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An advance of; farther onward, in place or time. The golden age . . . is before us. Carlyle.

t of every color. Robert Greene. Frog and lizard in holiday coats And turtle brave in his golden spots. Emerson.

y. Let a man that is a man consider that he is a fool that brawleth openly with his wife. Golden Boke.

A braid. [R.] Half lapped in glowing gauze and golden brede. Tennyson.

Embroidery. [Archaic] The golden broidery tender Milkah wove. Tickell.

pope's bulls, as if he should say universal particular; a Catholic schimatic. Milton. The Golden Bull, an edict or imperial constitution made by the emperor Charles IV. (1356), containing what became the fundamental law of the German empire; -- so called from its golden seal.

The golden plover.

wfoot, particularly R. bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare.

Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse. Golden cadence of poesy. Shak. If in any composition much attention was paid to the flow of the rhythm, it was said (at least in the 14th and 15th centuries) to be "prosed in faire cadence." Dr. Guest.

on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor. "Golden canoniec and beds of state." Dryden.

To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard. Foamed and champed the golden bit. Dryden.

substance obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of rosaniline. It dyes silk a fine golden-yellow color.

A South African mole of the genus Chrysochloris; the golden mole, the fur of which reflects brilliant metallic hues of green and gold.

That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown. The golden circuit on my head. Shak.

bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds. The goose let fall a golden egg With cackle and with clatter. Tennyson.

mpact; as applied to bodies; viscous; tenacious; not volatile, as applied to liquids. The golden globe being put into a press, . . . the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal. Locke.

To be convenient; to serve. [Obs.] When that is known and golden time convents. Shak.

r resting place. Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. Shak.

To interfere and cut off; to debar. [Obs.] To cross me from the golden time I look for. Shak.

(Zoöl.) See Acorn-shell. -- Crown side. See Crown office. -- Crown tax (Eccl. Hist.), a golden crown, or its value, which was required annually from the Jews by the king of Syria, in the time of the Maccabees. 1 Macc. x. 20. -- Crown wheel. See in the Vocabulary. -- Crown work. See in the Vocabulary. -- Pleas of t…