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a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism. Thackeray.

contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. Thackeray.

by old. [Written also fogie and fogey.] [Colloq.] Notorious old bore; regular old fogy. Thackeray.

re." W. Collins. "How many captains in the regiment had two thousand pounds to the fore" Thackeray.

The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture. Comminuted fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the bone is broken into several parts. -- Complicated fracture (Surg.), a fracture of the bone combined with the lesion of some artery, nervous trunk, or joint. --…

A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop. A pert fribble of a peer. Thackeray.

One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack. Macaulay.

An armed policeman in France. Thackeray.

The qualities or condition of a gentleman. [R.] Thackeray.

to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl. Thackeray.

Moody; silent; sullen. I frighten people by my glun face. Thackeray.

ry examinations for a degree. [Slang, Eng. Univ.] -- No go, a failure; a fiasco. [Slang] Thackeray. -- On the go, moving about; unsettled. [Colloq.]

phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. Thackeray,

ountenance; sour; surly; severe; harsh. Addison. Gruff, disagreeable, sarcastic remarks. Thackeray. -- Gruff"ly, adv. -- Gruff"ness, n.

A shackle; especially, one to confine the legs; a fetter. [Written also give.] Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves. Shak. With gyves upon his wrist. Hood.

the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in taking aim. [Written also haguebut and hackbuss.]

A soldier armed with a hagbut or arquebus. [Written also hackbutter.] Froude.

To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood. Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. Shak.

To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to insnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber. "Hampered nerves." Blackmore. A lion hampered in a net. L'Estrange. They hamper and entangle our souls. Tillotson.

, Low; sneaking; ashamed. The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog look. Thackeray.