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p. p. of Forget.

The condition or quality of being fortunate; good luck; success; happiness.

p. p. of Foryete. Chaucer.

p. p. of Fight. [Archaic]

Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox. [Obs.] Wright.

b with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify. More frightened than hurt. Old Proverb.

Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.

A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europæus).

p. p. of Get. Chaucer.

d, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars.

The viscid, tenacious substance which gives adhesiveness to dough.

Gilded. [Obs.]

p. p. of Get.

grandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand. [R.] A minister's [business] is to greaten and exalt [his king]. Ken.

To hearten; to encourage; to incite. [Obs.] Spenser.

push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. Ps. lv. 8.

One who hastens.

To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak.

One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. W. Browne.

To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint. "To heighten our confusion." Addison. An aspect of mystery which was easily heightened to the miraculous. Hawthorne.…