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To become or grow green. Tennyson. By greening slope and singing flood. Whittier.

One who, or that which, grunts; specifically, a hog. "Bristled grunters." Tennyson.

to reward; to be a recompense for. [R.] Him we gave a costly bribe To guerdon silence. Tennyson.

ows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy. Shak. A gulf of ruin, swallowing gold. Tennyson.

-- Gum tree, the name given to several trees in America and Australia: (a) The black gum (Nyssa multiflora), one of the largest trees of the Southern States, bearing a small blue fruit, the favorite food of the opossum. Most of the large trees become hollow.

Gusty. [R.] A gustful April morn. Tennyson.

ng the ancients, exclusively appropriated to women. [Written also gyneceum, gynecium.] Tennyson.

tial; imperfect; as, a half dream; half knowledge. Assumed from thence a half consent. Tennyson. Half ape (Zoöl.), a lemur. -- Half back. (Football) See under 2d Back. -- Half bent, the first notch, for the sear point to enter, in the tumbler of a gunlock; the halfcock notch. -- Half binding, a style of bookbinding…

pressed and harass'd out with care. Addison. Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt. Tennyson.

Shelter; entertainment.[R.] Where can I get me harborage for the night Tennyson.

To hearken. Tennyson.

Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren. "Harvestless autumns." Tennyson.

to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy. Hooker. Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness. Tennyson.

into debt; to hate that anything should be wasted. I hate that he should linger here. Tennyson.

port. What shipping and what lading's in our haven. Shak. Their haven under the hill. Tennyson.

To lounge; to loiter. [Prov. Eng.] Tennyson.

ence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness. O'er the sky The silvery haze of summer drawn. Tennyson. Above the world's uncertain haze. Keble.

n hearing." Shak. They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave. Tennyson.

Of or pertaining to Helicon. "Heliconian honey." Tennyson.

ess he hath helmed. Shak. A wild wave . . . overbears the bark, And him that helms it. Tennyson.