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A pledge. [Obs.] Bp. Gibson.

To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly. [Obs.] Shak.

r dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight. The black gibbet glooms beside the way. Goldsmith. [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom. Spenser.

d Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons.

Something unintelligible; as, it was all Greek to me. [Colloq.]

A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.

See Gibe.

To stammer; to speak unintelligibly; to prevaricate. [Prov.Eng.] Halliwell.

Life of Hecker. They were condemned as "Americanism" by the Pope, in a letter to Cardinal Gibbons, January 22, 1899.

ich has, or is supposed to have, a hidden or mysterious significance; hence, any unintelligible or illegible character or mark. [Colloq.]

A small black gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam.

Swollen; gibbous. [Obs.]

Any species of the genus Hylobates; a gibbon, or long-armed ape. See Gibbon.

To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons, and examples.

Not material; intangible; incorporeal. "Impalpable, void, and bodiless." Holland.

ty of being imporous; want of porosity; compactness. "The . . . imporosity betwixt the tangible parts." Bacon.

tle busy bee Improve each shining hour. I. Watts. Those moments were diligently improved. Gibbon. True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion. Washington.

o consider; to regard. [R.] If we impute this last humiliation as the cause of his death. Gibbon.

sun sets weeping in the lowly west. Shak. Situated in the forty-first degree of latitude. Gibbon. Matter for censure in every page. Macaulay.

Not apprehensible; unintelligible; inconceivable. Milton.