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One given to gossip. Beaconsfield.

Full of, or given to, gossip.

ich yield the cotton of the arts. The species are much confused. G. herbaceum is the name given to the common cotton plant, while the long-stapled sea-island cotton is produced by G. Barbadense, a shrubby variety. There are several other kinds besides these.

e in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman. Shak. I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. Blair.

f equations are treated by the use of curves and straight lines. -- Graphic arts, a name given to those fine arts which pertain to the representation on a fiat surface of natural objects; as distinguished from music, etc., and also from sculpture. -- Graphic formula. (Chem.) See under Formula. -- Graphic granite. Se…

Given without an equivalent or recompense; conferred without valuable consideration; granted without pay, or without claim or merit; not required by justice. We mistake the gratuitous blessings of Heaven for the fruits of our own industry. L'Estrange.

Something given freely or without recompense; a free gift; a present. Swift.

a lung disease produced by the mechanical irritation of the particles of steel and stone given off in the operation of grinding.

In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands. Knight. All is grist that comes to his mill, all that he has anything to do with is a source of profit. [Colloq.] -- To bring grist to the maill, to bring profitable business in…

cheat; to dupe; to impose upon. [R.] To be gudgeoned of the opportunities which had been given you. Sir IV. Scott.

The reward given to a guide for services. [R.] Ainsworth.

Senegal country, West Africa. -- Gum tragacanth. See Tragacanth. -- Gum tree, the name given to several trees in America and Australia: (a) The black gum (Nyssa multiflora), one of the largest trees of the Southern States, bearing a small blue fruit, the favorite food of the opossum. Most of the large trees become h…

An apparatus for determining the number of corpuscles in a given quantity of blood.

An instrument for determining the number of blood corpuscles in a given quantity of blood.

A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house. Cowell.

Spenser. Handsel Monday, the first Monday of the new year, when handsels or presents are given to servants, children, etc.

A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltböllia incurvata, and to the species of Ægilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived.

A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread.

uality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively. The habit of authority also had given his manners some peremptory hardness. Sir W. Scott.

A person given to low conduct; a rogue; a cheat; a rascal. [Obs.] Chaucer.