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ten or twelve times the length of the needle. His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes fastened China. It is yellow, and contained chiefly The needle is therefore usually not more than at the side with rusty clasps. Sir W. Scott.

in the middle layer of the bark of the tree; inch long; and, for convenience of reading its 2. A kind of leather cases attached to a saddle it is obtained by incision, and issues from deflections, long light pointers of aluminium instead of stirrups. or of glass fibre are cemented to its ends. To Gambeson, Gambison (gam'bē-zon, gam'biuse the instrument it is placed so that the zon), n. [O.Fr. gambesson, gambeson, wamvertical coil of copper-wire is in the plane of bais; Pr. gambais; M.H.G. wambeis, from the magnetic meridian. The current is then 0.H.G. wamba, A. Sax. wambe, Sc. wame-sent through the coil, and the angle by which womb, stomach. Comp. G. wams, doublet. the needle is deflected is read off. It is easy

Wedgwood refers it to show that under these circumstances the

to Gr. bambakion, strength of the current is proportional to the

bambakinon, a fabtangent of the angle of deflection, whence the

ric stuffed with cotname of the instrument. Thomson's mirror

ton, the Gr. b being galvanometer is the most sensitivegalvanom

softened in the eter yet invented. Its needle, which is very

Western tongues short, is rigidly attached to a small light con

into w, which passes cave mirror, and suspended in the centre of

into Romance g.) A Gamboge Plant (Garcinia Hanburii). a vertical coil of very small diameter by a silk

quilted tunic, said fibre. A movable magnet is provided for

to be of German ori- the tree in the form of a yellowish fluid, bringing the needle into the plane of the coil

gin, stuffed with which, after passing through a viscid state, when the latter does not coincide with the

wool, fitting the hardens into the gamboge of commerce. magnetic meridian. Needle,mirror, and mag

body, and worn un- It consists of a mixture of resin with 15 to net weigh only about 1} grain. At a distance

der the habergeon. 20 per cent. of gum. Gamboge has drastic of 2 or 3 feet from the mirror is a solid wooden

Being strong enough purgative properties, but is seldom adminisstand, with a graduated scale, facing the

to resist ordinary tered except in combination with other submirror. In the stand, just under the centre

cuts, it was fre- stances. În doses of a drachm or even less of the scale, a hole is cut, and a fine wire

quently worn with- it produces death. Other species of Garcinia stretched upright across it. A strong lamp Quilted Gambeson of the out other armour. stands behind the opening so that its light

fifteenth century.

yield a similar drug, which is collected for

Called also Acton local use, but not for exportation. The sowill fall on the mirror and be reflected back

and Hacqueton. called American gamboge is the juice of on the scale. An image of the wire will thus Gambet (gam'bet), n. [Fr. gambette, 0. Fr. Visima guianensis. be constantly thrown on the scale, and the gambe, leg.] One of the sandpipers, of the Gambogian, Gambogic (gam-bőj'i-an or slightest motion of the needle and its mirror size of the greenshank, found in the Arctic gam-böj'i-an, gam-bõjik or gam-bôj'ik), a. will produce a much greater motion of this Sea and in Scandinavia and Iceland. See Pertaining to gamboge. image. As the current flows the one way or the TOTANUS

Gambol (gam'bol), v. pret. & pp gamboled, other the index will move to one side or the Gambier, Gambir (gam'bēr, gam'bir), n.

gambolled; ppr. gamboling, gambolling. other. This galvanometer was invented for [Malayan.) An earthy-looking substance of so. E. gambolde, gambaude, gambaulde; of use on the Atlantic submarine cables. It was light-brown hue, which is used medicinally same origin as Fr. gambade, gambol, gamlong the only instrument with which signals as an astringent, but is far more extensively biller, to wag the leg or kick,

viz. from o. Fr could be read through long submarine lines; employed in tanning and dyeing. It is gambe, It. gamba, the leg, Fr. jambe; L.L. and it is still employed to a great extent,

gamba, hoof.] 1. To dance and skip about in though being superseded by the siphon

sport; to frisk; to leap; to play in frolic, like recorder of the same inventor.

boys and lambs. Galvanoplastic (gal-van'ō-plast"ik), a. Per

Bears, tigers, ounces, pards taining to the art or process of electrotyp

Gambolled before them.

Milton. ing; as, the galvanoplastic art, that is, elec

2. To leap; to start aside. trotypy.

Bring me to the test, Galvanoscope (gal-van'ő-skop), n. [Gal

And I the matter will reword; which madness vanism, and Gr. skopeo, to examine.] An

Would gamool from.

Shak, instrument for detecting the existence and

Gambol (gam'bol), n. A skipping or leaping direction of an electric current. A magnetic

about in frolic; a skip; a hop; a leap; a needle is a galvanoscope.

sportive prank." "Beasts in gambols frisk'd.' Galvanoscopic (gal - van'ő-skop" ik), a.

Dryden. Of or pertaining to a galvanoscope.

Gambrel, Gambril (gam'brel, gam'bril), n. Galwes, t n. The gallows. Chaucer.

[From It gamba, the leg.] 1. The hind-leg Gama-grass (gä'ma-gras), n. A species of

of a horse.

-2. A stick crooked like a horse's grass ('ripsacum dactyloides), a tall, stout,

leg, used by butchers for suspending animals and exceedingly productive grass cultivated

while dressing them. in Mexico, the Southern States of North

Spied two of them hung out at a stall, with a gamAmerica, in the West Indies, and to some

bril thrust from shoulder to shoulder, like a sheep extent in Europe, said to admit of being cut

that was new-flayed.

Chapman. six times in a season. It bears drought

Gambier Plant (Uncaria Gambier).

-Gambrel roof, a hipped roof; a mansard remarkably well. T. monostachyon (the

or curved roof. Carolina gama-grass)is the only other species chiefly imported from Singapore, and is Gambrel, Gambril (gam'brel, gam'bril), v.t. known

yielded by Uncaria Gambier and Ú. acida. To tie or hang up by means of a gambril Gamasea, Gamasidæ (ga-mā’sē-a, ga-ma'si- Gambison, n. See GAMBESON.

thrust through the legs. "I'll carry dē), n. pl. The beetle-mites or spider-mites, Gambist (gam'bist), n. In music, a player on you gambrella like a mutton.' Beau & Fi. a family of Arachnida, order Acarina, distin- the viol-di-gamba, or viol with six strings. Gambroon (gam-brön'), n. In manuf.a

kind guished by the absence of eyes, by free, fili- Gambit (gam bit), n. [Fr.; It. gambetto, a of twilled linen cloth, used for linings. form palpi, chelate antennæ, and by legs with tripping up of one's legs, or supplanting, Game (gām), n. [A. Sax, gamen, gomen, joy, two claws and a disc or caruncle. They are from gamba, the leg.) In ches8-playing, the pleasure; Icel. gaman, delight, gratification; parasitic, and found on insects, birds, and sacrifice of a pawn early in the game, for 0.G. gaman, jest, sport. Gammon, humbug, other animals, generally on the neck. Some the purpose of taking up an attacking posi- is of same origin.] 1. Sport of any kind; jest; infest plants. One species is common in bird- tion.

play. "Twixt earnest and game.' Milton. cages, doing serious injury to cage-birds. Gamble (gam'bl), v.i. pret. & pp. gambled; We have had pastime here and pleasing game. The species parasitic on poultry lives for ppr. gambling. [Freq. of game, with b in

Shak. a time on the human skin and gives rise to serted, as in number, humble.) To play or 2. Any contrivance or arrangement for the intolerable itching. game for money or other stake.

purpose of sport, recreation, amusement, Gamashes, Gamaches (ga-mash'ez), n. Gamble (gam'bl), v.t. To lose or squander testing skill or strength, and the like; as, a (O.Fr.gamaches, It. gamascie, spatterdashes, by gaming: with away.

game of chance; the game of cricket; Highfrom L.L. gamba, hoof, 0. Fr. gambe (Fr.

Bankrupts or sots who have gambled or slept away

land games; specifically (pl.), in class. antiq. jambe), leg; or the origin may be Celt. gar, their estates.

Ames.

diversions or contests, as in wrestling, runa shank, through the Languedoc garamacho, Gambler (gam'blér), n. One who gambles;

ning, throwing the discus, &c., usually ina legging. ] 1. High boots, buskins, or one who games or plays for money or other

stituted in honour of some event, and exstartups.-2. Short spatterdashes worn by stake.

hibited for the amusement of the people; ploughmen. [Scotch.]

A gambler's acquaintance is readily made and

as, the Nemean games; Pythian games, Gamass (ga-mas'), n. The bulbs of the easily kept, -provided you gamble too.

Olympian games; Čircensian games.-3. The quamash or biscuit-root (Camassia escu

Lord Lytton.

act of playing at any such game; a single lenta) of the North American Indians. Gambling-house (gam'bling-hous), n. А contest in any such game; as, a game at Gamb, Gambe (gamb), n. [O. Fr. gambe; Fr. gaming-house; a hell.

cards, cricket, chess.-4. The prize or stakes jambe, a leg.) A leg or shank, a term in her. Gamboge (gam-bõj' or gam-böj), n. [From in any such game.-5. The requisite numused to express the whole fore-leg of a lion or Camboja, Cambodia, a portion of the empire ber of points or advantages to be gained in any other beast. If couped or erased near the of Anam, in the Indo-Chinese Peninsula.] order to win any such game; the performiddle joint it is then only a paw. Also A concrete, vegetable, inspissated juice or mance of whatever is necessary to be viewritten Jambe.

sap, or gum-resin, yielded by several species torious in any game; as, in cribbage 61 is Gamba (gam'ba), n. In compar. anat a of trees. The gamboge of European com- game.-6. Field sports, as the chase, falterm applied to the elongated metacarpus merce appears to be mainly derived from conry, &c. or metatarsus of the ruminants and solid- Hebradendron gambogoïdes of Graham, or Some sportsmen that were abroad upon game. ungulates. Garcinia Morella of Desrousseaux, var. pedi

L'Estrange. Gambado, Gambade (gam-bā'dē, gam'bād), cellata, also called G. Hanburii, a dioecious 7. Animals pursued or taken in the chase or n. [It. gamba, the leg.) 1. A spatterdash or tree with handsome laurel-like foliage and in the sports of the field; birds and beasts gaiter for covering the leg when riding or small yellow flowers, found in Cambodia, obtained by fowling and hunting; specifiwalking in muddy roads.

Siam, and in the southern parts of Cochin- cally, the animals enumerated under this

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designation in the game-laws.-8. Scheme Gamin (gam'in, ga-män), n. [Fr.) A ne- gamos, marriage, union, and petalon, a flowerpursued; measures planned.

glected street boy; an Arab of the streets, leaf.] In bot. same as Monopetalous (which This seems to be the present game of that crown. The word gamin was printed for the first time, and see).

Sir W. Temple. passed from the populace into literature in 1834. It Gamophyllous (ga-mof'il-us or ga-mo-Al9. Amorous sport; gallantry. made its first appearance in a work called Claude

lus), a. (Gr. gamos, marriage, union, and Gueux: the scandal was great but the word has reSet them down mained.

phyllon, a leaf.] In bot. having a single periFor sluttish spoils of opportunity

The gamin of Paris at the present day, like the Graeculus of Rome in former time, is the

anth-whorl with coherent leaves; symphylAnd daughters of the game.

Shak.

youthful people with the wrinkle of the old world on lous: opposed to apophyllous. Sachs. - To make game of, formerly, to make a its forehead.

Trans, of Victor Hugo. Gamosepalous (ga-mo-sep'al-us), a. [Gr. game of, to turn into ridicule; to delude or In Japan the gamins run after you and say, 'Look humbug

gamo8, marriage, and E. sepal (which see). ] at the Chinaman..

Laurence Oliphant.

In bot. same as Monosepalous (which see). Do they not seek occasion of new quarrels Gaming-house (gām'ing-hous), n. A house

Gamut (gam'ut), n. (Gr. gamma, the letter On my refusal to distress me more, where gaming is practised; a hell.

G, and L. ut, the syllable used in singing Or make a game of my calamities: Milton.

Gaming-table (gām'ing-ta-bl), n. A table the first note of the scale.] In music, (a) the Game (gām), v.i. pret. & pp. gamed; ppr. appropriated to gaming.

first or gravest note in Guido's scale of gaming. [A. Sax. gamian, to play. See the Gamma (gam'ma), n. Same as Gamut. music, the modern scale. (b) A scale on which noun.] 1. To play at any sport or diversion. Gammaridæ (gam-ma'ri-dē), n. pl. (L. gam- notes in music are written or printed, con2. To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, marus, Gr. kaminaros, a crab, and eidos, sisting of lines and spaces which are named dice, billiards, or other instruments, accord- resemblance.) The sand-hoppers, a family after the first seven letters of the alphabet. ing to certain rules, with a view to win of amphipodous crustaceans, of which the Long has a race of heroes fill'd the stage, money or other thing waged upon the issue genus Gammarus is the type.

That rant by note, and through the gamut rage. of the contest; to be in the habit of so doing; Gammarolite (gam-ma'rol-it), n. (L. gam

Addison. to gamble;

marus, Gr. kammaros, a crab, and lithos, a Gamy (gām'i), a. 1. Having the flavour of Avarice itself does not calculate strictly when it stone.) A fossil crawfish or other crusta- game; having the flavour of game kept ungames.

Burke.
cean.

cooked till it is slightly tainted; as, the Game (gām), a. 1. Of or belonging to such Gammarus (gam'ma-rus), n. A genus of venison was in fine gamy condition. animals as are hunted as game; as, a game amphipodous crustaceans, of which the 2. Courageous; plucky; game; as, a gamy pie; a game preserve.-2. Having the plucky, fresh-water shrimp is a species.

little fellow. (Colloq.] unyielding spirit of a game-cock; courageous; Gammer (gam'mér), n. (Contr. for good. Gan (gan), v. [A contraction of began, or resolute.

mother or grandmother. Comp. gaffer.] An from a simple A. Sax. ginnan. A form can I was game. I felt that I could have fought old wife: the correlative of gafjer.

was used in the same way.) An old English even to the death.

W. Irving
Delude the pious dames and gammers,

auxiliary equivalent to did. “Melting in 3. Ready, willing, or prepared to do some- To think their mumbling guides' precation

teres, then gan shee thus lament.' Spenser. thing; as, are you game for five shillings?= So full of heavenly inspiration,

Ganch, Gaunch (gansh, gąnsh), v.t. (Fr. Are you willing to lend or subscribe five

Hudibras Redivivus. ganche, It. gancio, a hook.) To drop from a shillings? (Slang. )- To be game, in playing Gammon (gam'mun), n. (Fr. jambon, It. high place on hooks, as the Turks do maleat cards and the like, to have attained the gambone, a big leg, a gammon, from gamba, factors, by way of punishment. requisite number of points to win; to be a leg; L. gamba, a hoof.) The buttock or

Take him away, ganch him, impale him, rid the victorious. ---To die game, to maintain a bold, thigh of a hog, pickled and smoked or dried; world of such a monster.

Dryden. resolute, courageous spirit to the last.

a smoked ham.

Gander (gan'dér), n. [A. Sax, gandra. The Game (gām), a. (W. cam, crooked.] Crooked; Gammon (gam'mun), v.t. 1. To make into

d and r in gander are merely euphonic; a is lame; as, a game leg. (Slang. )

bacon; to pickle and dry in smoke.-2. Naut. the masculine suffix and the root is gan= Game-bag (gām'bag), n. A bag for holding to fasten a bowsprit to the stem of a ship gans, a goose; comp. Icel. gás, a goose, gasi, the game killed by a sportsman. by several turns of a rope.

a gander; also G. game, Gr. chẽn, L. anger Game-cock (gām'kok), n. A cock bred or Gammon (gam'mun), n. [Connected with

(=hanser),' Morris. Comp. also Skr. hansa, used to fight; a cock of a good fighting breed. game. Comp. Dan. gammen, sport.] 1. A a goose.

See GOOSE.] The male of the Game-egg (gām'eg), n. An egg from which game called usually Back-gammon (which

goose. a fighting cock is bred.

see). -2. An imposition or hoax; humbug. Gane (gān), pp. of gae, to go. (Scotch.) Game-fowl (gām'foul), n. A fowl bred or (Colloq, or slang. )

Gang (gang), v.i. [A. Sax. gangan, Goth. gagkept for the purpose of fighting.

The gentry say death and distress are all gommon, gan, to go.) To go; to walk. [Old English Gameful (gam'ful), a. 1. Full of sport or And Shut up their hearts to the lab'rer's appeal. and Scotch.)

.
games; sportive. -2. Full of game or beasts
of sport. Gameful woods.

But let them gang alone
Gammon (gam'mun), v.t. (See the noun.]
l'ope.

As they have brewed, so let them bear blame. Gamekeeper (gäm'kēp-er), n. One who has 1. In the game of back-gammon, to beat or ex

Spenser. the care of game; one who is employed to cel, by withdrawing, either by superior skill Your flaunting beaus gang with their breasts open,

Arbuthnot. look after animals kept for sport.

or more fortunate throws of the dice, all one's Game-laws (gām’lạz), n. pl. "Laws enacted

men from the board, before one's antagonist Gang (gang), n. (A. Sax. gang, a way, a paswith regard to, or for the preservation of, has been able to get his men home, and

sage, a gallery, from gangan, to go; whence the animals called game. withdraw any of them from the board.

also genge, a number going together, a Gameless (gäm'les), a.

Destitute of game.

2. To impose on by means of improbable gang, a company. See Go.] 1. A number Gamely (gām'li), adv. stories; to delude; to humbug.

going in company; hence, a company or In a game or courmoned me with a trumped-up story.' La

a number of persons associated for a parageous manner. Gameness (gām'nes), n. The quality of being Gammoning (gam'mun-ing), n.

than. [Collo]

ticular purpose or on a particular occasion:

Naut. the used especially in a depreciatory or congame or having an unyielding spirit; courage; pluckiness. lashing by which the bowsprit is bound

temptuous sense or of disreputable persons; firmly down to the cutwater, in which is a as, a gang of thieves. There was no doubt about his gameness. Hughes.

There's a knot, a hole for the purpose of reefing several turns gang, a pack, a conspiracy against me.' Shak. Game-preserver (gām'pré-zėrv-ér), n. A of it.-Screw-gammoning, a chain or plate

More specifically-2. A number of workmen landowner or lessee of game, who strictly fastened by means of a screw used in some

or labourers of any kind engaged on any preserves it for his own sport or profit. The vessels for convenience in tracing up the

piece of work under the supervision of one term is generally applied to those who pre- bowsprit when required.

person; a squad.-3. In inining, literally a serve so strictly that the game becomes a Gammoning-hole (gam'mun-ing-hol), n.

course or vein, but applied to the earthy, nuisance to the farmers whose crops are Naut. a hole cut through the knee of the

stony, or other substance which incloses subject to its depredations. head of a ship for the purpose of gammoning

the ore of metals, or is only mingled with it Gamesome (gām'sum), a. Gay; sportive; the bowsprit.

without being chemically combined; the playful; frolicsome. "Then ran she game- Gammon-plate (gam'mun-plát), n. Naut.

matrix of ore. (In this sense often written some as a colt.' Tennyson. see GAMMON-SHACKLES.

Gangue. 1-4. The channel of a stream or Gamesomely (gām'sum-li), ado. Merrily; Gammon-shackles (gam'mun-shak-Iz), n.

course in which it is wont to run; a waterplayfully. Naut. a ring to which the gammoning is

course. Hence -- 5. A ravine or gulley. Gamesomeness (gām'sum-nes), n. The qua- made fast; it is formed on the end of an

[Provincial. ]-6. As much as one goes for or lity of being gamesome; sportiveness; meriron plate bolted to the stern called the

carries at once. (Scotch.) riment. Gamester (gām'ster), n. (Game, and the Gammut (gam'ut), n. Same as Gamut (which

To please you, mither, did I milk the kye, gammon-plate.

An' bring a gang o' water frae the burn. suffix -ster.) 1. One who games; a person

Donald and Flora. see). addicted to gaming; one who is accustomed Gammy (gam'mi), a. In vagrants' slang,

7. The field or pasture in which animals to play for money or other stake at cards, bad; unfavourable.

graze; as, those beasts have a good gang. dice, billiards, and the like; a gambler; one Gamogenesis (ga-mo-jen'ē-sis), n. [Gr.

(Scotch.) skilled in games.

A Spanish name given gamos, marriage, and genesis (which see).j Ganga (gang'ga), n. A gamester, the greater master he is in his art, the

to the birds of the genus Pterocles or sandGeneration by copulation of the sexes; sexual worse man he is. Bacon.

grouse. See SAND-GROUSE.
generation.
2. – A merry frolicsome person.

Gang-board (gang bord), n. 1. A board or
The kind of genesis, once supposed to be univer-
You are a merry gamester,
sal, in which the successive generations are alike, is

plank with cleats for steps, used for walkMy lord Sands. Shak. always sexual genesis, or, as it has been otherwise

ing into or out of a boat. -2. A term applied 3.1 A prostitute. "A common gamester to

called, gamogenesis.

H. Spencer, to planks placed within or without the bulthe camp.' Shak. Gamogenetic (ga-mo-jen-et'ik), a. Of or

warks of a vessel's waist for the sentinel to Gamey (gām'i), a.

walk or stand on. Same as Gamy (which

relating to gamogenesis. see).

Gamomorphism (ga-mo-mor'fizm), n. [Gr. Gang-bye (gang bi), n. The go-by. [Scotch.) Gamic (gam’ik), a. In zool. pertaining to or gamos, marriage, and morphê, shape. ] That Mercy on me, that I sud live in my auld days to connected with the congress of the sexes;

stage of development of organized beings gi'e the ging-bye to the very writer, Sir Il. Scott. sexual.

in which the spermatic and germinal ele- Gang-cask (gang kask), n. A small cask used In each ovarium, along with the rudiments of ments are formed, matured, and generated, for bringing water aboard ships in boats. aganic eggs, or eggs which, if developed, produce in preparation for another act of fecunda- Gang-day (gang'da), n. [A. Sax, gang-dæg. ) young by true parthenogenesis, there usually, if not

tion, as the commencement of a new genetic always, exists the rudiment of an ephippial erg;

A day of perambulation of parishes; a rogawhich, froin sundry cvidences, is inferred to be a cycle. Brande & Cox.

tion-day. See GANG. sexual or gamic egg.

H, Spencer Gamopetalous (ga-mo-pet'al-us), a. [Gr. Ganger (gang'ėr), n. 1. One who conducts or

He gam

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superintends a gang or band, as the fore- from its eating away the flesh.—2. In bot. a the old birds are annually taken, on account man of a gang of labourers or plate-layers disease ending in putrid decay.

of the feathers and down, and the young on a railway.-2. One who gangs or goes; a Gangrene (gang'grēn), v. t. pret. & pp. gan- are sometimes eaten. The species also occurs walker. Sir W. Scott. (Scotch.]

grened; ppr. gangrening. To produce a on the eastern coasts of North America and Gangetic, Gangic (gan-jet’ik, gan'jik), a. gangrene in; to mortify.

Labrador Relating to the river Ganges.

In cold countries when men's noses and ears are Ganocephala (ga-no-sef'al-a), n. pl. [Gr. Ganging-plea (gang'in-plē), n. A long- mortified, and, as it were, gangrened. Bacon. ganos, lustre, and kephalē, the head.] Owen's

continued plea; a permanent or hereditary Gangrene (gang'grēn), v.i. To become mor- name for a group of fossil labyrinthodonts, process. [Scotch.]

tifie
1.

with polished horny or ganoid plates coverBut I thought you had some law affair of your ain

Wounds immedicable

ing the head, a character which, however, to look after I have ane mysell—a ganging plea that

Rankle and fester, and gangrene

is common to the order, To black mortification.

Milton. my father left to me, and his father afore leit to hiin.

Ganocephalous (ga-no-sef'al-us), a. Having Sir W. Scott.

Gangrenescent (gang - grēn-es' sent), a. the head covered by shining polished plates. Gangliac, Ganglial (gang'gli-ak, gang'gli

Becoming gangrenous; tending to mortifica- Ganoid, Ganoidal (gan'oid, gan-oid'al), a. al), a. Relating to a ganglion. tion.

[Gr. ganos, splendour, and eidos, appearGangliated (gang'gli-āt-ed), a. Having Gangrenous (gang'grēn-us), a. Mortified; ance.] 1. A term applied to those scales or ganglions; intermixed or intertwisted with

indicating mortification of living flesh. plates of fishes which are composed of an enlargements at the intersections.

Gang-saw (gang'sa), n. An arrangement of inferior layer of true bone, covered by a Gangliform, Ganglioform (gang/gli-form, several saws fitted parallel to one another superior layer of polished enamel.—2. Begang'gli-o-form), a. (Gr. ganglion, a tu- in one sash or frame.

longing to the order Ganoidei. mour, and L. forma, shape.] Having the Gang-there-out(gang'THār-ut), a. Vagrant; Ganoid (gan'oid), n. A fish of the order shape of a ganglion. vagabond; leading a roaming life.

Ganoidei. Ganglion (gang'gli-on), n. pl. Ganglia or

I am a lone woman, for James he's awa' to Drum

Ganoidei (gan-oid'é-i), n. pl. (Gr. ganos, Ganglions (gangʻgli-a, gang'gli-onz). (Gr.

shourloch fair with the year-aulds, and I daurna for splendour, and eidos, appearance.) The ganglion, a sort of swelling or excrescence, my life open the door to ony o' your gang-there-out second order of fishes according to the ara tumour under the skin.] 1. In anat. an sort o' bodies.

Sir W. Scott.

rangement of M. Agassiz. The families of enlargement occurring somewhere in the Gangtide, n. See GANGWEEK. course of a nerve, and containing bipolar or Gangue (gang), n. See GANG, 3. multipolar nerve cells in addition to nerve Gangway (gang'wā), n. 1. A passage; a filaments. There are two systems of nerves temporary access to a building while in the which have ganglia upon them. First, course of erection, formed by an inclined those of common sensation, whose gan- plane of wooden planks, with pieces nailed glia are near to the origin of the nerve in

across their surface to prevent the feet slipthe spinal cord. Secondly, the great sympa- ping; way or avenue into or out of any inthetic nerve, which has various ganglia closed place, especially a passage into or on various parts of it. In the inverte- out of a ship, or from one part of a ship to brates these ganglia are centres of nervous another; also a narrow platform of planks force, and are distributed through the body laid horizontally along the upper part of a in pairs, for each ring of the body, con- ship's side, from the quarter-deck to the

Scales of different fossil genera of Ganoidians. forecastle.-2. In the House of Commons, a passage across the house, which separates

1, Lepidosteus.. 2, Cheiracanthus. 3, Palæoniscus.

4. Cephalaspis. 5, Dipterus. 6. A cipenser. the ministry and opposition with their respective adherents, who sit on seats run- this order are characterized by angular ning along the sides of the house, from the

rhomboidal, polygonal or circular scales, neutral or independent members, who oc- composed of horny or bony plates, covered cupy seats running across. Hence, the

with a thick plate of glossy enamel-like subphrase to sit below the gangway, as applied stance, by the presence of a spiral valve in Ganglion. to a member, implies that he holds himself

the intestines, by the optic nerves uniting Part of the nervous system of the larva of Caloso- as bound to neither party, but free to vote in a chiasma, and by free gills protected by ma sycophanta. a a, Ganglia.

with either as he shall judge right. - To a gill cover. The bony pike and sturgeon

bring to the gangoay (naut.), to punish a are of this order. It contains many genera, nected by fibres as in the figure. The cerebral seaman by seizing him up and flogging him. of which the majority are extinct. ganglia of vertebrates are the brain itself, Gangweek, Gangtide (gang'wēk, gang'tid), Ganoidian (gan-oid'i-an), a. Same as Ganoid. the masses of gray matter at the base of the n. Rogation week, when processions are

Ganoidian (gan-oid'i-an), n. Same as Ganoid. brain, as the optic thalamus, &c. - 2. In made to survey the bounds of parishes. Ganoine (gan'ō-in), n. The peculiar bony surg. an encysted tumour situated some

It (birch) serveth well. . . for beautifying of tissue which gives the enamel-like lustre and where on a tendon, formed by the elevation

streets in the crosse or gang-week, and such like. transparency to the plates of ganoid fishes of the sheath of the tendon, and the effusion

Gerard.

and of some labyrinthodonts. It is simply of a viscid fluid into it. – 3. In bot. the Ganil (gan'il), n. (Fr.) A kind of brittle limestone. Kirwan.

dense homogeneous bone. mycelium of certain fungals. — Lymphatic

Gantlet (gąnt'let), n. Same as Gauntlet. ganglion, a lymphatic gland.

Ganister, Gannister (gan'is-ter), n. A Ganglionary (gang'gli-on-a-ri),a. Composed close - grained hard sandstone or grit found Gantlet (gantlet), n. (Nasalized from Sw.

gatlopp, from gata, a street, a line of solof ganglia.

under certain coal-beds in the lower coal Ganglioneura (gang'gli-o-nū'ra), n. [Gr. measures of Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Lanca

diers, and lopp, a course; D. loopen; Sc. ganglion, a tumour under the skin, and shire, &c. It is used for macadamizing

loup, to run.) A military punishment in

flicted on criminals for some heinous of neuron, a sinew, a nerve.) A name applied roads, and also for lining iron furnaces and

fence. It was executed in this manner: by Rudolphi to the molluscous and articu- the Bessemer converter.

soldiers were arranged in two rows, face to late divisions of the animal kingdom which Ganjah, Gunjah (gan'jä, gun'ja), n. The

face, each armed with a switch or instruare characterized by a ganglionic type of name for the hemp plant in the north of

ment of punishment; between these rows the nervous system. India; specifically, the dried plant which

the offender, stripped to his waist, was Ganglionic (gang-gli-on’ik), a. Pertaining has flowered, and from which the resin has to a ganglion; as, the ganglionic nerves of not been removed: it is sold for smoking

compelled to pass a certain number of times,

and each man gave him a stroke. A similar the digestive organs; or the ganglionic like tobacco. nerves of common sensation. Gannet (gan'et), n. [A. Sax. ganet, ganot, a

punishment was used on board of ships. - To

run the gantlet, to undergo the punishment Ganglionica (gang-gli-on'ik-a), n. pl. (Gr. sea-fowl, a fen-duck; allied to gander, goose.]

of the gantlet; hence, to go through much ganglion, a tumour.) In med. a class of The solen goose, a bird of the genus Sula

and severe criticism, controversy, or illmedicinal agents which affect the sensibi

treatment. bility or muscular motion of parts supplied

Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights from his by the ganglionic or sympathetic system of

neighbours.

Palfrey. nerves.

Gantlope (gantlop), n. The original form Ganglionitis (gang'gli-on-1" tis), n. [Gr.

of Gantlet, a military punishment. ganglion, a tumour.] In pathol. inflammation of a nervous ganglion. Sometimes used

He is fain to run the gantlope through the terrors, for inflammation of a lymphatic ganglion.

and reproaches of his own conscience.

Dr. John Scott. Gang-master (gang'mas-tér), n. A master

Gantry (gan'tri), n. Same as Gauntree. or employer of a gang or body of workers;

Ganymede (ga'ni-mēd), n. In class. myth. one who hires a band of persons to perform

a youth carried off by Jupiter, in eaglesome specified task.

form, and made cup-bearer to the immorGang-plough (gang’plou), n. A plough with

tals. more than one ploughshare stocked in one

Ganza (gan'za), n. [Sp. ganso, gansa, gander, frame.

goose. See GANDER.] One of the birds (a Gang-punch (gang punsh), n. An arrange

species of wild goose) which, in the fictitious ment of several punches in a single stock.

work of Cyrano de Bergerac (1649), relating Gangrel (gang'rel), n. One who gangs or Gannet or Solan Goose (Sula Bassana). the journey of Dominique Gonzales, Spanish goes; specifically, (a) a child just beginning

adventurer to the moon, are represented to walk. (b) A vagrant. [Scotch. ]

(S. Bassana), family Pelicanidæ, measuring drawing thither the chariot of Gonzales. Gangrel (gang rel), a. Vagrant; vagabond. about 3 feet in length, and about 6 feet be- They are but idle dreams and fancies, Gangrenate (gang'grēn-āt), v.t. pret. & pp. tween the tips of the wings. It has a straight And savour strongly of the gansas. Hudibras. gangrenated; ppr. gangrenating. To pro- bill, 6 inches long, and palmated feet. The Gaol (jäl), n. Same as Jail. duce a gangrene in; to gangrene.

colour is chiefly white, with the tips of the Gaol (jāl), v.t. Same as Jail. Gangrene (gang'grēn), n. (Fr., from L. gan- wings black, and it feeds on various small Gaol-bird (jālbėrd), n. Same as Jail-bird. græna; Gr. gangraina, from grao, graino, to fishes, chiefly herring. Great numbers of Gaol-delivery (jāl'dē-li-vė-ri), n. Same as gnaw, to eat.] 1. In pathol. the first stage these birds frequent the Hebrides, St. Kilda, Jail-delivery of mortification of living flesh: so called Ailsa Craig, and the Bass Rock. Many of Gaoler (jāl'er), n. A jailer.

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Gaol-fever (jäl’fő-vér), n. Same as Jail- garfish of America), as also to a ganoid fish 2. To select and cull such parts of as may fever.

of the genus Lepidosteus found in the fresh serve a purpose; to mutilate so as to give a Gaon (gā'on), n. [Heb., exaltation.) One of waters of America. The head of one species, false impression of; to sophisticate; to coran order of Jewish doctors, who appeared the alligator gar, is somewhat like that of an rupt. after the closing of the Talmud. alligator. It attains the length of 10 feet.

This word is never now used in its primary sense, Gap (gap), n. [From gape; Icel. gap, a See GARFISH.

and has indeed undergone this further change, that

while once to garble was to sift for the purpose of hiatus.) A break or opening, as in a fence, Gar (gär), v.t. [Icel. göra, Dan. güre, Sw.

selecting the best, it is now to sift with a view of wall, or the like; a breach; a chasm; an en- göra, to make.] To cause; to make; to picking out the worst.

Trench. trance; a hiatus; hence, a vacant space or force; to compel. (Old English and Scotch.) The materials for the history a people are more time; a defect or flaw, as in honour or re

Get warmly to your feet

extensive, more indirect, and therefore less liable to putation.

An' gar them hear it.

Burns. be garbled, than are those for the history of a government.

Buckle. From the gaps and chasms.

Garanceux (gär-an-sé), n. (Fr.) A product Garble,t Garbelt (gär’bl), n. 1. Anything Came men and women in dark clusters round.

Tennyson.
obtained by treating the waste madder of

that has been sifted or from which the Manifold miseries ensued by the opening of that

the dye-houses, which still contains a certain gap to all that side of Christendom.

coarse parts have been removed. Knolles. quantity of alizarin and other colouring A third can fill the gap with laughing.

And thereby (by avoirdupois weight) are weighed Swifi. matters, with sulphuric acid, to remove

all kind of grocerie wares, physicall drugs, If you violently proceed against him, mistaking his

lime, magnesia, &c. It is adapted for dye- and all other commodities not before named (as it purpose, it would make a great gap in your honour. ing red and black, but does not afford a seemeth), but especially every thing which beareth Shak. good purple.

the name of garbel, and whereof issueth a refuse or -To stop a gap, to secure a weak point; to Garancin, Garancine (gär'an-sin), n. (Fr.

waste.

M. Dalton. repair a defect; to supply a temporary ex

garance, madder.) The product" obtained 2. Garbage; refuse separated from goods, pedient. by treating pulverized madder, previously

as spices, drugs, &c.; hence, in the following His policy consists in setting traps, exhausted with water, with concentrated

extract, applied to a low mean fellow:In finding ways and means, and stopping gaps.

Swift.

sulphuric acid at 100° Cent. (212° Fahr.), and - How did the bishop's wife believe -To stand in the gap, to expose one's self

again washing with water. The residue thus On this most sacrilegious slave ? for the protection of something; to make obtained is found to yield better results in

Did not the lady smile upon the garble! Wolcott. defence against any assailing danger. Ezek.

dyeing than madder itself, the colours pro- Garbler (gårbler), n. One who garbles, sifts, xxii. 30.

duced by it being more brilliant and requir- or separates; as, the garbler of spices, a forGape (gāp), v.i. pret. & pp. gaped; ppr. ing less after-treatment, while the portions

mer officer in London who looked after the gaping. [A. Sax, geậpan; Dan. gabe, Icel. of the fabric desired to be kept white at

purity of drugs and spices; hence, one who gapa, to gaze with open mouth; D. gapen, tract hardly any colour.

culls out or selects to serve a purpose. G. gaffen, to gape.] 1. To open' the mouth Garangan (gäran-gan), n. A Javanese spe- A farther secret in this clause may best be diswide," as (a) expressing a desire for food; cies of ichneumon, the Herpestes javani

covered by the projectors, or at least the garblers of it.

Swift. cus. as, the young birds gape. (6) Indicative of

It is about the size of a large watersleepiness, drowsiness, dulness, or indifferrat, and abounds in the teak forests, preying

Garboard-plank(gårbord-plangk),n. Naut. ence; to yawn. on snakes, birds, and small quadrupeds.

the first plank fastened next the keel on the She stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes, The natives assert that, when it attacks a

outside of a ship's bottom. And asks if it be time to rise. Swift. snake, it puffs up its body and induces the Garboard-streak, Garboard-strake (går. snake to twine itself round its inflated per

bord-strēk, gär'bord-strāk), n. Naut. the (c) Indicative of wonder, surprise, astonishment, or the like; as, the gaping crowd. son. It then suddenly contracts itself, slips

first range or streak of planks laid on a With gaping astonishment had stared from the reptile's coils, and darts upon its

ship's bottom next the keel. neck. aghast.' Byron. (d) Expressing earnest de

There is some foundation for this Garboilt (gärboil), n. (O. Fr. garbouil, It. assertion in the fact that the garangan does

garbuglio, a great stir or noise, a tumult. ) sire or expectation. Others will gape t' anticipate

possess the power of inflating and contract- Tumult; uproar; disorder. The cabinet designs of fate. Hudibras. ing its body with great rapidity.

Look here, and at thy sov'reign leisure read Garavance, Calavance (gar'a-vans, kala

The garboils she awak'd.

Shak. (@) Manifesting a desire to injure, devour,

vans). A name for several kinds of pulse, Garce (gärs), n. An Indian measure of capaor overcome.

including Dolichos barbadensis and D. sin- city for grain, oil, seeds, &c., equal to They have ga ped upon me with their mouth. ensis.

1154 0880 imperial gallons. Job xvi. 10.

Garb (gärb), n. (O.Fr. garbe, a garb, appear-Garcinia (gär-sin'i-a), n. [In honour of Dr. 2. To open as a gap; to show a fissure or ance, comeliness ; It. Sp. Pg. garbo, garb,

Garcin, an eastern traveller, who first dechasm.

carriage, comeliness--of Teutonic origin; scribed it.) A genus of Clusiaceæ, consistMay that ground gape and swallow me alive. Shak.

comp. A. Sax. gearwa, clothing, preparation, ing of opposite-leaved trees, with pinkish -To gape for, after, and sometimes at, to gearu, prepared; E. gear, geer, O.E. yare,

white or yellow flowers arranged in clusters crave; to desire or covet earnestly. "Thou, ready; 0.H.G. garawi, garwi, attire, garaw

in the axils of the leaves or in panicles at who gap'st for my estate.' Dryden.

jan, to make ready.) 1. Clothing; clothes ; the end of the twigs; they are chiefly found What shall we say of those who spend their days vesture; habit; specifically, an official or

in India and the Malay Archipelago. The in gaping after court favour and preferments

? other distinguishing dress. The judge was mangosteen-tree (G. Mangostana) is a speSir R. L'Estrange. arrayed in his official garb.' Daily Telegraph.

cies of this genus; other Many have çaped at the church revenues; but, be. 2. Fashion or mode, now, specifically, of

species furnish gamboge fore they could swallow them, have had their mouths dress, but formerly also of speech, manner,

(which see). stopped in the churchyard.

South.
and the like; mode of doing anything; ex-

Gard (gärd), v. and n. Gape (gấp), n. 1. The act of gaping. terior appearance; deportment. He wears

Same as Guard. The mind is not here kept in a perpetual gafe after the garb but not the clothes of the ancients.'

Gardt (gärd), n. Yard; knowledge. Addison. Denham. 'He could not speak English in

garden. Trees of the 2. In zool. the width of the mouth when the native garb.' Shak. Pausanias began

gard.' Beaumont. opened, as of birds, fishes, &c.-3. pl. A to live after the Persian garb.' Usher.

Gardant, Guardant disease of young poultry attended with Commanding peace even with the same

(gärd'ant), ppr. (Fr.) In much gaping. It is due to the presence of austerity and garb as he controlled the war.'

Lion gardant. her. a term applied to a trematoid worm (Fasciola trachealis) in Shak.

any animal (except the the windpipe. Garb, n. In her, see GARBE.

hart, stag, buck, or hind) full-faced or lookGaper (gấp'er), n. 1. One who gapes, as for Garbage (gårbāj), n. (O. E. garbash, probably ing at the observer, whether the animal food, from sleepiness, drowsiness, or dul

from garble, to sift. Garbage thus properly be passant, rampant, or otherwise. When ness, in wonder, astonishment, longing de- means what is sifted out, refuse. The

a beast of chase is represented in this posisire, expectation, or the like. bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh;

tion it is said to be at gaze. The golden shower of the dissolved abbey lands

offal; hence, the refuse animal or vegetable Garde-brace, Garde-bras (gärd'brās, gardrained well near into every gaper's mouth. Carew. matter of a kitchen; hence, any worthless, brä), n. [Fr. garde-bras, arm-guard.] An 2. A bivalve mollusc, as the species of Mya, offensive matter, as immoral writings and

additional piece Saxicava, &c., whose shell is permanently the like.

of armour fastenopen at the posterior end. So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd,

ed to the elbowWill sate itself in a celestial bed, Gape-seed (gáp'sēd), n. (A corruption of

plates, and coverAnd prey on garbage. Shak.

ing the elbow and the provincial word gapesing, gaping.] Gap. Garbaged (gärb'ājd), a. Stripped of the

upper part of ing; staring idly or with ignorant wonder bowels.

the arm : used in with the mouth open; the effect produced Garbe, Garb (gärb), n. [Fr. gerbe, Sp. gar

the fifteenth cenon an ignorant person by some wonderful exhibition or sight. ba, G. garbe, O.H.G. garba, sheaf.) În her.

tury. a sheat of any kind of grain, but specific

Garden (gär’dn),n. These, tho' they pretend to be thought fools, will not be the only fools there, nor to be compar'd with ally, a sheaf of wheat-supposed to be the

[From Teut. root emblem of summer: when other than wheat those who, in an eager pursuit after diversion, stand

but directly from with their eyes and their mouths open, to take in a the kind must be expressed.

Garde-brace. the 0.Fr. gardin; cargo of gape-seed, while some a le too nimble Garbed (gärbd), a. Dressed; habited.

comp. L.

garfor them pick their pockets. Poor Robin, 1735. Garbel, n. See GARBLE.

den, G. garten, Goth. gards, A. Sax. geard, Gap-toothed (gap'tötht), a. Having inter-Garbel (gärbel), n. The plank next the keel 0. E. garth, O.H.G. garto, karto, an inclosed stices between the teeth. of a ship. See GARBOARD-STREAK.

place, a yard, a garden; A. Sax. gyrdan, to A grey and gap-loothed man as lean as death. Garble (går'bl), v. t. pret. & ppgarbled; gird, to inclose. The same root is seen in

Tennyson. ppr. garbling. [0. Fr. garbeller, to sift, to Slav. gradu, as in Novgorod, L. cohors, coGar (gär). [A. Sax.gar, a dart.] 1. An element examine nearly; Sp. garbillar, to sift, gar- hort, hortus, a garden, Gr. chortos, a yard. in proper names derived from the Anglo- billo, a coarse sieve; from Ar. gharbil, a sieve, See also YARD.) 1. A piece of ground approSaxon; as, Edgar or Eadgar, happy weapon; or L. cribellum, dim. of cribrum, á sieve.] priated to the cultivation of herbs or Ethelgar, noble weapon.--2. A name given 1. To sift or bolt; to separate the fine or valu- plants, fruits and flowers, and vegetables. to the several species of the genus of fishes able parts from the coarse and useless parts, Land appropriated to the raising of culinary Belone, from their long slender body and or from dross or dirt; as, to garble spices. herbs and roots for domestic use is called a acute dart-like head, as B. vulgaris (the gar- Dr. Gwinne with seven others were appointed com

kitchen-garden; that appropriated to flowers fish or sea-pike), B. truncată (the banded missioners (in 1620) for garbling tobacco. Dr. Ward. and shrubs is called a flower-garden; and

GARDEN

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n.

that to fruits is called a fruit-garden. But Cross-spider. It is also sometimes called 2. A distemper in cattle, consisting in a these uses are sometimes blended. Diadem-spider.

swelling of the throat and the neighbourGod the first garden made, and the first city Cain. Garden-squirt (gär'dn-skwėrt), n. A squirt ing parts. 3. A disease in the udders of Cowley. for watering flowers.

cows arising from inflammation of the lym2. A rich well-cultivated spot or tract of Garden-stand (gár dn-stand), n. A stand phatic glands. – 4. A distemper in hogs, country; a delightful spot.

or frame on which flower-pots are placed. indicated by staggering and loss of appetite. I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy,

Garden-stuff (gär'dn-stuff), n. Plants grow- 5. An American name for Phytolacca decThe pleasant garden of great Italy. Shak. ing in a garden; vegetables for the table. andra, commonly known as Poke or PokeGarden (gär'dn), a. Pertaining to or pro

Garden-sweep (gär'dn-swép), n. A curving weed, which has emetic and cathartic produced in a garden; as, garden implements, carriage-drive through a garden.

perties, and has been employed in medicine. &c.

Garden-tillage (gär'dn-til-aj), n. The till. Gargil (gär gil), n. [Perhaps a form of garGarden (gärdn), v.i. To lay out or to culti- age or cultivation of a garden.

get, gargol (which see)] A distemper in

See vate a garden; to prepare ground, to plant Garden-warbler (gärdn-war-blėr), n. geese, which affects the head and often and till it, for the purpose of producing BECCAFICO.

proves fatal. plants, shrubs, flowers, and fruits.

Garden-waret (gär'dn-wār), n. The pro- Gargle (går'gl), v. t. pret. & pp. gargled; ppr. We fann, we garden, we our poor employ, duce of gardens.

gargling. (Comp. E. gurgle, gorge, gargout. And much command, though little we enjoy. Garde-visure (gärd-ve-zör), n. (Fr., sight- Fr. gargouiller, to dabble,

to paddle;

L gurCrabbe.

guard.] In her. the vizor: so named from gulio, the gullet, windpipe; L. and Gr. garGarden (gär/dn), u.t. To cultivate as a gar- being used as a defence to the face and eyes. garizo, to rinse the mouth; G. gurgel, the den. Cotgrave.

Gardon (gärdon), n. (Fr. and Sp.) A fish throat, gurgeln, to gargle. The interrelaGarden-balsam (gär'dn-bal-sam), n. Im- of the roach kind, Leuciscus Idus.

tionship of these words is not very clear. patiens Balsamina, a well-known ornamen- Gardon (gär'don), n. A mispronunciation Probably the Latin is the origin of the others, tal plant, nat. order Balsaminacea, intro- of Costard's in Love's Labour's Lost for but an imitative origin may perhaps be duced into Britain from India in the end of Guerdon. Shak.

ascribed to some of them.) 1. To wash or the sixteenth century.

Gardyloo (gär'di-lo). [Fr. gardez (-vous de) rinse, as the mouth or throat, with a liquid Garden-engine, n. See GARDEN-PUMP. l'eau, look out for the water.) Save your- preparation, which is kept from descending Gardener (gür'dn-êr), n. One whose occuselves from the water. [Scotch.)

into the stomach by a gentle expiration of pation is to make, tend, and dress a garden. At ten o'clock at night (in Edinburgh) the whole air.—2. To warble; to play in the throat. Gardener's Garters, n. pl. A plant, Phal.

cargo (of the chamber utensils) is flung out of a back (Rare.]

window that looks into some street or lane, and the aris arundinacea variegata. See PHALARIS.

Let those which only warble long,

Smollett.
maid calls Gardyloo to the passengers.

And gargle in their throats a song.
In hort, a
Gardenesque (går-dn-esk'), a.

Content themselves with ut, re, me.

Waller. term applied to the

free symmetrical style Gare (gar), n (Possibly akin to gear, accouof laying out a garden, in which the form

trements (which see). ] Coarse wool growing Gargle (gär'gl), n. Any liquid preparation of the beds may be varied from formal Garet (gär), v. t. on the legs of sheep.

for washing the mouth and throat.

Same as Gaure. geometrical outlines.

Gargle (gär' gl), n. Same as Gargoyle.

A state of eagerness and Gargol (går gol), n. [See GARGET.] A disGarden-glass (gär'dn-glas), n. 1. A round Gare+ (gar), n. globe of dark-coloured glass, generally about excitement.

temper in swine; garget. Mortimer. 14 foot in diameter, placed on a pedestal,

The multitude hastened in a fell and cruel gare to Gargoyle, Gargoil (gär'goil), n. [Fr. gar.

try the utmost hazard of battle. - Holland, Transl. in which the surrounding objects are re

gouille. See GARGLE.) In arch. a projecting of Ammianus Marcellinus, flected: much used as an ornament of gar. Garfish (gär fish), n. (See GAR.] The name dens in Germany.– 2. A bell-glass used for covering plants.

given to the fishes of the genus Belone, a Garden-house (gär’dn-hous), n. 1. A sum

genus of marine teleostean fishes, of the

family Esocidæ, characterized by a remarkmer-house.

ably elongated body covered with minute Look you, Master Greenshield, because your sister

scales, and a long, narrow, beak-like snout, is newly come out of the fresh air, and that to be

furnished with numerous and minute teeth pent up in a narrow lodging here i' the city may Offend her health, she shall lodge at a garden-house

The common garfish (B. vulgaris) is from of mine in Moorfields.

Webster. 2 to 3 feet in length, has a forked tail, and 2. A privy; a necessary. (Southern States small pectoral and ventral fins. It is known of America.) under a variety of names, as sea-pike, sword

Gargoyle. Garden - husbandry (gär'dn-huz-band-ri), fish, sea-needle, green-bone, and mackerel. n. A branch of horticulture, the object of guide. The last name it has because it makes spout for throwing the water from the gutwhich is to raise fruits, vegetables, and seeds its appearance on the English coast in zum- ters of a building. Gargoyles of various forms for profit on a smaller extent of ground

are found in nearly all styles of architecture, than is usually occupied for agricultural

but were peculiarly developed in the Gothic, purposes.

where they are found in all conceivable Gardenia (gär-de'ni-a), n. [Named after Dr.

forms, angelic, human, and of the lower Garden, an American botanist.) A genus of

animals, the water being generally spouted Rubiaceæ, consisting of (often spiny) trees

through the mouth. In some of the larger and shrubs natives of the Cape and of trop

buildings, where the height of the walls is ical Asia and Africa. They have large hand

Common Garfish (Belone vulgaris).

considerable, the gargoyles, having to prosome white or yellowish flowers, which are

ject far in order to throw the water clear of often deliciously fragrant; G. florida and mer, a short time previous to the arrival of Gargyle (gärgil), n.

the walls, are of large size. G. radicans are well known in cultivation

Same as Gargoyle. the mackerel. The flesh resembles mackerel. as Cape jasmine.

Garibaldi (gär-i-bal'di), n. 1. A kind of Gardening (gärdn-ing), n. The act of laying galized; ppr. gargalizing. To gargle. MarGargalize (gär'gal-iz), v.t. pret. & pp. gar

jacket worn by ladies, supposed to resemble out and cultivating gardens; horticulture.

the coloured shirt which formed a prominston. Gardenless (gár dn-les), a. Destitute of a Garganey (gär' ga - ni), n. (Perhaps from

ent part of the dress of Garibaldi and his garden. Shelley.

soldiers. -2. A peculiar style of hat: so named A. Sax. geres, a marsh, and ganet, ganot, a Gardenly (gärdn-li), a. Having the char

for a similar reason. kind of fen-duck.) A species of duck, the Garish, Gairish (gār'ish), a. (0.E. gare, acter of a garden; like or relating to a gar

Anas querquedula, or summer teal, often den; becoming or appropriate to a garden.

possibly a form of gaze (but see GAZE). found in this country in the winter. The crop throughout being managed in a gardenly Gargantuan (gär-gan'tu-an), a. (From Gar

Comp. dare, daze (as, to dare larks); snore, Marshall.

snooze; freeze, frore, &c.] 1. Gaudy; showy; gantua, the hero of Rabelais's satire, so Garden-mould (gär'dn-mold), n. Mould or named from his father exclaiming Que

staring; dazzling; attracting or seeking atrich mellow earth suitable for a garden.

tention. "The garish sun.' Shak. grand tu as,' 'How large (a gullet) thou Garden-plot (gärdn-plot), n. A separate

There in close covert by some brook, hast!' on hearing him cry out, immediately Where no profaner eye may look, portion of a garden laid out with flowers, on his birth, Drink, drink!' so lustily as to

Hide me from day's garish eye.

Milton. vegetables, or bushes.

be heard over several districts. It required 2. Extravagantly gay; flighty. It makes Garden - pump, Garden-engine (gär'dn- 900 ells of linen for the body of his shirt, and pump, gär'dn-en-jin), n. A machine with

the mind loose and garish.' South. 200 more for the gussets, 1100 cow-hides for Garishly, Gairishly (gâ'rish-li), adv. In a a hose attached for artificially watering the soles of his shoes, and he picked his gardens, lawns, &c.

garish, showy, or dazzling manner; gaudily;

teeth with an elephant's tusk.) Great beGardenshipt (gär'dn-ship), n. Horticulture.

Alightily; wildly. yond all limits or beyond credibility; enor- Garishness, Gairishness (gāʻrish-nes), n. Lord Shaftesbury,

mous; prodigious; Brobdingnagian. Garden - spider (går'dn-spi-dér), n.

1. The state or quality of being garish; gaudiThe common name of the spider Epeira diade

It sounded like a Gargantuan order for a dram. ness; finery; affected or ostentatious show.
Standard netuspafer.

There are woes ma, from its being found in great numbers Gargarism (går gär-izm), n. (L. gargaris- III-bartered for the garishness of joy. Coleridge. in gardens, especially in autumn, where it

mus; Gr. gargarizo, to wash the mouth.) A stretches its beautiful geometric webs per

2. Flightiness of temper; extravagance of gargle; any liquid preparation used to wash pendicularly from branch to branch, remain- the mouth and throat, to cure inflamma

joy or ostentation; want of steadiness. ing in the centre with its head downwards tions or ulcers, &c.

This (fasting) is a singular corrective of that pride waiting for its prey. The web of this spider Gargarize (gär'gär-iz), v.t. pret. & pp. gar

and garishness of temper, that renders it impatient

of the sobrieties of virtue, but open to all the wild is composed of two different kinds of threads, the radiating and supporting threads being

garized; ppr. gargarizing. (Fr. gargariser; suggestions of fancy and the impressions of vice. L. gargarizo; Gr. gargarizo, to wash the

Sonth. strong and of simple texture. The fine spiral mouth.] 1. To wash or rinse, as the mouth, Garisoun, t v.t. To heal. thread which divides the web into a series with any medicated liquor. -2. To apply or

I cannot seen how thou maist go, of steps, decreasing in breadth toward the use as a gargle. "Vinegar,

Other waies thee to garisoun. Chancer

gargarized centre, is studded with a vast amount of doth ease the hiccough.' Bacon.

Garland (gårland), n. (O. E. girlond, gerlittle globules, which give to the web its Garget (gär'jet), n. (In senses 1 and 2 pro- lond; Fr. guirlande, a garland, from (as Teupeculiar adhesiveness. The dorsal surface

bably a form of gorget.] 1. The throat. tonic ward becomes Romance guard; urise, of the abdomen of this spider is marked

And dan Russel the fox stert up at ones

guise) O.H.G. wiera, a coronet, a crest, with a triple yellow cross, whence the name An by the garget hente chaunteclere. Chaucer. through M.H.G. wierelen, a dim. of wieren,

manner.

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