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A dish made of fowls, veal, or other meat of small animals cut into pieces, and stewed in a gravy.

tant article of diet among Spanish- American peoples, being used as an ingredient of many dishes.

haris Morsus-ranæ), floating on still water and propagating itself by runners. It has roundish leaves and small white flowers.

A dish of anything fried.

To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over. I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers. Shak.

A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold. Smart.

To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan. [Obs.] Addison.

a, -- whence its name. The best kind is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beatiful reddish yellow. Taking internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic ad emetic. [Written also camboge.]

To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.

f the breath or voice; to laugh in a light, affected, or silly manner; to titter with childish levity. Giggling and laughing with all their might At the piteous hap of the fairy wight. J. R. Drake.

A kind of apple, of a roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core. [Written also gilliflower.] Clove gillflower, the clove pink. -- Marsh gillyflower, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi). -- Queen's, or Winter, gillyflower, damewort. -- Sea gillyflower, the thrift (Armeria vulgaris). -- W…

is usually milk white, bluish white, or sky blue; but in a bright light it reflects a reddish color.

Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.

Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate.

Golden, pheasant. (Zoöl.) See under Pheasant. -- Gold plate, a general name for vessels, dishes, cups, spoons, etc., made of gold. -- Gold of pleasure. Etym: [Name perhaps translated from Sp. oro-de- alegria.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Camelina, bearing yellow flowers. C. sativa is sometimes cultivated for the oil…

Decomposed rock, usually reddish or ferruginous (owing to oxidized pyrites), forming the upper part of a metallic vein.

rms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes.

See Grail., a dish.

A broad, open dish; a chalice; -- only used of the Holy Grail.

A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple. All in a robe of darkest grain. Milton. Doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colors of less value, then give' them…