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An old fellow; an aged rustic. Go to each gaffer and each goody. Fawkes.

ecurity for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge. [Obs.] A moiety competent Was gaged by our king. Shak.

To withstand; to resist. [Obs.] Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires. Sir P. Sidney.

r other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.

To strip of the bowels; to clean. "Pilchards . . . are garbaged." Holland.

Of or pertaining to gebdesy; obtained or determined by the operations of geodesy; engaged in geodesy; geodesic; as, geodetic surveying; geodetic observers. Geodetic line or curve, the shortest line that can be drawn between two points on the elipsoidal surface of the earth; a curve drawn on any given surface so that th…

ica, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. -- German paste, a prepared food for caged birds. -- German process (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary. Raymond. -- German sarsaparilla, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. -- German sausage, a polony, o…

Of great age; aged; longlived. [R.] Bailey.

assists in carrying on, irregular warfare; especially, a member of an independent band engaged in predatory excursions in war time.

An association of men belonging to the same class, or engaged in kindred pursuits, formed for mutual aid and protection; a business fraternity or corporation; as, the Stationers' Guild; the Ironmongers' Guild. They were originally licensed by the government, and endowed with special privileges and authority.…

To be engaged upon or occupied with. -- To have one's hands full, to have in hand al that one can do, or more than can be done conveniently; to be pressed with labor or engagements; to be surrounded with difficulties. -- To have, or get, the (higher) upper hand, to have, or get, the better of another person or thing.…

Easily managed; obedient to the helm; -- said of a vessel.

e. To die in harness, to die with armor on; hence, colloquially, to die while actively engaged in work or duty.

reak or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex. My aged muscles harrowed up with whips. Rowe. I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul. Shak.

A man engaged in harvesting. Shak.

Without due reflection; precipitately; rashly. We hastily engaged in the war. Swift.

A wind attending or presaged by the cloud called helm. [Prov. Eng.]

(R. C. Ch.), a community of lay brothers and priests, in France and the United States, engaged chiefly in teaching and manual Labor. Originally called Brethren of St. Joseph. The Sisters of the Holy Cross engage in similar work. Addis & Arnold. -- Holy-cross day, the fourteenth of September, observed as a church festi…

department of executive administration, by which the internal affairs of a country are managed. [Eng.] To be at home on any subject, to be conversant or familiar with it. -- To feel at home, to be at one's ease. -- To make one's self at home, to conduct one's self with as much freedom as if at home.…

s, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify. We stand humiliated rather than encouraged. M. Arnold.