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Dim sadness did not spareCelestial visages. Milton,
Less pleasure take brave minds in battles wonThan in restoring such as are undone :
Tygers have courage, and the rugged bear ;
But man alone can whom he conquers spare.
Waller.
6. To grant; to allow ; to indulge.
Set me in the remotest place
That Neptune's frozen arms embrace;
Where angry Jove did never spareOne breath of kind and temperate air. Roscommon.
7. To forbear to inflict or impose.
Spare my remembrance ; ’twas a guilty day ;
Ana still the blush hangs here. Di'yd.Allfor Love.
O spare this great, this good, this aged king,And spare your ■soul the crime! Dry. Span. Fryar.■Spare my sight the pain
Of seeing what a world of tears it costs you. Dryd.
To Spare, v. n .
1. To live frugally; to be parsimonious;to be not liberal.
H’ has wherewithal: in himSparing would show a worse sin than ill doctrine.
Shakesp.
Those wants, which they rather feared than felt,would well enough be overcome by sparing anti
patience. . Knolles.
In these relations, although he be more sparing,his predecessors were very numerous.
Browns Vulg, Err.
Our labours late and early every morning,Midst winter frosts ; then, clad and fed with spar-in g’
Rise to our toils. Otway.
God has not been so sparing to men to matethem barely two-legged creatures, and left it toAristotle to make them rational. Locke .
When they discover the passionate desire offame in the ambitious man, they become sparingand saving in their commendations; they envyhim the satisfaction of an applause. Addison.
Now a reservoir, to keep and spare;
The next a fountain spouting through his heir.
Pope.
No statute in his favour saysHow free or frugal I shall pass my days ;
1 who at sometimes spend, at others spare,Divided between carelessness and care. Pope.
2. To forbear ; to be scrupulous.
His soldiers spared not to say that they shouldbe unkindly dealt with, if they were defrauded ofthe spoil. Knolles.
To pluck and eat my fill I spared not. Milton*
3 . To use mercy ; to forgive ; to be ten-der.
Their king, out of a princely feeling, was sparingand compassionate towards his subjects. Bacon .
Spare, adj .
1. Scanty; not abundant; parsimonious;frugal.
He was spare but discreet of speech, better con-ceiving than delivering; equally stout and kind.
Carew's Survey of Comw.Men ought to beware, that they use not exerciseaud a spare diet both. Bacon ’s Nat. Hist.
Join with thee calm peace and quiet;
Spare fast, that oft with gods doth diet. Milton.
The masters of the world were bred up withspare diet; and the young gentlemen of Rome feltno want of strength, because they ate but once aday. Locke.
2. Superfluous; unwanted.
If that no spare clothes he had to give,
His own coat he would cut, and it distribute glad.
Spenser.
As any of our sick waxed well, he might be re-moved; for which purpose there were set forthten spare chambers. Bacon .
Learning seems more adapted to the female Iworld than to the male, because they have morespare time upon their hands, and lead a more se-dentary life. Addisons Spectator.
, In ray spare hours you’ve had your part;
Ev n now my servile hand your sovereign willobeys. Norris.
3. Lean; wanting flesh; macilent.
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O give me your spare men, and spare me thegreat ones. Shakesp.
If my name were liable to fear,
I do not know the man I should avoid
So soon as that spare Cassius. Shakesp. J. Ccesar.
- His visage drawn he felt to sharp ana spare,
His arms clung to his ribs. Milton*sPar. Lost.
Spare, n.s. [from the verb.] Parsimony;frugal use; husbandry. Not in use.
Since uncheckt they may,
They therefore will make still his goods their prey,Without all spare or end. Chapman.
Our victuals failed us, though we had madegood spare of them. Bacon .
Spa'rer. n. s. [from spare.] One whoavoids expenoe.
By nature far from profusion, anti yet a greatersparer than a saver; for though he had such meansto accumulate, yet his forts, garrisons, and hisfeastings, wherein he was only sumptuous, couldnot but soak his exchequer. Wotton.
Spa'rerib. n. s. [spare and rib.] Somepart cut off from the rib: as, a spareribof pork.
Spargefa'ction. n. s. [ spargo, Lat.]
The act of sprinkling.
1 . Scarce; little.
Of this there is with you. sparing memory, ornone; but we have large "knowledge thereof. Bac.
2. Scanty ; not plentiful.
If much exercise, then use a plentiful diet; andif sparing diet, then little exercise. Bacon .
Good air, solitary groves, and sparing diet, suf-ficient to make you fancy yourself one of the fa-thers of the desert. Pope.
3. Parsimonious ; not liberal.
Virgil being so very sparing of his words, andleaving so much to be imagined by the reader, cannever be translated as he ought in any moderntongue. Dryden.
Though sparing of his grace, to mischief bent,He seldom does a good with good intent. Dryden.
Spa'ringly. adv. [from sparing.]
1. Not abundantly.
(Jive us leave
Freely to render what we have in charge ;
Or shall we sparingly shew you far offTbedauphiirs meaning? Shakesp. Hen . V.
The borders whereon you plant fruit treesshould be large, and set witn fine flowers ; but thinand sparingly, lest they deceive the trees. Bac. Ess.
2. Frugally; parsimoniously; not lavishly.
High titles of honour were in the king’s minori-ty sparingly granted, because dignity then waitedon desert. Hayward.
Commend but sparingly whom thou dost love ;But less condemn whom thou dost not approve.
Denham.
3. With abstinence.
Christians are obliged to taste even the innocentpleasures of life but sparingly. Atterbury.
4. Not with great frequency.
The morality of a grave sentence, affected byLucan, is more sparingly used by Virgil. Dryden.
Our sacraments, which had been frequentedwith so much zeal, were approached more spar-ingly. Atterbury.
5. Cautiously; tenderly.
Speech of touch towards others should be spar-ingly used; tor discourse ought to be as a field,without coming home to any man. Bacon’s Essays .
SPARK, n.s. [ppeajica, Sax. sparke , Dut.]
. A small particle of fire, or kindledmatter.
If any marvel how a thing, in itself so weak,could import any great danger, they must consi-der not so much how small the spark is that fliethup, as how apt tilings about it are to take fire.
Hooker.
I am about to weep ; but thinking thatWe are a queen, my drops of tears I'll turnTo sparks of fire Shakesp.
I am not forgetful of the sparks which some
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parliaments.
In this deep quiet, from what sourceThose seeds of fire that fatal birth d^cAnd fust few scattering sparks about wBig witli the flames that to our ruin ro *
Oh, may some spark of your celcstia ^, jtyp'The last, the meanest, of your sons insp
2. Any thing shining. rM, a °u
We have, here and there, a little clearsparks of bright knowledge.
3. Any thing vivid or active*
If any spark of life be yet remaining dihft.Down, down to hell, and say I sent tn
4. A lively, showy, splendid, g a y
is commonly used in contempt* ^ tb*
How many huffing sparks have flfld L,
in the same day have been both the ]$tf^scorn of the same slaves. trader u«.
A spark like thee, of the mankilluig 1Fell sick. don’ 1
As for the disputes of sharpers, we 0 f L-of any provisions made for the hono £ 0 ltsparks.
The finest sparks, and cleanest beau » Jr
Drip from the shoulders to the toes. . y f
I, who have been the poet’sWill now become the champion of * 11S PUnlucky as Fungoso in the play.
These sparks with auk ward vanity
What tne fine gentlemen wore jester J
5 . A lover. i \
To Spark, v. n. [from the
emit particles of fire ; to sparkin use.
Fair is my love,
When the rose in her check app** ars ’ i. ffiwtOr in her eyes the fire of love doth - jjyw
Spa'rkful. adj. [spark and/«**d
brisk; airy. Not used. _ laugh at JS^
Hitherto will our sparkful ^ |*
eat Grandfathers Enolish. who s
A low word. 11°*
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1. Airy; gay. _
monly applied to men rathermen. , 151
Is any thing more sparkish andye^than Venus’s accosting her son m
2. Showy; well-dressed;
A daw, to be sparkish, trick d I jr, ffifall the gay feathers he could must* •
Spa'rkle. n.s. [from spark']
1. A spark ; a small particle 1 7 ok e»
He, with repeated »W V 0 I^ S
Of clashing flints, their hidden fir t»d \eShotl flame succeeds ; a bed of ^
The dying sparkles in their fall r f^ cCaught into life, in fierv fumes * ,
And, fed with strongerfood, inva
2. Any luminous particle. *
To detract from the dignity * Ijfi !g
jure even God himself, wlio, Deitig tnone can approach unto, hath sei if-*,
whereof we are capable, even a w* 1 tfoOif
Ut fountam
resembling the bright fountain
When reason’s lamp, wliicli, jH te ^ er bc fll
Up.
Throughout man’s little worJ
spread, \,vhdo w *T
Is now become a sparkle wnic d*Under the ashes, half extinct an ge e-Alt 1 thpn thw nnre-loved E __ me*.
dotl'f
& e *
All! then thy once-loved » ,w *’ n
It will be then no crime to g® 2 ® o9 es ®
See from my cheek the transie e ye« «.
See the last sparkle languish m *> jjottf 1 'J
To Spa'rkle. v. n. [from
1. To emit sparks.
2. To issue in sparks. ioisitf
The bolddesiga a „dJPleas’d highly those infernal p?
Sparkled in all their eyes.