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See Fit a song. [Archaic]

A cable. [Archaic] Chapman.

Splendor of appearance; ostentatious finery. [Archaic] Guess the gallantry of our church by this . . . when the desk whereon the priest read was inlaid with plates of silver. Fuller.

A native of Hindostan; a Hindoo. [Archaic]

Gesture; bearing; deportment. [Archaic] Through his heroic grace and honorable gest. Spenser.

To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan. [Obs. or Archaic] "He gan to pray." Chaucer.

A live coal. See Gleed. [Archaic]

A live coal. [Archaic] The cruel ire, red as any glede. Chaucer.

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

A foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word requiring explanation. [Obs.]

author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialect, art, or science, explaining archaic, technical, or other uncommon words.

A knot or gnarl in wood; hence, a tough, thickset man; -- written also gnarr. [Archaic] He was . . . a thick gnarre. Chaucer.

A husband; the master of a house or family; -- often used in speaking familiarly. [Archaic] Chaucer. Say ye to the goodman of the house, . . . Where is the guest-chamber Mark xiv. 14.

The mistress of a house. [Archaic] Robynson (More's Utopia).

Inhabited. [Archaic] Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women. Addison.

Holiness; sanctity; sacred oath; sacred things; sanctuary; -- used chiefly in oaths. [Archaic] So God me help and halidom. Piers Plowman. By my halidom, I was fast asleep. Shak.

, 2d pers. sing. pres. of. Fave, contr. of havest. [Archaic]

To hasten; to hurry. [Archaic] I 'll haste the writer. Shak. They were troubled and hasted away. Ps. xlviii. 5.

Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent. [Archaic or R.] And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's conquest. Dryden.

Has. [Archaic.]