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; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose. Barrow.

To treat with buffoonery. Glanvill.

A slight remembrance; a trace. We retain a catch of those pretty stories. Glanvill.

Light or worthless as chaff. Slight and chaffy opinion. Glanvill.

; as, to charge with fixed bayonets. Like your heroes of antiquity, he charges in iron. Glanvill. "Charge for the guns!" he said. Tennyson.

a quality whereby a heavy body descends, is an impertinent circle and teaches nothing. Glanvill.

cidentally. Of the fancy and intellect, the powers are only circumstantially different. Glanvill.

bstances when clanged or struck together. The broadsword's deadly clang, As if a thousand anvils rang. Sir W. Scott.

Habitually clean; pure; innocent. "Cleanly joys." Glanvill. Some plain but cleanly country maid. Dryden. Displays her cleanly platter on the board. Goldsmith.

Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent. Glanvill.

To join together. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Joint efficiency; coöperation. Glanvill.

r and fore part of the cap to a great height. Or under high commodes, with looks erect. Granville.

Of or pertaining to comparison. "The comparative faculty." Granvill.

A chamber of a multilocular shell. Glanvill.

ompactness of the parts resting together doth much confer to the strength of the union. Glanvill.

s situated on the Ganges, at the place where this river received a contributary stream. D'Anville (Trans. ).

gn; plan. [Obs.] Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric. Glanvill. Active to meet their contrivements. Sir G. Buck.

Frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association. Glanvill. "T is but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled. Byron.

; to lose heat. I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, the whilst his iron did on the anvil cool. Shak.