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

The payment of a rent or annuity. [Eng.] Mozley & W. Gale day, the day on which rent or interest is due.

s are attached to one frame, so as to make two or more furrows at the same time. -- Gang days, Rogation days; the time of perambulating parishes. See Gang week (below). -- Gang drill, a drilling machine having a number of drills driven from a common shaft. -- Gang master, a master or employer of a gang of workmen.…

on. "The garish sun." "A garish flag." Shak. "In . . . garish colors." Asham. "The garish day." J. H. Newman. Garish like the laughters of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor.

Highgate). [O. Eng. & Scot.] I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate. Sir W. Scott.

A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day. [Oxford Univ.] Conybeare.

A birthday poem.

A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.

e; to adorn; to brighten. Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day. Trumbull.

me (Law), to accord extension or forbearance to a debtor. Abbott. -- To give the time of day, to salute one with the compliment appropriate to the hour, as "good morning." "good evening", etc. -- To give tongue, in hunter's phrase, to bark; -- said of dogs. -- To give up. (a) To abandon; to surrender. "Don't give up…

me than to a miser money is. Sir P. Sidney. Glad evening and glad morn crowned the fourth day. Milton.

ess; having the appearance of gayety; pleasing. Of opening heaven they sung, and gladsome day. Prior. -- Glad"some*ly, adv. -- Glad"some*ness, n. Hours of perfect gladsomeness. Wordsworth.

t; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Shak.

e to the evening twilight. The black gibbet glooms beside the way. Goldsmith. [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom. Spenser.

orning or evening); the gloaming. When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day. Trench. The balmy glooming, crescent-lit. Tennyson.

Glutton souls." Dryden. A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days. Fuller.

The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis.

The art or science of dialing, or of constructing dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon.

urrency; to be taken, accepted, or regarded. The man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. 1 Sa. xvii. 12. [The money] should go according to its true value. Locke.

use. [Obs.] (b) A church. -- God's penny, earnest penny. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. -- God's Sunday, Easter.