Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets.
--Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
The good nuns would check her gadding tongue.
--Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
{Gadding car}, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Gadding — Gad Gad, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gadded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gadding}.] [Prob. fr. gad, n., and orig. meaning to drive about.] To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled. The gadding vine. Milton. [1913 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Gadding car — Gadding Gad ding, a. & n. Going about much, needlessly or without purpose. [1913 Webster] Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets. Bacon. [1913 Webster] The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. Tennyson. [1913 Webster] {Gadding… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
gadding — Mawdesley Glossary to go visiting frequently, to go often to town … English dialects glossary
gadding — passend, günstig … Hunsrückisch-Hochdeutsch
gadding — gæd v. wander restlessly, travel about, explore … English contemporary dictionary
gadding — … Useful english dictionary
gad — gad1 [gad] vi. gadded, gadding [LME gadden, to hurry, ? back form. < gadeling, companion in arms < OE gædeling: for IE base see GATHER] to wander about in an idle or restless way, as in seeking amusement n. an act of gadding: chiefly in the … English World dictionary
Journey — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Locomotion by land. < N PARAG:Journey >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 travel travel Sgm: N 1 traveling traveling &c. >V. wayfaring campaigning GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 journey journey excursion … English dictionary for students
Gad — Gad, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gadded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gadding}.] [Prob. fr. gad, n., and orig. meaning to drive about.] To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled. The gadding vine. Milton. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Gadded — Gad Gad, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gadded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gadding}.] [Prob. fr. gad, n., and orig. meaning to drive about.] To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled. The gadding vine. Milton. [1913 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
