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 (Volume 1).
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
- Date:
- 1819
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![A GU AIB AIL method of life, by agriculture and husbandly. Broome's Notes on the Odyssey. A'grimony, ag're-mun-ne.667 n. s.[agrimo- nia, Lat.] The name of a plant. The leaves are rough, hairy, pennated, and grow alternately on the branches; the flower-cup consists of one leaf, which is divided into live segments: tiie flow- ers have five or six leaves, and are formed into a long spike; which ex- pands, in form of a rose; the fruit is ob- long, dry, and prickly, like the burdock; in each of which, are contained two ker- nels. Miller To Agri'se, a-grize. v. n. [agpiran, Sax.] To look terrible. Out of use. Sflenser. To Agri'se, a-grize, v. a. To terrify. Spenser. Agro'und, a-grovmd'.313 adv. [from a and ground.] 1. Stranded; hindered by the ground, from passing farther. With our great ships, we durst not approach the coast; we having been, all of us aground. Sir W. Raleigh's Essays. Say, what you seek, and whither were you bound? Were you, by stress of weather, cast aground? Dryden, 2. It is likewise figuratively used, for being hindered in the progress of affairs; as, the negociators were aground at that objection. A'GUE, a'gue.338 n. s. [aigu, Fr. acute.] An intermitting fever, with cold fits succeeded by hot: the cold fit is, in po- pular language, more particularly call- ed the ague; and the hot, the fever. Our castle's strength Will laugh a siege to scorn. Here let them lie. Till famine and the ague eat them up. Shaksp. Though He feels the heats of youth, and colds of age; Yet neither tempers nor corrects the other; As if there were an ague in his nature, That still inclines to one extreme. Denham's Sophy. A'GUED,a'gu-£d.362 169 adj. [from ague.] Struck with an ague; shivering; chill; cold: a word in little use. All hurt behind, backs red, and faces pale, With flight and agued fear! Shaksp. Coriolanus. A'gue-fit, a't:ue-fit. n. s [from ague and 7?/.] The paroxysm of the ague. This ague-jit of fear is overblown. Shaksp. A'gue-proof, a'gvie-proof.cc(/ [froma§-ue and firoof.~] Proof against agues; able to resist the causes, which produce agues, without being affected. When the rain came to wet me once, and the wind to make me chatter; when the thunder would not peace at my bidding; there I found 'em, there I smelt 'em out. They told me, I was every thing: 'tis a lie; I am not ague-proof. Shaksp. King Lear. A'gue-tree, a'gue-tree. n. $. [from ague and tree.] A name sometimes given to sassairas. Diet To A'guise, a'gyize. is03*1 V€ 0# [from a and guise. See Guise.] To dress; to adorn; to deck: a word not in use now. As her fantastic wit did most delight, Sometimes her head she fondly would aguisc With gaudy garlands, or fresh flowers dight About her neck, or rings of rushes plight. Fairy Q. A'guish, a'gu-lsh adj. [from ague.~] Hav- ing the qualities of an ague. So calm, and so serene, but now, What means this change, on Myra's brow? Her aguish love now glows and burns, Then chills and shakes, and the cold fit returns. Granville. A'guishness, a'gu-ish-ness. n. s. [trom aguish.] The quality, of resembling an ague. Ah, a. Interjection. 1. A word, noting sometimes dislike and censure. ^.'sinfulnation! a people, laden with iniquity,a seed of evil-doers; children, that are corrupters! they have forsaken the Lord. Isaiah, i. 4. 2. Sometimes, contempt and exultation. Let them not say in their hearts, Ah! so we would have it: let them not say, we have swallowed him up. Pslam xxxv. 25. 3. Sometimes, and most frequently, com- passion and compaint. In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour come, And age and death's inexorable doom. Dryden. Ah me! the blooming pride of May, And that of beauty, are but one: At morn both flourish bright and gay; Both fade at evening, pale and gone. Prior. 4. When it is followed by that, it ex- presses vehement desire. In goodness, as in greatness, they excel. Ah! that we lov'd ourselves, but half so well! Dryden. Aha'! Aha'! a-ha', a-na'. interjection. A word,intimating triumph and contempt. They opened their mouth wide against me, and said, aha! aha! our eye hath seen it. Psalm xxxv. 21 Ahe'ad, a-hed'. adv. [from a and head.] i. Farther onward, than another: a sea term. And now the mighty Centaur seems to lead; And now the speedy Dolphin gets ahead. Dryden's ASmeid. 2. Headlong; precipitantly: used of ani- mals, and figuratively of men. It is mightily the fault of parents, guardians, tutors, and governours, that so many men miscarry. They suffer them at first to run ahead; and, when perverse inclinations are advanced into habits, there is no dealing with them. V'Estrange's Fables. Ahe'ight, a-hite'. adv. [from a and height.] Aloft; on high. But have I fall'n or no,— —From the dread summit of this chalky bourne? Look up aheight! the shrill'd-gorg'd lark so far Cannot be seen or heard. Shaksp. King Lear. AHOUA'I, a-hou-a'. n. s. The name of a poisonous plant. To AID, ade,202 v. a. [aider, Fr. from ad- jutare, Lat.] To help; to support; to suc- cour. Into the lake he leapt, his lord to aid; And, of him catching hoid, him strongly staid From drowning. Fairy Qjxeen. Neither shall they give any thing unto them, that make war upon them, or aid them with victuals, weapons, money, or ships. Maccabees, viii. 26. By the loud trumpet which our courage aids, We learn that, sound as well as sense persuades. Roscommon. Aid, ade. n. s. [from To aid.] 1. Help; support. The memory of useful things may receive consi- derable aid, if they are thrown into verse. Walls's Improvement of the Mind. Your patrimonial stores in peace possess; Undoubted all your filial claim confess; Your private right should impious power invade The peers of Ithaca would arm in aid. Pope's Od. 2. The person, that gives help or support; a helper; auxiliary. Thou hast said, it is not good, that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid, like unto himself. Tobit, viii. 6. Great aids came in to him, partly upon missives, and partly voluntaries from many parts. Bacon. 3. in law. A subsidy. Aid is also particularly used, in mat- ter of pleading, for a petition made in court, for the calling in of help from another, that hath an in- terest in the cause in question: and is likewise, both to give strength to the party, that prays in aid of him; and also, to avoid a prejudice accruing towards his own right, except it be prevented: as, when a tenant for term of life, courtesy, &c. being im- pleaded touching his estate, he may pray in aid of him in the reversion; that is, entreat the court, that he may be called in by writ, to allege what he thinks good for the maintenance both of his right and his own. Cowell. Ai'dance, ade'anse. n. s. [from aid.] Help; support: a word little used. Oft have I seen a timely parted ghost, Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and bloodless, Being all descended to the lab'ring heart; Who, in the conflict that it holds with death, Attracts the same, for aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shaksp. Hem-y VI. Ai'dant, ade'ant. adj. [aidant, Fr.] Help- ing, helpful: not in use. All you, unpublish'd virtues of the earth, Spring with my tears; be aidant and remediate, In the good man's distress. Shaksp. King Lear. Ai'der, ade'ur, n. s. [from aid] He, that brings aid or help; a helper; an ally. All along, as he went, were punished the adhe- rents and aiders of the late rebels. Bacon. Ai'dless, ade'l£ss. adj. [from aid and less, an inseparable particle.] Helpless; un- supported; undefended. Alone he enter'd / The mortal gate o' th' city, which he painted With shunless destiny: aidless came off; And with a sudden re-enforcement, sUuck Corioli, like a planet. Shaksp. Coriolanus. He had met Already, ere my best speed could prevent, The aidless innocent lady, his wish'd prey. Milton. A'igulet, a'gu-let. n. s. [aigulet, Fr.] A point, with tags; points of gold, at the end of fringes. It all above besprinkled was throughout With golden aigulets, that glister'd bright, Like twinkling stars; and, all the skirt about, Was hemm'd with golden fringes. Fairy Queen. To AIL, ale. v. a. [ejlan, Sax. to be trou- blesome.] 1. To pain; to trouble; to give pain. And the angel of God called to Hagar out of hea- ven, and said unto her; ' What aihth thee, Hagar? fear not! for God hath heard the voice of the lad, where he is.' Gen. xxi. 11. 2. It is used (in a sense less determinate) for to affect in any manner; as, some- thing ails me, that I cannot sit still; what ails the man, that he laughs with- out reason? Love smiled, and thus said; ' Want, joined to de- sire, is unhappy; but, if he nought do desire, what can Heraclitus ail?'' Sidney. What ails me, that I cannot lose thy thought! Command, the empress hither to be brought: I, in her death, shall some diversion find; And rid my thoughts at once, of woman-kind. Dryden's Tyrannick Love. 3. To feel pain; to be incommoded. 4. It is remarkable, that this word is never used, but with some indefinite term, or](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21133803_0182.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
