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To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.

ripeness of grain; ripeness of manhood; ripeness of judgment. Time, which made them their fame outlive, To Cowley scarce did ripeness give. Denham.

Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like. The rise or fall that may happen in his constant revenue by a Spanish war. Sir W. Temple.

ture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication.

A flying or popular report; the common talk; hence, public fame; notoriety. This rumor of him went forth throughout all Judea, and throughout all the region round about. Luke vii. 17. Great is the rumor of this dreadful knight. Shak.

To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander. [R.] I do faws on men and hug them hard And after scandal them. Shak.

To reproach; to libel; to defame; to slander. To tell his tale might be interpreted into scandalizing the order. Sir W. Scott.

To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.

umber; a portion among others; an apportioned lot; an allotment; a dividend. "My share of fame." Dryden.

Absence of mention; oblivion. And what most merits fame, in silence hid. Milton.

the most eloquent and most silent of men. Broome. This new-created world, whereof in hell Fame is not silent. Milton.

A king of Corinth, son of Æolus, famed for his cunning. He was killed by Theseus, and in the lower world was condemned by Pluto to roll to the top of a hill a huge stone, which constantly rolled back again, making his task incessant.

To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report; to tarnish or impair the reputation of by false tales maliciously told or propagated; to calumniate. O, do not slander him, for he is kind. Shak.

One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator. Jer. Taylor.

the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. Congreve. Though the sound of Fame May for a moment soothe, it can not slake The fever of vain longing. Byron.

r by sounds; to cause to be reported; to publish or proclaim; as, to sound the praises of fame of a great man or a great exploit.

Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.

To divulge; to publish, as news or fame; to cause to be more extensively known; to disseminate; to make known fully; as, to spread a report; -- often acompanied by abroad. They, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country. Matt. ix. 31.

That which goads to action; an incitement. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days. Milton.

ic. [Obs.] Well monarchies may own religion's name, But states are atheists in their very fame. Dryden.