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Lest that. [Obs.] Spenser.

Commission; fiat; order; decree. [Obs.] Spenser.

To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show. You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot. Arbuthnot. One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. Pope.

In a flaunting way.

Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim. "The gaunt mastiff." Pope. A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and fleshless across our land. Nichols.

A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying. To take up the gauntlet, to accept a challenge. -- To throw down the gauntlet, to offer or send a challenge. The gauntlet or glove was thrown down by the knight challenging, and was taken up by the one who accepted the challenge; -- hence the phrases.…

Wearing a gauntlet.

In a gaunt manner; meagerly.

A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere. Sir W. Scott.

The aunt of one's father or mother.

See Grant. Chaucer.

o visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. Shak. Those cares that haunt the court and town. Swift.

s of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost. All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses. Longfellow.

One who, or that which, haunts.

Haunted by devils; hellish. Dryden.

To ride on a jaunting car. Jaunting car, a kind of low-set open vehicle, used in Ireland, in which the passengers ride sidewise, sitting back to back. [Written also jaunty car.] Thackeray.

In a jaunty manner.

The quality of being jaunty. That jauntiness of air I was once master of. Addison.

Airy; showy; finical; hence, characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.

Peradventure. See Paraventure. [Obs.] Chaucer.