GLOSSARY.

VISITATION, 3 a. E. e; xxI., so to take thy visitation,' God's visit to the world or to the soul to save and to bless.

VOCATION, 17 Tr. e; Gd. Fri. c; xv., God's calling to the life in Christ, also that state of life unto which it may please God to call a man; Lat. vocatio, a calling ( Vulg.).

VOID, Ps. 69. 26, desolate; so Heb.; O.Fr. voide, empty.

She( Nineveh) is empty and voyde and waste. Geneva, Nahum 2. 10.

VOUCHSAFE, IX.( Te Deum); XII.; XV., to condescend to grant; M.E. vouchen sufe, to warrant as safe; Law Fr. voucher, to call; Lat. vocare.

VULGAR, xvI.,' in the vulgar tongue,' the language used by the common people, i.e. English, not Latin; Lat. vulgaris, belong­ing to the great mass or multi­tude, from vulgus.

The booke of Christes holy Testamente to bee read of the people in their vulgare Udall's Erasmus( W.B.W.).

tongue.

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WAIT, watching, ambush, Ps. 41.9,

hath laid great wait;' R.V. has ' hath lifted up his heel.' O.Fr. gaite, also guet.

WANTONLY, xx., licentiously, un­restrainedly; M.E. wantoun, wan­towen, untrained, ill- bred; wan= lacking, wanting, and towen, O.E. togen, pp. of teon, to bring up.

WARD, St. Pet. e, the watch or guard, the sentry= dvdakỳv.

And thei passiden the first and the se­counde warde. Wyclif.

WARILY, xv.; XXIV., cautiously. Warily

I stole into a neighbour thicket by. Shaks. L. L. L. v. 2. 93. WATCH, E. Ev. g, a guard; so R.V.; i.e. a body of soldiers serv­ing as a guard.

WATER- PIPES, Ps. 42. 9, the torrents of a waterfall; LXX. renders KarappaKTŵv, of( thy) cataracts( so R.V. marg.).

WAX, Nat. of Ch. e; Ps. 102. 26, to grow, become; O.E. weaxan.

WEALTH, Ps. 69. 23, welfare, well­being, prosperity. M.E. welthe.

WEALTHY, Ps. 123. 4, those that are at ease; so R.V.

WEDLOCK, xx.,' in holy wedlock, solemn pledge before God, used of the mutual promise between man and wife; O.E. wedlac, a pledge.

WELL, Ps. 84. 6, a place of springs; so R.V.

A welle of watir spryngynge up in to everlastynge lijf. Wyclif, John 4. 14. WELL- LIKING, Ps. 92. 13, flourish­ing( as foliage); see Cheyne.

Their children were fat and well- liking. Latimer( W.B.W.).

WHENAS, S. a. C. g, when; so R.V.

Many a battle have I won in France, Whenas the enemy hath been ten to one. Shaks. 3 Henry VI. i. 2. 75.

WHITSUN( WEEK), for Whit­Sunday Week; in Iceland the usual name for Whit- Sunday is Hvíta- sunna.

WHIT- SUNDAY, the Festival which commemorates the out­pouring of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost( which see); the name means White Sunday, so called because Whitsuntide was in northern Europe one of the chief seasons for baptizing, and candidates for baptism were arrayed in white garments; O.E. Hwita Sunnan- dag, in_A.S. Chro­nicle, A.D. 1067; cp. Icel. Hvita­sunnu- dagr. The Welsh name for the day is Sulgwyn, i.e. White Sunday.

WHOLESOME, Ps. 28. 9, the wholesome defence,' the saving de­fence, the protecting citadel, stronghold of salvation( R.V.). WILL, XI.,' whosoever will be saved,' desires to be; see p. 56.

WINE- FAT, Mon. b. E. e, a vat or large vessel for holding the pressed juice; O.E. fæt, a vessel, a cask.

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