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To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to amuse one's self. Where light disports in ever mingling dyes. Pope. Childe Harold basked him in the noontide sun, Disporting there like any other fly. Byron.

In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.

To make dizzy; to astonish; to puzzle. [Obs.] Gayton.

drags through, though storms keep out the sun. Byron. Long, open panegyric drags at best. Gay.

e and white, Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have draped the woods and mere. Bungay.

A young or little duck. Gay.

One whose employment is to remove dirt and defuse. Gay.

In an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately. "Proud and effeminately gay." Fawkes.

To give spirit or vivacity to; to make sprightly, gay, or cheerful; to animate; as, mirth and good humor enliven a company; enlivening strains of music.

not be overlooked, but the erudition of her mind is much more to be regarded. Steele. The gay young gentleman whose erudition sat so easily upon him. Macaulay.

Disenchantment by a countercharm. [Obs.] Gayton.

ticipation in; to excommunicate. [Obs.] Poets . . . were excommuned Plato's common wealth Gayton.

to explain a chapter of the Bible. Commentators to explain the difficult passages to you. Gay. To explain away, to get rid of by explanation. "Those explain the meaning quite "away." Pope.

Swollen out; protuberant. [R.] "Extuberant lips." Gayton.

One who eyes another. Gayton.

A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair. Gay. Fairing box, a box receiving savings or small sums of money. Hannah More.

Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal. They deny the characters to be farcical, because they are Gay. -- Far"ci*cal*ly, adv. -Far"ci*cal*ness, n.

To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold. Here the loud hammer fashions female toys. Gay. Ingenious art . . . Steps forth to fashion and refine the age. Cowper.

Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome. [Colloq.]