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Agate. [Obs.] Fuller.

rch by this . . . when the desk whereon the priest read was inlaid with plates of silver. Fuller.

In the manner of a gate. Three circles of stones set up gatewise. Fuller.

ranted unto them . . . free from all gelts and payments, in a most full and ample manner. Fuller.

A boaster. [Obs.] Fuller.

n souls." Dryden. A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days. Fuller.

To render grammatical. Fuller.

To agree. [Obs.] Fuller.

A bosom friend. [Obs.] Fuller.

ves ground for complaint. [Obs.] Petition . . . against the bishops as grand grievancers. Fuller.

Fixed by habit; accustomed. [Obs.] So habited he was in sobriety. Fuller.

A small quantity. This handful of men were tied to very hard duty. Fuller. To have one's handful, to have one's hands full; to have all one can do. [Obs.] They had their handful to defend themselves from firing. Sir. W. Raleigh.

a young woman on her wedding day, etc. Their first good handsel of breath in this world. Fuller. Our present tears here, not our present laughter, Are but the handsels of our joys hereafter. Herrick.

ousehold who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings. Fuller.

A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.

To harass; to plunder from. [Obs.] Fuller.

of any exertion or labor; gain; reward. The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee. Fuller. The harvest of a quiet eye. Wordsworth. Harvest fish (Zoöl.), a marine fish of the Southern United States (Stromateus alepidotus); -- called whiting in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar fish. -- Harvest fly (Zoöl.), an…

ing by a course of evangelical obedience. John Clarke. He hazards his neck to the halter. Fuller.

retch; to vomit. To heave at. (a) To make an effort at. (b) To attack, to oppose. [Obs.] Fuller. -- To heave in sight (as a ship at sea), to come in sight; to appear. -- To heave up, to vomit. [Low]

e, and hitches in a rhyme. Pope. To ease themselves . . . by hitching into another place. Fuller.