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	DICTIONARY OF RHYMES.		351
	OCT	ODGE
	decoct cook'd bodge lodge concoct yoh'd dodge podge Also the preterites of verbs in ock; as shock'd. OFF OD* cod clod God hod rod shod sod tod cough doff off scoff trough loaf roof rough nod trod odd plod wad ode OFT pod ow'd croft soft quad blood cough'd scoff'd quod ODE oft aloft OG, OGUE bode commode code corrode bog shog goad explode clog agog load forebode cog prologue mode a-la-mode dog catalogue node episode grogt demagogue ode incommode hog dialogue road ow'd fog epilogue rode hood frog pedagogue toad hod jog synagogue woad fraud log rogue abode prog prorogue
	• " An honest man's the nobl'st work of God " ; And certes in fair virtue's heavenly road The cottage leaves the palace far behind : What is a lordling's pomp ? a cumbrous load. Burns. Eight times emerging from the flood, She mew'd to every watery God. Cowper. f In vain the barns expect their promis'd load. Nor barns at home, nor ricks are heaped abroad. Dryden. \ "Old Grog " was a nickname for Admiral Vernon of the seventeenth century, on account of remarkable gogram overalls he wore in bad weather. It was then applied to a mixture of hot spirits, which he was the first to introduce.