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Humped; protuberant; -- said of a surface which presents one or more large elevations. Brande & C.

Hunched; hump-backed. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. -- Gib"bous*ly, adv. -- Gib"bous*ness, n.

To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten. Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day. Trumbull.

A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude.

glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.

To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet. Wiseman.

epression; sockas, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates.

Kind; benevolent; humane; merciful; gracious; polite; propitious; friendly; well-disposed; -- often followed by to or toward, also formerly by unto. The men were very good unto us. 1 Sam. xxv. 15.

A small gorget, as of a humming bird.

A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal. Gorget hummer (Zoöl.), a humming bird of the genus Trochilus. See Rubythroat.

To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb. [K S.]

Any sort of dress or garb. He comes . . . in the gown of humility. Shak.

In degree. [Obs.] Human reason doth not only gradually, but specifically, differ from the fantastic reason of brutes. Grew.

Bearing grain, or seeds like grain. Humble.

The act or the process of forming into granite. Humble.

forage and hay. Lolium Italicum. Johnson grass, grazing aud hay. South and Southwest. Sorghum Halepense. Kentucky blue grass, pasture. Poa pratensis. Lyme grass, coarse hay. South. Elymus, several species. Manna grass, pasture and hay. Glyceria, several species. Meadow fescue, pasture and hay. Festuca elatior. Meadow f…

or asserted without any good ground; as, a gratuitous assumption. Acts of gratuitous self-humiliation. De Quincye. -- Gra*tu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Gra*tu"i*tous*ness, n.

eved in some branches of the Christian church to have guardianship and protection of each human being from birth. (b) Hence, a protector or defender in general. O. W. Holmes. -- Guardian spirit, in the belief of many pagan nations, a spirit, often of a deceased relative or friend, that presides over the interests of a…

himself. Chaucer. The swain replied, "It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise." Pope.

to have the power of freeing carbonic acid from the sodium carbonate of the serum. Thudichum.