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on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor. "Golden canoniec and beds of state." Dryden.

The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation. Goldsmith. The cant of any profession. Dryden.

. (c) A painting, or a picture on canvas. To suit his canvas to the roughness of the see. Goldsmith. Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude. Macaulay.

An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, of which an inferior quality of jewerly is made.

A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including the yellow or goldon mackerel.

A twenty-fourth part; -- a term used in estimating the proportionate fineness of gold.

A former gold coin of Germany worth nearly five dollars; also, a gold coin of Sweden worth nearly five dollars.

An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. Told down the crowns and Caroluses. Macawlay.

The goldilocks (Chrysocoma linosyris) and perhaps other plants related to the genus Gnaphalium or cudweed.

ish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly called Purple of Cassius.

chase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate. To chaffer for preferments with his gold. Dryden.

rnament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc. [They] put a chain of gold about his neck. Dan. v. 29.

ht a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons. A challenge to controversy. Goldsmith.

To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard. Foamed and champed the golden bit. Dryden.

receive, smaller denominations of money (technically called change) for; as, to change a gold coin or a bank bill. He pulled out a thirty-pound note and bid me change it. Goldsmith. To change a horse, or To change hand (Man.), to turn or bear the horse's head from one hand to the other, from the left to right, or from…

Costly; expensive. [Obs.] The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion. Shak.

, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit. The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood. Surrey.

A turkish fabric of silk and cotton, with gold thread interwoven.

ll; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold. When winter chilled the day. Goldsmith.

To chirp. Tennyson. The criket chirrups on the hearth. Goldsmith.