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g in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service.

Bearing or producing fruit. Boyle.

Eujoying; possessing. [Obs.] Boyle.

The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits. Boyle.

in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue. -- n.

and thither. [Colloq.] Wooden arms with elbow joints jerking and fugling in the air. Carlyle.

r, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous. [R.] You will not find it furthersome. Carlyle.

ado about trifles. Byron. Zealously, assiduously, and with a minimum of fuss or noise Carlyle.

An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high- sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast. Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretched fustian. Addison.

A gabeler. Carlyle.

to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays. Gammoning fashion, in the style of gammoning lashing, that is, having the turns of rope crossed. -- Gammoning hole (Naut.), a hole cut through the knee of the head of a vessel for the purpose of gammoning the bowsprit.

See Gargoyle.

A simpleton; a booby; a gawky. Carlyle.

A doubling; duplication; repetition. [R.] Boyle.

A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons.

vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause. Whatever generates a quantity of good chyle must likewise generate milk. Arbuthnot.

; production; formation; origination. The origin and genasis of poor Sterling's club. Carlyle.

A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.

l composition or structure; manner in which the parts of a thing are combined; make-up; style of dress, etc. [Colloq.] H. Kingsley.

Prone to giggling. Carlyle.