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VOLATB.
L A large bird-cage ; an aviary. Also fig, and
in fig. context.
1630 B. JoNsoN AVw Inn v. i, She.. now sits penitent and
solitary, Like ihe forsaken turtle, in the volary Of the light
Heart, the cage, she hath abused. 16^ Flecknoe 7>»
Vears Trav. no In lieu of imagining 11 flying about the
world, we may imagin it rather pent up, and fluttering
about some narrow Bird-cage or volary. 1687 A. Lovell
tr. Tkrvetict's Traz: 11. 105 On the left hand before a Garden
on the River-side, there is a Volary full of rare Fowl,
as Eitradges, Peacocks and others, i7i8 0zELi,tr. Journe.
fort'sVoy, II. 235 Thegardens, the volaries, the dog-kfinnel,
the falconry, the square and baiar.. are worth seeing. ?i743
Lady M. W. ^\q^^kkm Lett.Jo Mrs. ForsUriiSgi) IL 124,
I find myself so improperly lodged as if i inhabited a volery.
I7sis Mks. Calderwood in Coltness Coll, (Maiiland Club)
186 Here is a flat, laid out like a partcire.. .and a volary,
which is a little place with the face of it wire. 1891 Daily
News 3 Sept. 5/3 Birds, .living happily in.. confinement in
very large cages, in spacious volaries.
tracts/, a 1637 B. Jonson Undtrwoods xvi. Wks, (Rtldg.)
694/1, I thought thee then our Orpheus, that wouldst try.
Like him, to make the air one volary. .1640 Carew Poems
Wks. (1824} 34 Yet thou hadst daintyes, as the skie Had
only been ihy volarie.
attrib, lyao Strvpe Siow's Sun: vi. iii. IL 624/1 Edward
Story, Esq; Volary-keeper to King Charles 11. 1684.
2. collect. The birds kept in an aviary. AIsoyf^^
X693 X-ocKK Educ. % 94 An old Boy, at his first Appearance,
with all the Gravity of his Ivy-Bush about him, is
sure to draw on him the Eyes and Chirping of the whole
Town Volery. 1745 tr. Columella's Husb. viii. x, I'hese
things wipe off and remove the nauseating of such of them
[thrushes] as sit loitering in the aviaries, and make the
whole volary more greedy and voracious.
f Volat^. Obs, rare. (Meaning uncertain.)
c 1460 Oseney Reg. 27, j. crofte and a volate [L. volatam\
\>3X Hemmying preste was i-wonyd to have.
Volatic (viJlse-tik), sb. and a. Now rare or
Obs. [ad. L. voldiicus^ f. voldt-y ppl. stem of
volare to fly.]
A. sb. A winged creature.
a 1643 W. Cartright On Mr. Stokes vi^ How would
they vex their Mathematicks, Their Ponderations, and their
Siaticks, To shew the Art of these Volaticks? 1657 Angier
Elegy inS. Purchas/'f»/. Flying-Ins.^ I've sometimes viewed
thy small Volaticks flye Like golden atom's hov'ring in the
sky.
B. cidj. That flies or flits about ; spec, in Path.
of a variety of itch.
1684 tr, Bonefs Merc. Compit. iii. 71, 1 ordered a Cuppingglass.,
to get out that Volatick Spirit, which daily ranged
the whole body. Ibid, xvi, 549 This Remedy is of so great
efficacy, that,. presently the volatick Itch falls off dead.
176a Falconer Skipwr. iii. 292 Amidst the gloom volatic
meteors blaze, i860 Mavnb Expos. Lex. xyi,tj-2 UolalicuSf
..flying; flitting; inconstant; volatic.
So Vola'tical a. rarer^.
2656 BtOLNT Glossogr.., Volatical^ that flyes or goes away
suddenly, flitting, inconstant.
t Vola-tify, v. Obs.-^ [f. L. voldt- (cf. next) +
-(l)pY.] trans. To render volatile.
1666 J. H. Treat. Gt. Antid. 4 Poure thereon a pint and
half of volatile Salt of Tartar volaiified with spirit of Wine.
Volatile (vf?-lat3il, -il), sb. and a. Forms : 4,
7-8volatil, 5 -tille. 6-7 -till, 7 -tie; 4- volatile
(4 -tyle). [a. OK. and F. volatile -He ( = Sp. and
Pg. volatil. It. v0latile)i or ad. L. voldtilis (also
late L. voldtile sb.), f. voldt-y ppl. stem of voldre
to fly.]
A. sb. 1 1. collect. Birds, esp. wild-fowl. Obs,
(So OF. volatil.)
a 1300 Cursor M. 6386 Volatil sent \}3\m J>at king. 13..
Coer de L. 4225 Off, , Partryhches, plovers, and heroun, Off
larkes, and smale volatyle. 1383 WvcLtF Gen. vii. 14 Al
that moueth vpon the erthe in his kynde, and al volatile
after his kynde. a 1400-50 Alexander 4637 Of all t>e frutis
on ^ fold we fange at oure will, Bath venyson & volatile &
variand (isches. c 1475 Promp. Parv. 512/1 (IC), Volatile,
wyldfowle, ..I'o/a///^^. 1501 Douglas Pal. Hon. m. xv, To
noy the small the ^reit beistis had \M will. Nor rauenous
foulis the lytill volatill. 157a Satir. Poems Reform, xxxviii.
36 As the fals fowler . . Deuoiris the pure volatill he wylis to
the net. a 1660 Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archseol Soc.) L
164 Espiing that greate mortaliiie not yett interredf disfigured
by volatle and other wilde beastes.
2. A winged creature; a bird, butterfly, or the
like ; a fowl. Usually in plural.
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