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ff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning. Chapman. Sad Clotho held the rocke, the whiles the thread By grisly Lachesis was spun with pain, That cruel Atropos eftsoon undid. Spenser.

Royal. [Obs.] Chapman.

A chance. [Obs.] Flight shall leave no Greek a rub. Chapman.

Ruffianly. [Obs.] Chapman.

To throw together in a disorderly manner. [R.] I ruffled up falen leaves in heap. Chapman To ruffle the feathers of, to exite the resentment of; to irritate.

The act of falling or tumbling down; fall. [Obs.] "His ruin startled the other steeds." Chapman.

In a rustic manner; rustically. Chapman.

Bent on plunder. [Obs.] Chapman.

pline; a whip. Up to coach then goes The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins. Chapman.

ender eye of pitiful day. Shak. Gold death, with a violent fate, his sable eyes did seel. Chapman.

Claw; talon. [Obs.] Chapman.

ender quiet; to still; to calm; to compose. God settled then the huge whale-bearing lake. Chapman. Hoping that sleep might settle his brains. Bunyan.

Poured water from a great and golden ewer, That from their hands to a silver caldron ran. Chapman.

A shell or husk; a cod or pod. "The green shales of a bean." Chapman.

in composition, as in potsherd. See Shard. The thigh . . . which all in sherds it drove. Chapman.

A shuttle. [Obs.] Chapman.

To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place. Chapman.

A share or proportion; a reckoning; a scot. Here no shots are where all shares be. Chapman. A man is never . . . welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess say "Welcome." Shak.

otherwise a mere clog on them. [Old Slang] Thou common shot-clog, gull of all companies. Chapman.

ave or den; also, a vault or crypt. [Obs.] The shroud to which he won His fair-eyed oxen. Chapman. A vault, or shroud, as under a church. Withals.