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One of a faction in Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses. Brande & C.

The quality of being ghostly.

A gantline. Hammock girtline, a line rigged for hanging out hammocks to dry.

A white, crystalline, organic base, C3H4N2, produced by the action of ammonia on glyoxal, and forming the origin of a large class of derivatives hence, any one of the series of which glyoxaline is a type; -- called also oxaline.

serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit; -- called also gobrope and gaubline.

nce of, or conformity to, the laws of God; the state or quality of being godly; piety. Godliness is profitable unto all things. 1 Tim. iv. 8.

Beauty of form; grace; elegance; comeliness. Her goodliness was full of harmony to his eyes. Sir P. Sidney.

Of or pertaining to the Grallæ.

State of being gravelly.

The quality or state of being grisly; horrid. Sir P. Sidney.

A logarithmic line on Gunter's scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically by the dividers; -- called also line of lines, and line of numbers.

An explosive mixture, consisting of sawdust, charcoal, niter, and ferrocyanide of potassium, used as a substitute for gunpowder.

A sort of breeches. [Obs..] Chaucer.

An alkaloid found in the plant Peganum harmala. It forms bitter, yellow salts.

The line at the head or top of a page.

The state or quality of being heavenly. Sir J. Davies.

A picrate compound, used as an explosive in blasting.

Belonging to the Hexactinellinæ, a group of sponges, having six-rayed siliceous spicules.

The state of being hilly.

tegrity or purity; freedom from sin; sanctity; innocence. Who is like thee, glorious in holiness! Ex. xv. 11.