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To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink. I drank . . . so much wine that I was almost foxed. Pepys.

a yellowish or reddish brown color; -- applied sometimes to paintings when they have too much of this color.

gnature denoting that a letter or other mail matter is to free of postage. I have said so much, that, if I had not a frank, I must burn my letter and begin again. Cowper.

n (likened to a frontlet). [R. & Poetic] What makes that frontlet on Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown. Shak.

Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile. Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and of so uncertain purchase. Jer. Taylor.

To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over. I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers. Shak.

To a greater distance; in addition; moreover. See Farther. Carries us, I know not how much further, into familiar company. M. Arnold. They sdvanced us far as Eleusis and Thria; but no further. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Further off, not so near; apart by a greater distance.

e, to run wild; to be uncontrolled. "The gadding vine." Milton. Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way Jer. ii. 36.

Going about much, needlessly or without purpose. Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets. Bacon. The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. Tennyson. Gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.

hotchpotch. The Mahometan religion, which, being a gallimaufry made up of many, partakes much of the Jewish. South.

A disease of young poultry and other birds, attended with much gaping. It is caused by a parasitic nematode worm (Syngamus trachealis), in the windpipe, which obstructs the breathing. See Gapeworm.

Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious. The most garrulous people on earth. De Quincey.

re and sympathy; enlivening; kindly; as, she was of a cheerful and genial disposition. So much I feel my genial spirits droop. Milton.

Courtesy; civility; complaisance. [Obs.] To show us so much gentry and good will. Shak.

and harder. It is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy packfong. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. -- German steel (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel.…

A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles.

The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine. Ginger beer or ale, a mild beer impregnated with ginger. -- Ginger cordial, a liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy. -- Ginger pop. See Ginger beer (above). -- Ginger w…

feet from the hoofs to the top of the head. Its neck is very long, and its fore legs are much longer than its hind legs.

ur. The former is used figuratively, of the gift of fascination peculiar to women. It had much of glamour might To make a lady seem a knight. Sir W. Scott.

The contents of a glass; as much of anything as a glass will hold.