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A going; a walk; a march; a way. Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor folks pass. Shak.

Having (such) a gait; -- used in composition; as, slow-gaited; heavy-gaited.

To dress with gaiters.

The dogwood tree. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A long, rolling swell of the sea. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

gile and vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal. Active and nervous was his gait. Wordsworth.

Gait; bearing. The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men. Harper's Mag.

To go at the easy gait called an amble; -- applied to the horse or to its rider.

With an ambling gait.

In a strutting manner; with a strutting gait.

A broken gait of a horse, between an amble and a gallop; -- commonly called a Canterbury gallop.

A little boot, legging, or gaiter.

To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop.

on, who met under the Articles of Confederation from 1781 till 1789. -- Congress boot or gaiter, a high shoe or half-boot, coming above the ankle, and having the sides made in part of some elastic material which stretches to allow the boot to be drawn on and off. [U.S.] -- Congress water, a saline mineral water from t…

Lame; halting. [R.] "The cripple, tardy-gaited night." Shak.

March; walk; gait. [Obs.]

[Perh. a different word; cf. Totty.] Unsteady in gait; hence, feeble; half-witted. [Eng.]

s state." Shak. "The hoop's enormous size." Jenyns. Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait. Milton.

of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation. A cold-looking, formal garden, cut into angles and rhomboids. W. Irwing. She took off the formal cap that confined her hair. Hawthorne.

A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.