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Glum; sullen; sulky. [Colloq.] "He was glumpy enough." T. Hook.

Frowning; sulky; sullen. Sir W. Scott. -- n.

Havig a moist and adhesive or sticky surface, as a leaf or gland.

One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa.

To daub, as the hands or clothing, with gorm; to daub with anything sticky. [Prov. Eng.]

The European cuckoo; -- called also gawky.

m Italicum. Johnson grass, grazing aud hay. South and Southwest. Sorghum Halepense. Kentucky blue grass, pasture. Poa pratensis. Lyme grass, coarse hay. South. Elymus, several species. Manna grass, pasture and hay. Glyceria, several species. Meadow fescue, pasture and hay. Festuca elatior. Meadow foxtail, pasture, hay,…

Fat of body; bulky. [R.] Shak.

Zoöl.), a large and ferocious bear (Ursus horribilis) of Western North America and the Rocky Mountains. It is remarkable for the great length of its claws.

Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large. "A gross fat man." Shak. A gross body of horse under the Duke. Milton.

Cross; sulky; sullen. [Colloq.]

ful Abyssinian monkey (Colobus guereza), having the body black, with a fringe of long, silky, white hair along the sides, and a tuft of the same at the end of the tail. The frontal band, cheeks, and chin are white.

rnish maker's utensil for melting gum and mixing other ingredients. -- Gum resin, the milky juice of a plant solidified by exposure to air; one of certain inspissated saps, mixtures of, or having properties of, gum and resin; a resin containing more or less mucilaginous and gummy matter. -- Gum sandarac. See Sandarac…

A genus of leguminous plants; the Kentucky coffee tree. The leaves are cathartic, and the seeds a substitute for coffee.

A stackyard. [Prov. Eng.] Swift.

called hailstones. Thunder mixed with hail, Hail mixed with fire, must rend the Egyptian sky. Milton.

A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers.

An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color.

Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. Dryden.

In a hapless, unlucky manner.