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One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus.

To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs. "Chariots fanged with scythes." Philips.

One who furnishes incentives; an encourager. "The feeder of my riots." Shak.

To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light. The chariot of paternal Deity, Flashing thick flames. Milton.

ve ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show. You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot. Arbuthnot. One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. Pope.

. Shak. Since, hired for life, thy servile muse sing. prior. To guide the sun's bright chariot for a day. Garth.

Four things of the same kind, esp. four horses; as, a chariot and four. All fours. See All fours, in the Vocabulary.

uency of miracles. The reasons that moved her to remove were, because Rome was a place of riot and luxury, her soul being almost stifled with, the frequencies of ladies' visits. Fuller.

omen; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi.

et awake; to get beaten; to get elected. To get rid of fools and scoundrels. Pope. His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. Coleridge.

in covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded chariots." Pope. No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. Pope.

love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism. With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows. Dryden. Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. Pope.

n knot, an intricate knot tied by Gordius in the thong which connected the pole of the chariot with the yoke. An oracle having declared that he who should untie it should be master of Asia, Alexander the Great averted the ill omen of his inability to loosen it by cutting it with his sword. Hence, a Gordian knot is an i…

A wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting. [Obs. & R.] Feltham.

[R.] This grief (cancerous ulcers) hastened the end of that famous mathematician, Mr. Harriot. Wood. To come to grief, to meet with calamity, accident, defeat, ruin, etc., causing grief; to turn out badly. [Colloq.]

Cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism.

eats inside facing each other; a hackney coach. On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots. Pope.

ead of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot. Dryden.

th; hence, the fireside; home. Chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone. A. Lincoln.

lty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully. And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily. Ex. xiv. 25. Why looks your grace so heavily to-day Shak.