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To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue. [Colloq.] I've gone out and pattered to get money. Mayhew.

Same as Perigone.

To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme. The prince did plot to be secretly gone. Sir H. Wotton.

The return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy. Burrill.

Quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly. Presto! begone! 'tis here again. Swift.

ossessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement. Primary alcohol (Organic Chem.), any alcohol which possess the group CH2.OH, and can be oxidized so as to form a corresponding aldehyde and acid having the same number of carbon…

A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake.

ot in the . . . neighborhood to death and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have gone into his head South. Sometimes his feet rased the surface of water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose. Beckford.

To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.

A resuming or retaking possession of what one has lately foregone; -- applied especially to land; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease. Burrill. Card of reëtry, (Whist), a card that by winning a trick will bring one the lead at an adv…

egimen. [Obs.] Spenser. "Regiment of health." Bacon. But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day Marlowe. The law of nature doth now require of necessity some kind of regiment. Hocker.

m this delightful fruit, nor known till now True relish, tasting. Milton. When liberty is gone, Life grows insipid, and has lost its relish. Addison.

That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body. Old warriors whose adored remains In weeping vaults her hallowed earth contains! Pope.

To retire; to give up a siege. He, rising with small honor from Gunza, . . . was gone. Knolles.

Go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat.

The dragonet, or yellow sculpin, of Europe (Callionymus lura).

A dragonet, or sculpin.

Begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls.

tification. It is now believed to be caused by the compression which the strata have undergone. -- Slaty gneiss (Min.), a variety of gneiss in which the scales of mica or crystals of hornblende, which are usually minute, form thin laminæ, rendering the rock easily cleavable.

us appearance; as, the smiles of spring. The brightness of their [the flowers'] smile was gone. Bryant.