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sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king. Hayward.

Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas. Your coarse, foggy, drowsy conceit. Hayward.

to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously. A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm! Hayward. Our old English word forsooth has been changed for the French madam. Guardian.

e state of being fresh. The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.

cision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh. Grievously gashed or gored to death. Hayward.

. -- To give ear to. See under Ear. -- To give forth, to give out; to publish; to tell. Hayward. -- To give ground. See under Ground, n. -- To give the hand, to pledge friendship or faith. -- To give the hand of, to espouse; to bestow in marriage. -- To give the head. See under Head, n. -- To give in. (a) To aba…

A writer of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. Hayward.

Temper; natural disposition; inclination. [Obs.] Brothers . . . not united in grain. Hayward.

Small shot which scatter like hailstones. [Obs.] Hayward.

A process of hardening the face of steel, as armor plates, invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey, consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued pressure at a very high heat, and then to a violent chilling, as by a…

or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity. Hostility being thus suspended with France. Hayward.

Great; excessive; grievous. [Obs.] Hayward. Immortal flowers, imortelles; everlastings.

ency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples. Hayward. O, impotence of mind in body strong! Milton.

light disorder or illness. Rather as an indisposition in health than as any set sickness. Hayward.

t; that, if he did violate any part of his oath, the people should owe him no allegiance. Hayward.

Liable to trial in a court of justice. [Obs.] Hayward.

store. Like a pedant that keeps a school. Shak. Every one of them kept house by himself. Hayward.

t; a clown. [Obs.] The country knuffs, Hob, Dick, and Hick, With clubs and clouted shoon. Hayward.

In a brisk, active, or animated manner; briskly; vigorously. Hayward.

hor esteems it to be a maim in history that the acts of Parliament should not be recited. Hayward.