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mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds. Hand gallop, a slow or gentle gallop.

or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents, especially such as are of feeble intensity.

External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech. You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel. Shak.

A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer. [Cant] Fielding. Garnish bolt (Carp.), a bolt with a chamfered or faceted head. Knight.

A fee. See Garnish, n., 4.

Forced feeding (as of poultry or infants) by means of a tube passed through the mouth down to the stomach.

An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.

sympathy; enlivening; kindly; as, she was of a cheerful and genial disposition. So much I feel my genial spirits droop. Milton.

Tribal feeling; devotion to one's gens.

An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies. [Written also ghole .] Moore.

es of very large squids, belonging to Architeuthis and allied genera. Some are over forty feet long.

a family by itself; the camelopard. It is the tallest of animals, being sometimes twenty feet from the hoofs to the top of the head. Its neck is very long, and its fore legs are much longer than its hind legs.

; a pang. Conscience . . . is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels. Tillotson.

To feed or pasture. [Obs.]

yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.

he forum and up the sacred seat, His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet. Macaulay.

A feeding on nuts or mast. [Obs.] Crabb.

ts fragility, the tail easily breaking into small pieces. It grows to the length of three feet. The name is applied also to similar species found in the Old World.

To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Shak.

o the bottom, make up a large part of the soft mud, generally found in depths below 3,000 feet, and called globigerina ooze. See Illust. of Foraminifera.