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in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc. But pump not me for politics. Otway.

To bring into a state of uncertainty, perplexity, or difficulty. [Obs.] Otway.

In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide. Unto Dian's temple goeth she right. Chaucer. Let thine eyes look right on. Prov. iv. 25. Right across its track there lay, Down in…

have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form. [Written also shalm, shaum.] Otway. Even from the shrillest shaum unto the cornamute. Drayton.

sembling a beast's snout. The nose was ugly, long, and big, Broad and snouty like a pig. Otway.

A small extent of space; a place; any particular place. "Fixed to one spot." Otway. That spot to which I point is Paradise. Milton. "A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed." Wordsworth.

art or rise suddenly, as from a covert. Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring. Otway.

Straightway. [Obs.]

ft. Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. Otway. But thy fire Shall be more tempered, and thy hope far higher. Byron. She [the Goddess of Justice] threw darkness and clouds about her, that tempered the light into a thousand beautiful shades and colors. Addison.…

See Twayblade.

To cease to hold; to unhand; to release. [Obs.] Otway.

e of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery. "You know our father's ward, the fair Monimia." Otway.