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for all authors, if they knew when to give over, and to desist from any further pursuits after fame. Addison. -- To give up, to cease from effort; to yield; to despair; as, he would never give up.

The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.

Witchcraft; magic; a spell. Tennyson.

Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot.

understanding." The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass.

To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering. To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps. Shak.

One who gathers after reapers.

The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning. Glenings of natural knowledge. Cook.

a small, globular, locomotive organism (Volvox globator), once throught to be an animal, afterward supposed to be a colony of microscopic algæ. -- Globe of compression (Mil.), a kind of mine producing a wide crater; -- called also overcharged mine. -- Globe daisy (Bot.), a plant or flower of the genus Globularing, c…

A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove. Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. Tennyson .

The state of being glorifed; as, the glorification of Christ after his resurrection.

the blessed in heaven; celestial honor; heaven. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Ps. lxxiii. 24.

American genus of herbaceous plants with very handsome bell- shaped blossoms; -- named after B. P. Gloxin, a German botanist.

The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal. It is called also gob stuff. Brande & C.

Invocation of evil spirits; witchcraft. [Obs.] Hallywell.

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

ood, or For good and all, completely and finally; fully; truly. The good woman never died after this, till she came to die for good and all. L'Estrange. -- Good breeding, polite or polished manners, formed by education; a polite education. Distinguished by good humor and good breeding. Macaulay. -- Good cheap, literall…

Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.

Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted. Milton.

In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column.