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Show A tion, ~addle.] To fhake, in walking from fide to fide ; to deviate in motio from a right line She eould have run and wadd/ed all 5 about. Th Mg‘bzw'f ftrutting petticoat fimooths an levels al diftin€tions; while I cannot but be troubled to fe ell-fhaped, innocent virgins bloated up and waddling up and down, lile big-bellied women Speator The farmer's goofe Grown fat with corn and fitting fill Can fcarce get o'er the barn-door fill Sawift Dulnefs, of bufinefs the direing foul To human heads like biafs to the bowl Which, as more pond'rous, makes their aim mor true Obliquely waddling to the mark in view Pope She drawls her words, and eaddks in her pace Unwatht her hands, and much befnufft her face Young Wanr. @. » [fro proncunced wadun. wadum Latin 1. To walk through the waters ; to paf water witheut fwimming We Il wade to the market-place in Frenchmen' blood Shake[peare She 2oaded through the dirt to pluck him off Shakefpeare I am in bloo Stept in fo far, that, thould I wade no more Returning were as tedious as go o'er Shake[peare's Macketh He ftaid feven days at the Craflus, until a bridg was made for the tranfporting of his army, fo that the river was not to be waded over Knolles's Hiftory of the Turks Then fince fortune's favours fade You that in her arms do fleep Learn to fwim, and not to zwade For the hearts of kings are deep. #7ottor's Poems ‘With head, hands, wings, or feet purfues his way An {wims, or finks, or wwades, or creeps, or flies Milton It is hard to wwadc deep in baths where fpring arife Brown Fowls that frequent waters, and only zoade, hav as well long legs as long necks ; and thofe that ar made for fwimming have feet like oars More's Diwvine Dialogues 2. 'To pafs difficultly and laborioufly They were not permitted to enter into war, no concludz any league of peace, nor toewade throug any a&t of moment between them and foreig ftates, unlefs the oracle of God or his prophets were firft confulted with Hooker I have waded through the whole caufe, fearchin the truth by the caufes of truth Hooker Virtue gives herfelf light, through darknefs fo Spenfer to wade Occafions you have met with to excite your faculties to zwade a little farther into the pofitive par Hammond of thefe doétrines I fhould chufe rather with fpitting and fcorn t be tumbled into the duft in blood, bearing witnef to any known truth of our Lord; than, by denial of thofe truths, through blood and perjur evade to a fceptre, and' lord it in a throne. South *T'is not to my purpofe to wade into thofe bottomlefs controverfies, whigh, like a gulph, hav {wallowed up fo much time of learned men Decay of Picty The dam Now tried the ftairs, and wading through the night Search'd all the decp recefs, and ufher'd into light Simonides, the more he contemplated the na- | WA 'FTER., n. /. [from waft.]: A Pfifl'gane ture of the Deity, found that he waded but th bo2at Bfworth i more out of his depth, and that he loft himfel /[ [from waft,] '{‘.he al fon Add the thought of waving Wa'rer. #. /. [wafel, Dutch. 1. A thin cake Wife, makeusadinner ; fpare flefh, neithercorn Make wafers and cakes, for our fheepe muft b Tuffer thorne Poor Sancho they perfuaded that he enjoyed great dominion, and then gave him nothing to fubPope it upon but wafers and marmalade Dryden The wrathful God then plunges from above . And where in thickeft waves the fparkles drove There lights, and wwades through fumes, and grope his way Half-fing'd, half-ftifled Dryden i'e king's admirable condu hasawaded throug ~all thefe difficultics Dawvenant Romanifts Z diftin¢t but continu and hav a Nor dares his tranfport-vefiel crofs the waves Thou canft not wag thy finger, or begi The leaft light motion, but it tends to fin, Dryd So have I feen in black and white A prating thing, a magpye hight Majeftically ftalk A ftately, worthlefs animal That plies the tongue, and wwags the tail, All flutter, pride, and talk Swift Zo Wac v. 2 1. To be in quick or ludicrous motion Be merry, be merry, my wife has all For women are threws, both fhort and tall *Tis merry in hall, where beards wag all. Shakfp Trembie and ftart at wagging of a firaw. Shakefp, I will fight with him upon this theme Until my eyelids will no longer wag. Shak. Hamlet 2. To go mak float to hinde from finking Whether cripples, who have loft their thighs will not fink but float; their lungs being able t aaft up their bodies, which are in others overpoife by the hinder legs, we have not made experiment Brown's Vulgar Errours 3. To beckon ; to inform by a fign of an thing moving To Wart. v. n. 'To Hoat It wafted nearer yet, and then the knew That what before fhe but furmis'd, was true. Dry Thofe trumpets his triumphant entry tell And now the fhouts waft near the citadel. Dryd WarT n [0 [from the verb. 1. A floating body I know not whethe authorifed From thebellowing eaft oft the whirlwind's win Sweeps up the burthen of whele wintry plains In one wide waff? Thomfon's Winter 2. Motion of a ftreamer. Ufed as a toke or mean of information at fea Wa'FTaGE. 7. /. [from waf?.] Carriag by water or air. Not in ufe What fhip of Epidamnum ftays for me -A fhip you fent me to, to hire waftage Shak I ftalk about her door Like a ftrange foul upon the Stygian banks Staying for awaftage Shake[p. Troilus and Creffida to pack off I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag, Shak WacG t I can counterfeit the deep tragedian Lend to this wretch your hand, andevaft him o'e To the fiveet banks of yon forbidden fhore. Dryd From hence might firft fpring that opinion o buoy lightly; t Lamentations, ij. 1 5 3. To be moved 2. T mov as well forbid the mountain pine With fuch whofe bones are not compos'd in graves A hundred years they wander on the fhore At length, their penance done, are wwafted o'er Dryden the vehicles of fpirits 5 the vulgar conceiving tha the breath was that wherein the foul was th}f ay and carried away They before wafted over their troops into Sicil in open veffels Arbutbnot on Coins In vain you tell your parting lover You wifh fair winds may evaft him over Alas ! what winds can happy prove That bear me far from what I love Prior Speed the foft intercourfe from foul to foul Pope And awaft a figh from Indus to the pole T Saxon S Wag S All that pafs hifs and wag their hcadsa::'%}i: A braver choice of dauntlefs fpirits Than now the Englifh bottoms have ewaft o'er Did never float upon the fwelling tide. ~ Shakefp Our high admira Shall ewaft them over with our royal fleet. Shak Thence wafted with a merry gale Drayton Sees Leinfter, and the golden vale [pagian When they are fretted with the gufts of hea;'n agreeable to a man's body, it doth exceed reafon Hall water a To awag their high tops, and to make a noif orde 3. Pafte made to clofe letters To WAFT. @v. a. preter. awafted, or perhaps awaft; participle paflive wafred or waft. [probably from awawve. 1. To carry through the air, or on th v You ma thoufand places at once; that the whole bod fhould lie hid in a little thin wwafer, yet fo tha the members thereof fhould not one run into another Wac gen, Dutch. fhake flightly be in That the fame body of Chrift fhoul Not in ufe You anfwer'd not But with an angry wafiure of your han _Gave fign for me to leave you. Shak, Juliu Cefar 2. The bread given in the eucharift by th And hardly waddles forth to coo Her belly in the neighb'ring pool 9 WA W A Her charms fhe mutter'd o'er And yet the refty fieve wagg'd ne'er the more Dryden's Theocritus I wept for woe n J [peegan Saxon Any one Iudicroufl merry droll to cheat. mifchievous; Cupid the 7vag, that lately conquer'd ha Wife counfellors, ftout captains puiffant And tied them faft to lead his triumphs bad Glutted with them, now plays with meaneft things Sidne Was not my lord the verier aag o' th' two Shakefpeare We wink at evags when they oftend And fpare the boy, in hopes the man may mend Dryden A counfellor never pleade without a piece _o twif t ufe h whic hand hi i packthrea about a finger all the while he was fpeaking: th vags ufed to call it the thread of his dlfcourfe;xq WacGE . / th plura 15 now aage a r G e a a o n g w [ e u l o gages, French. 1. Pay given for fervice All friends fhall taft The wwages of their virtue, and all foe l: L: n K e a S g i The CUPbOf their defer ar e t n m m f i The laft petitio pooreft e 1 But poverty could neve e t i p l d g w i th That they may hav Shatefp And fomethin{; over to rcmenb)bfzr me He with'a mighty ‘wllfgt‘ ag De du pl de a oa b e Won fuch, themfel By Tom Thumb, a fairy page He fent it, and doth him engag By promife of a mighty wageé; bid Draytons ij':{ olur It fecretly to carry "Fhe thing itfelf is not only our duty, , h:': r w th n d t h w gh glory: an the very work partly received his 'wagA{{- /wm 7 ¢ thi )4 2. ‘Gage; pledge (i) t t m l o h [ a w E c W T word, which is now only "‘ phra |