way 
6. Pursuit; calling; line of business. [CoUoq.] 
Meu of his way should be most liberal. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., i. 3. 61. 
Thiuking that this would prove a busy day ui the jua- 
ticiug way, I am come, Sir Jacob, to lend you a hand. 
Foote, Mayor of Garratt, i. 1. 
Is not Gus Hoskins, my brother-in-law, partner with his 
excellent father in the leather way ? 
Thackeray^ Great Hc^garty Diamond, xiii. 
7. Respect; point or particular: with in ex- 
pressed or understood. 
You wrong me every way. Shak. , J. C. , iv, 3. 55. 
The office of a man 
Tliat's truly valiant is considerable. 
Three teays: the first is in respect of matter. 
B. Ji/nnoiij New Inn, iv. 3. 
Thus farr, and many other icairg were his Cuunsels and 
Sreparutions before hand with us, either to a civil Warr, 
' it should happ'n, or to subdue us without a Warr. 
Milton, Eikouoklastes, x. 
8. Condition ; state : as» be has recovered a 
little, but is still in a very bad waij, [CoUoq.] 
When ever you see a thorough Libertine, you may al- 
rai»t swear he is in a rising tcay, and that the Poet intends 
tu make him a great Man. 
Jereviy Collier, Short View (ed. 1698), p. 211. 
You must tell him to keep up his spirits ; everybody 
almost is in the same wai/. 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, i. 1. 
9. Course of action or procedure ; means by 
which anything is to be reached, attained, or 
accomplished; scheme; device; plan; course. 
Of Taxations, properly so called, there were neverfewer 
in any King's Reign ; but of Wayt to draw )Ioney fi-om 
the Subject, never mure. Baker, Chronicles, p. 6fl. 
By noble wayi we conquest will prepare ; 
First offer peace, and, that refused, make war. 
Dryden, Indian Emperor, i. 1. 
10. Method or manner of proceeding ; mode ; 
style ; fashion ; wise : as, the right or the wrong 
way of doing something. 
God hath so many times and ways spuken to men. 
Hooker. 
I will one way or other make you amends. 
Shak., M. W. of W., lit 1. 89. 
One would imagine the Ethiopians either had two alpha- 
bets, or that they had two roayn of writing most things. 
Pococke, Description of the East, 1, 227. 
Tliis answerer had, in a loay not to l>e pardoned, drawn 
bis pen against a certain great man then alive. 
Swift, Tale of a Tub, AimjI. 
Thou say'st an undisputed thing 
In such u solenm icay. 
O. W. Hoim-eft, To an Insect. 
Tis not B«> much the gallant who woos. 
As the gallant's way of wooing ! 
W. S. Giibert, Way of Wooing. 
Way in this sense is equivalent to wtttr, and in certain col- 
loquial phrases iscmfused with it, appearing in the appa- 
rent plural tcayn, which really represents iri*«. as, no uwj/*, 
len^hwayx, eudirayg, etc 
To him [Go<l] we can not exhibit ouemiuch praise, nor 
belye him any waytJt, vnlcsse it be in abasing his excel- 
lencie by scarsitie of praise. 
PutU;nha>n, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 22. 
He could no way stir. Bacttn^ Physical Fables, ii. 
Hee at that time could be no ifay esteem'd the Father 
of his Countrey, but the destroyer. 
Milton, Eikouoklastes, xxl. 
Simon Glendinnlng . . . bit the dust, no imy disparag- 
ing in his death that ancient race from which he claimed 
his descent Scott^ Monastery, ii. 
11. Regular or usual method or manner, as 
in acting or speaking; habitual or peculiar 
mode or manner of doing or saying things : as, 
that is only his way; an odd way he has; wo- 
men's ways. 
We call it only pretty Fanny's twi.v- 
ParneU, Elegy to an Old Iteauty. 
It is my way to write dnwn all the gooti things I have 
heard in the last conversation, t«j furnish my pa|>cr. 
Steele, Tatler, No. 45. 
Before I departed, the g4>od priest ask'd me my name, 
that they might pray in the church for Tiiy good journey, 
which is only a iray they have of di-airing charity. 
Pococke, Description of the East, I. 138. 
He was imperious soinetimes still ; but I did not mind 
that ; I saw it was his wop. 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xv. 
All her little womanly leayn, budding out of her like 
blossoms on a yoimg fruit-tree. 
Hawthorne, Seven Gables, ix. 
12. Resolved plan or mod** of action or con- 
duct; a course insisted upon as one's own. 
If I had my way 
He had mewed in flames at home. B. Jonnon. 
Man has his will — but woman has her %rau ! 
0. W. Holtnex, A Prologue. 
If Lord Durham had had his wan, the Ballot would at 
that thne }lfa:i\ have been included in the proKiaranie of 
the Government. J. McCarthy, Hist. Own Times, I. 54. 
13. Circuit or range of action or observation. 
The general ofllcers and tlie puidlc ministers that fell 
in my M<aj/ were generally subject to the gout. 
Sir W. Temple. 
6855 
14. Progress; advancement. 
Socialism in any systematic or definite form, as a scheme 
for superseding the institution of Capital, had not in my 
opinion made any serious iray. 
Nineteenth Century, XXVI. 730. 
15. .iVrtM^, progress or motion through the wa- 
ter; headway: as, a vessel is under way when 
she begins to move, she gatliers way when her 
rate of sailing increases, and loses way when it 
diminishes. 
Towards night it grew very calm and a great fog, so as 
our ships made no way. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 8. 
Soundings are usually taken from tlie vessel, and while 
there is some way on. 
Sir C. W. Thomson, Depths of the Sea, p. 20G. 
A ship, so 1< >ng as she can keep way on her, and can steer, 
need not fear an enemy's ram. 
Sci. Avier., N. S., LXIII. 3U4. 
16. pL In mack. J etc., the line or course along 
which anything worked on is caused to move. 
See cut under i'/m^tr. (a) The timbers on which a ship 
is launched : as, a new ship on the ways. See cut under 
launchiny-way. (h) Skids on which weights, ban-els, etc., 
are moved up or down, as on an inclined plane.— A furlong 
wayt. See furlong.— A. lion in the way. See Hon.— 
Appian Way. See Appian.—Awd^y of necessity, a way 
which the law allows for pa.s8age to and from land not oth- 
erwise accessible. It arises only over one of two parcels of 
land of l>oth of which the grantor was the owner when he 
conveyed the other; and it arises in favor of the parcel con- 
veyed when this is wholly surrounded by what had \)6en the 
grantor's other land, or partly by this and partly by that of 
a stranger.— By all wayst, in all respects; in every way. 
My latiy gaf "le al hooly 
The noble gift of her mercy. 
Saving her worship, by alle weyes. 
Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 1271. 
By the way. See by^. — By way of, for the purpose of ; 
to serve iis. See also by^. 
The Kyug of that Contree, ones every zeer, zevetheleve 
to iMjre men togon in to the Lake, to gadre hem preeyous 
Stones and Perlcs, be weye of Alemesse, for the love of 
God, that made Adam. MandevUle, Travels, p. 199. 
That this gift of perpetual youth should pass from men 
to serpents secm.s added by way o/ ornament. 
Bacon, Physical Fables, ii., Expl. 
By way of being, doing, etc.. in the condition of being, 
doing, etc.; so an to be, do, etc. [Eng.] — Come yoUT 
ways. See come. —Committee of Ways and Means, 
(a) In the British Parliament, a committee of the whole 
house which considei's the ways aixl means of raising the 
supplies. (6) One of the most important of the standing 
connnittees of the United States House of Representatives : 
to it are referred bills relating in the raising of the reve- 
nue.— Common way. Set' c/»«imott.— Covered way. 
See coreri.— Direct way aroimd, dry way, Dunstable 
way. Sec the adjectives.— High way. See hi>jhxray.~ 
In a small way. See *//m«.— in the family way. sec 
/ami7i/.-~In the way, (a) Along the road ; on the way ; 
as one proceeds. 
And as we wenten thus in the weye wordyng togyderes, 
Thanne seye we a Samaritan sittemle on a mule, 
Kydynge ful rai>ely the rigt weye we geden. 
Piers Plowman (B), xvli. 47. 
The next morning, going to Cumee through a very pleas- 
ant path, by the Mare Mortuum ami the Elysian Fields, 
we saw in our iray a great many ruins of sepulchres and 
other ancient edifices. 
Addinon, Remarks on Italy (ed. Bohn), I. 452. 
(6) On hand; present. 
When your master or lady calls a servant by name, if 
that sei-vant be not in the iray, none of you are to answer. 
Swift, Advice t(j Servants (General Directions). 
(c) In such a position or of su<h a nature as to obstruct, 
imi«4ie, or hinder: ah, a niecliller is always in the way; 
there are difficulties in the way. 
I never seemed in Awf ir((T/; he did not take fits of chill- 
ing iiauteur ; when he met me unexpecteiily, the encoun- 
ter seemed weli-ome- he had always a word and some- 
times a smile for me. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xv. 
In the way of. (a) So as to meet or fall in with ; in a 
favorable position for doing or getting: as, I can put you 
in the way of i\ profitable investment, (b) In the matter 
or business of; as regards ; in respect of. 
What my tontrue can do 
/■ the way o/ flattery. Shak., Cor., iii. 2. 137. 
Mean wayt. See ineaji^.— Milky Way. See Galaxy, 1. 
— Once In a way. Seerm^vi.— ontheway, in going or 
traveling along; hence, in progress or advance toward 
completion or accomplishment. 
My lord, I over-rode him on the way. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., i. 1. 3(1. 
Out of the way. (a) Out of the roatl or path ; so as not 
to ohstrnct or hiiuier. 
Take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people. 
Isa. Ivii. 14. 
(h) At a distance from ; clear of : as, to keep out of the way 
of a carriage. 
The emhroylnu'iits and factioiisthat were then amongst 
the Arabs . . . made us desiroustokeepas faras possil)le 
out of their wait. Maundrdl, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 56. 
((•) Not in tlie proper course : in surh a jMisition or condi- 
tion as to miss owv'a olijcct ; away from the mark ; aside ; 
astray; hence, improper ; wrong. 
We are qnitc out of the irai/ when we tliink that things 
contain within themselves the qualities that appear to us 
in them. iMcke, 
He that knows but a little of them Imatters of tipecula- 
tion or practice], and is very confident of his own strength, 
way 
is more out of the way of true knowledge than if he knew 
nothing at all. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. v. 
(d) Not in its proper place, or where it can be found or met 
with ; hence, mislaid, hidden, or lost. 
Is 't lost? is 't gone ? speak, is it out o' the way ? 
Shak., Othello, iii. 4. 80. 
(c) Out of the beaten track ; not in the usual, ordinary, or 
regular course; hence, extraordinary; remarkable: as, 
her accomplishments are nothing out of the way: often 
used attributively. Compare to put one's self out of the 
way, below. 
This seemed to us then to be a place out of the way, 
where we might lye snug for a while. 
Dampier, Voyages, I. 389. 
It is probable they formerly had some staple commodity 
here, and that they bestowed great expences on their pub- 
lic games, in order to make people resort to a place which 
was so much out of the way. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. ii. 71. 
Permanent way, in rail., a finished road-bed and track, 
including switches, crossings, bridges, viaducts, etc., as 
distinguished from & temporary way , &nch tis \&usg(\ in con- 
struction, in removing the soil of cuttings, etc.— Private 
way, a right which one or more persons, as distinguished 
from the public generally, have of passing to and fro across 
land of another. It may exist by grant, by long usage, or 
by proceedings, sanctioned by law in some states, to ac- 
quire a necessary access and egi'ess on making compensa- 
tion. — Right of way. (a) Aright to pass and repass over 
real property of another. 0) The right to pass over a 
path or way, to the temporary exclusion of others : as, an 
express-train has the riyht of way as against a freight-train. 
(c) The strip of land of which a railway-company acquires 
either the ownership or the use for the laying of its tracks. 
— Second covered way, in fort., the way beyond the 
secontl ditch.— The Way, in the New Testament, the 
Christian religion or chureh ; Christianity. The phrase 
is rendered in the authorized version (except once) "this 
way" or "that way"; in the revised version (except Acts 
xxii.4, whereithasthedemunstmtive "this"), "the Way." 
Acts ix. 2; xix. 9, 23; xxii. 4; xxiv. 14, 22.— To break a 
way. See break. — 'To clear the way. See dear.— To 
devour the way. See derouri.—To gather way. See 
gather. — To give way, to grant passage; allow to pass; 
hence, to yield : generally w ith to. 
Open your gates and give the victors way. 
Shak., K. John, ii. 1. 324. 
They happen'd to meet on a long narrow bridge. 
And neither of them would give way. 
Bobin Hood and Little John (Child's Ballads, V. 217). 
We give too much way to our passions. 
Burton, Amit. of Mel., p. 329. 
Suetonius, though else a worthie man, overproud of his 
Victorie, gave too much way to his anger against the 
Britans. Milton, Hist. Eng., ii. 
The senate, forced to yield to the tribunes of the people, 
thought it their wisest course also to give way to the time. 
Suift. 
To go one*s way or ways. See go.— To go the way of 
all the earth, to die. i Ki. ii. 2.— To go the way of 
nature. See jiature.-To have one's way. See def. 12. 
— To keep wayt, to keep pace. 
When there be not stonds [stopsl and restiveness in a 
man's nature, . . . the wheels of his mind keep way with 
the wheels of his fortune. Bacon, Fortune (ed. 1887). 
To labor on the way. See labor^.— To lead the way, 
to be the first or most forward in a march, progress, or 
the like ; act the part of a leader, guide, etc. 
He tried each art, reproved each dull delay. 
Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. 
Ooldstnith, Des. Vil., 1. 170. 
To lie in the or one's way. See iiei — To look both 
ways for Sunday, to squint. [CoUoq.] — To look nine 
ways. See niue.^To lose way. See ;**'!.- To make 
one's way. See make^.—To make the best of one's 
way. Hee best- To make wav. («) To give room for 
passing; give place; stand aside to permit another to 
pass, 
'I'her wag no romayn so hardy nesomyghtybuthe made 
hym wey. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. G55. 
Make way there for the princess. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., v. 4. 91. 
llie petty squadrons which had till now harassed the 
t:oast of Britain made «»«?/ for hosts larger than had fallen 
on any country in the west. 
J. B. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 84. 
(b) To open a path through obstacles; overcome resis- 
tance, hindrance, or difficulties. 
With this little arm and this good sword, 
I have made my way through more impediments 
Than twenty times your stop. 
Shak., Othello, v. 2. 263. 
(c) To advance ; move forward. 
We, seeing them prepare to assault vs, left our (tares and 
made way with our sayle to ineounter them. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 181. 
To pave the way. See pare. —To put one's self out 
of tne way, to give one's self trouble. 
Don't 2«(( yourself out of the uay. on our accoinits. 
Dickens, Oliver Twist, xxxi. 
To take one's way. (a) To set out ; go. 
They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow. 
Through Eden took their solitary way. 
Milton, P. L., xii. 049. 
(b) To follow one's own plan, opinion, inclination, or 
fancy. 
Doctor, your service for this time is ended ; 
Take your own way. Shak., Cymbeliiie, i. ^. 31. 
Under way, in i)rogrcss ; in motion : said of a vessel that 
has weighed her atichor or lias left her nutorings and is 
making progress through the water; hence, geiuTaJl)', 
making progress ; having started : often erroneously writ- 
