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A remark, observation, or criticism; gossip; discourse; talk. Their lavish comment when her name was named. Tennyson.

The relation of a godfather to a person. [Obs.] The relation of gossipred or compaternity by the cannon law is a spiritual affinity. Sir J. Da

sense; vacuity of mind. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray. Pope. The sins of emptiness, gossip, and spite. Tennyson.

A gadding, flirting girl. Gosson.

To frisk; to skip; to caper. [Obs. Scot.] "The flisking flies." Gosson.

To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. [Scot.] Jamieson. Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool. Wilson.

A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.

A gossip. [Obs.] Chaucer.

frequently. Those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar. Milton. Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise. Roscommon. To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey. Gay.

One of the Herbivora. P. H. Gosse.

To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip. "Thou janglest as a jay." Chaucer.

To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab. [Obs.] Chaucer.

I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge. I will leave you now to your gossiplike humor. Shak.

n. -- Live box, a cell for holding living objects under microscopical examination. P. H. Gosse. -- Live feathers, feathers which have been plucked from the living bird, and are therefore stronger and more elastic. -- Live gang. (Sawing) See under Gang. -- Live grass (Bot.), a grass of the genus Eragrostis. -- Live…

of cloth, of a firm texture, originally brought from China, made of a species of cotton (Gossypium religiosum) that is naturally of a brownish yellow color quite indestructible and permanent.

nt. -- Old wife. [In the senses b and cwritten also oldwife.] (a) A prating old woman; a gossip. Refuse profane and old wives' fables. 1 Tim. iv. 7.

n; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance. A hate of gossip parlance and of sway. Tennyson.

One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip.

second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth. E. W. Gosse.