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With this; with that. [Obs.] He will scarce be pleased withal. Shak.

Over and above; besides; moreover. [Obs.] Daniel. And therewithal it was full poor and bad. Chaucer.

Wherewith. "Wherewithal shall we be clothed" Matt. vi. 31. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way Ps. cxix. 9. [The builders of Babel], still with vain design, New Babels, had they wherewithal, would build. Milton.

Trial; attempt; essay. [Obs.] Chaucer. I am withal persuaded that it may prove much more easy in the assay than it now seems at distance. Milton.

Haughty; purse-proud. See Cob, n., 2. [Obs.] Withals (1608).

t; to have to do with. Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man As e'er my conversation coped withal. Shak.

To cry like a crane. [Obs.] "The crane crunketh." Withals (1608).

are happy and easy in mind when their victim is stabbed and done for. Thackeray. -- To do withal, to help or prevent it. [Obs.] "I could not do withal." Shak. -- To do without, to get along without; to dispense with. -- To have done, to have made an end or conclusion; to have finished; to be quit; to desist. -- To h…

enalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life. Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits. Shak.

To make gestures; to gesticulate. The players . . . gestured not undecently withal. Holland.

When you were graveled for lack of matter. Shak. The physician was so graveled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say. Sir T. North.

. [Obs.] The golden round *Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crowned withal. Shak.

A punch or stamp. [Obs.] "A pounce to print money with." Withals.

hroud to which he won His fair-eyed oxen. Chapman. A vault, or shroud, as under a church. Withals.

spear or pike. And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar to bear it withal. Ex. xxxviii. 7. With forks and staves the felon to pursue. Dryden.

ransumptive kind of speech." Drayton. Fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive, and withal definitive. Lowell.

eat supper, or undermeal, was made ready for them, coming home from ditching and plowing. Withals (1608). I think I am furnished with Cattern [Catharine] pears for one undermeal. B. Jonson. In a narrower limit than the forty years' undermeal of the seven sleepers. Nash.

riate. [Obs.] "In vino veritas." When men are well whittled, their tongues run at random. Withals.

tuous. Full worthy was he in his lordes war. Chaucer. These banished men that I have kept withal Are men endued with worthy qualities. Shak. Happier thou mayst be, worthier canst not be. Milton. This worthy mind should worthy things embrace. Sir J. Davies.