To Enchafe. v.a. [eschauffer, French.] To enrage; to irritate; to provoke.
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To Enchafe. v.a. [eschauffer, French.] To enrage; to irritate; to provoke.
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Verger. n.s. [from verge.] He that carries the mace before the dean.
I can tip the verger with half a crown, and get into the best seat.
Farquhar.
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To HABILITATE. v.n. [habiliter, French.] To qualify; to entitle. Not in use.
Divers persons in the house of commons were attainted, and thereby not legal, nor habilitate to serve in parliament, being disabled in the highest degree.
Bacon.
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Inconsiderately. adv. [from inconsiderate.] Negligently; thoughtlessly; inattentively.
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Scrape. n.s. [skrap, Swedish.]
1. Difficulty; perplexity; distress. This is a low word.
2. The sound of the foot drawn over the floor.
3. A bow.
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Debonairly. adv. [from debonair.] Elegantly; with a genteel air.
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To Wing. v.a. [from the noun.]
1. To furnish with wings; to enable to fly.
2. To supply with side bodies.
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GRAMMAR. n.s.
1. The science of speaking correctly; the art which teaches the relations of words to each other.
2. Propriety or justness of speech; speech according to grammar.
3. The book that treats of the various relations of words to one another.
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Quaid. part. [of this participle I know not the verb, and believe it only put by Spenser, who often took great liberties, for quailed, for the poor convenience of his rhyme.]
Crushed; dejected; depressed.
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To Screak. v.n. [Properly creak, or shriek, from skrige, Dan.] To make a shrill or hoarse noise. Bailey.
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March. n.s. [from Mars.] The third month of the year.
March is drawn in tawny, with a fierce aspect, a helmet upon his head, to shew this month was dedicated to Mars.
Peacham on Drawing.
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Unpawned. adj. Not given to pledge.
He roll’d his eyes, that witness’d huge dismay,
Where yet, unpawn’d, much learned lumber lay.
Pope.
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FLA'MBEAU. n.s. [French.] A lighted torch.
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Perplex. adj. [perplex, Lat. perplexus, Lat.] Intricate; difficult. Perplexed is the word in use.
How the soul directs the spirits for the motion of the body, according to the several animal exigents, is perplex in the theory.
Glanville’s Scept.
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Stillici'dious. adj. [from stillicide.] Falling in drops.
Crystal is found sometimes in rocks, and in some places not unlike the stirious or stillicidious dependencies of ice.
Brown.
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Counterbuff. n.s. [counter and buff.] A blow in a contrary direction; a stroke that produces a recoil.
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Double-dealing. n.s. [double and dealing.] Artifice; dissimulation; low or wicked cunning; the action of one thing with the profession of another.
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Adread. adv. [from a and dread; as, aside, athirst, asleep.] In a state of fear; frighted; terrified: now obsolete.
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Haggler. n.s. [from haggle.]
1. One that cuts.
2. One that is tardy in bargaining.
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CAFTAN. n.s. [Persick.] A Persian or Turkish vest or garment.
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Recipe. n.s. [recipe, Lat. the term used by physicians, when they direct ingredients.] A medical prescription.
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Efficience. Efficiency. n.s. [from efficio, Latin.] The act of producing effects; agency.
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