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Show E The wemen wowve hangings for the grove 2 Kings, %Xills 7 Dido receiv'd his eweathberbeaten troops The old vearherbeate hand the Roman eagle WEeA'THERBOARD, o Dryden's Virgil foldier carries in hi Addifon Weatherbow There our fecret thoughts unfee Like nets be weav'd and intertwin'd Wherewith we catch other's mind n. / As fnow and gold together had been wrought Dryden Thefe purple vefts were weaw'd byDardar dames Dryden Dan Pope, for thy misfortune griev'd top of fet on th coc With kind concern and {kill has weav' {pire, which by turning fhows the poin from which the wind blows A filken web, and ne'er fhall fad Kkingfithe hange Sidney by the bill convertin of natural weathercocks When religion was wowen into the civil government, and flourifhed under the proteétion of th emperors, men's thoughts and difcourfes were ful of fecular affairs ; but, in the three firft centurie of chriftianity, men who embraced this religio had given up all their interefts in this world, an lived in a perpetual preparation for the next. Add Brown 2. Any thing fickle or inconftant Where had you this pretty wearhercock & -- cannot tell what his name is my hufband had hi of Shakefpears He break my promife and abfolve my vow ‘The word which I have given fhall ftand like fate Not like the king's, that weathercock of ftate Dryden WEeA'THERDRIVEN part ftorms or contrary winds Force Philip, during his voyage toward weatherdriven into Weymouth Spain b 3. To interpofe ; to infert The duke be here to-night! the better ! beft This weawes itfelf perforce into my bufinefs. Shak 7o Weave. v, 2. To work with a loom WEeAVER. 7. /. [fromaveawve.] One wh makes threads into cloth Upon thefe taxations The clothiers all, not able to maintai wa "The many to them 'longing, have put of Careqv's Surwey of Cornwall The fpinfters, carders, fullers, weawers Shake[p. Henry V1L My days are {wifter than a weawer's fhuttle, an WEATHERGAGE. 7./. [weather and gage. Any thing that thews the weather To vere and tack, and fteer a cauf Againft the weathergage of laws Hudibras WEATHERGLASS #. / glafs. I. A barometer weight of the air [weathe a glafs that thew Arbuthnot We fhall hardly wifh for a perpetual equinox t charge of aearberglaffes 5 for the tw equinoxes of our year are the moft windy and tempeftuous A fith WEB. . /. [pebba, Saxon. Ainfworth 1. Texture ; any thing woven Penelope, for her Ulyifes' fake In which the work that fhe all day did make The fame at night fhe did again unreave. Spezifer Staid at gate Dryden And heard within the goddefie elevat 7. /. [weather and /py. an aftrologer ; on A voice divine, as at her web fhe wrought Subtle, and glorious, and paft earthly thought Chapman tha foretels the weather And fooner may a gulling weatherfpy By drawing forth heav'n's fcheme, tell certainl What fathion'd hats, or ruffs, or fuits, next yea Our giddy-headed antick youth will wear. Donne Spiders touch'd, feek their wed's inmoft part Dawie By day the 2g<b and loom And homely houfehold tafk, fhall be her doom Dryden The fates, when they this happy wweb have fpun Shall blefs the facred clue, and bid it fmoothly run WEeATHERWISE, adj. [weatherand wife. Skilful in foretelling the weather WEeA'THERWISER. 7 /. [weather, an wifen, Datch, to fhow. Any thing that forefhows the weather Some part ofa fivord Dryden Obfolete The fword, whereof the web was freel Moft vegetables expand their flowers and dow in warm fun-thiny weather, and again clofe the Pommel, rich ftone; hilt, gold approv'd by touch toward the evening, or in rain, as isin the flower 3. A kind of dufky film that hinders th of pimpernel, the opening and fhutting of whic are the countryman's weatheravifer Derbam's Phyfico-Theokgy 7o WEAVE. «. a. preterite wove, weaved; part. pafl, wowven, weawved Saxon; wewen, Dutch. [peran 1. To form by texture ; to form by infert- ing one part of the materials withi another Here in her hair "The painter plays the fpider, and hath wowven A golden mefh to intrap the hearts of me Fafter than gnats in cobwebs Shakefpeare. Fairfax fight; fuffufion This is the foul flibertigibbet; he gives the awe and the pin, fquints the eye, and makes the hairlip Shakefpeare WEe'BBED. adj. [from aveb. a film Joined b Such as are whole-footed, or whofe toes ar webbed together, their legs are generally fhort, th moft convenient fize for fwimming Derbant's Phyfico-T beology WEe'BFOOTED. adj. [web and foot.] Palmipedous ; having films between th toes land, nor fear to enter the water Ray zn‘gg:fi?f WE'BSTER. 7. /. [pebyene, Saxon, 2 Woman-weaver. A weaver Obfolet Afterlocal names, the moft in number haye be derived from occupations; as, Taylor, w, bfier Wheeler 7o WED Camdé}; w. 4. [pedian, Saxon. 1. Tomarry ; to take for hufband op wife If one by one you wedded all the world Or, from the all that are, took fomething'g To make a perfeé woman 5 fhe you kil' I {aw thee firft, and wedded thee, adorn' With all perfection, fo inflame my fenfes, My Chloe, blind to wit and worth Weds the rich dulnefs of fome fon of earth 2. 'To join in marriage P ope In Syracufa was I was born, and ae Unto a woman happy but for me Skakefseare Then I fhall be no more And Adam, wedded to another Eve Shall live with her Miltor's Paradife L The woman in us fill profecutes a deceit lik that begun in the garden; and our underfianding are awedded to an Eve, as fatal as the mother o their miferies Glarwille 3. To unite for ever Affli&ion is enamour'd of thy parts And thou art wedded to calamity 4. To take for ever Shakefpe Ranteq and Fuligs Though the principal men of the houfe of commons were again eleéted to ferve in this paliament yet they were far from wedding the war, or taking themfelves to be concerned to make good an declaration made by the former The caufe pofitively an Clarendon concernedly evedded hi Clarendom 5. To unite by love or fondnefs Me to their lufts, and refolve are wedde upon a wicked courfe; and {o it becomes their intereft to with there were no God. Zillotfor's Serm 7o WED w. 7 'To contra& matrimony ‘When I thall wed That lord whofe hand fhall take my plight, ffial car Half my )Iove with him, half my care and duty Shakefpeare Devis'd a web her wooers to deceiv As in fome weatberglafs my love I hold ‘Which falls or rifes with the heat or cold A ftar-gazer WEAVERFISH. 2. /o [araneus pifcis, Lat. Lefs ufed I will be conftant yet Dryden Goes on to fee, and knows not to retire Bentley's Sermons 2. A thermometer WEeA'THERSPY And fanguine ftreamers feem the flood to fir The weawer, charm'd with what his loom defign'd th his fpirits rofe and fell with the weatberglafs fave th Fob, vii. 6 are fpent without hope The weawer may caft religion upon what loo he pleafe How Her flag aloft fpreads ruffling to the wind an John's tempes depended very much upon the air Prior "2. 'T'o unite by intermixture the breaft to that point of the horizon from whenc the wind doth blow, is a very {trange introducin Webfooted fowls do'mot live confia nt ‘Would be unparallel'd Shakefpears Never did thy beauty, fince the da Its colours; gently has he lai The mantle o'er thy fad diftref And Venus fhall the texture blefs But, alas! the fun keeps his light, though th faith be darkened ; the rocks ftand ill, thoug thou change like a weathercock Carew White feem'd her robes, yet zwowen fo they were In the fea language, that fide of a fhi that is to the windward Dittionary WEeA'THERCOCK. 7. /o [weather an cock. 1. An artificia WE E To love, to wed For Hymen's rites, and for the marriage bed Sucklin You were ordain'd Nor took I Guifcard, by blind fancy led, Or hafty choice, as many women wed Dryden But with deliberate care WE DDING. 7. /i [from wed.] Marriage nuptials ; the nuptial ceremony Come, away For you fhall hence upon your wedding-daye Shak ing aed you a m pl ea an c da wil . Shakefpeare Let her beauty be her wedding dower Sdr not em eft fh ons eff pof m For me an Whe chamber m fon wa entered into his weddin he fell down and died 2 E[dras, %+ 1 ]:l 'ea fha e agr bill nt co thr Thef Mort o l Bi un Gr dre chi fou e du pr din Elis frjends were invited to come and make mer= fffe mged th b t w th a m h ry wit L Eftrange l } o f If fhe affi s s P t o c i wed the ceremony of going aloneinto the den, al:S'?l)W an hour with the lion k a A w bo WeDpGE 7. / [wegges Danilbs wig Dutch % g a fl n v h h i w I. X bo]d continually growing thicker, 1 cleave timber ; oné o p owers We #" |