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Act of gazing about; sightseeing. [Prov. Eng.]

To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.

Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious. The most garrulous people on earth. De Quincey.

a book. Knight. -- Gathering coal, a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning. -- Gathering hoop, a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them. -- Gathering peat. (a) A piece of peat used a…

A Venetian coin, worth about three English farthings, or one and a half cents. [Obs.]

bright stars Castor and Pollux; also, the third sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about May 20th.

. The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost-dance, or Messiah, religion, which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka, the Indian Messiah, who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race, the dead with the living, should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a r…

Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy. By giddy head and staggering legs betrayed. Tate.

A drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share. [Obs.]

The flesh under or about the chin. Swift.

iameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first. Gimbal joint (Mach.), a universal joint embodying the principle of the gimbal. -- Gimbal ring, a single gimbal, as that by which the cockeye of the upper millstone is supported on the…

To clothe; to swathe; to invest. I girded thee about with fine linen. Ezek. xvi. 10. The Son . . . appeared Girt with omnipotence. Milton.

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

schools, Let random influences glance, Like light in many a shivered lance, That breaks about the dappled pools. Tennyson.

A fierce, piercing look or stare. About them round, A lion now he stalks with fiery glare. Milton.

duced in great quantities from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also dextrose, grape sugar, diabetic sugar, and starch sugar. See Dextrose.

A carnivorous mammal (Gulo luscus), of the family Mustelidæ, about the size of a large badger. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name; the wolverene. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. Glutton bird (Zoöl.), the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea); -- called…

ily (glyptodontidæ) of extinct South American edentates, of which Glyptodon is the type. About twenty species are known.

oöl.), a bird that catches gnats. -- Gnat strainer, a person ostentatiously punctilious about trifles. Cf. Matt. xxiii. 24.

hrough. By going over all these particulars, you may receive some tolerable satisfaction about this great subject. South.