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A queer old fellow; an old chap; an old woman. [Contemptuous, Slang or Dial.]

edness. Milton. When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Strom wind of the equinox. Longfellow.

d the body, as at the waist or belly; the circumference of anything. He's a lu sty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girth. Addison.

in haste His [Satan's] traveled steps. Milton. A glimmer, and then a gleam of light. Longfellow.

A live or glowing coal; a glede. [Archaic] Chaucer. Longfellow.

Knowing; wise; shrewd. [Old Slang] I said you were a gnostic fellow. Sir W. Scott.

13th century, translated and printed by Caxton in 1483, and partially paraphrased by Longfellow in a poem thus entitled. -- Golden marcasite tin. [Obs.] -- Golden mean, the way of wisdom and safety between extremes; sufficiency without excess; moderation. Angels guard him in the golden mean. Pope. -- Golden mole (Zoö…

en struck, a harsh and resounding noise. O'er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong. Longfellow.

Blackstone. (b) A valuable consideration, or one which will sustain a contract. -- Good fellow, a person of companionable qualities. [Familiar] -- Good folk, or Good people, fairies; brownies; pixies, etc. [Colloq. Eng. & Scot.] -- Good for nothing. (a) Of no value; useless; worthless. (b) Used substantively, an idle…

. Hazlitt. I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. Longfellow.

To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully. That fellow handles his bow like a crowkeeper. Shak.

Wild; giddy; volatile; heedless. "A mad hare-brained fellow." North (Plutarch). [Written also hairbrained.]

nd the hemlocks . . . Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Longfellow.

e ancient Norman hue and cry. "Harrow and well away!" Spenser. Harrow! alas! here lies my fellow slain. Chaucer.

Specifically, a tomahawk. Buried was the bloody hatchet. Longfellow.

frequented by a ghost. All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses. Longfellow.

e hearse a fruitful palm tree grows. Fairfax Who lies beneath this sculptured hearse. Longfellow.

Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; -- a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors. Dickens.

th. [Scot.] Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. Longfellow. Heather bell (Bot.), one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather (Erica Tetralix, and E. cinerea).

Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.