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Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful. Chaucer. So woe-begone was he with pains of love. Fairfax.

Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago.

ation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.

ed; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.

A variety of pseudomorph which has undergone partial or complete change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is frequently an allomorph after pyrite. G. H. Williams.

ects, but it alters none. Pope. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Ps. lxxxix. 34.

Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott.

Stand off, or begone. [Obs.] Aroint thee, witch, the rump-fed ronyon cries. Shak.

The Charioteer, or Wagoner, a constellation in the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella.

a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, "He has gone to town," for, "He has gone to London."

Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase "Get thee gone."

Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.

ed; embarrassing. A long and awkward process. Macaulay. An awkward affair is one that has gone wrong, and is difficult to adjust. C. J. Smith.

Already past or gone; bygone. [R.] And flies unconscious o'er each backward year. Byron.

A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.

the related plant, Trigonella ornithopodioides, is also European.

Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.

Ye should have somewhat blenched him therewith, yet he might and would of likelihood have gone further. Sir T. More.

ne; as, brimstone matches. From his brimstone bed at break of day A-walking the devil has gone. Coleridge.

of a bully toward. For the last fortnight there have been prodigious shoals of volunteers gone over to bully the French, upon hearing the peace was just signing. Tatler.