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to assure as if by giving a warrant to. [My neck is] as smooth as silk, I warrant ye. L' Estrange.

into, out, up, off, and the like. She, in a hurry, whips up her darling under her arm. L'Estrange. He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees. Walpole.

d atheistical, or libelous. Milton. Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe. L'Estrange. A wit herself, Amelia weds a wit. Young. The five wits, the five senses; also, sometimes, the five qualities or faculties, common wit, imagination, fantasy, estimation, and memory. Chaucer. Nares. But my five wits nor my…

in its wonted corner. Sir W. Scott. She was wonted to the place, and would not remove. L'Estrange.

[Obs.] Shak. To word it, to bandy words; to dispute. [Obs.] "To word it with a shrew." L'Estrange.

a world of holidays, that 't a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labor. L'Estrange.

To bark; to yelp. L'Estrange.

mercy. Atterbury. The rapine is made yet blacker by the pretense of piety and justice. L'Estrange.