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Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.

Adapted for digging; -- said of the legs of certain insects.

Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis. Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath run To pluck the speckled foxgloves from their stem. W. Bro…

Tender. [Obs.] Deep indignation and compassion. Spenser.

or; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco. The fumes of new shorn hay. T. Warton. The fumes of undigested wine. Dryden.

ed style of writing; a kind of writing in which high- sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast. Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretched fustian. Addison.

To bind by pledge, or security; to engage. Great debts Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal, Hath left me gaged. Shak.

The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves.

he bile, or gall, is stored up, as secreted by the liver; the cholecystis. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus. -- Gall duct, a duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct, or the hepatic duct. -- Gall sickness, a remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands. Dunglison. -- Gall of the earth (Bot.), an herbaceous compos…

Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.

Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the gastric artery. Gastric digestion (Physiol.), the conversion of the albuminous portion of food in the stomach into soluble and diffusible products by the solvent action of gastric juice. -- Gastric fever (Med.), a fever attended with prominent gastric symptoms;…

Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of coelenterates.

A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over. [Written also gavotte.]

stor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.

Good extraction; dignity of birth. Macaulay. He . . . mines my gentility with my education. Shak.

hrase would be more germane to the matter. Shak. [An amendment] must be germane. Barclay (Digest).

everent gestures. Hooker. Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. Milton.

x one's self; to worry. [Low] Hudibras. -- To stick in one's gizzard, to be difficult of digestion; to be offensive. [Low]

he coast of Guinea, in West Africa. -- Gold cradle. (Mining) See Cradle, n., 7. -- Gold diggings, the places, or region, where gold is found by digging in sand and gravel from which it is separated by washing. -- Gold end, a fragment of broken gold or jewelry. -- Gold-end man. (a) A buyer of old gold or jewelry. (b…

nion; a familiar and customary acquaintance. [Obs.] My noble gossips, ye have been too prodigal. Shak.