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Having a part displaced, as if broken; -- said of an ordinary. Macaulay.

uvier. The servants of the crown were not, as now, bound in frankpledge for each other. Macaulay.

stracted. Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed! Shak. Torrents of frantic abuse. Macaulay. -- Fran"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Fran"tic*ly, adv. Shak. -- Fran"tic*ness, n. Johnson.

k and light, or the like. Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine. Macaulay.

ndship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay.

interested especially in trifling matters. His personal tastes were low and frivolous. Macaulay.

ned front. With smiling fronts encountering. Shak. The inhabitants showed a bold front. Macaulay.

eat the fruit of their doings. Is. iii 10. The fruits of this education became visible. Macaulay.

functions. Shak. The malady which made him incapable of performing his regal functions. Macaulay.

ion of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense. An inexhaustible fund of stories. Macaulay. Sinking fund, the aggregate of sums of money set apart and invested, usually at fixed intervals, for the extinguishment of the debt of a government, or of a corporation, by the accumulation of interest.…

is writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense. Macaulay.

in; worthless. "Futile theories." I. Taylor. His reasoning . . . was singularly futile. Macaulay.

e time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hood winked. Maccaulay.

Profitable; advantageous; lucrative. "A gainful speculation." Macaulay. -- Gain"ful*ly, adv. -- Gain"ful*ness, n.

Pomp, show, or festivity. Macaulay. Gala day, a day of mirth and festivity; a holiday.

ishment for crime, to work at the oar on board a galley. "To toil like a galley slave." Macaulay.-- Galley slice (Print.), a sliding false bottom to a large galley. Knight.

ns; plan; project. Your murderous game is nearly up. Blackw. Mag. It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack. Saintsbury.

or within the roof; an attic. The tottering garrets which overhung the streets of Rome. Macaulay.

One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack. Macaulay.

Good extraction; dignity of birth. Macaulay. He . . . mines my gentility with my education. Shak.