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Show M MI T had rather go with fir prieft than fir knight I care not who knows fo much of my mertle Shake[peare's Tawelfth Night Upon this heavinefs of the king's forces, interp cte to be fear an want of mcrtle, divers re fort:d to the feditious Hayward's Edward V1 He had given fo frequent teftimony of figna courage in feveral adions, that his mert/e was neve Clarendon fufpected >Tis more to guide than fpur the mufe's fleed Reftrain his fury, than provoke his fpeed The winged courier, likea gen'rous horfe Shows moft true mettle when you check his courfe Pope 2. Subftance : this at leaft fhould be #eral Oh thou ! whofe {elf-fame mettlc ‘Whereof thy proud child, arrogant man is puft Engenders the black toad, and adder blue Slh'?klj[b[{"‘t' Me‘TTLED. adj. [from metile.] Spritely courageous ; full of ardour; full of fire Such a light and meta/l'd danc Ben Fonfon Saw you never Nor would you find it eafy to compof Thesmettled eeds, when from their noftrils flow The fcorching fire that in their entrails glows Addfon MEe'TTLESOME. adf. [from meitle.] Spritely lively gay brifk airy Their force differs from true fpirit, as much a Tatler a vicious from a mettlefome horfe MEe'TTLESOMELY. adv [fro Jome.] With fpritelinefs MEew. z. /. [mue, French. 1. cage an inclofure a place wher There then fhe does transform to monftruous hues And horribly mif-fhapes with ugly fights Captiv'd eternally in iron mews dens, wher Tita his face neve Spenfer Her lofty hand would of itfelf refuf To touch the dainty needle or nice thread She hated chambers clofets, fecret mewws A fea-fowl Among the firft fort we recko Yngs coots, fander and meawes Careaw. The veflel fticks, and thews her open'd fide And on her fhatter'd maft the mews in triump ride Zo MEwW. @. a. [from the noun. t. To thut up to 1nclofe Dryden to confine ; to imprifon Moul ; He in dark corners mew'd you fears which, as the fay atten The fteps of wrong, then move you to mezv u Your tender kinfiman Shakefpeare's King Fobn Fair Hermia, queftion your defires Know of your youth, examine well your blocd ‘Whether if you yield not to your father's choice You can endure the livery of a nun For aye to be in fhady cloifter new'd ‘To live a barren fifter all your life Chanting faint hymns to the cold, fruitlefs moon Shakefp More pity that the eagle fhould be mezw'd While kites and buzzards prey at liberty Walton his beams from off hi mez' lamp Cleaweland And majefly defac'd the royal ftamp time Nin Shakefp Feign them fick Clofe mezv'd in their fedans, for fear of air Dryden's Fuv Itis not pofiible to keep a young gentleman fro vice by a total ignorance of it, unlefs you will al his life mezo him up in a clofet, and neyer let hi g0 Into company Locke a moon had mew'd her horns th lengt With travel weary, unfupply'd with ftrength And with the burden of her womb oppreit Dryden Sabean fields afford her needful reft 'To cry as a cat 3. [Miauler, French. Let Hercules himfelf do what he may The cat will mew, the dog will have his day Shake[peare They are not improveable beyond their ow genius : a dog will never learn to mew, nor a ca Grew to bark o MiwL. v. #. [miauler, French. T {quall as a child Meze'REON A f{pecies of fpurg In humble dales is footing faft 'I‘hc;l trode is not fo tickle And though one fall through hee Yet is his mifs not micki gardens, an im ou is commo S;:;,&:(BS Many a little makes a mickle. Camdpp, Rafl"f[ If I to-day don't die with Frenchmen rm: To-morrow I fhall die with mickle age sa[? O, mickle is the pow'rful grace, that fies In plants, herbs, ftones, and their trye qualitie All this tra& that fronts the falling fup Sbah"'}‘ A noble peer, of mickle truft and power - Has in his charge M Microco'sm. z. [ [uz®. and xa,,,@ The little world Man is fo called; being imagined, by fome fancify] phi lofophers, to have in him fome analogous to the four elements You fee this in the map of my microcofm, Sba},f? fhe's dead, when thou knyy this Thou know'ft how lame a creeple this world i o theAlps and Pyrenean mountains: every part o this fhrub is acrid and pungent, and inflames th Dot lawrel Mezereo In Scotland j¢ pn This reade is rife that oftentim Great cumbers fall unfoft She, the is dead Shakefpeare #. / great. Oblolete nounced muckle She to whom this world muft itfelf refer As fuburbs, or the microcofm of her The infan Mewling and puking in the nurfe's arms Hcats l? iri'ts (;:Zt';‘c;:x'soc"i\:';'ts : s ;r(}i'garr ' So R'o pe's \,/i&or'o < ‘.g ; L uh:n‘ u}clnc}f 10 SLben All b i | - Al omn i ZZO.T]N:[O [Italmn' n. / A kin of graving, {o named as nearly refem- bling paint, the word importing half world littl refem'r'xling in miniature everyw;to the great; and the body natural may be conyard to the body politick So painted : It is done by beating the whole | M1'crROGRAPHY. . /0 [uixpic and yade The defcription of the parts of fu into afperity with a hammer, and the very {mall obje&s as are difcernatk rubbing it down with a ftone to the only with a microfcope refemblance intended Meyw~r. adv. Mingled The honey bag is the ftomach, which they 4 Obfolete ways fill to fatisfy and to fpare, vomitingupt greater part of the honey to be kept againt winte The falt Medway, that trickling ftream Adown the dales of Kent Tl with the elder brother Thame Spenfer's Paftcrals a curious defcription and figare of the ftingfe I\'Er'\ I'I"Ol"s""'-‘"mg‘""'f"".) , Gresuls Mujfl'fl M1 asm. 7. /. [from pahe, inquino, to | MUCROSCOPE. #. /. [uix@-andaussi infe@.] Such particles or atoms as are | 7écrofcope, French.] -An optick i {uppofe to arife from diftempered, pu trefying, or poifonous bodies, an affeét people at a diftance t The plague is a malignant fever, caufed throug peftilential miafms infinuating.into the humoral an confiftent parts of the body. Harvey on Confumptions Micke, the plural of moufe Mice that mar the land 1 Sam. vie § MASS. n. /i [Michacl and mafs.] MicHA'E Th Mutter''d of matter Btter as thei eir books them f}llcz:hli ' )(}u Mutte Wh their feathers The fun hat His brackifh waves be meynt And in broad fields preferv'd her maidenhead Fairfax 2. [Mzp, Saxon. I fhould difcourfe of hawks, and then treat o their ayries, meavings, cufting, and renovation o M Forth-coming from her darkfome mew Where fhe all day did hide her hated hew. Spenfer darkfom fhews feathers mettle any thing is confined An It is, I believe 2. To thed the feathers ufed in this fenfe, becaufe birds are, b clofe confinement, brought to fhed thei fiery courageous MEE feal o th archange Michael celebrated on the twenty-ninth of Sep tem Ba They compounde to furnifh ten oxen afte\r MiCarew chaclmals to_r thirty pounds price 7o MICHE vered ; t s lie hid T b fecre o loiterer #. / wh [fro Hanmer fkulk miche. abou i laz corner and by-places, and keeps out of fight a hedge-creeper Mich ox mick is fill retained in the cant Janguag for an indolent, lazy fellow 1t is ufed in the weftern counties for a truant boy Ho tenderly her tender hands betwee Inivory cage the did the micker bind Sidney Shail the bleffed fon of heav'n prove a micher and eat blaci berries? a queftion not to be afked Shall the fon of England prove a thief, an take purfes ? a queftion to be afked MrckLE. adj. [micel, Saxon. obj=&s which could not otherwif feen If the eye were fo acute as to tival th.c micrefecpes, and to difcern the fmalleft hairvs the leg of a gnat, it would be a curfe, and no bleffing to us; it would make all f;hifgsp:ll Shakefp Much i To8gedP and deformed; ; thed mo h cryffe woul ownwouldfelvesbe e ou ow felve ‘woul finel figh fi th us; thefmo affrigh ‘affh all over with ragged feale befe b wou fki - B;nth bri,fl‘ly h;\l.rs_ 4 The critick eye, that "{'"‘ffi‘fpcbo bv,"t‘ 'Dmuid Sees ha,n-s and pores,exaz.nmCa bi co- | MrcrO'METER Marry this is miching malicho ; it means mifchief Shakefp Micuer ment, contrived various ways o g to the eye a large appearance of ma micrometre 2. / French. fuing A by bl . ?n %[;'en e a f a f u a m t v r n c Microsco'picaL. } adj. [from Microsco PICK cope. 1. Made by a mxcm(‘cope.nsonh Make microfecpical obfervati bulk of the conftituent parts of ail fluids Arb z. Aflifted by a microfcope Evading even the n{itroj'}?pic e)'eb Full nature {warms with life. ~ Tk mfgfl's SW 3. Refembling a microfcope Why has not man a micrgfcopick €5 ? For this plain reafon, Man is not a fly Say what the ufe, were finer opticks gl"::;;\,fi T infpeét a mite, not comprehend th |
