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r parading one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of egoism. His excessive egotism, which filled all objects with himself. Hazlitt.

One addicted to egotism; one who speaks much of himself or magnifies his own achievements or affairs.

Addicted to, or manifesting, egotism.

With egotism.

To talk or write as an egotist. Cowper.

A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.

Pertaining to, or derived from, ergot; as, ergotic acid.

An extract made from ergot.

A powerful astringent alkaloid extracted from ergot as a brown, amorphous, bitter substance. It is used to produce contraction of the uterus.

A diseased condition produced by eating rye affected with the ergot fungus.

Affected with the ergot fungus; as, ergotized rye.

urpose of removing any foreign substance that obstructs the passage. [Written also oesophagotomy.]

A bassoon. See Fagotto.

called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot.

A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight.

imp. & p. p. of Forget.

p. p. of Forget.

See Gigot. [Obs.] Chapman.

A small piece of flesh; a slice. [Obs.] The rest in giggots cut, they spit. Chapman.

Calvary. See the Note under Calvary.