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To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A kind of bur marigold (Bidens tripartita) found in wet places in Europe.

a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously. "Deeds so blackly grim and horrid." Feltham.

A pilgrim's staff.

Wet and dirty; begrimed. [Obs. or Dial.] Herrick.

A pilgrim's staff. [Written also burden.] Rom. of R.

or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections. Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott.

terbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas à Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made.

A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa.

ating furnace. Knight. Cockle hat, a hat ornamented with a cockleshell, the badge of a pilgrim. Shak. -- Cockle stairs, winding or spiral stairs.

The black grime or soot of coal. [Obs.] Burton.

e who has attained to a full knowledge. [Obs.] When I shall have dispatched this weary pilgrimage, and from a traveler shall come to be a comprehensor, farewell faith and welcome vision. Bp. Hall.

A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross. [Obs.]

ain goods; a person's company is in great demand. In 1678 came forth a second edition [Pilgrim's Progress] with additions; and the demand became immense. Macaulay.

ges of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars. Remarked by Grimaldi (1665), and referred by him to a property of light which he called diffraction. Whewell. Diffraction grating. (Optics) See under Grating. -- Diffraction spectrum. (Optics) See under Spectrum.

ff, yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as much to be shunned. Milton. It ["Pilgrim's Progress"] has been done into verse: it has been done into modern English. Macaulay.

Sullen or obstinate determination; grim resolution or persistence.

Agrimony (Agrimonia Eupatoria). [Obs.] Chaucer.

lently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time. Eight days elapsed; at length a pilgrim came. Hoole.

The figure or shell of an escalop, considered as a sign that the bearer had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Hence: