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us; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery. And lest the fulsome artifice should fail Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil. Cowper.

The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance. "In the function of his public calling." Swift.

To assign to some function or office. [R.]

One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.

Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed. The town is built in a very gallant place. Evelyn. Our royal, good and gallant ship. Shak.

A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.

A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.

e whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a clergyman or a judge.

t piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.

door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.

Deceit; fraud; artifice; device. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.

The office of a gauger.

The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc.

A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority. Johnson.

The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Test…

One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal.

The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general. Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene. Goldsmith.

Liberality in giving; munificence.

Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father.