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Show VA Think not, when woman's tranfien fled That all her wanities at once are dead Succeeding wanities fhe flill regards Put on wantbrafs, and greves, and gauntlet Milton breath i And though fhe plays no more, o'erlooks the cards VA'PID. adj. [vapidus, Latin.] Dead having the fpirit evaporated; {piritlefs maukith; flat Pope 6. Oftentation ; arrogance On the fat refufe; left, too foon disjoin'd From fpritely it to fharp or wapid change. Philips The effeéts of a wapid and vifcous conftitutio of blood, are ftagnation, acrimony, and putrefac pofiefled all thofe learned philofophers and poets that Plato alfo publifhed, not under the right authors' names, thofe things which he had read i the Scriptures; or fearing the feverity of the Areopagite, and th example of his mafter Socrates, Raleigh's Hiffory of the World cannot judge 7. Petty pride; pride exerted upon {ligh grounds ; pride operating upon {mal occafions Can you add guilt to wanity, and tak A pride to hear the conquefts which you make Dryden ‘That wanity 's the food of fools Yetnow and then your men of wi ‘Will condefcend to take a bit. Swwift's Mifcell T he corruption of the world indulges women i great wanity ; and mankind feem to confider the in no other view, than as fo many painted idols that are to allure and gratify their paflions. Law 7o VA'NQUISH w. a.[wvaincre, French. 3. To conquer; to overcome ; to fubdue Were't not a thame, that, whilft you live at jar The fearful French, whom you late wanguifbed Should make a ftart o'er feas, and wanguifb you Shake[peare They fubduied and wanguifbed the rebels in all enClarendon counters The gods the victor, Cato the wangui/b'd chofe But you have done what Cato could not do To chufe the wanguif'd, and reftore him too Dryden 2. To confute This bold affertion has been fully wanguifped in late reply to the bithop of Meaux's treatife Va'nquisuer #. F. Atterbury [ from wanquifb. Congueror ; {ubduer He would pawn his fortune To hopelefs reftitntion, fo he migh Be call'd your wanquifber Shakefpeare I fhall rife vi¢torious, and fubdu My wanguifber5 {poil'd of his yaunted fpoil, Milt Troy's wanquifbery and great Achilles' fon A. Philips Va'ntace 2 [from advantage. 1. Gain ; profit What great wantage do we get by the trade of paftor 2. Superiority; ftate in whic Va'pipnEess Sidney one hat better means of altion than anpther With the wantage of mine own excufe Hath he excepted moft againft my love. Shakefp He had them at wantage, being tired and harafled with a long march Bacon The pardoned perfon muft not think to ftan upon the fame wantage of ground with the innocent South 3. Opportunity ; convenience Be affur'd, Madam, 'twill be done With his next wantage. - Shake[peare's Cymbeline To VaA'NTAGE, w. a. [from advantage. To profit. Not in ufe We yet of prefent peril be afraid For needlefs fear did never wantage none Spenfer Va'w18rass. n. [ [avant bras, Fr.] Armour for the arm 1']L hide my filver beard in a gold beaver And in my vantbrace put this wither'd brawn Shakz[peare Th wapid. [fro n / ftate of bein maukifhnefs fpiritlel o maukifh Varora'rion, . [, [wvaporation, Fr. vaThe aét o poratio, Lat, from wapour. efcaping in vapours Va'PoRER. 2 /. [from wapour.] A boafter a braggart This fhews thefe waporers, to what fcorn they exGovernment of the Tongue pofe themfelves Va'rorisH 1 >Tis an old maxim in the fchools Arbuthnot tion adj [from wapour. the nature of the wapourif fro Sandys place humourfome 2. Splenetick; peevith Pallas grew wap'rifh once and 6dd She would not do the leaft right thing. = Pope Va'rorous. adj. [vaporenx, Fr. from wapour. 1. Full of vapours or exhalations ; fumy The waporous night approaches Shake[peare This 1hifting our abode from the warmer an more waporous air of the vallies, to the colder an more fubtile air of the hills, is a great benefit t the valetudinarian part Derban 2. Windy ; flatulent If the mother eat muc beans, or fuch waporou food, it endangereth the child to become lunatick Bacon Some more fubtile corporeal element may f equally bear againft the parts of a little waporou moifture, as to form it into round drops More againft Atbeifin The food which is moft waporous and perfpirable is the moft eafily digefted Arbutbnot A little tube, jetting out from the extremity o an artery, may carry off thefe waporous fteams o the blood Cheyne VA'POUR u. /. [wapeuar, French; wapor Latin. 1. Any thing exhalable mingles with the air any thing tha Jove a dreadful ftorm call'd fort Againft our navy; covered fhore and al With gloomy wapours Chapman Vapour, and mift, and exhalation hot Milton When firft the fun too pow'rful beams difplays It draws up wapours which obfcure its rays But ev'n thofe clouds at laft adorn its way Refleét new glories, and augment the day 2. Fume Pope fteam be taken oft; the wapour which afcends out of th ftill will take fire at the flame of a candle, and th the wapour fro to the fill the candl Neaton's Opticks For the impofthume, the vapour of vinegar, an any thing which creates a cough, are proper Arbuthnot on Diet 3. Wind i 'kerm:,l,fmf,"nde; 5. [ In the plural.] Difeafes canfe b flatulence; or by difeafed nerves; pochondriacal maladies ; melancholy {pleen To this we muft afcribe the fpleen£, frequ n in ftudious men, as ‘well as the wapours, t oh the other fex are {o often fubjet. P_ddd;fim?;‘;';:;; To Va'Pour v. n. [vaporo, Latin, 1. To pafsin a vapour or fume in evaporations to fly of When thou from this world wilt go The whole world wapours in thy breath Donne 2. To emit fumes Swift runnin ftanding waters water wapour not fo much 2 Bacon's Natural Hiflor] Not true ? quoth he. Howe'er you wapour I can what I'affirm make appear Hudibygs Thefe are all the mighty pow'r You vainly boaft, to cry down ours And what in real value 's wanting Supply with wapouring and ranting Hudibras That I might not be wapour'd down by infignificant teftimonies, I ufed the name of your fociet to annihilate all fuch arguments Glanwilles Be you to us but kind Let Dutchmen wapour, Spaniards curfe, No forrow we thall find. E. Dorfer's Song 7o Va'pour. w.a. To effufe, or fcatte in fumes or vapour Break off this laft lamenting kifs Which fucks two fouls, and wapours both away Donne He 'd Taugh to fee one throw his heart away Another fighing wapous forth his foul A third to melt himfelf in tears Ben Fonfon Opium lofeth fome of its poifonous quality, i wapoured out, and mingled with fpirit of wine. Bacon It muft be holpen by fomewhat which may fi the filver, never to be reftored whe or wapsured away incorporated into fuch a mafs of gold Bacon VA'RIABLE adj bilis, Latin, inconftant [wariable, Fr. waris ~Changeable ; mutable flatulence In the Theflalian witches, and the meetings o witches that have been recorded, great wonder they tell, of carrying in the air, transformin themfelves into other bodies Thefe fables are th cffets of imagination: for ointments, if laid o any thing thick, by ftopping of the pores, fhut i the vapours, and fend them to the head extremely Bacon O fivear not by th' inconftant moon That monthly changes in her circled orb Lef that thy love prove likewife variabl. Sbakefp Haply countries different With .wariable objeéts, fhall expe "This fomething fetiled matter in his heart. Shak By the lively image of other creatures did thof ancients reprefent the wariable paffions of mortals as by ferpents were fignified decciver Raleigh's Hiffory of the Warld His heart I know how wariable, and vain The morning is the beft, becaufe the imaginatio is not clouded by the wapours of meat Dryden In diftilling hot fpirits, if the head of the fil flame will run alon If his forrow bring forth amen the grace of hope, though it be cloy ment, he hat de ove wit melancholy wapour, that it be not difeepn 3. To bully; to brag Vaporous; full of vapours It proceede 4. Mental fume; vain ima inatio ; unreal i fanc to himfelf Thy wines let feed a-whil The ground-work thereof is true, however they through wanity, whilft they would not feem to b ignorant, do thereupcn build many forged hiftorie Spenfer of their own antiquity Whether it were out of the fame wanity whic VA Milton's Paradife Lif Self-left VA'RIABLENESS VA [from wariable 7 1. Changeablenefs ; mutability You are not folicitous about the wariablenefs o Addifo the weather, or the change of feafons 2. Levity ; inconftancy Cenfurer fubje@t themfelve wariablenefs in judgment Va'r1ABLY adv Clariffa [ fro Changeably; mutably uncertainly to the charge o wariable. inconflantly Va'R1ANCE. #. /. [from wary.] Difeord; difagreement ; diffention hi n!' aga vari#nc a ma fe t I am com w th Mu father t courfe e of2 law, by violen u c iel 3 Was, from a wariance, now a war becomes Da Sc |
