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bsolete fashion or pattern; adhering to old customs or ideas; as, an old-fashioned dress, girl. "Old-fashioned men of wit." Addison. This old-fashioned, quaint abode. Longfellow.

or humorous opera. -- Opera flannel, a light flannel, highly finished. Knight. -- Opera girl (Bot.), an East Indian plant (Mantisia saltatoria) of the Ginger family, sometimes seen in hothouses. It has curious flowers which have some resemblance to a ballet dancer, whence the popular name. Called also dancing girls.…

Wearing pattens. "Some pattened girl." Jane Austen.

nvalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day. [O. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] There was a tricksy girl, I wot, albeit clad in gray, As peart as bird, as straight as bolt, as fresh as flowers in May. Warner (1592).

Small, little; of a woman or girl, of small size and trim figure.

A word of endearment for a girl or woman. [Obs.] [Written also pigsnie, pigsny, etc.] Chaucer.

ed to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. It was also worn by magistrates and priests.

A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.

A pet name for a cat; also, an endearing name for a girl.

A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer.

A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance.

A girl who indulges in boisterous play.

Inclined to romp; indulging in romps. A little romping girl from boarding school. W. Irving.

To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly. if the richness of the ground cause turnips to run to leaves. Mortimer.

A schoolgirl. Shak.

ground, or middle distance. [R.] -- Second estate (Eng.), the House of Peers. -- Second girl, a female house-servant who does the lighter work, as chamber work or waiting on table. -- Second intention. See under Intention. -- Second story, Story floor, in America, the second range of rooms from the street level. Th…

The state of being secondary. Full of a girl's sweet sense of secondariness to the object of her love. Mrs. Oliphant.

A shopgirl.

le through a crowd or narrow opening. Swift. He . . . then sidled close to the astonished girl. Sir W. Scott.

A wanton girl; a light wench. [Obs.]