GA, in Gothic, is a prefix, answering to ge in Saxon and other Teutonic languages. It sometimes has the force of the Latin cum or con, as in gawithan, to conjoin. But in most words it appears to have no use, and in modern English it is entirely lost. Y-cleped, in which ge is changed into y, is the last word in which the English retained this prefix.

GAB, noun The mouth; as in the phrase, the gift of the gab that is, loquaciousness. But the word is so vulgar as rarely to be used.

GAB'ARDINE, noun A coarse frock or loose upper garment; a mean dress.

GAB'BLE, verb intransitive [Eng. to gibe.]

1. To prate; to talk fast, or to talk without meaning.

Such a rout, and such a rabble,

Run to hear Jack Pudding gabble

2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as gabbling fowls.

GAB'BLE, noun Loud or rapid talk with meaning.

1. Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered, as of fowls.

GAB'BLER, noun A prater; a noisy talker; one that utters inarticulate sounds.

GAB'BLING, participle present tense Prating; chattering; uttering unmeaning or inarticulate sounds.

GAB'BRO, noun In mineralogy, the name given by the Italians to the aggregate of diallage and saussurite. It is the euphotide of the French, and the verde di Corcisa duro of artists.

GA'BEL, noun A tax, import or duty; usually an excise.

GA'BELER, noun A collector of the gabel or of taxes.

GA'BION, noun In fortification, a large basket of wickerwork, of a cylindrical form; filled with earth, and serving to shelter men from an enemy's fire.

GA'BLE, noun The triangular end of a house or other building, from the cornice or eaves to the top. In America, it is usually called the gable-end.

GA'BRIELITES, noun In ecclesiastical history, a sect of anabaptists in Pomerania, so called from one Gabriel Scherling.

GA'BRONITE, noun A mineral, supposed to be a variety of fettstein. It occurs in masses, whose structure is more or less foliated, or sometimes compact. Its colors are gray, bluish or greenish gray, and sometimes red.

GAD, noun

1. A wedge or ingot of steel.

2. A style or graver.

3. A punch of iron with a wooden handle, used by miners.

GAD, verb intransitive

1. To walk about; to rove or ramble idly or without any fixed purpose.

Give the water no passage, neither a wicked woman liberty to gad abroad.

2. To ramble in growth; as the gadding vine.

GAD'DER, noun A rambler; one that roves about idly.

GAD'DING, participle present tense Rambling; roving; walking about.

GAD'FLY, noun An insect of the genus Oestrus, which stings cattle, and deposits its eggs in their skin; called also the breeze.

GADO'LINITE, noun A mineral, so called from Professor Gadolin, usually in amorphous masses of a blackish color, and having the appearance of vitreous lava. It contains a new earth called yttria.

GAD'WALL, noun A fowl of the genus Anas, inhabiting the north of Europe.

GA'ELIC

GAFF, noun

1. A harpoon.

2. A sort of boom or pole, used in small ships, to extend the upper edge of the mizen, and of those sails whose foremost edge is joined to the mast by hoops or lacings, and which are extended by a boom below, as the main-sail of a sloop.

GAFF, n.

GAF'FER, noun [Heb. gebar, a man, vir.] A word or respect, which seems to have degenerated into a term of familiarity or contempt. [Little used.]

GAF'FLE, noun

1. An artificial spur put on cocks when the are set to fight.

2. A steel lever to bend cross-bows.

GAG, verb transitive

1. To stop the mouth by thrusting something into the throat, so as to hinder speaking.

2. To keck; to heave with nausea.

GAG, noun Something thrust into the mouth and throat to hinder speaking.

GAGE, noun [Eng. to wage.]

1. A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act to be done by the person depositing the thing, and which is to be forfeited by non-performance. It is used of a movable thing; not of land or other immovable.

There I throw my gage.

2. A challenge to combat; that is, a glove, a cap, a gauntlet, or the like, cast on the ground by the challenger, and taken up by the accepter of the challenge.

3. A measure, or rule of measuring; a standard. [See Gauge.]

4. The number of feet which a ship sinks in the water.

5. Among letter-founders, a piece of hard wood variously notched, used to adjust the dimensions, slopes, etc. of the various sorts of letters.

6. An instrument in joinery made to strike a line parallel to the straight side of a board.

A sliding-gage, a tool used by mathematical instrument makers for measuring and setting off distances.

Sea-gage, an instrument for finding the depth of the sea.

Tide-gage, an instrument for determining the highth of the tides.

Wind-gage, an instrument for measuring the force of the wind on any given surface.

Weather-gage, the windward side of a ship.

GAGE, verb transitive To pledge; to pawn; to give or deposit as a pledge or security for some other act; to wage or wager.

1. To bind by pledge, caution or security; to engage.

2. To measure; to take or ascertain the contents of a vessel, cask or ship; written also gauge.

GAGE, noun

1. A box or inclosure, made of boards, or with lattice work of wood, wicker or wire, for confining birds or beasts. For the confinement of the more strong and ferocious beasts, a cage is sometimes made of iron.

2. An inclosure made with pallisades for confining wild beasts.

3. A prison for petty criminals.

4. In carpentry, an outer work of timber, inclosing another within it; as the cage of a wind mill or of a stair case.

GA'GED, participle passive Pledged; measured.

GA'GER, noun One who gages or measures the contents.

GAG'GER, noun One that gags.

GAG'GLE, verb intransitive To make a noise like a goose.

GAG'GLING, noun The noise of geese.

GA'GING, participle present tense Pledging; measuring the contents.

G'AHNITE, noun [from Gahn, the discoverer.] A mineral, called also automalite and octahedral corundum. It is always crystallized in regular octahedrons, or in tetrahedrons with truncated angles.

GA'ILY, adverb [from gay, and better written gayly.]

1. Splendidly; with finery or showiness.

2. Joyfully; merrily.

GAIN, verb transitive [Heb. to gain to possess.]

1. To obtain by industry or the employment of capital; to get as profit or advantage; to acquire. Any industrious person may gain a good living in America; but it is less difficult to gain property, than it is to use it with prudence. Money at interest may gain five, six, or seven per cent.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Matthew 16:26.

2. To win; to obtain by superiority or success; as, to gain a battle or a victory; to gain a prize; to gain a cause in law.

3. To obtain; to acquire; to procure; to receive; as, to gain favor; to gain reputation.

For fame with toil we gain but lose with ease.

4. To obtain an increase of anything; as, to gain time.

5. To obtain or receive anything, good or bad; as, to gain harm and loss. Acts 27:21.

6. To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.

To gratify the queen, and gain the court.

If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. Matthew 18:15.

7. To obtain as a suitor.

8. To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor.

To gain into, to draw or persuade to join in.

He gained Lepidus into his measures.

To gain over, to draw to another party or interest; to win over.

To gain ground, to advance in any undertaking; to prevail; to acquire strength or extent; to increase.

GAIN, verb intransitive To have advantage or profit; to grow rich; to advance in interest or happiness.

Thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion. Ezekiel 22:13.

1. To encroach; to advance on; to come forward by degrees; with on; as, the ocean or river gains on the land.

2. To advance nearer; to gain ground on; with on; as, a fleet horse gains on his competitor.

3. To get ground; to prevail against or have the advantage.

The English have not only gained upon the Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice itself.

4. To obtain influence with.

My good behavior had so far gained on the emperor, that I began to conceive hopes of liberty.

To gain the wind, in sea language, is to arrive on the windward side of another ship.

GAIN, noun Profit; interest; something obtained as an advantage.

But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Philippians 3:7.

1. Unlawful advantage. 2 Corinthians 12:17.

2. Overplus in computation; any thing opposed to loss.

GAIN, noun In architecture, a beveling shoulder; a lapping of timbers, or the cut that is made for receiving a timber.

GAIN, adjective Handy; dexterous.

GA'INABLE, adjective That may be obtained or reached.

GA'INAGE, noun In old laws, the same as wainage, that is, guainage; the horses, oxen and furniture of the wain, or the instruments for carrying on tillage, which, when a villain was amerced, were left free, that cultivation might not be interrupted. The word signifies also the land itself, or the profit made by cultivation.

GA'INED, participle passive Obtained as profit or advantage; won; drawn over to a party; reached.

GA'INER, noun One that gains or obtains profit, interest or advantage.

GA'INFUL, adjective Producing profit or advantage; profitable; advantageous; advancing interest or happiness.

1. Lucrative; productive of money; adding to the wealth or estate.

GA'INFULLY, adverb With increase of wealth; profitably; advantageously.

GA'INFULNESS, noun Profit; advantage.

GA'INGIVING, noun [from the root of again, against, and give. See Gainsay.] A misgiving; a giving against or away. [Not used.]

GA'INLESS, adjective Not producing gain; unprofitable; not bringing advantage.

GA'INLESSNESS, noun Unprofitableness; want of advantage.

GA'INLY, adverb Handily; readily; dextrously.

GAINSA'Y, verb transitive [Eng. against.] To contradict; to oppose in words; to deny or declare not to be true what another says; to controvert; to dispute; applied to persons, or to propositions, declarations or facts.

I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke 21:15.

GAINSA'YER, noun One who contradicts or denies what is alleged; an opposer. Titus 1:9.

GAINSA'YING, participle present tense Contradicting; denying; opposing.

'GAINST. [See Against.]

GA'INSTAND, verb transitive To withstand; to oppose; to resist.

GA'INSTRIVE, verb intransitive To make resistance.

GA'INSTRIVE, verb transitive To withstand.

GA'IRISH, adjective [Gr. proud, boasting.]

1. Gaudy; showy; fine; affectedly fine; tawdry.

Monstrous hats and gairish colors.

2. Extravagantly gay; flighty.

Fame and glory transport a man out of himself; it makes the mind loose and gairish

GA'IRISHNESS, noun Gaudiness; finery; affected or ostentatious show.

1. Flighty or extravagant joy, or ostentation.

GAIT, noun [This word is probably connected with go or gad.]

1. A going; a walk; a march; a way.

2. Manner of walking or stepping. Every man has his peculiar gait

GA'ITER, noun A covering of cloth for the leg.

GA'LA, noun A gala day is a day of pomp, show or festivity, when persons appear in their best apparel.

GALAC'TITE, noun [Gr. milk.] A fossil substance resembling the morochthus or French chalk in many respects, but different in color. Immersed or triturated in water, it gives it the color of milk.

GALA'GE, noun A wooden shoe.

GALAN'GA, noun A plant, species of the Maranta or Indian Arrow-Root, so called because the root is used to extract the virus communicated by poisoned arrows. This plant has thick, knotty, creeping roots, crowned with long, broad, arundinaceous leaves, with stalks half a yard high, terminated by bunches of monopetalous, ringent flowers.

GALAN'GAL, noun Zedoary, a species of Kaempferia. It has tuberous, thick, oblong, fleshy roots, crowned with oval close-sitting leaves, by pairs, without footstalks.

GALA'TIANS, noun Inhabitants of Galatia, in the Lesser Asia, said to be descendants of the Gauls. [See Paul's epistle to them.]

GAL'AXY, noun [Gr. milk; fair.]

1. The milky way; that long, white, luminous track which seems to encompass the heavens like a girdle. This luminous appearance is found by the telescope to be occasioned by a multitude of stars, so small as not to be distinguished by the naked eye.

2. An assemblage of splendid persons or things.

GAL'BAN

GAL'BANUM, noun [Heb.varied in orthography, from to milk.]

The concrete gummy resinous juice of an umbelliferous plant, called Ferula Africana, etc., and by Linne, Bubon galbanum, which grows in Syria, the East Indies and Ethiopia. This gum comes in pale-colored, semitransparent, soft, tenacious masses, of different shades, from white to brown. It is rather resinous than gummy, and has a strong unpleasant smell, with a bitterish warm taste. It is unctuous to the touch, and softens between the fingers. When distilled with water or spirit, it yields an essential oil, and by distillation in a retort without mixture, it yields an empyreumatic oil of a fine blue color, but this is changed in the air to a purple.

GAL'BANUM, n. [Heb.varied in orthography, from to milk.]

The concrete gummy resinous juice of an umbelliferous plant, called Ferula Africana, &c., and by Linne, Bubon galbanum, which grows in Syria, the East Indies and Ethiopia. This gum comes in pale-colored, semitransparent, soft, tenacious masses, of different shades, from white to brown. It is rather resinous than gummy, and has a strong unpleasant smell, with a bitterish warm taste. It is unctuous to the touch, and softens between the fingers. When distilled with water or spirit, it yields an essential oil, and by distillation in a retort without mixture, it yields an empyreumatic oil of a fine blue color, but this is changed in the air to a purple.

GALE, noun A current of air; a strong wind. The sense of this word is very indefinite. The poets use it in the sense of a moderate breeze of current of air, as a gentle gale A stronger wind is called a fresh gale

In the language of seamen, the word gale unaccompanied by an epithet, signifies a vehement wind, a storm or tempest. They say, the ship carried away her top-mast in a gale or gale of wind; the ship rode out the gale But the word is often qualified, as a hard or strong gale a violent gale A current of wind somewhat less violent is denominated a stiff gale A less vehement wind is called a fresh gale which is a wind not too strong for a ship to carry single reefed top-sails, when close hauled. When the wind is not so violent but that a ship will carry her top-sails a-trip or full spread, it is called a loom-gale.

GALE, verb intransitive In seamen's language, to sail, or sail fast.

GA'LEA, noun [Latin galea a helmet.] A genus of sea hedge-hogs.

GAL'EAS, noun A Venetian ship, large, but low built, and moved both by oars and sails.

GA'LEATED, adjective [Latin galeatus, from galea, a helmet.]

1. Covered as with a helmet.

2. In botany, having a flower like a helmet, as the monk's-hood.

GALEE'TO, noun A fish of the genus Blennius, of a greenish color, sometimes variegated with blue transverse lines, and like the eel, living many hours after being taken from the water.

GALE'NA, noun [Gr. tranquillity, so named from its supposed effects in mitigating the violence of disease.] Originally, the name of the theriaca.

1. Sulphuret of lead; its common color is that shining bluish gray, usually called lead gray; sometimes it is nearly steel gray. Its streak has a metallic luster, but its fine powder is nearly black. Its structure is commonly foliated, sometimes granular or compact, and sometimes striated or fibrous. It occurs in regular crystals, or more frequently massive.

GALEN'IC

GALEN'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to or containing galena.

1. [from Galen, the physician.] Relating to Galen or his principles and method of treating diseases. The galenic remedies consist of preparations of herbs and roots, by infusion, decoction, etc. The chimical remedies consist of preparations by means of calcination, digestion, fermentation, etc.

GALEN'ICAL, a. Pertaining to or containing galena.

GA'LENISM

GA'LENIST, noun A follower of Galen in the preparation of medicine and modes of treating diseases; opposed to the chimists.

GA'LERITE, noun [Latin galerus, a hat or cap.] A genus of fossil shells.

GA'LIC, adjective [from Gael, Gaul, Gallia.] An epithet denoting what belongs to the Gaels, tribes of Celtic origin inhabiting the highlands of Scotland; as the Gaelic language.

GA'ELIC, noun The language of the highlanders of Scotland.

GALILE'AN, noun A native or inhabitant of Galilee, in Judea. Also, one of a sect among the Jews, who opposed the payment of tribute to the Romans.

GALIMA'TIA, noun Nonsense.

GAL'IOT, noun [Latin galea.]

1. A small galley, or sort of brigantine, built for chase. It is moved both by sails and oars, having one mast and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers.

2. galiot or galliott, a Dutch vessel, carrying a main-mast and a mizen-mast, and a large gaff main-sail.

GAL'IPOT, noun A white resin or resinous juice which flows by incision from the pine tree, especially the maritime pine. galipot encrusts the wounds of fir trees during winter. It consists of resin and oil.

GALL, noun [Gr. probably from its color.]

1. In the animal economy, the bile, a bitter, a yellowish green fluid, secreted in the glandular substance of the liver. It is glutinous or imperfectly fluid, like oil.

2. Any thing extremely bitter.

3. Rancor; malignity.

4. Anger; bitterness of mind.

GAL'LANT, adjective [Eng. could; Latin gallus, a cock.]

1. Gay; well dressed; showy; splendid; magnificent.

Neither shall gallant ships pass thereby. Isaiah 33:21.

The gay, the wise, the gallant and the grave.

[This sense is obsolete.]

2. Brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as a gallant youth; a gallant officer.

3. Fine; noble.

4. Courtly; civil; polite and attentive to ladies; courteous.

GALLANT', noun A gay, sprightly man; a courtly or fashionable man.

1. A man who is polite and attentive to ladies; one who attends upon ladies at parties, or to places of amusement.

2. A wooer; a lover; a suitor.

3. In an ill sense, one who caresses a woman for lewd purposes.

GALLANT', verb transitive To attend or wait on, as a lady.

1. To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan.

GAL'LANTLY, adverb Gaily; splendidly.

1. Bravely; nobly; heroically; generously; as, to fight gallantly; to defend a place gallantly

GAL'LANTNESS, noun Elegance or completeness of an acquired qualification.

GAL'LANTRY, noun

1. Splendor of appearance; show; magnificence; ostentatious finery. [Obsolete or obsolescent.]

2. Bravery; courageousness; heroism; intrepidity. The troops entered the fort with great gallantry

3. Nobleness; generosity.

4. Civility or polite attentions to ladies.

5. Vicious love or pretensions to love; civilities paid to females for the purpose of winning favors; hence, lewdness; debauchery.

GAL'LATE, noun [from gall.] A neutral salt formed by the gallic acid combined with a base.

GALLBLADDER, noun A small membranous sack, shaped like a pear, which receives the bile from the liver by the cystic duct.

GAL'LEASS. [See Galeas.]

GALL'ED, participle passive [See Gall, the verb.] Having the skin or surface worn or torn by wearing or rubbing; fretted; teased; injured; vexed.

GAL'LEON, noun A large ship formerly used by the Spaniards, in their commerce with South America, usually furnished with four decks.

GALLEOT, [See Galiot.]

GAL'LERY, noun

1. In architecture, a covered part of a building, commonly in the wings, used as an ambulatory or place for walking.

2. An ornamental walk or apartment in gardens, formed by trees.

3. In churches, a floor elevated on columns and furnished with pews or seats; usually ranged on three sides of the edifice. A similar structure in a play-house.

4. In fortification, a covered walk across the ditch of a town, made of beams covered with planks and loaded with earth.

5. In a mine, a narrow passage or branch of the mine carried under ground to a work designed to be blown up.

6. In a ship, a frame like a balcony projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship of war or of a large merchantman. That part at the stern, is called the stern-gallery; that at the quarters, the quarter-gallery.

GAL'LETYLE, noun Gallipot.

GAL'LEY, noun plural galleys. [Latin galea. The Latin word signifies a helmet, the top of a mast, and a galley; and the name of this vessel seems to have been derived from the head-piece, or kind of basket-work, at mast-head.]

1. A low flat-built vessel, with one deck, and navigated with sails and oars; used in the Mediterranean. The largest sort of galleys, employed by the Venetians, are 162 feet in length, or 133 feet keel. They have three masts and thirty two banks of oars; each bank containing two oars, and each oar managed by six or seven slaves. In the fore-part they carry three small batteries of cannon.

2. A place of toil and misery.

3. An open boat used on the Thames by custom-house officers, press-gangs, and for pleasure.

4. The cook room or kitchen of a ship of war; answering to the caboose of a merchantman.

5. An oblong reverberatory furnace, with a row of retorts whose necks protrude through lateral openings.

GAL'LEYFOIST, noun A barge of state.

GALL'FLY, noun The insect that punctures plants and occasions galls; the cynips.

GAL'LIARD, adjective Gay; brisk; active.

GAL'LIARD, noun A brisk, gay man; also, a lively dance.

GAL'LIARDISE, noun Merriment; excessive gayety.

GAL'LIARDNESS, noun Gayety.

GAL'LIC, adjective [From Gallia, Gaul.] Now pertaining to Gaul or France.

GAL'LIC, adjective [from gall.] Belonging to galls or oak apples; derived from galls; as the gallic acid.

GAL'LICAN, adjective [Latin gallicus, from Gallia, Gaul.] Pertaining to Gaul or France; as the gallican church or clergy.

GAL'LICISM, noun A mode of speech peculiar to the French nation; an idiomatic manner of using words in the French language.

GALLIGAS'KINS, noun Large open hose; used only in ludicrous language.

GAL'LIMAUFRY, noun A hash; a medley; a hodge-podge. [Little used.]

1. Any inconsistent or ridiculous medley.

2. A woman. [Not in used.]

GALLINA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin gallinaceus, from gallina, a hen, gallus, a cock, whose name is from crowing; Eng. to call.]

1. Designating that order of fowls called gallinoe, including the domestic fowls or those of the pheasant kind.

Gallinaceus Lapis, a glossy substance produced by volcanic fires; the lapis obsidianus of the ancients. A kind of it brought from Peru is of a beautiful black, or crow-color, like the gallinaco.

GALL'ING, participle present tense [See Gall, the verb.]

1. Fretting the skin; excoriating.

2. Adapted to fret or chagrin; vexing.

GAL'LINULE, noun [Latin gallinula, dim. of gallina, a hen.]

A tribe of fowls of the grallic order, included under the genus Fulica, with the coot.

GALLIOT

GAL'LIPOT, noun A small pot or vessel painted and glazed, used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines.

GAL'LIPOT, n. A small pot or vessel painted and glazed, used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines.

GALLIT'ZINITE, noun Rutile, an ore of titanium.

GAL'LIVAT, noun A small vessel used on the Malabar coast.

GALL'LESS, adjective [from gall.] Free from gall or bitterness.

GAL'LON, noun [Law Latin galona.] A measure of capacity for dry or liquid things, but usually for liquids, containing four quarts. But the gallon is not in all cases of uniform contents or dimensions. The gallon of wine contains 231 cubic inches, or eight pounds avordupois of pure water. The gallon of beer and ale contains 281 cubic inches, or ten pounds three ounces and a quarter avordupois of water; and the gallon of corn, meal, etc., 272 1/4 cubic inches, or nine pounds thirteen ounces of pure water.

GALLOON', noun A kind of close lace made of gold or silver, or of silk only.

GAL'LOP, verb intransitive

1. To move or run with leaps, as a horse to run or move with speed.

But gallop lively down the western hill.

2. To ride with a galloping pace.

We galloped towards the enemy.

3. To move very fast; to run over.

Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it.

GAL'LOP, noun The movement or pace of a quadruped, particularly of a horse, by springs, reaches or leaps. The animal lifts his fore feet nearly at the same time, and as these descend and are just ready to touch the ground, the hind feet are lifted at once. The gallop is the swiftest pace of a horse, but it is also a moderate pace, at the pleasure of a rider.

GAL'LOPER, noun A horse that gallops; also, a man that gallops or makes haste.

1. In artillery, a carriage which bears a gun of a pound and a half ball. It has shafts so as to be drawn without a limbon, and it may serve for light three and six pounders.

GAL'LOPIN, noun A servant for the kitchen.

GAL'LOW, verb transitive To fright or terrify.

GAL'LOWAY, noun A horse or species of horses of a small size, bred in galloway in Scotland.

GAL'LOWGLASS, noun An ancient Irish foot soldier.

GAL'LOWS, noun singular. [Gallows is in the singular number and should be preceded by a, a gallows The plural is gallowses.]

1. An instrument of punishment whereon criminals are executed by hanging. It consists of two posts and a cross beam on the top, to which the criminal is suspended by a rope fastened round his neck.

2. A wretch that deserves the gallows [Not used.]

GAL'LOWSFREE, adjective Free from danger of the gallows.

GAL'LOWTREE, noun The tree of execution.

GALLSICKNESS, noun A remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands.

GALLSTONE, noun A concretion formed in the gallbladder.

GALL, noun [Latin galla.] A hard round excrescence on the oak tree in certain warm climates, said to be the nest of an insect called cynips. It is formed from the tear issuing from a puncture made by the insect, and gradually increased by accessions of fresh matter, till it forms a covering to the eggs and succeeding insects. Galls are used in making ink; the best are from Aleppo.

GALL, verb transitive

1. To fret and wear away by friction; to excoriate; to hurt or break the skin by rubbing; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse, or a collar his breast.

Tyrant, I well deserve thy galling chain.

2. To impair; to wear away; as, a stream galls the ground.

3. To tease; to fret; to vex; to chagrin; as, to be galled by sarcasm.

4. To wound; to break the surface of any thing by rubbing; as, to gall a mast or a cable.

5. To injure; to harass; to annoy. The troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.

In our wars against the French of old, we used to gall them with our long bows, at a greater distance than they could shoot their arrows.

GALL, verb intransitive To fret; to be teased.

GALL, noun A wound in the skin by rubbing.

GALL'Y, adjective Like gall; bitter as gall.

GAL'LY, noun A printer's frame or oblong square board with a ledge on three sides, into which types are emptied from the composing stick. It has a groove to admit a false bottom, called a gally-slice.

GALO'CHE, noun A patten, clog or wooden shoe, or a shoe to be worn over another shoe to keep the foot dry. It is written also galoshe.

GALSOME, adjective gaul'som. [from gall.] Angry; malignant.

GALVAN'IC, adjective Pertaining to galvanism; containing or exhibiting it.

GAL'VANISM, noun [from Galvani of Bologna, the discover.]

Electrical phenomena in which the electricity is developed without the aid of friction, and in which a chimical action takes place between certain bodies.

Galvanism is heat, light, electricity and magnetism, united in combination or in simultaneous action; sometimes one and sometimes another of them predominating, and thus producing more or less all the effects of each: usual means of excitement, contact of dissimilar bodies, especially of metals and fluids.

GAL'VANIST, noun One who believes in galvanism; one versed in galvanism.

GAL'VANIZE, verb transitive To affect with galvanism.

GALVANOL'OGIST, noun One who describes the phenomena of galvanism.

GALVANOL'OGY, noun [galvanism, and Gr. discourse.]

A treatise on galvanism, or a description of its phenomena.

GALVANOM'ETER, noun [galvanism, and Gr. measure.]

An instrument or apparatus for measuring minute quantities of electricity, or the operations of galvanism.

GAMASH'ES, noun Short spatterdashes worn by plowmen.

GAMBA'DOES, noun Spatterdashes.

GAM'BET, noun A bird of the size of the greenshank, found in the Arctic sea, and in Scandinavia and Iceland.

GAM'BLE, verb intransitive [from game.] To play or game for money or other stake.

GAM'BLE, verb transitive To gamble away, is to squander by gaming.

Bankrupts or sots who have gambled or slept away their estates.

GAM'BLER, noun One who games or plays for money or other stake. Gamblers often or usually become cheats and knaves.

GAM'BLING, participle present tense Gaming for money.

GAMBO'GE, noun A concrete vegetable juice or gum-resin. It is brought in orbicular masses or cylindrical rolls, from Cambaja, Cambodja, or Cambogia, in the E. Indies, whence its name. It is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beautiful reddish yellow. It is used chiefly as a pigment. Taken internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic.

GAM'BOL, verb intransitive

1. To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to leap; to play in frolic, like boys and lambs.

2. To leap; to start.

GAM'BOL, noun A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a skip; a hop; a leap; a sportive prank.

GAM'BOLING, participle present tense Leaping; frisking; playing pranks.

GAM'BREL, noun The hind leg of a horse. Hence, in America, a crooked stick used by butchers. A hipped roof is called a gambrel-roof.

GAM'BREL, verb transitive To tie by the leg.

GAME, noun

1. Sport of any kind.

2. Jest; opposed to earnest; as, betwixt earnest and game [Not used.]

3. An exercise or play for amusement or winning a stake; as a game of cricket; a game of chess; a game of whist. Some games depend on skill; others on hazard.

4. A single match at play.

5. Advantage in play; as, to play the game into another's hand.

6. Scheme pursued; measures planned.

This seems to be the present game of that crown.

7. Field sports; the chase, falconry, etc.

8. Animals pursued or taken in the chase, or in the sports of the field; animals appropriated in England to legal sportsmen; as deer, hares, etc.

9. In antiquity, games were public diversions or contests exhibited as spectacles for the gratification of the people. These games consisted of running, leaping, wrestling, riding, etc. Such were the Olympic games, the Pythian, the Isthmian, the Nemean, etc., among the Greeks; and among the Romans, the Apollinarian, the Circensian, the Capitoline, etc.

10. Mockery; sport; derision; as, to make game of a person.

GAME, verb intransitive To play at any sport or diversion.

1. To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest.

2. To practice gaming.

GA'MECOCK, noun A cock bred or used to fight; a cock kept for barbarous sport.

GA'MEKEEPER, noun One who has the care of game; one who is authorized to preserve beasts of the chase, or animals kept for sport.

GA'MESOME, adjective Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome.

This gamesome humor of children.

GA'MESOMELY, adverb Merrily; playfully.

GA'MESOMENESS, noun Sportiveness; merriment.

GA'MESTER, noun

1. A person addicted to gaming; one who is accustomed to play for money or other stake, at cards, dice, billiards and the like; a gambler; one skilled in games.

It is as easy to be a scholar as a gamester

2. One engaged at play.

3. A merry, frolicsome person. [Not used.]

4. A prostitute. [Not in use.]

GA'MING, participle present tense Playing; sporting; playing for money.

GA'MING, noun The act or art of playing any game in a context for a victory, or for a prize or stake.

1. The practice of using cards, dice, billiards and the like, according to certain rules, for winning money, etc.

GAM'MER, noun The compellation of an old woman, answering to gaffer, applied to an old man.

GAM'MON, noun

1. The buttock or thigh of a hog, pickled and smoked or dried; a smoked ham.

2. A game, called usually back-gammon, which see.

GAM'MON, verb transitive To make bacon; to pickle and dry in smoke.

1. To fasten a bowsprit to the stem of a ship by several turns of a rope.

GAM'MON, verb transitive In the game of back-gammon, the party that, by fortunate throws of the dice or by superior skill in moving, withdraws all his men from the board, before his antagonist has been able to get his men home and withdraw any of them from his table, gammons his antagonist.

GAM'MUT, noun [from the Greek letter so named.]

1. A scale on which notes in music are written or printed, consisting of lines and spaces, which are named after the seven first letters of the alphabet.

2. The first or gravest note in Guido's scale of music, the modern scale.

GAN, a contraction of began, or rather the original simple word, Sax. gynnan, to begin.

GANCH, verb transitive To drop from a high place on hooks, as the Turks do malefactors, by way of punishment.

GAN'DER, noun [Latin anser.] The male of fowls of the goose kind.

GANG, verb intransitive To go; to walk. [Local, or used only in ludicrous language.]

GANG, noun [G., a metallic vein, a streak in a mine.]

1. Properly, a going; hence, a number of going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; as a gang of thieves.

2. In seamen's language, a select number of a ship's crew appointed on a particular service, under a suitable officer.

3. In mining, literally a course or vein, but appropriately the earthy, stony, saline or combustible substance which contains the ore of metals, or is only mingled with it, without being chemically combined. This is called the gang or matrix of the ore. It differs from a mineralizer, in not being combined with the metal.

[ This word, in the latter sense, is most unwarrantably and erroneously written gangue.]

GANG'BOARD, noun A board or plank with cleats for steps, used for walking into or out of a boat.

GANG'DAYS, noun Days or perambulation.

GANG'HON, noun A flower.

GANG'LION, noun In anatomy, a small circumscribed tumor, found in certain parts of the nervous system.

1. In surgery, a movable tumor formed on the tendons, generally about the wrist.

GAN'GRENATE, verb transitive To produce a gangrene.

GAN'GRENE, noun [Latin gangroena.] A mortification of living flesh, or of some part of a living animal body. It is particularly applied to the first state of mortification, before the life of the part is completely extinct. When the part is completely dead, it is called sphacelus.

GAN'GRENE, verb transitive To mortify, or to begin mortification in.

GAN'GRENE, verb intransitive To become mortified.

GANGRENES'CENT, adjective Tending to mortification; beginning to corrupt or putrefy, as living flesh.

GAN'GRENOUS, adjective Mortified; indicating mortification of living flesh.

GANGUE, noun gang. [See Gang.] In mining, the earthy, stony, saline, or combustible substance, which contains the ore of metals, or is only mingled with it without being chimically combined, is called the gangue or matrix of the ore. It differs from a mineralizer, in not being combined with the metal.

GANG'WAY, noun A passage, way or avenue into or out of any inclosed place, especially a passage into or out of a ship, or from one part of a ship to another; also, a narrow platform of planks laid horizontally along the upper part of a ship's side, from the quarter deck to the forecastle.

To bring to the gangway in the discipline of ships, is to punish a seaman by seizing him up and flogging him.

GANG'WEEK, noun Rogation week, when processions are made to lustrate or survey the bounds of parishes.

GAN'IL, noun A kind of brittle limestone.

GAN'NET, noun The Solan Goose, a fowl of the genus Pelicanus, about seven pounds in weight, with a straight bill, six inches long, and palmated feet. These fowls frequent the isles of Scotland in summer, and feed chiefly on herrings.

GANT, adjective gant Vacant; hollow; empty, as an animal after long fasting; hence, lean; meager; thin; slender.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

GAP'TOOTHED, adjective Having interstices between the teeth.

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

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

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.

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

G'ARBAGED, adjective Stripped of the bowels.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

GARD. [See Guard and Ward.]

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

G'ARGOL, noun A distemper in swine.

GARISH. [See Gairish.]

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

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.

G'ARLICEATER, noun A low fellow.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

1. Furnished.

2. Warned; notified.

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.

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

G'ARNISHMENT, noun Ornament; embellishment.

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

2. A fee.

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

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

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.]

GAR'RET, n.

GAR'RETED, adjective Protected by turrets.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

GASH'FUL, adjective Full of gashes; hideous.

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

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

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

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

GAS'IFYING, participle present tense Converting into gas.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

G'AST

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The operation of sewing of wounds of the abdomen.

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

The operation of cutting into or opening the abdomen.

GAT, preterit tense of get.

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.

GA'TED, adjective Having gates.

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

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.

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.]

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

GAUD'ED, adjective Adorned with trinkets; colored.

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

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

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

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, 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.

GA'UGED, participle passive Measured.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

GAUNT'LET, noun [See Gantlet.]

GAUZE, noun [Latin gausape, or gossipium.]

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

GAUZELOOM, noun A loom in which gauze is wove.

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

GAVE, preterit tense of give.

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.]

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.

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.

GAV'ELOCK, noun An iron crow.

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

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.

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

GAWK, noun

1. A cuckoo.

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

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, 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.]

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.

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

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

GA'YNESS, noun Gayety; finery.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

GAZETT'ED, participle passive Published in a gazette.

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.

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

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

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