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learning, brother to Dionyfius, was born at Leyden in 1618. He had no other tutor but his father, and employed his whole life in studying: his merit recommended him to a correspondence with Q. CURISTINA of Sweden; he made feveral journeys into Sweden by her order, and had the honour to teach her the Greek. In 1670, he came over to England, where king Charles made him canon of Windfor. He appears indeed by his publications, which are neither fo useful nor fo numerous as his father's, to have been a most credulous inan, while he afforded many circumftances to bring his religious faith in queftion. He died at Windfor castle in 1688. He was LL.D.

(4.) Vossius, Gerard, a Romith divine, a relation of the preceding, was born in 1609. He published the works of Gregorius Thaumaturgus; Ephrem Syrus, and some tracts of John Chryfoftom, and Theodoret, with Latin verfions, and notes.

*VOTARESS. n. f. [female of votary.] A woman devoted to any worship or ftate.-The imperial vot'refs paffed on. Shak.-His mother was a vat'refs of my order. Shakefp.-No rosary this votrefs needs. Cleavel.-Thy vot'ress from my tender years I am. Dryden.-His fifter fends her vot'refs from above. Pope.

* VOTARIST. n. f. [devotus, Lat.] One devoted to any person or thing; one given up by a vow to any fervice or worship; votary.-The votarifts of St Clare. Shak.-No, gods, I am no idle votarif. Sbak.-Like a fad votarif in palmer's weed. Milton.

(1.) * VOTARY. n. /. One devoted, as by a vow, to any particular service, worship, ftudy, or fate of life.-Thou art a votary to fond defire. Sha.

Thou, faint god of fleep! forget that I Was ever known to be thy votary. Crafhaw. -'Twas the coldness of the votary. Fell.-Zealous votaries to bulls and monkies. Locke.-The enemy of our happiness has his fervants and vota ries. Rogers.-Love's vetaries. Savift.

(2.) VOTARY. adj. Confequent to a vow.Votary refolution is made equipollent to cuftom. Bacon.

(1.) VOTE, n. S. [votum, Latin.] Suffrage'; voice given and numbered.-Profit with pleafure carries all the votes. Rofcommon.-The vote of the multitude. Locke.-The majority of opinions or vates in the affembly. Watts.

(2.) VOTE is particularly ufed for the refolves of the members of either house of parliament. (3.) VOTES, FOR MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. The following lift of both real and nominal as they flood on the county rolls of Scotland in 1788, we have been favoured with by the Earl of BUCHAN, Counties. Real. Nominal, 153 32 128

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The claims of new freeholders, are, after due confideration, added to the rolls of each county, at the Michaelmas head court, each year.-The lift of voters for each county in Scotland, is now annually published, at least in one of the Edinburgh Almanacks.

*To VOTE. v. a. 1. To choose by fuffrage; to determine by fuffrage.-The world hath alfo ted you. Bacon. 2. To give by vote.—The parliament voted them L.100,000. Savift.

* VOTER. n. /. [from vote.] One who has the right of giving his voice or fuffrage.-The voters. are the bulk of the common people. Swift.—A voter's claim. Swift.

VOTGINSKOI, a town of Ruffia, in Ufting, on the Sula, 40 m. S. of Sifalz.

VOTIAKS. See TARTARY, § 2.

(1.) * VOTIVE. adj. [votivus, Lat.] Given by vow.-On votive tablets to the life pourtray'd. Dryden.-Venus! take my votive glass. Prior.

(2.) VOTIVE MEDALS, thofe on which are ex preffed the vows of the people for the emperors or empreffes. See NUMISMATOGRAPHY.

*VOUCH. n. f. [from the verb.] Warrant; atteftation.-Did jultly put on the vouch of very malice itfelf. Shak.

(1.) To VOUCH. v. a. [voucher, Norman Ft.l 1. To call to witnefs; to obteft.-And touch the filent ftars and conscious moon. Dryd. 2. To atteft; to warrant; to declare; to maintain by repeated affirmations.-The confiftency of the dif comfe vouches it worthy of our great apoftle. Locke. To vouch the truth of the relation. Atterb. (2.) To VOUCH. v. 7. To bear witnefs; to appear as a witnefs; to give teftimony.-He will not believe her until the elector of Hanover shall vouch for the truth of it. Swift.

*VOUCHER. n. f. [from vouch.] 1. One who gives witness to any thing.-Vouchers for one another's reputation. Spe&.-The vouchers themselves will be Toon loft. Pope. 2. Teftimony.-Their

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needlefs voucher? Shak.-A public voucher, Locke. (1.) * To VOUCHSAFE. v. a. [vouch and safe.] 1. To permit any thing to be done without dan 2. To condescend to grant.-He vouchsafed conference. Sidney.-Shall I vouchsafe your wor. fhip a word or two? Shak.

ger.

Think the fame vouchsaf'd

To cattle and each beast.

Milton. -It is not faid that God vouchsaf'd to the heathens the means of falvation. South.

(2.) * To VOUCHSAFE. v. n. To deign; to condefcend; to yield.-Doth not she vouchsafe to love me with like ardour? Sidney.-Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman. Shak.—Vouchsafe, il Juftrious Ormond. Dryd.

* VOUCHSAFEMENT. n. f. [from vouchsafe.] Grant; condefcenfion.-God's greatest communicated vouchsafements. Boyle.

VOVES, a town of France, in the dep. of Eure and Loire; 12 m. NW. of Janville, and 12 SSE. of Chartres.

VOUET, Simon, an eminent painter born at Paris in 1582. He became a painter to the academy of St Luke at Rome, but was recalled to France, by Lewis XIII, to ornament his palaces. He gave him a penfion, and he became the founder of the French fchool. He died in 1641.

(1.) VOUGA, a river of Portugal, which rifes 15 miles NE. of Visu; and runs into the Atlan, tic, 5 miles N. of Aveiro.

(2.) VOUGA, a town of Portugal, in Beira, on the above river, 10 miles ENE. of Aveiro, (1.) VOUILLE, a town of France, in the dep. of Vienne; 7 miles NNW. of Poitiers.

(2.) VOILLE, a town of France, in the dep. of Ardeche, 10 miles SSW. of Valence.

VOUNEUIL, a town of France, in the dep. of Vienne, 12 miles NNE. of Poitiers.

VOURA, a river of European Turkey, which separates Theffaly from Albania, and runs into the Gulf of Arta.

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VOURLA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia, 20 miles W. of Smyrna,

(1.) VOUTE, a town of France, in the dep. of Ardeche, on the right bank of the Rhone, 18 m. N. of Viviers.

(2) VOUTE, a town of France, in the dep. of Upper Loire, 9 miles S. of Brioude.

VOUTEZAT, a town of France, in the dep. of Correze, 9 miles NW. of Brive.

VOUVANT, a town of France, in the dep. of Vendi, 6 miles NNE. of Fontenay.

VOUVRAY, a town of France, in the dep. of the Indre and Loire, 44 miles E. of Tours. VOUX, a town of France, in the dep. of Seine and Marne, 10 miles E. of Nemours.

VOUZAILLES, a town of France, in the dep. of Vienne, 12 miles NE. of Poitiers. VOUZIERS, a town of France, in the dep. of Ardennes, 20 miles SW. of Stenay.

(1.)* VOW. n. f. [veu, Fr. votum, Latin.] 1. Any promife made to a divine power; an act of devotion, by which fome part of life, or fome part of poffeffions is confecrated to a particular purpofe.-The Gods are deaf to peevish vows. Shak.-He who refolves our vows engag'd does stand For days that yet belong to fate. Cowley. A wifh is a far lower degree than a vow. Hamm.

She her vows for his return with vain devotion pays. Dryden. 2 A folemn promise, commonly ufed for a promise of love or matrimony.-By all the vows that ever men have broke. Shak.— Knights who never broke their vow. Dryden.

(2.) Vow, in religion. The ufe of vows is found in moft religions. They make up a confiderable part of the Pagan worship, being made either in confequence of fome deliverance, under fome preffing neceffity, or for the fuccefs of fome enterprize. Among the Jews, all vows were to be voluntary, and made by perfons wholly in their own power; and if fuch perfon made a vow in any thing law. ful and poffible, he was obliged to fulfil it. If he appointed no particular time for accomplishing his vow, he was bound to do it inftantly, left by delay he should prove lefs able, or be unwilling, to execute his promife. Among the Romanifts, a perfon is conftituted a religious by taking three vows; that of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

(3.) Vows, among the Romans, fignified facri. fices, offerings, prefents, and prayers, made for the Cæfars, and emperors, particularly for their profperity and the continuance of their empire. These were made at first every five years, then every 15, and afterwards every 20, and were called quinquen nalia, decennalia, and vincennalia.

(1.) * To Vow. v. a. [vouer, Fr. voveo, Lat.] 1. To confecrate by a folemn dedication; to give to a divine power.-David often voweth unto God the facrifice of praife. Hooker.-Vow and pay unto the Lord. P. xxvi.-Not only vowed, but delivered them over into the poffeffion of Almighty God. Spelman. And vorving of their foul to eve ry faint. Davies-II vowed the laurel to the laurel's god. Dryden. 2. To devote; a ceremonial phrafe.--To Mr Harvey, I have vowed this my labour. Spenfor.

(2.) To Vow. v. n. To make vows or folemn promifes.-There was a time, when I did vow. Suckling.

* VOWED. part. paf. [from the verb.] Confecrated by folemn declaration,

(1.)* VOWEL. n. f. [voyelle, Fr. vocalis, Lit.] A letter which can be uttered by itself.-A vozel may be founded alone, a confonant not without a vowel Holder-Virgil makes the two vowels meet without an elifion. Broome.

(2.) A VOWEL, in grammar, is a letter which affords a complete found of itself, or a letter fo fimple as only to need a bare opening of the mouth to make it heard, and to form a diftin&t voice. The vowels are fix in number, viz. A, E, I, O, U, Y, See GRAMMAR under ENGLISH LANGUAGE, p. 685. The proportion of vowels to confonants in the English language is faid to be as 61 to 100; in French, as 78 to roo; while in the Welsh, it is nearly equal.

(3.) VOWEL, John. See HOOKER.

(4.) VOWEL POINTS, in the Hebrew Language; See PHILOLOGY, Sec. II. p. 378, 379.

*VOWFELLOW. n. f. [vow and fellow-] One bound by the fame vow-Who are vowfellows with this virtuous king. Shak.

VOXTORP, a town of Sweden, in Smaland; 29 miles NW. of Wexio.

*VOYAGE. n. f. [voyage, Fr.] 1. A travel by fea--Guyon forward 'gan his voyage make.

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Spenser-Our ships went fundry voyages. Bacon. -An able pilot in a long voyage. Prior. 2. Courie; attempt; undertaking. A low phrafe.-If he should intend his voyage towards my wife. Shak. -If you make your voyage upon her, and prevail, I am no further your enemy. Shak. 3. The practice of travelling.-Voyage into foreign parts. Bac. (1.) To VOYAGE. v. n. [voyager, Fr. from the noun. To travel by fea.-Voyaging to learn the direful art. Pope.

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(2.) To VOYAGE. v. a. To travel; to pafs over.-Voyag'd th' unreal, vast, unbounded deep. Milton.

* VOYAGER. n. s. [voyageur, Fr. from voy age.] One who travels by fea-Do as other voyagers. Donne.-How comfortably this is, voyagers can beft tell. Cheyne.-A private voyager 1 pafs the main. Pope.

VOZ, a lake of Ruffia, in Novgorodskoe; 6 miles round.

VOZGA, a town of Ruffia, in Novgorodskoe, near lake Voz; 48 miles NE. of Bielozerfk. VOZIA, a town of European Turkey, in Befarabia, on the Black Sea; 26 miles W. of Ockzakow.

VOZNESENSKOI, a own of Ruffia, in Irkutkoe, on the Angara : 20 miles NW. of Irkutsk. (1.) * UP. adv. [up, Saxon; up, Dutch and Danish.] 1. Aloft; on high; not down.-The wonderful changes of worldly things, now up and down. Knolles

Thither his course he bends; but up or down, By centre or eccentrick, hard to tell, Or longitude.

Milton.

2. Out of bed; in the state of being rifen froin rett. -Helen was not up? was fhe? Shak.-His chamber was commonly ftived with fuiters, when he was up. Wotton. 3. In the state of being rifen from a feat.-Upon his first rifing, a general whisper ran that Sir Roger was up. Addis. 4. From a state of decumbiture or concealment. 5. In a ftate of being built.-Up with my tent; here will I lie to night. Shak. 6. Above the horizon.—As foon as the fun is up, fet upon the city. Judges, ix.-Up rofe the fun, and up rofe Emily. Dryden. 7. To a ftate of proficiency.-Wrought oui felves up into a degree of Chriftian indifference. Atterb. 8. In a ftate of exaltation.-Thofe that were up themselves, kept others low. Spens.-Henry the Fifth is crown'd; up vanity Shak. 9. In a ftate of climbing-The rumour flew up to the city. Chapm. 10. In a flate of infurrection.-York is up with well appointed powers. Shak.-Rebels there are up. Shak.-My foul's up in arms. Dryd. 11. In a ftate of being increased, or raised.-Grief and paffion, like floods, are quickly up. Dryd. 12. From a remoter place, coming to any person or place.-Up comes a fcx. L'Estr. 13. Into or. der: as, he drew up his regiment. 14. From younger to elder years.-I am ready to die from my youth up. Ps. lxxxviii. 15. Up and down. Difperfedly; here and there.-Scattered up and down like fo many little islands. Addis. 16. UP and down. Backward and forward.--Carried up and down with the waves of uncertain arguments. Hooker-The fkipping king he rambled up and down. Shak.-Up and down he trayerfes his ground. Daniel.

And up and down unfeen Wing filently the buxom air. Milton. -Walk'd up and down alone. Milt.-To rea ftarving up and down thus in woods. L'Estr.— Life wanders up and down Through all her face.

Addison.

17. Up to. To an equal height with.-Up to the chin in water. Addison. 18. Up to. Adequately to.-The wifeft men lived up to the religion of their country. Addis.-They live up to the holy rule, by which they have obliged themselves to walk. Atterb-We must act up to the pofitive precepts of our duty. Rogers. 19. Up quith. A phrafe that fignifies the act of raifing any thing to give a blow.-Up with her filt, and took him on the face. Sidney. 20. It is added to verbs implying fome accumulation, or increase.-Number up thofe prodigicus fwarms. Addison.

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(2.) UP. interject. 1. A word exhorting to rife from bed.-Up, up! cries gluttony, 'tis break of day. Pope. 2. A word of exhortation, exciting or roufing to action.-Up then, Melpomene, the mournful mufe of nine. Spens.-But up, and enter now into full blifs. Milton.-Up, up, for honour's fake; twelve legions wait you. Dryden.

(3.)* UP. prep. From a lower to a higher part; not down. In going up a hill the knees will be moft weary. Bacon.

UPA, a river of Ruffia, in Kalugafkoe, which rifes near Epiphan, paffes by Tula, and runs into the Oka, near Lichvin, in Kalugaskoe.

`UPAIX, a town of France, in the dep. of Upper Alps, 10 miles SE. of Serres.

*To UPBEAR. v. a. preter. upbore; part. paff. upborn. [up and bear:] 1. To fuftain aloft; to fupport in elevation.-Upborn with indefatigable wings. Milt.-Swift as on wings of wind, upborn they fly. Pope. 2. To raise aloft.

One fhort figh of human breath, upborn, Ev'n to the feat of God. Milton. A monftrous wave upbore the chief. Pope. 3. To fupport from falling

For want of food and sleep; which two upbear,

Like weighty pillars, this frail life of man. Spens. UPBO, a town of Sweden, in Dalecarlia; 20 miles SSE. of Fahlun.

* To UPBRAID. v. a. [upgebrædan, upgebredan, Saxon.] 1. To charge contemptuoufiy with any thing difgraceful. It has commonly with, fometimes of, before the thing imputed; fometimes it has only an accufative of the thing, as in Milton, and fometimes the perfon without the thing, or the thing without the perfon.-They were upbraided with that defect. Hooker.—

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the perfon.-Any of thefe, grudge or upbraid to them thofe fmall remains of ancient piety which the rapacity of fome ages has fcarce left. Spratt. May they not justly to our climes upbraid, Shortness of night, and penury of shade. Prior. 3. To urge with reproach.-Your blunt upbraid. ings, and your bitter fcoffs. Shak.-He has the upbraidings of his own confcience. Decay of Piety. 4. To reproach on account of a benefit received from the reproacher.-His knights grew riotous, and he himself upbraids us. Shak.-God giveth liberally, and upbraideth not. James.-Upbraiding fpeeches. Ecclus. 5. To bring reproach upon; to fhew faults by being in a state of comparison. -How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness? Sidn.-Inftead of healing, it upbraids my weakness. Addis. 6. To treat with contempt. Not in ufe. That name of native fire did foul upbraid. Spenser.

* UPBRAIDER. n. s. [from upbraid.] One that reproaches.

* UPBRAIDINGLY. adv. By way of reproach. -He is upbraidingly called a poet. Ben Jonson.

* To UPBRAY. v. a. [A word formed from upbraid by Spenser, for the sake of a rhyming termination.] To shame.-Vile knight, that knighthood doft with fhame upbray. Spenser.

* UPBROUGHT. part. paff. of upbring. Educated; nurtured. And with the crew of bletted faints upbrought. Spenser.

(1.) *UPCAST.[Particip. from To castup. The verb To upeast is not in ufe.] Thrown upwards. -Beafts with upcast eyes forsake their shade. Dryd. -Old Saturn here, with upcast eyes. Addison.

(2.) * UPCAST. n. s. A term of bowling; a throw; a caft.-Was there ever man had fuch juck? when I kifs'd the jack, upon an ucast, to be hit away. Shak.

* To UPGATHER. v. a. [up and gather.] To contract.-Himfelf he close upgathered. Spenser. (1.) UPHA, a river of Ruffia, which runs into the Bielaia, at UPHA, N° 2.

(2.) UPHA, a city of Ruffia, capital of UPHIMSKO, on the Bielaia: 452 miles WSW. of Tobolfk; 652 ESE. of Moscow; and 892 ESE. of Petersburg.

UP-HALL, or STRATHBROK, a parish of Scotland in Linlithgowshire, containing 3,120 Scots acres. The foil is a rich clay upon till, and many of the lower fields are covered with a rich black loam, both very fertile. The BROXBURN runs through it, near a village fo named. It has a colliery, 2 free-ftone quarries, many feams of ironftone, limestone, chalk, marl, clay, and fuller's earth. The population in 1793, was 600; the decreafe go, fince 1755.

* UPHAND. adj. [up and hand] Lifted by the hand. The uphand sledge is used by underwork.

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UPHAVEN, a town of England, in Wiltshire, 0 miles S. by W. of Marlborough, with a fair on July 15th.

*UPHELD. pret. and part. paff. of uphold. Maintained; fuftained.-Upheld by old repute.

Milton.

* UPHILL. adj. [up and bill.] Difficult; like the labour of climbing an hill.-Uphill labour. Clarissa Uphill chace. Young.

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UPHIMSKOE, a government of Ruffia, of a triangular form, bounded N. and W. by Permkor, and Viatkafkoe; W. by Caucafus, Saratovfkoe, Simbirskoe, and Karzanfkoe: S. by the Caf pian and E. by Tobolskoe. It is 440 miles long from E. to W. on the N.; but on the S. only 64 mies from E. to W.; on the W. from N. to S. 520 miles; on the E- it is only 160 miles broad.

To UPHOARD. v. a. [up and board.] To
treasure; to ftore; to accumulate in private places.
Heaps of huge words upboarded hideously. Spens
If thou haft uphoarded in thy life
Extorted treasure.

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Shak.

* To UPHOLD. v a. preter. upheld; and part. paff. upheld, and upholden. [up and hold.] 1. To lift on high. The mournful train with groans and hands upheld. Dryden. 2. To fupport; to fuftain; to keep from falling.-This arm upholds the houfe of Lancafter. Shak-To continue and uphold his ill purchased greatness. Davies.--Poetry and painting were upheld by the ftrength of imagination. Dryden. 3. To keep from declenfion.That upholds in the client the reputation of his counsel. Bacon.-The interpofition of the magif. trate was neceffary, to uphold the authority of those great principles. Atterb. 4. To support in any ftate of life.-Many have neither lands nor means to uphold themselves. Raleigh. 5. To continue; to keep from defeat.-They were contented to uphold oppofition against bishops. Hooker. 6. To keep from being loft.-He spite of spite, alone upholds the day. Shak. 7. To continue without failing. He upholds a current communication of difcourfe. Holder. 8. To continue in being.As Nebuchodnofor liveth, who hath fent thee for the upholding of every living thing. Judith.-A due proportion is held betwixt the parts, as well in the natural body of man, as the body politic of the fate, for the upholding of the whole. Hakew.

* UPHOLDER. n. s. [from uphold.] 1. A fupporter.-Sink down he muft, or find upholders. Swift. 2. A fuftainer in being.-The creator and upholder. Hale. 3. An undertaker; one who provides for funerals.-The company of upholders. Arbuthnot-Th' upholder, rueful harbinger of death. Gas.

*UPHOLSTERER. n. s. [A corruption of upholder.] One who furnishes houfes; one who fits up apartments with beds and furniture.-Send for the upholsterer. Swift.

Mere wax as yet, you fashion him with ease, Your barber, cook, upholsterer. Pope UPHOLSTERY. adj. Of or belonging to an upholsterer or to the furniture he deals in. UPLAMOOR, a village of Scotland, in Renfrewshire, in Nielton parish, containing 142 inhabitants, in 1791.

(1.) UPLAND, a province of Sweden, a kind of peninfula, being bounded on the NE. by the Baltic, on the S. by the fea of Sudermania; and on the W. by Westmania and Geftricia, from which it is separated by the Dela. It is 70 miles long, 45 broad, and is very populous and fertile in corn. It has mines of lead and iron. STOCKHOLM is the capital.

(2.) UPLAND. adj. 1. Iligher in fituation Upland dwellers. Carew.—The upland hamlets will invite. Milton 2. Rude; favage. This is

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upon the bare ftock of its original depravation. South.-When we make judgments upon general prefumptions. Burnet.-There's a great difference betwixt what we do upon force, and what upon inclination. L'Eftrange. The determination of the will upon enquiry, is following the direction of that guide. Locke. The one valuing himself too much upon his birth, and the other upon his poffeffions. Spectator.-The defign was discovered by a perfon, as much noted for his skill in gaming, as in politicks, upon the bafe, mercenary end of getting money by wagers. Swift. 8. In immediate confequence of.-Waller fhould not make advantage upon that enterprize. Clar.-A louder kind of found was produced upon cafting a live coal thereon. Boyle.-He is willing to pardon our most wilful miscarriages, upon our repentance and amendment. Tillotson.-Upon leffening intereft to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities. Locke.-The mind, upon the suggestion of any new motion. Locke.-Upon reading the admired paffages in authors. Spectator.-This advantage we loft upon the invention of fire-arms. Addison. 9. In a fate of view.-Is it upon record. Shak.-The next heroes we meet with upon record were Romulus and Numa. Temple.-The atheists are left branded upon the records of hiftory. Locke. 10. Suppofing a thing granted.-A good anfwer upon our fuppofition. Burnet. 11. Relat ing to a subject.

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Ambitious Conftance would not cease, "Till fhe had kindled France, and all the world, Upon the right and party of her fon. Yet when we can intreat an hour to serve, Would spend it in fome words upon that bufinefs.

Shak.

That ftill rife upmost when the nation boils. Dryd. * UPON. prep: [up and on.] 1. Not under; noting being on the top-As I did ftand my watch upon the hill. Shak. 2. Not within; being on the outfide.-Blood that is upon the altar. Bible. 3. Thrown over the body, as cloaths.-I-Upon this, I remember a ftrain of refined civilihave feen her throw her nightgown upon her. ty, that when any woman went to fee another of Shak. 4. By way of imprecation or infliction.- equal birth, the worked at her own work in the My blood upon your heads. Shak.-A law which other's house. Temple. 12. With respect to.muft never be pleaded against him, or executed They were examined upon all questions proposed upon him. Kettleworth. 5. It expreffes obtefta- to them. Dryden. 13. In confideration of.-Upon tion, or proteftation.the whole matter, I doubt there was a fault fomewhere. Dryd. 14. In noting a particular day.— Upon the whole. Pope.-Upon the day on which their marriage was to be folemnized. Addison. 15. Noting reliance or trust.

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Upon the love, and truth, and vows, which I Have made to thy command!-I, her!-her blood! Shak. 6. It is used to exprefs any hardship or mischief. -Neither impose upon ourselves, nor others. Barnet. It lies not naturally upon the thing, but only upon the contingent circumstances. Kettle. 7. In confequence of. Now little in ufe.-Let me not find you before me again upon any complaint whatsoever. Shak.-Then the princes of Germany had but a dull fear of the greatness of Spain, upon a general apprehenfion of the ambiti ous defigns of that nation. Bacon.-Upon fecond cogitations. Bacon.-Thefe forces took hold of divers; in fome upon difcontent, in fome upon ambition, in fome upon levity. Bacon. He made a great difference between people that did rebel up. ca wantonnefs, and them that did rebel upon want. Bacon. Upon pity they were taken away, apon ignorance they are again demanded. Haya. -The king had no kindness for him upon an old account. Clarend. The remorfe and inward regrets of the foul, upon the commiffion of fin. South. -The common corruption of human nature,

We now may boldly spend upon the hope Of what is to come in. Shak. Dependence upon his truth and his holy word. Swift. 16. Near to; noting fituation. Two other villages upon the Kennet. Clarendon-One of the duke's forefts, that lies upon their frontiers Addison. 17. In the ftate of. They were entertained upon no greater warning. Bacon. 18. On occafion of.-An excellent officer upon any bold enterprise. Clarendon. 19. Noting affumption: as, he takes state upon him; he took an office upon him. He takes his judicial determination upon himfelf. Kettlesworth. 20. Noting the time when an event came to pafs. It is feldom applied to any denomination of time longer than a day.

In the twelfth month, on the thirteenth day. Efther. 21. Noting fecurity.We have borrowed money upon our lands and upon our vineyards. Nehem. 22. Noting attack.-The Philistines be upon thee, Sampfon. Judges. 23. On pain of. She caufed him fend us word, that upon our lives we

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