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from wandering; to rest. Your kindness banishes your fear, Resolved to fix forever here. Waller.

One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.

ll to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather. Waller.

. With fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath. Shak. How to choose dogs for scent or speed. Waller. Now, for so many glorious actions done, For peace at home, and for the public wealth, I mean to crown a bowl for Cæsar's health. Dryden. That which we, for our unworthiness, are afraid to crave, our prayer is, that God, for…

ry. The frolic wind that breathes the spring. Milton. The gay, the frolic, and the loud. Waller.

ant spirit hath aspired the clouds. Shak. The gay, the wise, the gallant, and the grave. Waller.

An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.

To warble; to sing as if gargling [Obs.] Waller.

one who wields great or despotic power. [R.] Shak. Act of God. (Law) See under Act. -- Gallery gods, the occupants of the highest and cheapest gallery of a theater. [Colloq.] -- God's acre, God's field, a burial place; a churchyard. See under Acre. -- God's house. (a) An almshouse. [Obs.] (b) A church. -- God's pen…

igamentous parts of the joints, and almost always attacks first the great toe, next the smaller joints, after which, it may attack the greater articulations. It is attended with various sympathettic phenomena, particularly in the digestive organs. It may also attack internal organs, as the stomach, the intestines, etc.…

master. (a) The head of one of the military orders of knighthood, as the Templars, Hospitallers, etc. (b) The head of the order of Freemasons or of Good Templars, etc. -- Grand paunch, a glutton or gourmand. [Obs.] Holland. -- Grand pensionary. See under Pensionary. -- Grand piano (Mus.), a large piano, usually har…

ent for magnifying engravings, photographs, etc., usually having one large lens and two smaller ones.

a design or draught into squares, in order the more easily to reproduce it in larger or smaller dimensions.

oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.

al sense seems to have been a lane cut through trees. See Grave, v., and cf. Groove.] A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent.

. pomiferum, or red guava. The fruit or berry is shaped like a pomegranate, but is much smaller. It is somewhat astringent, but makes a delicious jelly.

d, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary. As swift as a pellet out of a gunne When fire is in the powd…

By good fortune; fortunately; luckily. Preferred by conquest, happily o'erthrown. Waller.

A place of safety; a shelter; an asylum. Shak. The haven, or the rock of love. Waller.

often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler…