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Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as, granivorous birds. Gay.

Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.

To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay.

coast of Guinea.-- Guinea dropper one who cheats by dropping counterfeit guineas. [Obs.] Gay. -- Guinea fowl, Guinea hen (Zoöl.), an African gallinaceous bird, of the genus Numida, allied to the pheasants. The common domesticated species (N. meleagris), has a colored fleshy horn on each aide of the head, and is of a…

zles, chats the doctor's praise. Roscommon. To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey. Gay.

See Gayal.

his bed's head Twenty bookes, clad in black or red, . . . Than robes rich, or fithel, or gay sawtrie. Chaucer.

Imperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs. Gay.

a manner to success; with success. Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope.

to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array. Harnessed in rugged steel. Rowe. A gay dagger, Harnessed well and sharp as point of spear. Chaucer.

A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. Shak.

Obstinacy. [R.] Gayton.

Lying in heaps. Gay.

A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday. Milton.

Having horns or hornlike projections. Gay.

The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from G. resinosa.

s or emotions; influence. Through all her train the soft infection ran. Pope. Mankind are gay or serious by infection. Rambler.

To give a glossy black to, as shoes. [R.] Gay.

Relating to the jaws. Gayton.

Merry; cheerful; gay; airy; lively; sportive. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. Shak. Rural sports and jocund strains. Prior. -- Joc"und*ly, adv. -- Joc"und*ness, n.