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o feed with fuel. [Obs.] Never, alas I the dreadful name, That fuels the infernal flame. Cowley.

Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information. Reading maketh a full man. Bacon.

ms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house. That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. 2 Tim. iii. 17,

To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls. Dryden.

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.

The male game fowl.

ard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth. A clapper clapping in a garth To scare the fowl from fruit. Tennyson.

ends or relates to all, or the chief part; -- opposed to particular. In particulars our knowledge begins, and so spreads itself by degrees to generals. Locke.

Knowledge of the earth. [R.] G. Eliot.

Of or pertaining to geognosy, or to a knowledge of the structure of the earth; geological. [R.]

Knowledge of the earth, ground, or soil, obtained by inspection. Chambers.

iny bacterial organisms or their spores, such as Anthrax bacillus and the Micrococcus of fowl cholera, which have been demonstrated to be the cause of certain diseases. See Germ theory (bellow). -- Germ cell (Biol.), the germ, egg, spore, or cell from which the plant or animal arises. At one time a part of the body of…

Wild fowl; game. [Obs.] Addison.

The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.

. They gave back and came no farther. Bunyan. -- To give in, to yield; to succumb; to acknowledge one's self beaten; to cease opposition. The Scots battalion was enforced to give in. Hayward. This consideration may induce a translator to give in to those general phrases. Pope. -- To give off, to cease; to forbear. [Obs…

eol.), earth and rocks which have been transported by moving ice, land ice, or icebergs; bowlder drift. -- Glacial epoch or period (Geol.), a period during which the climate of the modern temperate regions was polar, and ice covered large portions of the northern hemisphere to the mountain tops. -- Glacial theory or…

An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland.

One who gathers slowly with labor. Locke.

ct of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning. Glenings of natural knowledge. Cook.