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ributes. It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian. Kollock.

Brightness; splendor. In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen. Pope.

inute labor; to pick out; to obtain. Content to glean what we can from . . . experiments. Locke.

One who gathers slowly with labor. Locke.

A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes. [Obs.] The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them. Spenser. Their wild costume of the glib and mantle. Southey.

The earth; the terraqueous ball; -- usually preceded by the definite article. Locke.

A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks. [Prov. Eng.]

n in the days of Saul. 1 Sa. xvii. 12. [The money] should go according to its true value. Locke.

l gold-colored beetle of the family Chrysomelidæ; -- called also golden beetle. -- Gold blocking, printing with gold leaf, as upon a book cover, by means of an engraved block. Knight. -- Gold cloth. See Cloth of gold, under Cloth. -- Gold Coast, a part of the coast of Guinea, in West Africa. -- Gold cradle. (Mining…

Covered with gore or clotted blood. Thou canst not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me. Shak.

Capable of being governed, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient. Locke.

To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.

Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins. Locke.

ers, common in the United States; -- called also cat brier. -- Green con (Zoöl.), the pollock. -- Green crab (Zoöl.), an edible, shore crab (Carcinus menas) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally named joe-rocker. -- Green crop, a crop used for food while in a growing or unripe state, as distingushed from…

See Bluefish, and Pollock.

Pertaining to, or like, a flock. For this gregal conformity there is an excuse. W. S. Mayo.

Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone. Burke. No birds of prey are gregarious. Ray. -- Gre*ga"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Gre-ga'ri-ous-ness, n.

Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson (More's Utopia). Grisly bear. (Zoöl.) See under Grizzly.

h; sprinkled or mixed with gray; of a mixed white and black. Grizzled hair flowing in elf locks. Sir W. Scott.

of the celestial sphere upon which the stars may be regarded as projected. -- Ground hemlock (Bot.), the yew (Taxus baccata var. Canadensisi) of eastern North America, distinguished from that of Europe by its low, straggling stems. -- Ground hog. (Zoöl.) (a) The woodchuck or American marmot (Arctomys monax). See Woo…