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from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern galery or quarter gallry, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850.

A brisk, gay man. [Obs.] Selden is a galliard by himself. Cleveland.

at was invited to be a gossip, in her place send her kitchen maid, 't would be ill taken. Selden.

l with the hands. He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. Selden.

An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud. [R.] "A mere gullery." Selden.

d for an engine to cast a thing from a man long before there was any gunpowder found out. Selden.

The office of a herald. Selden.

ng rarely; adapted for a special occasion. Courage is but a holiday kind of virtue, to be seldom exercised. Dryden.

arrow. A hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved. Addison. The court seldom fails to improve the oppotunity. Blackstone. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour. I. Watts. Those moments were diligently improved. Gibbon. True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to i…

Seldom happening or occurring; rare; uncommon; unusual. The act whereof is at this day infrequent or out of use among all sorts of men. Sir T. Elyot.

To entitle; to give a title to. Selden.

h extend outward indefinitely. -- Legs of a triangle, the sides of a triangle; -- a name seldom used unless one of the sides is first distinguished by some appropriate term; as, the hypothenuse and two legs of a right-angled triangle. On one's legs, standing to speak. -- One's last legs. See under Last. -- To have l…

An idol; a puppet; a doll. [Obs.] Selden. Shak.

An agreement, compact, etc. "Thy hand upon that match." Shak. Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making. Boyle.

To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons. She would never miss, one day, A walk so fine, a sight so gay. Prior. We cannot miss him; he does make our fire, Fetch in our wood. Shak.

tice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything. My observation, which very seldom lies. Shak.

Frequently; many times; not seldom.

A poem of eight lines. [Obs.] Selden

neous collection of things or persons; a confused mixture; a medley. [Colloq. & Humorous] Selden.

One who opposes or attacks; that which opposes. Selden.