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cheerfulness; having the appearance of gayety; pleasing. Of opening heaven they sung, and gladsome day. Prior. -- Glad"some*ly, adv. -- Glad"some*ness, n. Hours of perfect gladsomeness. Wordsworth.

A four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two inside seats, calash top, and seats for driver and footman.

See Gladen.

To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently. [Obs.] Digladiating like Æschines and Demosthenes. Hales.

Act of digladiating. [Obs.] "Sore digladiations and contest." Evelyn.

and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida. [U. S.]

The bright reflection of the moon's light on an expanse of water. [Poetic]

Excessively or unduly glad.

To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson.

Joy; gladsomeness.

ered to choose among. My decided preference is for the fourth and last of thalternatives. Gladstone.

Human nature. [R.] Gladstone.

lently apprehended it. Fuller. The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them. Gladstone.

ehensive of evils as a distance. Tillotson. Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives. Gladstone.

Determination; decision; arbitration. The arbitrament of time. Everett. Gladly at this moment would MacIvor have put their quarrel to personal arbitrament. Sir W. Scott.

The area in the central part of an amphitheater, in which the gladiators fought and other shows were exhibited; -- so called because it was covered with sand.

attie. My palfrey eyed them askance. Landor. Both . . . were viewed askance by authority. Gladstone.

Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy. An then at last our bliss Full and perfect is. Milton.

Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton.

l; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices. Bottom glade, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale. Milton. -Bottom grass, grass growing on bottom lands. -- Bottom land. See 1st Bottom, n., 7.