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ued about four hundred years, rather without obscurity than with any great luster. Sir H. Wotton.

nused or uncontaminated; freshness; purity. [Obs.] The maidenhead of their credit. Sir H. Wotton.

Cultivation. [Obs.] W. Wotton.

igation and naval affairs, or to shipping and commerce by sea. "Maritime service." Sir H. Wotton. Maritime law. See Law. -- Maritime loan, a loan secured by bottomry or respodentia bonds. -- Martime nations, nations having seaports, and using the sea more or less for war or commerce.

Having to do woth the application of the laws of motion in the art of constructing or making things; of or pertaining to mechanics; mechanical; as, the mechanic arts. "These mechanic philosophers." Ray. Mechanic slaves, With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers. Shak.

n aspect; southern; southerly. Offices that require heat ... should be meridional. Sir H. Wotton. Meridional distance, the distance or departure from the meridian; the easting or westing. -- Meridional parts, parts of the meridian in Mercator's projection, corresponding to each minute of latitude from the equator up t…

mimic fancy wakes To imitate her. Milton. Man is, of all creatures, the most mimical. W. Wotton.

To value wrongly or too little; to undervalue. But for I am so young, I dread my work Wot be misvalued both of old and young. W. Browne.

inexpressible. But what it is, that is not yet known; what I can not name; nameless woe,I wot. Shak. I have a nameless horror of the man. Hawthorne.

Wottest not; knowest not. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Wot not; know not; knows not. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To educate; to bring or train up. He was nurtured where he had been born. Sir H. Wotton.

One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.

To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm. The northern nations overflowed all Christendom. Spenser.

Toprize excessively; to overvalue. Sir H. Wotton.

Of or pertaining to peace; pacific. [R.] Sir H. Wotton. -- Pa*cif"ic*al*ly, adv. [R.]

Groats; coarse flour or meal. [Obs.] Sir. H. Wotton.

he act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

nts; as, she is quite peart to-day. [O. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] There was a tricksy girl, I wot, albeit clad in gray, As peart as bird, as straight as bolt, as fresh as flowers in May. Warner (1592).

Slope; inclination. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.