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pon, as upon cake, metals, or glass. While with a hoary light she frosts the ground. Wordsworth.

Tending to defeat; fallacious. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb (Bot.), the soapwort (Saponaria officinalis), formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed (Bot.), the teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) whose burs are used by fullers in dressing cloth. See Teasel.

lutters and my memory fumbles. Chesterfield. Alas! how he fumbles about the domains. Wordsworth.

The track of a buck. Ainsworth.

Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless. "Futile theories." I. Taylor. His reasoning . . . was singularly futile. Macaulay.

A clog or patten. [Obs.] Nor were worthy [to] unbuckle his galoche. Chaucer.

A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy. [Slang, U. S.]

The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week. Dr. Prior.

s of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome. Grainger.

An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. "An idle gaud." Shak.

A Venetian coin, worth about three English farthings, or one and a half cents. [Obs.]

Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wright. That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man. Latimer. Bever gear. See Bevel gear. -- Core gear, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See Mortise wheel, under Mortise. -- Expansion gear (Steam Engine), the arrangement…

To render gentile or gentlemanly; as, to gentilize your unworthy sones. [R.] Sylvester.

A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble. A heavy gewgaw called a crown. Dryden.

A ravine. See Gill a woody glen. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Wordsworth.

yflower, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi). -- Queen's, or Winter, gillyflower, damewort. -- Sea gillyflower, the thrift (Armeria vulgaris). -- Wall gillyflower, the wallflower (Cheiranthus Cheiri). -- Water gillyflower, the water violet.

To be or become glad; to rejoice. The vast Pacific gladdens with the freight. Wordsworth.

. Prior. -- Glad"some*ly, adv. -- Glad"some*ness, n. Hours of perfect gladsomeness. Wordsworth.

nnel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice. The river glideth at his own sweet will. Wordsworth.