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

the earth as a planet, of its shape, its size, its lines of latitude and longitude, its zones, and the phenomena due to to the earth's diurnal and annual motions. -- Physical geography treats of the conformation of the earth's surface, of the distribution of land and water, of minerals, plants, animals, etc., and app…

rotuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon. The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member. Wiseman.

The lining of a mine shaft with stones or bricks to prevent caving.

To inclose; to environ; to shut in. Those sleeping stones, That as a waist doth girdle you about. Shak.

Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery. [Prov. Eng.] Shingle, slates, and gliddery stones. R. D. Blackmore.

A glucoside found in licorice root (Glycyrrhiza), in monesia bark (Chrysophyllum), in the root of the walnut, etc., and extracted as a yellow, amorphous powder, of a bittersweet taste.

The art of engraving on precious stones.

Relating to glyptography, or the art of engraving on precious stones. [R.]

The art or process of engraving on precious stones. [R.]

; to wear or eat away by scraping or continuous biting with the teeth; to nibble at. His bones clean picked; his very bones they gnaw. Dryden.

A disease of cornstalks. See Corn fly, under Corn. Cout stones. See Chalkstone, n., 2.

Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped, not grained, in generous honesty, are but pale in goodness. Sir T. Browne.

r magnifying engravings, photographs, etc., usually having one large lens and two smaller ones.

ut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel. Ex. xxviii. 9.

Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

l, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones. Take the millstones, and grind meal. Is. xivii. 2.

In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices. [Local, U. S.] Raymond.

pecies of carnivorous beetles of the family Carabidæ, living mostly in burrows or under stones, etc. -- Ground chamber, a room on the ground floor. -- Ground cherry. (Bot.) (a) A genus (Physalis) of herbaceous plants having an inflated calyx for a seed pod: esp., the strawberry tomato (P. Alkekengi). See Alkekengl. (…

To fill up or finish with grout, as the joints between stones.