with 
Valentia. . . Is the greatest part of Spaine; which, if the 
Histories be true, in the Romans time abounded no lesse 
mth gold and siluer Mines then now the West-Indies, 
Capt. John Smith, Works, II. 186. 
Their armor was inlaid and chased iriUi gold and silver. 
Irving, Granada, p. 5. 
With was formerly used in this sense before materials of 
nourishment, and so was equivalent to the modern on. 
To dine and sup wttA water and bran. 
Shai., M. forM., Iv. 3. 159. 
9. Through ; on account or in consequence of ; 
by reason of : expressing cause : as, he trembled 
ivith fear; to perish witli hunger. 
Therefore let Benedick . . . 
Consume away in sighs ; . . . 
It were a better death than die with mocks. 
Shak., Much Ado, lii. 1. 79. 
A cow died at Plimouth, and a goat at Boston, with eat- 
ing Indian corn. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 44. 
They are scarce able to budge, being stiff milh cold. 
Dampier, Voyages, II. iii. 42. 
10. Using; showing: in phrases of manner : as, 
to win with ease ; to pull !Ci77i a will. 
Marie ansuerde with .Milde steuene : 
"A sonde Me cam while er fram heuene." 
Kii\g Horn (E. E. T. .S.), p. 60. 
He will not creepe, nor crouche with fained face. 
Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 727. 
They were directed onely by Powhatan to obtaine him 
our weapons, to cut our owne throats, with the manner 
where, how, and when, which we plainly found most true 
and apparant Quoted in Capt. John Smith'tVforks, 1. 171. 
They contended with all the animosity of personal feel- 
ing. Pre»cot«, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 1. 
11. From: noting separation, difference, dis- 
agreement, etc.: as, he will not part tcith it on 
any account ; to differ with a person ; to break 
with old ties. 
Madam, 
The Qneene must heare you sing another song 
Before you part with vs. 
Heywood, If you Know not me (Works, ed. 1874, 1. 207). 
With was formerly used In many idioms to denote rela- 
tions now expressed rather by o/, to, etc. 
Nobill talker with tales, tretable, alse, 
Curtas A kynde, curious of honde. 
Uegtruction o/ Troy (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 383,5. 
He still retains some resemblance with the ancient 
Cupid. Bacon, Physical Fables, viii., Expl. 
This pains I took with willingness, though it were much 
offensive to me, not being accustomed with such poisonous 
e&vours. 
Oood Xews.from New England, quoted in N. Morton's 
[New England's Memorial, App., p. 370. 
Collections were early and liberally made for . . . ser- 
vices in the church, and intrusted with faithful men fear- 
ing God. Penn, Rise and lYogresa of Quakers, iv. 
What frippery a woman is made up icith ! 
Cuinbertand. Natural Son, i. 1. 
Away with. See a way. — Have with you. See have.— 
One With. Seeon*.— To bear, begin, break, dlBpenae, 
do, go, etc., with. See the verbs.— Together With. 
8ee(o</«(A*r. — Toputupwlth. See jnrfl.— Warm with. 
See i«inn.— 'With child (OE. mid childe). See child.— 
'With God, in heaven. 
I have been a-tlshfng with old Oliver Henly, now with 
God, a noted flsher both for Trout and Salmon. 
/. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 127. 
With that, (ot) Provided that. 
To worche 30ure wil the while my lyf dureth. 
With that 3e keime me kyndeliche to knowe what is 
Dowel. Pierg Plowman (C),xii. 92. 
(6t) Moreover. 
Beton . . . bad him good morwe. 
And axed of hyni leith that whiderward he wolde. 
Piers Plomnan (B), v. 307. 
(c) Thereupon. 
With that Merlin departed, and the kynge be lefte in 
grete myssese, and sore a-baisshed of this thinge. 
J#erit'n(E. E. T. S.), iii. 631. 
With the sun. see imni. -With young. See younr/. 
= S3TL With and by are so closely allied in many of their 
uses that it is impossible to lay down a rule by which 
these uses may at all times be distinguished. The same 
may be said, but to a less extent, of with and through. 
witll^, «. See withe. 
with-. [ME. with-, < AS. with-, prefix, with, prep., 
against: see iFiWi'.] A prefix of Anglo-Saxon 
origin, meaning 'against.' It was formerly com- 
mon, but of the Middle English words containing it only 
two remain in common use — withdraw and withhold. 
'withal (wi-THal'), adv. and preji. [Early mod. 
E. also icithall, withalle; < ME. withal, withalle, 
prop, two words, tvith alle; used in place of AS. 
mid ealle, with all, altogether, entirely: see 
with^ and all. Cf. at all, under all.] I, adr. 
With all; moreover; likewise; in addition; at 
the same time; besides; also; as well. 
Fy on possessioun, 
But-if a man be vertuous withd. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Franklin's Tale, 1. 1.0. 
It seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and 
not withal to signify the crimes laid against him. 
Acts XXV. 27. 
H. pre/). An emphatic form of with, u.sed af- 
ter the object (usually a relative) at the end of a 
sentence or clause. 
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When poor suitors come to your houses, ye cannot be 
spoken withal. Latimer, Sermon bef. Edw. VI., \fibO. 
These banish'd men that I have kept tcithal. 
Shak., T. G. of v., v. 4. 152. 
Stre. My fine fool I 
Pic. Fellow crack ! why, what a consort 
Are we now bless'd withal ! 
Fletcher, Mad Lover, ii. 2. 
We made a shift, however, to save 23 barrels of Bain- 
water, besides what we drest our Victuals withal. 
Dampier, Voyages, I. 83. 
withamite (with'am-it), ». [Named by Sir 
David Brewster, after Dr. Henry JVitham, of 
Glencoe.] A variety of epidote found at Glen- 
coe in Scotland. It occurs crystallized, and is 
of vitreous luster and red or yellow color. 
Withania (wi-tha'ni-a), n. [NL. (Pauquy, 
1824).] A genus of ga'inopetalous shrubs, of 
the order Solanaceee and tribe Solanese. They are 
characterized by having a narrowly bell-shaped corolla 
with five valvate lobes, and an inflated fruiting calyx 
more or less closed above the included berry. The 4 spe- 
cies are natives of southern Europe, western and south- 
eni Asia, North Africa, and the Canary Islands. They are 
hoary or woolly shrubs, bearing entire leaves and clus- 
tered, almost sessile flowere. For W. coagulant, used for 
rennet, see cheese-ntctker. 
■withdraughtt (wiTH-draff), n. [< withdraw. 
after draught.'] Withdrawal. 
May not a withdraught of all God's favours ... be as 
certainly foreseen and foretold? 
Rev. S. Ward, Sermons, p. 145. {Danes.) 
'withdraw (wiTH-dra'), v.; pret. withdrew, pp. 
withdrawn, ppr. withdrawing. [< ME. with- 
draweu, withdragen, wythdragen (pret. withdraw, 
withdrog), draw, recall, take away ; < with-, 
against, opposite, +draw.] I. trans. 1. To draw 
back, aside, or away; take back; remove. 
He doth best that with^draweth hym by day and bi nygte 
To spille any speche or any space of tyme. 
Piers Plowman (B), ix. 96. 
From her husband's hand her hand 
.Soft she withdrew. Milton, P. L., ii. 386. 
I grieve for life's bright promise. Just shown and then 
withdrawn. Bryant, Waiting by the Gate. 
I say that this — 
Else I withdraw favour and countenance 
From you and yours for ever — shall you do. 
Tennyson, Aylnjer's Field. 
2. To recall; retract: as,to«)jW(rfrMK) acharge, 
a threat, or a vow. 
Itiim. Wouldst thou withdraw it [thy vow]? for what 
purpose, love? 
Jul. But to be frank, and give It thee again. 
Shak., R. and J., ii. 2. 130. 
3. To divert, as from use or from some accus- 
tomed channel. 
His mynd was alienate and withdrawal, not onely from 
him who moste loved him, but also from all former de- 
lightes and studies. Spenser, Shep. Cal., April, Arg. 
Roads occupy lands more or less capable of production, 
and also . . . they absorb (or withdraw from other uses) 
in their construction a large amount of labour. 
Edinlmrgh Rev., CLXIV. 27. 
4t. To take out ; subtract. 
Than wythdrawe the yeris oute of the yeris that ben 
passid that rote. Chaucer, Astrolabe, ii. | 45. 
The word is often used reflexively. 
Perversedisputingsof men of corrupt minds; . . . from 
such writ/tdraw thyself. 1 Tim. vi. 5. 
To withdraw a Juror, to discharge one from a Jury, 
which is thus left one short of the legal number : a formal- 
ity resorted to, by consent of the parties or permission of 
the court, in order to terminate a trial by preventing a ver- 
dict, and thus leave the action to proceed to a new trial. 
II. inlrans. To retire; go away; step back- 
ward or aside ; retreat. 
The day for drede ther-of with-drow and deork by-cam the 
Sonne ; 
The wal of the temple to-cleef euene a two peces ; 
The hard roche al to-rof and ryght derk nyght hit semede. 
Piers Plowman (C), xxi. 02, 
We will withdraw 
Into the gallery, Shak., Pericles, ii, 2. IW. 
There have been little disputes between the two houses 
about coming into each other's house ; when a lord comes 
into the Commons they call out withdraw ; that d.iy the 
moment my uncle came in they all roared o\ii,M'iihdraw! 
icithdraic! H. Waipole, To Mann, May 20, 1742. 
And what if thou withdraw 
In silence from the living, and no friend 
Take note of thy departure 1 Bryant, Thanatopsis, 
'withdrawal (wiTH-dra'al), «. [< withdraw + 
-al.] The act of withdrawing or taking back ; 
a recalling. 
The withdrawal of the allowance . . . Interfered with 
my plans. Fielding, Tom Jones. {Latham.) 
Sill comes by withdrawal of the heart from God. 
Bibliotheca Sacra, XT.III. 492. 
■withdrawer (wiTH-dra'er), H. [< withdraw + 
-erl.] One who withdraws. 
He was not a unthdraicer of the com, but a seller, 
Outred, tr. of Cope on Proverbs (1583), fol, 192 b, 
[{Latham.) 
wither 
withdrawing (wiTH-di-a'ing), /;. a. Retreat- 
ing; receding. 
Your hills, and long vnthdraicing vales. 
Thouison, Spring, 1. 6S. 
■Withdrawing-room (wiTH-dra'iug-rom), }(. [< 
withdrawing, verbal n. of withdraw, v., + room^.] 
A room used to withdraw or retire into, former- 
ly generally behind the room in which the fam- 
ily took their meals; later, a parlor or recep- 
tion-room: now abbreviated to drawing-room. 
Being in ye ivithdrawing roome adjoining the bedcham- 
ber, his Maty espying me came to me from a greate crowde 
of noblemen. Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 3, 1661. 
My withdravring room, always ready for company, . . . 
was the pine wood behind my house. 
Thoreau, Walden, p. 1£4. 
withdra'Wment (wiTH-dra'ment), n. [< with- 
draw + -mcnt.] The act of withdrawing or tak- 
ing back; recall. 
The unthdravrment of those [papers] deemed most ob- 
noxious. W. Bclshatn, Hist. Eng., I, ii, 
■withe (with or WITH), n. [Also wythe, and prop. 
with; < ME. wnthe, wythe, wi/thth, witthe, withlhr, 
< AS. withthc, a var. of withig, a twig, withy: 
see withi/l.] 1. A tough flexible twig, espe- 
cially of willow, used for binding things toge- 
ther; a willow- or osier-twig. Judges xvi. ■/. 
I remember in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's time 
of England, an Irish rebel, condemned, put up a petition 
to the deputy that he might be hanged in a withe, and not 
in a halter. Bacon, Custom and Education. 
I tied several logs together with a birch withe. 
Thnreau, Walden, p. 268. 
2. An elastic handle for a cold-chisel, fuller, or 
the like, which deadens the shock to the work- 
man's hand. — 3. An iron fitted to the end of a 
boom or mast, and having a ring through which 
another boom or mast is rigged or .secured; a 
boom-iron . 
Lastly comes the wytfie, a species of iron cap to support 
the flying jib-boom. Luce, Seamanship, p. 81. 
4. A wall dividing two flues in a stack of 
chimneys.— Basket-wlthe. See Timme/ortia.—Roov- 
Wlthe. See fit'i'iiw.— Serpent withe. See serpent- 
withe.— VTbite hoop-wlthe. See Touruefurtia. 
■withe (with or -with), r. t. ; pret. and pp. leithed, 
ppr. withing. [< withe, v.] To bind with withes 
or twigs. 
Two bowes, ooii blaak and oon white, thai take 
And bynde and wethe hem so that germynyng 
Comyxt upp goo. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 128. 
Stay but a while, and ye shall see him witked, and 
haltered, and staked, and baited to death. 
Bp. Hall, Sermon on Pa. Ixviii. 30. 
'WitherH (wiTH'er), adr. [< ME. wither, < AS. 
wither (in comp.), again, against, = OS. withar, 
wither, wiiherc = OFries. wither, withir, wether, 
wedcr, weer = LG. wedder = D. weder, weer = 
OHG. widar, MHG. wider, G. wider, against, wic- 
der, again, = lcel.vithr=Sv/. Dan. )•«/(■)• = Goth. 
withru, against, toward ; eonipar. of with : see 
with^. This adverb was once of considerable 
importance in ME. as a prefix, but it is obsolete 
in mod. E., withernam being merely archaic, and 
ici</iera7(('H.'," dialectal. The instances ot wither 
as prep., adj., and noun, given as occurring in 
ME., are rare, and in all of them wither is rather 
to be taken as a prefix. Ct. wither.t.] Against; 
in opposition (to) : chiefly in composition, as 
a prefix wither-, against, (lene.fi.s and Erodus 
(E. E. T. S.), 1. 3386. 
■wither't, »'• [ME. witheren, < AS. wifheridn (= 
MD. wcderen = OHG. widaron), go against, re- 
sist, < wither, against: see wither^, adr.] To go 
against; resist; oppose. Ormulnm, 1. 1181. 
wither^ (wiTH'er), r. [With change of d to ///, 
as in the orig. noun weather ; < ME. widdcr, wi/d- 
dcren, widren, leidcren, < AS. wedrian, expose to 
the weather, = MHG. witern, be such and such 
weather; cf . G. rerwiitern,he spoiled by the wea- 
ther, decay, etc., wittern, be such and such wea- 
ther, breathe, blow, stonn ; cf. weather, r., a 
doublet of «•('(/)«•.] I. Iran.'i. 1. To cause to be- 
come dry and fade; make sapless and shrunken. 
The sun is no sooner risen with a burning beat Imt it 
mthereth the grass. Jas. i. 11. 
Like a blasted sapling, wither'd up. 
Shak., Rich. III., iii. 4. 71. 
2. To cause to shrink, wrinkle, and decay for 
want of animal moisture ; cause to lose bloom; 
shrivel; cause to have a wrinkled skin or 
shrunken muscles: as,time will icither the fair- 
est face. 
Age cannot wittier her, nor custom stale 
Her inflnite variety. Sliak.. A, and ('., ii. 2. 240. 
3. To blight, injure, or destroy, as l>y some 
malign or baleful influence; affect fatally by 
malevolence ; cause to perish or languish gen- 
