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An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. "An idle gaud." Shak.

See Gaudy, a feast.

Finery; ornaments; ostentatious display. [R.] "Tarnished gaudery." Dryden.

Joyful; showy. [Obs.]

In a gaudy manner. Guthrie.

The quality of being gaudy. Whitlock.

Gaudy. "Gaudish ceremonies." Bale.

Destitute of ornament. [R.]

eretricious. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. Shak.

Light green. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

A separating; removal; also, an abscess. [Obs.] Gauden. Barrough.

One who acknowledges no head or superior. Dr. Gauden.

Tending to bless. Gauden.

The state of being bewitched. Gauden.

Finely; gaudily; gayly; showily. And [she] decked herself bravely to allure the eyes of all men that should see her. Judith. x. 4.

Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham. [Slang] "These Brummagem gentry." Lady D. Hardy.

ed to be a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit. Gauda galli epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the begining of the Devonian age in eastern America, so named from the characteristic gritty sandstone marked with impressions of cauda galli. See the Diagram under Geology.…

ommodations. [R.] Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed. Gauden.

dness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet. They have put me in a silk gown and gaudy fool's cap; I as ashamed to be dandled thus. Addison. The book, thus dandled into popularity by bishops and good ladies, contained many pieces of nursery eloquence. Jeffrey.

To put on without taste; to deck gaudily. [R.] Let him be daubed with lace. Dryden.