t 
1802.] Defultary Comments on Mafon’s Supplement, concluded. 
nicate from one inclofed {pace to ano- 
ther, and to extend the armed force to 
the different points of attack; fo that, 
at the beginning of a fiege, they firfl de- 
fended the outermoft inclofure. The 
number of the foldiers leffening, they 
retrenched themfelves in the fecond fpace, 
and at the laft extremity in the third, 
which formed a circumference ftill more 
confined.” 
The author ranges through all the ci- 
ties of Italy where he thinks he can trace 
any remains of the extraorainary con- 
firugtion he has defcribed. The object 
of his memoir, as appears from this ex- 
tract of the report made by Citizen Ameil- 
hon, is to eftablifh two poimts of anti-- 
quity, on which it does not appear that 
any of the Literati have been ferioufly 
employed before him. Thefe two points 
are, firft, the epoch when the great erup- 
tion of the velcanoes of Latium took 
place: and fecond, the difcovery of a 
fpecies of architeéture, the origin of which 
is loft in the night of ages. 
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BESULTORY COMMENTS 0” MASON’S 
SUPPLEMENT 7/0 JOHNSON’S DICTIO- 
NARY.—Concluded from p.112. No.1. 
TEEN. 
HIS word being euphonious, and a 
convenient rime, will not eafily be 
laid afide by the poets; although, from 
having but few kindred in the language, 
it is, perhaps, but an inconvenient burden 
to the memory. Johnfon derives it from 
the Anglofaxon szvaz or tingan, to kindle, 
to glow, whence the frequentative t7mclaz, 
to tingle: this is quite improbable, and 
accounts not at all for its ufe. Junius 
derives it rightly from the Anglofaxon 
teon, injury 3 which is connected with the 
verbs teonan and atheonan, to firetch, and 
alfo to accufe: either becaufe acculations 
were made by firetching out the hand to 
{wear, or becaufe the accufed perfon was 
ftretched intorture. Of the verb teom, or 
teonan, the adjective thiz feems at firft to 
have been the participle. 
Teen then appears to have meant (1) 
ftretch, (2) charge or accufation, (3) 
blame, punifhment, perfecution. In the 
fenfe firetch, it is the root of the frequen- 
tative verb fender, and probably of the 
verb tam, the ftretching or fyreading out 
of the hide being the firft and moft ob- 
vious Operation of the fazer. ‘The ad- 
jective fzzy, in fome provinces teeny, is no 
doubt from this. root, and fignified firft 
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firetching, then flender, then “itle. 
Ta 
the firft fenfe Browne ufes the word : r 
She both th’ extremes hath felt of Fortune’s 
teen. 
In the fecond fenfe it is ufed by Chaucer ¢ 
And never was ther no word hem betweene 
Of jaloufie ne of non other teze. 
In the third fenfe it is moft common :— 
fo Shakefpeare : 
My heart bleeds to think of the cen that I 
have turn’d you to. 
And Browne : 
Again& old Winter’s ftorms and wreakful 
teéne. 
And Spenfer : 
That barehead knight for dread and doleful 
teene 
Would fain have fled. 
Johnfon rafhly afferts that the verb to 
teen means to excite; but he has produced 
no inflance. Mr. Mafon offers as an in- 
{tance the line of Spenfer : 
Religious reverence doth burial teene. 
where to firetch, to draw out, to prolong, 
is as natural an interpretation. How can 
this verb have acquired fuch a meaning as 
to excite? If it were derived from the 
Anglofaxon tizaz, it would be written 
to ting: and the effential fignification of 
the etymon would be difcoverable in all 
the ramifications. 
There is an Icelandith verb, ef tyni, I 
lofe, from which the fubitantive tyz, lols, 
may be inferred : with this word it is not 
impoffible that teeze may be collateral. 
Time-bewafied. An ungrammatical: 
compound of Shakefpeare’s, ufed, on ac- 
count of the metre, for time-qwafjed.— 
(See the article bebleed, Monthly Maga- 
zine, Xi. $04.) 
Tirra-lirra. ‘This onomatopcea is not 
the invention of Shakefpeare: it occurs in 
Du Bartas, who died in z 590. 
Toad-fpotted. Such a compound ought 
to fignity ** {potted with toads :”” 
The heron ftalks on the toad-fpotted bank. 
it cannot mean ‘ {potted like a toad,”’ as 
Shakefpeare intended. Ink-/potted always 
means ‘* {potted with ink ;*’ blood (potted, 
«¢ footted with blood.”” 
Unbarbarifed. This word is defined 
by Mr. Mafon ‘* cured of barbari{fm,’? 
and is, no doubt, ufed in that fenfe by 
Lord Chefterfield, where he fays : 
The Courts.of Manheim and, Bonn I take 
to be a little more unbarbarifed than fome 
others, , 
‘This 
