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Viscous; glutinous; of the nature of, or like, glue.

Viscidity.

an and adjacent waters, and Ambloplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; -- so called from their prominent eyes.

Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes. Ascham.

led whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common.

See Gilthead.

A buffoon. See Gollard. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.

Having green eyes.

See Gray (the correct orthography).

A slender, graceful breed of dogs, remarkable for keen sight and swiftness. It is one of the oldest varieties known, and is figured on the Egyptian monuments. [Written also grayhound.]

See Graylag.

nt (Nerine Sarniensis) with handsome lilylike flowers, naturalized on the island of Guernsey.

A gypsy. See Gypsy.

A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach.

A man who lets horses and carriages for hire.

Professional cant; the chatter of conjurers to divert attention from their tricks; hence, jugglery. [Colloq.]

A process of hardening the face of steel, as armor plates, invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey, consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued pressure at a very high heat, and then to a violent chilling, as by a…

Having a keen eye; sharpsighted; discerning.

See Hockey. Holloway.