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Show WO Wo'NDERSTRUCK Sfrike. an [ wonde adj Amazed Afcanius, wwonderffruck to fe That image of his filial piety. ~ Dryden's Aneid WO 'NDER-WORKING. adj. [from wonde and working.] One that does furprifin things Wo'nbprous. ‘adj. [This is contradte from awonderous, of wonder. 1. Admirable ; marvellous ; firange; fur prifing The credit of whofe virtue reft with thee Wondrous indeed, if caufe of fuch efteéts. Milios. In fuch charities the pafs'd the day *Twas ond'rous how fhe found an hour to pray Dryden Refearches into the fprings of natural bodies and their metions, fhould awaken us to admire th wondrons widdom of our Creator in all the work " of nature Watts 2. [Wondrou adverb. is barbaroufly ufed for a In a ftrange degree Q From that part where Mofes remembereth th giants, begotten by the fons of good men upon th daughters of the wicked, did- they fteal thof quondrous great acts of their ancient kings an powerful giants Raleigh There is a place deep, wwondrous deep, below Which genuine night and horrours do o'crflow C.'/‘L'U;'C_y To fhun th' allurement is not har ‘To mindg refolv'd, forewarn'd, and well prepar'd But zvondrous difficult, when once befet ‘To ftruggle through the ftraits, and break th' involving net Dryden You are {o beautiful So zvondrous fair, you juftify rebellion Dryden Sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place Pope Wo'~NpRrOUSLY. @dv. [from avondrous. 1. To a firange degree My lord led wondroufly to difcontent Shakefp This made Proferpin Make to them the greater fpeed For fear that they too much fhould bleed Which avendroufly her troubled Drayton Such do&rines in the pidgeon houfe were :aught ¥ou need not afk. how wondronfly they wrought Dryden Of injur'd fame, and mighty wrongs receiv'd Cloe complains, and ewendroufly °s aggriev'd Granuville 2. In a ftrange manner Then medicines zvoundroufly compos'd the fkilChapman full leech applyed 0o WonT {w. # [preterite and parti 20 be Won'r. § "ciple avont 5 punian gewoonen, Dutch. Sax To be accaftomed to ufe ;3 to be ufed A yearly folemn feaft fhe awont to make The day that firft doth lead the year around Spenfer Through power of that, his cunning thieverie He wonts to work, that none the fame efpies Spenfer Jafon the Theffalian was wont to fay, that fom things muft be done unjuftly, that many thing anay be done juftly Bacon 1 this night have dream'd If dream'd, not as I oft am wont, of thee But of offence and trouble. Milton's Paradife Lof The eagle's fate and mine are one Which on the fhaft that made him di Efpy'd a feather of his own ‘Wherewith he zwont to foar fo high Wallr For others that he faw perplexed about the ma nage of their difficult affairs, he was wwonr to af them, when they would begin to truft God, or per mit him to govern the world Fell A mother was wont al sto indulge her daughters, whe any of them defire but then they muft keep the fquirrels or birds well Locke. W0 Another fort of fophifm is awont to be celled a imperfe enumeratio or falfe induétion whe from a few experiments ‘men infer general theorems Watts's Logick WONT 2. / [from the verb. habit ; ufe Cuftom Out of ufe Paffing their time according to their wpont, the waited for the coming of Phalantus Sidney ‘Things natural in that regard forget their ordi nary natural awont, that which is heavy mountin fometime upwards of its own accord Hooker *Tis not his ewont to be the hindmof man ‘Whate'er occafion keeps him from us now. Shak. They are by fudden alarm or watchword to b called out to their military motions under {ky o covert, according ta the feafon, as was the Roma wont Milton Wo'n't A contra&ion of evorld not, ufe for a:ill not Wo'NTED part. adj Tfrom ‘the verb. Accuftomed ; ufed; ufnal: ufed both o perfons and things Her champion ftout, to ‘aid his riend Again his avonted weapon praved Spenfer So pray'd they, innocent, and to their thought Firm peace recover'd foon, and evonted calm. Milt. The pond-frog would fain have gotten the othe irog over; but {he was zuonted to the place, an would not remove L'Effrange Who have no houfe, fit round where once it was And with full eyes each wonted room require Haunting the yet warm athes of the place As murther'd men walk where they did expire Dryden Wo'NTEDNESS. 7. /. [from avonted.] Stat of being accuftomed to. Not in ufe Did I fee any thing more of Chrift in thofe tha preten to othe modes of government,I migh fufpedt my judgmen awontednefs of opinion Wo'NTLESS. adf biafle wit prejudice o King Charles [from awvent. cuftomed; unufual Unac- Obfolete Whither, love, wilt thou now carry me What ewontlefs fury doft thou now infpir Into my feeble breaft, when full of thee ? Spenfir 7o Woo. w. a. [apogod, courted, Saxon. 1. To court to {ue to for love thould be wao'd, and were not made to wao Skakefpeare Some lay in dead men's fkulls3 and in thofe hole Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept As *twere in {corn of eyes, refleing gems That 2wer'd to the fiimy bottom of the deep And mock'd the dead bones that lay fcatter'd by Shakefpeare Fancies and notions he purfues Which ne'er had being but in thought Each like the Grecian artift gwog The image he himfelf has wrought Prior My proud rival zwoo Another partner to his throne and bed Philips How is the loadftone, nature's fubtle pride By the rude ivon quso'd O and made a bride Cowley freteh thy reign, fair peace! from fhore t {hore Till conqueft ceafe, and flav'ry be no more Till the freed Indians in their native grove Reap their own fruits, and ewee their fable Joves Pope 2. 'To court folicitoufly; to invite wit impertunity Yet can fhe love a foreign emperor Whom of great worth and pow'r fhe hears to be If fhe be woo'd but by ambafiador Or but his letters or his pictures fee 5o while the virgin foul on earth doth ftay She woo'd and tempted is ten thoufand way By thefe great pow'rs which on the carth bea fway The wifdom of the world, wealth, pleafure, praife Sweet bird, that fhunn'#t the Oif Mot mufical, moft melancholy Thee, chauntrefs oft the wood T 2v0o to hear thy even-fong To Woo w.n Dawies "Tocourt With pomp, and trains and ina When‘true.felicity is but,in two Woob of fgny amon 2 "hf){fiy':; adj. [wods, Gothick 3 pod, Sa.xyon. awned, Dutch Mad; farious5 raging Obfolete Winds do rage as winds were wood And canfe fpring tides to raife great f pd, Coal-black fteeds yborn of hellih brood,"rl{ That on their rulty bits did champ as the wer wood Sperfe Calm the tempeft of his paffion woed Thebanks are overfiown when ftopped is the flond Spenfer WQOOD. . /. [pube, Sax. awond, D{;t,f 1. A large and thick colle@ion of trees The avood-born people fall before her flat And worfhip her as goddefs of the qwood Sperer St. Valentine ispaft Begin thefe 7vosd-birds but to couple now? Sha Thewwosds are ruthlefs, dreadful, deaf, anddull There fpeakand fivike Shak. Titus Andyonicys Light thickens, and the cro Makes wing to the rooky woods Shakelp, Mackeh Amongft his well-grown quosds the thag-hair'd fatyrs ftand Dratn Hecate, when fhe gave to rule the zeods Then led me trembling through thofe dire abodes Diydin 2. The fubftance of trees; timber Balm' his fou! head with war diftilled waters And burn fweet woad to make the lodging fiveet Shatefpeare The cavity of the tin plate was filled with melte cement, made of pitch, yofin, and wod athes, well incorporated Boyle Having filled it about five inches with through ly kindled qwood coals, we let it down into th glafs Boyle Of long growth there ftoo A laurel's trunk, a venerable wwosd. Dryden's Zit The foft ccood turners ufe commonly, Meso The fize of faggots and eed-facks differs Herrings muft be fmoked with evgod We cannot fight for love, as men may d W Child A plant # / WoopANE'MONE Martimer [ pubbind, Saxon Woo pBiND, ] 7 / Woo nriNE. § periclymenony Lat.] Ho neyfuckle Beatrice, ¢'en no .re efpe Sbal e rtu sov bin wee th i Couch' The nymphs of the mountains would be draii upon thel rofes heads garland of aveodbine and wil Peacha #. /i [Eobucoc, Saxon; /h Woo'pcock lepax, Latin. bird of paffage ws wn kn no i fo hi bil lo i is a word ludicroufly ufed for a dunce He hath bid me toa calve's head and 2 Q?Pot Shakgjpearc fhall I not find a wwaedeock 1a0 Scon as in doubtful day the avaofffork fllfs.n f} bear ewi hou t pre th pai nl cle He inf ;of io ot De / Woo'ppring m ras faf a ds wo fion of medicina The drinking elder-wine or aoaddrinks 3¢ Floyer-on the H'""fi'e ufeful Woo'pen. adj with wood [from woed. Sup opde \0 gvow.fcabd‘]"c': tha kinde al o fprin It malke The lord Strutts have been ._pofl'em'iti :'d' great landed eftate, well conditionedy "":4 hutbri watered Woo'pew adj, [from woed. 1. Ligneous; made of wood; "i‘:‘b" Like a firutting playery whofe ?3;";' Lics in his hamf@ring, he doth th T |