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A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom.

A paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access of fury. [A Gallicism]

int-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks. [A Gallicism] [Obs.] The Euripus of funds and actions. Burke.

To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting. [A Gallicism] Gibbon. Prescott.

Persons present. [Obs. or a Gallicism]

or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris Exposition of 1878. [A Gallicism]

To open; to lead. [A Gallicism] This, yielding, gave into a grassy walk. Tennyson. To give back, to recede; to retire; to retreat. They gave back and came no farther. Bunyan. -- To give in, to yield; to succumb; to acknowledge one's self beaten; to cease opposition. The Scots battalion was enforced to give in. Hayward.…

A pithy or witty saying; a witticism. [A Gallicism] Here and there turns up a ... savage mot. N. Brit. Rev.

Posture of defense; guard. [A Gallicism.] When they are not in parade, and upon their guard. Locke.

Prejudice; prepossession. [A Gallicism] Dryden.

Active power or movement; spring. [A Gallicism] [Obs.] Some . . . know the resorts and falls of business that can not sink into the main of it. Bacon.

he scoundrel right; -- To serve one's self of, to avail one's self of; to make use of. [A Gallicism] I will serve myself of this concession. Chillingworth. -- To serve out, to distribute; as, to serve out rations. -- To serve the time or the hour, to regulate one's actions by the requirements of the time instead of by…