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; conformed to God's law; devout; righteous; as, a godly life. For godly sorrow worketh repentance. 2 Cor. vii. 10.

ock and large rounded leaves. -- Golden sulphide, or sulphuret, of antimony (Chem.), the pentasulphide of antimony, a golden or orange yellow powder. -- Golden warbler (Zoöl.), a common American wood warbler (Dendroica æstiva); -- called also blue-eyed yellow warbler, garden warbler, and summer yellow bird. -- Golde…

The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.

.), the greenfinch. -- Green looper (Zoöl.), the cankerworm. -- Green marble (Min.), serpentine. -- Green mineral, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment. See Greengill. -- Green monkey (Zoöl.) a West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus callitrichus), very commonly tamed, and trained to perform tricks. It w…

A plant (Aristolochia anguicida) of Carthagena, used as an antidote to serpent bites. Lindley.

it with ornaments, regularly spaced, like a diminutive battlement. -- Gutter plane, a carpenter's plane with a rounded bottom for planing out gutters. -- Gutter snipe, a neglected boy running at large; a street Arab. [Slang] -- Gutter stick (Printing), one of the pieces of furniture which separate pages in a form.…

ng instrument for making notches; esp., one used for notching pine trees in collecting turpentine; a hack.

The long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon.

ivity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad. That the spent earth may gather heart again. Dryden.

st. Chaucer. But all that he might of his friendes hente On bookes and on learning he it spente. Chaucer.

terary character, date, authorship, etc., of any writing; as, the higher criticism of the Pentateuch. Called also historical criticism.

The noise made by a serpent. But hiss for hiss returned with forked tongue. Milton.

t. iii. In vain he seeks, that having can not hold. Spenser. France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue, . . . A fasting tiger safer by the tooth, Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold. Shak.

ed me in a humble shed. Young. House your choicest carnations, or rather set them under a penthouse. Evelyn.

ke offense. THis senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff at the doctrine of repentance. South.

y; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal. "Hyaline spaces." Carpenter.

A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster. Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. Milton.…

speech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the composition of the sentence. Carpenter.

The condition of being impenitent; failure or refusal to repent; hardness of heart. He will advance from one degree of wickedness and impenitence to another. Rogers.

Not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; of a hard heart. "They . . . died impenitent." Milton. "A careless and impenitent heart." Bp. Hall.