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Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.

A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling. This satire, composed of actual fustigation. Motley.

Relating to Galen or to his principles and method of treating diseases. Dunglison. Galenic pharmacy, that branch of pharmacy which relates to the preparation of medicines by infusion, decoction, etc., as distinguished from those which are chemically prepared.

A red crystalline dyestuff, obtained by heating together pyrogallic and phthalic acids.

The art or science of good eating; epicurism; the art of good cheer.

The act or habit of eating earth. See Dirt eating, under Dirt. Dunglison.

Earth-eating.

Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age. -- Glut"ton*ous*ly, adv. -- Glut"ton*ous*ness, n.

Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. Milton.

A white amorphous powder, C4H4O, obtained by heating and dehydrating glycolic acid. [Written also glycollide.]

To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teethsomething hard, unwiedly, or unmanageable. I might well, like the spaniel, gnaw upon the chain that ties me. Sir P. Sidney.

intestine of the ox, used for separating the leaves of metal during the process of gold-beating. -- Gold beetle (Zoöl.), any small gold-colored beetle of the family Chrysomelidæ; -- called also golden beetle. -- Gold blocking, printing with gold leaf, as upon a book cover, by means of an engraved block. Knight. --…

(Zoöl.), the larva of a small moth (Dakruma convolutella). It destroys the gooseberry by eating the interior.

A connoisseur in eating and drinking; an epicure.

small red weevil (Sitophilus granarius), which destroys stored wheat and othar grain, by eating out the interior. -- Grain worm (Zoöl.), the larva of the grain moth. See grain moth, above. -- In grain, of a fast color; deeply seated; fixed; innate; genuine. "Anguish in grain." Herbert.-- To dye in grain, to dye of a…

Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as, granivorous birds. Gay.

mmy composition spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.

d by distilling guaiacum from wood-tar creosote, and in other ways. It has been used in treating pulmonary tuberculosis.

A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud. Shak.

t of a gun from repeated firing. Gutter member (Arch.), an architectural member made by treating the outside face of the gutter in a decorative fashion, or by crowning it with ornaments, regularly spaced, like a diminutive battlement. -- Gutter plane, a carpenter's plane with a rounded bottom for planing out gutters.…