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the center, to the highest heavens. Bates. An upstart craned up to the height he has. Massinger.

To play on a crowd; to fiddle. [Obs.] "Fiddlers, crowd on." Massinger.

lness; painstaking. [Obs.] My father's care With curiousness and cost did train me up. Massinger.

whose names are kept on the rolls. O you commanders, That, like me, have no dead-pays. Massinger.

A heap or store. [Obs.] Who . . . hath such trinkets Ready in the deck. Massinger. Between decks. See under Between. -- Deck bridge (Railroad Engineering), a bridge which carries the track upon the upper chords; -- distinguished from a through bridge, which carries the track upon the lower chords, between the girders.…

a contest; he declined any participation with them. Could I Decline this dreadful hour Massinger.

To reduce; to diminish. [Obs.] "Do not deduct it to days." Massinger.

Resources; means. [Obs.] You know How narrow our demeans are. Massinger.

To serve; to treat; to benefit. [Obs.] A man that hath So well deserved me. Massinger.

often with from. Never desisting to do evil. E. Hall. To desist from his bad practice. Massinger. Desist (thou art discern'd, And toil'st in vain). Milton.

To misbecome. [Obs.] Massinger.

to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.

sposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger.

e himself, I dare not say distempered, But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing. Massinger.

A player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence; a substitute.

One who associates with drabs; a wencher. Massinger.

The quality or condition of being a duke; also, the personality of a duke. Massinger.

ported into England from Holland. -- Dutch concert, a so-called concert in which all the singers sing at the same time different songs. [Slang] -- Dutch courage, the courage of partial intoxication. [Slang] Marryat. -- Dutch door, a door divided into two parts, horizontally, so arranged that the lower part can be shu…

in; to remain absorbed with; to stick to; to make much of; as, to dwell upon a subject; a singer dwells on a note. They stand at a distance, dwelling on his looks and language, fixed in amazement. Buckminster.

e, yielding the highest pleasures; exceedingly delightful; beatific. "Elysian shades." Massinger. "Elysian age." Beattie. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian. Longfellow.