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Definition of Gashful
1. a. Full of gashes; hideous; frightful.
Definition of Gashful
1. Adjective. (obsolete) Full of gashes; hideous; frightful. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gashful
1. hideous [adj] - See also: hideous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gashful
Literary usage of Gashful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"... Whose gashful halls do seem to pelt the skies. Come, death, :m<l welcome ;
which spoke comes in я ..."
2. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"... 1592 Nor prodigal upbraiding of thine eye«, Whose gashful balle do soem to
pelt ibe skie«. Come, death, and welcome; winch spoke comes in a ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Cf.gashful.] Ghastly; horrible; dreadful; deadly. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.]
Their warm and wanton embraces of living bodies ill agreed with their offerings ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"*gashful, Gastly. Frightful (East, Halliwell). Gast, or Gast Cow. A cow which
does not produce a calf in the season. Otherwise a Farrow Cow, qv Also applied ..."
5. Holy-days and Holidays: A Treasury of Historical Material, Sermons in Full by Edward Mark Deems (1906)
"... Whose gashful balls do seem to pelt the skies; 'Tis not the strict reforming
of your hair. So close that all the neighbor skull be bare; ..."
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