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Show E W E A barbarous troop of clownifh fon The honour of thefe noble boughs down threw Under the wedge I heard the trunk to groa‘g enfer " The fifth mechanical faculty is the 'wedge u/l-'c in the cleaving of wood. Wilkins's Math. Magick He left his awedge within the cloven oak Dryden's A neid The oak let many a heavy groan, when he wa cleft with a eedge of his own timber Arbutbnot's Hiftory of Fobn Bull 2. A mafs of metal As fparkles from the anvil us'd to fly When heavy hammers.on the aedge are fwaid Spenfer WhenI faw a goodly Babylonifh garment, and then I co auedge of gold of fifty fhekels weight veted them Fofb. vii 3. Any thing in the form ofa wedge In warlike mufters they appear In thombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings Milton 7o WepGE. @. a. [from the noun. 1. To cleave with a wedge My heart As wedged with a figh, would rive in twain 2. To drive as a wedge is driven Where have you been broiling ?~ -Among the crowd i' th' abbey, where a finge Shak. Henry VIIIL 3. To force as a wedge forces Par In common rang'd in figure wedge their way Intelligent of {eafons 4. To faften by wedges Milton's Paradife Loft Wedge on the keeneft {cythes A. Philips Your wit will not fo foon out as another man' will5 it is ftrongly wedged up in a blockhead Shakefpeare Sergefthus in the centaur foon he pafs'd Wedg'd in the rocky fhoals and fticking faft, Dryd What impulfe can be propagated from one parti cle, entombed and awedged in the very center o the earth, to another in the center of Saturn Bentley's Sermons We'prock. ». /. [ped and lac, Saxon marriage and gift.] Marriage; matrimony She doth ftray abou By holy croffes, where fhe kneels and pray For happy awed/ock hours Shakefpeare Sirrah, your brother is'ligitimate Your father's wife did after wedlock bear him And if fhe did play falfe the fault was hers Can wedlock know fo great a curfe Shak Cleawveland As putting hufbands out to nurfe He his happieft choice too lat Shall meet already link'd, and ewedlock-boun To a fell adverfary Milton's Paradife Loft May not a prifon or a grave Like avedlock, honour's title have Denbam One thought the fex's prime felicit Was from the bonds of wedlock to be free And uncontroll'd to give account to none Dryd A man determined, about the fiftieth year of hi age, to enter upon quedlock Addifon We'dNespay # / [pobenybaz tle reduced to a more moderate bulk and temper Decay of Piety a awee bit, a little bit Doe h not wea a grea roun beard lik glover's paring knife >-~No, forfooth; he hat but a little wee face, with a little yellow beard 3. To free from any thing hurtful or offenfive He queeded the kingdom of fuch as were devote to Elaiana, and manumized it from that moft dan Shakefpeare's Merry Wives of Wind|or WeECHELM, 7. /0 [This is often written avitch elm.] A fpecies of elm A cion of a aecchel gerous confederacy Wife fathers be not as well aware in weedin from their children ill things, as they were befor in grafting in them learning. Afchan's Schocimafter One by one, as they appeared, they might ai be gveeded out, without any figns that ever the had been there Locke elm, will put forth leaves as broad as the brim o a hat Bacon If he had an immoderate ambition weed if it be a cweed, apt to gro which is in the bef foils, it doth notappear that it was in his nature WEeeEDER, 7. /0 [from aveed. One tha takes away any thing noxious A aveeder out of his proud adverfaries A liberal rewarder of his friends. Shak. Rich.I11 Clarendon He wand'ring feed On {lowly growing herbs and ranker aweeds. Sandys Too much manuring fill'd that field with 2weeds WEEDHOOK. 7. /. [weed and hook. hock by which weeds are cut awa extirpated at, tha to fee a little flower choake Law and killed amongft rank qveeds 2. [peeda, Saxon; aaed, Dutch. ment clothes ; habit A gar drefs WEe'EpLEss. adj. [ from aveed. Fre from weeds; free from any thing ufelefs or noxious So many aveed/sfs paradifes be, Which of themfelves produce no venomous fin Dornirne A cryftal brook When troubled moft it does the bottom fhow *Tis aveedlefs all above, and rocklefs all below My mind for weeds your virtue's livery wears Sidney There on the pendant boughs her coronet wee Clamb'ring to hang, an envious fliver broke When down her aweedy trophies and herfel Fell in the weeping brook no Hid in a weedy lake all night T lay Secure of fafety An aged fire, in long black weeds yclad WEEK. #./ [ peoc, Saxon; aveke, Dut aecka, Swedith. 'The fpace of feve days Fulfil her qveek, and we will give thee this alfo His feet all bare, his beard all hoary gray And by his belt his book he hanging had. Spenfer Livery is alfo called the upper weed which ferving man wears, fo called as it was delivere Spenfer and taken from him at pleafure The fnake throws her enamell'd fkin Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in Throngs of knights, and barons bold In avceds of peace high triumphs hold Wit ftore of ladies Shakefp 3. It is ufed by Chapma Genefisy xXix The divifion of time by aveeks hath been univerfally obferved in the world, not only amongf the civilized, but likewife among the moft barba rous nations Wilkins WEeEkDAY. 2. [week and day. day not Sunday One folid dith his tweeckday meal affords An added pudding folemniz'd the Lord's Milton Lately"your fair hand in woman's wee Waller Wrapp'd my glad head for the uppe garment Dryden's Zneid If it is eweedy, let it lie upon the ground, Mort theirs to cloat themfelves fo, if left to their own judgments Hooker They meet upon the wa Shakefpeare's Hamlet 2. Abounding with weeds Neither is it any man's bufinefs to cloath al his fervants with one aeed Dryder WEeEpY. adj. [from aveed. 1. Confifting of weeds No {carce in ufe, except in awidow's aveeds the mourning drefs of a widow o In May get a wezdbook, a crotch, and a glove And weed out fuch weeds as the corn doth no love Tuffer Denbam Stinking aveeds and poifonous plants have thei ufe More When they are cut, let them lie, if weedy, t kill the aweeds Mortimer's Hufbandry Their virtue, like their Tyber's floo Rolling, its courfe defign'd the country's good But oft the torrent's too impetuous fpee From the low earth tore fome polluting wveed And with the blood of Jove there always ra Some viler part, fome tin€ture of the man. Prior If they are often feen to lofe that little religio they were taught in their youth, 'tis no more to b Howel's Vocal Forefi 4. To root out vice grafted upon an ordinar WEeED. 7. /. [pedd, Saxon, tares. I. An herb noxious or ufelefs Sarcafms, contumelies, and inveétives, fill { many pages of our controverfial writings, that were thofe weeded out, many volumes would b as, a weeane, a little one, or child wondere And give us fteeds that fnort againtt the foe 5. To fix as a wedge Little ; fmall : whence the word avea/ or aweefel is ufed for little; as, a aeefe face. In Scotland it denotes fmall or lit While feéts, like locufts, did deftroy the feeds . Left He&or, or my father, fhould perceive me Shakefpeare Could not be wedg'd in more An Pope WEeEkKLY. adj. [from aveek.] Happening, produced, or done once a week hebdomadary The Jews had always their eeekly readings o The morning, in her throne of gold the law of Mofes Hooker So liv'd our fires, ere do&tors learn'd to kill And multiply'd with heirs their aveekly bille Dryd Nothing more frequent in their aweekly papers than affe@ing to confound the terms of clerg and high-church, and then loading the latter wit calumnye Saift Survaid the vaft world, by whofe orient ligh The nymph adorn'd me with attires as bright wcede an fhir bot o puttin hand ow He Chapinan Sax @. . [from the noun. 7 odenfday, Swedifh; awoenfday, Dutch t a p o x n o r T wenfday, Ilandick.] The fourth dayof | !* When you fow the berries of bays, avecd not the WEe'EKLY. adv. [from aveet.] Once c E the week, fo named by the Gothic e w t f a y week; by hebdomadal periods l h l fi t borders fo acin nations from #oden or Odin Thefe are obliged to perform divine worfhi them fhade beffow Where is the honour of him that died on Wed nefday Shake[peare The offices of prayer he had in his church, no only. upo the Sundaies, and feftivals, and thei &ves, as alfo WVednefdaics and Fridaies Fell WeE. adj. [a Saxon word of the fam root with aweeing, Dutch ; avenig, Germ. n J ti o f n v h n l e f u Y e i r M e t o u n w h h i f aveeding or' t a p o x n a k t 2. T Each wor hear Oh Marci o f e e a t h thouw'ft fpo Ao A root of ancient €nvy i Shalefpeare's Coviolans in their turns <weekly, and are fometimes calle Ayliffe hebdomadal canons WEeEL. 7 /. [peel, Saxon. 1. A whirlpool 2 [perhap fro willow. fnare or trap for fith 3Q - twigge T |