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Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative. You ask for reality, not fiction and filigree work. J. C. Shairp.

Adorned with filigree. Tatler.

Wandering; vagrant. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

To gangrene. [Obs.]

To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene.

Tending to mortification or gangrene.

Affected by, or produced by, gangrene; of the nature of gangrene.

Light green. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

An agreement binding only as a matter of honor; often, specif., such an agreement among the heads of industrial or merchantile enterprises, the terms of which could not be included and enforced in a legal contract.

Green with grass.

A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.] Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott.

See Eagre. [Obs.] Drayton.

A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay all the installments of rent as they become due the contract shall determine and the…

A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large. [New Eng.] Bartlett.

Hungered; hungry. [Archaic]

Not progressive. De Quincey. -- Im"pro*gress"ive*ly, adv.

To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. [Obs.] Fotherby.

Entrance; ingress. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

mixture; an element; a constituent. By way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients. Sir I. Newton. Water is the chief ingredient in all the animal fluids and solids. Arbuthnot.

The act of entering; entrance; as, the ingress of air into the lungs.