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ess; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers. How gay with all the accouterments of war!

To extol; to laud. [Obs.] Greatly advancing his gay chivalry. Spenser.

ue. -- Ague fit, a fit of the ague. Shak. -- Ague spell, a spell or charm against ague. Gay. -- Ague tree, the sassafras, -- sometimes so called from the use of its root formerly, in cases of ague. [Obs.]

Lightness of spirits; gayety; levity; as, the airiness of young persons.

A thoughtless, gay person. [Obs.] "Slight airlings." B. Jonson.

Gay; cheerful; sprightly. [Obs.] Bacon.

A woman who keeps an alehouse. Gay.

All as his straying flock he fed. Spenser. A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined. Gay. All to, or All-to. In such phrases as "all to rent," "all to break," "all-to frozen," etc., which are of frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to have commonly been regarded as forming a compound adverb, equ…

A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street. Gay.

Walking; moving from place to place. Gayton.

spen, or resembling it; made of aspen wood. Nor aspen leaves confess the gentlest breeze. Gay.

In a stooping or inclined position. Gay.

Born out of wedlock. Gay.

A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything. The ineffective bauble of an Indian pagod. Sheridan.

A kind of cloak or surtout. [Obs.] Johnson. Let the looped bavaroy the fop embrace. Gay.

my, or to give any notice, commonly of warning. No flaming beacons cast their blaze afar. Gay.

The fashionable world; people of fashion and gayety. Prior.

To wet or moisten. Gay.

To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. [Mostly obs.] "Our banns thrice bid !" Gay.

be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound. Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. Percival.