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The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication. The lower foldings of the vest. Addison.

abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.

Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.

In a foreboding manner.

Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

The act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others.

The art of smelting and casting metals.

Friendliness. [Obs.] Shak.

Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt.

Going about much, needlessly or without purpose. Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets. Bacon. The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. Tennyson. Gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.

In a roving, idle manner.

rmerly used also of the human male. They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him. Wyclif (Acts viii. 38).

Any superficial coating or appearance, as opposed to what is solid and genuine. Gilding metal, a tough kind of sheet brass from which cartridge shells are made.

That with which one is girded; a girdle. Instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth. Is. iii. 24.

The angle, esp. the least angle, at which a gliding machine or aëroplane will glide to earth by virtue of gravity without applied power.

A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.

In a gliding manner.

A conspicuous yellow flower, commonly the corn marigold (Chrysanthemum segetum). [This word is variously corrupted into gouland, gools, gowan, etc.]

The act or method of arranging in or by grade, or of bringing, as the surface of land or a road, to the desired level or grade.

from Grind. Grinding frame, an English name for a cotton spinning machine. -- Grinding mill. (a) A mill for grinding grain. (b) A lapidary's lathe.