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To convert into, or make, good. To bonify evils, or tincture them with good. Cudworth.

(F., prop. good woman.) A female servant charged with the care of a young child.

A composition, written or printed; a treatise. A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. Milton.

asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present. Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above. James i. 17 (Rev. Ver. ).

An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.

ancients. Macaulay. It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above. Milton.

Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.

Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.

Something big; a good stout example of the kind. The stone must be a bouncer. De Quincey.

nt; free in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous production. But O, thou bounteous Giver of all good. Cowper. -- Boun"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Boun"te*ous*ness, n.

Goodness; generosity. [Obs.] Spenser.

Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth. [Obs.] Nature set in her at once beauty with bounty. Gower.

Drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze. "A good bouse of liquor." Carlyle.

A blow on the head or ear with the hand. A good-humored box on the ear. W. Irving.

couts," an organization of boys founded in 1908, by Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, to promote good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of civic duty and of usefulness to others, by stimulating their interest in wholesome mental, moral, industrial, and physical activities, etc. Hence, a member of any of the other simil…

made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour.

A child; an offspring; -- formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense. "This brat is none of mine." Shak. "A beggar's brat." Swift. O Israel! O household of the Lord! O Abraham's brats! O brood of blessed seed! Gascoigne.

Good; fine. "A braw night." Sir W. Scott.

through. Sabina brazened it out before Mrs. Wygram, but inwardly she was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect. W. Black.

To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods.