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of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber. Bacon.

Like a friar; inexperienced. Bacon.

Friction. [Obs.] Bacon.

m and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. Rambler. Preferred by friendship, and not chosen by sufficiency. Spenser.

One who deals in frippery or in old clothes. [Obs.] Bacon.

personal knowledge, or from testimony. Experience from the time past to the time present. Bacon. The song began from Jove. Drpden. From high Mæonia's rocky shores I came. Addison. If the wind blow any way from shore. Shak.

Not firm or solid; soft; unstable. Bacon.

rife. Prov. xvi. 28. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation. Bacon.

action accompanied with a sensation of heat. To keep the oil from frying in the stomach. Bacon.

d with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information. Reading maketh a full man. Bacon.

ke, unsubstantial, or' airy; idle conceit; vain imagination. A show of fumes and fancies. Bacon.

A ropewalker or ropedancer. [Obs.] Bacon.

Talkative; loquacious; tattling. [Obs.] Talkers and futile persons. Bacon.

much, needlessly or without purpose. Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets. Bacon. The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. Tennyson. Gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.

To make a noise like a goose; to cackle. Bacon.

A little tile of glazed earthenware. [Obs.] "The substance of galletyle." Bacon.

To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.

To gargle; to rinse or wash, as the mouth and throat. [Obs.] Bacon.

To grow larger by accretion; to increase. Their snowball did not gather as it went. Bacon.

A species of apple that ripens very early. Bacon.