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Show AI Anr'ap. adv. [from 2 and head. tha onwar 1. Farthe fe another And now the mighty Centaur {e2ms to lead And now the fpeedy Dolphin gets abead Dryden's Aneid 2. Headlong; precipitantly : ufed of animals, and figuratively of men It is mightily the fault of parents, guardians governours man that f me mif carry. They fuffer them at firfk to run abead and, when perverfe inclinations are advanced int _habits, there is no dealing with them LEfirange's Fables AgE1GHT. adv. [from a an Aloft ; on high height. But have I fall'n or no ? -From the dread fummit of this chalky bourne Look up abeight, the fhrill-gorg'd lark fo fa Cannot be feen or heard Shakefp. King Lear AHOUA'L ». /. The name of a poifonous plunt o AID. . a. [aider, Fr. from adjutare Lat.] To help; to fupport; to fuc rom g i Alone he enter' The mortal gate out th' city, which he painte With fhunlefs deftiny: aidlefs came off And, with a fudden re-enforcement, ftruc Corioli, like a planet Shake[p. Coriclanys He had me Already, ere my beft fpeed could prevent The aidlefs innocent lady, his with'd prey Milton's Comus ATGULET. n. /. [aigulgt; Fr.] A poin with tags; points of gold at the en of fringes It all above befprinkled was throughou With golden aigulets that glifter'd bright Was hemm'd with golden fringes. = Fairy Queen 7o AIL. @, a. [eglan, Sax. to be trouble fome. 1. To pain victuals, weapons, money, or fhips Maccabees, viiis 26 By the loud trumpet, which our courage aids We learn that found as well as fenfe perfuades Rofcomman Arp. a. /. [from 70 aid. 1. Help fupport The memory of ufeful things may receive confiderable aid, if they are thrown into verfe Watrs's Improvement of the Mind Your patrimonial ftores in peace pofefs Undoubted all your filial claim confefs Your private right fhould impious power invade The peers of Ithaca would arm in aid. Pope's Od 2. The perfon that gives help or fupport a helper; auxiliary Thou haft faid, it is not good tha ma an to trouble ; to give pain faid unt her, what aileth thee, Ha the lad where he is 2. It is ufe called to Hagar out o for God hat hear the voice o Geén. xx1. 17 in a fenfe lefs determinate for to affef in any manner as, fome thing ails me that I cannot fit f}ill 5 awha ails the man that be laughs awithout reaSon Love fmiled, and thus faid, Want joined t defire is unhappy; but if he nought do defire what can Heraclitus ai/ Sidney ‘What ails me, that I cannot lofe thy thought Command the emprefs hither to be brought I, in her death, fhall fome diverfion find Dryden's Tyrannick Love 3. To feel pain ; to be incommoded 4. It is remarkable, that this word i never ufed but with fome indefinit or the word nothing as, Wha fhoul ~ ails him? What does he a:il? He ail be alone; let us make unto him an aid, like unto | i i g t t i m m t S h ai n S ai Tobit, viii. 6 - himfelf him ; nothing ails him Thus we neve Great gids came in to him, partly upon miflives and partly voluntaries from many parts Bacon's Henry V11 3. In law A fubfidy. Aid is alfo particularly ufed, i _matter of pleading, for a petition made in court for the calling in of help from another, that hat " an intereft in the caufein queftion; and is like* wife both to give ftrength to the party that pray in aid of him, and alfo to avoid a prejudice ac. ‘cruing towards his own right, except it be prevented : as, when a tenant for term of life, courtefy, &c. being impleaded touching his eftate, h may pray in aid of him in the reverfion ; that is entreat the court, that he may be called in b . writ, to allege what he thinks good for the maintenance both of his rightand his own Covell AUDANCE. 7 /[ [from aid. port: a word little ufed Oft have I feen a timely parte Of afhy femblance, meagre, pale Being all defcended to the lab'rin clean.sh data import.tsv out README Who, in the confli& that it hold Help {up ghoft and bloodlefs heart with death . Attracts the fame for aidance'gaint the enemy Arpanrt adj [aidant helpful: not in ufe Shake[p. Hen. V1 Fr. Helping _ All you unpublifh'd virtues of the earth " Spring with my tears; be aidast and refiediat In the good man's diftrefs Shakep. King Lear fay, a fever a:/s him, or he ails a fever or ufe definite terms with this verb Axv. . /. [from the verb. A difeafe Or heal, O Narfes, thy obfcener ai/ AvLMENT eafe 2 /0 [from @il Pope Pain dif Little ailments oft attend the fair Not decent for a hufband's eye or ear. Granwille I am never ill, but I think of your ailments and repine that they mutually hinder our bein Swift's Letters together Arving. participial adj. [from To ail. Sickly ; full of complaints To AIM @. [Iti derived by Skinne from efmer, to point at ; a wor whic I have not found. 1. To endeavour to ftrike with a miffiv weapon ; to dire& towards; with th particle az Aim'ft thou at princes, all amaz'd they faid The laft of games Fairy Dueen Another kind there is, which although we de fire for itfelf ledge as health, an neverthelef the ar virtue no an know the lat mar awkereat We aim, but have their further end whereunto they are referred Hooker Swoln with applaufe, and aiming fill a¢ more He now provokes the fea-gods from the fhore Dryden's Aineid Religion tends to the eafe and pleafure, th peace and tranquillity of our minds, which al the wifdom of the world did always ainmt at, as th utmoft felicity of this life T illotfor 3. To guefs 70 Aim. w. a. 'To dire& the miflile wea pon ; more particularly taken for th alt of pointing the weapon by the eye before its difmiflion from the hand And proud Ideus, Priam's charioteer ‘Who fhakes his empty reins, and aims hi {pear air Dryden A1M. #. /. [from the verb. 1. The direftion of 'a miffile weapon Afcanius, young and eager of his game Soon bent his bow, uncertain of his ain But the dire fiend the fatal arrow guides Which pierc'd his bowels through his pantin fides Dryden, Zn. vii. 1. 691 2. The point to which the thing thrown i dire&ed That arrows fled not fwifter toward their ain Than did our foldiers, aiming at their fafety Fly from the field Shakefp. Henry 1V. p. il 3. In a figurativ fenfe fcheme; an intention a purpofe a defign He trufted to have equall'd the Moft High If he oppos'd : and, with ambitious aim Againft the throne and monarchy of Go Rais'd impious war Milt. Par. Lof}, b. 1. L. 41 But {ee how oft ambitious aims are croft Pope And chiefs contend till 2l the prizeis loft 4. The objeét of a defign; the thing afte And rid my thoughts at once of woman-kind term Such grace now to be happy is before ¢ Like twinkling ftars, and all the fkirt abou gar? fear not . Fairy Qucen ¥rom drowning Neither- fhall they give any thing unto the that make war upon them, or a4id them wit ) Helplefs ; unfup ported; undefended heaven Into the lake he leapt, his lord to aid And of him catching hold, him ftrongly ftai 1 g feparable particle. And the angel of Go cour Tenu Bacon's Henry VII. AUDLESS. adj. [from aid and Jefs, an in term tutors, an the ad do aim, rich to be mad Pope's Ody/fey 2. To point the view, or dire& the ftep towards any thing; to tend towards to endeavour to reach or obtain: wit to formerly, now only with az Lo, here the world is blifs; fo here the'en which any one endeavours The fafeft wa is to fuppofe that the epiftl has but one aim, till, by a frequent perufal of it you are forced to fee there are diftin¢t independen Locke's Effay on St. Paul's Epiftics parts 5. Conjeture ; guefs I is impoffible b aim to tell it fo and experience and knowledge thereof,I do not thin that there was ever any of the particulars thereof Spenfer on Ireland There is a hiftory in all men's lives Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd The which obferv'd, a man may prophef S All along as he went, were punifhe herents and aiders of the late rebels To which all me With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their feed And weak beginnings lie intreafured Shakefp. Henry 1V AIR. #. /. [air, Fr. aer, Lat. the terra 1. The element encompaflin queous globe IfT were to tell what I mean by the word.air I may fay, it is that fine matter which we breath in and breathe out continually5 or it is that thi fluid body, in which the birds fly, a little sabov the earth; or it is that invifible matter, whic fills all place near the earth, or whic immedi ately encompafles the globe of earth and water Watts's Logick 2, The fat of th air; or the air con fidered with regard to health be man Ther d appea good and healthful airs, tha by habitatio an othe proofs thn differ not in fmell from other airs Bacon's Natural Hiffory, No gog 3. Air in motion ; a {mall gentle wind Frefh gales, and gentle zirs Whifperd it to the woods, and from their wing Flung rofe, flung odours from the fpicy thru Difporting H Miltor's Paradife Loff, boviilale 51 Bu Pfalm xxxv. 21 Ar'DER. 2 f. [from aid.] He that bring aid or help; a helper; an ally me They opened their- mouth wide againf and faid, aba ! abal our eye hath feen it Arlt IR A T |
