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Gilded. [Obs.]

The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer. Ure.

; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length.

Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street about 50th Street; -- so called from its brilliant illumination at night.

Having a great belly, bigbellied; pregnant; teeming. Shak.

The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.

A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.

The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.

The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.

A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.

High-spirited; fearless. [Obs.] Clarendon.

The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.

An overcoat.

To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand. [R.] A minister's [business] is to greaten and exalt [his king]. Ken.

In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16.

The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc.

Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy. Hanseatic league. See under 2d Hanse.

Having coarse, unattractive or stern features. Smollett.

Preying on the heart.

bination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric.