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Malice; ill will; spite. [Obs.] If he evade us there, Enforce him with his envy to the people. Shak.

Stored or furnished with wine. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To blunt. [Obs.] To abate the edge of envy. Bacon.

, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc. ; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency. Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind, when impressed by any object or quality. Cogan.

Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion. They dart away; they wheel askance. Beattie. My palfrey eyed them askance. Landor. Both . . . were viewed askance by authority. Gladstone.

pon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wisbed in himself to die. Jonah iv. 8. Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers. Bacon.

To grudge; to envy the possession of.

ne's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do. Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance…

Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy. The cankers of envy and faction. Temple.

fine my master is! I am afraid He will chastise me. Shak. I am glad to see the vanity or envy of the canting chemists thus discovered and chastised. Boyle.

covetousness. With the feelings of political distrust were mingled those of cupidity and envy, as the Spaniard saw the fairest provinces of the south still in the hands of the accursed race of Ishmael. Prescott.

essening or cheapening in the estimation of others; the act of depreciating another, from envy or malice; calumny.

t of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally. Wrath and malice, envy and revenge, do darken and distort the understandings of men. Tillotson.

der uneasy; as, a person is disturbed by receiving an insult, or his mind is disturbed by envy.

To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon. Enforce him with his envy to the people. Shak.

Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble. One of most enviable of human beings. Macaulay. -- En"vi*a*ble*ness, n. -- En"vi*a*bly, adv.

Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; -- followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues. My soul…

"If equals be taken from equals the remainders are equal." Those who were once his equals envy and defame him. Addison.

Possessed of the supposed evil eye; also, looking with envy, jealousy, or bad design; malicious. Shak.

To carry away; to remove. [Obs.] [They] export honor from a man, and make him a return in envy. Bacon.