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Show P i o t u o p o n t o f e e p th e . e t I his own blunders, and miftakes the fenfe of thof Addifon he would confute Perfons labou wh unde rea g p a t r e th i n c a t of larger pia i d e t a m d n k b t g v th i h bir f e i u e o p f c f i l r f ye the other decay of nature, even mankind itfelf that is no h r e th b e u o p no g o t d nourith muft have degenerated in ftature and ftrength i y l n B o t r n g e e evils, will no vith conjectural ones. Clariffa puzzle themfelv point with native force of mind eac ng blunders farbehind, Young ce intricate; to entangle The ways of heaven are dark and intricate Puzziled in mazes, and perplex'd with error. Addif Thefe, as my guide informed me, were me wh ck it po le pu an s pe te l fub o ni cu wi do wi rea o pla th pl fu woul Tatler and avarice I did not indeed at firft imagine there was in i fuch a jargon of ideas, fuch an inconfiftency of notions a confufio fuc o 'Irt;g'a‘wg puzzle 'than conneé the fenfe, which in fom places he feems to have aimed aty as 1 found upo my nearer perufal of it g% Pu'zzLe one' v. n Addifor The fervant is a puzzling fool, that heeds noL Efrange thing Embar and while they are in the puzzle of bufinefs, the Pyra'mipar Pyrami‘picar PY'GMY. n. f. [pygmée, Fr. mvyuai®-. A dwarf; one of a nation fabled to b only three fpans high, and after lon wars to have been deftroyed by cranes Any thing little al ‘adj. [from pyramid. Having the form o a pyramid Of which fort likewife are the gems or ftones that are here fhot into cubes, into pyramidal forms Woeodward or into angular columns ing to a pygmy They, lefs than fmalleft dwarfs in narrow room Throng numberle(s like that pygmean rac Milton Beyond the Indian mount fir Dryden And hoods the flames Part of the ore is fhot into quadrilateral pyramids Woodward Men in great fortunes are ftrangers to themfelves Pu'zzLER. #. /. [from puzzle.] He wh puzzles Ainfworth Pycarc. #. /. A bird BelongPy'cMEAN. adj. [from pygmy. becauf mafter's court; rather make my country's hig my pyramids gibbet, and hang me up in chains Shakefpeare's Antony and Cleopatra An hollow cryftal pyramid he takes In firmamental waters dipt above Of it a broad extinguifher he makes own notions; to be aukward have no time to tend their health either of body o Bacor's Effays mind Know, Sir, that T will not wait pinion'd at you To be bewildered i Pu'zzLE. n./. [from the verb. raffment; perplexity Ir;g, fir fro ways afcends in the figure of a cone. A folid figure, whofe bafe is a polygon, and whofe fides are plain triangles their feveral points meeting in one Harris rathe tha particles w l T - e a [ / # u ' Pyr orifice of the ftomach c e F e i a y [ / # P The pyramidical idea of its flame, upon occafio Locke of the candles, is what is in queftion Pyrami'picaLLY. adv. [from pyramidical.] In form of a pyramid Olympus is the largeft, and therefore he make it the bafis upon which Offa ftands, that being th next to Olympus in magnitude, and Pelion bein I the leaft, ic place pyramidically above Offa, and thus they rif Broame's Notes on Odyffey« Py'ramis #./ A pyramid Thene forfor m of a pyramis in fla me, ; wh fee, is me.rcly by accident, andet'}xzhtc}? "f"\lfilan by quenching the fides of the flam Sataboy and extenuateth it into that form f;rcr;fl?% i lt.fel }mo e the efo an would be round figure of a pyramis veverfed; for the air 15 in th o the flame, and receiveth the fmoke qufl;]mh" YRE. 7. /[. [pyra, Latin burnt Ajileg b When his brave fon upon the fun He {a'w extended, and hi}; bcarg o:nfi;:[ o ( r; With tender billet-doux he lights the gy 200 And bre thes three am'rous fighs to raife tl:::fi; Pyri'res. 7./. [from ni.. Pope Firefion Pyrites contains {ulphur, fomet . al'ways iron, and fometimes 'copper. lme;yfl;n;:l; Diviea Y ROMANCY. 7. /. [W"eoy-awi tion by fire ina Divi Divination was invented by the Perfia feldom or never taken in a good fenfe:s;hzrja four kinds of divination, hydromancy, Py"ma,,{ acromancy gcomancy PyroTE'cHNICAL Ay[,flz{ ad) [p_yrmcbniqu; French; from pyrotechnicks.] Engage or {kilful in fireworks PYROTE'CHNICKS. #. [ [# an reypn.] The a&t of employing fire t ufe or pleafure ; the art of fireworks PyroTE'cuny n. [pyrosechnie, Fr The art of managing fire Great difcoveries have been made by the mean of pyrotechny and chymiftry, which in late age have attained to a greater height than formerly | Hale's Origin of Mavkind Py'rruONISM. # f. [fro founder of the fcepticks. univerfal doubt Pyx. #. /. [pyxis, Latin. which the Romanifts kee Pyrrho, th = Scepticilm The boxia the hoft Q QU Is a confonant borrowed from th Lati o FErench fo which e though 7 is commonly place in the Saxon alphabet, the Saxons generally ufed cp, cw ; as cpellan or cavel/an to quell gz is in Englith pro nounced as by the Italians and Spaniards cw; as guail, quench; excep guoit, whicth is fpoken, according t the manne name o French a O wit Quas. of th QU QU French coiz th this letter is cxe, from gueue tail; its form being that of a a tail /. [derived, by Skinuner, fro gobio, the Latin name. 7 QUACK A fort of fifh @. n. [guacker cry as a goofe. 1. To cry like a duck often writte Dutch t This word i guaake, to reprefent th found better Wild ducks guack where grafehoppers did fing King 2. To chatter boaftingly ; to brag loudly to talk oftentatioufly Believe mechanick virtuof Can raife them mountains in Potofi Seek out for plants with fignatures ‘To guack of univerfal cures Quack z. /. [from the ver¥. h 1. does not unde a e, fchool The chan quacks e e p o a i t o t make young fters of common fenfe before they, Can: PSS Felton on the Clafficks 2. A vai one wh lities i boa 1 h p publick places At the firf appearance that ¥re ‘ : ? { b u \ m h r f b } b in Pari fhrill voice, Hudibras ‘:3 fs with t of diftempers ;" to wh u t y f i c ve manner, ¢ T gr |