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If. [Obs.]

See under Injector.

Mutial accommodation; mutual giving. [Scot.]

See Jiffy.

by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering. Shall I receive by gift, what of my own, . . . I can command Milton.

The state of being gifted. Echard.

Producing cold.

A premium paid by

Producing fruit; fruitful; fructiferous. Dr. H. More.

Shaped like a fungus or mushroom. Fungiform papillæ (Anat.), numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue.

Herring-shaped.

Not bearing fruit; not fructiferous.

Generous; ample; liberal. [Obs.]

Flowing copiously. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to making laws. Practically, in many cases, authority or legific competence has begun in bare power. J. Grote.

To render trifling or futile; to make silly. [R.] Coleridge.

Resembling a sponge; soft and porous; porous.

Carrying or bearing upon the back. Tergiferous plants (Bot.), plants which bear their seeds on the back of their leaves, as ferns.

Being without gifts, especially native gifts or endowments. Cowper.

hension; above mean actions; conduct above reproach. "Thy worth . . . is actions above my gifts." Marlowe. I saw in the way a light from heaven above the brightness of the sun. Acts xxxvi. 13.