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A writer of fustian. [R.] Milton.

coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro).

l wedge used in mining, etc. I will go get a leaf of brass, And with a gad of steel will write these words. Shak.

Noble in bearing or spirit; brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant officer. That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds. Shak. The gay, the wise, the gallant, and the grave. Waller.

One who describes the phenomena of galvanism; a writer on galvanism.

In a plucky manner; spiritedly.

A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority. Johnson.

ch are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth; noble; honorable; magnanimous; spirited; courageous. "The generous critic." Pope. "His generous spouse." Pope. "A generous pack [of hounds]." Addison.

ng several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe.

To reason or write after the manner of the Germans.

dance of the North American Indians, participated in by both sexes, and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is, through trance and vision, to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends. The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost-dance, or Messiah, relig…

A term variously employed by early writers on art, though commonly designating the yellow oxide of lead, or massicot. Fairholt.

A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white.

name given by one's parents or guardians, as distinguished from the surname, which is inherited. [Colloq.]

A writer of glosses or of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. Tyrwhitt.

A writer of glosses or comments; a commentator. [R.] "The . . . glossators of Aristotle." Milman.

A writer of glosses; a scholiast; a commentator. L. Addison.

A writer of comments. [Obs.] Milton.

A writer of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. Hayward.

Same as Glycerite.