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A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish.

Splendor of appearance; ostentatious finery. [Archaic] Guess the gallantry of our church by this . . . when the desk whereon the priest read was inlaid with plates of silver. Fuller.

External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech. You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel. Shak.

the Mustard family (Alliaria officinalis) which has a strong smell of garlic. -- Garlic pear tree, a tree in Jamaica (Cratæva gynandra), bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic, and a burning taste.

Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter.

One who appears to speak from his stomach; a ventriloquist.

A voice or utterance which appears to proceed from the stomach; ventriloquy.

That part of blastoderm where the hypoblast appears like a small disk on the inner face of the epibladst.

ses or other round, transparent vessels, in the center of which figures are supposed to appear by magic art.

One whose voice appears to proceed from the stomach; a ventriloquist. [Obs.]

A spear or dart. [R. & Obs.]

endowed with uncommon vigor of mind; a man of superior intellectual faculties; as, Shakespeare was a rare genius.

Graceful in mien or form; elegant in appearance, dress, or manner; as, the lady has a genteel person. Law.

a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism appears. In the entire process in which a new being originates . . . two distinct classes of action participate; namely, the act of generation by which the germ is produced; and the act of development, by which that germ is evolved…

Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal. Each turned his face with a ghastly pang. Coleridge. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized. Macaulay.

The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter. The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. Shak. I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost. Coleridge.

A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig.

To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie. Shak.

Any superficial coating or appearance, as opposed to what is solid and genuine. Gilding metal, a tough kind of sheet brass from which cartridge shells are made.

to swathe; to invest. I girded thee about with fine linen. Ezek. xvi. 10. The Son . . . appeared Girt with omnipotence. Milton.