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Yawning; gaping.

The act of yawning or gaping. Addison.

To exceed in fawning.

ome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant. Thou, with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obey'st. Milton. Parasites were called such smell-feasts as would seek to be free guests at rich men's tables. Udall.

Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic. "Parasitic preachers." Milton.

yment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1. As for mortgaging or pawning, . . . men will not take pawns without use [i.e., interest]. Bacon.

The act of pledging or pawning.

Pledging, pawning. [R.]

icans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. Matt. 1x. 10. How like a fawning publican he looks! Shak.

o rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging. "Sound a reveille." Dryden. For at dawning to assail ye Here no bugles sound reveille. Sir W. Scott.

inging a bell; to sound. The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal. Shak.

, an assemblage or school of fishes which migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.

A penthouse or awning. [Obs.] Burrill.

Any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European bull trout and salmon trout, and the eastern American spotted trout.

a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience. She must bend the servile knee. Thomson. Fearing dying pays death servile breath. Shak.

Fawning and deceitful; sly. [Scot.]

A cringing, fawning person. Shak.

Any upright post or beam used as a support, as for the deck, the quarter rails, awnings, etc.

An awning.

Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious. Addison.