with draught (WITH draft)

[ with old ties. Madam, The Queene must heare you sing another song Before you part with vs. Heywood , If you Know not me (Works, ed. 1874, I. 207). With was formerly used in many idioms to denote relations now expre ed rather by of , to , etc. Nobill talker with tales, tretable, alse, Curtas & kynde, curious of honde. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3835. He still retains some resemblance with the ancient Cupid. Bacon , Physical Fables, viii., Expl. This pains I took with willingne , though it were much draught.] Withdrawal. May not a with draught of all God's favours. certainly foreseen and foretold? IMG:content-2480.png:[blocks in formation] Rev. S. Ward, Sermons, p. 145. ( Davies .) withdraw (with-dra'), v.; pret. withdrew, pp. withdrawn, ppr. withdrawing. [ He doth best that with - draweth hym by day and bi nyzte To spille any spec he or any space of tyme. Piers Plowman (B), ix. 96. From her husband's hand her hand Soft she withdrew. withdrawn. Milton , P. L., ix. 386. I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then Bryant, Waiting by the Gate. I say that this Else I withdraw favour and countenance From you and yours for ever-shall you do. Tennyson , Aylmer's Field. IMG:content-2481.png:[blocks in formation] Away with. See away. - Have with you. See have. One with. See one. To bear, begin, break, dispense, do, go, etc., with. See the verbs. - Together with. See together.- To put up with. See put1. - Warm with. See warm. With child (OE. mid childe ). See child. With God, in heaven. I have been a-fishing with old Oliver Henly, now with God, a noted fisher both for Trout and Salmon. I. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 127. With that. (at) Provided that. To worche zoure wil the while my lyf dureth, With that ze kenne me kynd eliche to knowe what is Dowel. Piers Plowman (C), xii. 92. bad him good mor we, (bt) Moreover. IMG:content-2482.png:[blocks in formation] With that Merlin departed, and the kynge be lefte in grete my ese, and sore a-bai hed of this thinge. Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), iii. 631. With the sun. See sunl. With young. See young. =Syn. With and by are so closely allied in many of their uses that it is impo ible to lay down a rule by which these uses may at all times be distinguished. The same may be said, but to a le extent, of with and through. with2, n. See withe. with-. [ME.with-, withal (wi-hal'), adv. and prep. [Early mod. E. also with all, withalle; But-if a man be vertuous withal. Chaucer , Prol. to Franklin's Tale, 1. 15. It seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him. Acts xxv. 27. II. prep. An emphatic form of with , used after the object (usually a relative) at the end of a sentence or clause. a threat, or a vow. IMG:content-2483.png:[blocks in formation] 41. To take out; subtract. Than wythdrawe the yeris oute of the yeris that ben pa id that rote. Chaucer , Astrolabe, ii. § 45. The word is often used reflexively. Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds; from such withdraw thyself. 1 Tim. vi. 5. ther; a willow or osier-twig. Judges xvi. 7. I remember in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's time of England, an Irish rebel, condemned, put up a petition to the deputy that he might be hanged in a withe, and not in a halter. Bacon, Custom and Education. I tied several logs together with a birch withe . Thoreau, Walden, p. 268. 2. An elastic handle for a cold-chisel, fuller, or the like, which deadens the shock to the work man's hand. - 3. An iron fitted to the end of a boom or mast, and having a ring through which another boom or mast is rigged or secured; a boom-iron. Lastly comes the wythe , a species of iron cap to support the flying jib-boom. Luce , Seamanship, p. 81. 4. A wall dividing two flues in a stack of chimneys.-Basket-withe. See Tour nef ort i a . - Ноор- withe. See Rivina . - Serpent withe. See serpent- withe. - White hoop-withe. See Tour nef ort i a . withe (with or with), v . t .; pret. and pp. withed , ppr. withing . [ withe , n.] To bind with withes or twigs. Two bowes, oon blaak and oon white, thai take And bynde and we the hem so that germynyng Comyxt upp goo. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 128. Stay but a while, and ye shall see him withed , and haltered, and staked, and baited to death. Bp. Hall , Sermon on Ps. lxviii. 30. wither1t (with'er), adv . [ wither , wither (in comp.), again, against, = OS. withar , wither , withere = OFries. wither , withir , wether , weder , weer = LG. wedder = D. weder , weer = OHG. widar , MHG. wider, G. wider , against, wie- der , again, Icel. vithr = Sw. Dan.veder =Goth. withra , against, toward; compar. of with : see with1 . This adverb was once of considerable importance in ME. as a prefix, but it is obsolete in mod. E., with ern am being merely archaic, and withershins dialectal. The instances of wither as prep., adj., and noun, given as occurring in ME., are rare, and in all of them wither is rather To withdraw a juror, to discharge one from a jury, to be taken as a prefix. Cf. withers.] Against; IMG:content-2484.png:[blocks in formation] And what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure? Bryant , Thanatopsis. withdrawal (with-dra'al), n. [ The withdrawal of the allowance interfered with my plans. Fielding, Tom Jones. ( Latham.) Sin comes by withdrawal of the heart from God. Bibliotheca Sacra , XLIII. 492. withdrawer (with-dra'er), n. [ withdraw + -er1.] One who withdraws. He was not a withdrawer of the corn, but a seller. Outred, tr. of Cope on Proverbs (1583), fol. 192 b. [( Latham. ) in opposition (to): chiefly in composition, as a prefix wither-, against. ast. Genesis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3386. wither1t, v. [ME. witheren, Shak ., Rich. III., iii. 4. 71. 2. To cause to shrink, wrinkle, and decay for want of animal moisture; cause to lose bloom; shrivel; cause to have a wrinkled skin or shrunken muscles: as, time will wither the fairest face. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Shak ., A. and C., ii. 2. 240. 3. To blight, injure, or destroy, as by some malign or baleful influence; affect fatally by malevolence; cause to perish or languish gen IMG:content-2485.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2486.png:[blocks in formation] That which is of God we defend;... that which is otherwise, let it wither even in the root from whence it hath sprung. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, ii. 1. The individual withers , and the world is more and more. Tennyson , Locksley Hall. wither-. See wither1 , adv . wither-band (wiTH'er-band), n. A piece of iron fixed under a saddle nearly over the withers of the horse, to strengthen the bow. withered1 (with'èrd), p. a. Shriveled; faded. withered2 (wi'erd), a. [ Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, [II. 165. within They withheld and did no more hurte, & ye people came Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 104. taking, seizure: see wither1 and nam2, name2.] trembling, & brought them the best provi ions they had. In law : ( a ) An unlawful distre , or forbidden taking, as of a thing distrained, out of the county, so that the sheriff cannot upon the replevin make deliverance thereof to the party distrained. (b) The reprisal of other cattle or goods, in lieu of those unjustly taken, eloigned, or otherwise withholden. The cattle or goods thus taken are said to be taken in with ern am . [Now obsolete.] withe-rod (with'rod), n. A North American shrub, Viburnum ca ino ides , a species formerly included in V. nudum. withers (with'èrz), n. pl. [Also witters; lit. the parts that are 'against,' the resisting part; the back of a horse, between the shoulder blades and behind the root of the neck, where the mane ceases to grow: as, a horse 15 hands high at the withers. The name is extended to the same part of some other animals: as, an antelope with high withers; the sacred ox, with a hump on the withers. See cut under horse. Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung. Shak ., Hamlet, iii. 2. 253. Contrive that the saddle may pinch the beast in his withers . Swift , Advice to Servants (Groom). 2. The barbs or flukes of a harpoon; the witters: so called by British whalemen. withershins (wiTH'er-shinz), adv. [Also widdershins, widders inn is, widish ins, widders ins, wodershins, etc.; according to a common view, lit. 'against the sun,' Go round it three times widershins , and every time say, "Open, door!" Child Rowland (Child's Ballads, I. 248). And my love and his bonnie ship Turn'd widdershins about. state or condition. [Rare.] Do ye complain of the dead witheredne of good affections? Bp . Hall , Contemplations, v. 11. Water them as soon as set, till they have recovered their witheredne . Mortimer, Husbandry. The Lowlands of Holland (Child's Ballads, II. 215). [ with er(s) + wrung.] Injured in the withers, as a horse. The hurt expre ed by wither wrung sometimes is caused by the bite of a horse, or by a saddle being unfit. Farrier's Dict. (Johnson.) How many a spirit born to ble Has sunk beneath that withering name! Moore , Lalla Rookh, The Fire-Worshippers. The attacking column was under a withering fire. The Century, XXXVI. 250. Withering cancer, scirrhous cancer in which there is a tendency to shrinkage and atrophy.