Search the Dictionary

th in, or on (something), or for (some one). [R.] "Pathing young Henry's unadvised ways." Drayton.

That may, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due. Drayton. Thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest. South.

relating to a peak; or to peaks; belonging to a mountainous region. "Her peakish spring." Drayton. "His peakish dialect." Bp. Hall.

flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel. "With flags and pennants trimmed." Drayton.

A cant word for anything petty or small. It is used by Drayton as the name of a fairy.

Under the dominion or influence of a planet. "Skilled in the planetary hours." Drayton.

To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. "Plodding schoolmen." Drayton.

First; original; primary. [Obs.] "The primer English kings." Drayton. Primer fine (O. Eng. Law), a fine due to the king on the writ or commencement of a suit by fine. Blackstone. -- Primer seizin (Feudal Law), the right of the king, when a tenant in capite died seized of a knight's fee, to receive of the heir, if of f…

To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess. Drayton.

tings. "For fulsomeness of his prolixitee." Chaucer. Idly running on with vain prolixity. Drayton.

Promontory. [R.] Drayton.

A song in celebration of a marriage. Drayton.

ush, Pug, etc. Shak. He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall. Drayton.

ich on the sparkling gravel runs in purles, As though the waves had been of silver curls. Drayton.

as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving. "The queachy fens." "Godwin's queachy sands." Drayton.

A subtilty; an equivocation. [Obs.] Shak. By some strange quiddit or some wrested clause. Drayton.

To transport or ravish. [Obs.] Drayton.

A raptor. [Obs.] Drayton.

played with a bow. [Written also rebeck.] Milton. He turn'd his rebec to a mournful note. Drayton.

To blow the recheat. Drayton.