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Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.

ything rests; foundation. Hence: The foundation of knowledge, belief, or conviction; a premise, reason, or datum; ultimate or first principle; cause of existence or occurrence; originating force or agency; as, the ground of my hope.

ion; to be in a state or position of defense or safety; as, careful persons guard against mistakes.

A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.

To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud. The rulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed. Dryden. I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service. Coleridge.

A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines,…

A fog; esp., a fog or mist with a chill wind. [Scot.] T. Chalmers.

r any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge. Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's hack. Goldsmith.

the forty-eighth part of an inch. Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss. Judg. xx. 16

The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder. This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. Addison.

Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous. " Most harmful hazards." Strype. --Harm"ful*ly, adv. -- Harm"ful*ness, n.

m by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy. Hooker. Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness. Tennyson.

ul the rope. Denham. Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land. Pope. Romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust. Thomson.

In a hazy manner; mistily; obscurely; confusedly.

rce and upper part of a stream; -- commonly used in the plural; as, the headwaters of the Missouri.

m an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues. And I his heir in misery alone. Pope. Heir apparent. (Law.) See under Apparent. -- Heir at law, one who, after his ancector's death, has a right to inherit all his intestate estate. Wharton (Law Dict.). -- Heir presumptive, one who, if the ancest…

ect. "To help him of his blindness." in is used for that function; -- "to help him in his misery" Shak. The true calamus helps coughs. Gerarde.

A title of respect given to gentlemen in Germany, equivalent to the English Mister.

A female paramour; a mistress, concubine, or harlot. -- He*tæ"ric, He*tai"ric (#), a.