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a. [ See 5th Fret. ] Adorned with fretwork. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. The name of a battle of the American Civil War fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylavania, in 1863. At this battle, the defeat of General Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate army was a major victory for the Union, and is considered by many a turning point in the war, after which victory by the Confederacy was no longer thought possible; as, many thousands died at Gettysburg. See also Gettysburg Address.
Syn. -- battle of Gettysburg. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

prop. n. The popular name of a speech given by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA, as part of a ceremony to dedicate a portion of that battlefield as a cemetary for soldiers who died fighting there. See note below. [ PJC ]

☞ Lincoln's Gettysburg Address,

Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we cannot hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from this earth.

a. Made of jet, or like jet in color. [ 1913 Webster ]

The people . . . are of a jetty. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Jetties [ F. jetée a pier, a jetty, a causeway. See Jet a shooting forth, and cf. Jutty. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Arch.) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A wharf or pier extending from the shore. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Hydraul. Engin.) A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jetty head (Naut.), a projecting part at the end of a wharf; the front of a wharf whose side forms one of the cheeks of a dock. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To jut out; to project. [ Obs. ] Florio. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a net, or network; netted. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Finical or fussy; full of petty details. [ Colloq. ]
Syn. -- finical, finicky, fussy, meticulous, painstaking, persnickety, punctilious. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 + PJC ]

a. [ Compar. Pettier superl. Pettiest. ] [ OE. petit, F. petit; probably of Celtic origin, and akin to E. piece. Cf. Petit. ] Little; trifling; inconsiderable; unimportant; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; petty complaints; a petty prince. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like a petty god
I walked about, admired of all. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Petty averages. See under Average. --
Petty cash, money expended or received in small items or amounts. --
Petty officer, a subofficer in the navy, as a gunner, etc., corresponding to a noncommissionned officer in the army. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ For petty constable, petty jury, petty larceny, petty treason, See Petit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Little; diminutive; inconsiderable; inferior; trifling; trivial; unimportant; frivolous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinæ, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler (Sylvia hortensis). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Petty + whin. ] (Bot.) The needle furze. See under Needle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Prettier superl. Prettiest. ] [ OE. prati, AS. prættig, prætig, crafty, sly, akin to præt, prætt, deceit, trickery, Icel. prettugr tricky, prettr a trick; probably fr. Latin, perhaps through Celtic; cf. W. praith act, deed, practice, LL. practica execution, practice, plot. See Practice. ] 1. Pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form a color; having slight or diminutive beauty; neat or elegant without elevation or grandeur; pleasingly, but not grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a pretty face; a pretty flower; a pretty poem. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the prettiest lowborn lass that ever
Ran on the greensward. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune. “Wavering a pretty while.” Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pretty gentleman is the most complaisant in the world. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He ] observed they were pretty men, meaning not handsome. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Elegant; neat; fine. See Handsome. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; -- less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pretty plainly professes himself a sincere Christian. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat pretty. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Affectation of a pretty style, manner, etc. [ R. ] Ed. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Spoken or speaking prettily. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Testy; irritable. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Thirty. [ Obs. or Scot. ] Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]