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ˈgashful, a. Obs. exc. dial.
[? alteration of ghastful, through association with gash n.1: cf. gash a.1 and gashly.]
Ghastly.
1620Quarles Feast Wormes H ij, Prodigall up-banding of thine eyes, Whose gashfull balls doe seeme to pelt the skyes. 1621― Argalus & P. (1678) 4 His gashful countenance swarthy, long and thin. 1651Culpepper Astrol. Judgem. Dis. (1658) 157 Signs of death by the eyes are..when they are very moveable, gashful, staring up and down or sunk deep in the head. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. i. 69 Come death, and welcome: which spoke, comes in a gashfull, horrid, meagre, terrible, ugly shape. 1823Moor Suffolk Wds., Gashful, ghastly—or as in Nares ‘horrid, frightful’. |