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An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments, etc., of gold.

eigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms. Nares. To sham Abraham, to feign sickness. Goldsmith.

y. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Goldsmith.

xi. 10. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place. Goldsmith.

n, perhaps less than terror. He looks behind him with affright, and forward with despair. Goldsmith.

ll after, to name like and reference to. Our eldest son was named George after his uncle. Goldsmith.

emarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste. A train of agreeable reveries. Goldsmith.

n an agreeably manner; in a manner to give pleasure; pleasingly. "Agreeably entertained." Goldsmith.

to overwhelm with wonder; to astound; to astonish greatly. "Amazing Europe with her wit." Goldsmith. And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David Matt. xii. 23.

The quality of being arch; cleverness; sly humor free from malice; waggishness. Goldsmith.

the arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation. Goldsmith.

An inordinate desire for some supposed good. All are taught an avarice of praise. Goldsmith.

e dead; to awake the dormant faculties. I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. Goldsmith. It way awake my bounty further. Shak. No sunny gleam awakes the trees. Keble.

A romping, saucy girl. [Playful] Goldsmith.

To make up in a bale. Goldsmith.

ie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat. Basks in the glare, and stems the tepid wave. Goldsmith.

The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. [Eng.] Goldsmith. Basket fish (Zoöl.), an ophiuran of the genus Astrophyton, having the arms much branched. See Astrophyton. -- Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. Hudibras. Hence, Baskethilted, a. -- Ba…

ountry between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean. How unlike their Belgic sires of old. Goldsmith.

To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub. Beplastered with rouge. Goldsmith.

To praise greatly or extravagantly. Goldsmith.