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n, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of speech to. Marvell. The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hood winked. Maccaulay.

nterest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily. Thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion. Ezek. xxii. 12. Gaining twist, in rifled firearms, a twist of the grooves, which increases regularly from the breech to the muzzle. To gain on or upon. (a) To encroach on; as, the ocea…

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

es; in a bed sense, attention or courtesy designed to win criminal favors from a female; freedom of principle or practice with respect to female virtue; intrigue.

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

A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males.

To copulate; to breed. [R.] Shak.

Race; kind; family; breed; stock. Thy mother's of my generation; what's she, if I be a dog Shak.

Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address.

urage, courtesy, politeness of manner, a graceful and easy mien and behavior, etc.; good breeding.

Persons of gentle or good family and breeding. Etym: [Generally in the United States in the plural form.] Shak.

A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon.

People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry. Macaulay.

A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang. Conscience . . . is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels. Tillotson.

To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge. Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at widest to glut him. Shak.

Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing. "Glutton souls." Dryden. A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days. Fuller.

Gluttonous; greedy. Sir P. Sidney.

To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets. [Low] L'Estrange.

To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp. Supper gobbled up in haste. Swift.

woman never died after this, till she came to die for good and all. L'Estrange. -- Good breeding, polite or polished manners, formed by education; a polite education. Distinguished by good humor and good breeding. Macaulay. -- Good cheap, literally, good bargain; reasonably cheap. -- Good consideration (Law). (a) A c…