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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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10,889 words match “LIN”

To transform into a goblin. [R.] Lowell.

nce of, or conformity to, the laws of God; the state or quality of being godly; piety. Godliness is profitable unto all things. 1 Tim. iv. 8.

A diminutive god. Dryden.

Beauty of form; grace; elegance; comeliness. Her goodliness was full of harmony to his eyes. Sir P. Sidney.

GOSLING n. 2 definitions

A young or unfledged goose.

Of or pertaining to the Grallæ.

GRAPPLING n. 2 definitions

A grapple; a struggle. A match for yards in fight, in grappling for the bear. Dryden. Grappling iron, a hooked iron used for grappling and holding fast a vessel or other object. -- Grappling tongs, broad-mouthed tongs for gathering oysters.

One of the essential principles of the hedge hyssop (Gratiola officinalis).

GRAVELING; GRAVELLING n. 3 definitions

The act of covering with gravel.

GRAVELLINESS n.

State of being gravelly.

GRAYLING n. 2 definitions

and is valued as a game fish. And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling. Tennyson.

A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions. B. Jonson.

A color mixed of white, and red, or a gray violet. [Written also gredaline, grizelin.] Dryden.

The quality or state of being grisly; horrid. Sir P. Sidney.

A vegetable jelly, resembling pectin, found in gooseberries (Ribes Grossularia) and other fruits.

GROUNDLING n. 2 definitions

merly was on the ground, and without floor or benches. No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh. Coleridge.

Lying prone; low; debased. [Written also grovelling.] "A groveling creature." Cowper.

GROWLINGLY adv.

In a growling manner.