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A worthless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; -- used as a term of contempt or reproach. Grew.

A worthless woman; a hussy. [Obs.] Shak.

ssesses a species of life and sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable. [R.] Cudworth.

One who holds a shield over another; hence, a defender. [Obs.] Chillingworth.

ce; a delineation or description. Some kind of apish imitations, counterfeit iconisms. Cudworth.

To form an image or likeness of. [R.] Cudworth.

ose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like. [Written also idyll.] Wordsworth's solemn-thoughted idyl. Mrs. Browning. His [Goldsmith's] lovely idyl of the Vicar's home. F. Harrison.

Ear of corn. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

Capable of being insnared or entrapped. [R.] Cudworth.

Not laudable; not praise-worthy; worthy of censure or disapprobation. Milton. -- Il*laud"a*bly, adv. [Obs.] Broome.

Want of locality or place. [R.] Cudworth.

ight; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously. Shak. To prove him, and illustrate his high worth. Milton.

Worthy of imitation; as, imitable character or qualities. Sir W. Raleigh.

The state or quality of being imitable; worthness of imitation.

In an immeasurable manner or degree. "Immeasurably distant." Wordsworth.

Not memorable; not worth remembering. Johnson.

Want of worth; demerit. [R.] Suckling.

ot capable of being mixed or mingled. A chaos of immiscible and conflicting particles. Cudworth.

To pave. [Poetic] Impaved with rude fidelity Of art mosaic. Wordsworth.

voice. Shak. To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts, and worthy thee. Dryden. He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle. E. Everett.