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Given to opposition; perverse; forward; wayward; as, a contrary disposition; a contrary child.

Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful. [Obs.] "Dispel dampy throughts." Haywards.

stress saw. Shak. Shadows in the glassy waters dance. Byron. Where rivulets dance their wayward round. Wordsworth. To dance on a rope, or To dance on nothing, to be hanged.

r conclusion of an affair. Upon this rub, the English embassadors thought fit to demur. Hayward.

Toward the earth; -- opposed to heavenward or skyward.

or egg on. [Obs.] By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged. Hayward.

Mutual talk or conversation; conference. [Obs.] Sir J. Hayward.

One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.

See Scout. [Obs.] Hayward.

To do one's work; to act one's part of purpose. [R.] Hayward.

An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. [Obs.] Hayward.

umptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king. Hayward.

Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas. Your coarse, foggy, drowsy conceit. Hayward.

o woman; now used ironically or contemptuously. A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm! Hayward. Our old English word forsooth has been changed for the French madam. Guardian.

state of being fresh. The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.

sion in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh. Grievously gashed or gored to death. Hayward.

-- To give ear to. See under Ear. -- To give forth, to give out; to publish; to tell. Hayward. -- To give ground. See under Ground, n. -- To give the hand, to pledge friendship or faith. -- To give the hand of, to espouse; to bestow in marriage. -- To give the head. See under Head, n. -- To give in. (a) To abate…

A writer of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. Hayward.

Temper; natural disposition; inclination. [Obs.] Brothers . . . not united in grain. Hayward.

Small shot which scatter like hailstones. [Obs.] Hayward.