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Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.

out, to back out in a cowardly fashion. [Colloq.] To funk right out o' political strife. Lowell (Biglow Papers).

o draw a straight furrow, to live correctly; not to deviate from the right line of duty. Lowell.

One who is unduly anxious about trifles. [R.] I am a fuss and I don't deny it. W. D. Howell.

Without prospect of betterment in the future. W. D. Howells.

Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome. Grainger.

To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See Garnishee, v. t. Cowell.

Tribute; toll; custom. [Obs.] See Gabel. Cowell.

thout issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent. Cowell.

ning to nativities; calculated by astrologers; showing position of stars at one's birth. Howell.

equent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final el…

To transform into a goblin. [R.] Lowell.

A small traingular piece of land. Cowell.

State of being gracilent; slenderness. Milman. "Youthful gracility." W. D. Howells.

egarious; belonging to the herd or common sort; common. [Obs.] "The gregarian soldiers." Howell.

To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances. How inly sorrow gripes his soul. Shak.

to close and adhere; to become united by growth, as flesh or the bark of a tree severed. Howells.

A board, as upon a guidepost having upon it directions or information as to the road. Lowell.

In Sanskrit grammar, a lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, e, by prefixing an a element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages.

An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.