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joi. Addison. At last a gleam Of dawning light turned thitherward in haste His [Satan's] traveled steps. Milton. A glimmer, and then a gleam of light. Longfellow.

The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad.

7. -- Gold diggings, the places, or region, where gold is found by digging in sand and gravel from which it is separated by washing. -- Gold end, a fragment of broken gold or jewelry. -- Gold-end man. (a) A buyer of old gold or jewelry. (b) A goldsmith's apprentice. (c) An itinerant jeweler. "I know him not: he loo…

Small particles of earth; gravel. [Obs.] Lying down upon the sandy grail. Spenser.

Furniture; apparatus or accouterments for work, traveling, war, etc. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A traveler's handbag. [Colloq.]

Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.

Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera. [Written also gromill.]

be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut.

A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.

To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler. I wish . . . you 'ld guide me to your sovereign's court. Shak.

A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.

A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.

of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin.

ecially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings. Fuller.

ar one call. Lay thine ear close to the ground, and list if thou canst hear the tread of travelers. Shak. He had been heard to utter an ominous growl. Macaulay.

The edge or border of a garment or cloth, doubled over and sewed, to strengthen raveling.

r plants, or new species of plants, with a view to classifying them. He herborized as he traveled. W. Tooke.

A highway; a much travele

and thither, to and fro; backward and forward; in various directions. "Victory is like a traveller, and goeth hither and thither." Knolles.