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Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals.

Frankness; openness; unreservedness. I emboldened spake and freedom used. Milton.

The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness.

advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.

Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Heuce, any minute play of light andshade, dark and light, or the like. Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine. Macaulay.

ced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable of being continued or prolonged; -- said of certain consonantal sounds, a…

A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth.

oul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind. As the mind opens, and its functions spread. Pope.

as the present); collectively, events that are to happen in time to come. "Lay the future open." Shak.

An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement.

To pry or hold open by means of a gag. Mouths gagged to such a wideness. Fortescue (Transl. ).

A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.

A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.

The opening through the bulwarks of a vessel by which persons enter or leave it.

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass. Miseries ensued by the opening of that gap. Knolles. It would make a great gap in your own honor. Shak. Gap lath…

To open the mouth wide; as:

The width of the mouth when opened, as of birds, fishes, etc. GAPES; THE GAPES The gapes.

One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder. I was to be a gapingstock and a scorn to the young volunteers. Godwin.

To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently. She gasps and struggles hard for life. Lloyd.

The operation of cutting into the upper part of the vagina, through the abdomen (without opening the peritoneum), for the purpose of removing a fetus. It is a substitute for the Cæsarean operation, and less dangerous.