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Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; splendid; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good ! Milton.

wnies; pixies, etc. [Colloq. Eng. & Scot.] -- Good for nothing. (a) Of no value; useless; worthless. (b) Used substantively, an idle, worthless person. My father always said I was born to be a good for nothing. Ld. Lytton. -- Good Friday, the Friday of Holy Week, kept in some churches as a fast, in memoory of our Savio…

To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel. Ainsworth.

Worthy of gratulation. [Obs.] There's more behind that is more gratulate. Shak.

An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon. Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day. That coats thy life, my gallant gray. Sir W. Scott.

A small silver coin and money of account of Germany, worth about two cents. It is not included in the new monetary system of the empire.

Worthy of reward. Sir G. Buck.

The reward given to a guide for services. [R.] Ainsworth.

A Dutch silver coin worth about forty cents; -- called also florin and gulden.

A cod salted and dried. Ainsworth.

bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence. A bound of graceful hardihood. Wordsworth. It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to iniquity. Buckminster.

Timorous; timid; easily frightened. Ainsworth.

The pope's principal harvest was in the jubilee. Fuller. The harvest of a quiet eye. Wordsworth. Harvest fish (Zoöl.), a marine fish of the Southern United States (Stromateus alepidotus); -- called whiting in Virginia. Also applied to the dollar fish. -- Harvest fly (Zoöl.), an hemipterous insect of the genus Cicada,…

A flood gate; a a sluice gate. Ainsworth.

somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent. "A tender, hazy brightness." Wordsworth.

ne in the heart of France. Shak. Peace subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation. Wordsworth.

himself hath a heavy reckoning to make. Shak. Sent hither to impart the heavy news. Wordsworth. Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence. Shak.

To form a hem or border to; to fold and sew down the edge of. Wordsworth.

Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.

hear and answer such high things. Shak. Plain living and high thinking are no more. Wordsworth.