much used in wines, sauces, and perfumes. It is found floating on the sea in warm climates, and is now generally agreed by chemists to be produced in the stomach of the physeter macrocephalus, or spermaceti whale. There is no doubt that it is an animal secretion. Various other conjectures of its origin were formerly suggested. Thoms. Chem., v.

'Tis well, be sure

AMBRY.

+Oh, Mary Ambree! good, thy judgement, wench; Thy bright elections cleere; what will he proove? Marston, Anton, & Mellida, Part I, i, 1. Corrupted from almonry. A street in Westminster is so called, being the place where the alms of the abbey were distributed; it is situated to the west of the Broad Sanctuary. †AMEBLY. Apparently means a simpleton.

Hea. Till that you have undone yourself you mean.
Mo. Ey save you both: for derne love sayen soothly.
Where is thylk amebly, Francklin, cleped Meanwel?
Hear. Hee's gone abroad.

Mo. Lere me whylk way he wended.

Cartwright's Ordinary, 1651.

The wines be lusty, high, and full of spirit,
And amber'd all. B. & F., Cust. of Country, iii, 2.
I had clean forgot; we must have ambergrise,
The greyest can be found.
This is for furnishing a banquet.
Milton has inverted the word; in the
banquet produced by the devil to
tempt our Saviour, he tells us,

Meats of noblest sort, &c.

Gris-amber steam'd.

Par. Reg., ii, 341. It was considered also as provocative : Or why may not

O. Pl, ix, 49.

Your learn'd physician dictate ambergrease,
Or powders, and so obey him in your broths?
Have you so strange antipathy to women?
And to maintain his goatish luxury, (i. e. lewdness)
Eats capons cookt at fifteen crowns apiece,
With their fat bellies stuff'd with ambergrise.
Drayt. Mooncalf, p 483.
It was sometimes called merely amber.
See Warton on Comus, 1. 368.
AMBES-ACE. See AMES-ACE.
TAMBODEXTER. One who keeps fair
with both parties, who is the friend
of whoever is uppermost.

But at this word me thought a number fled,
Some others wishte them fishes in the sea:
An other sorte began to hyde their head,
And many other did ambodexter play.

Golden Mirrour, 1589. AMBREE, MARY. An English heroine, immortalised by her valour at the siege of Ghent in 1584. The ballad composed to her honour is in Percy's Reliques of ancient English Poetry, vol. ii, p. 218. She is mentioned also by Beaumont and Fletcher in the Scornful Lady, act. v; and several times by Ben Jonson, who, in his masque of the Fortunate Isles, particularly mentions the ballad:

That Mary Ambree
Who marched so free
To the siege of Gaunt,

And death could not daunt,
(As the ballad doth vaunt,) &c.

Her name was therefore proverbially applied to women of strength and spirit.

My daughter will be valiant, And prove a very Mary Ambry i' the business. B. Jons., Tale of a Tub, i, 4.

Heav'ns richest diamonds, set in amel white.

Fletch., Purple Isl., x, 33.
Marke how the payle is curiously inchased,
In these our daies such workes are seldome found.
The handle with such anticks is imbraced,
As one would thinck they leapt above the ground;
The ammell is so faire and fresh of hew,
And to this day it seemeth to be new.

An ould facioned lore, by J. T., 1594.
A husband like an ammel would inrich
Your golden virtues.

Dutchess of Suff., A. 4. +Inriching, with such change His powerfull stile; and with such sundry ammell Paynting his phrase, his prose or verse enammel. Du Bartas, by Sylvester. +Then he admires his silver-boots most light, With gold and ammell wrought, and well refin'd. Virgil, by Vicars, 1632. +He seemes a full student, for hee is a great desirer of controversies, hee argues sharpely and carries his conclusion in his scabard, in the first refining of mankind this was the gold, his actions are his ammel. Overbury's New and Choise Characters, 1615, Amelled for enamelled. See Todd. AMENAGE and AMENAUNCE. Carriage; behaviour; conduct. And with grave speech and grateful amenance Himself, his state, his spouse, to them commended. Ph. Fletcher's Purp. Is., xì, 9. AMENAGE, v. To manage. With her, whoso will raging furor tame, Must first begin, and well her amenage.

To

+AMENDSFUL.

Sp., F. Q., II. iv, 11. Atoning; making

Chapman, I., 11, 83.

amends. He said, and his amendsful words did Hector highly please. AMERCE. To punish. Originally to punish by fine, and so still used.

Where every one that misseth then her make
Shall be by him amerst with penance dew.

Sp. Sonnet, 70.
Now, daughter, see'st thou not how I amerce
My wrath, that thus bereft thee of thy love,
Upon my head.
O. Pl., ii, 228.
AMES-ACE, or AMBS-ACE. Two aces
on the dice. Ambesas, Fr. Ambes
being the old French for both. See
Roquefort, Glossaire.

I had rather be in this choice, than throw ames-ace
for my life.
All's W., ii, S.

May I

At my last stake, when there is nothing else
To lose the game, throw ames-ace thrice together!

Ordinary, O. Pl., x, 238.

Also the ensign-bearer, or officer now called an ensign. Thus, Pistol was Falstaff's ancient or ensign.

Are you not, bawd, a whore's ancient? and must I not follow my colours? O. Pl, iii, 481. Skinner says the word ancient is only a corruption of ensign. ANCOME. A kind of boil, sore, or foul swelling in the fleshy parts. Kersey's Dict.

Swell bigger and bigger till it has come to an ancome.
O. Pl., iv, 238.

AND. The participial termination, prior
toing. [More correctly a dialectic form.]
His glitterand armour shined far away.
Sp., F. Q., I, vii, 29.
It is very common in that author.
ANELE, v. To anoint, or give extreme
unction ; from ele, Saxon, for oil.

So when he was houseled and aneled, and had all that a Christian man ought to have.

Mort d'Arthur, p. iii, c. 175.

Cited eneled by Capel, School of Sh.,
p. 176.

The extreme unction or anclynge, and confirmacion, he
sayed be no sacraments of the church.
Sir Thos. More's Works, p. 345.
Also, aneyling is without promise.
Ib., 879.

To anoyle was also used: The byshop sendeth it to the curates, because they should therwith annoynt the sick, in the sacrament of anoyling. Sir Thos. More's Works, p. 431. Also children were christen'd, and men houseld and annoyled thorough all the land. Holinsh., vol. ii, n. 6. See UNANELED, and HOUSEL. ANENST. Against. A Chaucerian word. And right anenst him a dog snarling-er. B. Jon., Alchem., act ii. ANGEL. A gold coin worth about ten shillings. Shakespeare puns on it:

You follow the young prince up and down like his
ill-angel.

Not so, my lord; your ill angel is light; but I hope he
that looks on me will take me without weighing."
2 Hen. IV, i, 2.

So Donne too:

O shall twelve righteous angels, which as yet
No leaven of vile solder did admit; &c.
Angels which heav'n commanded to provide
All things for me, &c. &c. Elegy, xii, 9-22.

It appears from the following epigram, that a lawyer's fee was only an angel :

Upon Anne's Marriage with a Lawyer ;
Anne is an angel, what it so she be?
What is an angel but a lawyer's fee?

Wit's Recreations, Epigr. 591. +There spake an angel, was a common phrase of approval of a proposal made by another. See the Play of Sir Thomas More, p. 6.

†ANGEL-GOLD. Gold used for coining angels was so termed, being of a finer kind than crown gold.

TANGELICA. The virtues of this plant are constantly alluded to by Elizabethan writers. Gerard, p. 147, says, "The rootes of garden angelica is a singular remedie against poison, and against the plague, and all infections taken by evill and corrupt aire; if you do but take a peece of the roote, and holde it in your mouth, or chew the same betweene your teeth, it doth most certainly drive away the pestilentiall aire."

Angellica, which, eaten every meale,

Is found to be the plagues best medecine. The Newe Metamorphosis, MS. temp. Jac. I. ANGELOT. A kind of small cheese made commonly in France. Kersey. So also Skinner.

Your angelots of Brie,

Your Marsolini, and Parmasan of Lodi.

O. PL., viii, 483.

[The following are receipts for making angelots.]

+To make angelots. Take a quart of milk and a pint of cream, and put two spoonfuls of runnet to it, and when it curdles, put it into a fat by spoonfuls, and then let it remain till it is stiff, so sprinkle it with a little salt, and let it dry for use.

The Accomplish'd Female Instructor, 1719. +To make angellets. Take a quart of new mulk and a pint of cream, and put them together with a little runnet, when it is come wel take it up with a spoon, and put it into the vate softly and let it stand 2 days till it is pretty stiff, then slip it out and salt it a little at both ends, and when you think it is salt enough, set it a drying, and wipe them, and within a quarter of a year they will be ready to eat.

A True Gentlewoman's Delights, 1676, p. 21. ANGELS. The fanciful division of the celestial angels into nine hierarchies, adopted by Heywood and others, and even by Milton, was derived from a Latin work, entitled, Dionysius de Colesti Hierarchia. An earth-worm. +ANGEL-TOUCHE. Sometimes written angle-twitch or angle-twache. From the Fr. anguille.

Take angell-towchis, and grinde them small, but first wash them as cleane as ye may, then put thereto a quantity of neates-foote oyle, and a quantity of vineger, drinke this medicine cold three times, and it will cause you to cast out all the sicknes in your body presently. The Pathway of Health, bl. let.

+ANGEL-WATER. A very fashionable perfume in the seventeenth century. Cun. I met the pretty'st creature in New Spring. Garden! her gloves right marshal, her petticoat of the new rich Indian stuffs, her fan colambor: angel water was the worst sent about her.-I am sure she was of quality. Sedley's Bellamira. The following receipt for making it is given in the Accomplished Female Instructor:

Angel-water, an excellent perfume; also a curious wash to beautify the skin. Prepare a glaz'd earthen pot, and put into it 16 ounces of orange-flower-water, a quarter of a pound of benjamine, two ounces of storax, half an ounce of cinnamon, and a quarter of an ounce of cloves grosly bruised with three drams of calamus aromaticus; set them over hot embers, or a gentle fire to simmer or bubble up well; when about a fifth part is consumed, add a bladder of musk, and a few minutes after take it off, and let it cool, pour it off by inclination from the settlings, and put it into a thick glass bottle, and of the dross, you may make perfumed cakes, or sweet bags, to lay amongst cloaths. +ANGINE. The quinsey. Lat. angina.

But as they say of great Hyppocrates,

Who (though his limbs were numm'd with no excess,
Nor stopt his throat, nor vext his fantasie)
Knew the cold cramp, th' angine, and lunacy,
And hundred els-pains, whence in lusty flowr
He lived exempt a hundred yeers and foure.

Sylvester's Du Bartas. +ANGLING-WAND. A fishing-rod.

I dowt not but though you shall be farr off, you will
use a long anglyng-wand to catch some knowledg
Letter dated 1565.
Inflammation of the

+ANGRINESS.

skin.

They yeeld great substance, and their sweate by reason of the usuall heate, takes away the angrinesse and rednesse of skars, as doth fresh virgin parchment. The Passenger of Benvenuto, 1612. ANGRY BOYS. See Boys. AN-HEIRS. This uncommon expression of Shakespeare has puzzled all the commentators. Nothing can be made of it without alteration. The best conjecture seems to be, that it should be, Will you go aneirst? a provincial term for the nearest way, or directly. This makes the sense perfect. passage is,

The

Will you go an heirs? Shal. Have with you, mine

host.

Mer. W., ii, 1.

[The conjecture of Dyce, which seems now to be the approved reading, is mynheers.]

AN IF. Used for if.

No, no, my heart will burst, an if I speak.
3 Hen. VI, v, 5.

The expression is very common in old writers. +ANIMALLILIO.

A diminutive ani

mal; an animalcule.

As I was musing thus, I spyed a swarm of gnats waving up and down the ayr about me, which I knew to be part of the univers as well as 1, and me thonght it was a strange opinion of our Aristotle to hold that the least of those small insected ephemerans should

Who can conceive, or censure in what sort
One loadstone-touched ann'let doth transport
Another iron-ring, and that another,
Till foure or five hang dangling one in other?

ANON, SIR.

Sylvester's Du Barlas.
Immediately, or pre-
sently, sir.
The customary answer
of waiters, as they now say, "Coming,
sir." This appears not only in
act ii, scene 4, of the first part of
Henry IV, where it is the constant
reply of Francis, the waiter, when
called, but in these lines:

Like a call without anon, sir,
Or a question without an answer,
Like a ship was never rigged, &c.
And again,

Th' anon, sir, doth obey the call.

Speak in the Dolphin, speak in the Swan,
Drawer; anon, sir, anon.

Witts Recreations, sign. T. 7; it is there incorrectly printed non-sir, but the meaning is plain. †ANOPTICAL. Dim-sighted.

But as touching the shaddowes above our eie in the anopticall sight, I holde, that howe much the more the pictures seeme to be shortned, and their inward parts to rise higher and lower, that the lights and shaddows may be seene, so much the more or lesse light they have towards their upper parts. Lomatins on Painting, 1598. +ANOTHER. To become another man ; i. e. to reform.

He is nowe become another man, he hath nowe recovered himselfe againe. Terence in English, 1614. ANOTHER-GATES. Another sort. And his bringing up another-gates marriage than such a minion. Lyly's Mother Bombie, act i.

See OTHERGATES. +ANOTHER-GUESS. Another sort. Whereas at present I am constrained to make another guesse divertisement, for that I cannot light