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aws, etc. Joining them together and digesting them into order. Blair. We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested. Shak.

To deprive of an endowment, as a church. Gladstone.

eople that deserved my disfavor. Is. x. 6 (1551). Sentiment of disfavor against its ally. Gladstone.

eak up. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire. Buckle.

or else no going hence all the days of your life. . . . The Abbot down with his dust, and glad he escaped so, returned to Reading." Fuller. -- Dust brand (Bot.), a fungous plant (Ustilago Carbo); -- called also smut. -- Gold dust, fine particles of gold, such as are obtained in placer mining; -- often used as money,…

With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge. Glad to get in a word, as they say, edgeways. Sir W. Scott.

To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster. Glad to embosom his affection. Spenser.

to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop. Dwelling in a pleasant glade, With mountains round about environed. Spenser. Environed he was with many foes. Shak. Environ me with darkness whilst I write. Donne.

Good news; announcement of glad tidings; especially, the gospel, or a gospel. Milton. Her funeral anthem is a glad evangel. Whittier.

A bringer of the glad tidings of Church and his doctrines. Specially: (a) A missionary preacher sent forth to prepare the way for a resident pastor; an itinerant missionary preacher. (b) A writer of one of the four Gospels (With the definite article); as, the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. (c) A trave…

variously explained by different philosophrs. Evolution is to me series with development. Gladstone.

eek mythology . . . the favorite sporting ground of the exclusivists of the solar theory. Gladstone.

To make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man.

That exhilarates; cheering; gladdening. -- Ex*hil"a*ra`ting*ly, adv.

The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.

Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions. The Puritans or extreme Protestants. Gladstone.

duce a new face of things in Europe. Addison. We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore. Wordsworth.

Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined. Men and birds are fain of climbing high. Shak. To a busy man, temptation is fainto climb up together with his business. Jer. Taylor.

egotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad father. Prov. x. 1.

Fain; glad; delighted. [Obs.] Chaucer.