n. [ L. aegilopis, Gr. a'igi`lwps, fr. a'i`x, gen. a'igo`s, goat + 'w`ps eye. ] 1. (Med.) An ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye. [ Written also egilops ] AS [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) (a) The great wild-oat grass or other cornfield weed. Crabb. (b) [ capitalized ] A genus of plants, called also hardgrass. [ Written also egilops ] [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

a. [ F. agile, L. agilis, fr. agere to move. See Agent. ] Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shaking it with agile hand. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Active; alert; nimble; brisk; lively; quick. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an agile manner; nimbly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Agility; nimbleness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. agilié, L. agilitas, fr. agilis. ] 1. The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body. [ 1913 Webster ]

They . . . trust to the agility of their wit. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wheeling with the agility of a hawk. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Activity; powerful agency. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The agility of the sun's fiery heat. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. argile, L. argilla white clay, akin to Gr. &unr_; or &unr_; argil, &unr_; white. See Argent. ] (Min.) Clay, or potter's earth; sometimes pure clay, or alumina. See Clay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. argillaceus, fr. argilla. ] Of the nature of clay; consisting of, or containing, argil or clay; clayey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Argillaceous sandstone (Geol.), a sandstone containing much clay. --
Argillaceous iron ore, the clay ironstone. --
Argillaceous schist or
state. See Argillite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. argilla white clay + -ferous. ] Producing clay; -- applied to such earths as abound with argil. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; clay + -lite. ] (Min.) Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc. -- Ar`gil*lit"ic, a. [1913 Webster]

a. Consisting of, or containing, clay and sand, as a soil. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of, or containing, clay and calcareous earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing clay and iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. argillosus, fr. argilla. See Argil. ] Argillaceous; clayey. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Aspergillum + -form. ] (Bot.) Resembling the aspergillum in form; as, an aspergilliform stigma. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ LL. aspergillum, fr. L. aspergere. See Asperse, v. t. ] 1. The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people. [ Also written aspergillus. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) See Wateringpot shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a loose, baggy way. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Begilded or Begilt ] To gild. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. consisting of, or containing, calcareous and argillaceous earths. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 3d Clove, and Gillyflower. ] Spice clove. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a dingy manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Ægilops. ] (Med.) Pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with, an Ægilops, or tumor in the corner of the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Ægilops.

n. The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Gilded by means of voltaic electricity. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To gild; to make splendent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fair Helena, who most engilds the night. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. évangile. See Evangel. ] Good tidings; evangel. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Above all, the Servians . . . read, with much avidity, the evangile of their freedom. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. evigilatio; e out + vigilare to be awake. See Vigilant. ] A waking up or awakening. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman of light behavior; a gill-flirt. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

You heard him take me up like a flirt-gill. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a foggy manner; obscurely. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fragilis, from frangere to break; cf. F. fragile. See Break, v. t., and cf. Frail, a. ] Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed. [ 1913 Webster ]

The state of ivy is tough, and not fragile. Bacon.

Syn. -- Brittle; infirm; weak; frail; frangible; slight.

-- Frag"ile*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. fragilitas: cf. F. fragilité. Cf. Frailty. ] 1. The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Weakness; feebleness. [ 1913 Webster ]

An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to it [ beauty ]. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Liability to error and sin; frailty. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The fragility and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ NL., fr. L. fringilla a chaffinch. ] (Zool.) A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Fringilline. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A natural family of birds of the finch group having short conical bills adapted for eating seeds, including finches, goldfinches, bullfinches, chaffinches, siskins, canaries, cardinals, grosbeaks, crossbills, linnets, and buntings. This family at one time included the sparrows of the family Emberizinae, but has more recently been restricted in usage.
Syn. -- family Fringillidae. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. (Zool.) Pertaining to the family Fringillidæ; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shaped like a small fungus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Garget, Gargoyle. ] A distemper in geese, affecting the head. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) A large tuberculated lizard (Heloderma suspectum) native of the dry plains of Arizona, New Mexico, etc. It is the only lizard known to have venomous teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. William Schwenk Gilbert, an English dramatist born at London Nov. 18, 1836. He is most famous for his collaborations with Sir Arthur Sullivan on a number of humorous light operas which are known as “Gilbert and Sullivan Operas”. His first play was “Dulcamara” (1866). He also wrote “The Palace of Truth” (1870), “Pygmalion and Galatea” (1871), “Sweethearts” (1874), “Engaged” (1877), “The Mountebanks” (1891), and in collaboration with Sir A. Sullivan (who wrote the music), he wrote “The Sorcerer” (1877), “H. M. S. Pinafore” (1878), “The Pirates of Penzance” (1879), “Patience” (1881), “Iolanthe” (1883), “The Mikado” (1885), “Ruddygore” (1887), “The Yeomen of the Guard” (1888), “The Gondoliers” (1889), and “Utopia, limited” (1893). The light operas proved very popular and continue to be performed over one hundred years later. He also published other works. [ Century Dict. 1906 +PJC ]

William Schwenk Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, who collaborated on a number of light operas. See Gilbert. [ PJC ]

prop. a. 1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert; as, Gilbertian libretti. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Wildly comic and improbable, as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas; as, Gilbertian coincidences. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings. T. C. Worsley [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Gilded or Gilt (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Gilding. ] [ AS. gyldan, from gold gold. √234. See Gold. ] 1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. “Gilded chariots.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let oft good humor, mild and gay,
Gild the calm evening of your day. Trumbull. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make red with drinking. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This grand liquior that hath gilded them. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. gilgan to pay + E. ale. See Yield, v. t., and Ale. ] A drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Gilded. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A Dutch coin. See Guilder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Gold in leaf, powder, or liquid, for application to any surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any superficial coating or appearance, as opposed to what is solid and genuine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gilding metal, a tough kind of sheet brass from which cartridge shells are made. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Guile. ] Guile. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. (Sumerian mythology) A legendary king of Sumeria and the hero of famous Sumerian and Babylonian epics. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The Epic of Gilgamesh, a long Babylonian epic written in cuneiform in the Sumerian language on clay tablets. Early versions of the written story date from 2000 B. C.; it is probably the first written story still in existence. A longer version was written in the Akkadian language, on 12 clay tablets found at Nineveh in the ruins of the library of Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria from 669 to 633 B. C. The story depicted the life and heroic deeds of the legendary Gilgamesh, apparently derived from stories about a real king of ancient Mesopotamia who lived around 2700 B. C. The story includes a tale of a great flood, which has some parallels to the biblical story of the flood survived by Noah. The Nineveh tablets name the author of that version of the story, a Shin-eqi-unninni. [ PJC ]

☞ The entire text may be found in:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Translated by Maureen Gallery Kovacs
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990)

and

Gilgamesh
Translated by John Maier and John Gardner
(New York: Vintage Press, 1981)

n. [ Icel. gil. ] A woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]