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Uncertainty; instability. Johnson.

The money or price paid for fulling or cleansing cloth. Johnson.

ess; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear. Shak. Furbish new the name of John a Gaunt. Shak.

by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world. [Also gansa.] Johnson.

To fit with fetters. [Cant] Johnson.

A cuckoo. Johnson.

A small tub or lading vessel. [Prov. Eng.] Johnson.

A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority. Johnson.

To cheat; trick, or gull. [Obs.] Johnson.

Capability of being generated. Johnstone.

Gayly; cheerfully. Johnson.

A kind of blue color. Johnson.

ed into nobility, gentry, and yeomanry, and families are either noble, gentle, or simple. Johnson's Cyc. The studies wherein our noble and gentle youth ought to bestow their time. Milton.

Pertaining to gerocomy. Dr. John Smith.

Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have. Johnson. Thou hast got the face of man. Herbert.

A garfish. Johnson.

To bind as with a girth. [R.] Johnson.

Glairy. John Georgy (1766).

A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is "no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding." The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandema…

A claymore. Johnson.