GY'BING, participle present tense Shifting a boom-sail from one side of a vessel to the other.

GYE, verb transitive To guide.

GYMNASIUM, noun [Gr. from naked.]

In Greece, a place where athletic exercises were performed. Hence, a place of exercise; a school.

GYMNASTIC, adjective [Latin gymnasticus; Gr. to exercise, from naked; the ancients being naked in their exercises.]

Pertaining to athletic exercises of the body, intended for health, defense or diversion, as running, leaping, wrestling, throwing the discus, the javelin or the hoop, playing with balls, etc. The modern gymnastic exercises are intended chiefly for the preservation and promotion of health.

GYMNASTIC, noun Athletic exercise.

GYMNASTICALLY, adverb In a gymnastic manner; athletically.

GYMNASTICS, noun The gymnastic art; the art of performing athletic exercises.

GYM'NIC, adjective [Latin gymnicus.]

1. Pertaining to athletic exercises of the body.

2. Performing athletic exercises.

GYM'NIC, noun Athletic exercise.

GYM'NOSOPHIST, noun [Gr. naked, and a philosopher.]

A philosopher of India, so called from his going with bare feet, or with little clothing. The Gymnosophists in India lived in the woods and on mountains, subsisting on wild productions of the earth. They never drank wine nor married. Some of them traveled about, and practiced physic. They believed the immortality and transmigration of the soul. They placed the chief happiness of man in a contempt of the goods of fortune, and of the pleasures of sense.

GYM'NOSOPHY, noun The doctrines of the Gymnosophists.

GYMNOSPERM, noun [Gr. naked, and seed.] In botany, a plant that bears naked seeds.

GYMNOSPERM'OUS, adjective Having naked seeds, or seeds not inclosed in a capsule or other vessel.

GYN, verb transitive To begin.

GYNAN'DER, noun [Gr. a female, and a male.] In botany, a plant whose stamens are inserted in the pistil.

GYNAN'DRIAN, adjective Having stamens inserted in the pistil.

GYN'ARCHY, noun [Gr. a woman, and rule.] Government by a female.

GYP'SEOUS, adjective [See Gypsum.] Of the nature of gypsum; partaking of the qualities of gypsum.

GYP'SEY

GYP'SUM, noun Plaster stone; sulphate of lime; a mineral not infrequently found in crystals, often in amorphous masses. There are several subspecies and varieties; as the foliated, compact, earthy, granular, snowy and branchy. Gypsum is of great use in agriculture and the arts. As a manure, it is invaluable.

GYP'SY, noun [See Gipsey.]

GY'RAL, adjective [See Gyre.] Whirling; moving in a circular form.

GYRA'TION, noun [Latin gyratio. See Gyre.] A turning or whirling round; a circular motion.

GYRE, noun [Latin gyrus.] A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn.

Quick and more quick he spins in giddy gyres.

GY'RED, adjective Falling in rings.

GYR'FALCON, noun [Latin hierofalco, from Gr. sacred, and falco, and so named from the veneration of the Egyptians for hawks.

A species of Falco, or hawk.

GYR'OMANCY, noun [Gr. a circuit, and divination.] A kind of divination performed by walking round in a circle or ring.

GYVE, noun Gyves are fetters or shackles for the legs.

GYVEs and the mill had tamed thee.

GYVE, verb transitive To fetter; to shackle; to chain.