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An aureole. [R.] Msr. Browning.

A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances. Bee glue. See under Bee. -- Fish glue, a st…

(Aquila Chrysaëtos) inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North America. It is so called from the brownish yellow tips of the feathers on the head and neck. A dark variety is called the royal eagle; the young in the second year is the ring-tailed eagle. -- Golden fleece. (a) (Mythol.) The fleece of gold fabled to have been ta…

w, a person of companionable qualities. [Familiar] -- Good folk, or Good people, fairies; brownies; pixies, etc. [Colloq. Eng. & Scot.] -- Good for nothing. (a) Of no value; useless; worthless. (b) Used substantively, an idle, worthless person. My father always said I was born to be a good for nothing. Ld. Lytton. -- G…

Idle talk; gossip. Mrs. Browning.

fibrous, reniform, or stalactitic structure. The color varies from yellowish to blackish brown.

The state of being gradual; gradualness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

as, to graduate the heat of an oven. Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts. Browne.

ersons lightly dipped, not grained, in generous honesty, are but pale in goodness. Sir T. Browne.

ath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical, or composed of letters. Sir T. Browne.

The brown crust formed upon a gratinated dish; also, dish itself, as crusts bread, game, or poultry.

silver mullet (M. Braziliensis). See Mullet. -- Gray owl (Zoöl.), the European tawny or brown owl (Syrnium aluco). The great gray owl (Ulula cinerea) inhabits arctic America. -- Gray parrot (Zoöl.), a parrot (Psittacus erithacus), very commonly domesticated, and noted for its aptness in learning to talk. -- Gray pi…

To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse. The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead. Pope.

To become large; to dilate. [R.] My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass. Mrs. Browning.

Of a light color, or white, mottled with black or brown; grizzled or grizzly. Maunder.

ble food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidæ, as the red grouper, or brown snapper (E. morio), and the black grouper, or warsaw (E. nigritus), both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

Excessive appetite; greediness; voracity. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of tasting. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

ntents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the bouse. Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a proper name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased. Addison.

In droplike form. [Obs.] In its [hail's] guttulous descent from the air. Sir T. Browne.