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Turm, P. R. iv. 66. a troop; a word coined from the

Latin turma

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Unapparent, P.L. vii. 103. obscure, not visible

Uncouth, odd, strange, unusual; from the Saxon_uncud, unknown

Understood, P. L. i. 662. not exprefled, not openly de

clared, and yet implied; as when we say that a fubftantive or verb is understood in a sentence Uneffential, P. L. ii. 439. void of real being Unexpreffive, unutterable, ineffable, not to be expreffed

Unfum'd, P. L. v. 349. not burnt, and exhaling smoke as in fumigations, but with its natural scent Unifon, P. L. vii. 599. founding alone

Unprevented, P. L. iii. 231. not preceded by any thing Unremov'd, P. L. iv. 987. for immoveable, not capable of being removed

Unweeting, ignorant, unknowing

Unwifer, P. L. iv. 716, not fo wife as one should have been

To ufe, P. To haunt or frequent

Uxorious, fubmiffively fond of a wife, infected with

connubial dotage

V

Van, a wing with which the air is beaten

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Vant-brafs, or Vant-brace, S. A. 1121. armour for the

arms

Various, varied with divers fculptures and paintings,

P. L. vi. 84.; variegated, diversified, P. L. vii. 318 To vcer, P. L. ix. 515. to turn about

Vernant, P. L. x. 679. flourishing as in the spring
Viands, food, meat dreffed

Vigil, P. R. i. 182. watch; devotions performed in

the customary hours of reft; songs fung while the angels kept watch

Foid, P. L. iii. 12. destitute of any formed being, void as the earth was when first created. It commonly fignifies emptiness; but it cannot be so understood here; for chaos is described as full of matter Volant, P. L. xi. 561. nimble, active

Vollied, P. L. iv. 928. disploded, discharged with a -volley

Voluble, rolling, having a quick motion

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To wallow, P. L. vii. 411. to move heavily and clumfily

War, P. L. xii. 214. forces, army

Ware, P. L. ix. 353. wary, cautious

To warp, P. L. i. 341, to turn, to work forward; a fca term

Wafailer, a toper, a drunkard. Mr Johnson gives

this account of the origin of the word. Hail or bçil

for health was in fuch continual ufe among the good fellows of ancient times, that a drinker was called a was-heiler, or a wisher of health; and the liquor was termed was-heil, because health was fo often wished over it. These words were afterwards corrupted into wassail and wassailer. Mifcel. Obf. on Macbeth, p. 41.

To wattle, P. to bind with twigs; to form, by platting twigs one within another

To ween, to think, to imagine, to fancy
To weet, to know, to be informed
Welkin, the firmament or sky

Weftering, P. drawing towards the west

Whilome, P. formerly, once, of old

Whift, P. ftill, filent. It is commonly used as an interjection commanding filence. And hence it is fuppofed the game of Whift hath its name, as it requires close attention and filence

Wight, a perfon, a being

Wifard, P. a wife man, an inchanter, a conjurer
Within, P. L. i. 725. xi. 470. (an adverb), inwardly
To won, P. L. vii. 457. to live, to dwell, to inhabit
To worse, P. L. vi. 440. to put to disadvantage
To wrack, P. L. ii. 182. to rock, to shake

To wrench, S. to force, to wrest

To writhe, to distort, P. L. x. 569; to twist with vios lence, P. L. vi. 328.

Y

'Ycleaped, P. called, named, termed


Zenith, the point over head opposite to the nadir
Zephyr, the west wind

Zodiac, a great circle of the sphere, containing the
twelve figns

Zone, a girdle, P. L. v. 281.; a division of the earth,

P. L. ii. 397.; circuit, circumference, P. L. v. 560.

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