Paradise Lost Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GLOSSARY. abyss, XII. 555; Lat. abyssus, Gk. apvcffos—from d neg. prefix, and /Swro-is, depth (akin to E. bathos). The oldest forms in E. were abime and abysm... more »s, from Fr. abisme— Low Lat. abyssimus, 'the lowest depth,' an irregular superlative of abyssus, M. always uses abyss, Shak. always abysm; cf. Tempest I. 2. 50, Sonnet, 112. crtW, XII. 635, dried, scorched; the p.p. of the verb adnre = Lat. aduro; cf. adusted, vI. 514. We also find a noun, adustion. Richardson quotes from Bacon, Nat. Hist. 319, "A degree of heat, which doth neither melt nor scorch, doth mellow and not adure;" and Burton's Anatomy, "the other, whether it arise from that other melancholy of choler adust,...is, if it come by adustion of humours, most part hot and dry." amain, XI. 742, is an intensive word, emphasising the general sense of the clause: to 'shut amain,' as in Lye. 111, is to shut with force: to 'come amain' is to come with speed. Here it may point to the amount of vapour that rose. O. E. magn = power; from the root whence /iyos, magnus. assassin-lihe, XI. 219. assassin and its derivatives were generally used with the notion of treachery; cf. surprise in this passage, and S. A. 1109, "assassinated and betrayed." Derived, says Skeat, "From Arab, hashishin, drinkers of hashish, the name of a Sect in the 13111 century; the 'Old Man of the Mountain' roused his followers' spirits by help of this drink, and sent them to stab. his enemies, esp. the leading crusaders." Hashish, the drug, is made from a kind of hemp. bevy, XI. 582, troop, company; cf. Faerie Q. II. 9. 34, "A lovely bevy of faire Ladies." Not elsewhere in M., and, perhaps, not used by Shak. In Hamlet, v. a. 197, the First Folio has Beauy tfbevy), but most texts print the quarto reading breed. Henry VIII., where it occurs (l. 4....« less