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process of cleansing, shrinking, and thickening cloth by moisture, heat, and pressure. Fulling mill, a mill for fulling cloth as by means of pesties or stampers, which alternately fall into and rise from troughs where the cloth is placed with hot water and fuller's earth, or other cleansing materials.…

In the manner of one who fumbles.

An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler.

See Gad, n., 4.

ng aromatic roots; also, any plant of the same genus. Chaucer. Meadow, set with slender galingale. Tennyson.

Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating. -- Gall"ing*ly, adv.

An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired.

A gosling. [Prov. Eng.]

A small gnat.

A diminutive god. Dryden.

A young or unfledged goose.

A grapple; a struggle. A match for yards in fight, in grappling for the bear. Dryden. Grappling iron, a hooked iron used for grappling and holding fast a vessel or other object. -- Grappling tongs, broad-mouthed tongs for gathering oysters.

The act of covering with gravel.

and is valued as a game fish. And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling. Tennyson.

A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions. B. Jonson.

merly was on the ground, and without floor or benches. No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh. Coleridge.

Lying prone; low; debased. [Written also grovelling.] "A groveling creature." Cowper.

In a growling manner.

In a grumbling manner.

A young hog.