I _prevented_ the dawning of the morning. (_Psalms_ 119:147)
Our eyes _wait_ upon the Lord our God. (_Psalms_ 123:2)
The times of this ignorance God _winked_ at. (_Acts_ 17:30)
And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me; for I perceive that _virtue_ is gone out of me. (_Luke_ 8:46)
To judge the _quick_ and the dead. (1 _Peter_ 4:5)
Be not wise in your own _conceits_. (_Romans_ 12:16)
In maiden meditation, _fancy_-free. (Shakespeare: _A Midsummer Night's Dream_)
Is it so _nominated_ in the bond? (Shakespeare: _The Merchant of Venice_)
Would I had met my _dearest_ foe in heaven. (Shakespeare: _Hamlet_)
The _extravagant_ and _erring_ spirit. (Said of a spirit wandering from the bounds of purgatory. Shakespeare: _Hamlet_)
The _modesty_ of nature. (Shakespeare: _Hamlet_)
It is a nipping and an _eager_ air. (Shakespeare: _Hamlet_)
_Security_ Is mortals' chiefest enemy. (Shakespeare: _Macbeth_)
Most _admired_ disorder. (Shakespeare: _Macbeth_)
Upon this _hint_ I spake. (From the account of the wooing of Desdemona. Shakespeare: _Othello_)
This Lodovico is a _proper_ man. A very handsome man. (Shakespeare: _Othello_)
Mice and rats and such small _deer_. (Shakespeare: _King Lear_)
This is no sound That the earth _owes_. (Shakespeare: _The Tempest_)
Every shepherd _tells_ his _tale_. (Milton: _L'Allegro_) Bring the _rathe_ primrose that forsaken dies. (_Rathe_ survives only in the comparative form _rather_. Milton: _Lycidas_)
Can honor's voice _provoke_ the silent dust? (Gray: _Elegy_)
The _silly_ buckets on the deck. (Coleridge: _The Ancient Mariner_)
4. In technical usage or particular phrases a former sense of a word may be embedded like a fossil. The italicized words in the following list retain special senses of this kind. What do these words as thus used mean? Can you add to the list? To _wit_ Might and _main_ Time and _tide_ Christmas_tide_ _Sad_ bread A bank _teller_ To _tell_ one's _beads_ Aid and _abet_ _Meat_ and drink Shop_lifter_ Fishing-_tackle_ Getting off _scot_-free An _earnest_ of future favors A _brave_ old hearthstone _Confusion_ to the enemy! Giving aid and _comfort_ to the enemy Without _let_ or hindrance A _let_ in tennis _Quick_lime Cut to _the quick_ _Neat_-foot oil To _sound in_ tort (Legal phrase) To bid one God_speed_ I had as _lief_ as not The child _favors_ its parents On _pain_ of death Widow's _weeds_ I am _bound_ for the Promised Land To _carry_ a girl to a party (Used only in the South) To give a person so much _to boot_