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ich are "now only used for giving false importance to horse medicine and damaged hay." J. Smith (Pop. Names of Plants, 1881).

e for the use of others, and then threatening not to take them except on credit. [R.] Goldsmith.

To use artifice or stratagem. Goldsmith.

ttering painter, who made it his care, To draw men as they ought be, not as they are. Goldsmith.

Goldsmith's foil. [R.] Sprat.

s. [Achan] wrought folly in Israel. Josh. vii. 15. When lovely woman stoops to folly. Goldsmith.

a fond manner; affectionately; tenderly. My heart, untarveled, fondly turns to thee. Goldsmith.

ence the game of forfeits. Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of the day. Goldsmith.

ecially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy. In the quick forge and working house of thought. Shak.

A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him.

; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate. For here forlorn and lost I tread. Goldsmith. The condition of the besieged in the mean time was forlorn in the extreme. Prescott. She cherished the forlorn hope that he was still living. Thomson. A forlorn hope Etym: [D. verloren hoop, prop., a lost band or troop; ver…

Having four hands; quadrumanous. Goldsmith.

iversity. He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke. Goldsmith. Freshman class, the lowest of the four classes in an American college. [ U. S.]

cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side. "Robes of frieze." Goldsmith.

y; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. Fond of gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith. The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott.

foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women. Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front. Mrs. Browning.

Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement. "Oddity, frolic, and fun." Goldsmith. To make fan of, to hold up to, or turn into, ridicule.

Made of bran; furfuraceous. [R.] "Furfurous bread." Sydney Smith.

The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Goldsmith.

under Gemel, a. Two gemels silver between two griffins passant. Strype. Gemel hinge (Locksmithing), a hinge consisting of an eye or loop and a hook. -- Gemel ring, a ring with two or more links; a gimbal. See Gimbal. -- Gemel window, a window with two bays.