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Gantlet

GANT'LET

GANT'LOPE, noun A military punishment inflicted on criminals for some heinous offense. It is executed in this manner; soldiers are arranged in two rows, face to face, each armed with a switch or instrument of punishment; between these rows, the offender, stripped to his waist, is compelled to pass a certain number of times, and each man gives him a stroke. A similar punishment is used on board of ships. Hence this word is chiefly used in the phrase, to run the gantlet or gantlope.

Ganza

GAN'ZA, noun A kind of wold goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world.

Gaol

GAOL, noun A prison; a place for the confinement of debtors and criminals.

GAOL, verb transitive To imprison; to confine in prison.

Gaoldelivery

GAOLDELIV'ERY, noun A judicial process for clearing jails of criminals, by trial and condemnation or acquittal.

Gaoler

GAOLER, noun The keeper of a gaol or prisoner; a jailor.

Gap

GAP, noun [See Gape and Gab.]

1. An opening in any thing made by breaking or parting; as a gap in a fence or wall.

2. A breach.

Manifold miseries ensued by the opening of that gap to all that side of christendom.

3. Any avenue or passage; way of entrance or departure.

4. A breach; a defect; a flaw; as a gap in honor or reputation.

5. An interstice; a vacuity.

A third can fill the gap with laughing.

6. A hiatus; a chasm; as a gap between words.

To stop a gap to secure a weak point; to repair a defect.

To stand in the gap to expose one's self for the protection of something; to make defense against any assailing danger. Ezekiel 22:30.

Gape

G'APE, verb intransitive

1. To open the mouth wide, from sleepiness, drowsiness or dullness; to yawn.

2. To open the mouth for food, as young birds.

3. To gape for or after, to desire earnestly; to crave; to look and long for; as, men often gape after court favor.

The hungry grave for her due tribute gapes.

To gape at, in a like sense, is hardly correct.

4. To open in fissures or crevices; as a gaping rock.

May that ground gape and swallow me alive.

5. To have a hiatus; as one vowel gaping on another.

6. To open the mouth in wonder or surprise; as the gaping fool; the gaping crowd.

7. To utter sound with open throat.

8. To open the mouth with hope or expectation.

9. To open the mouth with a desire to injure or devour.

They have gaped upon me with their mouth. Job 16:10.

G'APE, noun A gaping.

Gaper

G'APER, noun One who gapes; a yawner.

1. One who opens his mouth for wonder and stares foolishly.

2. One who longs or craves.

3. A fish with six or seven bands and tail undivided.

Gaping

G'APING, participle present tense Opening the mouth wide from sleepiness, dullness, wonder or admiration; yawning; opening in fissures; craving.

Gaptoothed

GAP'TOOTHED, adjective Having interstices between the teeth.

Gar

G'AR, in Saxon, a dart, a weapon; as in Edgar, or Eadgar, a happy weapon; Ethelgar, noble weapon.

Garagay

GAR'AGAY, noun A rapacious fowl of Mexico, of the size of the kite.

Garb

G'ARB, noun

1. Dress; clothes; habit; as the garb of a clergyman or judge.

2. Fashion or mode of dress.

3. Exterior appearance; looks.

4. In heraldry, a sheaf of corn.

Garbage

G'ARBAGE, noun [I know not the component parts of this word.] The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.

Garbaged

G'ARBAGED, adjective Stripped of the bowels.

Garbel

G'ARBEL, noun The plank next the keel of a ship. [See Garboard-streak.]

Garble

G'ARBLE, verb transitive [Latin cribro, cribello.]

1. Properly, to sift or bolt; to separate the fine or valuabale parts of a substance from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt; as, to garble spices.

2. To separate; to pick; to cull out.

Garbled

G'ARBLED, participle passive Sifted; bolted; separated; culled out.

Garbler

G'ARBLER, noun One who garbles, sifts or separates. A garbler of spices, is an officer of great antiquity in London.

1. One who picks out, culls or selects.

Garbles

G'ARBLES, noun plural The dust, soil or filth, severed from good spices, drugs, etc.

Garbling

G'ARBLING, participle present tense Sifting; separating; sorting; culling.

Garboard

G'ARBOARD, noun The garboard plank, in a ship, is the first plank fastened on the keel on the outside.

Garboard-streak, in a ship, is the first range or streak of planks laid on a ship's bottom, next the keel.

Garboil

G'ARBOIL, noun Tumult; uproar. [Not used.]

Gard

GARD. [See Guard and Ward.]

Garden

G'ARDEN, noun [Eng. yard, an inclosed place; Latin hortus.]

1. A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, or plants, fruits and flowers; usually near a mansion-house. Land appropriated to the raising of culinary herbs and roots for domestic use, is called a kitchen-garden; that appropriated to flowers and shrubs is called a flower garden; and that to fruits, is called a fruit garden But these uses are sometimes blended.

2. A rich, well cultivated spot or tract of country; a delightful spot. The intervals on the river Connecticut are all a garden Lombardy is the garden of Italy.

Garden, in composition, is used adjectively, as garden-mold, a rich fine mold or soil; garden-tillage, the tillage used in cultivating gardens.

G'ARDEN, verb intransitive To layout and to cultivate a garden; to prepare ground to plant and till it, for the purpose of producing plants, shrubs, flowers and fruits.

Garden-Plot

G'ARDEN-PLOT, noun The plot or plantation of a garden.

Garden-Stuff

G'ARDEN-STUFF, noun Plants growing in a garden; vegetables for the table. [A word in popular use.]

Garden-Ware

G'ARDEN-WARE, noun The produce of gardens. [Not in use.]

Gardener

G'ARDENER, noun One whose occupation is to make, tend and dress a garden.

Gardening

G'ARDENING, participle present tense Cultivating or tilling a garden.

G'ARDENING, noun The act of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture.

Gardon

G'ARDON, noun A fish of the roach kind.

Gare

GARE, noun Coarse wool growing on the legs of sheep.

Gargarism

G'ARGARISM, noun [Latin gargarismus; Gr. to wash the mouth; allied probably to gorge, the throat.]

A gargle; any liquid preparation used to wash the mouth and throat, to cure inflammations or ulcers, etc.

Gargarize

G'ARGARIZE, verb transitive [Latin gargarizo.] To wash or rinse the mouth with any medicated liquor.

Garget

G'ARGET, noun [See Gorge.] A distemper in cattle, consisting in a swelling of the throat and the neighboring parts.

Gargil

G'ARGIL, noun A distemper in geese, which stops the head and often proves fatal.

Gargle

G'ARGLE, verb transitive [Eng. to gurgle.]

1. To wash the throat and mouth with a liquid preparation, which is kept from descending into the stomach by a gentle expiration of air.

2. To warble; to play in the throat. [Unusual.]

G'ARBLE, noun Any liquid preparation for washing the mouth and throat.

Garglion

G'ARGLION, noun An exsudation of nervous juice from a bruise, which indurates into a tumor.

Gargol

G'ARGOL, noun A distemper in swine.

Garish

GARISH. [See Gairish.]

Garland

G'ARLAND, noun [Latin gyrus. It seems to denote something round or twisted, for in Spanish it is used for a wreath or cordage or puddening.]

1. A wreath or chaplet made of branches, flowers, fethers and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown.

2. A ornament of flowers, fruits and leaves intermixed, anciently used at the gates of temples where feasts and solemn rejoicings were held.

3. The top; the principal thing, or thing most prized.

4. A collection of little printed pieces.

5. In ships, a sort of net used by sailors instead of a locker or cupboard.

G'ARLAND, verb transitive To deck with a garland

Garlic

G'ARLIC, noun A plant of the genus Allium, having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic inclosed in a common membranous coat and easily separable.

Garliceater

G'ARLICEATER, noun A low fellow.

Garlicpear-Tree

G'ARLICPEAR-TREE, noun A tree in Jamaica, the Crateva, bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic.

Garment

G'ARMENT, noun Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. Garments, in the plural, denotes clothing in general; dress.

No man putteth a piece of new cloth to an old garment Matthew 9:16.

Garner

G'ARNER, noun A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

G'ARNER, verb transitive To store in a granary.

Garnet

G'ARNET, noun [Latin granatus, from granum, or granatum, the pomegranate.]

1. A mineral usually occurring in crystals more or less regular. The crystals have numerous sides, from twelve to sixty or even eighty four. Its prevailing color is red of various shades, but often brown, and sometimes green, yellow or black. It sometimes resembles the hyacinth, the leucite, and the idocrase. Of this gem there are several varieties, as the precious or oriental, the pyrope, the topazolite, the succinite, the common garnet the melanite, the pyreneite, the grossular, the allochroite, and the colophonite.

2. In ships, a sort of tackle fixed to the main stay, and used to hoist in and out the cargo.

Garnish

G'ARNISH, verb transitive

1. To adorn; to decorate with appendages; to set off.

All within with flowers was garnished.

2. To fit with fetters; a cant term.

3. To furnish; to supply; as a fort garnished with troops.

4. In law, to warn; to give notice. [See Garnishee.]

G'ARNISH, noun Ornament; something added for embellishment; decoration.

Matter and figure they produce;

For garnish this, and that for use.

1. In jails, fetters; a cant term.

2. Pensiuncula carceraria; a fee; an acknowledgment in money when first a prisoner goes to jail.

Garnished

G'ARNISHED, participle passive Adorned; decorated; embellished.

1. Furnished.

2. Warned; notified.

Garnishee

GARNISHEE', noun In law, one in whose hands the property of an absconding or absent debtor is attached, who is warned or notified of the demand or suit, and who may appear and defend in the suit, in the place of the principal.

Garnishing

G'ARNISHING, participle present tense Adorning; decorating; warning.

Garnishment

G'ARNISHMENT, noun Ornament; embellishment.

1. Warning; legal notice to the agent or attorney of an absconding debtor.

2. A fee.

Garniture

G'ARNITURE, noun Ornamental appendages; embellishment; furniture; dress.

Garous

GA'ROUS, adjective [Latin garum, pickle.] Resembling pickle made of fish.

Garran

GAR'RAN

GAR'RET, noun

1. That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under the roof.

2. Rotten wood. [Not in use.]

Garret

GAR'RET, n. 1. That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under the roof.2. Rotten wood. [Not in use.]

Garreted

GAR'RETED, adjective Protected by turrets.

Garreteer

GARRETEE'R, noun An inhabitant of a garret; a poor author.

Garrison

GAR'RISON, noun [English, garnish; warren, and from this root we have warrant and guaranty, as well as guard and regard, all from one source.

1. A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town, to defend it against an enemy, or to keep the inhabitants in subjection.

2. A fort, castle or fortified town, furnished with troops to defend it.

3. The state of being placed in a fortification for its defense; as troops laid in garrison

GAR'RISON, verb transitive To place troops in a fortress for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town.

1. To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory.

Garron

GAR'RON, noun A small horse; a highland horse; a hack; a jade; a galloway. [Not used in America.]

Garrulity

GARRU'LITY, noun [Latin garrulitas, from garrio, to prate.]

Talkativeness; loquacity; the practice or habit of talking much; a babbling or tattling.

Garrulous

GAR'RULOUS, adjective Talkative; prating; as garrulous old age.

Garter

G'ARTER, noun

1. A string or band used to tie a stocking to the leg.

2. The badge of an order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the order of the garter instituted by Edward III. This order is a college or corporation.

3. The principal king at arms.

4. The term in heraldry, signifying the half of a bend.

G'ARTER, verb transitive To bind with a garter

1. To invest with the order of the garter

Garterfish

G'ARTERFISH, noun A fish having a long depressed body, like the blade of a sword; the Lepidopus.

Garth

GARTH, noun

1. A dam or wear for catching fish.

2. A close; a little backside; a yard; a croft; a garden. [Not used.]

Gas

GAS, noun

In chimistry, a permanently elastic aeriform fluid, or a substance reduced to the state of an aeriform fluid by its permanent combination with caloric.

GASes are invisible except when colored, which happens in two or three instances.

Gascon

GAS'CON, noun A native of Gascony in France.

Gasconade

GAS'CONADE, noun A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging.

GASCONA'DE, verb intransitive To boast; to brag; to vaunt; to bluster.

Gaseous

GAS'EOUS, adjective In the form of gas or an aeriform fluid.

Gash

GASH, noun [I know not through what channel we have received this word. It may be allied to chisel.]

A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length, particularly in flesh.

GASH, verb intransitive To make a gash or long, deep incision; applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.

Gashed

GASH'ED, participle passive Cut with a long, deep incision.

Gashful

GASH'FUL, adjective Full of gashes; hideous.

Gashing

GASH'ING, participle present tense Cutting long, deep incision.

Gasification

GASIFICA'TION, noun [See Gasify.] The act or process of converting into gas.

Gasified

GAS'IFIED, participle passive Converted into an aeriform fluid.

Gasify

GAS'IFY, verb transitive [gas and Latin facio, to make.] To convert into gas or an aeriform fluid by combination with caloric.

Gasifying

GAS'IFYING, participle present tense Converting into gas.

Gasket

GAS'KET, noun A plaited cord fastened to the sail-yard of a ship, and used to furl or tie the sail to the yard.

Gaskins

GAS'KINS, noun plural Galligaskins; wide open hose. [See Galligaskins.]

Gaslight

GAS'LIGHT, noun Light produced by the combustion of carbureted hydrogen gas. Gaslights are now substituted for oil lights, in illuminating streets and apartments in houses.

Gasometer

GASOM'ETER, noun [gas] In chimistry, an instrument or apparatus, intended to measure, collect, preserve or mix different gases.

An instrument for measuring the quantity of gas employed in an experiment; also, the place where gas is prepared for lighting streets.

Gasometry

GASOM'ETRY, noun The science, art or practice of measuring gases. It teaches also the nature and properties of these elastic fluids.

Gasp

G'ASP, verb intransitive

1. To open the mouth wide in catching the breath or in laborious respiration; particularly in dying.

2. To long for. [Not in use.]

G'ASP, verb transitive To emit breath by opening wide the mouth.

And with short sobs he gasps away his breath.

G'ASP, noun The act of opening the mouth to catch the breath.

1. The short catch of the breath in the agonies of death.

Gasping

G'ASPING, participle present tense Opening the mouth to catch the breath.

Gast

G'AST

G'ASTER, verb transitive To make aghast; to frighten. [Not used.]

Gaster

G`ASTER, v.t. To make aghast; to frighten. [Not used.]

Gastness

G'ASTNESS, noun Amazement; fright. [Not used.]

Gastric

GAS'TRIC, adjective [from Gr. the belly or stomach.]

Belonging to the belly, or rather to the stomach. The gastric juice is a thin, pellucid liquor, separated by the capillary exhaling arteries of the stomach, which open upon its internal tunic. It is the principal agent in digestion.

Gastriloquist

GASTRIL'OQUIST, noun [Gr. belly, and Latin loquor, to speak.]

Literally, one who speaks from his belly or stomach; hence, one who so modified his voice that it seems to come from another person or place.

Gastrocele

GAS'TROCELE, [Gr. the stomach, and a tumor.] A rupture of the stomach.

Gastromancy

GAS'TROMANCY, noun [Gr. belly, and divination.]

A kind of divination among the ancients by means of words seeming to be uttered from the belly.

Gastroraphy

GASTROR'APHY, noun [Gr. belly, and a sewing or suture.]

The operation of sewing of wounds of the abdomen.

Gastrotomy

GASTROT'OMY, noun [Gr. belly, and to cut.]

The operation of cutting into or opening the abdomen.

Gat

GAT, preterit tense of get.

Gat-Toothed

GAT-TOOTHED, adjective Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth.

Gate

GATE, noun

1. A large door which gives entrance into a walled city, a castle, a temple, palace or other large edifice. It differs from door chiefly in being larger. gate signifies both the opening or passage, and the frame of boards, planks or timber which closes the passage.

2. A frame of timber which opens or closes a passage into any court, garden or other inclosed ground; also, the passage.

3. The frame which shuts or stops the passage of water through a dam into a flume.

4. An avenue; an opening; a way.

In scripture, figuratively, power, dominion. 'Thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; ' that is, towns and fortresses. Genesis 22:17.

The gates of hell, are the power and dominion of the devil and his instruments. Matthew 16:18.

The gates of death, are the brink of the grave. Psalms 9:13.

Gated

GA'TED, adjective Having gates.

Gatevein

GA'TEVEIN, noun The vena portae, a large vein which conveys the blood from the abdominal viscera into the liver.

Gateway

GA'TEWAY, noun A way through the gate of some inclosure.

1. A building to be passed at the entrance of the area before a mansion.

Gather

GATH'ER, verb transitive

1. To bring together; to collect a number of separate things into one place or into one aggregate body.

Gather stones; and they took stones, and made a heap. Genesis 31:46.

2. To get in harvest; to reap or cut and bring into barns or stores. Leviticus 25:20.

3. To pick up; to glean; to get in small parcels and bring together.

Gather out the stones. Isaiah 62:10.

He must gather up money by degrees.

4. To pluck; to collect by cropping, picking or plucking.

Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Matthew 7:16.

5. To assemble; to congregate; to bring persons into one place. Ezekiel 22:19.

6. To collect in abundance; to accumulate; to amass.

I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings. Ecclesiastes 2:26.

7. To select and take; to separate from others and bring together.

Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen. Psalms 106:47.

8. To sweep together.

The kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind. Matthew 13:28.

9. To bring into one body or interest.

Yet will I gather others to him. Isaiah 56:8.

10. To draw together from a state of expansion or diffusion; to contract.

Gathering his flowing robe he seemed to stand,

In act to speak, and graceful stretch'd his hand.

11. To gain.

He gathers ground upon her in the chase.

12. To pucker; to plait.

13. To deduce by inference; to collect or learn by reasoning. From what I hear I gather that he was present.

After he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them. Acts 16:1.

14. To coil as a serpent.

To gather breath, to have respite.

GATH'ER, verb intransitive To collect; to unite; to increase; to be condensed. The clouds gather in the west.

1. To increase; to grow larger by accretion of like matter.

Their snow ball did not gather as it went.

2. To assemble. The people gather fast.

3. To generate pus or matter. [See Gathering.]

Gatherable

GATH'ERABLE, adjective That may be collected; that may be deduced. [Unusual.]

Gathered

GATH'ERED, participle passive Collected; assembled; contracted; plaited; drawn by inference.

Gatherer

GATH'ERER, noun One who gathers or collects; one who gets in a crop.

Gathering

GATH'ERING, participle present tense Collecting; assembling; drawing together; plaiting; wrinkling.

GATH'ERING, noun The act of collecting or assembling.

1. Collection; a crowd; an assembly.

2. Charitable contribution. 1 Corinthians 16:2.

3. A tumor suppurated or maturated; a collection of pus; an abscess.

Gathers

GATH'ERS, noun Plaits; folds; puckers; wrinkles in cloth.

Gattertree

GAT'TERTREE, noun A species of Cornus or Cornelian cherry.

Gaud

GAUD, verb intransitive [Latin gaudeo, to rejoice.] To exult; to rejoice.

GAUD, noun [Latin gaudium.] An ornament; something worn for adorning the person; a fine thing.

Gauded

GAUD'ED, adjective Adorned with trinkets; colored.

Gaudery

GAUD'ERY, noun Finery; fine things; ornaments.

Gaudily

GAUD'ILY, adverb Showily; with ostentation of fine dress.

Gaudiness

GAUD'INESS, noun Showiness; tinsel appearance; ostentatious finery.

Gaudy

GAUD'Y, adjective Showy; splendid; gay.

A goldfinch there I saw, with gaudy pride

Of painted plumes--

1. Ostentatiously fine; gay beyond the simplicity of nature or good taste.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy

GAUD'Y, noun A feast or festival; a word in the university.

Gauge

GAUGE, verb transitive gage.

1. To measure or to ascertain the contents of a cask or vessel, as a pipe, puncheon, hogshead, barrel, tierce or keg.

2. To measure in respect to proportion.

The vanes nicely gauged on each side--

GAUGE, noun gage. A measure; a standard of measure.

1. Measure; dimensions.

Gauged

GA'UGED, participle passive Measured.

Gauger

GA'UGER, noun One who gauges; an officer whose business is to ascertain the contents of casks.

Gauging

GA'UGING, participle present tense Measuring a cask; ascertaining dimensions or proportions of quantity.

GA'UGING, noun The art of measuring the contents or capacities of vessels of any form.

Gauging-Rod

GA'UGING-ROD, noun An instrument to be used in measuring the contents of casks or vessels.

Gaul

GAUL, noun [Latin Gallia.] A name of ancient France; also, an inhabitant of gaul

Gaulish

GAUL'ISH, adjective Pertaining to ancient France or Gaul.

Gaunt

GAUNT

GAUNT'LET, noun A large iron glove with fingers covered with small plates, formerly worn by cavaliers, armed at all points.

To throw the gantlet, is to challenge; and

To take up the gantlet, is to accept the challenge.

Gauntlet

GAUNT'LET, n. A large iron glove with fingers covered with small plates, formerly worn by cavaliers, armed at all points.

To throw the gantlet, is to challenge; and

To take up the gantlet, is to accept the challenge.

Gauntly

GAUNT'LY, adverb gant'ly. Leanly; meagerly.

GAUNT'LET, noun [See Gantlet.]

Gauze

GAUZE, noun [Latin gausape, or gossipium.]

A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, of silk or linen.

Gauzeloom

GAUZELOOM, noun A loom in which gauze is wove.

Gauzy

GAUZ'Y, adjective Like gauze; thin as gauze.

Gave

GAVE, preterit tense of give.

Gavel

GAV'EL, noun In law, tribute; toll; custom. [See Gable.]

GAV'EL, noun

1. A small parcel of wheat, rye or other grain, laid together by reapers, consisting of two, three or more handfuls.

2. In England, a provincial word for ground.

GAV'EL, for gable or gable-end. [See Gable.]

Gavelet

GAV'ELET, noun An ancient and special cessavit in Kent, in England, where the custom of gavelkind continues, by which the tenant, if he withdraws his rent and services due to his lord, forfeits his lands and tenements.

1. In London, a writ used in the hustings, given to lords or rents in the city.

Gavelkind

GAV'ELKIND, noun A tenure in England, by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. This species of tenure prevailed in England before the Norman conquest, in many parts of the kingdom, perhaps in the whole realm; but particularly in Kent, where it still exists.

Gavelock

GAV'ELOCK, noun An iron crow.

Gavilan

GAV'ILAN, noun A species of hawk in the Philippine isles; the back and wings yellow; the belly white.

Gavot

GAV'OT, noun A kind of dance, the air of which has two brisk and lively strains in common time, each of which is played twice over. The first has usually four or eight bars, and the second contains eight, twelve or more.

Gawby

GAW'BY, noun A dunce. [Not in use.]

Gawk

GAWK, noun

1. A cuckoo.

2. A fool; a simpleton. [In both senses, it is retained in Scotland.]

Gawky

GAWK'Y, adjective Foolish; awkward; clumsy; clownish. [In this sense it is retained in vulgar use in America.]

GAWK'Y, noun A stupid, ignorant, awkward fellow.

Gay

GAY, adjective

1. Merry; airy; jovial; sportive; frolicksome. It denotes more life and animation than cheerful.

Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay

2. Fine; showy; as a gay dress.

3. Inflamed or merry with liquor; intoxicated; a vulgar use of the word in America.

GAY, noun An ornament. [Not used.]

Gayety

GA'YETY, noun

1. Merriment; mirth; airiness; as a company full of gayety

2. Act of juvenile pleasure; the gayeties of youth.

3. Finery; show; as the gayety of dress.

Gayly

GA'YLY, adverb Merrily; with mirth and frolick.

1. Finely; splendidly; pompously; as ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming.

Gayness

GA'YNESS, noun Gayety; finery.

Gaysome

GA'YSOME, adjective Full of gayety. [Little used.]

Gaze

GAZE, verb intransitive [Gr. to be astonished, and Heb. to see or look, that is, to fix the eye or to reach with the eye.]

To fix the eyes and look steadily and earnestly; to look with eagerness or curiosity; as in admiration, astonishment, or in study.

A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.

Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into

heaven? Acts 1:1.

GAZE, verb transitive To view with fixed attention.

And gazed awhile the ample sky.

[It is little used as a transitive verb.]

GAZE, noun A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder or admiration; a continued look of attention.

With secret gaze

Or open admiration, him behold--

1. The object gazed on; that which causes one to gaze

Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze

Gazeful

GA'ZEFUL, adjective Looking with a gaze; looking intently.

Gazehound

GA'ZEHOUND, noun A hound that pursues by the sight rather than by the scent.

Gazel

GAZ'EL, noun An animal of Africa and India, of the genus Antilope. It partakes of the nature of the goat and the deer. Like the goat, the gazel has hollow permanent horns, and it feeds on shrubs; but in size and delicacy, and in the nature and color of its hair, it resembles the roe-buck. It has cylindrical horns, most frequently annulated at the base, and bunches of hair on its fore legs. It has a most brilliant, beautiful eye.

Gazement

GA'ZEMENT, noun View. [Not in use.]

Gazer

GA'ZER, noun One who gazes; one who looks steadily and intently, from delight, admiration or study.

Gazette

GAZETTE, noun gazet'. A newspaper; a sheet or half sheet of paper containing an account of transactions and events of public or private concern, which are deemed important and interesting. The first gazette in England was published at Oxford in 1665. On the removal of the court to London, the title was changed to the London gazette It is now the official newspaper, and published on Tuesdays and Saturdays.

GAZETTE, verb transitive gazet'. To insert in a gazette; to announce or publish in a gazette

Gazetted

GAZETT'ED, participle passive Published in a gazette.

Gazetteer

GAZETTEE'R, noun A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority.

1. The title of a newspaper.

2. A book containing a brief description of empires, kingdoms, cities, towns and rivers, in a country or in the whole world, alphabetically arranged; a book of topographical descriptions.

Gazing

GA'ZING, participle present tense [See Gaze] Looking with fixed attention.

Gazingstock

GA'ZINGSTOCK, noun A person gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt.

Gazon

GAZON, noun In fortification, pieces of turf used to line parapets and the traverses of galleries.

Gead

YEAD, GEAD verb intransitive To go.

Geal

GEAL, verb intransitive [Latin gelo.] To congeal.

Gear

GEAR, noun

1. Apparatus; whatever is prepared; hence, habit; dress; ornaments.

Array thyself in her most gorgeous gear

2. More generally, the harness or furniture of beasts; whatever is used in equipping horses or cattle for draught; tackle.

3. In Scotland, warlike accouterments; also, goods, riches.

4. Business; matters.

5. By seamen pronounced jears, which see.

GEAR, verb transitive To dress; to put on gear; to harness.

Geared

GE'ARED, participle passive Dressed; harnessed.

Gearing

GE'ARING, participle present tense Dressing; harnessing.

Geason

GE'ASON, noun s as z. Rare; uncommon; wonderful.

Geat

GEAT, noun The hole through which metal runs into a mold in castings.

Geck

GECK, noun A dupe.

GECK, verb transitive To cheat, trick or gull.

Gee

GEE

GEESE, noun plural of goose.

Geese

GEESE, n. plu. of goose.

Geest

GEEST, noun Alluvial matter on the surface of land, not of recent origin.

Gehenna

GEHEN'NA, noun [Heb. ge-hinom, the valley of Hinom, in which was Tophet, where the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch. 2 Kings 23:10.]

This word has been used by the Jews as equivalent to hell, place of fire or torment and punishment, and the Greek word is rendered by our translators by hell and hell-fire. Matthew 18:9. 23.15.

Gehlenite

GEHLENITE, noun [from Gehlen, the chimist.]

A mineral recently discovered, in the description of which authors are not perfectly agreed. According to the description and analysis of Fuchs, it appears to be a variety of idocrase; but according to the observations of Prof. Clarke, it is probably a new species.

Gelable

GEL'ABLE, adjective [from Latin gelu, frost, or gelo, to congeal.]

That may or can be congealed; capable of being converted into jelly.

Gelatin

GEL'ATIN, noun [Latin gelo, to congeal, to freeze.]

A concrete animal substance, transparent, and soluble slowly in cold water, but rapidly in warm water. With tannin, a yellowish white precipitate is thrown down from a solution of gelatin which forms and elastic adhesive mass, not unlike vegetable gluten, and is a compound of tannin and gelatin

GEL'ATIN

Gelatinate

GELAT'INATE, verb intransitive To be converted into gelatin or into a substance like jelly.

Lapis lazuli, if calcined, does not effervesce, but gelatinates with the mineral acids.

GELAT'INATE, verb transitive To convert into gelatin or into a substance resembling jelly.

Gelatination

GELATINA'TION, noun The act or process of converting or being turned into gelatin, or into a substance like jelly.

Gelatinize

GEL'ATINIZE, verb intransitive The same as gelatinate.

Gelatinous

GELAT'INOUS, adjective Of the nature and consistence of gelatin; resembling jelly; viscous; moderately stiff and cohesive.

Geld

GELD, noun Money; tribute; compensation. This word is obsolete in English, but it occurs in old laws and law books in composition; as in Danegeld, or Danegelt, a tax imposed by the Danes; Weregeld, compensation for the life of a man, etc.

GELD. verb transitive preterit tense gelded or gelt; participle passive gelded or gelt.

1. To castrate; to emasculate.

2. To deprive of any essential part.

3. To deprive of any thing immodest or exceptionable.

Gelded

GELD'ED

GELD'ER, noun One who castrates.

Gelder

GELD'ER, n. One who castrates.

Gelder-Rose

GELD'ER-ROSE. A plant, a species of Viburnum; also, a species of Spiraea.

Gelding

GELD'ING, participle present tense Castrating.

GELD'ING, noun A castrated animal, but chiefly a horse.

Gelid

GEL'ID, adjective [Latin gelidus, from gelo, to freeze.] Cold; very cold.

Gelidness

GEL'IDNESS, noun Coldness.

Gelly

GEL'LY, noun [Latin gelo, gelatus. It is now more generally written jelly.]

1. The inspissated juice of fruit boiled with sugar.

2. A viscous or glutinous substance; a gluey substance, soft, but cohesive. [See Jelly.]

GELT, participle passive Of geld.

GELT, noun For gelding. [Not used.]

GELT, for gilt. Tinsel, or gilt surface. [Not used.]

Gelt

GELT, participle passive Castrated; emasculated.

Gem

GEM, noun [Latin gemma.]

1. A bud. In botany, the bud or compendium of a plant, covered with scales to protect the rudiments from the cold of winter and other injuries; called the hybernacle or winter quarters of a plant.

2. A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, topaz, emerald, etc.

GEM, verb transitive To adorn with gems, jewels or precious stones.

1. To bespangle; as foliage gemmed with dew drops.

2. To embellish with detached beauties.

England is studded and gemmed with castles and palaces.

GEM, verb intransitive To bud; to germinate.

Gemara

GEMAR'A, noun The second part of the Talmud or commentary on the Jewish laws.

Gemaric

GEMAR'IC, adjective Pertaining to the Gemara.

Gemel

GEM'EL, noun [Latin gemellus.] A pair; a term inheraldry.

Gemelliparous

GEMELLIP'AROUS, adjective [Latin gemellus and pario.] Producing twins.

Geminate

GEM'INATE, verb transitive [Latin gemino.] To double. [Little used.]

Gemination

GEMINA'TION, noun A doubling; duplication; repetition.

Gemini

GEM'INI, noun plural [Latin] Twins. In astronomy, a constellation or sign of the zodiac, representing Castor and Pollux. In the Britannic catalogue, it contains 85 stars.

Geminous

GEM'INOUS, adjective [Latin geminus.] Double; in pairs.

Geminy

GEM'INY, noun [supra.] Twins; a pair; a couple.

Gemmary

GEM'MARY, adjective [from gem.] Pertaining to gems or jewels.

Gemmation

GEMMA'TION, noun [Latin gemmatio, from gemma.]

In botany, budding; the state, form or construction of the bud of plants, of the leaves, stipules, petioles or scales.

Gemmeous

GEM'MEOUS, adjective [Latin gemmeus.] Pertaining to gems; of the nature of gems; resembling gems.

Gemmiparous

GEMMIP'AROUS, adjective [Latin gemma, a bud, and pario, to bear.]

Producing buds or gems.

Gemmule

GEM'MULE, noun A little gem or bud.

Gemmy

GEM'MY, adjective Bright; glittering; full of gems.

1. Neat; spruce; smart.

Gemote

GEMO'TE, noun A meeting. [See Meet.]

Gemsbok

GEMS'BOK, noun The name given to a variety of the antelope.

Gendarm

GEND'ARM, noun In France, gens d'armes is the denomination given to a select body of troops, destined to watch over the interior public safety. In the singular, gendarme, as written by Lunier, is properly anglicized gendarm

Gendarmery

GEND'ARMERY, noun [supra.] The body of gendarms.

Gender

GEN'DER, noun [Latin genus, from geno, gigno; Gr.to beget, or to be born; Eng. kind. Gr. a woman, a wife; Sans. gena, a wife, and genaga, a father. We have begin from the same root. See Begin and Can.]

1. Properly, kind; sort.

2. A sex, male or female. Hence,

3. In grammar, a difference in words to express distinction of sex; usually a difference of termination in nouns, adjectives and participles, to express the distinction of male and female. But although this was the original design of different terminations, yet in the progress of language, other words having no relation to one sex or the other, came to have genders assigned them by custom. Words expressing males are said to be of the masculine gender; those expressing females, of the feminine gender; and in some languages, words expressing things having no sex, are of the neuter or neither gender

GEN'DER, verb transitive To beget; but engender is more generally used.

GEN'DER, verb intransitive To copulate; to breed. Leviticus 19:19.

Genealogical

GENEALOG'ICAL, adjective [from genealogy.]

1. Pertaining to the descent of persons or families; exhibiting the succession of families from a progenitor; as a genealogical table.

2. According to the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; as genealogical order.

Genealogist

GENEAL'OGIST, noun He who traces descents of persons or families.

Genealogize

GENEAL'OGIZE, verb intransitive To relate the history of descents.

Genealogy

GENEAL'OGY, noun [Latin genealogia; Gr. race, and discourse; Eng. kind.]

1. An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession.

2. Pedigree; lineage; regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor.

Generable

GEN'ERABLE, adjective That may be engendered, begotten or produced.

General

GEN'ERAL, adjective [Latin generalis, from genus, a kind.]

1. Properly, relating to a whole genus or kind; and hence, relating to a whole class or order. Thus we speak of a general law of the animal or vegetable economy. This word, though from genus, kind, is used to express whatever is common to an order, class, kind, sort or species, or to any company or association of individuals.

2. Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; as, it is not logical to draw a general inference or conclusion from a particular fact.

3. Lax in signification; not restrained or limited to a particular import; not specific; as a loose and general expression.

4. Public; common; relating to or comprehending the whole community; as the general interest or safety of a nation.

5. Common to many or the greatest number; as a general opinion; a general custom.

6. Not directed to a single object.

If the same thing be peculiarly evil, that general aversion will be turned into a particular hatred against it.

7. Having a relation to all; common to the whole. Adam, our general sire.

8. Extensive, though not universal; common; usual.

This word is prefixed or annexed to words, to express the extent of their application. Thus a general assembly is an assembly of a whole body, in fact or by representation. In Scotland, it is the whole church convened by its representatives. In America, a legislature is sometimes called a general assembly.

In logic, a general term is a term which is the sign of a general idea.

An attorney general and a solicitor general is an officer who conducts suits and prosecutions for the king or for a nation or state, and whose authority is general in the state or kingdom.

A vicar general has authority as vicar or substitute over a whole territory or jurisdiction.

An adjutant general assists the general of an army, distributes orders, receives returns, etc.

The word general thus annexed to a name of office, denotes chief or superior; as a commissary general quarter-master general

In the line, a general officer is one who commands an army, a division or a brigade.

GEN'ERAL, noun The whole; the total; that which comprehends all or the chief part; opposed to particular.

In particulars our knowledge begins, and so spreads itself by degrees to generals.

A history painter paints man in general

1. In general in the main; for the most part; not always or universally.

I have shown that he excels, in general under each of these heads.

2. The chief commander of an army. But to distinguish this officer from other generals, he is often called general in chief. The officer second in rank is called lieutenant general

3. The commander of a division of an army or militia, usually called a major general

4. The commander of a brigade, called a brigadier general

5. A particular beat of drum or march, being that which, in the morning, gives notice for the infantry to be in readiness to march.

6. The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations established under the same rule.

7. The public; the interest of the whole; the vulgar. [Not in use.]

Generalissimo

GENERALIS'SIMO, noun The chief commander of an army or military force.

1. The supreme commander; sometimes a title of honor; as Alexander generalissimo of Greece.

Generality

GENERAL'ITY, noun

1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.

2. The main body; the bulk; the greatest part; as the generality of a nation or of mankind.

Generalization

GENERALIZA'TION, noun The act of extending from particulars to generals; the act of making general.

Generalize

GEN'ERALIZE, verb transitive To extend from particulars or species to genera, or to whole kinds or classes; to make general, or common to a number.

Copernicus generalized the celestial motions, by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more, by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air.

1. To reduce to a genus.

Generally

GEN'ERALLY, adverb In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently, but not without exceptions. A hot summer generally follows a cold winter. Men are generally more disposed to censure than to praise, as they generally suppose it easier to depress excellence in others than to equal or surpass it by elevating themselves.

1. In the main; without detail; in the whole taken together.

Generally speaking, they live very quietly.

Generalness

GEN'ERALNESS, noun Wide extent, though short of universality; frequency; commonness.

Generalship

GEN'ERALSHIP, noun The skill and conduct of a general officer; military skill in a commander, exhibited in the judicious arrangements of troops, or the operations of war.

Generalty

GEN'ERALTY, noun The whole; the totality. [Little used.]

Generant

GEN'ERANT, noun [Latin generans.] The power that generates; the power or principle that produces.

Generate

GEN'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin genero. See Gender.]

1. To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce a being similar to the parent. Every animal generates his own species.

2. To produce; to cause to be; to bring into life; as great whales which the waters generated.

3. To cause; to produce; to form.

Sounds are generated where there is no air at all.

Whatever generates a quantity of good chyle, must likewise generate milk.

In music, any given sound generates with itself its octave and two other sounds extremely sharp, viz, its twelfth above or the octave of its fifth, and the seventeenth above.

Generated

GEN'ERATED, participle passive Begotten; engendered; procreated; produced; formed.

Generating

GEN'ERATING, participle present tense Begetting; procreating; producing; forming.