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2. To adventure ; to run the danger.
She from her fellow-provinces would go,Rather than hazard to nave you her foe. Waller.
Ha'zardable. adj. [from hazard.] Ven-turous ; liable to chance.
An hazardahle determination it is, unto fluc-tuating and indifferent effects, to affix a positivetype or period. Brown.
Ha'zarder. n. s. [from hazard.'] Hewho hazards.
Ha'zardry. n. $. [from hazard.] Te-merity ; precipitation; rash adventu-rousness. Obsolete.
Hasty wrath, and heedless huzardy.
Do breed repentance late, anti lasting infamy.
Sjtenscr.
Hazardous, adj. [fiazardeux, Fr.fromhazard.] Dangerous; exposed to chance.
Grant that our hazardous attempt prove vain,Wc feel the worst, secur’tffrom greater pain.
Dryden.
Hazardously, adv. [from hazardous.]With danger or chance.
Haze. n. s. [The etymology unknown.]Fog; mist.
To Haze. i\ n. To be foggy or misty.
To Haze. v , a. To fright one. Ainsio.
The nuts grow in clusters, and are closely joinedtogether at the bottom, each being covered with anoutward husk or cup, which opens at the top, and•when the fruit is ripe it falls out. The species arehazelnut, cobnut, and filbert. The red and whitefilberts are mostly eteemed for their fruit. Miller.
Kate, like the hazel twig,
Is straight and slender; and as brown in hueAs hazel nuts, and sweeter than the kernels. Shak.
Her chariot is an empty hazel nut. Shakesp.
Why sit we not beneath the grateful shade,Which hazels, intermix'd with elms, have made ?
Dryden.
There are some from the size of a hatel nut tothat of a man's fist. Woodwad.
Ha'zel. adj. [from the noun.] Lightbrown ; of the colour of hazel.
Chuse a warm dry soil, that has a good depthof light hazel mould. Mortimer.
Ha zelly, adj . Of the colour of hazel;a light brown.
Uplands consist either of sand, gravel, chalk,rock or stone, hazelly loam, clay, or black mould.
Mortimer.
Hazy. adj. [from haze.] Dark; foggy;misty.
Our clearest day here is misty and has 1 /; wesee not far, and what we do see is in a bad light.
Burnet's Theory.
Oft engender’d by the hazy North,
Myriads on myriads, insect armies waft. Thomson.
He. pronoun, gen. him ; plur. they ; gen.them, [hy, Dut. J>e, Sax . It seems tohave borrowed the plural from Sip,plural, bap, dative bipum.]
1. The man that was named before.
All the conspirators, save only he ,
Did that they did in envy of great Ca»sar. Shak.
If much you note him,
You shall offend him, and increase his passion;Feed and regard him not. Shakesp.
I ain weary of this moon; would he wouldchange. Shakesp.
Adam spoke;
So cheer’d he his fair spouse, and she was cheer’d.
Milton.
When Adam wak’d, he on his sideLeaning half rais’d hung over her. Miltoi
Thus talking, hand in hand along they pass’d
>n to tllPkr hllcufiil km.tAlt/tO 4
On to their blissful bow’rs.Extol
Him firs!, him last, him midst*
2. The man; the person. It sometimesstands without reference to any fore-going word.
He is never poor
That little hath, but he that much desires. Daniel.
3. Man or mule being.
Such mortal drugs I have ; but Mantua’s lawIs death to any he that utters them. Shakesp.
1 stand to answer thee, or any he the proudestof thy sort. Shakesp.
Tros and his Tace the sculptor shall employ,And he the god who built the walls of Troy. Dryd.
4. Male : as, a he bear, a he goat. It is usedwhere the male and female have notdifferent denominations.
The he's in birds have the fairest feathers. Bac.
5. In the two last senses he is rather anoun than pronoun.
HEAD. n. s. [Jjeapob, Jjeapb, Sax . hoofd,Dut. heved, old English , whence bycontraction, head.]
1. The part of the animal that containsthe brain or the organ of sensation andseat of thought.
Vein healing verven, and head purging dill. Spen.Over head up-grew
Insuperable height of loftiest shade. Milton.
The dewy paths of meadows we will tread,
For crowns and chaplets to adorn thy head. Dryd.
I could still have offers, that some, who heldtheir heads higher, would be glad to accept. Swift.
2. Person as exposed to any danger orpenalty.
What lie gets more of her than sharp words,let it lie on my head. Shakesp.
\\ ho of all ages to succeed, but feelingThe evil on him brought by me, will curseMy head? ill fare our ancestor impure. Milton.
3. Head and ears. The whole person.
In jingling rbimes well fortified and strong,
He fight's intrench’d o’er head and ears in song.
Granville.
4. Denomination of any animals.
When Innocent desired the marquis of Carpioto furnish thirty thousand head of swine, he couldnot spare them; but thirty thousand lawyers hehad at his service. Addison.
The tax upon pasturage was raised accordingto a certain rate per head upon cattle. Arbuihnot.
5. Chief; principal person ; one to whomthe rest are subordinate; leader ; com-mander.
For their commons, there is little danger fromthem, except it be where they have great andpotent heads. Bacon .
Your head 1 him appoint;
And by myself have sworn, to him shall bowAll knees fn heav’n, and shall confess him lord.
Milton.
The heads of the chief sects of philosophy, asThales, Anxagoras, and Pythagoras , did consentto this tradition. Tillotson.
6. Place of honour; the first place.
Notwithstanding all the justices had taken theirplaces upon the Bench, they made room for theold kniglit at the head of them. Addison.
7. Place of command.
An army of fourscore thousand troops, with theduke of Marlborough at the head of them, coulddo nothing. Addison on the Bar.
8. Countenance; presence.
Richard not far from hence hath hid his head.
Shakesp. Richard II .With Cain go wander through the shade of night,And never shew thy head by day or light. Shakesp.Ere to-morrow’s sun shall shew his head. Dryd.
9. Understanding ; faculties of the mind:commonly in a ludicrous sense.
The weilthcs laid their heads together. L’Estra.A fox and a goat went down a well to drink :the goat fell to hunting which way to get back ;
Oh, says Reynard, never trouble your head,out breaking your head, and being so very i 11 ^ 1 '*
, ,,-- — ... ,oar heath*
leave dial to me. L'Estr^,
Work with all the ease and speed you can, "'
trious in starting scruples. “
The lazy and inconsiderate took lip thdt ^lions by chance, without much beating iheifjabout them.
If a man shews that be has no religion’should we think that he beats his head ,and tro0 S 1 jthimself to examine the groundsr of this w,doctrine ? I^i
When in ordinary discourse we sa y a jjf*
a fine head, we express ourselves metaphof'^idand speak, in relation to his understandingwhen we say of a woman she has a finespeak only in relation to her commode.
We laid our heads together to consider YjjijJgrievances the nation bad suffered under,George. Ad"
10. Face ; front; fore part.
The gathering crowd pursues ; n JfU'The ravishers turn head, the fight renews.
11. Resistance; hostile opposition.
Then made he head against his enemies, . ^And Hynmer slew. Fair)/J* ^
Sometimes hath Henry Bolingbrokcagainst my power.
Two valiant gentlemen making headthem, seconded by half a dozen more, nia ^ifijr
l away
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Sin having depraved bis judgment,possession of his will, there is no other p r *left him naturally, hy which he can I1,a *against it.
12. Spontaneous resolution.
The bordering wars in this kingdo 11 ^^made altogether by voluntaries, upon ^ $head, without any pay or commission * r ruiMf'state. . XW
13. State of a deer’s horns, by w* 11age is known.
It was a buck of the first head. of ^
The buck is called the fifth year a b ufirst head. -gtff
14. Individual. It is used in n ulT1
computation. ^ ,5
If there be six millions of people, dabout four acres for every head. . .j
15. The top of any thing bigger
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rest.
His spear’s head weighed six hun (1of iron.
As high .
As his proud head is rais’d towards t* 1So low tow’rds hell his roots descend- ,. tJ * h*and spveau f(
Trees, which have largo
would lie with their brandies up * n
, ^ yre ^ gjfi*
If the buds are made our food, tht ^heads or tops ; so heads of asp ora » ^ fitchoaks*
Head is an equivocal term ; f<J r 1head of a nail, or of a pin, as well as e
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10. The fore part of any tlm 1 #' ^ship. • , migh 4 JO
By gallies with brazen heads 3 |j re dport over Indus at once three < lU **
soldiers.
Ills gallies moor; . _* c rn 3 /vt/#**'
Their heads are turn’d to sea, th c ^
17- That which rises on Jfyt ^
Let it stand in a tub four or .. tw icebe put into the cask, stirring 1 ' • t0 it. Jbeating down the head or y eaS ^ c ^
18. The blade of an axe. thc?**^!?
A limn fetcheth a stroke " ijpnetj 1 . *i*'down the tree, and the heaihelve. . .id''
10. Upper part of a be 1 *- , £a( j, £><“•
20. The brain. --,ips r un '
I- « , ’ lt ?,ur' 1 ;
As eastern priests in the sUl1 '
And turn their heads to a n
Milton.