A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661 • SECTION 895

Part 895

← Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition)

_Mends_; reparation of a wrong. 14. --"_To the mends_;" to boot, besides, add to that.

_Midses_; means, instrumentality. 190, 317.

_Mid-way_; courses. 190.--Half and half, undecided.

_Minch_; cut into small pieces. 127.

_Mind_; remember, take care to speak of. 333, 334, 342.

_Mint_; to attempt, intend at doing, essay. 29, 92, 188, etc.

_Mired_; plunged into mire, soiled. 174.

_Misbelief_; wrong belief. 112, 143.

_Miscall_; give wrong names to. 322, etc.

_Misconstruct_; misconstrue. 285.

_Miscount_; erroneous calculation. 133.

_Misken_; to misunderstand, overlook, to treat as if unknown. 89, 99, 102, 148, 181, etc.

_Misleard_; indiscreet, rude; _q.d. mislearned_. 112, 181.

_Mismannered_; unmannerly. 106.

_Misnurtured_; ill-disciplined, ill-trained. 181, 234.

_Missive_; a letter empowering the person to act. 142.

_Misted._ --See _Bemisted_. 118, 146. Like one in a mist.

_Moderate_, a Verb; to rule over a meeting. 203. --An ecclesiastical phrase from the Latin.

_Moneys_; price. 281.

_Moyen_; means; interest; influence. 59, 116, 119, etc.

_Muir-ground_; waste land covered with heath. 157, 298.

_Naughty_; vile, worthless. 77, 81, etc. --Bunyan calls Badman, "a man left to himself, a _naughty_ man."

_Nay-say_; denial. 80, 231. --In a sermon on Zech. xiii. 7: "Christ gave the devil three nay-says."

_Near-hand_; near at hand. 29, 79, 191, etc.

_Need-force_; by sheer necessity; or, by hook or crook. 71, 179, 205, etc. Under plea of necessity.

_Nether_; the lower; not high enough. 245.

_Newings_; novelties; _q.d. new things_. 29.

_Nice_; chary, capricious, ill to please. 81, 226.

_Nick_; mark, notch, point. 70, 249, etc.

_Niffer_; exchange, barter. 140, etc.

_Nigh-hand_; near. 183, 347.

_Night-glass_; hour-glass. 281.

_Non-entry_; money, or rents, due to the superior by an heir on coming to his property; or the state of one who is heir, but has not yet got the legal investiture. 222, 256.

_Nor_; than. 144, 307.

_Noughty_; useless, worthless, nothing in it. 175, 200, 225. --Sibbs, "Others that are nought" (on 2 Cor. i. 4).

_Nurture_; discipline. 70, 98, 206. --The Verb, to use discipline. 299.

_Odds_; difference. 294. --Also _odd_; any leisure time.

_Of._ The use of the preposition "of" is common and peculiar to the time in such phrases as "Dear of a drink of water;" at the price of. 148. --"Content of." 45. --"Understood of." 51. --Is it from the French

"de?" Old Chaucer sings: "And all the orient laugheth of delight" (Knight's Tale).

_Off-fallings_; droppings, remnants, 70, 169, 285. John Livingstone writes: "Compared with Christ Himself, what is all this but the _off-fallings_."

_Oh if._ 180, 204, etc. --"_Oh if_," 152. What would you say if.

_Oh that!_ in the sense of _Alas_! 189. So "_Oh for_." 97.

_Old-dated_; antiquated, 320.

_Once_; one time or other, sooner or later. 62, 112, 143, 152, 170, 217, 255, 270, 330. Knox uses it often thus. Also, once for all; altogether.

_Once-errand_; on the sole business. 210, 301.

_Opposites_; opponents. 231.

_Or._ --See _Then_.

_Order_; take order is an old English phrase for "take measures." 18.

_Ordinarily_; usually. 144.

_Other_; ought else. 68, 77. --_Others_; each other. 82.

_Out_, a Noun; laying out, exhibiting for sale. 277.

_Outcast_; a contention, quarrel. 239, 274, 275. --In a sermon on Zech. xiii. 7 he says: "After a sore _outcast_, there is greater love betwixt Christ and His people than before."

_Outfield_; waste land, covered with heath. 256, 261.

_Outgate_; way of escape, outlet. "Make home over us, go homeward."

_Over_; in the phrase "_over-little_," too little. 257.

_Overmist_; rise over like a mist. 189.

_Over-watered_; plated over. 299.

_Oyess_; the French _Oyez_; the crier's "Hearken." The Verb, to denounce one by public proclamation. 249.

_Paces_ (from French "_peser_," to weigh, and old English "to paise"); the weights of a clock. He uses the same figure in a sermon on Song v. 1. 189, 197, 199, 292.

_Packald_; burdens, things packed up. 198.

_Packs_, or _paiks_; a severe blow. "_Paiks_ the man," the man soundly beaten. 138.

_Pact._ 230.

_Paiks._ --See _Packs_.

_Painful_; taking pains, laborious. 188. --See _Baxter_, etc.

_Paintry_; painting. 83.

_Panged_; quite full, crammed; "_Pang-full_." 225.

_Pantry_, a Verb; to lock up in the cupboard. 110.

_Pasch_; Passover, or Easter. 51. (Acts xii. 4; πασχα.)

_Pass from_; used of a summons; not enforce it.

_Passments_; strips of lace sewed on dress by way of ornament. 42, 75, 275.

_Pawn_; pledge. "_Pawn-clay_;" a thing of dust, and that is only partly ours. 77, 130, 139.

_Perqueer_; the French _par cœur_; by heart, perfectly. 204.

_Pertinacy_; same as pertinacity.

_Pickle_; small grain. 22, 186, 197.

_Piece-withered_; withered patches. 254.

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