FUL

Though not to be met with in books, this is a common word with country-folks in general.

To FRISE. v. a. [frifer, Fr.] To drefs by crifping. This is confined to the hair of the head. FRI'SEUR. n. [Fr.] Hair-dreffer.

Let your man learn of the best frifeur to do your hair well, for that is a very material part of your drefs.

Chesterfield. "FRI'SKY. adj. Gay; airy. A low word." Why this thould be called a low word, though certainly a familiar one, is not fo evident.

Everybody will call you Colas, which is much worfe than frisky. Chesterfield. FRIVOLITY. n. [from frivolous. Infignificancy. The admiral was no ftranger to the frivolity, as well as falfehood of what he urged in his defence. Robertfon. "FRIVOLOUSLY. adv. Triflingly." Such a fellow is troublefomely active, frivolously bufy, foolishly lively. Chefterfield. "FRIVOLOUSNESS. n.

Triflingness."

Nothing can prove more fully the innocence of Suffolk, than the frivoloufness of the articles, which his enemies thought proper to object against him.

"FRONT. n.

Hume's Hiftory.

"2. The face, in a sense of cenfure or diflike." That dar'ft, though grim and terrible, advance Thy mis-created front athwart my way.

"7. The moft confpicuous part.'

Milton.

Shak/p. Othello.

The very head and front of my offending
Hath this extent, no more.
FRONTIERED. adj. Guarded on the frontier.

Now that is no more a border, nor frontiered with enemies. Spenfer.

FRONTI'NIAC. adj. [a town in France.] Denoting a kind of grape.

Miftrefs and woman differ no otherwife, than Frontiniac and ordinary grapes. Suckling. FRONTISTE'RIUM. n. [Lat. from portirnpiov, Gr.] Learned feminary.

'Twill be the great gymnafium of the realm,
The frontiferium of Great Brittany.

Randolph's Mufe's Looking glass.

FRORY. adj. [from frore.]

i. Frozen.

Lo! where they fpyde with speedie whirling pace
One in a charet of ftraunge furniment

Towards them driving. Sp. F.Q. B.IV. C.III. ft.38. FURNISHING. n. [from furnish.] External pre

tence.

[This interpretation is exactly conformable to Johnson's own note on the paffage, in Lear; yet with his ufual confiftency he brings this fame paffage for an example of the verb furnish in a different fenfe.]

"FURTHER. adj.

3. Further has in fome fort the force of a fubftantive in the phrafe no further." And in other phrafes too.

Milton.

And now what further fhall enfue, behold. FURTHEST. adv. The fuperlative of forth: as Johnfon makes it under that word.

4. Overplus in a comparative computation." Yet who knows

Exact the balance of our lofs and gain?

Who knows, how far a rattle may outweigh The mace or fceptre?

Sneyd Davies.

TO GAINSTRI'VĖ. v. n. ['gainst and firive.] To refift.

Whose bodies chaft, whenever in his powre
He may them catch unable to gainftrive,

He with his fhamefull luft doth first deflowre, And afterwards themfelves doth cruelly devoure. Sp. F.Q. B.IV. C.VII. ft.12. GA'LLEY-FOIST. n. The London City barge, which conveys the new Lord Mayor to Weftminster.

When the gallyfoift is afloat to Westminster. B. Jonfon's Epicane. "GALLOWAY. n. A horfe, &c."

The horses are small, never exceeding in fize what we call a ftout galloway. Hawkesworth's Voyages. GA'LLOWS-MAKER. n. One that makes a gal

lows.

GE A

GA'MING-HOUSE. n. A house where gaming is carried on.

All diforderly inns or alehouses, bawdy-houses, gaming-houefes, ftage-plays unlicensed, booths and stages for ropedancers, and the like, are public nufances. Blackflone. GA'MING-TABLE. n. A table appropriated to gaming.

They frequent plays, operas, and taverns, and at home have their routs and their gaming-tables. The World, No. 157. Plot in a garden.

any

GA'RDEN-PLOT. n.
In bower and field he fought, where tuft
Of grove, or garden-plot, more pleasant lay.
"GA'RTER. n.

"3. The principal king at arms.

Milton.

As worshipful as are the perfons of the illustrious heralds, Clarencieux, Garter, and the reft. Shaftesbury. GASTRILOQUIST. n. [from yarp, Gr. and loqui,

Lat.]

Gafiriloquifts are perfons, who have acquired the art of modifying their voice, fo that it affects the ear of the hearers, as if it came from another person, or from the Reid. clouds, or from under the earth. GAUR. n. A Perfian priest.

The comparison between the bramins and the Perfian gaurs, who pretend to be the difciples and fucceffors of the ancient magi the followers of Zoroafter may be thought worth a learned difquifition. Guthrie. GA'WDED. adj. [from gaude.] Flushed. Our veil'd dames Commit the war of white and damask in Their nicely gawded cheeks. GAʼZEMENT. n. [from gaze.] View. Then forth he brought his fnowy Florimele Cover'd from people's gazement with a vele.

Shakfp. Coriolanus.

Sp. F.Q. B.V. C.III. ft.17. GA'ZET. n. A fmall Venetian coin.

A gazet is almost a penny, whereof ten do make a livre, that is, nine pence.

Not a fol; not a gazet. “GAZETTE'ER. n.

3. A title for a newspaper.

Coryat's Crudities. Marmion's Antiquary.

Glaffes and bottles, pipes and gazetteers, As if the table even itself was drunk, Lie a wet broken scene.

"GEAR. n.

6. [geana, Sax. provifio.] Employment. That to Sir Calidore was easie geare.

N 2

Thomfon.

Sp. F.2. B.VI. C.III. ft. 6. Such

In gemini that noble power is fhewn,

That twins their hearts, and doth of two make one. B. Fonfon's Mafques. She is young and fanguine, has a wanton hazel eye, and was born under Gemini. Congreve. "GE'NDER. n. "2. A fex."

Things are frequently confidered with relation to the diftinction of fex or gender. Lowth. "GENEALOGICAL. adj. Pertaining to "descents or families."

Among the reft was the room in which James I. died, and a portico with a genealogical tree of the Houfe of Cecil painted on the walls. "GENEALOGIST. n.

Gough's Topog. under Theobalds. He who traces def

"cents." Confidering what trafh is thought worthy to be hoarded by genealogifts, the following may not be a defpicable addition to thofe repofitories. Walpole. To GENERALISE. v. a. [from generalis, Lat.] To reduce to a genus.

Sometimes the name of an individual is given to a general conception, and thereby the individual in a manner generalifed.

"GENEROUS. adj.

"I. Not of mean birth.".

Your dinner, and the generous iflanders

Reid.

By you invited, do attend your perfon. Shakf. Othello. "GENITIVE. adj.. -- In grammar, the name "of a cafe, which, among other relations, fignifies "one begotten." This literal argument for the word's etymology is left to fupport itself; but its meaning thould be fhewn by an example.

The relation of poffeffion, or belonging, is often expreffed by a cafe, or different ending of the fubftantive. The cafe anfwers to the genitive cafe in the Latin, and may ftill be fo called, though perhaps more properly the poffeffive cafe.

"GENTILITY. n.
"1. Dignity of birth."

Tis meet a gentle heart fhould ever fhew
By courtefie the fruit of true gentility.

"2. Elegance of behaviour."

Lowth.

Harrington.

All the men of quality [began] to fpeak the Gallic idiom in their houfes, as a high ftrain of gentility. Harris's Philological Inquiries. GENTLEMAN-U'SHER. n. One who holds a post at Court to usher others to the prefence.

His tongue goes always before his wit, like gentlemanOverbury. ufher, but fomewhat faster. GENTLEMANSHIP. n. [from gentleman.] Elegance of manners.

His fine gentlemanship did him no good. Marq. of Halifax. GENTLESSE. n. [from gentle.] Courtesy.

GIB

The falvage man, that never till this houre
Did taste of pittie, neither gentlese knew,
Seeing his fharp affault, and cruel ftoure,
Was much emmoved at his peril's vew.
Sp. F.Q. B.VI. C.IV. ft. 3.
Relating to Geo-

"GEOGRAPHICAL. adj.
graphy."

I fend you an historical, chronological, and geographical dictionary. As Geographical, it defcribes the fituation of countries and cities. Chesterfield. GEORGE-NO'BLE. n. A gold coin of Hen. VIII. George nobles at fix fhillings and eight pence. Leake. The gold coins of Henry the Eighth, were Sovereigns, half-fovereigns, Rials, half and quarter-rials, Angels, angelets, and quarter-angels, George-nobles, fortypenny pieces, Crowns of the double rofe, and halfIb.

crowns.

GEORGIUM SIDUS. n. [Lat. called after his majefty King George III.] One of the planets.

The Georgium Sidus is attended by two moons. Adams. The Georgium Sidus was difcovered by Dr. Herschel in the year 1781. Ib.

GERMAN. adj. Spoken in Germany.

I alfo expect that, you make yourself perfect mafter of the German language. Chefterfield. GERMAN. n. [the adj., meaning by ellipfis] The German language.

Do you learn German yet, to read, write, and fpeak it. Chefterfield. GERMANISM. n. [from German.] An idiom of the German language.

It is full of Latinifms, Gallicifms, Germanifms, and all ims but Anglicifms. Chefterfield. To GERN. v. n. [from ginnan Sax. ofcitare. [To

yawn.

--

And gaped like a gulf, when he did gerne. Sp. F.2. B.V. C.XII.ft.15. "GERUND. n. In the Latin grammar a kind "of verbal noun which governs cafes like a verb.” Lilly's definition is fomewhat different.

There be belonging to the infinitive mood of verbs certain voices called Gerunds; which have both the active and paffive fignification. Lilly. The participle with the prepofition before it, and ftill retaining its government, anfwers to what is called in Latin the gerund. Lowth.

GESTICULATION. n. --- Various postures." One who pretended to exprefs the fame fentence as many ways by gefticulation, as even Cicero himself could by his eloquence. Wollafion. "To GET. v. n.

"II. TO GET over" is active, and therefore out of its place. GETPENNY. n. [an old term for] A theatrical piece, that fucceeded.

The gunpowder plot, there was a getpenny! I have prefented that to an eighteen or twenty-pence audience nine times in an afternoon. B. Jonfon's Bartholomew Fair. “To GHESS. v. n. [ - - - Ghefs is by critics con"fidered as the true orthography. ---] To con“jecture.”

It feem'd a fecond paradife, I gheffe. Sp. F.2. B.IV. C.X. ft. 23. GIBBET-MAKER. n. One that makes gibbets. Ho! the gibbet-maker! he fays, that he hath taken them down again. Titus Andronicus. GILBERTIN.

The lowly gill, that never dares to climb. Shenftone's Schoolmiftrefs. GILL. n. A place hemm'd in with two fteep brows or banks, a rivulet running between them. Ray. You may continue along this gill, and paffing by one end of the village and its church for half a mile, it leads to an opening between two hills covered with fir woods. Gray's Letters. "GILT. n. 2. Gold money. Have for the gilt of France (O guilt indeed!) Confirmed confpiracy with fearful France.

- Golden fhew."

Shakfp. Hen. V. Though guilt condemns, tis gilt muft make us glad. Middleton's Mad World.

GI'MMAL. adj. [from the noun] Confifting of

links.

In their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit Lies foul with chew'd grass, still and motionless. Shakfp. Hen. V. A gimmal ring with one link hanging. Brewer's Lingua. To GIN. v. n. [ufed in poetry for] To begin.

Ginning in the middle. Shak. Prol. to Troilus & Creffida. GI'N-DRINKING. adj. Addicted to drinking gin. The common foldier can delight himself with his gindrinking trull. Spenfer's Crito. GIRDËR. n. [from gird, v.] A fatirift. We great girders, call it a fhort faying of fharp wit, with a bitter fenfe in a fweet word.

Lilly's Alexan. and Campafpe. GIRDLE-STEAD. n. [girdle and stead.] That part of the body where the girdle was worn. Divide yourself into two halfs just by the girdle-fead. Eaftward Hoe. GIRN. n. [a tranfpofition of letters for] Grin. This is at least a girn of fortune, if Not a fair fmile. Davenant's Wits. GITE. n. [called by Tyrwhitt Fr.] A robe. When Phoebus rofe, he left his golden weed, And donn'd a gite in deepest purple dy'd. GIUST. n. [from gioftra, Ital.] A tilting with spears.

Fairfax.

Full jolly knight he feem'd and faire did fitt,
As one for knightly giufts and fierce encounters fitt.
Sp. F.2. B.I. C.I. ft. 1.
To GIUST. v. n. [from the noun.] To tilt with
fpears.

So foorth they went, and both together giufted.
Sp. F.2 B.IV. C.I. ft.11.

GLA'DFULL. adj. Full of gladness.

There leave we them in pleasure and repaft Spending their joyous dayes and gladful nights. Sp. F.Q. B.V. C.III. ft. 40. GLADIATO'RIAN. adj. Of Gladiators.

The gladiatorian and other fanguinary fports, which we allow our people, difcover fufficiently our national taste. Shaftesbury. "GLEEK. n. ----Mufick."

A gleek of marriages. GLEE SOME. adj. [from glee.] Joyous That gleefome hunters pleafed with their sport With facrifices due have thank'd me for't.

He on his impious foes right onward drove
Gloomy as night.

GLOSSARIST. n. The writer of a gloffary.

Milton.

Etymology is fo clearly not a neceffary branch of the duty of a gloffarift, that I trust I fhall be easily excufed for not having troubled the reader with longer or more frequent digreffions of that fort. Tyrwhitt. GNOSTIC. n. [from you, Gr.] One of a peculiar fect among the early Chriftians.

The earliest and worft of heretics were thofe called Gnoftics, who took their name from an audacious pretence to certain knowledge and comprehenfion of the greater myfteries of faith." Shaftesbury. GOGGLE. n.

1. A ftrained motion of the eyes.

Others will have fuch a divided face between a devout goggle and an inviting glance, that the unnatural mixture will make the best look to be at that time ridiculous. Marq. of Halifax.

2. Ufed adjectively by B. Jonson.

Give him admonition to forfake his fawcy glavering grace, and his goggle eye. Poetafter.

3. The fenfe of this noun may ferve to correct Johnfon's interpretation of the verb, ill-fuited to his examples from Hudibras and Dryden. "GOLDNEY. n. A kind of fish, otherwife called Gilthead. Dia."

B. Jonfon ufes the word for a tranflation of carus

in Horace.

Nor