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and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry. Macaulay.

A term variously employed by early writers on art, though commonly designating the yellow oxide of lead, or massicot. Fairholt.

Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow. "Gilt hair" Chaucer.

A yellow-tailed worm or larva.

A large ornamental tree (Ginkgo biloba) from China and Japan, belonging to the Yew suborder of Coniferæ. Its leaves are so like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is also called the maidenhair tree.

d its root is now an article of export from America to China. The root, when dry, is of a yellowish white color, with a sweetness in the taste somewhat resembling that of licorice, combined with a slight aromatic bitterness.

n. From the world's girdle to the frozen pole. Cowper. That gems the starry girdle of the year. Campbell.

A roebuck two years old. [Prov. Eng.]

To shed tears; to weep. [Obs.] Whose eyes do never give But through lust and laughter. Shak.

The European yellow-hammer.

A collection made by gleaning. The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs. Dryden.

ly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Shak.

a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword. The field yet glitters with the pomp of war. Dryden.

y or dark; to obscure; to darken. A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. Walpole. A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. Tennyson.

distinction upon; to elevate to power or happiness, or to celestial glory. Jesus was not yet glorified. John vii. 39.

To exult with joy; to rejoice. Glory ye in his holy name. Ps. cv.

za), in monesia bark (Chrysophyllum), in the root of the walnut, etc., and extracted as a yellow, amorphous powder, of a bittersweet taste.

ass away; to leave; to depart; -- in opposition to stay and come. I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away. Ex. viii. 28.

The venereal disease; -- often used as a mild oath. [Obs.] Shak.

a divinity. [Obs.] Adoring first the genius of the place, The nymphs and native godheads yet unknown. Dryden.