A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661 • SECTION 892

Part 892

← Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition)

_Edge by_; push aside. 225.

_Empawn_; lay down as pledge. 229, 268.

_Enact_; to decree. 291.

"_End_;" thrice on end. 324. --Thrice in succession.

_Engyne_, or _ingyne_; Latin, _Ingenium_, disposition, ability, policy. 84, 94. --Power of mind. 64.

_Entire_; no division or half-heartedness. 119, 280.

_Errand_; business. 210, 250.--"Ride his errands," 249, go on with his work.

_Evangel_; good news generally. 224.

_Even_; to put down one as capable of a thing; propose as fit for a person, 70. --The phrase, "_Be even with_;" have accounts settled, be quits. 113, 114.

_Evil-worthy_; unworthy, ill-worth. 336.

_Expone_; explain the sense. 165.

_Eye_, Verb; to look for. 276.

_Eye-sweet_; pleasant to the eye. 213, 277.

_Fail_, or _feal_; turf. 194.

_Fain_; glad. "_Faintes_," most gladly. "_Fain not twice_" is glad to remain settled; not caring to rise after sitting down. "Fain have taken effect," 16; desire to have carried through.

_Fair_; a market. 172.

_Fair_; Adj. in the phrase, "_fair fire_," is commonly in Scotland "a fair lowe," _i.e._ all a flame together. 204. --"_Fair fall you_," good betide. 337.

_Faird_, or _fard_; to paint (_q.d._ make _fair_), embellish, disguise. 82, 83, 88, 191.

_Fair-outsided_. 88. --Applied to the world that is fair only on the outside.

_Fall about_; search about. 21. --"_Fall by_;" be lost. 252, 291. --"_Fall to_;" engage in. 72, 288. --"_Fall off_;" forsake. 246.

_Far_ "The _far end_," the final issue. 184.

_Fard_; paint, fine colouring. 82, 83.

_Farm-room_; a rented room, like a tenant's firm.

_Fash_ and _fashery_; trouble by importunity and about little things. 145, 196, 249, etc.

_Fast_; firm. 74, 250.

_Feared_; alarmed, timid. 293.

_Feckless_; worthless, useless, pithless. 23, 24, etc. --Baxter in his "Saints' Rest" uses it.

_Fenced_; guarded; also constituted; a law term, used of opening a Court and proclaiming the authority by which the Court was held and the object of it. 77, 82, 112, 146, 161.

_Fend_; provide for, take care of. 87, 114, 129, etc. So Maxton on Ps. cxix. cxlv.

_Fetch_; to make for a place. 83, 106, 184, 240, 241, 284.

_Feu-duty_; yearly rent for ground on which a house is built. 254.

_Find_; to feel, or find out. 155, 169, 192, 334.

_Fire-flaught_; a flake of fire, a flash of lightning. 104. --In Row's "Hist. of Scot.," "extraordinary thunder and fire-flaught," p. 333.

_Flitting_; removing furniture and goods to another place. 250, 277. (It is A.S.)

_Flourish_; to blossom. 50.

_Flyte_; to scold or chide. 189. --"Flyting free;" they have nothing to say against him. 181.

_Foot._ The phrase, "_hold the foot to it_," go on in the march. 249.

_Foot-mantle_; a riding habit reaching to the feet. 268. --In a sermon on Zech. xi. 9, "Gold, silks, velvets, and foot-mantles, and high horses."

_For_; notwithstanding. 307.

_Forcasten_; cast away, neglected. 167, 177, 285.

_Fore_; surplus; the perquisite given over and above; something still remaining. 70, 80, 158.

_Foregainst_; opposite. 289.

_Forfeit_; declare to be forfeited. 206.

_Forlorn_; prodigal. 167, 228, 285. --"The lost forlorn son" is the prodigal. (So in German.)

_Forthcoming_; ready to come forward and speak. 250.

_Four-hours_; the afternoon meal, taken four hours after the forenoon's. 94, 110, 118, 285.

_Fourteen Prelates_; the number of Bishops in Scotland under Charles II.

_Frame_; to fit or set (Judg. xii. 6; Hos. v. 4), set in a proper position; turn out, or succeed. 32, 41, 187, 232, 254, 287.

_Fraught_; the same as _freight_. 84, 153, 195, 217. --"Fraught-free;" no fare to pay. 265.

_Freeholding_; lands held for life. 203.

_Free-ward_; liberty. 269.

_Free-warders_; prisoners who have right to go free. 265.

_Frem_, A. S., "_fremd_;" hence written "_fremd_" or "_fremmyt_;" strange, foreign, distant. 69, 165.

_Friend-sted_; to befriend. 188, 275.

_Frith_; strait; sea. 84.

_Fryst_, or _frist_; to postpone possession or action,--the opposite of _tryst_. 176, 205, etc. Give credit to. 105. Put off a demand. 20.

_Fyle_; to defile, _find guilt_. 212.

_Gaddy_; fond of gadding about. 270.

_Gardies_, or _gardess_; arms. 18.--It is the Gaelic word "_gairdean_," an arm. In Row's "Life of Blair" (p. 154), "Mrs. Hamilton came up to Traquair, and fest-grip his _gardie_."

_Gate_; road, way, manner of doing. 29, 38, etc. --The phrase, "_start to the gate_," begin early, soon on the road. 136, 148, 186, 294.

_Gawd_; trick, bad custom. 240. --Used by Gawin Douglas and by Chaucer for a freak, and said to be from Fr., "_gaudir_," to be merry.

_Gear_; goods, substance, money. 120.

_General_; not at all familiar. 205. "In fair generals." 93. Not coming to close quarters.

_Gifted_; bestowed as a favour. 353, 359. --Often so used in his "Covenant of Life Opened." Make a present of.

_Glaiked_, or _glaiket_; giddy, light. 284.

_Glance_; bright as glowing metal. So in his sermon on Zech. xiii. 7. 287, 295.

_Glister_; glitter, shine bright. 51. --See Luke ix. 21.

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