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Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.

In a foreboding manner.

Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

To foreordain.

Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.

Having fortitude; courageous. [R.] Gibbon.

The act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others.

The art of smelting and casting metals.

Friendliness. [Obs.] Shak.

Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt.

A coarse frock or loose upper garment formerly worn by Jews; a mean dress. Shak.

See Gabardine.

Going about much, needlessly or without purpose. Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets. Bacon. The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. Tennyson. Gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.

In a roving, idle manner.

The quality of being gaudy. Whitlock.

rmerly used also of the human male. They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him. Wyclif (Acts viii. 38).

The quality or state of being giddy.

Any superficial coating or appearance, as opposed to what is solid and genuine. Gilding metal, a tough kind of sheet brass from which cartridge shells are made.

That with which one is girded; a girdle. Instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth. Is. iii. 24.

A native hydrated silicate of alumina, lime, and potash, first noticed near Rome.