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Causing to gravitate; tending to a center. Coleridge.

rly; cruel; frightful; horrible. Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking. Shak . The ridges of grim war. Milton.

ground, and without floor or benches. No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh. Coleridge.

, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge.

gulled into rebellion, armed. Dryden. I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service. Coleridge.

To make in the throat; to gutturalize. [R.] For which the Germans gutturize a sound. Coleridge.

the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened.

A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout. [Cant]

A convoluted ridge between grooves; a convolution; as, the gyri of the brain; the gyri of brain coral. See Brain.

asuring the harmonic relations of sounds. It is often a monochord furnished with movable bridges.

ificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched. Paley. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not. Jer. xvii. 11. For the hens do not sit upon the eggs; but by keeping them in a certain equal heat they [the husbandmen] bring life into them and hatch them. Robynson (More's Utopia).…

A gunner's case or bag used carry cartridges from the ammunition chest to the piece in loading.

To originate; to spring; to have its A broad river, that heads in the great Blue Ridge. Adair.

A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence. Tusser.

lk too much. Dryden. You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question. Coleridge. Herd's grass (Bot.), one of several species of grass, highly esteemed for hay. See under Grass.

A female hermit. Coleridge.

neous; contrariety. The difference, indeed the heterogeneity, of the two may be felt. Coleridge.

| billows, Nothing be- | fore and | nothing be- | hind but the | sky and the | ocean. Coleridge.

The worship of saints or sacred things. [R.] Coleridge.

are easily taught to speak many words. [Written also hill mynah.] See Myna. -- Hill partridge (Zoöl.), a partridge of the genus Aborophila, of which numerous species in habit Southern Asia and the East Indies. -- Hill tit (Zoöl.), one of numerous species of small Asiatic singing birds of the family Leiotrichidæ. Man…