Reason hath clear'd my sight, and drawn the vail O wilt thou darkling leave me ?-Do not so. lolium perenne. See Epitome of Her fallow leas Steevens These were Sansjoy and the Redcrosse knight. Thus again, I, vii, 11. Did you ne'er read, sir, little Darrel's tricks, Some particulars of their impostures Take heed, This age will lend no faith to Darrel's deed. Vol. vi, p. 423. See In the folio [1640], and in Whalley's edition, it is printed Dorrel, but clearly the same person is meant. Mr. Gifford has printed it so. also his notes on the Devil is an Ass. Hen. V, v, 2. †DASH. To dash through, to bring to an end. The darnel, hemlock, and rank fumitory Crown'd with rank fumiter, and furrow weeds, Lear, iv, 4. Gerard says it is the most hurtful of Transigitur. The matter is brought to a point, it is other substance. Francion afterwards called for the vintner, and complained to him that he had sent up wine so heavily dashed, that those poor men of the city who were not so much accustomed to drink as those of his retinue, were extremely intoxicated, although they had not drunk so much as his servants had done. weeds. Drayton gives it a crimson +To DASH. To mix wine with some flower, perhaps mistaking the wild. poppy for it. Polyolb., xv, p. 946. DARNIX, or DARNEX, corrupted from Dornick (Coles, panni Tornacenses). A manufacture of Tournay, used for carpets, hangings, and other purposes; from Dornick, which is the Flemish name for that city. With a fair Darner carpet of my own B. & Fl. Noble Gent., v, 1. In Cotgrave, under Verd, is "Huis To DARRAIGN. To arrange an army, Of un Royal commanders, be in readiness- For one of Edgar's friends taking in hand to darraine †DASIBEARD. Comical Hist. of Francion, 1655. Sir Cayphas, I saye seckerly, Must needes this dosebeirde destroye, The Chester Plays, vol. ii. +DASTARDIZE. To make a coward of. I believe it is not in the power of Ployden, to dastardize or cowe your spirits, untill you have overcom him. Howell's Familiar Letters, 1650. DATES. This fruit of the palm-tree was once a common ingredient in all kinds of pastry, and some other dishes; and often supplied a pun for comedy. your They call for dates and quinces in the pastry. Rom. & Jul, iv, 4. Your date is better in your pye and your porridge, than in All's W., i, 1. cheek. Ay, a minc'd man; and then to be bak'd with no date in the pye,-for then the man's date is out. Tr. and Cr., i, 2. DAUPHIN MY BOY. See DOLPHIN. †DAVY. The name of a proficient in the practice of sword and buckler, who appears to have been celebrated at the close of the sixteenth century. At sword and buckler little Davy was nobody to him, and as for rapier and dagger, the Germane may be his journeyman. Dekker's Knights Conjuring, 1607. A DAW. Metaphorically used for a foolish fellow; the daw being reckoned a foolish bird. I' the city of kites and crows?-What an ass it is! Then thou dwell'st with daws too. Coriol., iv, 5. As fit a sight it were to see a goose shodde, or a sadled cowe, As to hear the pratling of any such Jack Straw, To DAW. B. Jons. Devil an Ass, iv, 1. To daw, Mr. Todd says, is now used in the north for to awaken; if so, this is the sense here: and the morn ing metaphorically awakens when it dawns. The dosnel dawcock comes dropping among the doctors. you the castle of Atlas full of dawcocks. Hosp. of Incurable Fooles, 4to, 1600. +DAY. To have seen the day, to have lived long. An old woman is one that hath seene the day, and is commonly ten yeares younger or ten years elder by her owne confession then the people know she is. Stephen's Essayes, 1615. +DAYING. Adjourning; delaying. Nowe will I goe meete with Chremes; will intreate him for his daughter to my sonne in marriage; and if I doe obtaine her, why should I make any more daying for the matter, but marrie them out of the way. Terence in English, 1614. +DAY-BOOK. A journal. Diarium, A daie booke, conteining such acts, deedes, and matters as are dailie done. Nomenclator. Viewing the many rarities, riches and monuments of that sacred building, the deceased benefactors whereof our day-bookes make mention. Registre journel, MS. Lansd., 213, written in 1634. A DAY-BED. Doubtless a couch, or sofa; as we find below that they were sometimes in every chamber. Calling my officers about me, in my branch'd velvet Rich. III, iii, 7. Above there are day-beds, and such temptations I dare not trust, sir. B. & F. Rule a Wife, &c., i, 6. In the same play : M. Is the great couch up, The duke of Medina sent? 4. 'Tis up, and ready. The great ducal couch was doubtless A DAYS-MAN. An umpire, or arbitrator; from his fixing a day for decision. Mr. Todd shows that day sometimes meant judgment. See in Day, 10. For he is not a man as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgement: neither is there any days-man [marg. umpire] betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. Job, ix, 33. The word, though disused, is still retained in late editions. If neighbours were at variance, they ran not streight to law, straw. Daiesmen took up the matter, and cost them not a New Custome, O. Pl., i, 260. To whom Cymochles said, For what art thou That mak'st thyself his dayes-man to prolong. The vengeaunce prest? Spens. F. Q., II, viii, 28. In Switzerland (as we are informed by Simlerus) they had some common arbitrators, or dayesmen, in every towne, that made a friendly composition betwixt man and man. Burt. Anat., Democr. to Reader, p. 50. +Simus and Crito, my neighbours, are at controversie here about there lands, and they have made me umpire and daiesman betwixt them. I will goe, and say as I told you, that I cannot attende on these men to daie. Terence in English, 1614. A measure of land. You must know, that there goe 160 perches to one acre, 80 perches to halfe an acre, 40 perches to one roode, which is of an acre, ten daies worke to a roode, foure perches to a daies worke, 16 foote and a halfe to a perch. Norden's Surveiors Dialogue, 1610. To DAZE. To dazzle. †DAYS-WORK. While flashing beames do daze his feeble eyen. Spens. F. Q., I, iv, 9. That being now with her huge brightness duz'd, Base thing I can no more endure to view, But, looking still on her, I stand amaz'd At wondrous sight of her celestial hue. Spens. Sonnet, 3. Let your steele, Glistring against the sunne, daze their bright eyes. Heyw. Golden Age, E 4. Nor noble birth, nor name of crowne or raigne, Which oft doth daze the common people's eye. Harr. Ariost., xliv, 61. Dryden has used it. †DEAD-HORSE. +My dreadful thoughts been drawen upon my face Ply. Now you'l wish I know, you ne'r might wear +DEAD-LIFT. A position of desperation; a last extremity. Here is some of Hannibal's medicine he carried always in the pommel of his sword, for a dead lift; a very At a dead lift, a little hint will serve me. Cowley, Cutter of Coleman Street, 1663. Phil. Who's there? Sedley's Bellamira, 1687. Dreams have for many ages been esteemed as the noblest resources at a dead lift; the dreams of Homer were held in such esteem that they were styled golden dreams. Gent. Mag. for Sept., 1751. +DEAD-MAN'S-THUMB. An old name for a species of meadow flower. Then round the medow did she walk, And tis a general shrift that most men use, of DEAD-PAY. The continued pay soldiers actually dead, which dishonest officers took for themselves; a species of peculation often alluded to. Most of them [captains] know arithmetic so well, Webster's Appius, v, i., Anc. Dr., v, 437. That like me have no dead-pays, nor can cozen Mass. Unn. Comb., iv, 2. Davenant's Siege, act iii. †DEAD-STAND. A dilemma; a fix. I was at a dead stand in the cours of my fortunes, when it pleas'd God to provide me lately an employment to Spain, whence I hope there may arise both repute and profit. Howell's Familiar Letters, 1650. +DEADLY. Dreadful; very great; excessive. To the privy seale, where I signed a deadly number of pardons, which do trouble me to get nothing by. Pepys' Diary, Dec., 1660. Now, sir, what great judges these are, and by what measures they proceed; and how likely they are to be very severe discerners of what is worthy, and what is not, may be easily seen by those deadly witty arts they make use of to disparage that holy profession. Eachard's Observations, 1671, p. 181. DEAD'ST, for deadest. A licentious superlative, from dead, used as in the phrase "dead of night," for the middle or depth of the night. It is, however, but awkwardly applied to All the ground that they had--a man might have bought with a small deale of money. Ascham, Toxoph., p. 92. †DEALTH. A portion, or division. From deal, to divide. Then know, Bellama, since thou aimst at wealth, Where Fortune has bestowd her largest dealth. Historie of Albino and Bellama, 1638. DEAL-WINE. See DELE-WINE. DEAR, adj. Expensive seems to have been its first sense, whence it was applied to anything highly valued or beloved; and, as we much value what is our own, it obtained occasionally the meaning of a possessive. Such was probably the origin of a peculiar application of píλos, in Greek, as we find it in Homer, in many passages, where it is commonly rendered by the Latin possessive, suus (piλov Kip, II., A, 491, &c.; φίλον ήτορ, I., Γ, 31; φίλα γοῦναθ', I., Η, 271; and in many other passages). So also Shakespeare: Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, Haml., iii, 2. See Steevens on that passage. By another application of the original sense, it came also to mean high, excessive, or anything superlative, even superlatively bad. As here, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Sh. Sonnet, 37. Let us return And strain what other means is left unto us At our dear peril. Timon of A., v, 3. Would I had met my dearest foe in heav'n Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio. Haml., i, 2. You meet your dearest enemy in love, With all his hate about him. B. and Fl. Maid in the Mill. In dear employment. Rom. and Jul., v, 3. That is, very important. Put your known valours on so dear a business, B. Jons. Catil., i, 4. DEARLING. A fondling diminutive of dear. So written by Spenser, who chose to antiquate his language. His contemporaries used darling, which is still in use. DEARN, or DERNE. Lonely, melan- By many a derne and painfull perch Is made, &c. Pericles, Pr. of Tyre, iii, Induction. If wolves had at thy gate howl'd that stern time. If wolves had at thy gate heard that dearne time. Here it seems to mean earnest : Wars of Cyrus, 4to, sign. C 2. Doubtless I am bot deid. The birds of ill presage This luckless chance foretold Spens. Mourning Muse, 1. 177. DEARNLY. In a melancholy manner. Seeking adventures hard to exercise, Sp. F. Q., III, i, 14. But in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul He explains it thus: "Dearth is dear ness, value, price. And his internal qualities of such value and rarity." DEATH, with the article the prefixed, occurring in Matth., xv, 4, and Mark, vii, 10, in the common version of the New Testament, it has been thought that the death had been taken up as a scriptural phrase; but the translators could have no motive for introducing such a phrase, had it not been already current; and it is found in Chaucer, and other writers, prior to any established version. It was probably, as Mr. Tyrwhitt observes, only too literal a version of la mort. Cant. Tales, 607. They were adradde of him as of the death. He that curseth father and mother, let him die the By yielding up thy body to my will, For I confess, Meas. for Meas., ii, 4. I have deserv'd, when it so pleaseth you, To die the death. Taner. & Gism., O. Pl., ii, 203. The king is almost wounded to the death, I bleed still, I am hurt to the death. 2 Hen. IV, i, 1. Othell., ii, 3. B. and Fl. Custom of C., iii, 5. DEATHFUL. Mortal, in opposition That with a deathless goddess lay DEATH'S HEAD RING. By a strange A deathful man. Chapm. Hom. H. to Venus. inconsistency, similar to the methodistical piety of Mrs. Cole in the Minor, the procuresses of Elizabeth's time wore usually a ring with a death's head upon it, and probably with the common motto, memento mori. As for their death (that of bawds) how can it be bad, Do not speak like a death's-head; do not bid me remember my end. DEATH'S-MAN. An executioner. But, if you ever chance to have a child, Look in his youth to have him so cut off, Shak. Rape of Lucr., Suppl., i, 532. Also in K 3. Each change of course unjoints the whole estate, 2 Hen, IV, iv, 4. The debate there mentioned was the rebellion. Mr. Todd properly observed, that debate is not now used of hostile contest. To DEBATE. To fight. Well could he tourney, and in lists debate. Spens. F. Q., II, i, 6. This should be the primitive sense, as being nearest to the etymology, debattre, Fr. DEBAUSH'D. The same as deboshed, below; debauched. Or I must take it else to say you're villains, And vile deluding of our shepheards, springs. Earle, Microc., 77. DEBELL, v. To conquer by war. This word, which Milton has used, was not introduced by him, but had been in use before. DEBOSHED. Formerly a common cor ruption of debauched. Why thou debosh'd fish thou, was there ever a man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I to-day? Tempest, iii, 2. v, 3. He's quoted for a most perfidious slave, City Night Cap, O. Pl., xi, 362. Used also metaphorically for spoiled, Fuimus Troes., O. Pl., vii, 503. Thus Cotgrave, "Desbaucher, to debosh, marre, corrupt, spoyle, &c." Coles has to deboist also, as synonymous. See also some of the examples in Mr. Steevens's note on the passage cited from the Tempest. Sometimes also deboish. See Todd. +DEBT-BOOK. A ledger. Hear. The Great Turk loves no musick. Cartwright's Ordinary, 1651. To DECARD. To discard, to cast away a card out of a hand in playing. E. Doth your majesty mark that? You are the king that she is weary of, And my sister the queen that he will cast away. u. Hardly, but I must do hurt. But spare not any to confirm your game. †To DECEASE. To die. We still use the participle. Raign'd two and twenty yeeres, then did decease. Taylor's Workes, 1630. To DECK, v. To adorn. A When I have deck'd the sea with drops full salt. Temp., i, 1. This line has occasioned many explanations and conjectural readings, which is the only reason for introducing the word. Probably the true sense is that which is still common: When I have grac'd the sea with drops, &c. DECK of cards. A pack. But, whiles he thought to steal the single ten, Solimus, Emp. of the Turks, 1638. In the following passage, a heap or |