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ling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright. A little flashy and transient pleasure. Barrow.

High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.

To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh. Grievously gashed or gored to death. Hayward.

Full of gashes; hideous; frightful. [Obs.] "A gashful, horrid, ugly shape." Gayton.

To strike together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth.

With gnashing.

Gaiters reaching to the knee; leggings. Strong gramashes, or leggings of thick gray cloth. Sir W. Scott.

To deal in small wares. [R.] To haberdash in earth's base ware. Quarles.

ler in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread; also, a hatter. [Obs.] The haberdasher heapeth wealth by hats. Gascoigne.

The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.), trifles. Burke.

That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.

A slightly acrid gum resin produced by the common hemp (Cannabis saltiva), of the variety Indica, when cultivated in a warm climate; also, the tops of the plant, from which the resinous product is obtained. It is narcotic, and has long been used in the East for its intoxicating effect. See Bhang, and Ganja.…

Swill. Arbuthnot.

Unfashionable. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

To dash between or among; to intersperse. Cowper.

A young hawk. Booth.

. A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.

braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given. I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it. Addison.

One who whips or lashes.

The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement. South. Lashing out, a striking out; also, extravagance.