Chapter XII

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

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From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class

From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

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From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

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From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

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From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

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From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

marked by strong resentment or cynicism

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

make a strident sound

From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

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From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

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From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

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From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

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From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

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From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

plural of “change” — an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

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From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

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From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

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From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

the appearance conveyed by a person's face

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

plural of “creature” — a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

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From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

causing or capable of causing death

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

the form of “do” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

an old form of “does”

From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

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From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

housing that someone is living in

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

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From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

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From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

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From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

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From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

plural of “flame” — the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

a short vivid experience

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

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From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart

From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

inflected form of “flit” — move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

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From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

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From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

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From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

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From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

an outlying farm

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

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From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

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From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

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From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

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From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc

From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

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From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

a characteristic state or mode of living

From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

plural of “light” — (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

in like or similar manner

From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

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From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

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From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

engage in

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

plural of “make” — a recognizable kind

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

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From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

an area that is approximately central within some larger region

From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

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From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

immediately following in time or order

From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust

From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

give money, usually in exchange for goods or services

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

remorse for your past conduct

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

plural of “place” — a point located with respect to surface features of some region

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

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From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer

From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

shake with fast, tremulous movements

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

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From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

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From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

not move; be in a resting position

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

a general conscious awareness

From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

move or cause to move back and forth

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

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From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

bypass

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

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From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

the vital principle or animating force within living things

From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation

From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

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From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

not in physical motion

From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

plural of “storm” — a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

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From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

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From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

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From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

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From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

be about

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

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From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

(formal) in or into that thing or place

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

Having little thickness or extent.

From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

a special situation

From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

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From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.

touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements

From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

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From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

moved around an axis or center

From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence

From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

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From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

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From this reading O weake life! that does leane On thing so tickle as th’vnsteady ayre; Which euery howre is chang’d, and altred cleane With euery blast that bloweth fowle or faire: The faire doth it prolong; the fowle doth it impaire.

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From this reading The fish, still floting, doe at randon range, And neuer rest; but euermore exchange Their dwelling places, as the streames them carrie: Ne haue the watry foules a certaine grange, Wherein to rest, ne in one stead do tarry; But flitting still doe flie, and still their places vary.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

which person or people

From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

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From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

in the company of; together with

From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty and one

From this reading So likewise are all watry liuing wights xxi Still tost, and turned, with continuall change, Neuer abyding in their stedfast plights.

the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-one and one

From this reading Next is the Ayre: which who feeles not by sense xxii (For, of all sense it is the middle meane) To flit still? and, with subtill influence Of his thin spirit, all creatures to maintaine, In state of life?

the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-two and one

From this reading Therein the changes infinite beholde, xxiii Which to her creatures euery minute chaunce; Now, boyling hot: streight, friezing deadly cold: Now, faire sun-shine, that makes all skip and daunce: Streight, bitter storms and balefull countenance, That makes them all to shiuer and to shake: Rayne, hayle, and snowe do pay them sad penance, And dreadfull thunder-claps (that make them quake) With flames and flashing lights that thousand changes make.