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A school, company, or shoal. [Obs.] A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him. Warner. These fishes enter in great flotes and skulls. Holland.

, a descendant; as, a slip from a vine. A native slip to us from foreign seeds. Shak. The girlish slip of a Sicilian bride. R. Browning.

A servant girl; a drudge. [Obs.] Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut, and pleases us mightly, doing more service than both the others. Pepys.

Having a feminine countenance or complexion; smooth-faced; girlish. Fenton.

A colt, or filly; also, a romping girl. [Prov. Eng.]

which was nothing but vice in a disguise. South. You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl. Tate.

To tell tales; to communicate secrets; to be a talebearer; as, a tattling girl.

age having the termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens.

A romping girl; a hoiden. [Colloq.] J. Fletcher.

A rude, wild, wanton girl; a hoiden; a tomboy. Dennis.

rd; also, an orgamental knot worn on top of the head, as by women. A great, stout servant girl, with cheeks as red as her topknot. Sir W. Scott.

ge, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls. Macaulay.

A girl; a wench; a lass. [Obs.]

Having no ideas; senseless; frivolous. "Unideaed girls." Mrs. Hemans. He [Bacon] received the unideaed page [Villiers] into his intimacy. Lord Campbell.

f each with a prize. W. Howitt. You did indeed dissemble, you urchin you; but where's the girl that won't dissemble for an husband Goldsmith.

fically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity. H. I believe the girl has virtue. M. And if she has, I should be the last man in the world to attempt to corrupt it. Goldsmith.

8 established in the United States. In America these nuns are devoted to the education of girls.

A young woman; a girl; a maiden. Shak. Lord and lady, groom and wench. Chaucer. That they may send again My most sweet wench, and gifts to boot. Chapman. He was received by the daughter of the house, a pretty, buxom, blue- eyed little wench. W. Black.