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An enticing look or glance. [Obs.] A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye. Beau. & Fl.

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

od's house. (a) An almshouse. [Obs.] (b) A church. -- God's penny, earnest penny. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. -- God's Sunday, Easter.

lf among a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceful stature and superior beauty. Addison.

Haste; ardent desire to go. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A beautiful bright-colored European finch (Carduelis elegans). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings. The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet Willi…

Beauty of form; grace; elegance; comeliness. Her goodliness was full of harmony to his eyes. Sir P. Sidney.

d also duck barnacle. See Barnacle, and Cirripedia. -- Goose cap, a silly person. [Obs.] Beau. & . -- Goose corn (Bot.), a coarse kind of rush (Juncus squarrosus). -- Goose feast, Michaelmas. [Colloq. Eng.] -- Goose flesh, a peculiar roughness of the skin produced by cold or fear; -- called also goose skin.goose pim…

An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. Hazlitt. I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. Longfellow.

Endowed with grace; beautiful; full of graces; honorable. Shak.

Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.

Abounding in beauty, loveliness, or amiability; graceful; excellent. Since the birth of Cain, the first male child, . . . There was not such a gracious creature born. Shak.

To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

To cheat or cozen; to overreach. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Greeting. [Obs.] F. Beaumont.

Same as Growthead. Beau. & Fl.

A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.

A beautiful Abyssinian monkey (Colobus guereza), having the body black, with a fringe of long, silky, white hair along the sides, and a tuft of the same at the end of the tail. The frontal band, cheeks, and chin are white.

Made sick by consciousness of guilt. "A guilt-sick conscience." Beau. c& El.