Chapter V · Chapter 5

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

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

(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 Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

one more of the same kind, or a different one

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

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

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

in a despicable, ignoble manner

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

the -ing form of “be”

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

(comparative of “good”) superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

plural of “bit” — a small piece or quantity of something

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

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From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

cause to slow down or get stuck

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

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From this reading _From a Boghouse near _Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields_._ _The_ WISH.

the two together, not just one

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

an orange of low brightness and saturation

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature

From this reading To the EDITOR of the Glass-Window, _&c._ Miscellany.

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From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

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From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

a university in England

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

A soft white limestone used for marking doors, stone walls, and slate.

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes)

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

an act of copying

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

a place off to the side of an area

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

having cusps or points

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

separate with or as if with an instrument

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

absence of light or illumination

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

an item of factual information derived from measurement or research

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

issue a decree

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

being or moving lower in position or less in some value

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

every one of two or more people or things, taken separately

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

move gently or carefully

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine)

From this reading To the EDITOR of the Glass-Window, _&c._ Miscellany.

Fluent, persuasive, and graceful speaking or writing. (Sự hùng biện, tài ăn nói lưu loát.)

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

past form of “enable” — render capable or able for some task

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

plural of “end” — either extremity of something that has length

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

be identical or equivalent to

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

to the same degree (often followed by “as”)

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

at any time

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

any material that fills a space or container

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

come upon, as if by accident; meet with

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

beating as a source of erotic or religious stimulation

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

plural of “flight” — a formation of aircraft in flight

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

about to be mentioned or specified

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

grant freedom to; free from confinement

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

plural of “friend” — a person you know well and regard with affection and trust

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

give something useful or necessary to

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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From this reading To the EDITOR of the Glass-Window, _&c._ Miscellany.

change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

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From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

an opening into or through something

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

the state of being honored

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

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From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

on condition that; in the event that

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

transmit (knowledge or skills)

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

to make better

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

plural of “intellectual” — a person who uses the mind creatively

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

a small island

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

become part of; become a member of a group or organization

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

plural of “landlord” — a landowner who leases to others

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

put into a certain place or abstract location

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

having or showing profound knowledge

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

go away from a place

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

plural of “lecture” — a speech that is open to the public

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

deprived of life; no longer living

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

prefer or wish to do something

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading _From a Boghouse near _Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields_._ _The_ WISH.

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

a strong positive emotion of regard and affection

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

lowest in rank or importance

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

engage in

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

be amazed at

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

plural of “mason” — American Revolutionary leader from Virginia whose objections led to the drafting of the Bill of Rights (1725-1792)

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

used to say something is possible, or to give permission

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

mean or intend to express or convey

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

come together

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

a public toilet for men

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

used to say something is possible but not certain

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

a collection containing a variety of sorts of things

From this reading To the EDITOR of the Glass-Window, _&c._ Miscellany.

in the current fashion or style

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

a form of address for a man

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

to a great degree or extent

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

characterized by or capable of producing music

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

a politically organized body of people under a single government

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

near in time or place or relationship

From this reading _From a Boghouse near _Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields_._ _The_ WISH.

absolutely essential

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

immediately following in time or order

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

not any; not one

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

negation of a word or group of words

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

and not; used after a negative to add a second negative

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

plural of “ode” — a lyric poem with complex stanza forms

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading To the EDITOR of the Glass-Window, _&c._ Miscellany.

a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

(often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

belonging to the speaker and others

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

have ownership or possession of

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

a city in southern England to the northwest of London; site of Oxford University

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

plural of “page” — one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

an effortful attempt to attain a goal

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

a dramatic or musical entertainment

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

cause to continue or prevail

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

select carefully from a group

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

a separate part of a whole

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

participate in games or sport

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

give an exhibition of to an interested audience

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

plural of “pun” — a humorous play on words

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

past form of “purloin” — make off with belongings of others

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

put into a certain place or abstract location

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

an organism or species surviving as a remnant of an otherwise extinct flora or fauna in an environment much changed from that in which it originated

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

suggestive of sexual impropriety

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

of or relating to or indicative of or issued or performed by a king or queen or other monarch

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

assembly possessing high legislative powers

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

cause to go somewhere

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

a general conscious awareness

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

serve a purpose, role, or function

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

plural of “shift” — an event in which something is displaced without rotation

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

be bright by reflecting or casting light

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

used to say what is right, expected, or advisable

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

a thing, without saying which

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

plural of “son” — a male human offspring

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

plural of “stool” — a simple seat without a back or arms

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

plural of “strain” — (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

plural of “study” — a detailed critical inspection

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

of the kind already mentioned

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

be agreeable or acceptable to

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

give something useful or necessary to

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

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

From this reading To the EDITOR of the Glass-Window, _&c._ Miscellany.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

used when the people doing the action are also its object

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

from that place or that time

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

in or at that place or location

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

for that reason; as a result

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned

From this reading Therefore, that you may the better be enabled these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following _Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

English translator and Protestant martyr

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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

From this reading To the EDITOR of the Glass-Window, _&c._ Miscellany.

male cat

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

plural of “tool” — an implement used in the practice of a vocation

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

make an effort or attempt

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

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From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

morally reprehensible

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

plural of “wall” — an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

feel or have a desire for; want strongly

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

in or at the place that

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

during the time that

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

which person or people

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

hope for; have a wish

From this reading _From a Boghouse near _Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields_._ _The_ WISH.

a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

in the company of; together with

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

combining clever conception and facetious expression

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

Having or showing the qualities or abilities that merit recognition in character or magic.

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past

From this reading Oh! may our Senate, learn’d and great, (In order to perpetuate The tuneful Strains and witty Flights, Of him that Studies while he sh - - ts) Decree all Landlords, thro’ the Nation, Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) In some meet Corner of their Dark Hole A cuspidated Piece of Charcoal; Or, where the Walls are cas’d with Wainscot, A Piece of Chalk with equal Pains cut; That those who labour at both Ends, To ease themselves, and serve their Friends, May not, reluctant, go from Sh - - t, And leave no Relict of their Wit, For want of necessary Tools To impart the _Proles_ of their Stools: Then _Cibber_’s Odes, and _Tindal_’s Sense, _Caleb_ and _Henley_’s Eloquence, _Woolston_, and all such learned Sophi’s, Would be cut down in House-of-Office: _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_ too would join Their Puns, to make the Boghouse shine Each learn’d Society would try all (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) To furnish something might improve Religion, Politicks, or Love: Grand _Keyber_, Gormogons, Free Masons, And _Heydeger_, with all his gay Sons, Would find to suit, with Lectures there, Their Intellectuals to a Hair: _Bodens_ might pick up Wit from thence, and lay The _Drama_ of another Modish Play.

the person or people being spoken to

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

belonging to the person or people being spoken to

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.

used when the person spoken to is also the object of the action

From this reading _Mr._ BOG, Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound, great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men’s Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined, whereby you run a Risque of being deem’d yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo’d from your own natural Bagpipe.