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ead, so sure he had decreed That all the counsels of their war he would poll off like it. Chapman.

Having gates. [Obs.] We took the sevenfold-ported Thebes. Chapman.

A young chicken, partridge, grouse, or the like. King. Chapman. Starling the heath poults or black game. R. Jefferise.

Disposed to take prey. [Obs.] The preyful brood of savage beasts. Chapman.

To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander. [Obs.] Chapman.

adorn. [Obs.] Chaucer. The sprigs that did about it grow He proined from the leafy arms. Chapman.

Prowler; thief. [Obs.] Chapman.

To set forth. [Obs.] That being proposed brimfull of wine, one scarce could lift it up. Chapman.

of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious. "Of shadow proud." Chapman. "Proud titles." Shak. " The proud temple's height." Dryden. Till tower, and dome, and bridge-way proud Are mantled with a golden cloud. Keble.

[Archaic] " The queynte ring." " His queynte spear." Chaucer. " A shepherd young quaint." Chapman. Every look was coy and wondrous quaint. Spenser. To show bow quaint an orator you are. Shak.

Furnished with qualities; endowed. [Obs.] "He was well qualitied." Chapman.

A thick, bushy plot; a thicket. [Obs.] Chapman.

A discharge; an issue. [Obs.] To cleanse the quitture from thy wound. Chapman.

To fortify with a rampire; to form into a rampire. [Archaic] Chapman. "Rampired walls of gold." R. Browning.

to seize and hurry off. And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. Chapman. From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. Sir H. Wotton.

h violence. [Obs.] That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With headlong rapture. Chapman.

Early. [Obs.] Rude mechanicals that rare and late Work in the market place. Chapman.

is generally used.] Till Troy were by their brave hands rased, They would not turn home. Chapman.

Ratification; approval. [R.] Chapman.

penser. He golden apples raft of the dragon. Chaucer. By privy stratagem my life at home. Chapman. To reave the orphan of his patrimony. Shak. The heaven caught and reft him of his tongue. Tennyson.