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[Archaic] Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Gray. The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged. Milton.

A revolving circular body; a wheel. [Poetic] The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled. Milton.

A friend of the bridegroom who went with him in his chariot to fetch home the bride. Milton.

In utter confusion; with confused violence. "Men, horses, chariots, crowded pellmell." Milton.

s, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.

An easy chariot or carriage, used by Roman ladies, and in which the vessels, etc., for sacred rites were carried.

Without a pole; as, a poleless chariot.

fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band. A triumphant chariot made of carnation velvet, enriched withpurl and pearl. Sir P. Sidney .

A car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast.

To throw quoits; to play at quoits. To quoit, to run, and steeds and chariots drive. Dryden.

the raging sea or winds. Why do the heathen rage Ps. ii. 1. The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise. Milton.

ch away; to seize and hurry off. And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. Chapman. From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. Sir H. Wotton.

moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton.

r sports are performed; an arena. Place me. O, place me in the dusty ring, Where youthful charioteers contened for glory. E. Smith.

ory, have been taken down from the head of a conquering army to the wheel of the victor's chariot! L'Estrange.

A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.

Armed scythes, as a chariot. Chariots scythed, On thundering axles rolled. Glover.

rs in a shop. Others, pampered in their shameless pride, Are served in plate and in their chariots ride. Dryden.

ee casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. Rev. vi. 13. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels That shake heaven's basis. Milton.

decay; to decrease. I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. Shak. He sunk down in his chariot. 2 Kings ix. 24. Let not the fire sink or slacken. Mortimer.