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Entertainment; treat. [Obs.] Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.

A prostitute; a strumpet. [Obs.] Ford.

ir "summum bonum" upon their trenchers. South. Trencher cap, the cap worn by studens at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, having a stiff, flat, square appendage at top. A similar cap used in the United States is called Oxford cap, mortar board, etc. -- Trencher fly, a person who haunts the tables of others; a parasit…

To idle away; to waste. [R.] I dare not be the author Of truanting the time. Ford.

to declare. [R.] Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven. Ford.

Slow-footed. [R.] "Turtle-footed Peace." Ford.

Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage. Where highest woods, impenetrable To star or sunlight, spread their umbrage broad. Milton.

Forming or affording a shade; shady; shaded; as, umbrageous trees or foliage. Umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape. Milton.

nalloyed metals; unalloyed happiness. I enjoyed unalloyed satisfaction in his company. Mitford.

acceptable; not favored. Anything of grace toward the Irish rebels was as ungracious at Oxford as at London. Clarendon. -- Un*gra"cious*ly, adv. -- Un*gra"cious*ness, n.

Affording no harbor or shelter. "Unharbored heaths." [Obs.] Milton.

. "The quaintness with which he untreasured, as by rote, the stores of his memory." J. Mitford.

To cause to be no longer a vessel; to empty. [Obs.] Ford.

form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese; as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc. From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use. Pref. to Book of Common Prayer.

Denoting usual or customary action. "The usitative aorist." Alford.

recise signification; import; as, the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument Mitford.

Full of veins; streaked; variegated; as, veined marble. "Veined follies." Ford.

te of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation. Passions too violent . . . afford us nothing but vexation and pain. Sir W. Temple. Those who saw him after a defeat looked in vain for any trace of vexation. Macaulay.

Chaste; pure; -- applied especially to women. Mistress Ford . . . the virtuous creature, that hath the jealous fool to her husband. Shak. -- Vir"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Vir"tu*ous*ness, n.

ontributing to life; necessary to, or supporting, life; as, vital blood. Do the heavens afford him vital food Spenser. And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth. Milton.