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A road for driving cattle; a driftway. [Eng.]

To consume laboriously; -- with away. Rise to our toils and drudge away the day. Otway.

ctice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity. All generous encouragement of arts. Otway.

t be enterprised this night. Dryden. What would I not renounce or enterprise for you! T. Otway.

The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy. Otway.

the world, the best much in Europe. Prescott. By all men's eyes a youth of expectations. Otway.

plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered. And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. Otway.

To beat or whip; to drive. [Obs.] Otway.

A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway.

rom that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth. Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth. Tyndale. From this time forth, I never will speak word. Shak. I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bad me say forth; I said I was taught no more. Strype.

ening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening.

o be at the heels of, to pursue closely; to follow hard: as, hungry want is at my heels. Otway. -- To be down at the heel, to be slovenly or in a poor plight. -- To be out at the heels, to have on stockings that are worn out; hence, to be shabby, or in a poor plight. Shak. -- To cool the heels. See under Cool. -- T…

To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe. With thou, then, Hush my cares Otway. And hush'd my deepest grief of all. Tennyson. To hush up, to procure silence concerning; to suppress; to keep secret. "This matter is hushed up." Pope.

A woman who capriciously deceives her lover; a coquette; a flirt. Otway.

e; not much; slightly; somewhat; -- often with a preceding it. " The poor sleep little." Otway.

In manner to excite love; amiably. [R.] Otway.

hak. A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself. Otway.

ing. [R.] He has made me heir to treasures Would make me outact a real window's whining. Otway.

A trodden way; a footway. The dewy paths of meadows we will tread. Dryden.

or inclines the will to a determination. For thou hast all the arts of fine persuasion. Otway.