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a. [ F. arrogant, L. arrogans, p. pr. of arrogare. See Arrogate. ] 1. Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Magisterial; lordly; proud; assuming; overbearing; presumptuous; haughty. See Magisterial. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Arrogance. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. brigantin, fr. It. brigantino, originally, a practical vessel. See Brigand, and cf. Brig ] 1. A practical vessel. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig in that she does not carry a square mainsail. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. See Brigandine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Disputing or wrangling. [ Obs. ] -- n. One who litigates or wrangles. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. corrugans, p. pr. See Corrugate. ] Having the power of contracting into wrinkles. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. derogans, p. pr. ] Derogatory. [ R. ] T. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Dracanth. ] A mucilage obtained from, or containing, gum tragacanth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. elegans, -antis; akin to eligere to pick out, choose, select: cf. F. élégant. See Elect. ] 1. Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.

Syn. -- Tasteful; polished; graceful; refined; comely; handsome; richly ornamental. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. extravagant, fr. L. extra on the outside + vagans, -antis, p. pr. of vagari to wander, from vagus wandering, vague. See Vague. ] 1. Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained; as, extravagant acts, wishes, praise, abuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man. “Extravagant expense.” Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who is confined to no general rule. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Eccl. Hist.) Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an extravagant manner; wildly; excessively; profusely. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being extravagant or in excess; excess; extravagance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fumigans, p. pr. of fumigare. See Fumigate. ] Fuming. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gantlet is corrupted fr. gantlope; gantlope is for gatelope, Sw. gatlopp, orig., a running down a lane; gata street, lane + lopp course, career, akin to löpa to run. See Gate a way, and Leap. ] A military punishment formerly in use, wherein the offender was made to run between two files of men facing one another, who struck him as he passed. [ 1913 Webster ]

To run the gantlet, to suffer the punishment of the gantlet; hence, to go through the ordeal of severe criticism or controversy, or ill-treatment at many hands. [ 1913 Webster ]

Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Written also, but less properly, gauntlet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A glove. See Gauntlet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A line rigged to a mast; -- used in hoisting rigging; a girtline. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Gantlet. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Gauntree. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Gargantua, an allegorical hero of Rabelais. ] Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. giganteus, fr. gigas, antis. See Giant. ] Like a giant; mighty; gigantic. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. ] Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sort of mock-heroic gigantesque
With which we bantered little Lilia first. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. gigas, -antis, giant. See Giant. ] 1. Of extraordinary size; like a giant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

When descends on the Atlantic
The gigantic
Strom wind of the equinox. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bulky, big. [ Obs. ] Burton. -- Gi*gan"tic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ . gigas, -antis, giant + caedere to kill. ] The act of killing, or one who kills, a giant. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Gigantic. [ Obs. ] Bullokar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, giant + -logy: cf. F. gigantologie. ] An account or description of giants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. gigantomachia, fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_;, &unr_;, giant + &unr_; battle: cf. F. gigantomachie. ] A war of giants; especially, the fabulous war of the giants against heaven.

a. [ L. inelegans: cf. F. inélégant. See In- not, and Elegant. ] Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires. [ 1913 Webster ]

What order so contrived as not to mix
Tastes, not well joined, inelegant. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

It renders style often obscure, always embarrassed and inelegant. Blair. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an inelegant manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. one who instigates; someone who deliberately provokes trouble; an instigator.
Syn. -- instigator, provoker, inciter. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ F. ] A female intriguer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Obs. ] See Legatine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. litigans, -antis, p. pr. of litigare: cf. F. litigant. See Litigate. ] Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit; as, the parties litigant. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person engaged in a lawsuit. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. mitigans, p. pr. of mitigare. See Mitigate. ] Tending to mitigate; mitigating; lenitive. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. multivagus; multus much + vagus wandering; cf. vagans, p. pr. of vagari. See Vagary. ] Wandering much. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. mundus the world + vagans wandering, p. pr. of vagari. See Vagary. ] Wandering over the world. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. nox, noctis, night + vagans, p. pr. of vagari to wander about. ] (Zool.) Going about in the night; night-wandering. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Oligo- + Gr. 'a`nqos flower. ] (Bot.) Having few flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Omni + L. vagans, p. pr. of vagari to wander. ] Wandering anywhere and everywhere. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Too elegant. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Saxifrage. ] Breaking or destroying stones; saxifragous. [ R. ] -- n. That which breaks or destroys stones. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. solus alone + vagans wandering. ] Wandering alone. [ R. ] T. Grander. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. Suffragan. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. supererogans, p. pr. See Supererogate. ] Supererogatory. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Showing the back; as, the eagle tergant. [ Written also tergiant. ] [ 1913 Webster ]