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Firm; stiff; hard; also, chilly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To strike together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth.

With gnashing.

Abounding in bubbles; bubbling. Nash.

To shriek; to gnash; to utter harsh or shrill cries. [Obs.] All full of chirkyng was that sorry place. Cheucer.

country chuffs, which make their bellies and their bags their god, are called rich cobs. Nash.

feminate person; a spoilt child. "A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling." Nash (1592). This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. Shak.

Holding a delegated position. Nash.

To harden. [Obs.] It will embrawn and iron-crust his flesh. Nash.

Luxuriously. Nash.

A writer of epitaphs. Nash.

To gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam. He foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth. Mark ix. 18.

quoth he, for so I am termed; a fellow that will swear you anything for twelve pence." -- Nash. -- Knight of the shire, in England, one of the representatives of a county in Parliament, in distinction from the representatives of cities and boroughs. -- Knights commanders, Knights grand cross, different classes of the…

m their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn. The palm and may make country houses gay. Nash. Plumes that micked the may. Tennyson.

ort. Burke. A vast accession of misery and woe from the mutual weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. Bentley.

To supply with provender or provisions; to provide for. [Obs.] Nash.

A blood relation. [Obs.] Nash.

Capable of being breathed; respirable. [Obs.] Nash.

an not make it stand on by reason there is too much, he must drink again for his penance. Nash.

To bare or gnash the teeth. [Obs.]