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ADMIT. v.a. Does not one table Bavius still admit? [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed in the 1755 Dict. by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; Davis notes the source is correctly identified as Alexander Pope in the 3rd Dict. edition and subsequent editions, and identifies the text as Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot.]
ALLUVION, n.s. The civil law gives the owner of land a right to that increase which arises from alluvion, which is defined an insensible increment, brought by the water. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; Davis notes that the 1785 Dict. 5th edition and later editions cite John Cowell, but did not find the quote in Cowell, so the source is still untraced. BKG's search did not find the quote in Cowell, Ayliffe or other usual suspects. The Bailey Dictionarium Britanicum 1736 2nd edition, which SJ is thought to have used, is close in sense: "ALLUVION [In the Civil Law] an Accession or Accretion along the Sea Shore, or the Banks of large Rivers, by Tempests or Inundations."]
ANTICLIMAX, n.s. Next comes Dalhoussey the great god of war, / Lieutenant col’nel to the earl of Mar. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed in the 1755 Dict. by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; Davis and identifies the proximate source as Alexander Pope, Peri Bathous, Or The Art of Sinking in Poetry, and indicates that the ultimate source remains untraced.]
ARRIVE, v.n. When we were arrived upon the verge of his estate, we stopped at a little inn, to rest ourselves and our horses. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed in the 1755 Dict. by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; Davis and identifies the source as The Spectator, No. 22 (Addison). Davis notes that the quote was misidentified as Sidney in the 1773 and later Dict. editions.]
BUCANIERS (BUCANI'ERS) n.s. A cant word for the privateers, or pirates, of America.
COMEDIAN. n.s. (sense 2) -- “Comedians on the stage shew all their skill, / And after do as love and fortune will. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed in the 1755 Dict. by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; Davis and identifies the source as Edmund Waller, “Prologue for the Lady Actors,” in Poems. Davis notes that the quotation does not appear in the 1773 Dict. and or editions, except Harrison's.]
CONCEALER, n.s. They were to undergo the penalty of forgery, and the concealer of the crime was equally guilty. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as John Arbuthnot, Tables of Antient Coins, Weights, and Measures, Explained . Davis notes that 1784 and later Dict. editions misattribute the quote to Clarendon.]
DESERVE, v.a. Since my Orazia’s death I have not seen / A beauty so deserving to be queen. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed in the 1755 Dict. by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; Davis notes the source is identified as John Dryden in the 2nd Dict. edition and subsequent editions, and identifies the text as Indian Emperor, in The Dramatick Works of John Dryden.]
DISTRACTIVE, adj. Oft grown unmindful through distractive cares / I’ve stretch’d my arms and touch’d him unawares. [BKG Note: no headword in 1755 Dict., quote identified, June 2024, as unattributed in the 1773 Dict. by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; Davis notes the source is misidentified as Dryden in later Dict. editions. Davis traces the source to “Hermione to Orestes,” in Ovid’s epistles, translated by several hands.. (The several editions of this text are noted on the Dryden page.) Davis notes that the poem author is John Pulteney, Esq. (spelled Pultney in some editions). Davis makes a new authority identification for the 1773 Dict.!] [BKG working Note: Need to add a Pulteney page to the web site.]
DRESS, v.a. Adam! well may we labour to still to dress / This garden; still to tend plant, herb, and flow'r. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed in the 1755 Dict. by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; Davis notes the source is identified as John Milton in the 2nd Dict. edition and subsequent editions, and identifies the text as Paradise Lost.]
ENGINE, n.s. They had th' especial engines been, to rear / His fortunes up to the state they were. [BKG Note: unattributed in the 1755 Dict. Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia notes the source is identified as Samuel Daniel, Civil War, in the 3rd Dict. edition and subsequent editions. This may be an indication that Harrison's 1786 Dict, edition, ostensibly based on the 1755 edition, may have used the 3rd edition as a copy text.]
ESTIMABLE, adj. A lady said of her two companions, that one was more amiable, the other more estimable. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source not yet identified.]
EXAMINE, v.a. [BKG Note: examine unattributed in 1755 Dict. misattributed to Pope in 1773 Dict. - thanks to Prof. Beth Rapp Young for pointing this out, who identifies the source as Rochester, Horace's 10th Satyr of the First Book, Imitated; refine (same verse as examine, attributed to Anon.]
GEST, n.s. Gests should be interlarded after the Persian manner, by ages, young and old. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as Richard Carew, Carew's Survey of Cornwall. Davis notes that the same passage is quoted, with slight variations, under young and interlard and in both cases the source is identified as Carew's Survey of Cornwall.]
MORTAR, N.S. Mortar, in architecture, is a preparation of lime and sand mixed up with water, serving as a cement, and used by masons and bricklayers in building of walls of stone and brick. Wolfius observes, that the sand should be dry and sharp, so as to prick the hands when rubbed, yet not earthy, so as to foul the water it is washed in: he also finds fault with masons and bricklayers as committing a great error, in letting their lime slacken and cool before they make up their mortar, and also in letting their mortar cool and die before they use it; therefore he advises, that if you expect your work to be well done, and to continue long, to work up the lime quick, and but a little at a time, that the mortar may not lie long before it be used. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as The Builder's Dictionary, or Gentleman and Architect's Companion. Davis indicates that SJ omits a page and a half between the first and second sentence.]
PAVILION, v.a. With his batt'ning flocks the careful swain / Abides pavilion'd on the grassy plain. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as Alexander Pope, Odyssey of Homer]
RECOUNT, v.a. Say, from these seeds what glorious harvest flows, / Recount our blessings and compare our woes. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as Matthew Prior, Solomon. Davis notes that 1784 and later Dict. editions attribute the quote to Dryden.]
REDUCE, v.a. To have this project reduced to practice, there seems to want nothing. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as Jonathan Swift A Project for the Advancement of Religion and the Reformation of Manners.]
RUST, v.n. Must I rust in Egypt, never more / Appear in arms and be the chief of Greece. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed in the 1755 Dict. by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as Dryden (identified in the 1773 Dict. as Dryden)]
SAXIFRAGE Meadow, n.s. It hath a rose and unembellished flower . . . . [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed in the 1755 Dict. by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as Phillip Miller, The Gardeners Dictionary under Silaum (another name for Meadow-Saxifrage). Shortened to "A plant." in 1773 Dict.]
SEWER, v.n. The cook and sewer, each his talent tries, / In various figures scenes of dishes rise. [BKG Note: identified as unattributed by Prof. Beth Rapp Young, U. of Central Florida; source identified by Young as John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Translated into English Verse.]
SEXANGULAR adj. Snow sexangular, at least of starry and many pointed figure. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as Thomas Browne, Psuedodoxia Epidemica]
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ADMIT. v.a. Does not one table Bavius still admit? [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed in the 1755 Dict. by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; Davis notes the source is correctly identified as Alexander Pope in the 3rd Dict. edition and subsequent editions, and identifies the text as Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot.]
ALLUVION, n.s. The civil law gives the owner of land a right to that increase which arises from alluvion, which is defined an insensible increment, brought by the water. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; Davis notes that the 1785 Dict. 5th edition and later editions cite John Cowell, but did not find the quote in Cowell, so the source is still untraced. BKG's search did not find the quote in Cowell, Ayliffe or other usual suspects. The Bailey Dictionarium Britanicum 1736 2nd edition, which SJ is thought to have used, is close in sense: "ALLUVION [In the Civil Law] an Accession or Accretion along the Sea Shore, or the Banks of large Rivers, by Tempests or Inundations."]
ANTICLIMAX, n.s. Next comes Dalhoussey the great god of war, / Lieutenant col’nel to the earl of Mar. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed in the 1755 Dict. by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; Davis and identifies the proximate source as Alexander Pope, Peri Bathous, Or The Art of Sinking in Poetry, and indicates that the ultimate source remains untraced.]
ARRIVE, v.n. When we were arrived upon the verge of his estate, we stopped at a little inn, to rest ourselves and our horses. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed in the 1755 Dict. by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; Davis and identifies the source as The Spectator, No. 22 (Addison). Davis notes that the quote was misidentified as Sidney in the 1773 and later Dict. editions.]
BUCANIERS (BUCANI'ERS) n.s. A cant word for the privateers, or pirates, of America.
- The history of the bucaniers being an impartial relation of all the battels, sieges, and other most eminent assaults committed for several years upon the coasts of the West-Indies by the pirates of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English & other nations : more especially the unparallel'd atchievements of Sir H.M. A.O. Exquemelin, 1684, London: Printed for Tho. Malthus ... or Bucaniers of America the second volume : containing the dangerous voyage and bold attempts of Captain Bartholomew Sharp, and others, performed upon the coasts of the South Sea, for the space of two years, &c. : from the original journal of the said voyage / written by ... Basil Ringrose, Gent., who was all along present at those transactions. , London : Printed for William Crooke ..., 1685. [BKG Note: the translator into English of these titles is unknown. The Dedication in the 1684 title is signed "A.B," perhaps Abel Boyer (1667-1729), a French-English lexicographer, journalist and miscellaneous writer. There were subsequent printings, including a 1741 4th Edition which may have been seen by SJ. In a personal communication, Alexander Bocast observes that this title is unusual in the spelling of bucaniers, and that SJ does not define the singular, so this title may be SJ's source of the term. A few other titles, but none earlier, and none after 1699, with the single "c" spelling of bucaniers in their text have been identified in a search of Early English Books Online. All use the plural form.]
COMEDIAN. n.s. (sense 2) -- “Comedians on the stage shew all their skill, / And after do as love and fortune will. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed in the 1755 Dict. by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; Davis and identifies the source as Edmund Waller, “Prologue for the Lady Actors,” in Poems. Davis notes that the quotation does not appear in the 1773 Dict. and or editions, except Harrison's.]
CONCEALER, n.s. They were to undergo the penalty of forgery, and the concealer of the crime was equally guilty. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as John Arbuthnot, Tables of Antient Coins, Weights, and Measures, Explained . Davis notes that 1784 and later Dict. editions misattribute the quote to Clarendon.]
DESERVE, v.a. Since my Orazia’s death I have not seen / A beauty so deserving to be queen. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed in the 1755 Dict. by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; Davis notes the source is identified as John Dryden in the 2nd Dict. edition and subsequent editions, and identifies the text as Indian Emperor, in The Dramatick Works of John Dryden.]
DISTRACTIVE, adj. Oft grown unmindful through distractive cares / I’ve stretch’d my arms and touch’d him unawares. [BKG Note: no headword in 1755 Dict., quote identified, June 2024, as unattributed in the 1773 Dict. by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; Davis notes the source is misidentified as Dryden in later Dict. editions. Davis traces the source to “Hermione to Orestes,” in Ovid’s epistles, translated by several hands.. (The several editions of this text are noted on the Dryden page.) Davis notes that the poem author is John Pulteney, Esq. (spelled Pultney in some editions). Davis makes a new authority identification for the 1773 Dict.!] [BKG working Note: Need to add a Pulteney page to the web site.]
DRESS, v.a. Adam! well may we labour to still to dress / This garden; still to tend plant, herb, and flow'r. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed in the 1755 Dict. by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; Davis notes the source is identified as John Milton in the 2nd Dict. edition and subsequent editions, and identifies the text as Paradise Lost.]
ENGINE, n.s. They had th' especial engines been, to rear / His fortunes up to the state they were. [BKG Note: unattributed in the 1755 Dict. Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia notes the source is identified as Samuel Daniel, Civil War, in the 3rd Dict. edition and subsequent editions. This may be an indication that Harrison's 1786 Dict, edition, ostensibly based on the 1755 edition, may have used the 3rd edition as a copy text.]
ESTIMABLE, adj. A lady said of her two companions, that one was more amiable, the other more estimable. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source not yet identified.]
EXAMINE, v.a. [BKG Note: examine unattributed in 1755 Dict. misattributed to Pope in 1773 Dict. - thanks to Prof. Beth Rapp Young for pointing this out, who identifies the source as Rochester, Horace's 10th Satyr of the First Book, Imitated; refine (same verse as examine, attributed to Anon.]
GEST, n.s. Gests should be interlarded after the Persian manner, by ages, young and old. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as Richard Carew, Carew's Survey of Cornwall. Davis notes that the same passage is quoted, with slight variations, under young and interlard and in both cases the source is identified as Carew's Survey of Cornwall.]
MORTAR, N.S. Mortar, in architecture, is a preparation of lime and sand mixed up with water, serving as a cement, and used by masons and bricklayers in building of walls of stone and brick. Wolfius observes, that the sand should be dry and sharp, so as to prick the hands when rubbed, yet not earthy, so as to foul the water it is washed in: he also finds fault with masons and bricklayers as committing a great error, in letting their lime slacken and cool before they make up their mortar, and also in letting their mortar cool and die before they use it; therefore he advises, that if you expect your work to be well done, and to continue long, to work up the lime quick, and but a little at a time, that the mortar may not lie long before it be used. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as The Builder's Dictionary, or Gentleman and Architect's Companion. Davis indicates that SJ omits a page and a half between the first and second sentence.]
PAVILION, v.a. With his batt'ning flocks the careful swain / Abides pavilion'd on the grassy plain. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as Alexander Pope, Odyssey of Homer]
RECOUNT, v.a. Say, from these seeds what glorious harvest flows, / Recount our blessings and compare our woes. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as Matthew Prior, Solomon. Davis notes that 1784 and later Dict. editions attribute the quote to Dryden.]
REDUCE, v.a. To have this project reduced to practice, there seems to want nothing. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as Jonathan Swift A Project for the Advancement of Religion and the Reformation of Manners.]
RUST, v.n. Must I rust in Egypt, never more / Appear in arms and be the chief of Greece. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed in the 1755 Dict. by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as Dryden (identified in the 1773 Dict. as Dryden)]
SAXIFRAGE Meadow, n.s. It hath a rose and unembellished flower . . . . [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed in the 1755 Dict. by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as Phillip Miller, The Gardeners Dictionary under Silaum (another name for Meadow-Saxifrage). Shortened to "A plant." in 1773 Dict.]
SEWER, v.n. The cook and sewer, each his talent tries, / In various figures scenes of dishes rise. [BKG Note: identified as unattributed by Prof. Beth Rapp Young, U. of Central Florida; source identified by Young as John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Translated into English Verse.]
SEXANGULAR adj. Snow sexangular, at least of starry and many pointed figure. [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as Thomas Browne, Psuedodoxia Epidemica]
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