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rtain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled. That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took. Prior. While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in live. Macaulay.

ce Flowed from their lips in prose or numerous verse. Milton. Virtue was taught in verse. Prior. Verse embalms virtue. Donne.

Same as Versemonger. Prior.

rt with power to try cases of life and death. Had I been vested with the monarch's power. Prior.

rouble; to tease. "I will not vex your souls." Shak. Then thousand torments vex my heart. Prior.

Of or pertaining to twigs; made of pliant twigs. "In the hive's vimineous dome." Prior.

Instruments of war. [Poetic] His complement of stores, and total war. Prior.

hat subject or right against every claim, challenge, or burden arising from circumstances prior to the conveyance; warranty. [Written also warrandise.] Craig.

og lily; -- so called from the shape of the seed vessel. See Nuphar, and cf. Candock. Dr. Prior.

mmon cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil. Dr. Prior.

aying to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames. Let her glad valleys smile with wavy corn. Prior.

. Shak. By noble ways we conquest will prepare. Dryden. What impious ways my wishes took! Prior.

Refreshed with liquor; drunk. [Slang] Prior. Wet blanket, Wet dock, etc. See under Blanket, Dock, etc. -- Wet goods, intoxicating liquors. [Slang]

e English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze. Dr. Prior.

isorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy. "Valor grown wild by pride." Prior. "A wild, speculative project." Swift. What are these So withered and so wild in their attire Shak. With mountains, as with weapons, armed; which makes Wild work in heaven. Milton. The wild winds howl. Addison. Search then t…

A kind of speedwell (Veronica hederifolia) which spreads chiefly in winter. Dr. Prior.

in love; to court. Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes The image he himself has wrought. Prior.

surround; to encircle. In the flowers that wreathe the sparkling bowl, Fell adders hiss. Prior.

ines to one she loves. Shak. I chose to write the thing I durst not speak To her I loved. Prior.

s place. Shak. In vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds may waft him over. Prior.