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e. "A vernacular disease." Harvey. His skill the vernacular dialect of the Celtic tongue. Fuller. Which in our vernacular idiom may be thus interpreted. Pope.

A wardrobe; a robing room; a vestry. Fuller.

Vigilance. [Obs.] Fuller.

To urge with violence. [Obs.] Fuller.

wonder. . . . But five died for the first twenty years of her [Queen Elizabeth's] reign. Fuller. The faith of Christianity is far more vivacious than any mere ravishment of the imagination can ever be. I. Taylor.

e vivacity of some of these pensioners is little less than a miracle, they lived so long. Fuller.

place; current. English silver now was current, and our gold volant in the pope's court. Fuller.

The common sort of people; the crowd; the mob. [Obs.] Fuller.

e, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth. Thou 'rt rougher far, And of a coarser wale, fuller of pride. Beau & Fl.

A fuller of cloth. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] She cursed the weaver and the walker The cloth that had wrought. Percy's Reliques.

Yelping. [R.] Fuller.

passed over a small water a poor scholar when first coming to the university, he kneeled. Fuller.

To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; - - opposed to wane. The waxing and the waning of the moon. Hakewill. Truth's treasures . . . never shall wax ne wane. P. Plowman.

feeble creature. Shak. "All looking on him as a weakling, which would post to the grave." Fuller. We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy. Latimer.

Of or pertaining to a weald, esp. to the weald in the county of Kent, England. [Obs.] Fuller.

on of the letter r; a burr. See Burr, n., 6. A strange, uncouth wharling in their speech. Fuller.

During the time that; while. [Archaic] Chaucer. Fuller. Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him. Matt. v. 25.

ar beautiful outward, but are within full of . . . uncleanness. Matt. xxiii. 27. So as no fuller on earth can white them. Mark. ix. 3.

Capable of being wounded; vulnerable. [R.] Fuller.

wisting and squirming; like a worm. Covetousness will wriggle itself out at a small hole. Fuller. Wriggling his body to recover His seat, and cast his right leg over. Hudibras.