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Show Fairy Queen De'woror. #. /. [dew and drop.] A dro of dew which fparkles at fun-rife I muft go feek fome dezvodrops here And hang a pearl in every cowllip's ear Shakefp An hof Innumerable as the ftars of night Or ftars of morning, dewdrops, which the fu Impearls on ev'ry leafy and ev'ry flower Milton Reft, fwget as dewdrops on the flow'ry lawns " When the fky opens, and the morning dawns Tickell Dre'wrar th 1. Th n. f. [from lapping or lickin dtw flefh that hang throat of oxen down from th - Large rowles of fat about his fhoulders flung And from his neck the double dezv/ap hung. Add 2. It is'ufed in Shakefpeare for a lip flacci with age, in contempt And fometimes Turk T in a gofiip's bowl In very likenefs of a roafted crab And when fhe drinks againft her lips I bob And on the wither'd dezvlap pour the ale. '~ Shak De‘'wrarT odj [from. dewlap. Fur . nithed with dewlaps Who would believe that there were mountaineer Dewlapt like bulls, whofe throats had hanging a ‘e Wallets of flefh Shake[peare The dezvlapt bull now chafes along the plain While burning love ferments in ev'ry vein, Gay Dr'w-worM. 7. /. [from dew and worm. A worm found in dew For the trout, the dezv wworm, which fome cal the lob worm, and the brandling, are the chief Dz'wy. adj. [from dew. Walton From the earth a dewy mif ‘Went up, and water'd all the ground, and eac Plant of the field DMilron Where two adverfe winds Sublim'd from deavy vapours in mid fky Engage with horrid thock, the ruffied brin Roais frormy Phillips 2. Moift with dew ; rofcid The joyous day gan early to appear An fair Aurora from her dezwy be Of aged Tithone 'gan herfels to rear With rofy cheeks, for fhame as blufhing red. Spenf The bee with honied thigh That at her flow'ry work doth fing And the waters murmuring With fuch confort as they keep Milton Entice the dewy feather'd fleep His dewy locks diftill' Milton Ambrofia Bzfides the fuccour which celd Ancien yields Dryden The.rocks of Hergicus and dewwy fields no DE'XTER. adj. [Latin.] the right the left. A term ufed in heraidry #. /. [dexteritas, Lat. 1. Readinefs of limbs ; a@ivity; readinef to attain fkill 5 fkill; expertnefs expedient 5 fkill of management His wifdom, by often evading from perils, wa turned rather into a dexterity to deliver himfel they preffed him, than into providence to prevent and remove them afar off Bacon They attempted to be lenaves, but wanted ar and dexterity The fame Proteftant mak South may, by their desteriry themfelves the national religion, and difpof the church-revenues among their paftors Fo Svvi D1'apEmED. adj. [from diadegz the lance coul both their dextrous hand with a diadem; crown Wicld. ful z. Expert in management; fubtle of expedients Her prieftlefls mufe forbids the good t whic adj l a_philofophica whof diadroms foot one third of 2 pendulumf in the latitude of forty-five dé - grees, are each equal to one fecond o o time o fixtieth of a minute As for any tunicles or {kins, which fhould hmd:' the liver from enabling the dextral parts, we mui not conceive it diffufeth its virtue by mere irradiation, but by its veins and proper veffels Brown's Vulgar Errours S Locke Diz'rEsIS. 2. f. [&aiemg. The fepara tion or disjunctignof fyllables; as gy Diascno'stick Th z [&a'ywéazw o fymptom by which a difeafe is diy guifhed from others ftate of being on the right, not the left 1 fhall lay down fome indifputable marlks of this fide If there wer A gry is one tenth of a line, a line one tent an inch, an inch one tenth of aphiléfophifa?; goi DexTrALITY. #. /. [from dextral. any motion is- performed; th vibration Th right ; not the left % s time in which a pendulum performs it The magiftrate fometimes cannot do his ow office dexteroufly, but by aéting the minifter. South But then my ftudy was to cog the dice Dryden And dext'roufly to throw the lucky fice Dr'xtrAL gie And opes the temple of etem‘i-t'g Tl Pop D1'aprom. 2. /. [&age?[u'w. The time i Dr'xTEROUSLY. adwv. [from dexterous. Expertly; fkilfully; artfully Latin fhrine ,They confine themfelves, and are dexterous managers enough of the wares and produéts of tha corner with which they content themfelves. Locke [dexter Adonae ' Not fo, when dizdem'd wit rays divine Touch'd with the flame that breaks from fléfi Pope vice, that whenever we fee the tokens, we ma conclude the plague is in the houfe :-let us hea your diagngflicks Collier on Pride a determinate prepotency in th right, and fuch as arifeth from a conftant root i nature, we might expeé the f{ame in other ani One of our phyficians proved difappointed of b prognofticks, or rather diagnofficks Harvey on Confumptions mals, whofe parts ate alfo differenced by dextrality Brown's Vulgar Errours Diaer'res. #. [. [Mabdinc.] A. morbi D A G N L ad ] Reachin copioufnefs of urine; a fatal colliqua- from one angle to another, fo asto di tion by the urinary paflages An increafe of that fecretion may accompany th general colliquations; as in fluxes, heic fweat and coughs; diabeies, and other confumptions Derbam's Phyfico-Theclogy pious ; atrocious ; nefarious ; pertain ing to the devil This, in other beafts obferv'd Doubt might beget of diabolick pow'r Aétive within, beyond the fenfe of brute Milton Does not the ambitious, the envious and %th revengeful man know very well, that the thirft o blood, and affetation of dominion by violence an oppreflion; is a molt diabolical outrage upon th laws of God and Nature L'Eftrange The practice of lying is a diabolical excrcife, an they that ufe it are the devil's children Ray Damned fpirits muft needs be all envy, defpair and rage; and have fo much of a diabolical natur in them, as to wifh all men to fhare their mifery Atterbury DIACO'DIUM fi [3‘&:4;5:5(3\501'. rup of poppics Diaco'usrics. z f doétrine of founds a. / Th [dansging. fy Th [diadema, Latin. 1. A tiara; an enfign of royalty boun about the head of eaftern monarchs The facred diadem in pieces rent And purple robe gored withumany a wound Stenfer To keep the hair out of their eyes Sawift 2. The mark of royalty worn on the head bee mor properl place upo Golden in fhew, is but a wreath of thorns Brings dangers, troubles, cares, and flecplefs nights T6 him who wears the regal diadem ‘Why thould he ravifh then that dizde Milton From your grey temples, which thé hand of tim Denbam the disgoral movers Brown's Valgar Errours All forts of ftone compofed of granules, will cu and rive in any direGion, as well in 2 perpendicular, of in a diaganal, as horizontally and parallelt ‘ the fide of the ftrata i T Woodward Dia'conar.n /i [from the adje@ive.] line drawn from angle to angle, and di viding a fquare into equal parts Whe a ma has in"his mind the idea of tw Dia'coNaLLy. adv. [from diagonal.] I a diagonal direétion. 3 The right and left are. not defined by philofo phers according to common. acceptation, that.is refpe@ively from one man unto another, or any conftant fite in each, as though that fhould be.th right in one, which, upon confront or facing, fl‘aq athwart or diagonally unto the other; but were diftinguithed according unto their acivity, and predominant locomotion, on the either fide Brown's Vulgar Errourss Di'aGraM #. /o [(S‘taéfygd]u‘ua.] A delmea tion of geometrical figures ; a mathe matical {cheme n the mathematicks ; very .fpecxou demonfiratioi in the diagram, but failing in the mecham;)k ?5 r [ / Bentley diagf_?dim) gd t w d m e i a r p n r S Lat dium 1 rydet ' fi _ m d an e g a a e li v t t g c thef ‘a te et ap . an o t e r p o e t their prope le an tr o e t e o p h th o o plainly as we k % a c a e b t g o u m h g?:n choleric l a o t a s t t w x m by diagrydiates or rhubarb powde lines, viz. the fide and diagonal of a fquare, whereo the diagonal is an inch long, he may have the ide alfo of the divifion of that line into aicertain numLocit ber of equal parts. and circles A crown and with fome difadvantage; the fhortnefs bein fixed unto the legs of one fide, that might have Why do not thefe perfons make a diagram o That princes wear, derives from them Muft fhortly plant on his The monftrofity of the ba&ger'is‘ill-contrived ration From whence 'tis plain the diader the crown vide a parallelogram into eqtal parts Many a fair precept in poetry is like a feemio A lift the coblers' temples ties 2. Readinefls of contrivance ; quicknefs o from dangers, whe manual employment at an _a@tive ; ready : as, a dexterous workman DI"ADEM WMty mother's bloo uns on the dewter cheek, and this finifte Bounds in my fire's Shaksfpeare DEXTERITY 1. Exper adj. [from diabolus, LaDraBo'nicaL tin.] Devilifh; partakDiasofrick ing of the qualities of the devil; im- 1. Refembling dew ; partaking of dew Fation, that once made And ftopt our prince in hi trium Fled like a mift before this radi De'xTEROUS. adj. [dexter, Latin. _Upon his crefted fealp fo fore did fmite That to the fcull a yawning wound it made D |