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ithout issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent. Cowell.

sh hours." Rowe. "Giddy chance." Dryden. Young heads are giddy and young hearts are warm. Cowper.

he zodiac; also, the equator. [Poetic] Bacon. From the world's girdle to the frozen pole. Cowper. That gems the starry girdle of the year. Campbell.

An incidental or passing thought or allusion. How fleet is a glance of the mind. Cowper.

Like gloss; specious. Cowley.

to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl. Thackeray.

A small traingular piece of land. Cowell.

Furze. See Furze. The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse. Cowper. Gorse bird (Zoöl.), the European linnet; -- called also gorse hatcher. [Prov. Eng.] -- Gorse chat (Zoöl.), the winchat. -- Gorse duck, the corncrake; -- called also grass drake, land drake, and corn drake.

rows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii.

ply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. A field or two to graze his cows. Swift.

ve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper,

Artificial and ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto. Cowper.

Lying prone; low; debased. [Written also grovelling.] "A groveling creature." Cowper.

s; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow. He does not swallow, but he gulps it down. Cowper. The old man . . . glibly gulped down the whole narrative. Fielding. To gulp up, to throw up from the stomach; to disgorge.

To carry in a hackney coach. Cowper.

ecause the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house. Cowell.

animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the fore legs; as, to hamshackle a horse or cow; hence, to bind or restrain; to curb.

or inclined manner or position instead of erect; to droop; as, he hung his head in shame. Cowslips wan that hang the pensive head. Milton. To hang down, to let fall below the proper position; to bend down; to decline; as, to hang down the head, or, elliptically, to hang the head. -- To hang fire (Mil.), to be slow in…

Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance. Spenser. Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever Of hardiness is mother. Shak. They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king. Clarendon.

or kneeling on in church, or for home use. And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorced. Cowper.