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Pertaining to the family Fringillidæ; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike.

process of cleansing, shrinking, and thickening cloth by moisture, heat, and pressure. Fulling mill, a mill for fulling cloth as by means of pesties or stampers, which alternately fall into and rise from troughs where the cloth is placed with hot water and fuller's earth, or other cleansing materials.…

In the manner of one who fumbles.

An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler.

See Gad, n., 4.

A rare earth, regarded by some as an oxide of the supposed element gadolinium, by others as only a mixture of the oxides of yttrium, erbium, ytterbium, etc.

Pertaining to or containing gadolinium.

A mineral of a nearly black color and vitreous luster, and consisting principally of the silicates of yttrium, cerium, and iron.

A supposed rare metallic element, with a characteristic spectrum, found associated with yttrium and other rare metals. Its individuality and properties have not yet been determined.

ng aromatic roots; also, any plant of the same genus. Chaucer. Meadow, set with slender galingale. Tennyson.

A substance obtained by the reduction of galleïn.

Same as Gallinae.

One of the Gallinae or gallinaceous birds.

Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae.

An order of birds, including the common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, quails, and allied forms; -- sometimes called Rasores.

Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating. -- Gall"ing*ly, adv.

A large mosquito.

hey are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabc…

A line rigged to a mast; -- used in hoisting rigging; a girtline.

A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. See Carburetor.