Part 592

I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education.

Felton.

4. Having more than usual power or capacity; having broad sympathies and generous impulses; comprehensive; -- said of the mind and heart.

5. Free; unembarrassed. [Obs.]

Of burdens all he set the Paynims large.

Fairfax.

6. Unrestrained by decorum; -- said of language. [Obs.] "Some large jests he will make." Shak.

7. Prodigal in expending; lavish. [Obs.] Chaucer.

8. (Naut.) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.

At large. (a) Without restraint or confinement; as, to go at large; to be left at large. (b) Diffusely; fully; in the full extent; as, to discourse on a subject at large. -- Common at large. See under Common, n. -- Electors at large, Representative at large, electors, or a representative, as in Congress, chosen to represent the whole of a State, in distinction from those chosen to represent particular districts in a State. [U. S.] -- To give, go, run, or sail large (Naut.), to have the wind crossing the direction of a vessel's course in such a way that the sails feel its full force, and the vessel gains its highest speed. See Large, a., 8.

Syn. -- Big; bulky; huge; capacious; comprehensive; ample; abundant; plentiful; populous; copious; diffusive; liberal.

Large, adv. Freely; licentiously. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Large, n. (Mus.) A musical note, formerly in use, equal to two longs, four breves, or eight semibreves.

Large"-a`cred (?), a. Possessing much land.

Large"-hand`ed (?), a. Having large hands. Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.

Large"-heart`ed (?), a. Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal. -- Large"-heart`ed*ness, n.

Large"ly, adv. In a large manner. Dryden. Milton.

Large"ness, n. The quality or state of being large.

{ Lar"gess, Lar"gesse (?), } n. [F. largesse, fr. large. See Large, a.] 1. Liberality; generosity; bounty. [Obs.]

Fulfilled of largesse and of all grace.

Chaucer.

2. A present; a gift; a bounty bestowed.

The heralds finished their proclamation with their usual cry of "Largesse, largesse, gallant knights!" and gold and silver pieces were showered on them from the galleries.

Sir W. Scott.

Lar"get (?), n. [Cf. F. larget.] A short piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.

||Lar*ghet"to (?), a. & adv. [It., dim. of largo largo.] (Mus.) ||Somewhat slow or slowly, but not so slowly as largo, and rather more ||so than andante. || Lar*gif"i*cal (?), a. [L. largificus; largus large + facere.] Generous; ample; liberal. [Obs.]

Lar*gif"lu*ous (?), a. [L. largifluus; large abundantly + fluere to flow.] Flowing copiously. [Obs.]

Lar*gil"o*quent (?), a. [Cf. L. largiloquus.] Grandiloquent. [Obs.]