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nt of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory.

An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.

ers, in the age of Elizabeth, whose productions are marked by affected conceits and high-flown diction.

Empty; frivolous. [A Shakespearean word only once used.] Such exsufflicate and blown surmises. Shak. (Oth. iii. 3, 182).

grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.

nd, pushing, loudly roar; Their dewlaps and their sides are batDryden. As when a billow, blown against, Falls back, the voice with which I fenced A little ceased, but recommenced. Tennyson.

Liable to be blown about. Bailey.

Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek. Gay. Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow. Keats.

y keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole. The breathing flute's soft notes are heard around. Pope.

The hair grass (Agrostis scabra). So called from its light panicle, which is blown to great distances by the wind.

Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.

ities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address.

A silly clown. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness. The gradualness of this movement. M. Arnold. The gradualness of growth is a characteristic which strikes the simplest observer. H. Drummond.

Lowness of tone; -- opposed to acuteness. Center of gravity See under Center. -- Gravity battery, See Battery, n., 4. -- Specific gravity, the ratio of the weight of a body to the weight of an equal volume of some other body taken as the standard or unit. This standard is usually water for solids and liquids, and air…

A rude or clownish person; boor; lout.

The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates.

High-flown, bombastic language. [Written also hifalutin.] [Jocular, U. S.] Lowell.

A countryman; a rustic; a clown. [Obs.] Nares.

A clownish person; a rustic. Milton. Hobnail liver (Med.), a disease in which the liver is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails; one of the forms of cirrhosis of the liver.