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g to choose between two alternatives, safety and war, you obstinately prefer the worse. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

The condition of being wet or watery; wateriness. Huxley. Very little water or aquosity is found in their belly. Holland.

stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development. As the arrest of the air showeth. Bacon.

was willing to go; but, finding that he [Nicias] was in earnest, he tried to back out. Jowett (Thucyd. )

To lave; to wet. "The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain." T. Arnold.

To dabble; to sprinkle or wet. Shak.

To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter. "Trees bedashed with rain." Shak.

To rain upon; to wet with rain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly. Weale.

To stain, smear or wet, with blood. [Archaic] Reach out their spears afar, And blood their points. Dryden.

To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears. Dear Cloe, how blubbered is that pretty face! Prior.

To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully. He bloweth and blustereth out . . . his abominable blasphemy. Sir T. More. As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands. Fuller.

A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass. Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. R. Jago.

A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.

Wet and dirty; begrimed. [Obs. or Dial.] Herrick.

A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water.

s me up. Shak. This dry sorrow burns up all my tears. Dryden. When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the Ecclus. xliii. 20, 21.

of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part of the United States. The Calypso borealis is the only orchid which reaches 68º N.

A way or road rasid above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground. But that broad causeway will direct your way. Dryden. The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate. Milton.

nus of flowerless plants, having articulated stems and whorled branches. They flourish in wet places.