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A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap. Johnson.

One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person. Camden.

A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth. He would be at his frolic once again. Roscommon.

In a frolicsome manner; with mirth and gayety. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive. Old England, who takes a frolicsome brain fever once every two or three years, for the benefit of her doctors. Sir W. Scott. -- Frol"ic*some*ly, adv. -- Frol"ic*some*ness, n.

To accomplish or carry into effect, as an intention, promise, or prophecy, a desire, prayer, or requirement, etc.; to complete by performance; to answer the requisitions of; to bring to pass, as a purpose or design; to effectuate. He will, fulfill the desire of them fear him. Ps. cxlv. 199. Here Nature seems fulfilled…

s, to be full of some project. Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions. Locke.

Same as Gayety.

Excessive gayety; merriment. [Obs.] The mirth and galliardise of company. Sir. T. Browne.

Gayety. [Obs.] Gayton.

In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.

dei. Ganoid scale (Zoöl.), one kind of scales of the ganoid fishes, composed of an inner layer of bone, and an outer layer of shining enamel. They are often so arranged as to form a coat of mail.

other animals, that in the first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two-layered structural stage, or gastrula form, must have descended. This idea constitutes the Gastræa theory of Haeckel. See Gastrula.

the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over. [Written also gavotte.]

Gayety; finery. [R.]

Full of gayety. Mir. for Mag.

Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle. Germinal layers (Biol.), the two layers of cells, the ectoblast and entoblast, which form respectively the outer covering and inner wall of the gastrula. A third layer of cells, the mesoblast, which is formed later and lies between these two, is sometimes inc…

To make gestures; to gesticulate. The players . . . gestured not undecently withal. Holland.

To prevail on; to induce; to persuade. Get him to say his prayers. Shak.

l; as, a ghostly confessor. Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. Book of Common Prayer [Ch. of Eng. ] One of the gostly children of St. Jerome. Jer. Taylor.