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The art or process of depositing metals by electricity; electrotypy.

A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males.

A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab. In Japan, the gamins run after you, and say, 'Look at the Chinaman.' L. Oliphant.

Talkativeness; loquacity.

A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.

To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg.

rward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell. The pleasant valley of Hinnom. Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the…

The chief city of Switzerland. Geneva Bible, a translation of the Bible into English, made and published by English refugees in Geneva (Geneva, 1560; London, 1576). It was the first English Bible printed in Roman type instead of the ancient black letter, the first which recognized the division into verses, and the firs…

nging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn. [Obs.] Natural incapacity and genial indisposition. Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to Genoa, a city of Italy. -- n. sing. & pl.

The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city. I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell. Evelyn.

To endow with some power or faculty. He was gifted . . . with philosophical sagacity. I. Taylor.

A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint.

urrender. "Don't give up the ship." He has . . . given up For certain drops of salt, your city Rome. Shak.

Sphericity. Ray.

The state of being globular; globosity; sphericity.

Sphericity; globosity.

Dryden. The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. C. Kingsley. To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.

Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. Milton.

A process similar to etching, in which, by means of voltaic electricity, a raised copy of a drawing is made, so that it can be used to print from.