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A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother. Should a great lady that was invited to be a gossip, in her place send her kitchen maid, 't would be ill taken. Selden.

One given to gossip. Beaconsfield.

The relationship between a person and his sponsors. [Obs.]

Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy. Bale.

Full of, or given to, gossip.

x to names of persons or places, used to denote a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsoniana of Johnson, etc.

An old woman; and old gossip. [Obs.] Shak.

rson given to idle observation of everything, with wonder or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler.

An expectation based on cirumstances. The lazy gossips of the port, Abborrent of a calculation crost, Began to chafe as at a personal wrong. Tennyson.

A trull or prostitute; a scold or gossip. [Obs.] [Written also callat.]

To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip. Shak. To chat a while on their adventures. Dryden.

A remark, observation, or criticism; gossip; discourse; talk. Their lavish comment when her name was named. Tennyson.

The relation of a godfather to a person. [Obs.] The relation of gossipred or compaternity by the cannon law is a spiritual affinity. Sir J. Da

sense; vacuity of mind. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray. Pope. The sins of emptiness, gossip, and spite. Tennyson.

To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. [Scot.] Jamieson. Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool. Wilson.

A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.

A gossip. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A gossip. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

frequently. Those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar. Milton. Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise. Roscommon. To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey. Gay.