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One who composes elegies. Goldsmith.

Serving to disappoint or deceive; delusive; unsatisfying. "Yonder faithless phantom." Goldsmith. -- Faith"less*ly, adv.Faith"less*ness, n.

ives food or supplies nourishment; steward. A couple of friends, his chaplain and feeder. Goldsmith.

table for the use of others, and then threatening not to take them except on credit. [R.] Goldsmith.

To use artifice or stratagem. Goldsmith.

flattering painter, who made it his care, To draw men as they ought be, not as they are. Goldsmith.

Goldsmith's foil. [R.] Sprat.

nness. [Achan] wrought folly in Israel. Josh. vii. 15. When lovely woman stoops to folly. Goldsmith.

In a fond manner; affectionately; tenderly. My heart, untarveled, fondly turns to thee. Goldsmith.

- whence the game of forfeits. Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of the day. Goldsmith.

ight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate. For here forlorn and lost I tread. Goldsmith. The condition of the besieged in the mean time was forlorn in the extreme. Prescott. She cherished the forlorn hope that he was still living. Thomson. A forlorn hope Etym: [D. verloren hoop, prop., a lost band or troop;…

Having four hands; quadrumanous. Goldsmith.

r university. He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke. Goldsmith. Freshman class, the lowest of the four classes in an American college. [ U. S.]

olen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side. "Robes of frieze." Goldsmith.

inery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. Fond of gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith. The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott.

Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement. "Oddity, frolic, and fun." Goldsmith. To make fan of, to hold up to, or turn into, ridicule.

The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Goldsmith.

pronoun, the personality of a general. Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene. Goldsmith.

ning to deeds or feats of arms; legendary. And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore. Goldsmith.

gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight. The black gibbet glooms beside the way. Goldsmith. [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom. Spenser.