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rful. Your looks alter, as your subject does, From kind to fierce, from wanton to severe. Waller.

shoal of bass. "Great shoals of people." Bacon. Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides. Waller.

oving by the force of gravity, or on the feet. They bathe in summer, and in winter slide. Waller.

esitation; not harsh; voluble; even; fluent. The only smooth poet of those times. Milton. Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full-resounding line. Pope. When sage Minerva rose, From her sweet lips smooth elocution flows. Gay.

Figuratively, any little thing that sparkless. "The rich spangles that adorn the sky." Waller. Oak spangle. See under Oak.

did not spare That time celestial visages. Milton. Man alone can whom he conquers spare. Waller.

hak. Ships heretofore in seas lke fishes sped; The mightiest still upon the smallest fed. Waller.

nnocent; as, a spotless mind; spotless behavior. A spotless virgin, and a faultless wife. Waller.

ning, so as to burst there with a crack. Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze. Waller. The making and selling of fireworks, and squibs . . . is punishable. Blackstone.

No mortal interest can be worth thy stay. Dryden. Embrace the hero and his stay implore. Waller.

-- said of literary work. And praise the easy vigor of a life Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. Pope.

nd happy victory! Shak. Or teach with more success her son The vices of the time to shun. Waller. Military successes, above all others, elevate the minds of a people. Atterbury.

To serve instead of; to take the place of. Burning ships the banished sun supply. Waller. The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, had lighted up the sky. Dryden.

Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge. He 'd have the poets sweat. Waller.

The sweep of anything in motion; a swinging blow; a swing. [Obs.] Waller.

, to be tardy in one's payments. Arbuthnot. The tardy plants in our cold orchards placed. Waller.

o have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty. Waller. The valiant never taste of death but once. Shak.

; to cap; -- chiefly used in the past participle. Like moving mountains topped with snow. Waller. A mount Of alabaster, topped with golden spires. Milton.

ests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.

d; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts. "Longing to twist bays with that ivy." Waller. There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of flame. T. Burnet.