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Tolerably fair. [Colloq.] W. D. Howells.

th, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.

Flemish. [Obs.]

ly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil. Bp. Horne.

One who flourishes.

, adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.

Same as Garish, Garishly, Garishness.

Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention. "The garish sun." "A garish flag." Shak. "In . . . garish colors." Asham. "The garish day." J. H. Newman. Garish like the laughters of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor.

nguage; unmeaning words; jargon. He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go; All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to known. Drayton. Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with. Hawthorne.

Patched; mean. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

To heal. [Obs.] Spenser.

Like a hare. [R.] Huloet.

The quality of being imperishable: indstructibility. "The imperishability of the universe." Milman.

Not perisha ble; not subject to decay; indestructible; enduringpermanently; as, an imperishable monument; imperishable renown. -- Im*per"ish*a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*per"ish*a*bly, adv.

To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.

One who, or that which, impoverishes.

The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty. Sir W. Scott.

Of or pertaining to Ireland or to its inhabitants; produced in Ireland. Irish elk. (Zoöl.) See under Elk. -- Irish moss. (a) (Bot.) Carrageen. (b) A preparation of the same made into a blanc mange. -- Irish poplin. See Poplin. -- Irish potato, the ordinary white potato, so called because it is a favorite article of…

A native of Ireland who has become an American citizen; also, a child or descendant of such a person.

A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish; an Hibernicism.