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quick, willing, and E. some.) Handsome; You may daily see such fustilugs walking in the subsequent to the present; in a collective neat; notable. (Local.) Grose.

streets, like so many tuns.

Funius, 1639.

sense, events that are to happen after the Fuss (fus), n. (Probably from A. Sax. fus, Fustiness (fus'ti-nes), n. State or quality of present time. quick, willing, ready; Icel, fúss, eager.) A being fusty; an ill smell from mouldiness, She rose upon a wind of prophecy tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying or mouldiness itself.

Dilating on the future.

Tennyson. work; much ado about nothing.

Fusty (fus'ti), a. (See Fust:] Mouldy; Futurely (fü’tūr-li), adv. In time to come. Old mother Dalmaine, with all her fuss, was ever

musty; ill-smelling; rank; rancid. “A fusty a bad cook, and overdid everything.

It more imports nie Disraeli. nut with no kernel.' Shak.

Than all the actions that I have foregone, Fuss (fus), v i. To make much ado about It was that free and familiar communing with the Or futurely can hope. trifies; to make a bustle. beauties of English nature in their softer forms that

Two Noble Kinsmen, gave his (Peacock's) writings the freshness which so He fussed, fretted, commanded, and was obeyed. Often relieves them from the oppressive taint of the Futurist (fü'tūr-ist), n. 1. One who has re

Sir W. Scott. midnight oil and the fusty library. Edin. Rev. gard to the future; one whose main interest Fuss (fus), v.t. To disturb or confuse with

Fusulina (fű - sū - li'na), n. (L. fusus, a lies in the future; an expectant. -2. In theol. trifling matters.

spindle.) A genus of fossil Foraminifera, one who holds that the prophecies of the Her intense quietude of bearing suited Miss Gryce, so named from their fusiform shells. They Bible are yet to be fulfilled. who could not bear to be fussed. Cornhill Mag

occur in the coal formations of Russia espe- Futuritial (fü-tūr-i'shal), a. Relating to Fussball, n. See FUZZBALL. cially

futurity; future. Hamilton. (Rare.] Fussify (fus’i-fi), v.i. To fuss. (Vulgar. ] Fusure (fü’zhūr), n. (L. fusura. See FUSE, Futurition (fū-tūr-i'shon), n. The state of Fussily (fus'i-li), adv. In a fussy or bust

v.t.] The act of fusing or melting; smelting. being to come or exist hereafter. (Rare.] ling manner. Byron. Bailey.

Nothing .... can have this imagined futurition, Fussiness (fus’i-nes), n. The state of being Fusus (fū’zus), n. [L., a spindle.) A genus but as it is decreed.

Coleridge. fussy; bustle, especially needless bustle. of ga-teropodous molluscs nearly allied to Futurity (fū-tür'i-ti), n. 1. The state of

She was fussy no doubt; but her real activity bore Murex, characterized by a somewhat spindle- being yet to come, or to come hereafter.a fair proportion to her fussiness. Marryal. shaped univalve shell, swelling out in its 2. Future time; time to come. Fussle (fus'l), v.t. Same as Fuzzle. middle or lower part, with a canaliculated

I will contrive some way to make it known to Pussock (fus'ok), n. A large, fat woman. base, an elongated spire, a smooth columella,

futurity.

Swift. [Provincial.) and the lip not slit. The genus comprises

3. Event to come. Fussy (fus'i), a. Moving and acting with many species. The red whelk of England, fuss; bustling; making much ado about the 'roaring buckie' of the Scotch, is the

All futurities are naked before the All-seeing Eye.

South trifles; making more ado than is necessary. F. antiquus.

Fuze (fūz), n. A tube filled with combus"A fussy way. Whately. Futchell (fuch'el), n. A longitudinal piece

tible matter. See FUSE. Fust (fust), n. (O. Fr. fust, Fr. fút; It. fusta; of timber supporting the splinter-bar and

Fuzee (fü-zē), n. In farriery, a kind of L. fustis, a staff.) In arch. the shaft of a pole of a carriage. column or trunk of a pilaster. Gwilt. Futile (fü'til), a. (Fr.; L. futilis, that easily Fuzee (fü-zē'), n.

splint applied to the legs of horses.

A kind of match; same Fust (fust), n. (O. Fr. fust, Fr. fût, a cask, pours out, that cannot be depended upon,

as Fusee. 'Itinerant vendors of such things fusté, tasting or smelling of the cask; Pr. vain, worthless, from fundo, fusum, to

as lucifer-matches, boot-laces, fuzees, &c.' fust, wood, from L. fustis, a stick, a baton.) pour.] 1. Talkative; loquacious; tattling.

Mayhew. A strong musty smell.

One futile person, that inaketh it his glory to tell, Fuzz (fuz), v.i. [Akin to fizz.) To fly off in Fust (fust), v.i. To become mouldy; to smell will do more hurt than many that know it their duty

minute particles. ill.

to conceal.

Bacon.

Fuzz (fuz), n. Fine, light particles; loose, Sure he that made us with such large discourse 2. Trifling; of no weight or importance; of

volatile matter. Smart. Looking before and after, gave us not

no effect; answering no valuable purpose; Fuzz (fuz), v.t. (From above noun; lit. to That capability and godlike reason

worthless. To just in us unus'd. Shak.

make the head light.) To intoxicate; to

Of its history little is recorded, and that little Fusted (fust'ed), a. Mouldy; ill smelling.

fuzzle. [Old slang. )
futile.

Ruskin.
Bp. Halt.
Fusteric (fus'tėr-ik), n.

The university troop dined with the Earl of Abing-
The yellow colour-
Syn. Trifling, trivial, frivolous, unimportant,

don, and came home well fuzzed. A. Wood useless, worthless. ing matter derived from fustet. See FUSTET. Futilely (fū'til-li), adv. In a futile manner.

Fuzzball, Fussball (fuz'bal, fus'bal), n. Fustet (fus'tet), n. [Fr. Sp. and Pg. fustete,

The common name of Lycoperdon, a fungus from L. fustis, a stick, staff.] The wood of Futility, fù-til'i-ti), n. 1.+ The quality of the Rhus cotinus or Venice sumach, a South being talkative; talkativeness ; loquacious

which, when pressed, bursts and scatters European shrub with smooth leaves and a ness; loquacity.

a fine dust; a puff-ball.

Fuzzle (fuz'l), v.t. (Freq. from fuzz; hence

This fable does not strike so much at the futility remarkable feathery inflorescence. It yields of women, as at the incontinent lexity este aproxing Fuzzy (fuz'i), a. (See Fozy.) Light and

fuddle.) To intoxicate; to fuddle. Burton. a fine orange colour, which, however, is not humour.

R. L'Estrange. durable without a mordant. 2. The quality of producing no valuable

spongy; rough and shaggy. [Provincial.] Fustian (fus'ti-an), n. [O. Fr. fustaine; Fr.

effect; triflingness; unimportance; want of I enquire whether it be the thin membrane or the futaine; It. fustagno, from Fostat, the name weight or effect; as, the futility of measures

inward and something soft and fuzzy pulp it conof a suburb of Cairo, whence this fabric was

tains that raises and represents to itself these arbi. first brought.] 1. A kind of coarse twilled or schemes; to expose the futility of argu

trarious figments and chimeras. Dr. H. More. ments. cotton stuff, or stuff of cotton and linen

Fy (fi), exclam. (See FIE] A word which

I have ridiculed the futil. with a pile like velvet, but shorter. It inity of speculative minds only

expresses blame, dislike, disapprobation, cludes corduroy, moleskin, velveteen, &c. when they would pave the

abhorrence, or contempt, and sometimes 2. An inflated style of writing; a kind of clouds instead of the streets.

surprise. writing in which high-sounding words are

Landor

Fy, my lord, gy! a soldier, and afraid? Shak. used, above the dignity of the thoughts or Futilous (fü'til-us), a. subject; a swelling style; bombast. Worthless; trifling.

Fyke, n. and v. Same as Fike. [Scotch.] Fustian is thoughts and words ill sorted. Dryden. Futtock (fut'tok), n.

Fyke (fīk), n. A bag-net used in catching Fustian (fus'ti-an), a.

fish, allowing them to enter but not to re1. Made of fustian,

[Corrupted from foot

hook 2. Swelling above the dignity of the thoughts

foot - lock.)

turn. (United States.) Naut. one of the mid

Fylet (fil), v.t. To file; to smooth; to give or subject; too pompous; ridiculously tumid; dle timbers, between

polish to.
bombastic.
the floor and the upper

However, sir, ye fyle
Virgil, if he could have seen the first verses of the
Sylvæ, would have thought Statius mad in his fustian
timbers, or the timbers

Your courteous tongue his prayses to compyle.

Spenser. description of the statue on the brazen horse.

raised over the keel, Dryden. which form the breadth

Fyle (fyi), v.t. [A. Sax. fglan, to make foul. Fustianist (fus'ti-an-ist), n. One who writes of the ship.-Futtock

See l'ILÉ.] To make foul or filthy; to make bombast. Milton. plates, iron plates on

dirty; to defile; to foul; to soil. [Scotch.]

Futtock Plates and Fustic (fus'tik), n. [Fr. and Sp. fustoc, from the upper part of which Shrouds.

Her face wad syle the Logan-water. Burns. Sp. fuste, wood, timber, from L. fustis, a the dead eyes are fixed,

Fylfot (fil'fot), n. A peculiarly-formed cross, stick, a staff.] The wood of the Maclura while round holes are punched at the lower supposed to have been introduced into tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies. end for the futtock-shrouds to hook in.

Europe, about the sixth century, from It is a large and handsome tree, and the Futtock-shrouds, small shrouds leading from

India or China, where it was employed as a timber, though like most other dye-woods, the shrouds of the main, mizzen, and fore mystic symbol among religious devotees; it brittle, or at least easily splintered, is hard masts to the shrouds of the top-masts. In and strong. It is extensively used as an the figure a a are the dead-eyes, bb the ingredient in the dyeing of yellow, and is futtock-plates, and cc the futtock-shrouds. largely imported for that purpose. - Young Futtock-stave, a short piece of rope served fustic, same as Fustet (which see).

over with spun yarn, to which the shrouds Fustigatet (fus'ti-gāt), v. t. 'pret. & pp. fus- are confined at the cat-harpings. tigated; ppr. fustigating. [L fustigo, to Futurablet (fū'tür-a-bl), a. Possible or beat with a stick-fustis, a stick, and ago, likely to occur in the future. Things not to drive.! To beat with a cudgel; to cane. only future, but futurable. Fuller. Fustigation (fus-ti-gā'shon), n. The act Future (fü'tūr), a. (Fr. futur; L. futurus, of fustigating or cudgelling; punishment in- future part, of sum, fui, to be.) That is to flicted by cudgelling. be or come hereafter; that will exist at any

1 Slighter palm of martyrdom, however, shall not be time after the present; as, the next moment

Fylfots. denied: martyrdom not of massacre, yet of fustiga. is future to the present. tion. Carlyle.

1, From embroidery on mitre of Thomas & Becket.

The gratitude of place expectants is a lively sense 2, From a brass in Lewknor Church, Oxfordshire. Fustilariant (fus-ti-lā'ri-an), n. (From of future favours.

Sir R. Walpole. fusty.) A low fellow; a scoundrel.

-Future tense, in grammar, that tense of is often used in decoration and embroidery Away, you scullion! you rampallian! you fustila- a verb which is used when we wish to ex- in the middle ages. rian! Til tickle your catastrophe.

Shak.

press that an act or event is yet to take Fyt,t Fyttet (fit), n. [A. Sax. fitt, a song; Fustilug,t Fustilugs (fus' ti-lug, fus'ti- place.

fittan, to sing.) A musical strain; a canto; lugz), n. A gross, fat, unwieldy person. Future (fü' tūr), n. Time to come; time a song See FITT.

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G, the seventh letter in the English alphabet. A kind of heavy-built vessel or lighter built and filled with earth as it is dug from the If we bend the tongue so as to form an arch, especially for inland navigation. [Scotch.) trench. Each gabion is about 33 inches in which presses against the hinder part of the Gabbe, t vi. To gab; to talk idly; to lie. height, but this height is usually increased roof of the mouth, and produce a sound by Chaucer.

by placing a row of fascines on the top. lowering the tongue, and giving utterance Gabble (gab'l), v.i. pret. & pp. gabbled; ppr. Gabionage (gâ'bi-on-aj), n. In fort. à colto voice, the sound is called in English , gabbling. [Freq. from gab.] 1. To prate; to lective term for gabions used in fortification. hard, which is a guttural mute, the voiced talk noisily and rapidly; to talk without Gabioned (gā'bi-ond), a. In fort. furnished or soft or sonant sound corresponding to meaning:

with, formed of, or protected by gabions. the “breathed' or hard or surd sound k (or c

Such a rout, and such a rabble,

*Floating batteries, strongly parapetted and

Swift. hard). This sound of g is what the letter Run to hear Jack Pudding gabóle.

gabioned. W. H. Russell. always has before a (except in gaol), o, u, and 2. To utter iparticulate sounds with rapidity. Gabionnade (gā’bi-on-ād), n. In fort. a work when initial also before e and'i in all words The noisy geese that gabbied o'er the pool. hastily thrown up; especially, one consistof English origin, and when final. The

Goldsmith ing of gabions. soft sound of g, or that which it more com

Gabble (gab'l), n. 1. Loud or rapid talk Gable (gā'bl), n. (Norm. gable, L.L. gabulum, monly has before e, i, and y, as in gem, gin, without meaning.

from the Teut.; comp. Goth. gibla, a pingymnastics, is a palatal sound the same as Forthwith a hideous grabble rises loud

nacle; 0.H.G. gipili, head, top; G. giebel, that of j, and did not occur in the oldest

Among the builders; each to other calls

the ridge or pointed end of a house ; Dan. Not understood.

Milton. English or Anglo-Saxon. It is the voiced sound corresponding to the breathed sound 2. Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered, as of

gavl, D. gevel (like O.E. and Sc. gavel), Icel.

gaji, the sharp end of a thing, the gable of a ch, as in church. The letter G was a Roman

fowls. invention introduced in comparatively late Gabbler (gab'ler), n. One who gabbles; a

house.) In arch, the triangular end of a house

or other building, from the level of the eaves times; it was formed from C, which preprater; a noisy talker; one that utters inar

to the top, and distinguished from a pediviously had been doing double duty as the

ticulate sounds. representative of both the sound of k and Gabbro (gab'bro), n. In mineral, the name that of g (as in give). G is silent before n

given by the Italians to a rock consisting at the beginning of words, as gnat, gnaw; in

essentially of diallage and white epidote or the middle of words before n it is generally

saussurite. It is the euphotide of the French, pronounced; at the end, though not pro

and the verde di Corsica duro of artists. nounced it has the effect of lengthening the Gabbronite, Gabronite (gab' bron-it, gā'preceding vowel, as in benign, condign, bron-it), n.' (It. gabbro. ) A mineral, supinalign, campaign. In a number of words posed to be a variety of scapolite, occurring which in Anglo-Saxon contained a guttural

in masses, whose structure is more or less h, it has intruded itself before the h, forming

foliated, or sometimes compact. Its colours a combination which now merely lengthens

are gray, bluish or greenish-gray, and somethe preceding vowel sound, as in fought,

times red bought, bright, might, night, nigh, high. The Gabby (gab'i), a. Talkative; chattering; loAnglo-Saxon g seems often to have had a quacious. (Scotch.) sound nearly equivalent to our y, and in

On condition I were as gaboy many English words has been softened into

As either thee or honest Habby. Ramsay.

Wooden Gable of sixteenth century at Coventry. y or w, or in other ways; as, A. Sax. gear, E. Gabel, Gabelle (gă'bel, ga-bel), n. (Fr. gayear; A. Sax. bugan, E. bow; A. Sax. gelic, belle, Pr. gabela, gabella, It. gabella, and o. E. alike; A. Sax. fæger, E. fair; A. Sax. It. cabella, caballa, Sp. gabela, from Ar.

ment by this, among other things, that it woga, E. way; A. Sax. lagu, É. law; A. Sax. kabāla, tax, impost. See, however, GAVEL.]

is not surmounted by a cornice; also the endsage, E. saw. In words originally beginning A tax, impost, or excise duty; particularly,

wall of a house; a gable-end.-Mutual gable, with a w, and borrowed from the German in France, a tax on salt.

in Scots law, a wall separating two houses into the French, a g has been inserted before The gabels of Naples are very high on oil, wine,

and common to both. tobacco, and indeed on almost everything that can

Gablet (gá'bl), n. the w, hence E. guard and ward, guarantee

A cable. Chapman. be eaten, drank, or worn.

Addison. Gable-end (gā'bl-end), n. The triangularand warrant, guise and wise, Fr. guerre, E. war; comp. W. gwain for E. wain, gwell for

Gabeler (gâ'bel-ér), n. A collector of the topped end-wall of a house.
gabel or of taxes.

Gable-roof (gā'bl-röf), n. well.--As a numeral, G was anciently used

In arch. a roof

converging to an apex, and open to the slopto denote 400, and with a dash over it, a, Gabelle (ga-bel), n. (Fr.) See GABEL. Gaberdine, n See GABARDINE.

ing rafters or spars. 40,000.-In the calendar it is the seventh Do

Gaberlunzie (ga-ber-lun'zi), n. [A contr. Gable-roofed (gā'bl-röft), a. In arch. having minical letter.-In music, (a) the fifth note

for gaberlunzie-man, from Sc. gaberlunzie, a roof converging to an apex in the manner and dominant of the normal scale of C, called also sol; (b) the lowest note of the grave

a wallet, and that compounded of a contr. of a gable, the sloping rafters being left hexachord; in the Guidonian system gamma

of gabardine, and lunzie, a Sc. form of loin, open to the interior, without the interven

the wallet resting on the loins.] A mendi- tion of cross-beams, or an arched ceiling. ut; (c) a name of the treble clef, which is seated on the G or second line of the treble

cant; a poor guest who cannot pay for his Gablet (gā'blet), n. In arch. a small gable entertainment. [Scotch.]

or gable-shaped decoration, frequently instaff, and which formerly had the form of G. Gabian (ga'bi-an), a. A term applied to a troduced on buttresses, screens, &c. Gab (gab), n. [Dan. gab, Sw. gap, the

variety of petroleum or mineral naphtha ex- Gab-lever, Gab-lifter (gab'lė-vėr, gab'liftmouth. Cog. Ir. cob, gob, mouth, O.Fr. gob,

uding from the strata at Gabian, a village in er), n. In steam-engines, a contrivance for a gulp, a mouthful. See the verb. Akin the department of Hérault, France.

lifting the gab from the wrist on the crank gape, gap, gobble.] The mouth; hence, idle

Gabilla (ga-bil'a), n. A finger or parcel of of the eccentric shaft in order to disconnect talk; chatter; loquacity; as, he has the gift of the gab. (Colloq.) tobacco in Cuba, consisting of about thirty

the eccentric from the valve gear. six to forty leaves. The bales are usually Gable-window (gā'bl-win-do), n. A window Gab(gab), v. i. (A. Sax. gabban, to scoff: of wide

made up of 80 hands, each of 4 gabillas. in the end or gable of a building, or a window alliance in Teutonic, Romance, and Celtic Simmonds.

having its upper part shaped like a gable. groups. Comp. D. gabberen, to joke, to chat

Gabion (gā'bi-on), n. (Fr., It. gabbione, a Gablock (gab’lok), n. A false spur fitted on ter; Icel. gabba, It. gabbare, Fr. gaber, to

large cage, from gabbia, a cage, from L.L. to the heel of a gamecock to make it more deceive; Armor. goab, mockery. Akin O.E.

gabia (=L. cavea), an inclosure, from L. ca- effective in fighting. Craig. and Sc. gab, the mouth, gabble, gibber, jibber,

Gabrielite (gă'bri-el-it), n. Eccles. one of a gape. See GAPE.) To talk much; to prate;

sect of Anabaptists in Pomerania, so called to talk idly. (Colloq.)

from one Gabriel Scherling. Thou art one of the knights of France, who hold it

Gabronite (gā'bron-it), 17. See GABBRONITE. for glee and pastime to gab, as they term it, of ex.

Gaby, Gawby (gā'bi, ga'bi), n. [From root ploits beyond human power. Sir W. Scott.

of gape.) A silly, foolish person; a dunce; Gab (gab), n. In steam-engines, the name

a simpleton; a goose. (Colloq.) given to the hook on the end of the eccen

Gad (gad), n. (A. Sax. gadu, also gåd, a tric rod opposite the strap.

goad, a sharp point; Icel. gaddr, Sw. gadd, Gabarage (gā'bėr-āj), n. Coarse packing

a goad, a spike, a sting; comp: Ir. gada, a cloth: a term formerly used for the wrappers

bar or ingot of metal. Goad is a slightly in which Irish goods were packed.

different form of the same word.) 1.7 The Gabardine, Gaberdine (ga'bar-den, ga'bėr

point of a spear or arrowhead. -2. A style den), n. (Śp. gabardina, 0. Fr. galvardine,

or graver. which Littré believes to be connected with

I will go get a leaf of brass the L.L. galnape, gaunape, a loose overcoat,

And with a gad of steel will write these words.

Shak. which appears to have been formed from the L galbanum or galbinum, a vestment.

3. A steel spike in the knuckle of a gauntlet. Comp. Sp. and 0. Fr. gaban, Fr. caban, a

Part of Trench with Gabions and Fascines. See GADLING.-4. A goad. [Scotch or progreatcoat, a cape.) A coarse frock or loose

vincial English.) — 5. A wedge or ingot of upper garment; a mean dress.

dus, hollow.) In fort. a large basket of wicker- steel or iron.

work, of a cylindrical form, but without a Flemish steel is brought down the Rhine to Dort You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine. bottom, filled with earth, and serving to

and other parts some in bars and sone in gads; and Shak. shelter men from an enemy's fire. In a siege

therefore called Flemish steel, and sometimes gad Gabbard, Gabart (gab’ard, gab'art), n. [Fr.

Moxon. when forming a trench, a row of gabions is gabare, Armor. kobar or gobar, a lighter.) placed on the outside nearest the fortress, 6.1 A sceptre or club. Mir. for Mags.

steel.

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7. In mining, a pointed wedge - like tool, Gadling,t n. One given to gad about; an cheeks), which embraces the mast; the outer tipped with steel, and of a peculiar form, idle vagabond. Chaucer.

end is called the peak. The jaw is secured which the miner forces into a rent in the Gadling, t a. Given to gadding about; in its position by a rope passing round the rock for the purpose of separating it. - rambling; straggling.

mast. Gajf-topsail, a light triangular or 8. Any rod or stick, as a fishing-rod, a Gadling,t n. (From A.

quadrilateral sail set above a gaff (as the measuring-rod.-9. In old Scotch prisons a Sax. gad, a goad.) In

gaff extending the head of a cutter's mainround bar of iron crossing the condemned ancient armour, a spike

sail), and having its foot extended by it. – cell horizontally at the height of about of steel on the knuckles

3. The metal spur of fighting cocks; a 6 inches from the floor, and strongly built of the gloves of mail.

gaffle. into the wall at either end. The ankles Gadoid (gad'oid), a. (L. Gadlings.

Gaff (gaf), n. A theatre of the lowest class, of the prisoner sentenced to death were gadus, a cod, and Gr.

the admission to which is generally a penny; secured within shackles which were con- eidos, resemblance.) Relating to the Gadidæ a cheap and loosely conducted place of nected by a chain about 4 feet long, with or codfishes.

amusement, where singing and dancing a large iron ring which travelled on the Gadoid (gād'oid), n. An individual of a take place nightly. gad. - Upon the gad, upon the spur or im- family of fishes, Gadidæ.

Gaffer (gaf'er), n. (Contr. from grandfather pulse of the moment. Shak.

Gadolinite (ga'dő-lin-it), n. A mineral, so or good father.] i. An old rustic; a word Gad (gad), v.i. pret. & pp. gadded; ppr. gad- called from Professor Gadolin, a Russian originally of respect, which seems to have ding. [Probably from the restless running chemist; it occurs usually in amorphous degenerated into a term of familiarity or about of animals stung by the gadsly) 1. To masses of a blackish colour, and having the contempt. walk about; to rove or ramble idly or with- appearance of vitreous lava. It consists of For gaffer Treadwell told us, by the bye, out any fixed purpose. yttria, silica, and the protoxides of cerium

Excessive sorrow is exceeding dry.

Gay. Give the water no passage, neither a wicked woman and iron.

2. The foreman of a squad of workmen, liberty to gad abroad. Ecclus. xxv. 25. Gadred, t pp. Gathered. Chaucer.

especially navvies; an overseer. Hence-2. To act or move without re- Gadsman (gadz'man), n. See GAUDSMAN. Gaff-hook (gaf hök), n. A sort of large iron straint; to wander, as in thought or speech; Gad-steel (gad'stēl), n. [A. Sax. gad, a small hook fixed on a handle, used to assist in to straggle, as in growth.

bar or goad, and E. steel.] Flemish steel: so landing large fish, as salmon, when they The good nuns would check her gadding tongue

named from its being wrought in gads. have been brought near the side by the rodFull often.

Tennyson, Gadus (gā'dus), n. [L., a codfish.] The fisher. The hook is driven into the body Desert caves

codfish genus, a Linnæan genus of mala- of the fish, generally by an assistant, and the With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown.

Milton.
copterygian fishes, coextensive with the fish is then lifted to the bank.

Gaffile (gaf'i), n.
Gadabout (gad'a-bout), n.
family Gadidæ. It included the common

(L.G. D. Sw. and Dan. One who walks about without business. (Colloq. )

cod, the haddock, whiting, hake, ling, &c. gaffel, Icel. gáfau, G. gabel, a fork. Cog. W. Gad-bee (gad'bē), n.

gafl, Ir, and Gael. gabhal, a fork.) 1. AnarSame as Gadsly.

The name is retained in some systems of Gadder (gad'ér), n.

tificial spur put on cocks when they are set A rambler; one that

zoology for the genus of the Gadidae which roves about idly. includes the common cod, the haddock, the to fight. -2. A steel lever to bend cross

bows. A drunken woman, and a gadder abroad, causeth

dorse, &c. great anger, and she will not cover her own shaine. Gad-wall (gad'wal), nr. [Said to be from gad,

My cross-bow in my hand, my gaffle on my rack,

Tó bend it when I please, or when I please to slack. Ecclus. xxvi. 8. to walk about, and well.] The common

Drayton. Gaddingly (gad'ing-li), adv. In a gadding, name of Anas strepera, a species of duck Gafflock (gaflok), n. Same as Gavelock. roving, or idle manner.

not so large as the

mallard, with long and Gafol (gaf'ol), n. (A. Sax. gafol, gaful, rent, Gaddish (gad'ish), a. Disposed to gad or pointed wings and a vigorous and rapid tribute. See GAVEL) In law, rent or inwander about idly. flight. It appears to dislike exposure, and

come; tax, tribute, or custom. Burrill. Gaddishness (gad'ish-nes), n. The quality

hides itself, if the locality permit, in thick Gafol-gild, Gafold-gildt (gaf'ol-gild, gaf'of being gaddish; disposition to flaunt about. reeds and aquatic herbage. It is rarely

old-gild), n. The payment of custom or tri. "Gaddishness and folly.' Abp. Leighton. found in Britain or Ireland. North Ame

bute. Gadfly (gad'li), n. [A. Sax. gad, a goad, and rica as far down as South Carolina, and Gafol-land, tGafold-landt (gaf'ol-land, gaf'. E.Ny.) A dipterous insect of the genus (Es- the eastern parts of Europe, seem to be its

old-land), n. In law, property subject to the trus, which stings cattle, and deposits its eggs favourite habitat. In southern and western

gafol-gild, or liable to be taxed. in their skin: called also Botily. The species

regions it is noted as a bird of passage. Gag (gag), v.t. pret. & pp. gagged; ppr. gagwhich infests oxen is the Estrus bovis. The Russian naturalists have observed it in Cau

ging. (Perhaps from A. Sax. cæggian, to species of the family Tabanidæ are also casia, and it has been found in North-west lock, to shut; cæg, a key; but comp. W. called gadflies. They are very bloodthirsty India.

cegiaw, to choke, from ceg, a choking. Or it creatures, and have, in their lancet-furnished Gae (gā), v.i. and t. To go. [Scotch.]

may be onomatopoetic; comp. gaggle] 1. To mouths, an apparatus admirably fitted to Gae-down, Gae-doun (gā'doun, gā'dôn), n. stop the mouth of by thrusting something aid them in getting blood. All the gadflies [Scotch.] 1. The act of swallowing.--2. A into it so as to hinder speaking but permit are also known by the name Breeze. guzzling or drinking match.

breathing; hence, to silence by authority or Gadhelic (gad-hë'lik or gällik), a. [See He sent Jamie Grieve the keeper, and sicken a day violence. GAELIC.) Of or pertaining to that branch as we had wi' the foumarts and the tods, and sicken The time was not yet come when eloquence was to of the Celtic race which comprises the Erse a blithe gae-down as we had again e'en.

be girgged and reason to be hoodwinked. Macaulay.

Sir W. Scott,
of Ireland, the Gaels of Scotland, and the
Manx of the Isle of Man; as distinguished
Gael (gāl), n. A Scottish Highlander or Celt.

2. To prise or keep open by means of a gag. from the Cymric branch, which comprises Gaelic (găl'ik), a. (Gael. Gaidhealach, Gae

Mouths gagged to such a wideness. For

tescue.-3. To cause to heave with nausea. the Welsh and Bretons, as also the Cornish, lach, Gaelic, from Gaidheal, a Gael. ] Of or

4. In stage slang, to introduce interpolaand generally all the earliest Celtic inhabipertaining to the Gaels, a Celtic race inha

tions into; as, to gag a part. tants of Britain. Ireland was the earliest

biting the Highlands of Scotland; as, the home of the Gadhelic branch, whence it Gaelic language.

Gag (gag), n. 1. Something thrust into the

mouth and throat to hinder speaking.–2. A spread to Scotland in the sixth century, a

Gaelic (gāl’ik), n. [Gael. Gaidhlig, Gaelig.] portion of the branch, under the name of The language of the Celts inhabiting the

mouthful which produces nausea and retch

ing or threatens with choking. 'A gag of Scots, having then settled in Argyle. The Highlands of Scotland. See GADHELIC.

mutton fat.' Lamb.-3. In stage slang, an Scots ultimately became the dominant race, Gaet (gāt), n. (See GATE.) Manner; habit;

interpolation introduced by an actor into the Picts, an earlier Cymric race, being lost practice. (Scotch.)

his part either in accordance with custom in them,

An' may they never learn the gacts

or with his own fancy. O' ither vile wanrestfu' pets.

Burns. Gadhelic (gad-hēlik or găl'ik), n. The lan

You see the performances consisted all of gag. I guage of the Gadhelic branch of the Celtic Gaff (gaf), n. [Probably from Celt. gaf, don't suppose anybody knows what the words are in race, comprising the Erse, Gaelic, and Manx. hooked, a hook, or Fr. gaffe, Sp. and Pg.

the piece.

Mayhew. Gadidæ (ga'di-dė), n. (See GADUS.) A family gaja, a hook; in any case connected with Gag (gag), v.i. 1. To retch; to heave with of soft-finned teleostean fishes, having the gaffle and the words there mentioned. ] nausea. - 2. In stage slang, to interpolate ventral fins pointed and attached to the

i. A harpoon; a gaff-hook. -2. Naut. a spar words of one's own into one's part: said of throat, of which the common codfish serves

used to extend the upper edge of fore-and- an actor. as the type. The genus Gadus is exceedingly aft sails which are not set on stays, as the The leading actors will be nervous, uncertain in

their words, and disposed to interpolate or gag until numerous both in species and individuals,

their memories are refreshed by the prompter. and taking them altogether they may be

Cornhill Mag. regarded as the most valuable fishes in the

Gagatet (ga'gāt), n. Agate. Fuller.
Gage (gāj), n. (Fr., from L.L. gadium, va-
dium, from Goth. vadi, pledge, from vidan,
to bind; comp. G. wette, a bet, A. Sax. wedd,
Sc. wad, pledge, promise. Cog. L. vas, vadis,
a surety, a pledge. Akin 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 deposit-

ing the thing, and which is to be forfeited Gadidae.

by non-performance. It is used of a movCommon Codfish (Gadus morrhua). , Ventral

DU

able thing, not of land or other immovable. fins, pointed, and placed near the pectoral.' Pec

Nor without gages to the needy lend.' toral fin.

Sandys.-2. Anything thrown down as a sea in an economical point of view. Be

token of challenge to combat. Formerly it sides the cod the family comprises the had

was customary for the challenger to cast on dock, whiting, ling, &c.

the ground a glove, a cap, a gauntlet, or the Gaditanian (ga-di-tā'ni-an). a. (L. Gadita

Cutter.-a, Gaff; o, gaff-topsail.

like, which was taken up by the accepter of nus, from Gades, Cadiz.) Belonging or re

the challenge. “There I throw my gage.' lating to Cadiz in Spain, or its inhabitants. main-sail of a sloop or the spanker of a ship. Shak, Gaditanian (ga-di-tá'ni-an), n. A native or At the lower or fore end it has a kind of Gage (gāj), n. A measure or rule of measur. an inhabitant of Cadiz,

fork called the jaw (the prongs are the ing; a standard. See GAUGE.

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Gage (gāj), n. [The name of the person who

Help iny prince to gain Gainfulness (gān'ful-nes), n. The state or first introduced them.] The name given to

His rightful bride.

Tennyson. quality of being gainful; profit; advantage. several varieties of plum; as, the green gage,

4. To draw into any interest or party; to win Gaingivingt (gan'giv-ing), n. [A. Sax. gean, golden gage, transparent gage, &c. to one's side; to conciliate.

gegn, against, and E. give.] A misgiving; a Gage (gaj), v.t. pret. & pp. gaged; ppr. To gratify the queen, and gain the court. Dryden. giving against or away. gaging. 1. To pledge; to pawn; to give or If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. It is but foolery, but it is such a kind of gaingiving deposit as a pledge or security for some

Mat. xviii. 15. as would, perhaps, trouble a woman. Shak. other act; to wage or wager.

5. To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to Gaining (gān'ing), n. That which one gains, A moiety competent gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good

as by labour, industry, successful enterprise, Was gaged by our king.

Shak.
harbour

and the like: usually in the plural.

Now spurs the lated traveller apace 2. To bind by pledge, caution, or security;

To gain the timely inn.

Shak. Gaining-twist (gān'ing-twist), n. In rijled to engage.

arms, a twist or spiral inclination of the But my chief care --Togain into, to draw or persuade to join in.

grooves, which becomes more rapid towards Is to come fairly off from the great debts He gained Lepidus into his measures. Middleton.

the muzzle. Brande. Wherein iy tiine, something too prodigal, Hath left me gag'd.

-- To gain over, to draw to another party or Gainless (gān'les), a. Not producing gain; Shak.

interest; to win over. - To gain ground, to unprofitable; not bringing advantage. Gage (gāj), v.t. To measure; to gauge (which

advance in any undertaking; to prevail; to Gainlessness (gän'les-nes), n. The state or see). You shall not gage me

acquire strength or extent; to increase. - To quality of being gainless; unprofitableness; By what we do to-night.

Shak.

gain time, to obtain an increase of time for want of advantage.

a particular purpose, either by an extension Gainly t (gān'li), adv. (See GAIN, a.) Gagea (gā'jē-a), n. A genus of plants (nat.

of the time at one's disposal, or by saving Handily; readily; dexterously. order Liliaceae), named after Sir Thomas Gage, a British botanist. They are small time on something else. - To gain the wind

She laid it, as gainly as she could, in some fresh (naut.), to get to the windward side of an

leaves and grass.

Dr. H. More. bulbous - rooted plants, with linear root

other ship. leaves and scapes of yellowish-green flowers; the seeds have a yellowish (not black) seed Gain (gân), v.:. To have advantage or profit; Gainly, (gān'li), a.. (See Gain, a.] 1. Well

formed and agile; handsome; as, a gainly coat, thus differing from those of the allied to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in

lad. - 2. + Suitable. A gainli word.' Beves interest or happiness. genus Ornithogalum. They are natives of

of Hamtoun. (Used frequently in the comEurope, temperate Asia, and Northern

Thou hast greedily gained of thy_neighbours by pound ungainly. extortion.

Ezek. xxii. 12. Africa, one (G. lutea) occurring in Britain.

Gain-paint (gān'pān), n. (Fr. gagne-pain, Gager (gāj'ér), n. One who gages. See

- To gain on or upon, (a) to encroach; to bread-earner.] A name applied in the GAUGER.

advance on; to come forward by degrees ; middle ages to the sword of a hired soldier. Gagger (gag’ér), n. 1. One that gags.--2. A

as, the ocean or river gains on the land. Gainsay (gān'sā), v.t. pret. & pp. gainsa id; lifter used by the founder consisting of a

'Seas, that daily gain upon the shore.' ppr. gainsaying. (A. Sax. gegn, geân, against, light T-shaped piece of iron.

Tennyson. (6) To advance nearer, as in a and E. say.) To contradict; to oppose in Gaggle (gagʻ1), v.i. pret. & pp. gaggled; ppr.

race; to gain ground on; as, a fleet horse words; to deny or declare not to be true; to gaggling. [Perhaps a freq. from gag, or gains on his competitor.

controvert; to dispute: applied to persons,

And still we followed where she led, formed from the sound.) To make a noise

or to propositions, declarations, or facts.

In hope to gain upon her fight. Tennyson, like a goose.

I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your If I have company, they are a parcel of chattering

(c) To prevail against or have the advantage adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. magpies: if abroad, I am a gaggling goose. over.

Luke xxi. 15. Guardian. The English have not only gained upon the Vene Gainsayer (gân'sā-ėr), n. One who contraGag-rein gag'rān), n.

tians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice In saddlery, a rein

dicts or denies what is alleged; an opposer. itself.

Addison. that passes through the runners, and is in

Tit. i. 9. tended to draw the bit into the corners of (d) To obtain influence with.

Gainsomet (gān'sum), a. Bringing gain; the horse's mouth.

My good behaviour had so far gained on the gainful. Massinger. Gag-runner (gag'run-ér), n. In saddlery, a

emperor that I began to conceive hopes of liberty.

'Gainst (genst). See AGAINST.

Swift loop attached to the throat-latch.

Gain (gân), n. [Fr. gain, profit. See the verb.] Gainstand + (gān'stand), v.t. (A. Sax. geg, Gag-tooth (gagʻtöth), n. A projecting tooth. 1. Profit; interest; something obtained as an

gelin, against, and E. stand.) To withstand; Halliwell. advantage; anything opposed to loss.

to oppose; to resist. Gag-toothed (gag'tötht), a. Having pro

Did wisely from expensive sins refrain,

Durst ... gainstand the force of so many enraged jecting teeth. Holland.

desires. And never broke the Sabbath but for gain,

Sidney Gahnite (gån’īt), n. [From Gahn, a Swedish

Dryden. Gainstrive t (gān'striv), v.i. [A. Sax. gegn, chemist, the discoverer.) A mineral called

But what things were gain to me those I counted

geân, and E. strive.) To make resistance. loss for Christ. also Automolite, Zinc-spinel, and Octahe

Unable to gainstrive.' Spenser. dral Corundum. It is a native aluminate of

Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?

2 Cor. xii. 17.

Gainstrive † (gān'striv), v.t. To withstand. zinc, and is always crystallized in regular oc

The Fates gainstrive us not.' Grimoald. tahedrons or dodecahedrons, like spinel.

2. The act of gaining; acquisition; increase.
Gain of care.

Gair (gár), n.
Gaiety (ga'e-ti), n. 1. The state of being

Shak. “Double gain of hap

A triangular piece of cloth

inserted at the bottom of a shift or robe; gay; merriment; mirth ; action or acts

piness.' Shak.-Syn. Profit, interest, lucre, prompted by or inspiring merry delight; as, emolument, benefit.

a gore. (Scotch.)

My lady's gown there's gairs upon't, the gaieties of the season. --2. Finery; show; Gain (gân), n. (W. gàn, a mortise, ganu,

And gowden flowers sae rare upon't. Burns. as, the gaiety of dress.

to contain.] 1. A mortise.-2. In arch. the Gaikwar (gik'war), n.

Gair-fowl (gār'foul), n. (Prov. E. gare, gair, Same as Guikwar,

bevelled shoulder of a binding joist for the Guicowar.

purpose of giving additional resistance to to stare, and E. fowl.) A kind of auk; the the tenon below.

great auk (Alca impennis), now extinct. Gailer, t n. A jailer. Chaucer.

See GARISH.

Gairish, a.
Gaillard, t a. Brisk; gay. See GALLIARD.
Gain (gân), a. [Icel. gegn, convenient, suit-

See GARISHLY.
Chaucer

able, gegna, properly to meet, then to suit, Gairishly, adv. Gailliarde (gälyärd), n. [It. gagliarda.) A

to fit; A. Sax. gegen, geđn, against. ! 1. Suit

Gairishness, n. See GARISHNESS. lively Italian dance.

able; convenient. -2. Straight; direct; as,

Gait (gät), n. (Same asgate,a way. See GATE.) Gaily (gā'li) adv. [From gay.). 1. In a gay the gainest way.-3. Near; contiguous.

1. Walk; march; way. Address thy gait unto manner; with mirth and frolic; joyfully; 4. Easy; tolerable. --5. Handy; dexterous,

her.' Shak. 'Go your gait, and let poor volk merrily. 6. Honest; respectable.—7. Profitable; cheap.

pass.' Shak.--2. Manner of walking or stepWights, who travel that way daily, I bought the horse very gain (cheap).'

ping; carriage. Jog on by his example gaily. Swift. Forby. [In all its uses provincial or obso

Part huge of bulk, lete.) 2. Spendidly; with finery or showiness.

Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait. Milton. Gain (gān), adv. Tolerably; pretty.. 'Gain Gait (gāt), n. 1. A charge made for sheep Some shew their gaily gilded trim,

quiet, pretty quiet.' Forby. [Provincial.) and cattle taken at a pasture to graze for

Gray. Quick glancing to the sun.

Gainable (gån'a-bl), a. That may be obtained the season: sometimes termed Agistment. 3. Tolerably; pretty. [Old English and or reached.

2. A sheaf of grain tied up. Scotch.)

Gainage (gān'āj), n. In old law, (a) the gain Gaited (gät'ed), a. In compound words, For this purpose, whereof we now write, this would

or profit of tilled or planted land raised by having a particular gait or manner of walkhave served gailie well.

Willson.

cultivating it. () The horses, oxen, and ing; as, slow-gaited, heavy-gaited. Shak. Gain (gān), v.t. (Fr. gagner, anciently, to furniture of the wain, or the instruments Gaiter (gā'těr), n. [Fr. guêtre, a gaiter-earn profit or revenue from pasturage; for carrying on tillage, which, when a vil- origin unknown.) 1. A covering of cloth for hence, to gain; gagnage, pasturage. Gagner lain was amerced, were left free, that culti- the leg, fitting upon the shoe; a spatterdash. (0. Fr. gaagner, Pr. gazanhar, It. guada- vation might not be interrupted. Burrill. 2. A kind of shoe, consisting chiefly of cloth, gnare, Sp. guadanar) corresponds to O.H.G. Gain-devoted (gân'dē-võt-ed), a. Devoted and covering the ankle. weidanjan, to pasture, which gives L. L. to the pursuit of gain. "Gain-devoted cities.' Gaiter (gă'tér), v.t. To dress with gaiters. weidaniare, from which the Romance forms Cowper.

Gaitre-beries, t n. pl. (Comp. Prov. E. gatflow in accordance with established rule. Gainer (gān’ėr), n. One that gains or obtains ter-bush, gatten-bush, gattridge.) The berComp. Icel. gagn, gain, and A. Sax. ungægne, profit, interest, or advantage.

ries of the dogwood-tree (Cornus sanguinea fruitlessly.) 1. To obtain by industry or the

Wilt thou, after the expense of so much money, be

or C. mascula). Chaucer. employment of capital; to get as profit or now a gainer!

Shak. Gaitt, Gett (gát, get), n. (From get, to beadvantage; to acquire: opposed to lose. Gainful (gān'fyl), a. Producing profit or get.) A child; a brat. (Scotch.)

What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole advantage; profitable; advantageous; ad-Gal, Gall (gal). A Celtic prefix or suffix, world and lose his own soul?

Mat. xvi. 26.

vancing interest or happiness; lucrative; which, when it enters into a name, implies 2. To win; to obtain by superiority or success; productive of money. "The Romish market the presence of foreigners. It is believed to as, to gain a battle or a victory: to gain a of gainful dispensations.' Bp. Hall.

have been first applied to a colony of Gauls, prize; to gain a cause in law.--3. To obtain in He will dazzle his eyes and bait him in with the whence it came to denote foreigners in general; to acquire; to procure; to receive; luscious proposal of some gainful purchase, some general. Thus, Donegal (Dun-na-n Gall) as, to gain favour; to gain reputation.

rich match.

South. means the fortress of the foreigners - in For fame with toil we gain, but lose with ease. Pope. Gainfully (gān'fyl-11), adv. In a gainful this case known to have been Danes. Gal. You should not have loosed from Crete, and have

manner; with increase of wealth; profitably; bally in Limerick, and Galwally in Down, gained this harm and loss. Acts xxvii. 21. advantageously.

mean English town. Ballynagall is the

Phil. ill. 7.

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town of the Englishmen; Clonegall, the used in medicine, being an aromatic stimu- ized by a long bill, long and graduated tail, meadow of the Englishmen.

lant of the nature of ginger. The drug toes three or four in number, the two front Gala (gä'la), n. A cotton fabric made in is mostly produced by Alpinia officinarum, ones being united to the near end of the Scotland.

a flag-like plant, with stems about 4 feet inner toe. The paradise jacamar (Galbula Gala (gā'la), n. [Fr., show, pomp; It. gala, high, clothed with narrow lanceolate leaves, paradisea) is a striking little bird, on acfinery; of Teut. origin; allied to A. Sax. gal, and terminating in short simple racemes of count of the beautiful colours of its plumpleasant, wanton, galan, to sing, and gale in elegant white flowers. The rhizome of A.

age, its graceful nightingale.] Pomp; show; festivity; mirth. Galanga is known as the greater galangal.

form, and its long Galacineæ (ga-la-sin'é-e), n. pl. "A small Galanthus (ga-lan'thus), n. [Gr. gala, milk,

forked tail. It is tribe of plants of doubtful affinity, contain- and anthos, a flower.) A small genus of

scarcely so large ing only two genera, Galax and Stortia, and Amaryllidaceæ, represented by the well

an ordinary now considered as a sub-tribe of Diapensi- known snow-drop (G. nivalis). They are

thrush. aceæ. Galax aphylla, a native of open woods herbaceous plants with bulbous roots, nar

Galbulus(galbūin Virginia and North Carolina, is a smooth row leaves, and drooping white bell-shaped

lus), n. [L., the perennial herb with a creeping rhizome, flowers of six segments, the three outer

nut of the cyroundish evergreen leaves, all springing being concave and spreading, and the three

press - tree.)

In from the root, and a long spiked raceme of inner erect and shorter.

Galbulus (fruit of Juniperus bot. a cone or small white flowers. Galantine (gal-ant-en'), n. [Fr., from a radi

COMUNIS).

strobilus, the Galactagogue, n. See GALACTOGOGUE. cal gal, seen in G. gallerte, jelly, same as

scales of which Galactia (ga-lak'ti-a), n. [From Gr. gala, gel in L. gelare, to congeal.] A dish of veal, are fleshy and combined into a uniform galaktos, milk.] In med. (a) a redundant flow chickens, or other white meat, freed from mass, as the fruit of the juniper. of milk either in a female who is suckling or bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold. Gale (gal), n. (Gael. and Ir. gal, a gale or in one who is not, and which may occur Galatheidæ (ga-la-the'i-dē), n. pl. (After puff of wind, smoke, vapour. Perhaps conwithout being provoked by suckling. (A the nymph Galatea, of classical mythology.] nected with Icel. gola, giola, a cool wind; morbid flow or deficiency of milk. Dr. A group of decapodous crustaceans, cor- gola, to blow.) 1. A current of air; a

responding with the genus Galathea of breeze; more specifically, naut. a wind beGalactic (ga-lak'tik), a. (Gr. galaktikos, Fabricius, having common characters with tween a breeze and a storm or tempest: milky, from gala, galaktos, milk.] 1. Of or the anomurous and macrurous crustaceans. generally used with some qualifying epithet; belonging to milk; obtained from milk; They inhabit fresh-water rivers.

as, a gentle gale; a moderate gale; a brisk lactic. -2. In astron. an epithet first ap

Galatian (ga-lā'shi-an), n. A native or inha- gale; a fresh gale; a strong gale; a hard gale. plied by Sir John Herschel to that great bitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; as, Paul's

A little gale will soon disperse that cloud. Shak. circle of the heavens to which the course epistle to the Galatians.

And winds of gentlest gale Arabian odours fanned of the Milky Way apparently most nearly Galatian (ga-la'shi-an), a. Of or pertaining From their soft wings.

Milton. conforms.-Galactic poles, the two opposite to Galatia or the Galatians.

2. [Slang.) A riot; a quarrel; a state of noisy points of the heavens, situated at 90° from Galavance. See GARAVANCE.

excitement, whether of passion or hilarity. the galactic circle.

Galax (gā-lax). See GALACINEE.
Galactine (ga-lak’tin), n. Same as Lactine Galaxidæ (ga-laks’i-dē), n. pl. [Gr. galaxias,

The ladies, laughing heartily, were fast going into

what, in New England, is sometimes called a gale. (which see) a kind of fish, and eidos, resemblance.) A

Brooke. Galactite (ga'lak-tīt), n. [Gr. gala, galaktos, family of Australian and New Zealand acan- Gale (gāl), v.i. Naut. to sail, or sail fast. milk. ] In mineral. white natrolite, a zeolite thopterygian fishes, formerly classed with Gale (găl), n. [D. and A. Sax, gagel, wildof the mesotype group, erected into a dis- the Salmonidæ, and much resembling our myrtle. ) A plant of the genus Myrica, nat. tinct species on an erroneous analysis.

common trout. They have no adipose fins, order Myricaceae. Sweet gale (M. Gale) Called also Milkstone.

and are destitute of scales. The teeth are is a shrub from 1 to 3 feet high, with nuGalactodendron (ga-lak’to-den"dron), n. of moderate size. The genus Galaxias is merous alternate branches and very small [Gr. gala, galaktos, milk, and dendron, a the only one, and it contains about seven berries. The whole plant exhales a rather tree.) A generic name given by some authors species. They are softer in flesh and more pleasant aromatic odour. It grows on wet to the cow-tree of South America, now oily than our members of the salmon family. heaths abundantly. It is also called Boggenerally referred to the genus Brosimum, Galaxy, (ga'lak-si), n. [Fr. galaxie, from myrtle. In America the name is applied Galactodendron being used as the specific Gr. galaxias (kyklos, circle, being under- to Comptonia asplenifolia. See COW-TREE.

stood), from gala, galaktos, milk. Akin L. Gale (găl), n. [A. Sax. gafol, rent, tribute, Galactogogue, Galactagogue (ga-lak'to. lac, lactis, milk.] 1. In astron. (a) the Milky O. E. gavel, gauel, probably from W. gafael, gog, ga-lak'ta-gog), n. [Gr. gala, galaktos, Way; that long, white, luminous track which Gael. gabhail, seizing, a taking, a lease, milk, and ago, to induce. ] A medicine is seen at night stretching across the hea- tenure, or from A. Sax. gifan, to give. See which promotes the secretion of milk in the vens from horizon to horizon, and which, GAVEL.] A periodical payment of rent, duty, breast.

when fully traced, is found to encompass the or custom; an instalment of money. Galactometer (ga-lak-tom'et-er), n. [Gr. heavenly sphere like a girdle. This luminous Gale, t v. i. [A. Sax. galan.) To sing; to cry, gala, galaktos, milk, and metron, a measure.] appearance is occasioned by a multitude of to croak. "Gan he cry and gale.' Chaucer. An instrument to test the quality of milk, stars so distant and blended as to be dis- Galet (gäl), n. A song; a story. Toone. that is, the percentage of cream yielded by tinguishable only by the most powerful Galea (gă'lé-a), n. (L.) A helmet; something it; a lactometer.

telescopes. At one part of its course it resembling a helmet in shape or position; Galactophagist (ga-lak-tof'a-jist), n. [Gr. divides into two great branches, which re- as, (a) in zool. a genus of sea hedgehogs or gala, galaktos, milk, and phago, to eat.] One main apart for a distance of 150° and then echini, found fossil only; they are distinwho eats or subsists on milk. Wright. reunite; there are also many other smaller guished by an oval base, from which the Galactophagous (ga-lak-tof'a-gus), a. Feed- branches that it gives off. At one point it shell rises in a vaulted helmet-like form. ing on milk. Dunglison.

spreads out very widely, exhibiting a fan- (6) In bot, a name given to the parts of the Galactophoritis (ga-lak'tő-fő-ri"tis), n. [Gr. like expanse of interlacing branches nearly calyx or corolla when they assume the form gala, galaktos, milk, phero, to carry, and 20° broad; this terminates abruptly and of a helmet, as the upper lip of a ringent term. itis, denoting inflammation.] In pathol. leaves here a kind of gap. At several points corolla. (c) Ín anat. the amnion. (d) A kind inflammation of the galactophorous ducts: are seen dark spots in the midst of some of of bandage for the head. (e) In pathol. sometimes inaccurately used for ulceration the brightest portions; one of the most easily headache extending all over the head. of the top of the nipples towards their ori- distinguished of these dark spots has long Galeas (ga le-as), n. A Venetian ship, large fices. Dunglison.

been known as the 'coal-sack.' (b) A remote but low built, and moved both by oars and Galactophorous (ga-lak-tof'or-us), a. (Gr. cluster of stars.--2. An assemblage of splen

sails. galaktophoros - gala, galaktos, milk, and did persons or things.

Galeated, Galeate (gālē-at-ed, gā'lē-at), a. phero, to bear, to produce. ) Producing Often has my mind hung with fondness and admir

(L. galeatus, pp. of galeo, to cover with a milk.

ation over the crowded, yet clear and luminous, helmet, from galea, a helmet.] 1. Covered Galactopoietic (ga-lak'to-poi-et'ik), a. or n. galaxies of imagery, diffused through the works of as with a helmet. (Gr. gala, galaktos, milk, and poietikos, cap

Bishop Taylor.

Dr. Parr.

A galeated echinus copped, and in shape somewhat able of making, from poiei, to make.) A Galbanum, Galban (gal/ban-um, galban), more conick than any of the foregoing. Woodward. term applied to substances which increase n. [L.; Gr. chalbanē; Heb.chelinah, galba

In bot. having a flower the flow of milk. Brande. num, from cheleb, fat.) A fetid gum resin

like a helmet, as in the Gala-day (gā'la-dā), n. A day of festivity; a procured from at least two species of um

species of Aconitum.holiday with rejoicings. belliferous plants, which are probably Fe

3. In zool. having a crest Gala-dress (gā'la-dres), n. A holiday dress; rula galbaniflua and F. rubricaulis. It

of feathers on the head a person's gayest dress. consists of the tears' of gum resin which

resembling a helmet. Galaget (ga'lắj), n. [Sp. galocha, a wooden exude spontaneously from the stem, espe

Galecynus (ga-lê-si'nus), shoe. See GALOCHE.) A wooden shoe. Spen- cially in its lower part, and about the bases

n. (Gr. galē, a weasel, and of the leaves. It is brought from the Le

kyon, kynos, a dog.) A Galago (ga-lā'go), n. The native name of a vant, Persia, and India, and is administered

genus of fossil carnivorgenus of quadrumanous mammals, found in internally as a stimulating expectorant. It

ous mammalia founded Africa. The species, which are nocturnal in is also used in the arts, as in the manufac

for the reception of a fostheir habits, have long hind-legs, great eyes, ture of varnish. It is supposed to be yielded

sil animal, of which some and large membranous ears. The great by other umbellifers, among which are Galeated Calyx of remains were found in a galago (G. crassicaudatus) is as large as a named Ferulago galbanifera, Opoidia gal- Aconitum variega. quarry at Oehningen in rabbit. They live in trees, and are sought banifera, and Bubon Galbanum.

tum.

Baden. The characters after as food in Africa. See GUM-ANIMAL. Galbula (galbū-la), n. [L.] The generic

of the bones give the Galam Butter (gā'lam but'ér), n. A reddish- name of the jacamars, a genus of South genus a place intermediate between the

white solid oil, obtained from Bassia buty- American insessorial birds, allied to the polecats and dogs. racea (the Indian butter-tree).

kingfishers. The species are clothed with Galega (ga-le’ga), n. [Gr. gala, milk, and Galanga, Galangal (ga-lang'ga, ga-lang'- brilliant green feathers.

ago, to induce — because supposed to ingal), n. [Fr. galanga; 0. Fr. garingal, from Galbulina (gal-bū-li'nē), n. pl. (L. galbula, crease the milk of animals, especially of Ar. chalan, khalandj; Per. khulandj, a tree a yellow-bird.] The jacamars, a family of goats.] A genus of plants, nat. order Legufrom which wooden bowls, &c., are made.] tropical American fissirostral birds, allied minosæ. They are smooth, erect, perennial A dried rhizome brought from China and to the trogops and kingfishers, character- herbs, with pinnate leaves and axillary

ser.

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