The breath of heav'n fresh-blowing, pure and sweet, With day-spring born, here leave me to respire. Milton. DA'YSTAR. n. s. [day and star.] The morning star. I meant to make her fair, and free, and wise, Of greatest blood, and yet more good than great: I meant the daystar should not brighter rise, Nor lend like influence from his lucent seat. Ben Jonson. Sunk though he be beneath the watry floor; So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head. Milt. DAYTIME. n. s. [day and time.] The time in which there is light: opposed to night. In the daytime Fame sitteth in a watch-tower, and flieth most by night; she mingleth things done with things not done, and is a terror to great cities. Bacon. My ants never brought out their corn but in the night when the moon did shine, and kept Addison. it under ground in the daytime. DA'YWORK. n. s. [day and work.] Work imposed by the day; daylabour. True labourer in the vineyard of thy lord, Ere prime thou hast th' imposed daywork done. Fairfax. T, DAZE. v. a. [dpær, Sax.] To overpower with light; to strike with too strong lustre; to hinder the act of seeing, by too much light suddenly introduced. eyc. They smote the glistering armies, as they stand, With quivering beams, which daz'd the wond'ring Fairfax. Poor human kind, all diz'd in open day, Err after bliss, and blindly miss their way. Dry. DA'ZIED. adj. [rather dasied. See DAISY.] Besprinkled with daisies. Let us Find out the prettiest dazied plot we can, And make him a grave. Shakspeare's Cymb. To DA'ZZLE. v. a. [See DAZE.] 1. To overpower with light; to hinder the action of the sight by sudden lustre. Fears use to be represented in such an imaginary fashion, as they rather dazzle men's eyes Bacon. than open them. How is it that some wits are interrupted; That now they dazzled are, now clearly see? Davies. 2. To strike or surprise with splendour. Those heavenly shapes Will dazzle now this earthly, with their blaze Milton. Insufferably bright. The places that have either shining sentiments or manners, have no occasion for them: a dazzling expression rather damages them, and serves only to eclipse their beauty. Pope. Ah, friend! to dazzle let the vain design; To raise the thought, or touch the heart, be Pope. - thine. To DAʼZZLE. v. n. To be overpowered with light; to lose the power of sight. Dazzle mine eyes? or do I see three suns? Shakspeare. Come, boy, and go with me; thy sight is young, And you shall read when mine begins to dazzle. Shakspeare. An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle, inso much as perpetual locking against the sun would cause blindness. Bacon, I dare not trust these eyes; They dance in mists, and dazzle with surprise. Dryden. DEACON. n. s. [diaconus, Latin.] 1. One of the lowest of the three orders of the clergy. Likewise must the deacons be grave. 2 Tim. The constitutions that the apostles made concerning deacons and widows, are very importunely urged. Bishop Sanderson. 2. [In Scotland.] An overseer of the poor. 3. And also the master of an incorporated press, Like the last gazette, or the last address. Pope. 4. Imitating death; senseless; motionless. At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. Psalms. Anointing of the forehead, neck, feet, and backbone, we know is used for procuring dead Bacon. sleeps. 5. Unactive; motionless. The tin sold sometimes higher, and sometimes lower, according to the quick vent and abundCarew. ance, or the dead sale and scarcity. Nay, there's a time when even the rolling year Seems to stand still: dead calms are in the ocean, When not a breath disturbs the drousy main. Lee. Nought but a blank remains; a dead void space; A step of life, that promis'd such a race. Dryd. 7. Useless; unprofitable. The commodities of the kingdom they took, though they lay dead upon their hands for want Bacon. of vent. Persuade a prince that he is irresistible, and he will take care not to let so glorious an attribute lie dead and useless by him. Addison. 8. Dull; gloomy; unemployed. Travelling over Amanus, then covered with deep snow, they came in the dead winter to Knolles. Aleppo. There is something unspeakably chearful in a 3D 2 Their flight was only deferred until they might cover their disorders by the dead darkness of the night. Hayward. 10. Having no resemblance of life., At a second sitting, though I alter not the draught, I must touch the same features over again, and change the dead colouring of the whole. Dryden. 11. Obtuse; dull; not sprightly: used of sounds. We took a bell of about two inches in diameter at the bottom, which was supported in the midst of the cavity of the receiver by a bent stick, in which, when it was closed up, the bell seemed to sound more dead than it did when just Boyle before it sounded in the open air. 12. Dull; frigid; not animated; not affecting. How cold and dead does a prayer appear, that is composed in the most elegant forms of speech, when it is not heightened by solemnity of phrase from the sacred writings! Addison. 13. Tasteless; vapid; spiritless: used of liquors. 14. Uninhabited. Somewhat is left under dead walls, and in dry ditches. Arbuthnot. 15. Without the natural force or efficacy; as, a dead fire. 16. Without the power of vegetation: as, a dead bough. 17. [In theology.] In the state of spiritual death, lying under the power of sin. You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. Ephesians. The DEAD. n. s. Dead men. Jove saw from high, with just disdain, The dead inspir'd with vital life again. Dryden. The ancient Romans generally buried their dead near the great roads. Addison. That the dead shall rise and live again is beyond the discovery of reason, and is purely a Locke. matter of faith. The tow'ring bard had sung, in nobler lays, How the last trumpet wakes the lazy dead. Smith. DEAD. n. s. Time in which there is remarkable stillness or gloom, as at midwinter and midnight. After this life, to hope for the favours of mercy then, is to expect an harvest in the dead of winter. South. In the dead of the night, when the men and their dogs were all fast asleep. L'Estrange. At length, in dead of night, the ghost appears Of her unhappy lord. Dryden. To DEAD. v. n. [from the noun.] To lose force, of whatever kind. Iron, as soon as it is out of the fire, deadetb straitways. Bacon's Natural History. 2. This motion would be quickly deadened by countermotions. Glanville's Scepsis Scientia. We will not oppose any thing to them that s hard and stubborn, but by a soft answer den their force by degrees. Burnet's Thary Our dreams are great instances of that acty which is natural to the human soul, and which is not in the power of sleep to deaden or abite. Spectator Anodynes are such things as relax the tensi of the affected nervous fibres; or destroy the particular acrimony which occasions the pain; what deadens the sensation of the brain, by p curing sleep. Arbuthnot on To make vapid, or spiritless. The beer and the wine, as well within wre as above, have not been palled or deaded at all. DEAD-DOING. participial adj. [dead end do.] Destructive; killing; mischievous; having the power to make dead. Hold, O dear lord, your dead-doing hand! Then loud he cried; I am your humble thril Spewer They never care how many others And have no power at all, nor shift, 1. Destructive; mortal; murderous. Dry mourning will decay more deadly bring, As a north wind burns a too forward spring. Give sorrow vent, and let the sluices go. D 2. Mortal; implacable. The Numidians, in number infinite, are da enemies unto the Turks. DEADLY, adv. 1. In a manner resembling the dead. Like dumb statues, or unbreathing stones, Star'd each on other, and look'd deadly pale. Shakspe Young Arcite heard, and up he ran with has And ask'd him why he look'd so deadly wan? Dry 2. Mortally. I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he s groan before him with the groanings of a d wounded man. Extr 3. Implacably; irreconcilably; destruc tively. 4. It is sometimes used in a ludicrous sense. only to enforce the signification of 2 word. Mettled schoolboys, set to cuff, Will not confess that they have done enough Orney. Though deadly weary. Jehn had got an impression, that Less so deadly cunning a man, that he was afra Arbatht venture himself alone with him. DE'ADNESS. n. s. [from dead.] 1. Frigidity; want of warmth; want c ardour; want of affection. His grace removes the defect of inciners, by taking off our natural deadness and afre tion towards them. 2.Weakness of the vital powers; langueurs faintness; inactivity of the spirits Your gloomy eyes betray a deadress, And inward languishing. Dden and Ler". Od 3. Vapidness of liquors; loss of spirit. Deadness or flatness in cyder is often occasioned by the too free admission of air into the vessels. Mortimer. DE'ADNETTLE. n. s. A weed; the same with archangel. DEAD-RECKONING. n. s. [a sea term.] That estimation or conjecture which the seamen make of the place where a ship is, by keeping an account. of her way by the log, by knowing the course they have steered by the compass, and by rectifying all with allowance for drift or lee-way; so that this reckoning is without any observation of the sun, moon, and stars, and is to be rectified as often as any good observation can be had. DEAF. adj. [doof, Dutch.] 1. Wanting the sense of hearing. The chief design here intended is to instruct such as are deaf and dumb, and dumb only by consequence of their want of hearing. Holder. If any sins afflict our life With that prime ill, a talking wife, Till death shall bring the kind relief We must be patient, or be deaf. Prior. Thus you may still be young to me, While I can better hear than see: Oh, ne'er may fortune shew her spite, To make me deaf and mend my sight! 2. It has to before the thing that ought to be heard. Svift. I will be deaf to pleading and excuses; Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses. Shakspeare. O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! Shakspeare. Whilst virtue courts them; but, alas, in vain! Fly from her kind embracing arms, Deaf to her fondest call, blind to her greatest charms. Roscommon. Not so: for, once indulg'd, they sweep the main; Deaf to the call, or, hearing, hear in vain. Dry. Hope, too long with vain delusion fed, Deaf to the rumour of fallacious fame, Givesto the roll of death his glorious name. Pope. 3. Deprived of the power of hearing. Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty Hight: No mortal courage can support the fright. Dry. 4. Obscurely heard. Nor silence is within, nor voice express, But a deaf noise of sounds that never cease; Confus'd and chiding like the hollow roar Of tides receding from th' insulted shoar. Dryd. The rest were seiz'd with sullen discontent, And a deaf murmur through the squadrons went. Dryden. a. [from deaf.] To deprive of the power of Hearing hath deaf'd our sailors; and if they Know how to hear, there's none know what to say. Donne. A swarm of their aerial shapes appears, And, flutt'ring round his temples, deaf's his ears. Dryden. But Salius enters; and, exclaiming loud For justice, deafens and disturbs the crowd. Dry. From shouting men, and horns, and dogs, he flies, Deafen'd and stunn'd with their promiscuous cries. Addison. DE AFLY. adv. [from deaf.] 1. Without sense of soundə. 2. Obscurely to the ear. DE'AFNESS. n. s. [from deaf.] 1. Want of the power of hearing; wint of sense of sounds. 2. Those who are deaf and dumb, are dumb by Holder. consequence from their deafness. The Dunciad had never been writ, but at his request, and for his deafness; for, had he been able to converse with me, do you think I had amused my time so ill? Pupe. Unwillingness to hear. I found such a deafness, that no declaration from the bishops could take place. K. Charles. DEAL. n. s. [deel, Dutch.] 1. Part. A great deal of that which had been, was now Hooker. to be removed out of the church. 2. Quantity; degree of more or less. It was formerly joined with different words, to limit its meaning; as, some deal, in some degree, to some amount: we now either say, a great deal, or u deal without an adjective; but this is commonly, if not always, ludicrous or contemptuous. 3. 4. When men's affections do frame their opinions, they are in defence of errour more earnest, a great deal, than, for the most part, sound believers in the maintenance of truth, apprehending according to the nature of that evidence Hooker. which scripture yieldeth. There is, indeed, store of matters, fitter and better a great deal for teachers to spend time and Hooker. labour in. To weep with them that weep doth ease some deal; But sorrow flouted at is double death. Shaksp. What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in! In scattering compliments, and tendering visits. Ben Jonson. The charge some deal thee haply honour may, That noble Dudone had while here he liv'd. Fairfax. Possibly some never so much as doubted of the safety of their spiritual estate; and, if so, they have so much the more reason, a great deal, to doubt of it. South. The author, who knew that such a design as this could not be carried on without a great deal of artifice and sophistry, has puzzled and perAddison. plexed his cause. [from the verb To deal.] The art or practice of dealing cards. How can the muse her aid impart, Unskill'd in all the terms of art? Swift. Or in harmonious numbers put The deal, the shuffle, and the cut? [dey!, Dutch.] Fir-wood, or the wood of pines. I have also found, that a piece of deal, far thicker than one would easily imagine, being purposely interposed betwixt my eye placed in a room, and the clearer daylight, was not only somewhat transparent,bat appeared quite through a lovely red. Boyle on Colours. To DEAL. v. a. [deelen, Dutch.] 1. To distribute; to dispose to different persons. Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the poor that are cast out to thy house. Isaiab. One with a broken truncheon deals his blows. Dryden. His lifted arms around his head he throws, And deals in whistling air his empty blows. Dry. The business of mankind, in this life, being rather to act than to know, their portion of knowledge is dealt them accordingly. Addison. How Spain prepares her banners to unfold, And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold. Tickel. Had the great men of antiquity been possessed of the art of printing, they would have made an advantage of it, in dealing out their lectures to the publick. Addison. If you deal out great quantities of strong liquor to the mob, there will be many drunk. 2. To scatter; to throw about. Watts. Keep me from the vengeance of thy darts, Which Niobe's devoted issue felt, When hissing through the skies the feather'd deaths were dealt. Dryden. 3. To give gradually, or one after an True logick is not that noisy thing that de all in dispute, to which the former ages had de based it. Watts' Legui 7. To DEAL with. To treat in any manner; to use well or ill. Neither can the Irish, nor yet the Enth lords, think themselves wronged, nor hard dealt with, to have that which is none of the own given to them. Spenser': Irani Who then shall guide His people? who defend? Will they not de Worse with his followers, than with him they dealt? If a man would have his conscience d clearly with him, he must deal severclyd that. South's Sermons God did not only exercise this providence wards his own people, but he dealt these with other nations. But I will deal the more civilly with his poems, because nothing ill is to be spoken t dead. Dryin You wrote to me with the freedom of a friend, dealing plainly with me in the matter of own trifles. P Reflect on the merits of the cause, as wel of the men, who have been thus dealt with ba Swit their country. 8. To DEAL with. To contend with. If she hated me, I should know what past to deal with. Gentlemen were commanded to remain in the country, to govern the people, easy to be a with whilst they stand in fear. Hayward Then you upbraid me; I am pleas'd to see You 're not so perfect, but can fail like me: I have no God to deal with. TO DEALBATE. v. a. [dealbs, Lat. To whiten; to bleach. DEALBA'TION. n. s. [dealbatio, Latin] The act of bleaching or whitening: rendering things white which were Da so before a word in little use. All seed is white in viviparous animals, such as have preparing vessels, wherein ceives a manifold dealbation. Br DEALER. 7. S. [from To deal.] 1. One that has to do with any thing. I find it common with these small dele wit and learning, to give themselves a title tr their first adventure. 2. A trader or trafficker. Where fraud is permitted and connived at, the honest dealer is always undone, and the k gets the advantage. Gulliver's Tren 3. A person who deals the cards. DEALING. 7. s. [from To deal.] 1. Practice; action. Concerning the dealings of men who nister government, and onto whom the exc tion of that law belongeth, they have their ang who sitteth in heaven. H What these are, But this was neither one pope's fault, mor prince's destiny: he must write a story để th empire, that means to tell of all their g in this kind. 12. Intercourse. - It were to be wished, that men wall pro mote the happiness of one another, in li tist private dealings among those who le their influence. 3. Measure of treatment; mode in whica one treats another. DEA God's gracious dealings with men are the aids and auxiliaries necessary to us in the pursuit of Hammond. piety. 4. Traffick; business. The doctor must needs die rich; he had great Swift. dealings in his way for many years. DEAMBULA'TION. n. s. [deambulatio, Latin.] The act of walking abroad. DEAMBULATORY. adj. [deambulo, Lat] Relating to the practice of walking abroad. DEAN. n. s. [decanus, Latin; doyen, Fr. From the Greek word dixa; in English, ten; because he was anciently set over ten canons or prebendaries at least in some cathedral church. Ayliffe.] The second dignitary of a diocese. As there are two foundations of cathedral churches in England, the old and the new (the new are those which Henry VIII. upon suppression of abbeys transformed from abbot or prior and convent, to dean and chapter), so there are two means of creating these deans; for those of the old foundation are brought to their dignity much like bishops, the king first sending out his congé d'elire to the chapter, the chapter then chusing, and the bishop confirming them, and giving his mandate to instal them. Those of the new foundation are, by a shorter course, installed by virtue of the king's letters patent, without either election or confirmation. This word is also applied to divers, that are chief of certain peculiar churches or chapels; as the dean of the king's chapel, the dean of the Arches, the dean of St. George's chapel at Windsor, and the dean of Bocking in Essex. Cowell. The dean and canons, or prehends, of cathedral churches, were of great use in the church; they were not only to be of counsel with the bishop for his revenue, but chiefly for government in causes ecclesiastical. Use your best means to prefer such to those places who are fit for that purpose. DEANERY. n. s. [from dean.] 7. The office of a dean. Bacon. He could no longer keep the deanery of the Clarendon. chapel-royal. e. The revenue of a dean. Put both deans in one; or, if that's too much trouble, Instead of the deans make the deanery double. . The house of a dean. Swift. Take her by the hand, away with her to the deanery, and dispatch it quickly. DE'ANSHIP. n. s. [from dean.] fice and rank of a dean. DEAR. adj. [deor, Saxon.] . Beloved; favourite; darling. Your brother Glo'ster hates you. -Oh! no: he loves me, and he holds me dear. Shakspeare. The dear, dear name she bathes in flowing tears; Hangs o'er the tomb. Addison. And the last joy was dearer than the rest. Pope. .. Valuable; of a high price; costly. What made directors cheat, the South-sea year? To feed on ven'son when it sold so dear. Pope. :. Scarce; not plentiful: as, a dear year. . It seems to be sometimes used in Shakspeare for deer; sad; hateful; grievous. What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies, And strain what other means is left unto us Some dear cause Timen. Will in concealment wrap me up a-while: That kiss I carried from thee, dear; and my true lip Go, dear; each minute does new danger bring. See, my dear, Shakspeare. Dryden. How lavish nature has adorn'd the year. Dry. DE'ARBOUGHT. adj. [dear and bought.] Purchased at a high price. O fleeting joys Of Paradise! dearbought with lasting woe. Milt. Such dearbought blessings happen ev'ry day, Because we know not for what things to pray. Dryden. Forget not what my ransom cost, Nor let my dearbought soul be lost. Roscommon. DE'ARLING. n. s. [now written darling.] Favourite. They do feed on nectar, heavenly-wise, With Hercules and Hebe, and the rest Of Venus' dearlings, through her bounty blest. Spenser. DE'ARLY. adv. [from dear.] 1. With great fondness. For the unquestionable virtues of her person and mind, he loved her dearly. 2. At a high price. Wotton. Bacon. It is rarely bought, and then also bought dearly enough with such a fine. Turnus shall dearly pay for faith forsworn; And corps, and swords, and shields, on Tyber Dryden. born. My father dotes: and let him still dote on; He buys his mistress dearly with his throne. Dryden. To DEARN. v. a. [dynnan, Sax. to hide.] To mend clothes. See DARN. DE'ARNESS. n. s. [from dear.] 1. Fondness; kindness; love. My brother holds you well, and in dearness of heart hath hoped to effect your ensuing marShakspeare. riage. The whole senate dedicated an altar to Friendship, as to a goddess, in respect of the great dearness of friendship between them two. Bacon. He who hates his neighbour mortally, and wisely too, must profess all the dearness of friendship, with readiness to serve him. South. 2. Scarcity; high price. Landlords prohibit tenants from plowing, which is seen in the dearness of corn. DE'ARNLY, adv. [deopn, Sax.] cretly; privately; unseen. |