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A person or thing fondled or caressed; one treated with foolish or doting affection. Fondlings are in danger to be made fools. L'Estrange.

To bungle; to manage awkwardly; to treat or play unskillfully; as, to foozle a stroke in golf.

Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being. We take a falling meteor for a star. Cowley. If a man can be fully assured of anything for a truth, without having examined, what is there that he may not embrace for truLocke. Most of our ingenious young men take…

To treat with consideration or indulgence. Forbearing one another in love. Eph. iv. 2.

Cited before; quoted in a foregoing part of the treatise or essay.

To treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect. Can a woman forget her sucking child . . . Yes, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Is. xlix. 15. To forget one's self. (a) To become unmindful of one's own personality; to be lost in thought. (b) To be entirely unselfish. (c) To be guilty of what…

from, or, rarely, by of. Princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties. Bp. Burnet.

res which can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment. Raymond.

To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room. She fumed the temple with an odorous flame. Dryden.

Relating to Galen or to his principles and method of treating diseases. Dunglison. Galenic pharmacy, that branch of pharmacy which relates to the preparation of medicines by infusion, decoction, etc., as distinguished from those which are chemically prepared.

The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents.

A treatise on galvanism, or a description of its phenomena.

f the gantlet; hence, to go through the ordeal of severe criticism or controversy, or ill-treatment at many hands. Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights. Palfrey.

The art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids. Coxe.

The science which treats of the structure and functions of the stomach; a treatise of the stomach.

To coat, or otherwise treat, with gelatin.

s at Geneva and signed in 1864, establishing new and more humane regulation regarding the treatment of the sick and wounded and the status of those who minister to them in war. Ambulances and military hospitals are made neutral, and this condition affects physicians, chaplains, nurses, and the ambulance corps. Great Br…

That part of geology which treats of the materials of the earth's structure, and its general exterior and interior constitution.

The branch of science which treats of the formation of the earth.

The science which treats of the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, fetures, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited.