Old English | sp | English |
Gnar | vb | (OE. gynrran); to snarl, growl, creak. |
Gnast | n | A spark, candle snuff or wick. |
Gnasting | n | Sparking. |
Gnat | n | A small fly-like insect of the genus 'Culex". 2. something insignificant. |
Gnat-hawk | n | The bird, the nightjar |
Gnatlike | adj | Resembling a gnat or some aspect of one; tiny, insignificant. |
Gnat-sin | n | Trivial sin, a peccadillo, fault; fig. a very small, insignificant person. |
Gnaw | vb | To bite or chew steadily, wear away by biting, corrode. |
Gnaw | n | Gnawing, biting away. |
Gnaw | phr | "Gnaw Asunder" - to gnaw, or bitten in two. |
Gnaw | phr | "Gnaw Away" - to eat, bitten away, corrode or wear away. 2. destroy, as by the teeth of a rodent. |
Gnaw | phr | "Gnaw Away at" - bite at (continuously , in the manner of a rodent. 4. hurt or trouble without respite. |
Gnaw | phr | "Gnaw Off" - to chew off, bitten off, eat off. |
Gnaw | phr | "Gnaw One's Fingers to the Bone" - to fret. |
Gnaw-bone: | n | Term of derision for one abjectly poor |
Gnawed | adj | Corroded, eaten away, bitten away. |
Gnawer | n | A rodent. |
Gnawing | n | The action of gnawing, eating away, corroding. |
Gnede | adj | Of person: sparing, niggardly, miserly; 2. of things: scarce, barely, short in supply, small, wanting altogether in number, lacking. |
Gnede | phr | "To Make the Gates Gnede" - to go straight to one's destination. |
Gnedely | adv | Spaingly, frugally. |
Gnedish. | adj | Somewhat misery. |
Gnedeship | n | Miserliness. |
Gnedy | adj | Miserly. |
Gnide | vb | Rub with or between the hands. 2. to bruise, crush or rub out; to rub out; also speltgnidge |
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