pope. 2. To fupply with fide bodies. We ourfelf will follow In the main battle, which on either fide Shall be well winged with our cbiefeft horfe. Shake/. R. III. To Wing, v. n. To pafs by flight. I, an old turtle. Will wing me to fome wither’d bough, and there My mate, that’s never to be found again, Lament ’till I am loft. Shake/peare’s Winter’s Tale. Warm’d with more particles of heav’nly flame, 1 He wing d his upward flight, and foar’d to fame; > The reft remain’d below, a crowd without a name. Dryd. j Struck with the horrour of the fight, She turns her head, and wings her flight. Prior. From the Meotis to the northern fea. The goddefs wings her defp’rate way. Prior. Wi'nged. adj. [from wing.] Furniftied with wings; flying; fwift; rapid. Now we bear the king Tow’rd Calais: grant him there, and there being feen. Heave him away upon your winged thoughts Athwart the fea. Shake/peare's Henry V. Hie, good fir Michael, bear this fealed brief With winged hafte to the lord marfhal. Shake/. H. IV. And fhall grace not find means, that finds her way. The fpeedieft of thy winged meflengcrs, To vifit all thy creatures ? Milton’s Par adi/e Lojl. . We can fear no force But winged troops, or Pegafean horfe. • Jlraller. The tvinged lion’s not fo fierce in fight. As Lib’ri’s hand prefents him to our fight. Waller. The cockney is lurprifed at many actions of the quadruped and winged animals in the fields. Watts. Wingedpea'. n f [oebrus, Larin.] A plant. It hath a papilionaceous flower, out of whofe empalement rifes the pointal, which afterwards becomes a pod, for the moft part round and cvlindrical, filled with roundilh leeds. Miller. Wi'ngshell.