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To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress.

In a familiar manner.

Familiarity. [R.]

Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic. [Obs.] Milton.

Consisting of, or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages. Foliar gap (Bot.), an opening in the fibrovascular system of a stem at the point of origin of a leaf. -- Foliar trace (Bot.), a particular fibrovascular bundle passing down into the stem from a leaf.

A lively French and Italian dance.

A brisk, gay man. [Obs.] Selden is a galliard by himself. Cleveland.

Excessive gayety; merriment. [Obs.] The mirth and galliardise of company. Sir. T. Browne.

Gayety. [Obs.] Gayton.

A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs.

The satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards. Milman.

See Halyard.

an eruption of small, isolated, red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever.

Like millet seeds; as, a miliary eruption.

A thousand millions; -- called also billion. See Billion.

Of or pertaining to a mile, or to distance by miles; denoting a mile or miles. A milliary column, from which they used to compute the distance of all the cities and places of note. Evelyn.

Of or pertaining to the nobility. Fitzed. Hall.

A born beggar; a vagabond. [Obs.] Halliwell.

ossession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14. Hymns . . . that Christianity hath peculiar unto itself. Hooker.

The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity. Swift.