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Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.

To impair; to wear away; to diminish. By starts His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear. Shak.

A friend at court or in court, one disposed to act as a friend in a place of special opportunity or influence. -- To be friends with, to have friendly relations with. "He's . . . friends with Cæsar." Shak. -- To make friends with, to become reconciled to or on friendly terms with. "Having now made friends with the At…

Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune.

Obtained by, or appropriate to, economy; as, a frugal fortune. "Frugal fare." Dryden.

cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a tunnel.

Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform.

A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over. [Written also gavotte.]

Giddi; light; inconstant; wanton. [Obs.] "O giglot fortune!" Shak.

, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.

Pride; boastfulness; arrogance. In glory of thy fortunes. Chapman.

smoothly. Chaucer. A false, glozing parasite. South. So glozed the tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.

h a surgical operation or a tedious illness. (c) To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune. (d) To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [Slang]

Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune.

will resort to the old place. Lord Eldon. -- In good time. (a) Promptly; punctually; opportunely; not too soon nor too late. (b) (Mus.) Correctly; in proper time. -- To hold good, to remain true or valid; to be operative; to remain in force or effect; as, his promise holds good; the condition still holds good. -- To…

Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Grace"less*ly, adv. -- Grace"less-ness, n.

Fortunately; luckily. [Obs.] Chaucer.

sing. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity. This grated harder upon the hearts of men. South.

ossa pinguinalis) whose larva eats greasy cloth, etc. -- Grease wood (Bot.), a scraggy, stunted, and somewhat prickly shrub (Sarcobatus vermiculatus) of the Spinach family, very abundant in alkaline valleys from the upper Missouri to California. The name is also applied to other plants of the same family, as several s…