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reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass. His spear a bent, both stiff and strong. Drayton.

To weep over; to deplore; to bedew with tears. "His timeless death beweeping." Drayton.

Consisting of blades. [R.] "Blady grass." Drayton.

Marked or covered with blotches. To give their blotched and blistered bodies ease. Drayton.

up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort; -- often with up. To bolster baseness. Drayton. Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride. Compton Reade.

of the room. This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, . . . And oft out of a bush doth bolt. Drayton.

fill out; to pad; to inflate. [Obs.] Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed. Drayton.

Salt or brackish water. [Obs.] Drayton.

Brackish. Drayton.

arp; severe; cruel. [Obs.] Spenser. From the septentrion cold, in the breme freezing air. Drayton.

own. Now like I brown (O lovely brown thy hair); Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.

of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. "Burly sacks." Drayton. In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [he was] somewhat corpulent and burly. Sir T. More. Burly and big, and studious of his ease. Cowper.

to abut. [Written also but.] And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground. Drayton.

boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt. [Colloq.] Some silly, doting, brainless calf. Drayton.

The pasque flower. Drayton.

hawks, down thrilling from the skies, Make sundry canceliers are they the fowl can reach. Drayton.

which resembles sugar or candy. Those frosts that winter brings Which candy every green. Drayson.

cardinal intersections of the zodiac. Sir T. Browne. Impudence is now a cardinal virtue. Drayton. But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye. Shak. Cardinal numbers, the numbers one, two, three, etc., in distinction from first, second, third, etc., which are called ordinal numbers. -- Cardinal points (a) (Geol.)…

Caution; prudent; wary. [Obs.] "Cautelous, though young." Drayton.

Wheat, or bread made from wheat. [Obs.] Drayton. Their purest cheat, Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued in paste. Chapman.