'Out of the way' = straying from the path. If we be ignorant, they will instruct us; if out of the way, they will bring us home. The Translators to the Reader, p. cvii. 'That way' in that direction. Which though it be not altogether the same thing to that we have in hand, yet it looketh that way. Ibid. p. cxvii. Way, sb. (Acts xix. 9, 23). Used metaphorically for a course of life. Hear me, Sir Thomas: you're a gentleman Shakespeare, Hen. VIII. v. I. 28. Men of his way should be most liberal. Ibid. 1. 3. 61. Have these my daughters reconciled themselves, Massinger, Virgin Martyr, I. I. Wayfaring, adj. (Judg. xix. 17; 2 Sam. xii. 4; Is. xxxiii. 8, xxxv. 8). Travelling; A. S. wegférend, from faran, G. fahren, to fare, travel. A traueller by the waie: a waifaring man. Voiagier, viateur. Baret, Alvearie, s. v. Trauell. Viator...ὁδίτης, Moreover for the refreshing of waifaring men, he ordained cups of yron or brasse, to be fastned by such cleare wels and fountaines as did runne by the waies side. Stow, Annals, p. 91. For like as waifaring men, after they have once stumbled upon a stone; or pilots at sea when they have once split their ship upon a rocke and suffred shipwracke, if they call those accidents to remembrance, for ever after doe feare and take heed not onely of the same, but of such like; even so they that set before their eies continually the dishonours and damages which they have received by this hurtfull and excessive modestie, and represent the same to their mind once wounded and bitten with remorse and repentance, will in the like afterwards reclaime themselves, and not so easily another time be perverted and seduced out of the right way. Holland's Plutarch, p. 173. Waymark, sb. (Jer. xxxi. 21). A guide-post. Ways, sỏ. (Lev. xx. 4; Num. xxx. 15; 2 Chr. xxxii. 13). The We may not put God to do any thing miraculously, when it Bacon uses 'no wayes' for 'in no way' (Ess. x. p. 38, XXII. Wealth, số. (2 Chr. i. 12; Ps. cxii. 3; Litany). Weal, or well- But fye on that seruant which for his maisters wealth Udal, Roister Doister, IV. 1 (ed. Arber, p. 59). Somwhat (as menne demed) more faitly the he yt wer hartely What office soeuer thou hast wayte vpon it, and execute it, I once did lend my body for his wealth. Shakespeare, Mer. of Ven. V. I. 249. As for this same ryche and welthie citee of whiche the Jewes Wedlock, to break (Ezek. xvi. 38; Ecclus. xxiii. 18). To Udal's And he sayeth vnto them: whosoeuer putteth away his wyfe, Breakers of wedlocke be punyshed with mooste greuous bond- Ween, v.i. (2 Macc. v. 21). To think, imagine. wénan. Ween you of better luck, I mean in perjured witness, than your master, A. S. Shakespeare, Hen. VIII. v. 1. 136. And have install'd me in the diadem. Id. 1 Hen. VI. 11. 5. 88. Well, adv. in the phrase 'well-nigh' (Ps. lxxiii. 2) for ‘very near.' O wicked, wicked world! One that is well-nigh worn to pieces with age to show himself a young gallant! Shakespeare, Merry Wives, II. I. 21. 'Well-near' was also used in the same sense. His pulse did scant beat, and his sences were wel-neare taken from him. North's Plutarch, Alex. p. 727. Well, sb. (Ps. cxiv. 8, Pr.-Bk.; Cant. iv. 15; John iv. 14). The force of these passages is greatly increased by remembering that 'well' (A. S. wyl, well) originally signified a spring or fountain and not merely a pit containing water. It springeth up as doth a welle, Here from when scarce I could mine eyes withdrawe Gower, Conf. Am. I. 293. That fylde with tears as doth the springing well. Sackville, Induction, fol. 212b. Well, in the phrases 'well is him' (Ecclus. xxv. 8, 9), 'well is thee' (Ps. cxxviii. 2, Pr.-Bk.), for 'it is well with him or thee.' He loved hir so, that wel him was therwith. Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 16362. And wel was him, that therto chosen was. Id. Knight's Tale, 2111. He had also a great number daily attending upon him, both of noblemen and worthy gentlemen, of great estimation and possessions, with no small number of the tallest yeomen, that he could get in all this realm, in so much that well was that nobleman and gentleman, that might prefer any tall and comely yeoman into his service. Cavendish, Life of Wolsey, I. 34. Well favoured, adj. (Gen. xxix. 17, xxxix. 6, xli. 2, &c.). Good-looking, handsome. Used generally of beauty of face. [See FAVOUR.] Then to her yron wagon she betakes, And with her beares the fowle welfauoured witch: He was a very goodly person, and singular well featured, and all his youth well favoured, and of a sweet aspect. Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia (ed. Arber), p. 28. So 'wellfavouredly' is used for 'handsomely.' Cleopatra was in such a rage with him, that she flew vpon him, & tooke him by the haire of the head, and boxed him welfauouredly. North's Plutarch, Antonius, p. 1007. Well liking, adj. (Ps. xcii. 13, Pr.-Bk.). In good condition. See LIKING. At that time, the poor was wonderfully preserved of God; for after man's reason they could not live, yet God preserved them, insomuch that their children were as fat and as well-liking, as if they had been gentlemen's children. Latimer, Serm. P. 527. Moreover, this is observed in perusing the inwards of beasts, That when they be well liking, and do presage good, the Heart hath a kind of fat in the utmost tip thereof. Holland's Pliny, XI. 37 (vol. i. p. 340). Wellspring, sb. (Prov. xvi. 22, xviii. 4). A spring, or fountain; A.S. well-spring. In the wilderness also there shall be well-springs. Is. xxxv. 6, quoted by Latimer, Rem. p. 72. The word of God is truth: but God is the only well-spring of truth: therefore God is the beginning and cause of the word of God. Bullinger, Decades, I. 38. For from the prince, as from a perpetual wel sprynge, commethe amonge the people the floode of al that is good or euell. More, Utopia (ed. Arber), p. 34. Then shall the welspryng of mercye, which of long tyme hath watered thys Realme with the grace of God be closed vp. Lever, Sermons (ed. Arber), p. 58. Wench, sb. (2 Sam. xvii. 17). A girl; applied generally to one of low birth. Derived from a root of which A. S. wencle is another form (compare Sc. muckle and E. much). Lord, lady, groome and wench. Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 98. I am a gentil womman, and no wenche. Id. Merchant's Tale, 10076. To whom it had been an happie chaunce to haue brought foorth a wenche. Udal's Erasmus, Luke i. 57, fol. 136. Leontiscus, says Pliny (Holland's trans. XXXV. 11, vol. ii. p. 550), Painted also a minstrell wench playing upon a Psaltrie, and seeming to sing to it; which was thought to bee a daintie peece of worke. In The Tempest (1. 2. 139), the word is familiarly applied by Prospero to Miranda: Well demanded, wench. Went (1 Sam. xvii. 12) in the phrase 'went among men for an old man' = passed, was reckoned, as an old man. But because a pleasant fellow of my acquaintance set forth her praises in verse, I will only repeat them, and spare mine owne tongue, since she goes for a woman. Sidney, Arcadia, p. 10. Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men. Shakespeare, Macb. III. 1. 92. What, pr. used for 'why,' like Lat. quid. See 2 K. vi. 33; Luke xxii. 71, &c. But what mention we three or four uses of the Scripture, whereas whatsoever is to be believed or practised, or hoped for, is contained in them? The Translators to the Reader, p. cvii. What do we marvel at that which Christ calleth wicked mammon? Homilies, p. 258. Bru. Cor. But since he hath Served well for Rome,— What do you prate of service? |