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n forge. (Metal.) See under Catalan. -- Forge cinder, the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary. -- Forge rolls, Forge train, the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars. -- Forge wagon (Mil.), a wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools. -- Portable forge, a light and co…

Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.

To checker; to diversify. [R. & Poet.] The painted windows, frecking gloom with glow. Lowell.

Finely; splendidly; showily; as, ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming. Pope.

[A Gallicism: cf. Fr. donner sur.] Rooms which gave upon a pillared porch. Tennyson. The gloomy staircase on which the grating gave. Dickens. -- To give out. (a) To expend all one's strength. Hence: (b) To cease from exertion; to fail; to be exhausted; as, my feet being to give out; the flour has given out. -- To give…

Covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage leaf. Gray.

To gloom; to look gloomy, morose, or sullen. [Obs.] Surrey.

Gloom. [Obs.]

dark; gloomy; dismal. [Obs.]

A kind of tongs used in a bloomery. [U.S.]

rangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods. Knight.

The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle. To die in harness, to die with armor on; hence, colloquially, to die while actively engaged in work or duty.

Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; -- said of the sky.

nting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.

That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness. Breathes a browner horror on the woods. Pope. The horrors, delirium tremens. [Colloq.]

acinthine flowers. Cowper. The hyacinthine boy, for whom Morn well might break and April bloom. Emerson.

A mental disorder in which melancholy and gloomy views torment the affected person, particularly concerning his own health.

lood. Impurpled with celestial roses, smiled. Milton. The silken fleece impurpled for the loom. Pope.

dleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness. The gloomy inactivity of despair. Cook.

Having no mirth; not festive or merry; dull; cheerless; gloomy; forlorn. [R.]