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Pertaining to gestation or pregnancy.

An African ruminant (Camelopardalis giraffa) related to the deers and antelopes, but placed in 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.…

as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element) or the…

e; to darken. A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. Walpole. A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. Tennyson.

Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.

To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. [Obs.] Hawes.

to make progress; -- used, in various applications, of the movement of both animate and inanimate beings, by whatever means, and also of the movements of the mind; also figuratively applied.

A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (C. hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin.

Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing. Crew.

A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars; -- named after the inventor.

he blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; -- called also gonangium, and teleophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.

A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him; as, the governor general of Canada, of India.

In a gracious manner; courteously; benignantly. Dryden.

ikce crimson dyed in grain. Spenser. -- To go against the grain of (a person), to be repugnant to; to vex, irritate, mortify, or trouble.

Like a grandfather in age or manner; kind; benignant; indulgent. He was a grandfatherly sort of personage. Hawthorne.

Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety. " His gravid associate." Sir T. Herbert.

Made pregnant; big. [Obs.] Barrow.

The state of being gravidated; pregnancy. [R.]

Pregnant; big (with young). The ewes great with young. Ps. lxxviii. 71.

Having a great belly, bigbellied; pregnant; teeming. Shak.