Some, less skilful, fancy these scapi that occur in most of the larger gothick buildings of England are artificial; and will have it, that they Woodward. are a kind of fusil marble. 2. Running by the force of heat. The liquid ore he drain’d Into fit molds prepar'd; from which he form'd Fusile, or grav'n in metal. Milton's Par. Lost. O'er sand and ashes, and the stubborn flint, Fu ́sIL. n. s. [ fusil, French.] Philips. 1. A firelock; a small neat musket. Fusils must be made long, and small in the 1. The act of melting. 2. The state of being melted, or of running with heat. Metals in fusion do not flame for want of a copious fume, except spelter, which fumes copiously, and thereby flames. Newton's Opticks. Fuss. z. s. [A low cant word.] A tumult; a bustle. End as it befits your station; horse. Virgil, if he could have seen the first verses of the Sylvæ, would have thought Statius mad in his fustian description of the statue on the brazen Dryden's Dufresnoy. FU'STIC. n. s. A sort of wood brought from the West Indies, used in dying of cloth. Dist. To FU'STIGATE. v. a. [fustigo, Latin] Dict. To beat with a stick; to cane. FUSTILA RIAN. n. s. [from fusty.] A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel. A word used by Shakspeare only. Away, you scullion, you rampallian, you fus tilarian: I'll tickle your catastrophe. Henry IV. FU ́STINESS. 1. s. [from fusty.] Mouldiness; stink. Fu'sTY. adj. [from fust.] Ill-smelling; mouldy. Hector shall have a great catch, if he knock out either of your brains: he were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel. Shaksp. The fusty plebeians hate thine honours. Shakspeare. The large Achilles, at this fusty stuff, 1. Talkative: loquacious. One futile person, that maketh it his glory to tell, will do more hurt than many that know it their duty to conceal. Bacon. 2. Trifling; worthless; of no weight. FUTILITY. n. s. [futilité, French; from futile.] Swift. 1. Talkativeness; loquacity. 1. The trunk or body of a column. To FUST. v. n. [from the noun.] To 1. A kind of cloth made of linen and cot- 2. A high swelling kind of writing made Fustian is thoughts and words ill sorted, and 2. Swelling; unnaturally pompous; ridiculously tumid: used of style. When men argue, th' greatest part O' th' contest falls on terms of art, This fable does not strike so much at the fu tility of women, as at the incontinent levity of L'Estrange a prying humour. 2. Triflingness; want of weight; want of solidity. Trifling futility appears in their signs of the zodiack, and their mutual relations and aspects. Bentley. FUTTOCKS. . s. [corrupted from foot books. Skinner.] The lower timbers that hold the ship together. FUTURE. adj. [futurus, Latin; futur, French.] That will be hereafter; to come: as, the future state. Glory they sung to the Most High! good will Te future men, and in their dwellings peace. Milton. This prescience of God, as it is prescience, is not the cause of any thing futurely succeeding; neither doth God's foreknowledge impose any necessity, or bind. Raleigh And then they fall to th' argument. Hudibras, FUTURITION. 2. s. [from future.] The Until the fustian stuff be spent, VOL. II. Hh as it may be, is no where found but among the To FUZZ. v. n. [without etymology.] And fy on fortune, mine avowed foe, allay. Spenser. Fy, my lord, fy! a soldier, and afraid? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? A bawd, sir, fy upon him. But fy, my wand'ring muse, how thou do'st stray! Shaksp. Expectance calls thee now another way. Milt. Dryden. G. GAB G Greek, and the Latin, which is Has two sounds, one from the called that of the hard g, because it is formed by a pressure somewhat hard of the forepart of the tongue against the upper gum. This sound g retains tefore a, o, u, l, r; as gate, go, gull, The other sound, called that of the soft g, resembles that of j, and is commonly, though not always, found before, e, i; as, gem, gibbet. Before n, at the end of a word, g is commonly melted away; as in the French, from which these words are commonly derived: thus, for benign, malign, condign, we pronounce benine, maline, condine. It is often silent in the middle of the words before b; as, might. The Saxon 3, seems to have had generally the sound of y consonant; whence gate is by rusticks still pronounced yate. GABARDINE. n. s. [gavardina, Italian.] My best way is to creep under his gabardine ; there is no other shelter hereabout. Shaksp. You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gabardine. The knight did strait submit, And laid his weapons at her feet: Shaksp. Hudibras. TA ́BBLE. V. n. [gabbare, Italian; gabberen, Dutch.] A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes Shotsp To prate loudly without meaning. Have you no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gable like tinkers at this time of night? Do ye make an alehouse of my lady's house? Swift. Shakspeart Not to know what we speak one to another, so we seem to know, is to know straight our purpose: chough's language, gabble enough, and good enough. Shakspeare. 2. Loud talk without meaning, GABBLER... [from gabble.] A prater; The gabels of Naples are very high on oil, wine, and tobacco. Addison on Italy. GABION. n. s. [French.] A wicker basket which is filled with earth to make a fortification or intrenchment. His battery was defended all along with gaKnolles. bions, and casks filled with sand. GABLE. n. s. [gaval, Welsh; gable, French.] The sloping roof of a building. Take care that all your brick-work be covered with the tiling, according to the new way of building, without gable ends, which are very heavy, and very apt to let the water into the Mortimer's Husbandry. brick-work. GAD. n.s. [gad Saxon; gaddur, Islandick, a club.] 1. A wedge or ingot of steel. Flemish steel is brought down the Rhine to Dort, and other parts, some in bars, and some in gads; and therefore called Flemish steel, and sometimes gad steel. Moxon's Mech. Exer. 2. It seems to be used by Shakspeare for a style or graver. [from gad, Saxon, a goad.] I will go get a leaf of brass, And with a gad of steel will write these words. Shakspeare. To GAD. v. n. [Derived by Skinner from gadfly; by Junius from gadaw, Welsh, to forsake; thought by others only the preterit of the old word agaan, to go.] To ramble about without any settled purpose; to rove loosely and idly. How now, my headstrong, where have you been gadding? Shaksp. -Where I have learnt me to repent. The lesser devils arose with ghastly rore, And thronged forth about the world to gad; Each land they fill'd, river, stream and shore. Fairfax. Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets, and doth not keep home. Bacon. Gad not abroad at ev'ry quest and call Of an untrained hope or passion; To court each place or fortune that doth fall, Is wantonness in contemplation. Thee, shepherd, thee the woods and desart caves, Herbert. With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echo's moan. Milton. A fierce loud buzzing breeze; their stings draw blood, And drive the cattle gadding through the wood. Dryden. She wreaks her anger on her rival's head; With furies frights her from her native home, And drives her gadding, round the world to Dryden. roam. There's an ox lost, and this coxcomb runs a gadding after wild fowl. L'Estrange. No wonder their thoughts should be perpetually shifting from what disgusts them, and seek better entertainment in more pleasing objects, after which they will unavoidably be gadditg., Locke. GA'DDER. n. s. [from gad.] A rambler; one that runs much abroad without business. A drunken woman, and ́a gadder abroad, causeth great anger, and she will not cover her own shame. Ecclus. GA'DDINGLY. adv. [from gad.] In a rambling, roving manner, GA'DFLY. n. s. [gad and fly; but by Skinner, who makes it the original of gad, it is called goadfly. Supposed to be originally from goad, in Saxon gad, and fy.] A fly that when he stings the cattle makes them gad or run madly about; the breeze. The fly called the gady breedeth of somewhat that swimmeth upon the top of the water, and is most about ponds. Bacon's Nat. Hist. Light fly his slumbers, if perchance a flight Of angry gadflies fasten on the herd. Thomson. GAFF. n. s. A harpoon or large hook. Ainsworth. GAFFER. n. 5. [зerene, companion, Saxon.] A word of respect, now obsolete, or applied only in contempt to a mean person. For gaffer Treadwell told us by the bye, Excessive sorrow is exceeding dry. Gay's Past. GAFFLES. n. s. [garelucar, spears, Sax.] 1. Artificial spurs put upon cocks when they are set to fight. 2. A steel lever to bend crossbows. Ainsw. To GAG. v.n. [from gaghel, Dutch, the palate, Minshew.] To stop the mouth with something that may allow to breathe, but hinder to speak. He's out of his guard already: unless you laugh and minister occasion to him, he is gagg'd. Shaksp. Twelfth Night. There foam'd rebellious logick, gagg'd and Popco GAG. n. s. [from the verb.] Something put into the mouth to hinder speech or eating. bound. Some, when the kids their dams too deeply drain, With gags and muzzles their soft mouths re strain. Dryden. Your woman would have run up stairs before me; but I have secured her below with a gag in her chaps. Dryden. GAGE. n. s. [gage, French.] 1. A pledge; a pawn; a caution; any thing given in security. He, when the shamed shield of slain Sansfoy Nor without gages to the needy lend. Sandys. Southern's Oroon. main, Heav'n, as a gage, would cast some previous thing, And therefore doom'd that Lawson should be slain. Dryden. In any truth, that gets not possession of our minds by self-evidence or demonstration, the arguments that gain it assent, are the vouchers Locke and gage of its probability. 2. A measure; a rule of measuring. Is to come fairly off from the great debts Wherein my time, something too prodigal, Hath left me goged. Shakspeare. 3. To measure; to take the contents of any vessel, of liquids particularly. More properly gauge. See GAUGE. Shaksp. We shall see your bearing. Nay, but I bar to night: you shall not gage me By what we do to-night. To GAGGLE. v. n. [gagen, gagelen, Dutch.] To make a noise like a goose. Birds prune their feathers, geese gaggle, and crows seem to call upon rain; which is but the comfort they receive in the relenting of the air. Bacon's Nat. Hist. May fat geese gaggle with melodious voice, And ne'er want gooseberries or apple-sause. GAILY. adv. [from gay.] 1. Airily; cheerfully. 2. Splendidly. See GAYLY. GAIN. n. s. [gain, French.] King. 1. Profit; advantage: contrary to loss. But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Phil. Besides the purpose it were now, to teach how victory should be used, or the gains thereof communicated to the general content. Raleigh. Havock and spoil, and ruin are my gain. Milton. It is in praise of men as in gettings and gains; for light gains make heavy purses; for light gains come thick, whereas great come but now and then. Bacon's Essays. This must be made by some governor upon his own private account, who has a great stock that he is content to turn that way, and is invited by the gains. Temple. Compute the gains of his ungovern'd zeal, Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. Dry. Folly fights for kings or dives for gain. Pope. 2. Interest; lucrative views. That, sir, which serves for gain, And follows but for form, Will pack, when it begins to rain, And leave thee in the storm. 3. Unlawful advantage. Shaksp. Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? 2 Corinthians. } If pride, if envy, if the lust of gain, If mad ambition in thy bosom reign, Thou boast'st, alas! thy sober sense in vain. Fitzgerald. 4. Overplus in a comparative computation; any thing opposed to loss. To GAIN. v. a. [gagner, French.] 1. To obtain as profit or advantage. Egypt became a gained ground by the muddy 3. Milton Milton. A leper once he lost, and gain'd a king. To have the overplus in comparative computation. If you have two vessels to fill, and you empty one to fill the other, you gain nothing by that. Burnet's Theory of the Earth. 4. To obtain; to procure; to receive. I acceptance found, which gain'd This answer from the gracious voice divine. 5. 6. Milton. That side from small reflection gains Of glimm'ring air; less vex'd with tempest loud. Milton. If such a tradition were endeavoured to be set on foot, it is not easy to imagine how it should at first gain entertainment; but much more difficult to conceive however it should come to be universally propagated. Tillotson's Sermons. For fame with toil we gain, but loose with ease, Sure some to vex, but never all to please. Pope. To obtain increase of any thing allotted. I know that ye would gain the time, because ye see the king is gone from me. To obtain whatever, good or bad. Daniel. With shatter'd vessels and disabled oars. Pope. 11. To GAIN over. To draw to another party or interest. with on. The English have not only gained upon the 4. To obtain influence with: with on. Preface to the Accidence. GAINER. n. s. [from gain.] One who receives profit or advantage. The client, besides retaining a clear conscience, is always a gainer, and by no means can be at any loss, as seeing, if the composition be over-hard, he may relieve himself by recourse Bacon. to his oath. If what I get in empire I loose in fame, I think myself no gainer. Denham's Sophy. He that loses any thing, and gets wisdom by L'Estrange. it, is a gainer by the loss. By trade, we are as great gainers by the commodities of other countries as of our own nation. Addison's Freeholder. GAINFUL. adj. [gain and full.] 1. Advantageous; profitable. He will dazzle his eyes, and bait him in with the luscious proposal of some gainful purchase, some rich match, or advantageous project. South. 2. Lucrative; productive of money. Nor knows he merchants gainful care. Dryd. GA INGIVING. 2. S. ['gainst and give.] ried in earth and darkness, were never the richer for all the ore they digged; no more is the insatiable miser. Decay of Piety. GAINLY. adv. [from gain.] Handily; readily: dexterously. Out of use. To GAINSAY. v. a. ['gainst and say.] 1. To contradict; to oppose; to controvert with; to dispute against. Speeches which gainsay one another, must of necessity be applied both unto one and the same Hooker. subject. Too facile then, thou didst not much gainsay; Nay, didst permit, approve, and fair dismiss. 2. To deny any thing. I never heard yet Milten. That any of those bolder vices wanted Such as may satisfy gainsayers, when suddenly, and besides expectation, they require the same at our hands. Hooker. We are, for this cause, challenged as manifest gainsayers of scripture, even in that which we Hooker. read for scripture unto the people. sayers. It was full matter of conviction to all gainHammond. Others sought themselves a name by being his gainsayers, but failed of their purpose. 'GAINST. prep. [for against.] AGAINST. bore. Fell. Tremble, ye nations! who, secure before, Laugh'd at those arms, that 'gainst ourselves we Dryden. To GA INSTAND. v. a. ['gainst and stand.] To withstand; to oppose; to resist. A proper word, but not in use. Love proved himself valiant, that durst with the sword of reverent duty gainstand the force Sidney. of so many enraged desires. GA'IRISH. adj. [geaɲɲian, to dress fine, Saxon.] 1. Gaudy; showy; splendid; fine. Three or four will outrage in apparel, huge hose, monstrous hats, and gairish colours. Ascham. I call'd thee then poor shadow, painted queen, Milton. Fame and glory transport a man out of himself; it makes the mind loose and gairish, scatters the spirits, and leaves a kind of dissolution, South. upon all the faculties. GAIRISHNESS. 2. s. [from gairish.] I. Finery; flaunting gaudiness. 2. Flighty or extravagant joy. Let your hope be without vanity, or gairishness of spirit, but sober, grave, and silent. Taylor. GAIT. n. s. [gat, Dutch.] 1. A way: as, gang your gait. 2. Good youth, address thy gait unto her; Nought regarding, they kept on their gait, |