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A four-wheeled pleasure carriage, (commonly two-seated) somewhat like a phaeton, but having a straight bottom.

To promise; to vow. Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve. Surrey.

A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood. "Potato bings." Burns. "A bing of corn." Surrey. [Obs. or Dial. Eng. & Scot.]

rvid; as, his blood boils with anger. Then boiled my breast with flame and burning wrath. Surrey.

ampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood. Surrey.

To allay; to temper. [Obs.] The watery showers delay the raging wind. Surrey.

To gloom; to look gloomy, morose, or sullen. [Obs.] Surrey.

Lofty; proud. [R. & Obs.] Surrey.

; to till; hence, to develop by culture. [Obs.] To whom we gave the strand for to manure. Surrey. Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; And with vain, outward things be no more moved. Donne.

eath. Bacon. I, . . . in the way of loyalty and truth, . . . Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be. Shak.

To catch in a mesh. Surrey.

To climb over. Surrey.

That which is overthwart; an adverse circumstance; opposition. [Obs.] Surrey.

To look forward. [Obs.] Surrey.

r, idea, etc., into or upon something. A look will print a thought that never may remove. Surrey. Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, Which in that field young Edward's sword did print. Sir John Beaumont. Perhaps some footsteps printed in the clay. Roscommon.

und; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance. In the mean while the skies 'gan rumble sore. Surrey. The people cried and rombled up and down. Chaucer.

.] A postern with a blind wicket there was, A common trade to pass through Priam's house. Surrey. Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade. Spenser. Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet May hourly trample on their sovereign's head. Shak.

Not defiled; pure. [Obs.] Surrey.

Not revenged; unavenged. [Obs.] Surrey.

chiefly in the phrase to wend one's way. Also used reflexively. "Great voyages to wend." Surrey.