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Goods; property; household stuff. Chaucer. Homely gear and common ware. Robynson (More's Utopia)

Like, or pertaining to, the goby, or the genus Gobius. -- n.

The mistress of a house. [Archaic] Robynson (More's Utopia).

To make a, booby of one); to stupefy. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely. Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure Robynson (More's Utopia).

locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson (More's Utopia). Grisly bear. (Zoöl.) See under Grizzly.

Ability; aptitude. [Obs.] Robynson. (More's Utopia).

y [engines of war] be both easy to be carried and handsome to be moved and turned about. Robynson (Utopia). For a thief it is so handsome as it may seem it was first invented for him. Spenser.

them in a certain equal heat they [the husbandmen] bring life into them and hatch them. Robynson (More's Utopia).

head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like. "Their princes and heads." Robynson (More's Utopia). The heads of the chief sects of philosophy. Tillotson. Your head I him appoint. Milton.

A jig for washing ore. Bolting hutch, Booby hutch, etc. See under Bolting, etc.

any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness. [Written also hydrophoby.]

To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound. [R.] My uncle Toby's wound was nearly well -- 't was just beginning to incarnate. Sterne.

They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute, very few to suffice. Robynson (More's Utopia).

He . . . did inure them to speak little. Sir T. North. Inured and exercised in learning. Robynson (More's Utopia). The poor, inured to drudgery and distress. Cowper.

Loobylike; awkward. Fuller.

A poem. [Obs.] Robynson (More's Utopia).

Newfangledness. [Obs.] Chaucer. Proud newfangleness in their apparel. Robynson (More's Utopia).

in thee to occupy the merchandise. Ezek. xxvii. 9. Not able to occupy their old crafts. Robynson (More's Utopia).

oses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade. "Within one pale or hedge." Robynson (More's Utopia).