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easure. To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us. Barrow. With his broad fins and forky tail he laves The rising sirge, and flounces in the waves. Addison.

Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright. With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May. Shak.

Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.

Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play. [Obs.] Marston.

at its foot. Footing course (Arch.), one of the courses of masonry at the foot of a wall, broader than the courses above. -- To pay one's footing, to pay a fee on first doing anything, as working at a trade or in a shop. Wright. -- Footing beam, the tie beam of a roof.

or joins in a foray. They might not choose the lowand road, For the Merse forayers were abroad. Sir W. Scott.

Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out. I have no mind of feasting forth to-night. Shak.

Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus (family Podargidæ); -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.

Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate.

A woman's broad-brimmed hat of a form thought to resemble those shown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, the English artist (1727- 88).

A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley. [Written variously galeas, gallias, etc.]

An East Indian bird of the genus Cymbirhynchus, related to the broadbills.

A kind of internal-combustion engine (which see) using fixed gas; also, broadly, any internal-combustion engine.

A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd.

they really are. The air filled with a strange, pale glamour that seemed to lie over the broad valley. W. Black.

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

One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs.

mile go on all fours. Macaulay. -- To go out. (a) To issue forth from a place. (b) To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition. There are other men fitter to go out than I. Shak. What went ye out for to see Matt. xi. 7, 8, 9.

A broad, open dish; a chalice; -- only used of the Holy Grail.

thood in the Order of the Bath. (b) A knight grand cross. -- Grand cordon, the cordon or broad ribbon, identified with the highest grade in certain honorary orders; hence, a person who holds that grade. -- Grand days (Eng. Law), certain days in the terms which are observed as holidays in the inns of court and chancer…