Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend. Popco 3. It has most properly from before the object of aversion.

Laws politick are never framed as they should be, unless presuming the will of man to be inwardly obstinate, rebellious, and averse from all obedience unto the sacred laws of his nature. Hooker.

They believed all who objected against their undertaking to be averse from peace. Clarendon,

These cares alone her virgin breast employ, Averse from Venus and the nuptial joy. Pope. 4. Very frequently, but improperly, to.

He had, from the beginning of the war, been very averse to any advice of the privy council.

Clarendon,

3.

Milton.

It is used most properly with from before the object of hate.

They had an inward aversion from it, and were resolved to prevent it by all possible means.

Clarendon.

With men these considerations are usually causes of despite, disdain, or aversion from others; but with God, so many reasons of our greater tenderness towards others. Sprat.

The same adhesion to vice, and aversion from goodness, will be a reason for rejecting any proof whatsoever. Atterbury. Sometimes, less properly, with to. A freeholder is bred with an aversion to subjection. Addison. I might borrow illustrations of freedom and aversion to receive new truths, from modern astronomy. Watts.

4. Sometimes with for.

5.

The Lucquese would rather throw themselves under the government of the Genoese, than submit to a state for which they have so great aversion. Addison.

This aversion of the people for the late proceedings of the commons, might be improved to good uses. Swift. Sometimes, very improperly, with toawards.

His aversion towards the house of York was so predominant, as it found place not only in his councils, but in his bed.

6. The cause of aversion.

Bacon.

They took great pleasure in compounding lawsuits among their neighbours; for which they were the aversion of the gentlemen of the long robe. Arbuthnot's History of John Bull. Self-love and reason to one end aspire; Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire. Pope To AVEʼRT. v. a. [averto, Lat.] 1. To turn aside; to turn off. I beseech you

Diversity of conjectures made many, whose Conceits erted from themselves the fortune of that war, to become careless and secure, Knolles. These affections earnestly fix our minds on God, and forcibly avert from us those things which are displeasing to him, and contrary to religion. Sprat. "Thro' threaten'd lands they wild destruction throw,

Till ardent prayer averts the public woe. Prior. AUF. 5. n. s. [of alf, Dutch.] A fool, or silly fellow. Dict. AUGER. n. s. [egger, Dutch.] A carpenter's tool to bore holes with.

The auger hath a handle and bit; its office is to make great round holes. When you use it, the stuff you work upon is commonly laid low under you, that you may the easier use your strength for in twisting the bit about by the force of both your hands, on each end of the handle one, it cuts great chips out of the stuff. Moxon's Mech. Exercises.

AUGHT. pronoun. [auht, apht, Saxon. It
is sometimes, improperly,written ought.]
Any thing.
If I can do it,

By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,
She shall not long continue love to him. Shaks.
They may, for aught I know, obtain such sub-
stances as may induce the chymists to entertain
other thoughts.
Boyle.
But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting
Among thy father's friends. Addison's Cato.
To AUGMENT. v. a. [augnenter, Fr.]
To increase; to make bigger, or more.
Some cursed weeds her cunning hand did know
That could augment his harm, encrease his pain.
Fairfax.

Rivers have streams added to them in their passage, which enlarge and augment them. Hale. T AUGMENT. v. n. To incréase; to grow bigger.

But as his heat with running did augment, Much more his sight encreas'd his hot desire. Sidney.

The winds redouble, and the rains augment, The waves on heaps are dash'd. Dryden. AUGMENT. n. s. [augmentum, Lat.] 1. Increase; quantity gained.

You shall find this augment of the tree to be without the diminution of one drachm of the earth. Walton's Angler.

2. State of increase.

Discutients are improper in the beginning of inflammations; but proper, when mixed with repellents, in the augment. Wiseman. AUGMENTATION. n. s. [from augment.] 1. The act of increasing or making bigger. Those who would be zealous against regular troops after a peace, will promote an augmenta

tion of those on foot.

Addison.

A'UGRE. n. s. A carpenter's tool. See

AUGER.

Your temples burned in the cement, and Your franchises, whereon you stood, confin'd Into an augre's bore. Shakspeare's Coriolanuse AUGRE-HOLE. n. s. [from augre and hole.] A hole made by boring with an augre; proverbially a narrow space.

What should be spoken here, Where our fate, hid within an augre-bole, May rush and seize us. Shakspeare's Macbeth. AUGUR. n. s. [augur, Lat.] One who pretends to predict by omens, as by the flight of birds.

What say the augurs?-They would not have you stir forth to-day: Plucking the entrails of an offering forth, They could not find a heart within the beast. Shakspeare.

Calchas, the sacred seer, who had in view Things present and the past, and things to come foreknew:

Supreme of augurs.

Dryden's Fables. As I and mine consult thy augur, Grant the glad omen; let thy fav'rite rise Propitious, ever soaring from the right. Prier. To AUGUR. v. n. [from augur.] To guess; to conjecture by signs.

The people love me, and the sea is mine, My pow'r's a crescent, and my aug'ring hope Says it will come to the full. Shakspeare My aug'ring mind assures the same success. Dryden. To A'UGURATE. v. n. [auguror, Lat.] To judge by augury. AUGURATION. n. s. [from augur.] The practice of augury, or of foretelling by events and prodigies.

Claudius Pulcher underwent the like success, when he continued the tripudiary augurations. Brown's Vulgar Errours. A'UGURER. n. s. [from To augur.] The same with augur.

These apparent prodigies,
And the persuasion of his augurers,
May hold him from the capitol to-day.

Shakspeare. AUGURIAL. adj. [from augury.] Relating to augury.

On this foundation were built the conclusions. of soothsayers, in their augurial and tripudiary divinations. Brows.

So fear'd

The fair-maned horses, that they flew back, and their chariots turn'd,

Presaging in their augurous hearts the labours that they mourn'd. Chapman's Iliad. A'UGURY. n. s. [augurium, Lat.] 1. The act of prognosticating by omens or prodigies.

Thy face and thy behaviour, Which, if my augury deceive me not, Witness good breeding.

Shakspeare. The winds are chang'd, your friends from danger free,

Or I renounce my skill in augury.

She knew, by augury divine, Venus would fail in the design. 2. An omen or prediction.

Dryden.

Swift.

What if this death, which is for him design'e',

Had been your doom (far be that augury !) And you, not Aurengzebe, condemn'd to die? Dryden.

The pow'rs we both invoke

To you, and yours, and mine, propitious_be, And firm our purpose with an augury. Dryden. AUGU'ST. adj. [augustus, Lat.] Great; grand; royal; magnificent; awful.

There is nothing so contemptible, but anquity can render it august and excellent. Glan. The Trojan chief appear'd in open sight, August in visage, and serenely bright; His mother goddess, with her hands divine, Had form'd his curling locks, and made his temples shine. Dryden. AUGUST. n. s. [Augustus, Lat.] The eigthth month of the year, from January inclusive.

August was dedicated to the honour of Augustus Cæsar, because in the same month he was created consul, thrice triumpher in Rome, subdued Egypt to the Roman empire, and made an end of civil wars; being before called Sextilis, or the sixth from March. Peacham.

AUGUSTNESS. n. s. [from august.] Eleva tion of look; dignity; loftiness of mien or aspect.

A'VIARY. n. s. [from avis, Lat. a bird.] A place enclosed to keep birds in.

In aviaries of wire, to keep birds of all sorts, the Italians bestow vast expence; including great scope of ground, variety of bushes, trees of good height, running waters, and sometimes a stove annexed, to contemper the air in the winter. Wotton's Architecture.

Look now to your aviary; for now the birds grow sick of their feathers. Evelyn's Kalendar. AVIDITY. n. s. [avidité, Fr. aviditas, Lat.] Greediness; eagerness; appetite; insatiable desire.

AVITOUS. adj. [avitus, Lat.] Left by a man's ancestors; ancient.

Dict.

To AvI'ZE. v. a. [aviser, Fr. A word out of use.]

1. To counsel.

With that, the husbandman 'gan him avize, That it for him was fittest exercise. Spenser. 2. With a reciprocal pronoun, to bethink himself: s'aviser, Fr.

But him avizing, he that dreadful deed Forbore, and rather chose, with scornful shame, Him to avenge. Spensar.

3. To consider; to examine.

No power he had to stir, nor will to rise; That when the careful knight 'gan well avize, He lightly left the foe. Fairy Queen.

As they 'gan his library to view, And antique registers for to avize. A'UKWARD. See AWKWARD.

Spenser.

A'ULICK. adj. [aulicus, Lat.] Belonging to the court.

AULN. n. s. [aulne, Fr.] A French measure of length; an ell.

To AUMAIL. v. a. [from maille, Fr. the mesh of a net; whence a coat of aumail,

riegate; to figure. Upton explains it, to enamel.

In golden buskins of costly cordwaine, All hard with golden bendes, which were entail'd

With curious anticks, and full fair aumail'd. Fairy Queen.

AU'MERY. See AMBRY.

AUNT. n. s. [tante, Fr. amita, Lat.] A father or mother's sister; correlative to nephew or niece.

Who meets us here? my niece Plantagenet, Led in the hand of her kind aunt of Glo'ster. Shakspeare.

She went to plain work, and to purling brooks, Old-fashioned halls, dull aunts, and croaking rooks. Pope. AVOCADO. n. s. [Span. persica, Lat.] A tree that grows in great plenty in the Spanish West Indies.

The fruit is of itself very insipid, for which reason they generally eat it with the juice of lemons and sugar, to give it a poignancy. Miller. To A'VOCATE. v. a. [avoco, Lat.] To call off from business; to call away.

Their divesture of mortality dispenses thera from those laborious and avocating duties to distressed christians, and their seculär relations, which are here requisite. Boyle. AVOCATION. n. s. [from avocate.] 1. The act of calling aside.

The bustle of business, the avocations of our senses, and the din of a clamourous world, are impediments. Glanville.

Stir up that remembrance which his many avocations of business have caused him to lay aside. Dryden. God does frequently inject into the soul blessed impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from South. 2. The business that calls; or the call that summons away.

sin.

It is a subject that we may make some progress in its contemplation within the time, that in the ordinary time of life, and with the permission of necessary avocations, a man may em ploy in such a contemplation.

Hale.

By the secular cares and avocations which accompany marriage, the clergy have been fur nished with skill in common life. Atterbury. To AVOID. v. a. [vider, Fr.] 1. To shun; to decline.

The wisdom of pleasing God, by doing what he commands, and avoiding what he forbids. Tillotson. 2. To escape; as, he avoided the blow by turning aside.

3. To endeavour to shun; to shift off. The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it. Shakspeare.

4. To evacuate; to quit.

5.

What have you to do here, fellow? pray you, avoid the house. Shakspears.

If any rebel should be required of the prince confederate, the prince confederate should command him to avoid the country. Bacon.

He desired to speak with some few of us: whereupon six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room. Bacon.

To emit; to throw out.

A toad contains not those urinary parts which are found in other animals to avoid that serous excretion.

Brown's Vulgar Errours.

To Avo'ID. v. n.

1. To retire.

Spenser.

And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it: and David avoided out of his presence twice. 1 Sam.

2. To become void or vacant.

Bishopricks are not included under benefices: so that if a person takes a bishoprick, it does not avoid by force of that law of pluralities, but by the ancient common law. Ayliffe.

AVOIDABLE. adj. [from avoid.] 1. That may be avoided, shunned, or escaped.

Want of exactress in such nice experiments is scarce avoidable. Beyle. To take several things for granted, is hardly avoidable to any one, whose task it is to shew the falsehood or improbability of any truth. Locke. 2. Liable to be vacated or annulled.

'The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage; and if there could have been any such pretence, that alone would not avoid them. Hale. AVOIDANCE. n. s. [from avoid.]

The act of avoiding.

It is appointed to give us vigour in the pursuit of what is good, or in the avoidance of what is hurtful. Watts.

2. The course by which any thing is carried off.

For avoidances and drainings of water, where there is too much, we shall speak of. Bacon 3. The act or state of becoming vacant. 4. The act of annulling.

AVOIDER. n. s. [from avoid.]

1. The person that avoids or shuns any thing.

2. The person that carries any thing away. 3. The vessel in which things are carried

away. AvoiDLESS. adj. [from avoid.] Inevitable; that carinot be avoided.

That avoidless ruin in which the whole empire

Dennis' Letters.

would be involved. AVOIRDUPOIs. n. s. [avoir du poids, Fr.] A kind of weight, of which a pound contains sixteen ounces, and is in proportion to a pound Troy, as seventeen to fourteen. All the larger and coarser commodities are weighed by avoirdupois weight. Chambers.

Probably the Romans left their ounce in Britain, which is now our avoirdupois ounce for our troy ounce we had elsewhere. Arbuthnot. AVOLATION. n. s. [from avolo, to fly away, Lat.] The act of flying away; flight; escape.

These airy vegetables are made by the relicks of plantal emissives, whose avolation was pre

vented by the condensed inclosure. Glanville. Strangers, or the fungous parcels about candles, only signify a pluvious air, hindering the evolation of the favillous particles. Brotun. To Avo'UCH. v. a. [avouer, Fr. For this word we now generally say vouch.] 1. To affirm; to maintain; to declare peremptorily.

They boldly avowched that themselves only had

the truth, which they would at all times de fend..

Wretched though I seem,

Hookers

I can produce a champion that will prove What is arouched here. Shakspeare's King Lear. 2. To produce in favour of another.

Such antiquities could have been avouched for the Irish. Spenser's State of Ireland. 3. To vindicate; to justify.

You will think you made no offence, if the duke avouch the justice of your dealing. Sbaka. AVOUCH. n. s. (from the verb.] Decla ration; evidence; testimony.

I might not this believe,
Without the sensible and try'd avouch
Of mine own eyes.

Shakspeare's Hamlet. Avo'UCHABLE adj. [from avouch.] That may be avouched.

AVOUCHER. .'s. [from avbuch.] He that avouches.

To AVOW. v.a. [avouer, Fr.] To declare with confidence; to justify; not to dissemble.

His cruel stepdame, seeing what was done, Her wicked days with wretched knife did end; In death avowing th' innocence of her son. Fairy Queen

He that delivers them mentions his doing it upon his own particular knowledge, or the relation of some credible person avowing it upon his own experience. Boyles Left to myself, I must avow I strove From publick shame to screen my secret love. Dryden.

Such assertions proceed from principles which cannot be avowed by those who are for preserv ing church and state. Srift.

Then blaz'd his smother'd flame, amore'd and bold. Thomsen.

Avo'WABLE. adj. [from avow.] That may be openly declared; that may be declared without shame.

Avo'WAL. n. s. [from avow.] JustificaAvo'wEDLY. adv. [from avow.] In an tory declaration; open declaration.

open manner.

Wilmot could not avortedly have excepted AVOWEE'. n. s. [avoué, Fr.] He to whom against the other. Clarendon the right of advowson of any church Avo'WER. n. 5. [from avotu.] He that belongs. Dict. avows or justifies.

Virgil makes Eneas a bold avower of his own Avo'wRY. n. s. [from avow.] In law, is virtues. Drydens where one takes a distress for rent, or other thing, and the other sues replevin. In which case the taker shall justify, in his plea, for what cause he took it; and, if he took it in his own right, is to shew it, and so avow the taking, which is called his avowry. Chambers.

Avo'wSAL. .`s. [from avow.] A confession. Dict. Avo'WTRY. 7. s. [See ADVOWTRY.] Adultery.

A'URATE. n. s. A sort of pear. See PEAR. AURELIA. n. s. [Lat.] A term used for the first apparent change of the eruca, or maggot of any species of insects; the chrysalis.

The solitary maggot, found in the dry heads of teasel, is sometimes changed into the aurelia of a butterfly, sometimes into a fly-case. Ray. A'URICLE. n. s. [auricula, Lat.] 1. The external ear, or that part of the ear which is prominent from the head. 2. Two appendages of the heart; being two muscular caps, covering the two ventricles thereof; thus called from the resemblance they bear to the external car. They move regularly like the heart, only in an inverted order; their systole corresponding to the diastole of the heart. Chambers.

Blood should be ready to join with the chyle, before it reaches the right auricle of the heart.

Ray. AURICULA. n. s. See BEARS EAR. A flower.

AURICULAR. adj. [from auricula, Lat. the ear.]

1. Within the sense or reach of hearing. You shall hear us confer, and by an auricular assurance have your satisfaction. Shakspeare.

2. Secret; told in the ear; as, auricular confession.

3. Traditional; known by report.

The alchymists call in many varieties out of astrology, auricular traditions, and feigned testimonies. Bacon.

AURICULARLY. adv. [from auricular.]

In a secret manner.

These will soon confess, and that not auricularly, but in a loud and audible voice.

Decay of Piety. AURIFEROUS. adj. [aurifer, Lat.] That produces gold.

Rocks rich in gems, and mountains big with mines,

Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays. Thomson.

AURIGA'TION. n.s. [auriga, Lat.] The act or practice of driving carriages. Dict. AURIPIGMENTUM. See ORPIMENT. AURO'RA. n. s. n. s. [Lat.]

1. A species of crowfoot.

2. The goddess that opens the gates of day; poetically, the morning. Aurora sheds

On Indus' smiling banks the rosy shower.

Thomson.

AURO'RA Borealis. [Lat.] Light streaming in the night from the north. AURUM Fulminans. [Lat.] A preparation made by dissolving gold in aqua regia, and precipitating it with salt of tartar; whence a very small quantity of it becomes capable, by a moderate heat, of giving a report like that of a pistol.

Quincy. Some aurum fulminans the fabrick shook. Garth. AUSCULTATION. n. s. [from ausculto, Lat.] A hearkening or listening to. Dict. A'USPICE. n. s. [auspicium, Lat.] 1. The omens of any future undertaking drawn from birds.

2. Protection; favour shown.

Great father Mars, and greater Jove, By whose high auspice Rome hath stood So long,

VOL. I.

Ben Jonson.

3. Influence; good derived to others from the piety of their patron.

But so may he live long, that town to sway, Which by his auspice they will nobler make, As he will hatch their ashes by his stay. Dryden. AUSPICIAL. adj. [from auspice.] Relating to prognosticks. AUSPICIOUS. adj. [from auspice.] 1. Having omens of success.

You are now with happy and auspicious be ginnings, forming a model of a christian charity. Sprat. 2. Prosperous; fortunate : applied to per

AUSPICIOUSNESS. n. s. [from auspicious.]
Prosperity; promise of happiness.
AUSTE'RE. adj. [austerus, Lat.]
1. Severe; harsh; rigid.

When men represent the divine nature as an austere and rigorous master, always lifting up his hand to take vengeance, such conceptions must unavoidably raise terror. Rogers.

Austere Saturnius, say From whence this wrath? or who controuls thy sway? Popea

2. Sour of taste; harsh.

Th' austere and pond'rous juices they sublime., Make them ascend the porous soil, and climb The orange tree, the citron, and the lime.

Blackmore. Austere wines, diluted with water, cool more. than water alone, and at the same time do not relax. Arbuthnot on Aliments.

AUSTE RELY. adv. [from austere.] Severely; rigidly.

Ah! Luciana, did he tempt thee so? Might'st thou perceive, austerely in his eye, That he did plead in earnest? Shakspeare. Hypocrites austerely talk Of purity, and place, and innocence. Par. Lost AUSTE'RENESS. n. s. [from austere.] 1. Severity; strictness; rigour.

My unsoil'd name, th' austereness of my life, May vouch against you; and my place i' th' state Will so your accusation overweigh. Shakspeare.

If an indifferent and unridiculous object could, draw this austereness into a smile, he hardly could. Brozum. resist the proper motives thereof. 2. Roughness in taste. AUSTERITY. n. s. [from austere.] 1. Severity; mortified life; strictness. Now, Marcus Cato, our new consul's spy, What is your sour austerity sent t' explore?

Ben Jonion.