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Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. [R.] Burke.

the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly. A suit of frayed magnificience. tennyson.

A cord; specifically, the umbilical cord or navel string.

Not firmly woven; that ravels. [Written also fozy.] [Prov. Eng.]

To clothe; array; deck. These black dog-Dons Garb themselves bravely. Tennyson.

A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest. [Obs.] Kersey.

hich inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin).

oi. Addison. At last a gleam Of dawning light turned thitherward in haste His [Satan's] traveled steps. Milton. A glimmer, and then a gleam of light. Longfellow.

The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad.

7. -- Gold diggings, the places, or region, where gold is found by digging in sand and gravel from which it is separated by washing. -- Gold end, a fragment of broken gold or jewelry. -- Gold-end man. (a) A buyer of old gold or jewelry. (b) A goldsmith's apprentice. (c) An itinerant jeweler. "I know him not: he look…

Small particles of earth; gravel. [Obs.] Lying down upon the sandy grail. Spenser.

Furniture; apparatus or accouterments for work, traveling, war, etc. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Angry. [Obs.] Havelok, the Dane.

A traveler's handbag. [Colloq.]

Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.

ithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera. [Written also gromill.]

e formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut.

A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.

rocks, mostly white, but sometimes red or yellow, from a mixture of clay or ocher. P. Cleaveland.

To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler. I wish . . . you 'ld guide me to your sovereign's court. Shak.