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Vermioulate, adj. Intricate, winding, like the moving of a worm : p. 31, 



1.23. 



Versatile, adj. Changeable : p. 24, 1. I. 

 Vestiments, sb. Vestments, dress: p. 88, 1. 33. Vestimento, as Veste, 



any vestiment or vesture. Florio, Ital. Diet. 



Vicissitude, sb. Change: p. 6, 1. 26. Order of things : p. 49, 1. 16. 

 Void, adj. Empty: p. 43, 1. 22. 



Vollies, sb. Flights: p. 252, 1. II. From Fr. voice a flight of birds. 

 Volubility, sb. Rolling or twisting motion : p. 201, 1. 6. 

 Voluble, adj. Capable of revolving: p. 239, 1. 27. 

 Voluntary, sb. A volunteer : p. 66, 1. 14. 



Voluptuary, adj. Belonging to pleasure : p. 133, 1. 25 ; p. 143, 1. 26. 

 Vulgar, adj. Common, familiar : p. 54, 1. 8. 



W. 



&quot;Wait on. To attend: p. 49, 1. 17. 



Wait upon. To attend : p. 95, 1. 3. 



Want, sb. Defect, deficiency: p. 237, 11. 21, 23. 



Warrant, v.i. To attest : p. n, 1. 27. 



Watch candle, sb. A night light : p. 32, 1. 32. Compare Albumazar ii. 



9; Why should I twine mine arms to cables, and sigh my soul to air? 



Sit up all night like a watching candle, and distil my brains through my 



eyelids? My good old mistress was wont to call me her watch-candle, 



because it pleased her to say I did continually burn (and yet she suffered 



me to waste almost to nothing). Bacon, Letter to King James (Works, 



x. 280). 

 Water, sb. A piece of water: p. 105, 1. 9. Compare Tennyson, Morte 



d Arthur : 



On one side lay the ocean, and on one 



Lay a great water, and the moon was full. 

 Wavering, sb. Oscillation : p. 94, 1. 19. 

 Way, in the phrase to hold way with = to keep pace with: p. 14, I. 16. 



So to keep way with, p. 113, 1. 10 ; to take the way = to take steps 



or measures: p. 173, 1. 27. 



Way, sb. A road : p. 144, 1. 11 ; p. 246, 1. 25. 



Ways. No ways = in no way: p. 28, 1. 16 ; p. 56, 1. 25 ; p. 221, 1. 15. 

 Weal, sb. Welfare, prosperity : p. 55, 1. 33. 

 Wear, v. i. To suffer from wear or use : p. 15, 1. 24. 

 Went of = were current about : p. 68, 1. 5. 

 Were better, p. 217, 1. 7 ; p. 222, 1. 25. We should now say a man 



had better, or it were better for a man &c. 

 What time. At which time, when: p. 92, 1. 27. 

 Whereas, adv. Where : p. 68, 1. 9. 

 Whether, pron. Which, of two: p. 195, 1. 32. 

 Which, rel. pr. Who ; used of persons : p. 9, 1. 18 ; p. 28, 1. 21 ; p. 233, 



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