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Though Jove himself no less content would be, 
To part his throne, and share his heaven with thee. Pope. 
Noting connection. 
Pity your own, or pity our estate, 
Nor twist our fortunes with your sinking fate. Dryden. 
Immediately after.— With that she told me, that though 
she spake of her father Cremes, she would hide no truth from 
me. Sidney. —Amongst.—Jasper Duke of Bedford, whom 
the king used to employ with the first in his wars, was then 
sick. Bacon. —Upon.—Such arguments had invincible force 
with those Pagan philosophers, who became Christians. Ad¬ 
dison. —In consent. Noting parity of state. 
See! where on earth the flow'ry glories lie: 
With her they flourish’d, and with her they die. Pope. 
This preposition might perhaps be exemplified in many 
more relations, for its use is very frequent, and therefore very 
lax and various. With and by, it is not always easy to dis¬ 
tinguish, nor perhaps is any distinction always observed; 
With seems rather to denote an instrument, and by a cause: 
thus, he killed his enemy with a sword, but he died by an 
arrow. The arrow is considered rather as a cause, as there 
is no mention of an agent. If the agent be more remote, by is 
used; as, the vermin which he could not kill with his gun, he 
killed by poison : if these two prepositions be transposed, the 
sentence, though not equally intelligible, will be less agreeable 
to the common modes of speech.— With in composition sig¬ 
nifies opposition, or privation, except withal. —A present 
natural good may be parted with, upon a profitable expec¬ 
tation of a future moral good. Wilkins. 
WITHA'L, adv. Along with the rest; likewise ; at the 
same time. 
How well supply’d with noble counsellors ? 
How modest in exception, and withal 
How terrible in constant resolution ? Shakspearc. 
God, when he gave me strength, to shew withal 
How slight the gift was, hung it in my hair. Milton. 
It is sometimes used by writers where we now use with , 
but I think improperly. 
Time brings means to furnish him withal; 
Let him but wait th’ occasions as they fall. Daniel. 
WITH AM, a town of England, in Essex, situated on a 
branch of the Blackwater. The town is pleasant, and many 
of the houses recently built, being on the great road to Har¬ 
wich. This town derives considerable benefit from its tho¬ 
roughfare. It was first built by Edward the Elder, son of 
Alfred the Great, and was given by Edward the Confessor to 
Eustace, earl of Boulogne, as a marriage portion with Goda, 
his sister. It was afterwards given to the knights templars, 
who had a preceptory at Cressing, three miles distant. Here 
is supposed to have been the Roman station Ad Ansam, 
mentioned in Antonine’s Itinerary. The church is a neat 
Gothic structure, containing many ancient monuments, par¬ 
ticularly one of sir John Southcot, a judge of the king’s 
bench in the reign of queen Elizabeth. It has a medicinal 
spring, formerly in great repute. In the neighbourhood are 
many neat mansions. Market on Tuesday, and its fairs are 
14th September, and the Monday before Trinity Sunday; 
85 miles north-east of Chelmsford, and 37| north-east-by¬ 
east of London. Population in 1811, 2352. 
WITHAM, a considerable river of England, in the coun¬ 
ty of Lincoln. It takes its rise near South Witham, a vil¬ 
lage about 10 miles north of Stamford; and thence flows 
almost duly north, by North Witham, Coltersworth, through 
the park of Easton, and to Great Ponton, where another 
stream joins it from Skillington and Stoke Rochford. At 
Little Ponton it receives a small brook, and then proceeds on 
the eastern side of the town of Grantham; whence it flows 
by Belton Park and Syston, and then turns westerly to Long 
Bennington. Here it bends again to the north; and after 
flowing by Claypole and Beckingham, it proceeds through 
a wide sandy valley to Lincoln. It now flows almost direct¬ 
ly east to Grubhill, where it turns to the south-east, and con¬ 
tinues in this direction to Boston, and unites its waters with 
the sea, at a place called Boston Deeps. From its source to 
Beckingham its banks are diversified with rising grounds and 
ornamental objects. Among the latter is the elegant spire of 
Grantham church, the fine woods at Belton park, Syston 
park, and Little Ponton. In its course to Lincoln, the con¬ 
tiguous country is diversified by high grounds, vallies, and 
woods: after passing the city, it leaves the high lands, and 
continues through a level tract of country to the sea. Much 
of the present bed of the river, from Boston upwards, is a 
new artificial cut made for the purpose of widening and 
straightening the channel, rendering it more commodious for 
navigation, and better adapted to receive and carry oflf the 
water of the contiguous fens. From Lincoln it becomes na¬ 
vigable to the sea, and has also a communication with the 
Trent, by means of a navigable canal, called Fossdyke, cut 
by king Henry I., which is still of material use in convey¬ 
ing away the corn, wool, and other commodities of the 
country. 
WITHAM FRIARY, a parish of England, in Somerset¬ 
shire ; 5 miles south-south-west of Frome. Population 533. 
WITH AMS HAW, a hamlet of England, in the parish of 
Bowden, Cheshire. 
WITHCALL, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 3J 
miles west-by-south of Lowth. 
WITHCOTE, a parish of England, in Leicestershire; 9 
miles south-south-east of Melton Mowbray. 
WITHCOMBE RAWLEIGII, a parish of England, in 
Devonshire. Population 859. 
To WITHDRAW, v. a. [from piS, or piftep, Saxon, 
against, and draw. ] To take back; to bereave.—It is not 
possible they should observe the one, who from the other 
withdraw unnecessarily obedience. Hooker. —To call away; 
to make to retire.—Nausicca is withdrawn, and a whole 
nation introduced, for a more general praise of Ulysses. 
Broome. 
To WITHDRAW, v. n. To retire; to retreat.—She froni 
her husband soft withdrew. Milton. 
WITHDRAWER, s. One who bereaves.—He was not a 
withdrawer of the corn, but a seller. Outred. 
WITHDRAWINGROOM, s. Room behind another 
room for retirement.—For an ordinary gentleman, a hall, a 
great parlour, with a withdrawingroom, with a kitchen, but¬ 
teries, and other conveniences, is sufficient. Mortimer. 
WITHE, s. [pidig, Sax., salix; wide, Sueth. id. widia, 
Sueth. vimen, vinculum vimineum. Serenius.] A willow 
twig. 
There let him lie 
Till I, of cut-up osiers, did imply 
A with, a fathome long, with which his feete 
I made together, in a sure league, meete. Chapman. 
A band, properly a band of twigs. [ withan, M. Goth., to 
join.'] These cords and withes will hold men’s consciences, 
when force attends and twists them. King Charles. 
WITHELFLOREY, a hamlet of England, in Somerset¬ 
shire; 4 miles from Dulverton. 
To WI'THER, v. n. [jeprSejiob, Saxon, dry, faded.] 
To fade; to grow sapless; to dry up. 
When I have pluck’d thy rose, 
I cannot give it vital growth again; 
It needs must wither. Shakspeare. 
To waste, or pine away.'—Are there so many left of your 
own family, that you should desire wholly to reduce it, by 
suffering the last branch of it to wither away before its time. 
Temple. —To lose or want animal moisture. 
Vain men, how vanishing a bliss we crave. 
Now warm in love, now withering in the grave. Dryden. 
To WI'THER, v. a. To make to fade.—The sun is no 
sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, 
and the flower thereof falleth. Ja, —To make to shrink, 
decay, or wrinkle, for want of animal moisture.—Age can¬ 
not wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Shak¬ 
speare. 
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