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To peep; to look narrowly. [Obs.] Latimer. For birds in bushes tooting. Spenser.

ith pain; to toil. [Archaic] "Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings." Latimer.

, a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge. Such laying of the hair in tussocks and tufts. Latimer.

Something serving to tie or secure. [Obs.] Latimer.

Ugly. [Obs.] "Such an uglesome countenance." Latimer.

nsive; loathsome. [Obs.] -- Ug"some*ness, n. [Obs.] "The horror and ugsomeness of death." Latimer.

An upstart. [Obs.] Latimer.

re, wherewith he might wage soldiers. Holinshed. I would have them waged for their labor. Latimer.

nk I'd walk in any plot B. Jonson. I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth. Latimer.

ntly equivalent to with a vengeance, with a plague, or with misfortune. [Obs.] B. Jonson. Latimer.

Tim. iv. 15. He is ware enough; he is wily and circumspect for stirring up any sedition. Latimer. The only good that grows of passed fear Is to be wise, and ware of like again. Spenser.

would post to the grave." Fuller. We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy. Latimer.

wears; use; conduct; consumption. Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his wearing. Latimer.

s wide empire of the air To weather his broad sails. Spenser. This gear lacks weathering. Latimer.

o wallow. When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards. Latimer. These wizards welter in wealth's waves. Spenser. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Milton. The priests at the altar . . . weltering in…

preacher but there were gainsayers that spurned, that winced, that whimpered against him Latimer.

cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly. They must not be milksops, nor white-livered knights. Latimer.

like. "Our wide expositors." Milton. It is far wide that the people have such judgments. Latimer. How wide is all this long pretense ! Herbert.