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Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals.

Speaking without reserve. Bp. Hall.

Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.

An Anglo-Saxon prefix. See Y-.

See Falcon-gentil.

Having a kind or gentle disposition. Shak. -- Gen"tle-heart`ed*ness, n.

Shaped like a globe.

The venereal disease; -- often used as a mild oath. [Obs.] Shak.

One of two or more species of American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrarchidæ, esp. Chænobryttus antistius, of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters, and Ambloplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; -- so called from their prominent eyes.

Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes. Ascham.

A galoche.

Having the tail set low and buttocks that fall away sharply from the croup; -- said of certain horses.

Timorous; timid; easily frightened. Ainsworth.

The eye or loop formed in each heddle to receive a warp thread.

At, or by reason of, this; as, he was offended hereat. Hooker.

Kept at home.

Bred at home; domestic; not foreign. " Home-bred mischief." Milton. Benignity and home-bred sense. Wordsworth.

Return home. Kepeth this child, al be it foul or fayr, And eek my wyf, unto myn hoom-cominge. Chaucer.

Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close.

Keeping at home.