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A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors. Thackeray. Essentially vulgar, a snob. -- a gilded snob, but none the less a snob. R. G. White.

Soothly; really; in fact. [Archaic] I care not if the pomps you show Be what they soothfast appear. Emerson.

In truth; truly; really; verily. [Obs.] "Soothly for to say." Chaucer.

for nothing. "I will not trouble myself, whether these names stand for the same thing, or really include one another." Locke. -- To stand in, to cost. "The same standeth them in much less cost." Robynson (More's Utopia). The Punic wars could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species. Bur…

tifle a story; to stifle passion. I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled. Waterland.

ing himself for your succession in Denmark. Shak. The animosity of these factions did not really arise from the dispute about the succession. Macaulay.

A line resembling a seam; as, the dorsal suture of a legume, which really corresponds to a midrib.

Sometimes, an isomeric radical used to designate certain compounds which are really related to butylene.

One really beloved.

Sincerely; honestly; really; faithfully; as, to be truly attached to a lover; the citizens are truly loyal to their prince or their country. Burke.

quare, in such a manner that it appears to contain a greater number of cubic feet than it really does contain. Haldeman.

Something which differs in form from another thing, though really the same; as, a variant from a type in natural history; a variant of a story or a word.

Certainly; really; indeed. [Obs.] "As wis God helpe me." Chaucer.