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A flower-shaped ornament, esp. one terminating an object or forming one of a series, as a knob of a cover to a dish, or a flower- shaped part in a necklace.

Finished at the ends with fleurs-de-lis; -- said esp. a cross so decorated.

Freshness; coolness. [R.] Dryden.

A French partisan soldier, or one belonging to a corps of detached light troops engaged in forays, skirmishes, scouting, etc.

A hairdresser.

A member of the Fronde.

imentary canal and air passages, and to the cavities connected with them; as, the gastropneumatic mucuos membranes.

The Marxian socialism and programme of reform through revolution as advocated by the French political leader Jules Basile Guesde (pron. ged) (1845- ). -- Guesd"ist (#), n. & a.

Greaves; armor for the legs. [Obs.] Spenser.

An instrument for measuring the specific gravity and ascertaining the quantity of sugar contained in must.

The great muscle of the buttock in man and most mammals, and the corresponding muscle in many lower animals.

Same as Glutæus.

mity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye. Milton.

a large house, among the ancients, exclusively appropriated to women. [Written also gyneceum, gynecium.] Tennyson.

See Gynæceum.

A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing; ichthyology.

Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance.

The first seven books of the Testament.

Unto this; up to this time; hereto.

On this; hereon.