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n a circle; -- a military formation used by the Romans, answering to the modern infantry square. Him round A globe of fiery seraphim inclosed. Milton. Globe amaranth (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gomphrena (G. globosa), bearing round heads of variously colored flowers, which long retain color when gathered. -- Globe an…

to deal roughly with. [Colloq.] -- To take up the glove, to accept a challenge or adopt a quarrel. -- To throw down the glove, to challenge to combat.

A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic or syenitic gneiss. Similar va…

he Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc.

p, a silly person. [Obs.] Beau. & . -- Goose corn (Bot.), a coarse kind of rush (Juncus squarrosus). -- Goose feast, Michaelmas. [Colloq. Eng.] -- Goose flesh, a peculiar roughness of the skin produced by cold or fear; -- called also goose skin.goose pimples and goose bumps -- Goose grass. (Bot.)

A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines.

shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.

A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefor in being destitute of a schistose structure.

A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.

To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist.

In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key; -- called also the hopper. Grove. Grasshopper engine, a steam engine having a working beam with its fulcrum at one end, the steam cylinder at the other end, and the connecting r…

The division of a design or draught into squares, in order the more easily to reproduce it in larger or smaller dimensions.

A design or draught which has been divided into squares, in order to reproduce it in other dimensions.

A crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of Cornwall and Saxony.

or malevolence; cherished malice, enmity, or dislike; ill will; an old cause of hatred or quarrel. Esau had conceived a mortal grudge and eumity against hie brother Jacob. South. The feeling may not be envy; it may not be imbittered by a grudge. I. Taylor.

ot including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull. [Written also gunnel.]

To deal in small wares. [R.] To haberdash in earth's base ware. Quarles.

The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated.

case where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.

A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face or hands.