The English Parnassus, or, A helpe to English poesie containing a collection of all rhyming monosyllables, the choicest epithets, and phrases : with some general forms upon all occasions, subjects, and theams, alphabeticaly digested : together with a short institution to English poesie, by way of a preface / by Joshua Poole.

W.

Wagon. Wain. CReaking, groaning, shreeking, burdened, wheeling, turning.

Wall. Assaulted, scaled, inclosing, immuring, imprisoning, incircling, proud, lofty, mounting, towring, aspiring, ambitious, spatious, entow••∣ed, silent, mosse-thrun••'d, aged, crazie, defensive, stubborn, stone com∣pacted.

Want. Griping, pinching, oppressing, penurious, needy, crushing, brui∣sing, meager, soul-squeezing, gauling, freezing, heart-dejecting, in∣forcing, importuning, necessirating, tugging, laborious, industrious, toiling, down-looking, grinding, urging, lank-bellied, thin-gutted.

Wanton. Wantonnesse. Lascivious, obscene, dallying, toyish, sportive, lewd, rude, ungover∣ned, unruly, unreined, uncurbed, jolly, frolick, frantick, hair-brain'd unbrideled, tempting, luxurious, heady, disordered, intemperate, re∣gardlesse, revelling, saucy, full-fed, insatiate, fearlesse.

Wardrobe. Rich, wealthy, pompous, go geous, gaudy, tumbled, ruffled, rifled ransacked.

Warinesse. Cautious, cautelous, timerous, fearfull, perplexed, doubtfull, advised, considerate, deliberate, pondering, tardy, slow-pac'd.

War. Rugged, blood-thirsty, rude, remorslesse. angry, hungry, stein,

surly, sullen, bloody, dreary, gloomy, strifefull, litigious, stormy, ••empestuous, blustering, rustling, impetuous, wastfull, terrour-breathing, active, tumultuous, smoaky, all-abhorred, cormorant, distressefull, devouring, blood-sucking, all-consuming, confused, murdering, furious, sacrilegious, impartial, inexorable, outragious, dreadfull, inhumane, savage, ruinating, brutish, feral, enraged, mis∣chievous, cruell, mortall, adventurous, attemptive, couragious, vi∣ctorious, doubtfull, uncertain, insolent, disastrous, successefull, blood-streaming, pitilesse, mercilesse, hell-nou••isht.

Warriour v. Souldier. VVasp. Angry, peevish, pettish, testy, touchy, stinging, injurious, humming, harmfull, pestering, noysefull, thievish, fellonious, pilfering, robbing, preying, raping, purloyni••g filching.

VVast. Lavish, profusive, expensive, unthrifty, luxurious, prodigall, improvi∣dent, fruitlesse, causelesse, riotous, excessive, wealth-eating, devouring, wealthy, consuming, needlesse, superfluous, unnecessary, swallowing, dissolute.

Wast. v. Wildernesse. VVatch. Observant, careful, svigilant, attentive, listening, night-walking, strict.

VVater. v. Springs VVave. Pliant, crisped, flowing, cleansing, plashie, streaming, clear, bright, Chrystall, glassie, running, deep, shallow, fishie, boiling, bubling, gushing, muttering, unruly, rolling, muddie, healthfull, floating, gli∣ding, scattered, foaming, froathy.

Wave. Angry, enraged, boyling, swelling, rolling, foaming, crisped, cur∣led, purled, stormie, azure, writhing, wrigling, winding, fl••tting, floa∣ting, wilder, dancing, tumbling, straggling, fretting, sparkling, trou∣bled, shattered, swallowing, engulphing, ingorging, chasing, impetu∣ous, tempestuous, wandering, encroaching, invading, assailing, roaring, noysefull, drumming, rocking, rising, giddie, frothy, foamy, yielding, justling, stooping, yawning, sweeping, silver, Christall, trembling, brackish, surly, sullen, sliding, mounting, breaking, ruffled, wrinckled, churlish, brisied, imperious, tumultuous, vaulting, leaping, furious, careering, arched, gliding, posting, bustling, tossing, murmuring, mut∣tering, self-drowning, proud, big-bell••ed, climbing, yesty, contenti∣ous, wreakfull weltring.

Wavering. Unconstant, uncertain, doubtfull, unsettled, unsteady, windy, insta∣ble, perplexed, anxious, dist••acted, ambiguous, giddy, faint, cold, heart∣lesse, fearfull jealous, suspitious, carefull.

Wax. Soft, pliant, relenting, yielding, melting, limber, supple, obedient, clammie.

Wealth. v. Gold. Envied, desired, unmeasured, unconfined, unfathomed, abounding, unprised, inestimable, proud, gorgeous, gaudy, commanding, imperi∣ous, glittering, pompous, unexhausted, sullen, treasured.

Weapons. Offensive, defensive, clashing, sharp-edged, fatall, mortall, bloody, thirsty, gory, keen-edged, flaming, revengefull, reeking, wounding murdering, barbarous, victorious, glancing, brandished, sharp∣pointed.

Wearinesse. Fainting, tedious, vexing, tired, toilsome, jaded, irksome.

Weathor. Fair, foul, delicate, dull, healthful, unhealthfull, diseasefull, tem∣pestuous, sad, heavy, chearfull, seasonable, unseasonable, cloudy, showry, hot, cold, nipping, freezing, soultry, sweltring, freezing, sharp, mild, pleasant, drowsie.

Weathercock. Turning, windy, wind-turn'd, unconstant, lofty, moving.

Wedding. v. Marriage. Mirthfull, feastfull, joyfull, joyous, ceremonious, stoln, amorous, peacefull, geniall.

VVeeds. Choaking, fruitlesse, cumbrous, encumbering, unwelcome, barren, marish, rank, presumptuous, usel••sse, plashie, shallow-rooted, pernici∣ous, harmfull, noysome.

VVeesell. Slender, fearfull, lurking, egge-sucking, lank-bellied.

VVelcome. Gracious, cheatfull, loving, smiling, chearing, kind, bounteous, jol∣ly, loving, courteous.

Welkin. v. Firmament. VVelshman. Valiant, furious, generous, genealogicall.

VVest. Sober, red-cheek'd, blushing, Sun-inning, gloomy.

Whale. Storm-boding, massie, prodigious, storm-presaging, sea-oppres∣sing, sea-tyrannising.

VVheat. Yellow, bearded, golden-eared.

Wheel. Turning, rolling, creaking, swift-pac'd, speedy, crooked, rushing.

Whip. Lashing, scourging, smarting, painfull, correcting, revengefull, sharp, knotty, twisted, awing, dreadfull, fearing, hated, loathed, curb∣ing, restraining, tutoring, cruell, blooody, schooling, severe, rigo∣rous, threatning, torturing.

Whirlpool. v. Gulph. Devouring, swallowing, frothy, deep, yawning, wide-mouth'd, jaw∣stretch'd.

Whirlwind. v. Wind. Dusty, impetuous, flaming, sweeping, sudden, resistlesse, tempestuous, cloudy, boysterous.

VVhisper. Soft, warm, glowing, guilty, secret, close, hollow, silent, fearfull, pleasing, magick, drowsie.

VVhore. v. Harlot Lascivious, wanton, lustfull, obscene, leprous, infamous, rammish, strumpeting, dallying, rampant, callet, baudy, brothel'd, uncivill, rotten, salacious, dissolute, immodest, mercenary, shamelesse, impudent, notorious, filthy, painted, canckered, itchie, goatish, unblushing, loath∣some, musty, nasty, pocky.

VVidow. Comfortlesse, desolate, sad, pensive, melancholy, l••nely, jolly, lusty, frolick, bounsing, distressed, mournfull, wofull, afflicted, op∣pressed.

Wife. Loving, carefull, sollicitous, embracing, indulgent, chearing, loyall, disloyall, brawling, contentious, litigious, unquiet, scolding, happy, unhappy, delicious.

VVildernesse. Unpeopled, uncou••h, shaggy, desart, solitary, lonely, devious, sa∣vage, melancholy, silent, unfrequented, sandy, dreadfull, sullen, gloomie, rockie, hoary, pathlesse, shrubby bushy, unfruitful, barren, inhospitable, wastful.

VVile Crafty, cunning, treacherous, insidious, cheating, deceitful, beguiling, subtill, juggling, ingenious, artificial, secret, slie▪ working, circumventing.

Will. Unforced, free-working, uncontrolled, active.

Willow. Pliant, limber, branching, spreading, sprouting, bank-loving, plash-loving, shadie, tender.

Wind. Howling, bellowing, drumming, incaved, sweeping, ruffling, prat∣ling, tatling, twatling, talking, saucy, uncivill, tyrannising, loud voi∣ced, churlish, hollow, barking, wandering, amorous, courting, whiz∣zing, whirling, mutinous, whistling, whisking, active, singing, dancing, flitting, unruly, rustling, inconstant, swinging, curled, chiding, post∣ing, busling, whiffing, whispering, fanning, murmuring, impetuous-creeping, bleak, hurrying, licentious, insulting, swelling, straggling, scattering, shattering, rocking, chafing, incensed, struggling, flying, just∣ling, rapefull, rising, jangling, jarring, ranging, blustering, surly, ca∣reering, ratling, sturdy, puffing, stern, stormy, high-rais'd, sporting, dallying, gamesome, chattering, audacious, muttering, sullen, tan∣ning, angry, nimble, quarrelling, fantastick, resistlesse, wrestling, la∣bouring, loudly-storming.

Windings. Slipperie, snakie, spatious, crooked, doubled, intricate.

Window. Lofty, hollow, Chrystall, trall••'st, stately.

Wine. Costly, brisk, rich, generous, spruce, neat, choice, odorous, spirit-prompting, care-drowning, sparkling, heating, delicious, massick, Caerubian, Chian, Lesbian, Candian, joyous, smiling, nectareous, fu∣ming, forgetful, raging, wit-expelling, rebellious, reason-deposing, sprightly, lusty.

Wing. Supporting, roosting, fluttering, swooping, gliding, sweeping, brush∣ing, towring, scaling, nimble, active, industrious, soaring, mounting, moving, wandering, plumie, well-feathered, fanning, panting, beat∣ing, brooding, downy, ruffled, trembling, waving, swimming floating, flagging, slicing, hatcihng, hovering, subtil, ready, easie, soft, restlesse, busie, swift, balanc'd tosed, airie, air-cutting,

Winter. Bleak, blasting, irksome, pinching, barren, stormy, shivering, trem∣bling, frosty, fruitlesse, foggy, rugged, leavelesse, chil, frost-starved, drizling, dull, hoary, old, gray, hideous, blustering, nipping, sap-consu∣ming, rude, sluggish, drowsie, sullen, icie, keen; sharp, defor∣med, decrepit, rainie, windie, showrie, dirty, mirie, fierce, snowie,

cruel, injurious, devouring, angry, churlish, crabbed, tempestuous, melancholy, grim, sterne-visaged, discoloured.

Wire. Pliant, slender, limber, twisted, twining.

Wish. Hungry, covetous, desirous, longing, greedy, cherisht, avaritious, ardent, ambitious, passionate, hearty, sollicitous, insatiate.

Wit. Active, pregnant, piercing, quick, sagacious, plotting, contriving, inventing, mature, nimble, stirring, happy, enriched, penetrating.

Witch. Thessalian, blew-eyed, freckled, mumbling, withered, unhal∣lowed, hellish, ugly, nasty, fulsome, hideous, furious, malitious, mishapen, cruel, mischeevous, il-looking, g••umbling, charming, muttering, hateful, spightful, dreadful, revengeful, affrightful, sive∣turning, image-pricking, bloody.

Woe. v. Griefe. Doleful, mournful, plaintful, pensive, sad, cruel, unexpressed, heart-rending-tearing-contracting-killing-pinching-wringing-fret¦ting-oppressing-gnawing-gauling-grating-breaking-squeezing, dis∣contented, impatient, intolerable, unsupported, pitied, disquiet.

Wolfe. Rapeful, ravening, curst, Thracian, hungry, greedy, devouring, raping, howling, Appulian, mountain, insatiate, bloody, preying, foaming, grinning, night-stragling, gluttonous, furious, salvage.

Women. Beauteous, soft, wanton, crafty, deceitful, inconstant, weak, frail, pityful, tender, compassionate, pratling, passionate, delicate, mel∣ting, jealous, impatient, weeping, puling, whining, war-detesting, revengeful, smooth-faced, rash, inconsiderate.

Wombe. Pregnant, teeming, fruitful, barren, painful, swelling.

Wonder. Attractive, unwonted, stupendious, prodigious, silent, unbelee∣ved, fai••h-surpassing, unaccustomed, amazing, intrancing.

Wood. Silent, shaggy, pathlesse, leavy, shady, lofty, bushy, ecchoing, h••gh∣waving, arched, stately, sullen, wel-grown, unfrequented, solitary, mossy, cu••led, shrubby, desart, gloomy, devious, darksome, verdant, beast-haunted, unpeopled,

Wooll. Curled, thirsty, fleecy, twined, rough, drinking, frizled, furled, ravelled,

Word. Winged, flying, irrevocable, unrecalled, gilded, oyly, sententious, sugred, forced, strained.

Worke. Laborious, tedious, toylesome, stirring, active, busie painful, in∣dustrious, unimitable, unpatterned, unexampled.

Worme. Crawling, wrigling, gnawing, impartial, devouring, saucy.

Wormwood. Bit••er, distastful, gray, hoary, medicinal.

Wound. Gaping, reeking, gushing, gastly, gasping, yawning, smarting, lanched, sharp, rankling, bleeding, festered, painful, cruel, gashing, hollow, trembling, killing, murthering, fatal, bloody, griezly.

Wrack. Doleful, woful, pitied, sad, unhappy, disastrous.

Wrath. v. Anger. Fury. Burning, baneful, hot, inflaming, wal-eyed, brutish, blustering, fierce, fiery, bloody, revengeful, impetuous, tempestuous, furious.

Wrinkle. Aged. hanging, deformed, curled, folded, frowning, gathered,

Wrist. Sinewie, snowie, ivory, veiny, azure-streaked.

Wreath. Pleited, braided, knotty, curled, leavy, laurel, flowry, triumphant, victorious, brow-incircling, joyful.