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A kind of pancake. See 1st Fraise. [Written also fraise.]

A sparing use; sparingness; as, frugality of praise.

fullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery. And lest the fulsome artifice should fail Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil. Cowper.

The incense of praise; inordinate flattery. To smother him with fumes and eulogies. Burton. In a fume, in ill temper, esp. from impatience.

Vapor raised in the process of fumigating.

A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; -- called also garran, and garron.

The rest for the tympan when raised.

A bud. From the joints of thy prolific stem A swelling knot is raised called a gem. Denham.

Fig.: Leadership; management. An artful stroke of generalship in Trim to raise a dust. Sterne.

To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar; to ennoble. [Obs.] Shak.

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

Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; splendid; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good ! Milton.

Praise, honor, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; honorable fame; renown. Glory to God in the highest. Luke ii. 14. Spread his glory through all countries wide. Spenser.

y or to loathing; over abundance; as, a glut of the market. A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence. Macaulay.

A process similar to etching, in which, by means of voltaic electricity, a raised copy of a drawing is made, so that it can be used to print from.

nus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (C. hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin.

To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor. He might, at his pleasure, grace or disgrace whom he would in court. Knolles.

Any member like a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like; a set raised over another. "The gradines of the amphitheeater." Layard.

A step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar. Cf. Superaltar, and Gradin.

To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.).