After bakbytyng cometh grucching or murmuracioun, and somtyme it springith of impacience agayns God, and somtyme agains man.—Chaucer, The Persones Tale (Morris, iii. p. 305).
Yea without grudging Christ suffered the cruel Jews to crown Him with most sharp thorns, and to strike Him with a reed.—Foxe, Book of Martyrs: Examination of William Thorpe.
Use hospitality one to another without grudging [ἄνευ γογγυσμῶν].—1 Pet. iv. 9. (A.V.)
Guard. Is ‘guard,’ in the sense of welt or border to a garment, nothing more than a special application of ‘guard,’ as it is familiar to us all? or is it altogether a different word with its own etymology, and only by accident offering the same letters in the same sequence? I have assumed, though not with perfect confidence, the former; for indeed otherwise the word would have no right to a place here.
Antipater wears in outward show his apparel with a plain white welt or guard, but he is within all purple, I warrant you, and as red as scarlet.—Holland, Plutarch’s Morals, p. 412.
Then were the fathers of those children glad men to see their sons apparelled like Romans, in fair long gowns, garded with purple.—North, Plutarch’s Lives, p. 492.
Give him a livery
More guarded than his fellows.
Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, act ii. sc. 2.
Hag. One of the many words applied formerly to both sexes, but now restrained only to one. See ‘Coquet,’ ‘Girl,’ ‘Harlot,’ ‘Hoyden,’ ‘Termagant,’ ‘Witch.’