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A four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two inside seats, calash top, and seats for driver and footman.

ading. (b) To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will not go on. -- To go all fours, to correspond exactly, point for point. It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours. Macaulay. -- To go out. (a) To issue forth from a place. (b) To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition. There are other men fit…

Gold solder, a kind of solder, often containing twelve parts of gold, two of silver, and four of copper. -- Gold stick, the colonel of a regiment of English lifeguards, who attends his sovereign on state occasions; -- so called from the gilt rod presented to him by the sovereign when he receives his commission as col…

, in Vocab. -- Golden rose (R. C. Ch.), a gold or gilded rose blessed by the pope on the fourth Sunday in Lent, and sent to some church or person in recognition of special services rendered to the Holy See. -- Golden rule. (a) The rule of doing as we would have others do to us. Cf. Luke vi. 31. (b) The rule of propor…

One of the four narratives of the life and death of Jesus Christ, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

One of the four evangelists. Rom. of R. Mark the gospeler was the ghostly son of Peter in baptism. Wyclif.

of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade. At grade, on the same level; -- said of the crossing of a railroad with another railroad or a highway, when they are on the same level at the point of crossing. -- Down grade,…

An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points.

A small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; -- written also grapline, and crapnel.

ce of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction. He bad lain in the grave four days. John xi. 17. Grave wax, adipocere.

e Texas sparrow (Embernagra rufivirgata), in which the general color is olive green, with four rufous stripes on the head.

An old English silver coin, equal to four pence.

g to a person, and not to a manor. -- A great gross, twelve gross; one hundred and forty-four dozen. -- By the gross, by the quantity; at wholesale. -- Common in gross. (Law) See under Common, n. -- In the gross, In gross, in the bulk, or the undivided whole; all parts taken together.

A four-wheeled cab. [Slang, Eng.]

Part; side; behalf. [Obs.] Wyclif. The four halves of the house. Chaucer.

A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.

A hand's breadth; four inches. [Obs.] Knap the tongs together about a handful from the bottom. Bacon.

so Hansa and Hanseatic league, held its first diet in 1260, and was maintained for nearly four hundred years. At one time the league comprised eighty-five cities. Its remnants, Lübeck, Hamburg, and Bremen, are free cities, and are still frequently called Hanse towns.

shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four evangelists.

A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.