(n.) Good will; favor; pleasure; satisfaction; -- used esp. in such phrases as: to take in gree; to accept in gree; that is, to take favorably.

(n.) Rank; degree; position.

(n.) The prize; the honor of the day; as, to bear the gree, i. e., to carry off the prize.

(v. i.) To agree.

(n.) A step.

(n.) Grass.

(a.) Alt. of Grete

(n.) A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.

(n.) A cricket or grasshopper.

(n.) Any small eel.

(n.) The broad-nosed eel. See Glut.

(n.) Heath.

(n.) A snare; a gin.

(v. i.) To show the teeth, as a dog; to snarl.

(v. i.) To set the teeth together and open the lips, or to open the mouth and withdraw the lips from the teeth, so as to show them, as in laughter, scorn, or pain.

(v. t.) To express by grinning.

(n.) The act of closing the teeth and showing them, or of withdrawing the lips and showing the teeth; a hard, forced, or sneering smile.

(n.) The griffin.

(n.) A small ditch or furrow.

(v. t.) To trench; to drain.

(v. t.) An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping.

(v. t.) A peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic grip.

(v. t.) That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; as, the grip of a sword.

(v. t.) A device for grasping or holding fast to something.

(v. t.) To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe.

(n.) A mixture of spirit and water not sweetened; hence, any intoxicating liquor.

(n.) A grotto.

(n.) Alt. of Grote

(v. i.) To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.

(v. i.) To drudge; to do menial work.

(v. t.) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; -- followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge.

(v. t.) To supply with food.

(n.) The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; -- called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith.

(n.) A short, thick man; a dwarf.

(n.) Victuals; food.

(adv.) Forwards; with one's face to the ground.

(a.) Morose; severe of countenance; sour; surly; glum; grim.

(a.) Low; deep in the throat; guttural; rumbling; as,

(n.) Any one of many species of large gallinaceous birds of Central and South America, belonging to Penelope, Pipile, Ortalis, and allied genera. Several of the species are often domesticated.

(n.) A loose, earthy deposit from water, found in the cavities or clefts of rocks, mostly white, but sometimes red or yellow, from a mixture of clay or ocher.

(n.) A West African antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), curiously marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground, and hence called harnessed antelope; -- called also guiba.

(n.) A flower. See Gold.

(v. t.) To give the color of gules to.

(n.) The throat; the gullet.

(v. t.) To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud.

(n.) A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud.

(n.) One easily cheated; a dupe.

(n.) One of many species of long-winged sea birds of the genus Larus and allied genera.

(v. t.) To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow.

(n.) The act of taking a large mouthful; a swallow, or as much as is awallowed at once.

(n.) A disgorging.

(n.) Guilt. See Guilt.

(a.) Of or pertaining to gules; red.

(n.) A dolt; a dunce.

(n.) In Sanskrit grammar, a lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, e, by prefixing an a element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages.

(n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.

(v. i.) To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.

(v. i.) To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner.

(v. t.) A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed plase; an emission of a liquid in a large quantity, and with force; the fluid thus emitted; a rapid outpouring of anything; as, a gush of song from a bird.

(v. t.) A sentimental exhibition of affection or enthusiasm, etc.; effusive display of sentiment.

(n.) A sudden squall; a violent blast of wind; a sudden and brief rushing or driving of the wind. Snow, and hail, stormy gust and flaw.

(n.) A sudden violent burst of passion.

(n.) The sense or pleasure of tasting; relish; gusto.

(n.) Gratification of any kind, particularly that which is exquisitely relished; enjoyment.

(n.) Intellectual taste; fancy.

(v. t.) To taste; to have a relish for.

(n.) A roundlet of tincture sanguine, which is blazoned without mention of the tincture.

(n.) See Jib.

(n. & v.) See Gibe.

(v. t. & i.) To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side.

(n.) Fermented wort used for making vinegar.

(n.) A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit.

(v. t. & i.) To turn round; to gyrate.

(n. pl.) See Gyrus.

(pl. ) of Gyrus

(n.) Guise.

(a.) Delirious; senselessly extravagant; as, the man is clean gyte.

(n.) A shackle; especially, one to confine the legs; a fetter.

(v. t.) To fetter; to shackle; to chain. H () the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the consonants, and is formed with the mouth organs in the same position as that of the succeeding vowel. It is used with certain consonants to form digraphs representing sounds which are not found in the alphabet, as sh, th, /, as in shall, thing, /ine (for zh see /274); also, to modify the sounds of some other letters, as when placed after c and p, with the former of which it represents a compound sound like that of tsh, as in charm (written also tch as in catch), with the latter, the sound of f, as in phase, phantom. In some words, mostly derived or introduced from foreign languages, h following c and g indicates that those consonants have the hard sound before e, i, and y, as in chemistry, chiromancy, chyle, Ghent, Ghibelline, etc.; in some others, ch has the sound of sh, as in chicane. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 153, 179, 181-3, 237-8.

(a.) Having the flavor of game, esp. of game kept uncooked till near the condition of tainting; high-flavored.

(a.) Showing an unyielding spirit to the last; plucky; furnishing sport; as, a gamy trout.

(v. i.) To yawn; to gape.

(v. i.) To go; to walk.

(v. i.) A going; a course.

(v. i.) A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves.

(v. i.) A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows.

(v. i.) A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays.

(v. i.) The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.

(n.) A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.

(v. i.) To open the mouth wide

(v. i.) Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape.

(v. i.) Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn.

(v. i.) To pen or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus.

(v. i.) To long, wait eagerly, or cry aloud for something; -- with for, after, or at.

(n.) The act of gaping; a yawn.

(n.) The width of the mouth when opened, as of birds, fishes, etc.

(n.) Clothing in general.

(n.) The whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a clergyman or a judge.

(n.) Costume; fashion; as, the garb of a gentleman in the 16th century.

(n.) External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech.

(n.) A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified).

(v. t.) To clothe; array; deck.

(v. t.) To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.

(n.) A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.

(v. i.) To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently.

(v. i.) To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.

(v. t.) To emit or utter with gasps; -- with forth, out, away, etc.

(n.) The act of opening the mouth convulsively to catch the breath; a labored respiration; a painful catching of the breath.

(v. t.) To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See Aghast.

(n.) A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.

(n.) An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.

(n.) A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.

(n.) The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.

(n.) In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

(n.) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.

(n.) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.

(v. t.) To supply with a gate.

(v. t.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.

(n.) A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).

(n.) Manner; gait.

(n.) An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bibos gauris), of large size and an untamable disposition.

() imp. of Give.

(n.) A cuckoo.

(n.) A simpleton; a booby; a gawky.

(v. i.) To act like a gawky.

(n.) A small tub or lading vessel.

(v. i.) To fixx the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.

(v. t.) To view with attention; to gaze on .

(n.) A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.

(n.) The object gazed on.

(v. i.) To congeal.

(n.) Clothing; garments; ornaments.

(n.) Goods; property; household stuff.

(n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.

(n.) The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.

(n.) Warlike accouterments.

(n.) Manner; custom; behavior.

(n.) Business matters; affairs; concern.

(n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.

(n.) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.

(n.) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.

(n.) See 1st Jeer (b).

(n.) Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.

(v. t.) To dress; to put gear on; to harness.

(v. t.) To provide with gearing.

(v. i.) To be in, or come into, gear.

(n.) Scorn, derision, or contempt.

(n.) An object of scorn; a dupe; a gull.

(n.) To deride; to scorn; to mock.

(n.) To cheat; trick, or gull.

(v. i.) To jeer; to show contempt.

(n.) The European pike.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gee

(n.) Jet.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, earthy or vegetable mold.

(n.) See Humin.

(n.) Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.

(v. t.) To castrate; to emasculate.

(v. t.) To deprive of anything essential.

(v. t.) To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate.

(n.) Trubute, tax.

(v. t.) A gelding.

(n.) Gilding; tinsel.

(a.) A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe.

(a.) A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.

(n.) The knee.

(n.) The kneelike bend, in the anterior part of the callosum of the brain.

(n.) That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism appears.

(n.) That from which anything springs; origin; first principle; as, the germ of civil liberty.

(v. i.) To germinate.

(n.) A small British fish (Motella argenteola) of the Cod family.

(n.) A pike, so called at Moray Firth; -- called also gead.

(n.) A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish.

(n.) The spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is extended.

(n.) Same as Gaffle, 1.

(v. t.) To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon.

(n.) A going; a walk; a march; a way.

(n.) Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.

(n.) Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

(v. i.) Sport of any kind; jest, frolic.

(v. i.) A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc.

(v. i.) The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.

(v. i.) That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game.

(v. i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.

(v. i.) A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project.

(v. i.) Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table.

(a.) Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky.

(a.) Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting.

(n.) To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative.

(n.) To play at any sport or diversion.

(n.) To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.

(n.) A guest.

(n.) Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure.

(n.) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.

(n.) A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story.

(n.) Gesture; bearing; deportment.

(n.) A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest.

(n.) A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's office.

(n.) Alt. of Ghaut

(n.) Butter clarified by boiling, and thus converted into a kind of oil.

(v. t.) Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.

(v. t.) The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the President.

(v. t.) A bribe; anything given to corrupt.

(v. t.) Some quality or endowment given to man by God; a preeminent and special talent or aptitude; power; faculty; as, the gift of wit; a gift for speaking.

(v. t.) A voluntary transfer of real or personal property, without any consideration. It can be perfected only by deed, or in case of personal property, by an actual delivery of possession.

(v. t.) To endow with some power or faculty.

() of Gild

(v. t.) To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.

(v. t.) To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.

(v. t.) To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie.

(v. t.) To make red with drinking.

(v. t.) A female pig, when young.

() imp. & p. p. of Gild.

(p. p. & a.) Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow.

(n.) Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.

(n.) Money.

(a.) Smart; spruce; trim; nice.

(n.) A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc.

(v. t.) To notch; to indent; to jag.

(n.) Same as Gang, n., 2.

(n.) A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.

(n.) A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer.

(v.) To strike; to smite.

(v.) To sneer at; to mock; to gibe.

(v. i.) To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gird

(v. t.) To encircle or bind with any flexible band.

(v. t.) To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.

(v. t.) To surround; to encircle, or encompass.

(v. t.) To clothe; to swathe; to invest.

(v. t.) To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest.

(n.) See Gyre.

(n.) A young person of either sex; a child.

(n.) A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden.

(n.) A female servant; a maidservant.

(n.) A roebuck two years old.

(n.) To grin.

() imp. & p. p. of Gird.

(v.) To gird; to encircle; to invest by means of a girdle; to measure the girth of; as, to girt a tree.

(a.) Bound by a cable; -- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.

(n.) Same as Girth.

(v. t.) To feed or pasture.

(n.) Guise; manner.

(n.) A resting place.

(n.) The main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question.

(n.) A gown.

(n.) The corn cockle; also anciently applied to the Nigella, or fennel flower.

(imp.) of Give

(n.) To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow.

(n.) To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy.

(n.) To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks.

(n.) To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc.

(n.) To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission.

(n.) To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show; as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.

(n.) To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study.

(n.) To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given.

(n.) To allow or admit by way of supposition.

(n.) To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.

(n.) To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain.

(n.) To pledge; as, to give one's word.

(n.) To cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know, etc.

(v. i.) To give a gift or gifts.

(v. i.) To yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.

(v. i.) To become soft or moist.

(v. i.) To move; to recede.

(v. i.) To shed tears; to weep.

(v. i.) To have a misgiving.

(v. i.) To open; to lead.

(a.) Quick of perception; alert; sharp.

(n.) See Glue.

(v. i.) To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.

(adv.) Asquint; askance; obliquely.

(superl.) Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib.

(superl.) Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.

(v. t.) To make glib.

(n.) A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.

(v. t.) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

(n.) Brightness; splendor.

(n.) A light or candle.

(v. i.) To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.

(v. i.) To exhibit a strong, bright color; to be brilliant, as if with heat; to be bright or red with heat or animation, with blushes, etc.

(v. i.) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.

(v. i.) To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism.

(v. t.) To make hot; to flush.

(n.) White or red heat; incandscence.

(n.) Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush; as, the glow of health in the cheeks.

(n.) Intense excitement or earnestness; vehemence or heat of passion; ardor.

(n.) Heat of body; a sensation of warmth, as that produced by exercise, etc.

(n.) A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances.

(n.) To join with glue or a viscous substance; to cause to stick or hold fast, as if with glue; to fix or fasten.

(n.) Sullenness.

(a.) Moody; silent; sullen.

(v. i.) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.

(n.) A knot or gnarl in wood; hence, a tough, thickset man; -- written also gnarr.

(v. i.) To gnarl; to snarl; to growl; -- written also gnarr.

(n.) A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See Mosquito.

(n.) Any fly resembling a Culex in form or habits; esp., in America, a small biting fly of the genus Simulium and allies, as the buffalo gnat, the black fly, etc.

(v. t.) To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily separated or crushed; to bite off little by little, with effort; to wear or eat away by scraping or continuous biting with the teeth; to nibble at.

(v. t.) To bite in agony or rage.

(v. t.) To corrode; to fret away; to waste.

(v. i.) To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teethsomething hard, unwiedly, or unmanageable.

(imp.) Gnawed.

(v. t.) A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.

(v. t.) To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate.

(n.) That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also gob .

(n.) The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end.

(n.) The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or attain.

(n.) A base, station, or bound used in various games; in football, a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score; also, the act of kicking the ball over the line between the goal posts.

(a. & n.) Good.

(a.) Yellow.

() p. p. of Go.

(n.) A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.

(n.) A man.

(n.) The black grease on the axle of a cart or wagon wheel; -- called also gorm. See Gorm.

(n.) A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

(a.) Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable.

(v. t.) That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss.

(v. t.) The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation.

(n.) To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living.

(n.) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize.

(n.) To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.

(n.) To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor.

(n.) To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage.

(v. i.) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily.

(v. t.) To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.

(v. t.) To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.

(v. i.) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.

(n.) That which is swallowed.

(n.) Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance; as, a glut of the market.

(n.) Something that fills up an opening; a clog.

(n.) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.

(n.) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.

(n.) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.

(n.) An arched opening to the ashpit of a klin.

(n.) A block used for a fulcrum.

(n.) The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.

(n.) One of several species of small marine fishes of the genus Gobius and allied genera.

(n.) A privy or jakes.

(n.) An instrument, first used in the East, made of an alloy of copper and tin, shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise.

(n.) A flat saucerlike bell, rung by striking it with a small hammer which is connected with it by various mechanical devices; a stationary bell, used to sound calls or alarms; -- called also gong bell.

(n.) A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor amoung the Hindoos.

(a.) Covered with gore or clotted blood.

(a.) Bloody; murderous.

(n.) A channel for water.

(n.) A fire worshiper; a Gheber or Gueber.

(n.) See Koulan.

(n.) A drop; a clot or coagulation.

(n.) A constitutional disease, occurring by paroxysms. It consists in an inflammation of the fibrous and ligamentous parts of the joints, and almost always attacks first the great toe, next the smaller joints, after which it may attack the greater articulations. It is attended with various sympathetic phenomena, particularly in the digestive organs. It may also attack internal organs, as the stomach, the intestines, etc.

(n.) A disease of cornstalks. See Corn fly, under Corn.

(n.) Taste; relish.

(n.) Gold; wealth.

(v. t.) To make a, booby of one); to stupefy.

(n.) The European cuckoo; -- called also gawky.

(n.) A simpleton; a gawk or gawky.

(v. i.) To howl.

(n.) A loose, flowing upper garment

(n.) The ordinary outer dress of a woman; as, a calico or silk gown.

(n.) The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military.

(n.) A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.

(n.) Any sort of dress or garb.

(n.) A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.

(v. t. & i.) To gripe suddenly; to seize; to snatch; to clutch.

(n.) A sudden grasp or seizure.

(n.) An instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of raising them; -- specially applied to devices for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.

(a.) Angry.

(n.) The East Indian name of the chick-pea (Cicer arietinum) and its seeds; also, other similar seeds there used for food.

(n.) Alt. of Gramme