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One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types. Fonder's dust. Same as Facing, 4. -- Founder's sand, a kind of sand suitable for purposes of molding.

vilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary. Churches and mobasteries in Spain are franchises for criminals. London Encyc.

Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master.

The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries.

A monastery; a convent of friars. Drugdale.

Ps. cxlv. 199. Here Nature seems fulfilled in all her ends. Milton. Servants must their masters' minds fulfill. Shak.

Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired. Sir P. Sidney.

The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster. Gwilt.

e ocean gains on the land. (b) To obtain influence with. (c) To win ground upon; to move faster than, as in a race or contest. (d) To get the better of; to have the advantage of. The English have not only gained upon the Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice itself. Addison. My good behavior had so fa…

drill, a drilling machine having a number of drills driven from a common shaft. -- Gang master, a master or employer of a gang of workmen. -- Gang plank. See Gang board (above). -- Gang plow. See Gang cultivator (above). -- Gang press, a press for operating upon a pile or row of objects separated by intervening pla…

A native of Gascony; a boaster; a bully. See Gasconade.

A great boaster; a blusterer.

One of the Gastropoda. [Written also gasteropod.]

body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca. [Written also Gasteropoda.]

Plaster as used in Persian architecture and decorative art.

The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.

Plaster of Paris, or gypsum, esp. as prepared for use in painting, or in making bas-reliefs and the like; by extension, a plasterlike or pasty material spread upon a surface to fit it for painting or gilding, or a surface so prepared.

An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies. [Written also ghole .] Moore.

A boaster. [Obs.] Greene.

A boaster. [Obs.] Fuller.