Seeks all foule meanes Of rough and boist'rous jadrie, to disseate His lord, that kept it bravely. Fl. Two Nob. Kinsm., v. Aquinas objecteth the distemperate heat, which he supposeth to be in all places directly under the sun. Raleigh's History, ap. Jolus. DISSEMBLABLE. Unlike, dissimilar. DISTEMPERATURE. Disorder, sick All humaine things, lyke the Silenes, or duble images DISSEMBLANCE. Dissembling. I wanted those old instruments of state, Malcontent, O. Pl., iv, 24. +DISSENT. For descent. Refined People feele Naples in their bodies; and Neither doth any of them ever lay hand to the plough, and home, without any abiding seat and positive lawes. Holland's Ammianus Marcellinus, 1609. To DISSIMULE. To dissemble, or conceal. And so beareth and dissimuleth the same, that often times the evill which she abhorreth, by such bearing Holland's Ammianus Marcellinus, 1609. And now went not he to worke by way of shaddowed and dissimuled deceit; but whereas the palace stood without the wals, hee did beset it round about with armed men. DISSIMULER. A dissembler. Ibid. He was close and secrete, a deep dissimuler, lowly of countenance, arrogant of harte. +DISSIPANDING. Holinsh., vol. ii, N n n 7. Profligate. Young Noy, the dissipanding Noy, is kill'd in France So should my thoughts be sever'd from my griefs. While he was yet in Rome, Ant. & Cl., iii, 7. We may so use the matter, to have most part of the money without the distraining of your own body. History of Fortunatus. DISTRAUGHT. The old participle of to distract, distracted. O! if I wake shall I not be distraught, O Jaques, know thou that our master's mind DISTAFF, SAINT. No regular saint, Partly work, and partly play, Ye must on St. Distaff's day. And towards the end, Give St. Distaff all the night, Then bid Christmas sport good-night. P. 374. It is alluded to in Warner's Albions England: Rock, and Plow-Monday's games shall gang. P. 121. Plow-Monday was the Monday fol lowing. +DISTASTIVE. Disgusting. Thus did they finishe their distastive songe. Spens. F. Q., II, vi, 13. †DIVAST. Devastated; laid waste. But time will come when th' earth shall lie divast, When heav'n and hell shall both be fill'd at last. Owen's Epigrams, 1677, DIVE-DAPPER. A small bird, called also a dab-chick, or didapper. If dive-dapper was really the original word, it was equivalent to small diver. This dandiprat, this dive-dapper. Middleton, Anc. Dr., iv, p. 372. DIVERB, 8. A proverb. A Latinism found chiefly, if not exclusively, in Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. See Todd. To DIVEST. To undress. Devestio, Lat.; derétir, Fr. This is the primitive sense of the word, but is not now used. Oth,, ii, 3. Friends all but now, ev'n now In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom Diresting them for bed. DIVIDABLE. Used for divided, distant. Accented on the first. Peaceful commerce from di'vidable shores. Tr. & Cr., i, 3. DIVIDANT. Licentiously, as it seems, used for divisible; and apparently accented on the middle syllable. Twinn'd brothers of one womb, Whose procreation, residence, and birth Scarce is dividant,-touch them with several fortunes, The greater scorns the lesser. Tim. of A., iv, 3. To DIVIDE. To make divisions in music, which is, the running a simple strain into a great variety of shorter notes to the same modulation. And all the while sweet music did divide Her looser notes to Lydian harmony. Spens. F. Q., III, i, 40. And all the while most heav'nly melody About the bed sweet music did divide. Ibid., Iv7 In both these passages, however, there seems to be an allusion to the "carmina divides" of Horace. Mr. Warton, who has quoted them in his notes on Milton's Ode on the Passion, must have meant to assign the same sense to the word in that passage; but in this he was mistaken: it means there only to share, or bear a part: To that great promulgater, And neat divulgater, Whom the citie admires, And the suburbs desires. Harry White's Humour, 1659. +DIVULST. Rent asunder. Vaines, syuewes, arteries, why crack yee not? Burst and divulst with anguish of my griefe. Antonio and Mellida, 1602. A DIZARD, DIZZARD, or DISARD. A blockhead, or fool. Probably from the same Saxon etymology as dizzy, dysi, Some have said, from disard, Fr. for a prater, or babbling fellow; but no such word was ever used in French. Their word is diseur; nor does the English word mean so much a prater, as a downright dunce, or fool. Thus Cotgrave renders it, not by diseur, or any such word, but by lourdaut. He that cannot personate the wise man well amongst wisards, let him learn to play the fool well amongst dizzards. G. Chapm., Masque of the Middle Temple, C 1. What a revengeful dizard is this! Lingua, O. Pl., v, 165. Whereat the sergeant wroth, said, Dizzard, calfe, Thou would'st if thou hadst wit or sense to see. Harringt. Ep., 2, 9. [In the old English Homer by Art. Hall (1581), p. 10, which was translated from the French, we have :] + You heraulter high, come on, quoth he, no daunger dread at all, For by your disarde king, not you, their wrong on me doth fall. [The dizard was properly the vice, or fool, in a play; the jester. This would seem to justify the Fr. derivation.] +Pantomimus, Senecæ, qui fracto corporis motu turpique gesticulatione quasvis actiones repræsentat, ab omnifaria imitatione indito nomine. marтoμíμos. A dizzard or common vice and jester, counterfetting the gestures of any man, and moving his body as him Nomenclator. list. DIZZARDLY. The writer of the fol lowing passage seems to have preferred the French derivation: Where's this prating asse, this dizzardly foole? Wilson's Cobler's Prophecy, A 4. +To DO AWAY. To kill; to make away with. The Tartar broke o're the four hundred mil'd wall, My muse with angels did divide to sing. DIVISION is used by Shakespeare in To DO ONE RIGHT, or REASON. the musical sense : Some say the lark makes sweet division. Faire raison, Fr. To pledge a person Do me right, in drinking. Rom. and Jul., iii, 5. And in the same manner it is still used technically. +DIVULGATOR. One who divulges; a publisher. And dub me knight, Part of an old catch, sung by Silence in 2 Hen. IV, v, 3; alluded to, probably, in this also: I'll do you right. harde by, there ile stand that the old doches may see See also the note on the Widow's +DOCK. In dock, out nettle, a singular phrase indicating unsteadiness or inconstancy, which was popular during a long period. Shee's like a Janus with a double face, To smile and lowre; to grace, and to disgrace; And in inconstancy is onely constant. But here, there, every where; in dock, out nettle. Taylor's Workes, 1630. As this is now the time of spring, Many conjectural attempts have been made to restore the true reading, of which the above is one. But of worth there is no trace in the original. Eale has been made ease, and that changed into base. But Capell con- †DOCTRINABLE. Containing doctrine. jectured, with probability, that ill was the word intended. The slightest change would be The dram of ill Doth all the noble substance often out. Poor Robin, 1777. Then certainely is more doctrinable the fained Cirus While the little birds play; Now purpose I roundly But dout, the contraction of do out, To DO TO DEATH, and to DO TO O Warwick, Warwick! that Plantagenet 3 Hen. VI, ii, 1. For when I die shall envie die with mee, Hall, Prol. to Satires, B. IV. +DOCHES. Marry I must get me another gate, and put one a newe face, and so I will goe to yonder narrowe streete DODGE, s. Poem of 17th cent. The Mariage of Wit and Wisdome. To have the dodge, to be cheated, or let a person give one the slip. Shall I trouble you so far as to take some pains with me? I am loath to have the dodge. Wily beguiled, Orig. of Dr., iii, 319. DODIPOLL. A stupid person, a thick head. From poll. But some will say, our curate is naught, an asse-head, a dodipoll, a lack-latin. Latimer's Serm., 98 b. There was an old anonymous comedy, printed in 1600, called, The Wisdome of Dr. Dodypole. See Warton, vol. iii, p. 475. +Corvi lusciniis honoratiores: Doctor Dodipoll is more honored than a good divine. Withals' Dictionary, ed. 1634, p. 554. [Dodipate was sometimes used in the same sense.] +Thus by her scole Made him a fole, And called hym dodypate. DODKIN, 8. The Boke of Mayd Emlyn. A very small coin, the eighth part of a stiver. From duytkin, Dutch; that is, doit-kin, a little doit. There was at that time [i. e., under Henry V forbidden certaine other coynes called seskaris and dodkins. Stowe's Lond., p. 97. Well, without halfpenie, all my wit is not worth a dodkin. Lyly's Mother Bombic, ii, 2. Just foure in all, Seven and a dodkin. Which, with the other three and quarter, make Gayton, Fest. Notes, p. 101. Still used in A snail. +DODMAN. Oh what a dodmans heart have we heare, oh what a fawnes courage, what a minde, an hart, courage, and spirit hast thou? Gentlemen, if you feare the Turkish pyrates, never doubt, for heere is a good fresh-water souldier. Passenger of Benvenuto, 1612. To DOFF. Contracted from to do off or put off. Usually applied to something worn on the body. Thus to don was made from to do on, and even to dup for to do up. See DUP. He that unbuckles this, 'till we do please To doff't for our repose, shall hear a storm. Ant. & Cl., iv, 4. Come, you must doff this black; dye that pale cheek Into his own colour. Honest Wh., O. Pl., iii, 340. In the following it is used for to remove, or get rid of: Your eye in Scotland Every day thou doff'st me with some device, Iago. Oth., iv, 2. See DAFF. DOG-BOLT. Evidently a term of reproach, and, I suspect, nearly synonymous with dog, only perhaps more contemptuous. At least, dogbolts are said to snarl, in the following passage: I'll not be made a prey unto the marshall, In another place it seems to imply To have your own turn serv'd, and to your friend To DOG-DRAW. A term in the old forest law. Dogge-draw is, where any man hath striken or wounded a wild beast, by shooting at him, either with crosse bow or long bowe, and is found with a hound or other dogge drawing after him, to recover the same, this the old forresters do call dogge-drawe. Manwood's Treatise of the Lawes of the Forest, 1598. +DOG'S-FACE. A term of reproach. Meane while Achilles kept the peace, But to berogue him did not cease, Quoth he, thou drunken, dogs-face, coward. Homer a la Mode, 1665. †DOGION. For dudgeon. They that are of this complexion are very affable in speech, and have a gracious faculty in their delivery, much addicted to witty conceits, to a scholerlike ivтрameλía, being facetosi, not acetosi; quipping without bitter taunting: hardly taking any thing in dogion, except they be greatly mooved, with disgrace especially. Optick Glasse of Humors, 1639. A DOG-KILLER seems to have been an allowed office in the hot months, when those animals are apt to run mad. Would take you now the habit of a porter, now of a carmau, now of the dog-killer, in this month of August, and in the winter of a seller of tinderboxes. B. Jons. Bart. Fair, ii, 1. This practice, Mr. Gifford says, is common on the Continent. DOG-LEACH. Dog-doctor. From dog and leach. Used also as a general term of contempt. Empirics that will undertake all cures, yet know not the causes of any disease. Dog-leeches! Ford, Lov. Mel., iv, 2. Out, you dogleach! The vomit of all prisons! B. Jons. Alc., i, 1. +DOG-TRICK. A practical joke. The word is explained as meaning sometimes a fool's bauble. I will heere, in the way of mirthe, declare a prettie dog-tricke or gibe as concerninge this mayden. Polydore Vergil, trans. I could have soyled a greater volume than this with a deale of emptie and triviall stuffe; as puling sonets, whining elegies, the dog-tricks of love, toyes to mocke apes, and transforme nien into asses. Taylor's Workes, 1630, To be a dog-bolt. B. & F. Wit w. Money, iii, 1. †DOG-WHIPPER. A church-beadle. Oh ye dog-bolts! That fear no hell but Dunkirk. Ibid., Hon. M. Fort., v, 1. Johnson says, on what authority I know not, that the coarser part of meal is called dog-bolt, or flour for dogs; but this, as Mr. Todd hints, will not explain its use. Butler uses it as an adjective, in the sense of base, or degraded: His only solace was that now Hudib., II, 1, 39. No compound of dog and bolt, in any The term is an old one. It were verie good the dog-whipper in Paules would DOLE. A share or lot in anything dis- used as a general wish for good success in a manner which makes it difficult to give it any literal construction: particularly as an exclamation before a doubtful contest, where it seems equivalent to "Happy be he who succeeds best." Mine honest friend, Will you take eggs for money? Mam. No, my lord, I'll fight. Leo. You will! why, happy man be his dole. Win. Tale, i, 2. Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business. 1 Hen. IV, ii, 2. Wherein, happy man be his dole, I trust that I Shall not specde worst, and that very quickly. Damon and Pith., O. PL., i, 177. So in Hudibras : Let us that are unhurt and whole Part I, Cant, 3, v. 637. We find an equivalent phrase in Beaumont and Fletcher, which throws considerable light upon this: What news? what news? 1st Cit. It holds, he dies this morning. 2d Cit. Then happy man be his fortune, I'm resolv'd. Cupid's Revenge, act iv, p. 485. Dole also was used for grief, or lamentation, as derived from dolor: With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage, I know you were one could keep Against his oath from us had made departure Mirror for Mag., p. 313. The title of dolphin was purchased to the eldest sonne of the king of France, by Philip of Valoys, who began his raigue in France, anno 1328. Imbert, or Hubert, the last count of the province of Dolphinie and Viennois, who was called the dolphin of Viennois, being vexed, &c. Coryat, vel. i, p. 45. Yet I think that usage perfectly misapplied in explaining the following passage: "Why your dolphin is not lustier; 'fore me I speak in respect. All's W., ii, 3. On this Mr. Steevens says, "By dolphin is meant the dauphin," &c.; whereas it means only that the king is made as lusty as a dolphin, which is a sportive, lively fish; a similar idea probably suggested the following singular passage: 66 His delights Were dolphin-like, and shew'd his back above The apparently incoherent stuff of Dolphin my boy, boy, Sessy, let him trot by," is said to be part of an old song, in which the king of France thus addressed the Dauphin: Dolphin, my boy, my boy, Cesses, let him trot by. So at least I conjecture it should be, not cease, as it is printed in Mr. Steevens's note. Lear, iii, 4. Hey no nonny was the burden of this ballad, as of some others now extant. Cokes, in Jonson's Barth. Fair, alludes to the same ballad, when he says, "He shall be Dauphin my boy." Act v, SC. 4. The butt'ry hatch still lock'd, and save the chippings, †DOMAGE. Damage, hurt. Sell the dole-beer to aqua-vitæ men, &c. B. Jons. Alch., i, 1. +DOLE-BREAD. Bread similarly distributed. "Pain d'aumosne. Dolebread." Nomenclator. DOLOUR. Grief, pain, or lamentation. When the tongue's office should be prodigal, To breathe the abundant dolour of the heart. Rich. II, i, 3. So all lamenting muses would me wailings leud, The dolours of the heart in sight again to show. Mirror for Magist., p. 485. DOLPHIN. This word was long in current use for the Dauphin of France. In the old edition of The troublesome Raigne of King John, it is so through out: Lewis the dolphin and the heire of France, &c. The turning tide bears back, with flowing chaunce, Unto the dolphin all we had attain'd, And fills the late low-running hopes of Fraunce. Daniel, Cie. Wars, v, 41. What delight hath heaven, +DOMESTICAL. Chapm. Odyss., xiii, 457. Domestic. In our private and domestical matters. Sydney's Apology for Poetry. By whose good indeavours, vice is punished, vertus rewarded, peace established, forraigne broyles repressed, domesticall cares appeased. Lylie's Euphues and his England. DOMINATIONS. One of the supposed orders of angelical beings, according to the established arrangement of the schools. In Heywood's Hierarchie of blessed Angels (1635), they form the titles of seven books; Michael the archangel presides over the eighth, and the angel Gabriel over the ninth. They are thus specified:-1. Cheru bim; 2. Seraphim; 3. Thrones; 4. |