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Same as Frontal, 2.

A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.

Same as Electrotonus.

Fertilization of flowers by pollen from other flowers on the same plant.

A four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two inside seats, calash top, and seats for driver and footman.

A variety of the common hawthorn. Loudon.

Fig.: One who gluts himself. Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy. Granville.

Gluttonous; greedy. Sir P. Sidney.

To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to gormandize. Hallywell.

Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age. -- Glut"ton*ous*ly, adv. -- Glut"ton*ous*ness, n.

in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. Milton.

A seed of the grape.

A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus.

A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.

A grayish or greenish compact rock, composed of feldspar and augite, and allied to basalt.

A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc.

A grindstone. [Obs.]

A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed, for lack of courage, to suffer the Lacedæmonians to hold their noses to th…

See Grit, n., 4.

See under Gun.