A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661 • SECTION 899

Part 899

← Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition)

_Well_; a Noun for _weal_, welfare. 72, 202. --"_Well is me_;" it is good for me. 120, 222, 250, 257, etc. --"_Wellcome_;" come in an honest way. 162, 182.

_Well-wared_; well laid out. 104. --Well deserved. 203.

_Wersh_; saltless, insipid. 182.

_While_, or _whill_; till. 12, 24, 44, etc.

_Whiles_; at times. 102, 182.

_White_; the _white_ is the mark aimed at, the bull's eye. 194.

_Whiten._ 287. Like a stick from which the bark is stript.

_Whitsunday_; term day. 21.

"_Who but he?_" a non-such. 23. --See _note_.

_Why but?_ why object although? 295.

_Win_; reach, attain to. 21, 30. --"_Win away_;" to escape from. 6.

_Wind in_; get your way into. 297.

_Windlestrae_ or _windlestraw_; from _Windel_, to hoist about. Used in plaiting. A withered stalk of dog's-tail grass; metaphorically, a mere trifle. 63, 190, 192, 212. --In the "Life" of Pringle of Greenknow, a place is mentioned called "The Windlestraw Law." So Durham on Job, p. 285.

_Wit_; to know. Noun; wisdom, intelligence. 184, 282. --"_Wit's head_;" a wiseacre. 232, 235, 239, 249, 258.

_Wo_, an Adjective; sorrowful. 116, 178, 196. --Generally written "wae" by Scotch writers.

_Wombful_; bellyful. 225.

_Won goods_; goods already got and secured. 128.

_Work on_; it causes care. 230.

_Wrack_; ruin, wreck. 284.

_Wring_; squeeze out water; as Judges vi. 30. 300.

_Writ_; a writing in law. 59, 285, 359. --"_In write_;" by written paper. 359.

_Yoke_; yoke for work; set to, press in. 94, 119, 181, 202. --Noun, _yoking_, a setting to, contest, onset. 117. "He yoked to the Jews early" (sermon on Heb. xii. 1). So Durham on Isa. liii. 8.

_Yonder_; far off in the distance. 245. --"The yonder end."

[532] Apothecary in Edinburgh. See Livingstone's "Charact."

[533] In a sermon at Kirkcudbright on Rev. xix. 11, he introduces the courtiers saying to Daniel, "What need ye _make all the fields ado_ with your prayers?"

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