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A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt. Bp. Hall.

e human male. They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him. Wyclif (Acts viii. 38).

Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge

a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera. Copernicus generalized the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air. W. Nicholson.

Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table. Swift.

A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet. Shak.

h Bible printed in Roman type instead of the ancient black letter, the first which recognized the division into verses, and the first which ommited the Apocrypha. In form it was a small quarto, and soon superseded the large folio of Cranmer's translation. Called also Genevan Bible. -- Geneva convention (Mil.), an agre…

A rich glazed cake, with almonds, pistachios, filberts, or other nuts; also, a rich currant cake with almonds on the top.

logical investigations in the field; to discourse as a geologist. During midsummer geologized a little in Shropshire. Darwin.

with a ghastly pang. Coleridge. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized. Macaulay.

A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the CC.

Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless. "Giddy, foolish hours." Rowe. "Giddy chance." Dryden. Young heads are giddy and young hearts are warm. Cowper.

Coated with icing; iced; glazed; -- said of fruits, sweetmeats, cake, etc.

A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.

Glassy; glazed. [Obs.] And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.

use, a sash, a ease, etc.) with glass. Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. Bacon.

Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.

Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating. In brazed arms, that cast a gleamy ray, Swift through the town the warrior bends his way. Pope.

A club or company organized for singing glees, and (by extension) part songs, ballads, etc.