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Of the structure and mineral constitution of the globe; structural geology. (b) Of its history as regards rocks, minerals, rivers, valleys, mountains, climates, life, etc.; historical geology. (c) Of the causes and methods by which its structure, features, changes, and conditions have been produced; dynamical geology.…

A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

To tell stories or gests. [Obs.]

A reciter of gests or legendary tales; a story-teller. [Obs.] Minstrels and gestours for to tell tales. Chaucer.

ring our lives, is given away from ourselves. Atterbury. -- To give back, to return; to restore. Atterbury. -- To give the bag, to cheat. [Obs.] I fear our ears have given us the bag. J. Webster. -- To give birth to. (a) To bear or bring forth, as a child. (b) To originate; to give existence to, as an enterprise, idea…

Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes. Ascham.

tinity; the time when Cicero, Cæsar, Virgil, etc., wrote. Hence: (c) That period in the history of a literature, etc., when it flourishes in its greatest purity or attains its greatest glory; as, the Elizabethan age has been considered the golden age of English literature. -- Golden balls, three gilt balls used as a s…

in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs.

Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person. [Slang, U. S.] Gouge bit, a boring bit, shaped like a gouge.

of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively. Storehouses crammed with grain. Shak.

A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornbouse; also (Fig.), a region fertile in grain. The exhaustless granary of a world. Thomson.

A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent. Grandfather longlegs. (Zoöl.) See Dady longlegs.

Specifically, a grandfather; more generally, any ancestor.

A building for storing grain; a granary. [Obs.] Milton.

One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history. De Quincey.

Seeing everything through a medium which discolors or distorts. "Green-eyed jealousy." Shak.

Green plants; verdure. A pretty little one-storied abode, so rural, so smothered in greenery. J. Ingelow.

A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face. Moving his face into such a hideons grimace, that every feature of it appeared under a different distortion. Addison.…

Distorted; crabbed.

to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces. Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store. Tusser. Q.