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tate; a royal court. Also used by the poets for a grand deliberative council or assembly. Pope.

In different directions; to different points. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Pope.

Variegation. "Bright diversities of day." Pope.

orry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity. I have been pursued, dogged, and waylaid. Pope. Your sins will dog you, pursue you. Burroughs. Eager ill-bred petitioners, who do not so properly supplicate as hunt the person whom they address to, dogging him from place to place, till they even extort an answer to their…

A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders. See Don, and Dan.

ouse; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry. Approach the dome, the social banquet share. Pope.

or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty. Ere Hector meets his doom. Pope. And homely household task shall be her doom. Dryden.

siren, for thyself, and I will dote. Shak. What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love. Pope.

rd the story, but I doubt the truth of it. To admire superior sense, and doubt their own! Pope. I doubt not that however changed, you keep So much of what is graceful. Tennyson. To doubt not but. I do not doubt but I have been to blame. Dryden. We doubt not now But every rub is smoothed on our way. Shak.…

as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards. "Looking downwards." Pope. Their heads they downward bent. Drayton.

ce, figuratively: Soft; placid; soothing; quiet. "A downy shower." Keble. "Downy pillow." Pope. Time steals on with downy feet. Young.

edless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope.

There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream. Pope. It is not them a mere dream, but a very real aim which they propose. J. C. Shairp.

Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it. Men of pleasure, dress, and gallantry. Pope.

s, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like. Drifts of rising dust involve the sky. Pope. We got the brig a good bed in the rushing drift [of ice]. Kane.

o carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the Pope. And they drank, and were merry with him. Gem. xliii. 34. Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely. Thackeray. To drink to, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the act of taking the cup; to pledge in dr…

ve them into Pylos. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along. Pope. Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. Pope.

To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped. Pope.

lished; jejune; plain. These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament. Pope.

dignity or new character; to entitle; to call. A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth. Pope.