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formerly used as a secret emblem, and a common ornament. It is also called gammadion, and swastika.

A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy. [Slang, U. S.]

To pen or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus. May that ground gape and swallow me alive! Shak.

Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering. -- n.

To clothe; to swathe; to invest. I girded thee about with fine linen. Ezek. xvi. 10. The Son . . . appeared Girt with omnipotence. Milton.

A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.

Mica. See Mica. Woodsward. Glimmer gowk, an owl. [Prov. Eng.] Tennyson.

To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge. Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at widest to glut him. Shak.

To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively. [Colloq.] Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down whole with him for truth. L' Estrange. -- To go far. (a) To go to a distance. (b) To have much weight or influence. -- To go for. (a) To go in quest of. (b) To represent; to pass for.

To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets. [Low] L'Estrange.

To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp. Supper gobbled up in haste. Swift.

Literally, a fly swallower; hence, once who keeps his mouth open; a boor; a silly and credulous person.

That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl. And all the way, most like a brutish beast,gorge, that all did him detest. Spenser.

To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. Shak.

strong curved spade used in digging canals. -- Grafting wax, a composition of rosin, beeswax tallow, etc., used in binding up the wounds of newly grafted trees.

phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself. Chaucer. The swain replied, "It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise." Pope.

To swallow greedily; to gulp down. [Obs.]

That which swallows; the gullet. [Obs.] Shak.

To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow. He does not swallow, but he gulps it down. Cowper. The old man . . . glibly gulped down the whole narrative. Fielding. To gulp up, to throw up from the stomach; to disgorge.

To swallow up. [Obs.]