Golding, Ovid’s Metamorphosis, b. xi.
Her knees revoked their first strength, and her feet
Were borne above the ground with wings to greet
The long-grieved queen with news her king was come.
Chapman, The Odyssey of Homer, b. xxiii. l. 5.
Rig. A somewhat vulgar word, with the present use of which, however, we are probably all familiar from its occurrence in John Gilpin:
‘He little guessed when he set out
Of running such a rig.’
But a ‘rig’ in its earlier use was not so often a strange uncomely feat, as a wanton uncomely person.
Let none condemn them [the girls] for rigs because thus hoyting with the boys, seeing the simplicity of their age was a patent to privilege any innocent pastime.—Fuller, A Pisgah Sight of Palestine, b. iv. 6.