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ality; to be lost in thought. (b) To be entirely unselfish. (c) To be guilty of what is unworthy of one; to lose one's dignity, temper, or self-control.

A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat.

Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument. Swift.

pon, as upon cake, metals, or glass. While with a hoary light she frosts the ground. Wordsworth.

Tending to defeat; fallacious. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

lutters and my memory fumbles. Chesterfield. Alas! how he fumbles about the domains. Wordsworth.

The track of a buck. Ainsworth.

Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless. "Futile theories." I. Taylor. His reasoning . . . was singularly futile. Macaulay.

A clog or patten. [Obs.] Nor were worthy [to] unbuckle his galoche. Chaucer.

A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy. [Slang, U. S.]

s of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome. Grainger.

An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. "An idle gaud." Shak.

A Venetian coin, worth about three English farthings, or one and a half cents. [Obs.]

Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wright. That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man. Latimer. Bever gear. See Bevel gear. -- Core gear, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See Mortise wheel, under Mortise. -- Expansion gear (Steam Engine), the arrangement…

To render gentile or gentlemanly; as, to gentilize your unworthy sones. [R.] Sylvester.

A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble. A heavy gewgaw called a crown. Dryden.

A ravine. See Gill a woody glen. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Wordsworth.

To be or become glad; to rejoice. The vast Pacific gladdens with the freight. Wordsworth.

. Prior. -- Glad"some*ly, adv. -- Glad"some*ness, n. Hours of perfect gladsomeness. Wordsworth.

nnel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice. The river glideth at his own sweet will. Wordsworth.