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Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine. The confines of grace and the fringes of repentance. Jer. Taylor.

A small oleaceous tree (Chionanthus virginica), of the southern United States, having clusters of white flowers with slender petals. It is often cultivated.

Furnished with a fringe. Fringed lear (Bot.), a leaf edged with soft parallel hairs.

Having no fringe.

Encircling like a fringe; bordering. [R.] "The fringent air." Emerson.

A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling.

Fringilline.

Pertaining to the family Fringillidæ; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike.

Aborned with fringes. Shak.

The leveling of a surface, or the preparing of an air space, by means of strips of board or of larger pieces. See Fur, v. t., 3.

The act of collecting or bringing together.

A mode of plaiting or fluting. Gauffering iron, a kind of fluting iron for fabrics. -- Gauffering press (Flower Manuf.), a press for crimping the leaves and petals into shape.

an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery. Frictional gearing. See under Frictional. -- Gearing chain, an endless chain transmitted motion from one sprocket…

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A dazzling luster or brilliancy.

Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime. -- Glar"ing*ly, adv.

Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer. South.

In a glistering manner.

In a glittering manner.

Having a reverential and loving feeling towards God; religious. A brave good-fearing man. Tennyson.