OERTZ, a river of Lower Saxony, which runs into the Allier, 4 miles W of Zell. OESCH, or OEX, a town of Switzerland, in Berne; 19 miles S. of Friburg. OESEL, an ifland of the Baltic fea, at the entrance of the gulf of Livonia. It is about 70 miles in length, and 50 in breadth, and contains to pa rishes. It is defended by the fortreffes of. Arenfburg and Sonneburg. It lies between 22° and 24° Lon. E. and between 58° and 59° Lat. N. (1.) OESOPHAGUS. n. [from acos, wicker, from fome fimilitude in the ftructure of this part to the contexture of that; and pay to eat.] The gullet; a long, large, and round canal, that defcends from the mouth, lying all along between the windpipe and the joints of the neck and back, to the fifth joint of the back, where it turns a little to the right, and gives way to the defcending artery; and both run by one another, till at the ninth the oefophagus turns again to the left, pierces the midriff, and is continued to the left orifice of the ftomach. Quincy.-Wounds penetrating the oefophages and afpera arteria require to be ftitched clofe, efpecially thofe of the oefophagus, where the fuftenance and faliva fo continually preffeth into it. Wiseman's Surgery. (2.) OESOPHAGUS. See ANATOMY, Index. OÉSTRICH. See ESTRICH, N° 3. By the laft divifion of the countries on the left banks of the Rhine, it is now in the dep. of the Rhine and Mofelle. OESTRINGEN, a town of Germany, in the late bishopric of Spire, now included in the French empire and department of Mont Tonnere; 14 miles E. of Spire. OESTRUS, in zoology, a genus of infects belonging to the order of diptera. It has no mouth; but three punctures, without trunk or beak: Antennæ taper, proceeding from a lenticular joint. See Plate 246. This is one of the moft curious genera of infects. They are diftinguished into feveral fpecies, named from the different places wherein they depofit their eggs. Some, knowing that their eggs cannot be hatched but under the fkins of living creatures, fuch as bulls, cows, reindeer, ftags, and camels, fix upon them at the inftant of laying their eggs. From the hinder part of their body iffues a whimble of wonderful ftructure. It is a fcaly cylinder, composed of 4 tubes, which draw out like the pieces of a spying-glais; the laft is armed with 3 hooks, and is the gimblet with which the ceftri bore through the tough hides of horned cattle. The animal feems to experience no pain from the puncture, unless the infect, plunging too deep, attacks fome nervous fibre; in which cafe, the beaft runs about, and becomes furious. The eggs being hatched, the grub feeds on the matter of the wound. The place of its abode forms upon the body of the quadrupeds a bunch fometimes above an inch high. When full grown, the larva breaks through the tumor, and flides down to the ground; for doing which, it takes the cool of the morning, that it may neither be overpowered by the heat of the day, nor chilled by the cold of the night: it then digs itself a burrow, into which it retires. Its fkin grows hard, and turns to a very folid hell. There it is transformed to a chryfalis, and afterwards to a winged infect. The fhell wherein the cftrus is inclofed, is of fo ftrong a texture, that it could not make its way out, if at one of the ends there were not a finall valve, faftened only by a very flight filament. The first push the ceftrus makes, the door gives way, and the prifon opens. The infect wings its way to woods and places frequented by cattle. There are 5 species, viz. . OESTRUS Bovis, the breeze or GAD-FLY.Thorax yellow, with a black tranfverfe line between the wings: Abdomen tawny, with fine black tranfverfe lines; laft fegment black: Wings white, with a brown tranfverfe line, and three brown fpots. Size of the large blue fly. Depofits its eggs under the fkin on the backs of oxen, where the maggots are nourished the whole winter t the month of June; and plague the cattle fo ali fummer, that they are obliged to fly for refuge into the water, and dare not quit it the whole day. 2. OESTRUS HÆMORRHOIDALIS.-Body long, black, covered with tawny hair; middle of the thorax lefs hairy; wings immaculate; antennæ very fhort: Length half an inch. Depofits its eggs in the rectum of horses, and occafions them great torment. See BOTTS. 3. OESTRUS NASALIS.-Body black; but the head, thorax, and abdomen, covered with pale red hair, except the firft fegment of the latter, which is covered with white hair; the wings immaculate. Breeds in the fauces of horses, entering by their nofe. 4. OESTRUS OVIS, the grey fly.-Spotted with black; front pale yellow; legs brownish; wings with fhort black veins; length half an inch. Breeds in the frontal finus of fheep; where the maggots, hatched from the eggs, lodge the whole winter, vellicating the internal membranes, and often bringing on death. 5. OESTRUS TARANDI.-Thorax yellow; with a black line between the wings, which are immaculate: Abdomen tawny, laft fegment black. Infeft the back of the rein-deer, fo as greatly to retard the breed. The rein-deer of Lapland are obliged every year to fly to the Alpine mountains, to efcape the purfuit of thefe infects; yet a fourth part of their number perith by them at two years old; the reft are emaciated, and have their skins spoiled. (1.) OETA, in ancient geography, a mountain of Theffaly, extending from Thermopyla W. to the Sinus Ambracius and in fome measure cutting at right angles the mountainous country ftretching out between Parnaffus on the S. and Pindus on the N. At Thermopyla it is very rough and high, rifing and ending in tharp and fteep rocks, affording a narrow paffage between it and the fea from Theffaly to Locris, (Strabo,) with two paths over it; the one above Trachis, very steep and high; the other through the country of the Enianes, much eafier and readier for travellers; by this it was that Leonidas was attacked in rear by the Perfians. (Paufanias). Here Hercules laid himself on the funeral pile; (Silius Italicus, Ovid); the fpot thence called PYRA according to Livy, who fays, that the extreme mountains to the E. are called Oct; and hence the the poets allege, that day, night, fun, and ftars, arofe from Oeta, (Seneca, Statius, Silius Italicus, Catullus, Virgil's Culex)-circumftances which how the height of this mountain. It is now called Banina. (1.) OETA, a town near Thermopyla, at the foot of the above mountain. OETEROA. See OHETEROA. (1.) OETING, a town of Germany, in Upper Bavaria, under the jurisdiction of Burkhaufen. It is divided into the upper and the lower town, and feated on the Inn, 8 miles W. of Burkhaufen. There is a great refort of pilgrims to the old chapel. Lon. 12. 47. E. Lat. 48. o. N. (2.) OETING, a county of Germany, in the circle of Suabia, bounded on the N. and E. by Franconia, S. by the duchy of Neuburg, and W. by that of Wirtemberg. It is about 40 miles from E. to W. and 20 from N. to S. (3.) OETING, or the capital of the above OETINGEN, county, is feated on the Wirnizt; 14 miles S. of Anfpach, and 16 NW. of Donawert. Lon. 10. 45. E. Lat. 48. 52. N. OETSKAIA, a town of Ruffia, in Irkutsk, 40 miles N. of Irkutsk. OETTING, or See OETING, N° 1, 2, and 3. OETTINGEN. OETYLUM, or an ancient town of Laconia, OETYLUS, Sin which Serapis had a temple. Paufan. iii. 25. OEUIL, a river of France, which runs into the Cher, in the department of the Allier. OEX. See OESCH. (1.) OEYRAS, a town of Portugal, in Efremadura, on the Tagus; 8 miles W. of Lisbon. (2.) OEYRAS, NEW, a town of Africa, in Angola. OEZEL. See OESEL. OF. prep. [of, Saxon.] 1. It is put before the fubftantive that follows another in conftruction; as, of these part were flain; that is, part of these.I cannot inftantly raife up the grofs Of full three thousand ducats. Shak. -He to his natural endowments of a large inven tion, a ripe judgment, and a ftrong memory, has joined the knowledge of the liberal arts. Dryden. -All men naturally fly to God in extremity; and the most atheistical perfon in the world, when forfaken of all hopes of any other relief, is forced to acknowledge him. Tilletfon.-The roufing of the mind with fome degrees of vigour, does fet it free from thofe idle companions. Locke.-The value of land is raised only by a greater plenty of money. Locke. They will receive it at laft with an ample accumulation of intereft. Smallridge. 2. It is put after fuperlative adjectives.-The moft renowned of all are thofe to whom the name is given Philippine. Abbot's Defcription of the World. -We profess to be animated with the beft hopes of any men in the world, Tillotson.-At midnight, the me difmal and unfeafonable time of all others, all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. Tillotfen.-We are not to defcribe our Thepherds as thepherds at this day really are, but as they may be conceived then to have been, when the beft of men followed the employment. Pope.-Peace, of all worldly bleffings, is the moft valuable. Small. 3. From. The captain of the Helots, with a blow whofe violence grew of fury, not of ftrength, or of strength proceeding of fury, ftruck Palladius upon the fide or the head. Sidney.Sbak. One that I brought up of a puppy. -He borrowed a box of the ear of the Englishman, and fwore he would pay him again when he was able. Shak.-It was called Corcyra, of Corcyra the daughter of fopus. Sandys's Travels. 4. Concerning; relating to. The quarrel is not now of fame and tribute, Or of wrongs done unto confederates, But for your own republick. Ben Jonfon. -This cannot be understood of the first disposition of the waters, as they were before the flood. Burnet.-All have this fenfe of war. Smallridge. 5. Out of.— Yet of this little he had some to spare, To feed the famish'd, and to clothe the bare. Dryden. Look once again, and for thy husband loft, Lo, all that's left of him, thy husband's ghoft. Dryden. 6. Among.-He is the only perfon of all others for an epic poem. Dryden. Of all our heroes thou canft boaft alone, That Jove, whene'er he thunders, calls thee fon. Dryden. -Neither can I call to mind any clergyman of my own acquaintance who is wholly exempt from this error. Swift. 7. By. This fenfe was once very frequent, but is not now in ufe.She dying Shall be lamented, pitied, and excus'd Of every bearer. Shak. Though great ftates by her fupport do ftand, Yet the herself supported is of none. Davies. -I was friendly entertained of the English conful. Sandys.-Left a more honourable man than those be bidden of him. Nelfon's Feftivals. 8. According to. The fenate without a caufe, hath this invincible objection against it, that we plainly fee every man to be from another. Tillotson.-No bodies can either move of themselves, or of themselves alter the direction of their motion. Cheyne.-A free people, as foon as they fall into any acts of civil fociety, do of themfelves divide into three powers. Swift.— felf. Howe'er, it was civil in angel or elf; For he ne'er could have fill'd it fo well of himSwift. Jo. Noting properties, qualities, or condition.He was a man of a decayed fortune, and of no good education. Clarendon.-The colour of a body may be changed by a liquor which of itself is of no colour, provided it be faline. Boyle.The fresh eglantine exhal'd a breath, Whofe odours were of pow'r to raise from death. Dryden. -A man may fufpend the act of his choice from being determined for or againft the thing propofed, till he has examined whether it be really of a nature, in itself and confequences, to make him happy or no. Locke.-The value of land is raised, when, remaining of the fame fertility, it comes to yield more rent. Locke. 11. Noting extraction.Lunsford was a man of an ancien family in Suffex. Clar.-Mr Rowe was born of an ancient family in Devonshire. Rowe's Life. 12. Noting adherence, or belonging. Tubal, a wealthy Hebrew of my tribe, Will furnish me. Shak. Merch. of Venice. Pray that in towns and temples of our own, The name of great Achifes may be known. Dryden. 13. Noting the matter of any thing.-The chariot vas all of cedar, gilt, and adorned with crystal, fave that the fore end had pannels of fapphires fet in borders of gold, and the hinder end the like of emeralds of the Peru colour. Bacon's New Atlantis.-The common materials which the ancients made their fhips of, were the wild afh, the evergreen oak, the beech, and the alder. Arbuthnot on Coins, 14. Noting the motive.-It was not of my own choice I undertook this work. Dryden. Of his grace and inborn clemency, He modifies his first severe decree. Dryden, 15. Noting form or manner of exiftence.-As if our Lord had not left of his own framing, one which might remain as a part of the church liturgy, and serve as a pattern whereby to frame all other prayers with efficacy, yet without fuperfluity of words. Hooker. 16. Noting fomething that has fome particular quality.-Mother, fays the thrush, never had any fuch a friend as I have of this swallow. No, fays fhe, nor ever mother fuch a fool as I have of this fame thrush. L'Eftrange. 17. Noting faculties of power granted.-If any man minifter, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth. 1 Peter iv. 11. 18. Noting preference or postponence. Your highnefs fhall repofe you at the Tower. -I do not like the Tower of any place. Shak. 19. Noting change of one state to another. O miferable of happy is this the end Of this new glorious world, and me fo late The glory of that glory, who now become Accurs'd of blessed? Milt. Par. Loft. Noting cafualty,-Good nature, by which I mean beneficence and candour, is the product of right reafon; which of neceffity will give allow. ance to the failures of others, by confidering that there is nothing perfect in mankind. Dryden. 21. Noting proportion.-How many are there of an hundred, even among ft fcholars themfelves. Locke. 22. Noting kind or fpecies. To cultivate the advantages of fuccefs, is an affair of the cabinet. Swift. 23. It is put before an indefinite expreffion of time: as, of late, in late times; of old, in old time - Oflate, divers learned men have adopted the three hypoftatical principles. Boyle In days of old there liv'd, of mighty fame, A valiant prince, and Thefeus was his name. Dryden. OFANTO. See OFFANTO. OFESCA, a town of Servia, on the N. bank of the Danube, oppofite Belgrade. (1.) OFF. adv. [af, Dutch.] 1. Of this ad verb the chief ufe is to conjoin it with verbs: as, to come off; to fly off; which are found under the verbs. 2. It is generally oppofed to on: as, to lay on; to take off. In this cafe it fignifies difunion; feparation; breach of continuity.-Since the wisdom of their choice is rather to have my cap than my heart, I will practife the infinuating nod, and be off to them moft counterfeitly. Shak. -Where are you, Sir John? Come, off with your boots. Shak.See The lurking gold upon the fatal tree; Dryden. -A piece of filver coined for a fhilling, that has half the filver clipped off, is no more a fhilling than a piece of wood, which was once a fealed yard, is ftill a yard, when one half of it is broke off. Locke. 3. It fignifies diftance. Shak. Weft of this foreft, fcarcely off a mile, In goodly form comes on the enemy. -About thirty paces off were placed harquebufiers. Knolles. 4. In painting or statuary it fig. nifies projection or relief.-This comes off well and excellent. Shak. 5. It fignifies evanefcence; abfence or departure.-Competitions intermit, and go off and on as it happens, upon this or that occafion. L'Eftrange. 6. It fignifies any kind of difappointment; defeat; interruption; adverfe divifion: as, the affair is off; the match is off. 7. On the oppofite fide of a queftion.The queftions no way touch upon puritanism, either off or on. Sanderfon. 8. From; not toward. -Philoclea gave herfelf to be feen unto her with fuch a lightening of beauty upon Zelmane, that neither he could look on, nor would look of Sidney. 9. Off hand; not ftudied.-Several starts of fancy off hand look well enough. L'Eftrange. 10. To be off. In common talk, fignifies to recede from an intended contract or defign. 11. To come off. To escape by fome accident or subterfuge. 12. To get off. To make escape. 13. To go off. To defert; to abandon. 14. To go off. Applied to guns, to take fire and be discharged; borrowed from the arrow and bow. 15. Well or ill off. Having good or bad fuccefs. 16. Of whether alone or in compofition, means, either literally or figuratively, disjunction, abfence, privation, or distance. (2.) * OFF interj. An expreffion of abhor. rence, rence, or command to depart.-Off! or fly for ever from thy fight. Smith. (3.)* OFF. prep. 1. Not on. Finding it grow violent I burnt it, and felt no more after the third time; was never off my legs, nor kept my chamber a day. Temple. 2. Diftant from.-Cicero's Tufculum was at a place called Grotto Ferrate, about two miles of this town, though moft of the modern writers have fixed it to Frefcati. Addifon. OFFA, or UFFA, an Anglo-Saxon monarch. K. of Mercia, who fucceeded Ethelbald, A. D. 755. He treacherously murdered Ethelbert, K. of the Eaft Angles, and took poffeffion of his kingdom. As an atonement he gave the roth of his goods to the poor, went on a pilgrimage to Rome, inftituted the tax called Peter Pence, and built the monaftery at St Alban's. He alfo erected the wall which bears his name. See ENGLAND, 13. He died in 794. OFFAL. n. f. [off fall, says Skinner, that which falls from the table; perhaps from offa, Lat.] 1. Waste meat; that which is not eaten at the table. -He let out the offals of his meat to intereft. Arbuthnot. 2. Carrion; coarse flesh. 1 fhould have fatted all the region kites With this flave's offal. Cram'd, and gorg'd nigh burft, With fuck'd and glutted offal. Shak. Milt. 3. Refufe; that which is thrown away as of no value. God would not accept the offals of other profeffions. South. The fool is to his own caft offals kind. Dryd. -They commonly fat hogs with offal corns. Mort. 4. Any thing of no esteem. What trash is Rome? what rubbish and what offal? Shak. OFFANENGO, an ancient town of Italy, in the dep. of the Upper Po, district of Crema, and late territory of Cremafco. It is feated near feve ral canals on the road to Brescia, and contained 1200 citizens in 1797. OFFANTO, a river of Naples, which rises in the Appenine mountains, in Principato Ultra; and paffing by Conza and Monte Verde, feparates Capitanata from Bafilicata and Perra-di Barri, and then falls into the Gulph of Venice, near Salpe. ÖFFA'S DYKE, an entrenchment caft up by Offa, a Saxon king, to defend England against the incurfions of the Welch. It runs through Herefordshire, Shropshire, Montgomeryshire, Denbighshire, and Flintshire. OFFELING, a town of Austria, 16 miles SW. of Freyberg. (1.) OFFENBACH, a town of Germany, in the circle of the Upper Rhine, and county of Ifenburg on the Maine, containing two proteftant churches, a iynagogue and several manufactories: ş miles E. of Francfort, and 12 NE. of Darmftadt. Lon. 8. 45 E. Lat. 42. 53. N. (2.) OFFENBACH, a town of Germany, in the late county of Salm, now included in the French empire and department of Mont Tonnere; feated on the Glan, 4 miles NE. of Lautereck, and 33 WNW. of Worms. OFFENBOURG, or a town of Germany, in OFFENBURG, Suabia, formerly imperial, in the Ortenau, feated on the Kinzig, 12 miles SE. of Strafburg, and 28 S. of Baden. It was taken by the French under Gen. Ferinet, on the 28th June 1796. By Bonaparte's decifion of the long contefted indemnities, this town was allotted to the Margrave of Baden, 21ft Aug. 1802. (1.)* OFFENCE. n. f. [offense, French, offenfa, from offendo, Lat.] 1. Crime; act of wickedness. Chrift the Lord for our offences died. Fairf Thou haft ftolen that, which after fome few hours Were thine without offence. Shak. 2. A tranfgreffion.-If by the law of nature, every man hath not a power to punish offences against it, I fee not how the magiftrates of any community can punish an alien of another country. Locke. 3. Injury. I have given my opinion against the authority of two great men, but, I hope, without offence to their memories. Dryden. 4. Difpleasure given; cause of disguft; scandal.Giving no offence in any thing. 2 Cor. vi. 3.-He remembered the injury of the children of Beau, who had been a fnare and an offence unto the people. 1 Mac. iv.-As the pains of the touch are greater than the offences of other fenfes, fo likewife are the pleasures. Bacon.-By great and scandalous offences, we may incur the cenfure of the church. Pearfon. 5. Anger; displeasure conceived. -He was content to give them just cause of offence when they had power to take juft revenge. Sidney. 6. Attack; act of the affailant.-Courtesy, that feemed incorporated in his heart, would not be perfuaded to offer any offence. Sidney. I have equal skill in all the weapons of offence. Richardfon. (2) OFFENCE, in law, is an act committed againft the law, or omitted where the law requires it. * OFFENCEFUL. adj. [offence and full.] Injurious; giving displeasure.— Shak. It feems your most offenceful act Was mutually committed. *OFFENCELESS.adj. [from offence.] Unoffending; innocent.-A punishment more in policy than in malice; even fo as one would beat his of fenceless dog to affright an imperious lion. Shak. (1.) To OFFEND. v. a. [offendo, Latin.] 1. To make angry; to displease. If much you note him You fhall offend him. Shak. Macbeth. Three forts of men my foul hateth, and I am greatly offended at their life. Eccluf. xxv. 2.—The emperor himself came running to the place in his armour, grievously offended with them who had kept fuch negligent watch. Knolles's History of the Turks. The indifcreet and dangerous ufe of innocent and lawful things, as it does not fhock and offend our confciences, fo it is difficult to make people at all fenfible of the danger of it. Law. 2. To affail; to attack.-He was fain to defend himself, and withal fo to offend him, that by an unlucky blow the poor Philoxenus fell dead at his feet. 3. To tranfgrefs; to violate. SidneyMany fear More to offend the law. 4. To injure. Ballad. Cheaply you fin, and punish crimes with eafe, Not as th' offended, but th' offenders please. Dryden. *(2.) To (2.) To OFFEND. v. n. 1. To be criminal; to tranfgrefs the law. This man that of earthly matter maketh graven images, knoweth himself to of fend above all others. Wifd. xiv. 13.-Whofoever fhall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. James, ii. 10.—The bishops therefore of the church of England, did noways offend by receiving from the Roman church into our divine service fuch materials, circumftances or ceremonies as were religious and good. White. 2. To cause anger.-1 fhall offend, either to detain or to give it. Shak. 3. To commit tranfgreffion; with against.-Our language is extremely imperfect, and in many inftances it offends against every part of grammar. Swift. *OFFENDER. n. f. [from To offend.] 1. A criminal; one who has committed a crime; a tranfgreffor; a guilty perfon.-All that watch for iniquity are cut off, that make a man an offender for a word. If xxix. 21.—Every actual fin, befides the three former, muft be considered with a fourth thing, to wit, a certain ftain or blot which it imprints and leaves in the offender. Perkins. So like a fly the poor offender dies ; But like the wasp, the rich escapes and flies. Denham, How fhall I lose the fin, yet keep the sense, And love th' offender, yet deteft th' offence? Pope. -The confcience of the offender fhall be fharper than an avenger's fword. Clarissa.-It is the greateft punishment the governors of the church can lay upon the worst offender. Duty of Man. 2. One who has done an injury. Shak. All vengeance comes too fhort, Which can pursue th' offender. *OFFENDRESS. n. [from offender.] A woman that offends.-Virginity murthers itself, and fhould be buried in highways out of all fanctified limit, as a desperate offendress gainst nature. Shak, * OFFENSIVE. adj. offenfif, Fr. from offenfus, Lat. 1. Caufing anger; difpleafing; difgufting. -If that which we do to please God moft, be, for the manifold defects thereof, offenfive unto him. Hooker. It fhall fuffice, to touch fuch cuftoms of the Irish as feem offenfive and repugnant to god government. Spenfer. 2. Caufing pain; injurious. -It is an excellent opener for the liver, but offen five to the ftomach. Bacon-The fun was in Cancer, in the hottest time of the year, and the heat was very offenfive to me. Brown.-Some particular acrimony in the ftomach fometimes makes it offenfive. Arbuthnot. 3. Affailant; not detentive. He recounted the benefits and favours that he had done him, in provoking a mighty and opulent king by an offenfive war in his quarrel. Bacon. We enquire concerning the advantages and difadvantages betwixt those military offensive engines ufed among the ancients, and thote of thefe latter ages. Wilkins.-Avoiding the defenfive part, where the main ftrefs lies, and keeping themselves chiefly to the offenfive. Waterland. * OFFENSIVĚLY. adv. [from offenfive.] 1. Mischievously; injuriously. In the leaft thing done offenfively against the good of men, we plain ly fhew, that we do not acknowledge God to be fuch as indeed he is, Hooker. 2. So as to cause uneafinefs or displeasure.-A lady had her fight difordered, so that the images in her hangings did appear to her, if the room were not extraordinarily darkened, embellished with several offenfively vivid colours. Boyle. 3. By way of attack; not defenfively. *OFFENSIVENESS. n. f. [from offenfive.] 1. Injurioufnefs; mischief. 2. Cause of disgust.— All the motions of the parts might be explicated with the greatest ease and without any offenfiveness. Grea. * OFFER. n. f. [offre, Fr. from the verb.] 1. Propofal of advantage to another. These fwell their prospects, and exalt their pride, When offers are disdain'd, and love deny’d. Pope. 2. Firft advance. Force compels this offer, And it proceeds from policy, not love.- 1 What wouldft beg, Laertes, That shall not be my offer, not thy asking? Shak 3. Propofal made. The offers he doth make, Were not for him to give, nor them to take. Daniel. -I enjoined all the ladies to tell the company, in cafe they had been in the fiege, and had the fame offer made them as the good women of that place, what every one of them would have brought off with her, and have thought most worth the saving. Addison.-It carries too great an imputation of ignorance, or folly, to quit and renounce former tenets upon the offer of an argument which cannot immediately be answered. Locke.-The Arians, Eunomians and Macedonians, were then formally and folemnly challenged by the Catholicks, to refer the matter in difpute to the concurring judgment of the writers that lived before the controverfy began; but they declined the offer. Waterland. 4. Price bid; act of bidding a price.When flock is high, they come between, Making by fecond hand their offers; Savift. Then cunningly retire unfeen, With each a million in his coffers. 5. Attempt; endeavour.-Many motions are offers of nature, and cause motions by confent; as in groaning, or crying upon pain. Bacon.-It is in the power of every one to make fome efsay, some offer and attempt, fo as to fhew that the heart is not idle or infenfible. South. One fees in it a kind of offer at modern architecture. Addison. 6. Something given by way of acknowledgement.-Fair ftreams, that do vouchfafe in your clearness to reprefent unto me my blubbered face, let the tribute offer of my tears procure your stay awhile with me. Sidney 1 (1.)* To OFFER v. a. [offero, Lat. offrir, Fr.} 1. To prefent; to exhibit any thing fo as that it may be taken or received -Some ideas forwardly offer themfelves to all men's understandings. Locke. Servants, placing happiness in ftrong drink, make court to my young mafter, by offering him that which they love. Locke.-The heathen women under the Mogul, affer then felves to the flames at the death of their husbands. Collier. 2. To facrifice; to immolate; to present as an act of wor |