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A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap. Johnson.

One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person. Camden.

Not wanting in any essential quality; complete, entire; perfect; adequate; as, a full narrative; a person of full age; a full stop; a full face; the full moon. It came to pass, at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed. Gen. xii. 1. The man commands Like a full soldier. Shak. I can not Request a fuller satisfa…

Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. [Obs.] "Fulsome ewes." Shak. -- Ful"some*ly, adv. -- Ful"some*ness, n. Dryden.

Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton. [Obs.]

d. Why is my neighbor's wife so gay Chaucer. A bevy of fair women, richly gay In gems and wanton dressMilton.

A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.

Giddi; light; inconstant; wanton. [Obs.] "O giglot fortune!" Shak.

A wanton; a lascivious or light, giddy girl. [Obs.] The giglet is willful, and is running upon her fate. Sir W. Scott.

A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl. "Each Jack with his Gill." B. Jonson.

A girl; esp., a wanton; a gill. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the eyes. "In his glassy eye." Byron. Glassy feldspar (Min.), a variety of orthoclase; sanidine.

smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech. I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not. Shak.

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

rchaic] At them he gan to rear his bristles strong, And felly gnarre. Spenser. A thousand wants Gnarr at the heels of men. Tennison.

e a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See Mosquito.

Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. "In a graceless age." Milton.

Wanting grapes or the flavor of grapes.

n growing grass or herbage. The cackling goose, Close grazer, finds wherewith to ease her want. J. Philips.

Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.