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To render gentile or gentlemanly; as, to gentilize your unworthy sones. [R.] Sylvester.

active; to adorn; to brighten. Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day. Trumbull.

dle. He girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab. 1 Kings xviii. 46. Gird up the loins of your mind. 1 Pet. i. 13. -- Girt up; prepared or equipped, as for a journey or for work, in allusion to the ancient custom of gathering the long flowing garments into the girdle and tightening it before any exertion; hence, adject…

to surrender. "Don't give up the ship." He has . . . given up For certain drops of salt, your city Rome. Shak.

ile blood. Dryden. He, glad of her attention gained. Milton. As we are now glad to behold your eyes. Shak. Glad am I that your highness is so armed. Shak. Glad on 't, glad of it. [Colloq.] Shak.

To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced". Shak. On me the curse aslope Glanced on the ground. Milton.

fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen. Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy. Tennison. What sorrows gloomed that parting day. Goldsmith.

no glory to swell in tyranny. Sir P. Sidney. Jewels lose their glory if neglected. Shak. Your sex's glory 't is to shine unknown. Young.

blushes, etc. Clad in a gown that glows with Tyrian rays. Dryden. And glow with shame of your proceedings. Shak.

contribute; -- often with the infinitive; as, this goes to show. Against right reason all your counsels go. Dryden. To master the foul flend there goeth some complement knowledge of theology. Sir W. Scott.

Characteristic of a goat; goatlike. Give your chaste body up to the embraces Of goatish lust. Massinger. -- Goat"ish*ly, adv. -- Goat"ish*ness, n.

ly; the same as. They who counsel ye to such a suppressing, do as good as bid ye suppress yourselves. Milton.

The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton.

le of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. How fares your Grace ! Shak.

In a gross or indelicate manner. [Obs.] You talk greasily; your lips grow foul. Shak.

Pride; haughtiness. [Obs.]It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon.

a beetle; -- called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith. Yet your butterfly was a grub. Shak.

tion or purpose; to cherish enviously. [Obs.] Perish they That grudge one thought against your majesty ! Shak.

with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc. The body of your discourse it sometime guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither. Shak.

in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler. I wish . . . you 'ld guide me to your sovereign's court. Shak.