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Show S My mother's bloo Runs on the dexter cheek, and this fuiffe Bounds in my fire's. Shakefp. Troilus and Creffida Captain Spurioy with his cicatrice, an emble of war, here on hi niffer cheek Shakefpeare's All's well that ends avell But a rib Crooked by nature, beat,as no appears Milton More to the part finiffer from me drawn The fpleen is unjuitly ‘inrm.duced to invigorat thefinyierfide, whic‘n., being dilated, would rathe Brownjs Ku/gar Errours ipfirm and debilitate i In his ffniffér hand, inftead of ball He plac'd a mighty mug of potentale Dryden corrupt ; deviatin , Bad ; perverfe from honefty; unfair Is it fo ftrange a matter to find a good thing furpurpofe thered by ill men of a finiffer intent an whofe forwardnefs is not therefore a bridle to fuc as favour the fame caufe with a better and fincer Hooker meaning The duke of Clarence was foon after by /finiffe " Spenfer on Ireland means made clean away " When are there more unworthy men chofen t offices, whe is ther mor firif an contentio do partial and finiffer af about ele€tions, or whe . fe@ions more utter themfelves, than when an elecWhitgifte tion:is committed to many He profefles to have received no finiffer meafur ' from his judge, but moft willingly humbles himfelf to the determination of juftice Shakefpeare's Meafure for Meafure . Thofe may be accounted the left hands of courts perfons that are full of nimble and finiffer trick and thifts; whereby they pervert the plain courfe of courts, and bring juftice into oblique lines an Bacor's Effays labyrinths Thejuft perfon has given the world an aflurance by the conftant tenor of his pradice, that he make a confcience of his ways, and that he fcorns to undermine another's intereft by any finiffer or infeSouth Tior arts Unlucky ; inauf1 3« [ finiftre, French. s picious. The accent is here on the fecond fyllable . Tempt it again; that is thy aét, or none What all the feveral ills that vifit earth Brought forth by night with a finiffer birth The fword, nor furfeits, let thy fury do. B. Fonf SINISTROUS. 4dj. [ finifter, Latin.] Abperverfe; wrong-headed in Fr gauche A knfxve or fool ca do no harm, even by th moft finifirous and abfurd choice Bentley SINISTROUSLY. adw. [from finiftrous. 814 "l\/dnh a tendency to the left any in their infancy are Siniftroufly difpofe and divers continue all their life left-handed, anc' have_but weak and imperfeét ufe of the right Brown's Vulgar Errours 2. Perverfely; abfurdly 10SINK. v, 7. pret, I funk, anciently fank " PAtG funk or funken Jenken, German. [rencan Saxon » 1. To fall down through any medium; n %0 fwim; to go to the bottom As rich with prize As s the oozy bottom of the fe o With funken wreck and fumiefs treafuries Shakefpeare's Henry V In with the river funk, and with it rof atan, involy'd in rifing mift; then fough IV{Vherg to_lie hid Milton's Paradife Loft e fwims, or finks, or wades, or creeps, or flie A Milton he pirate finks with his ill-gotten gains nothing to another's ufe remains ly Eu" Dryden uppofing feveral in a tempeft will rather perif 2 :" Work, would it not be madnefs in the reft t e e‘;ofi';k together, rather than do more tha 6. 'To bring low; to diminith in quantity 2. To fall gradually Th arrow went out at his heart, and he fun down in his chariot 2 Kings, 1% 24 3. To enter or penetrate into any body David took a ftone aad flang it, and fmote th Philiftine, that the ftone fuk into his forchead 1 Sam. xVils 49 4. To lofe height ; to fall to a leyel In vain has nature form' Mountains and oceans to oppofe his paffage The Alps and Pyrencans fink before him Addifon's Cato 5. To lofe or want prominence What were his marks ?-- lean cheek, a blu eye and funken Shakefpeare's As you like it Deep dinted wrinkles on her cheeks fhe draws Sunk are ber eyes, and toothlefs are her jaws. Dryd 6. To be overwhelmed or deprefled Our country finks beneath the yoke It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gaft Shakefp. Macbeth Is added to her wounds They arraign'd fhall fin Bencath thy fentence Milton But if you this ambitious.pray'r deny Then let me fink beneath proud Arcite's arm And, I once dead, let him poflefs her charms Dryden 7. To be received ; to be imprefled Let thefe fayings fink down into your ears Luke, ix. 44 Truth never finks into thefe men' gives any tinéture to them 8. To decline; to decreafe minds, no Locke to decay Then down the precipice of time it goes And finks in minutes which in ages rofe. Dryden This republick has been much more powerfu than it is at prefent, as it is ftill likelier to fink tha increaf Addifon on Italy in its dominions Let not the fire fink or flacken, but increafe Mortimer 9. To fall into reft or indolence Addifor on the FVar to tend to ruin Nor urg'd the labours of my lord in vain A finking empire longer to fuftaine Dryden's Zn to difable fro A fmall fleet of Englith made an hoftile invafion or incurfion upon their havens and roads, an fired, funk, and carried away ten thoufand ton o Bacon their great thipping 2. To delve; to make by delving A field fpac iré Saga in Germany they dig up iron in th by finking ditches two feet deep, and in th of ten years the ditches are digged again fo Boyle fince produced Near Geneva are quarries of freeftone, that ru under the lake : when the water is at loweft, the make within the borders of it a little fquare, inclofed within four walls: in this fquare they fink Addifon pit, and dig for freeftone to degrade 3. To deprefs A mighty kingI am, an earthly god 1 raife or fink, imprifon, or fet free Prio And life or death depends on my decree Trifling painters or fculptors beftow infinit pains upon the moft infignificant parts of a figure till they fink the grandeur of the whole Pope's Effay sn Homer 4. To plunge into deftruction Tha prefle will no a hero He@or was in certainty of death, and dewith the confcience of an ill caufe: if yo grant the firft of thefe will /ink the fpirit o you'll at leaft aliow the fecond may. Pope They catch at all opportunities of ruining ou trade, and finking the figure which we make Addifon on'the War T mean not that we fhould fink our figure out o covetuoufnefs ; and deny ourfelves the proper conveniences of our flation, only that we may lay up a Rogers fuperfluous treafure g. To make to decline Thy cruel and unnatural luft of powe Has funk thy father more than all his years RowesAnd made him wither in a green old age To labour for a funk corrupted ftate. Lyttleton 10. To fupprefs; to conceal ; tointervert If fent with ready money to buy any thing, an you happen to be out of pocket, fink the money and take up the goods on account Savift's Rules to Scrvantss SiNk. z /. [yinc, Saxon. 1. A drain; a jakes Should by the cormorant belly be reftrain'd Shakefp. Coriolanus Who is the fink o' th' body Bad humours gather to a bile; or, as divers kennels flow to one fink, fo in fhort time their num Hayward bers increafed Gather more filth than any firk in town Granville Returning home at night, you'll find the fin Strike your offended fenfe with double ftink Sawift 2. Any place where corruption is gathered. And, ifI have a confcience, let it /ink me Ev'n as the ax falls, ifI be not faithful Shak Thefe are fo far from raifing mountains, tha they overturn and fling down fome before ftanding and undermine others, finking them into the abyfs Wodward. wretches of loft minds, after change, and defperate in their ftates Wearied and gall'd with their neceffities Ben Fonfon's Catilines Durft have thoughtit Our foul, whofe country's heav'n, and God he father Into this world, corruption's fink, is fent Yet fo muchin her travail the doth gather That {he returns home wifer than fhe went Donne. S1'NLEss. adj. [from fin. Exempt from in Led on, yet finkefs, with defire to kno Wha nearer might concern him At that tafted frui Milton The fun, as from Thyeftean banquet, turn' His courfe intended ; elfe how had the worl Inhabited, though fialefs, more than no Avoided pinching cold, and fcorching heat? Milt Infernal ghofts and hellifh furies roun Environ'd thee; fome howl'd, fome yell'd, fom ihriek'd Some bent at thee their fiery darts, while tho Sat'ft unappal'd in calm and finlefs peace.. Milton No thoughts like mine his fin/efs foul profane Obfervant of the right Diryden's Ovid Did God, indeed, infift on a fin/efs and unerrin obfervance of all this multiplicity of duties; ha the Chriftian difpenfation provided no remedy fo our lapfes, we might cry out with Balaam, Alas Ragers who fhould live, if God did this S1'NLESSNESs. z /. [from finlefs.] Exemption from fin We may the lefs admire at his gracious condefcenfions to thofe, the finlefnefs of whofe conditio will keep the Heav'n bear witnefs 5. To make to fall 7. To crufh ; to overbear ; to deprefs Ma Addifor's Cato 7o SINK. v. a 1. To put under water {wimming or floating You funk the river with repeated draughts Who was the la#t in all your hoft that thirfted Addifon What fink of monfters Wouldft thou have me fink awa In pleafing dreams, and lofe myfelf in love When every moment Cato's life 's at frake former When on the banks of an unlook'd-for ftream 8. To diminifh ; to degrade He bounds o'er all, vitorious in his march 10. To fall into any ftate worfe than th - Plagues, famine, fire, could not reach unto _furd SI fro turning his vouchfafement into any thing But occafions of joy and gratitude Boyle's Seraphick Love S1I'NNER. #. /. [from fin. 1. One at enmity with God ; one no truly or religioufly good Let the boldett finner take this one confideratio along with him, when he is going to_fin, that whe the - |