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genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor. Respecting your forefathers, you would have been taught to respect yourselves. Burke. Forefathers' Day, the anniversary of the day (December 21) on which the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts (1620). On account of a mistake in reckoni…

ruction. There shall be for every Male-child to be baptized, when they can be had, two Godfathers and one Godmother; and for every Female, one Godfather and two Godmothers; and Parents shall be admitted as Sponsors, if it is desired. Book of Common Prayer (Prot. Episc. Ch., U. S. ).

A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent. Grandfather longlegs. (Zoöl.) See Dady longlegs.

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

The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.

A low-grade actor or performer. [Theatrical Slang]

Fig.: A misleading influence; a decoy. Scared and guided by the ignis fatuus of popular superstition. Jer. Taylor.

The state of being indefatigable.

Incapable of being fatigued; not readily exhausted; unremitting in labor or effort; untiring; unwearying; not yielding to fatigue; as, indefatigable exertions, perseverance, application. "A constant, indefatigable attendance." South. Upborne with indefatigable wings. Milton.

Indefatigable quality; unweariedness; persistency. Parnell.

Without weariness; without yielding to fatigue; persistently. Dryden.

Indefatigableness; unweariedness. [Obs.] J. Gregory.

Indefatigable. [Obs.] Daniel.

Infatuated. Bp. Hall.

Overcome by some foolish passion or desire; affected by infatuation.

The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates. The infatuations of the sensual and frivolous part of mankind are amazing; but the infatuations of the learned and sophistical are incomparably more so. I. Taylor. Such is the infatuation of self-love. Blair.

A cooler; a vat for cooling wort, etc. [Written also keelvat.] Johnson.

A rich but late variety of pea.

In Turkey, a sanjak whose head is a mutessarif.

A colorless buttery substance obtained from the fruit of Myristica otoba, a species of nutmeg tree.