The offspring of a Spaniard and an Indian; a Spanish-Indian mestizo.

One of several finback whales of the North Atlantic; -- called also Jupiter whale.

A balky horse.

To speak rapidly and inarticulately.

A plant growth hormone of the gibberellin series (C19H22O6), also called gibberellin A3. It was first isolated from the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi. It is used to promote the growth of seedlings. See also gibberellin.

Any of a number plant growth hormones, the first of which was isolated in 1938 from the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi; more than 60 related gibberelins are known. The most important is gibberellin A3, also called gibberellic acid. They are used in agriculture for promoting plant growth.

Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words.

Unmeaning; as, gibberish language.

Wild fowl; game.

Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing.

Humped; protuberant; -- said of a surface which presents one or more large elevations.

The state of being gibbous or gibbose; gibbousness.

A hydrate of alumina.

An expression of sarcastic scorn; a sarcastic jest; a scoff; a taunt; a sneer.

A kind of carp (Cyprinus gibelio); -- called also Prussian carp.

One who utters gibes.

The male of the salmon.

In a gibing manner; scornfully.

Made of giblets; as, a giblet pie.

The inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry.

A strongly fortified town on the south coast of Spain, held by the British since 1704; hence, an impregnable stronghold.

A staff to guage water, or to push a boat.

A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the C/nurus, a larval tapeworm, in the brain. See C/nurus.

In a giddy manner.

The quality or state of being giddy.

To make dizzy or unsteady.

A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment.

Thoughtless; unsteady.

Moving irregularly; flighty; fickle.

To give.

A bird referred to in the Bible (Lev. xi. 18and Deut. xiv. 17) as unclean, probably the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus).

The gyrfalcon.

A mineral occurring in greenish gray six-sided prisms, having a greasy luster. It is probably a pseudomorph after el/olite.

If.

The Graphics Interchange Format, one of the most popular standardized formats for storing graphic data in binary computer files. The standard has been revised several times, and includes provisions for interlacing and animating images. Its disadvantage is that it can store only 256 colors. Compare JPEG.

Mutual accommodation; mutual giving.

See Jiffy.

To endow with some power or faculty. See gift{4}.

having unusual talent in some field.

The state of being gifted.

A job for a specified, usually short period of time; -- used especially for the temporary engagements of an entertainer, such as a jazz musician or a rock group; as, a one-week gig in Las Vegas.

Like a giant; mighty; gigantic.

Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent.

Of extraordinary size; like a giant.

Bulky, big.

The act of killing, or one who kills, a giant.

Gigantic.

An account or description of giants.

A war of giants; especially, the fabulous war of the giants against heaven.

The muscular stomach, or gizzard, of birds.

Same as Gigot.

A kind of laugh, with short catches of the voice or breath; a light, silly laugh.

One who giggles or titters.

Prone to giggling.

See Gigot.

A leg of mutton.

The act of fastending the gige or leather strap to the shield.

A wanton; a lascivious or light, giddy girl.

Giddi; light; inconstant; wanton.

A man whose main income is derived from gifts or payments from women in return for his sexual favors or companionship.

William Schwenk Gilbert, an English dramatist born at London Nov. 18, 1836. He is most famous for his collaborations with Sir Arthur Sullivan on a number of humorous light operas which are known as /Gilbert and Sullivan Operas/. His first play was /Dulcamara/ (1866). He also wrote /The Palace of Truth/ (1870), /Pygmalion and Galatea/ (1871), /Sweethearts/ (1874), /Engaged/ (1877), /The Mountebanks/ (1891), and in collaboration with Sir A. Sullivan (who wrote the music), he wrote /The Sorcerer/ (1877), /H. M. S. Pinafore/ (1878), /The Pirates of Penzance/ (1879), /Patience/ (1881), /Iolanthe/ (1883), /The Mikado/ (1885), /Ruddygore/ (1887), /The Yeomen of the Guard/ (1888), /The Gondoliers/ (1889), and /Utopia, limited/ (1893). The light operas proved very popular and continue to be performed over one hundred years later. He also published other works.

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert; as, Gilbertian libretti.

To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.

A drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share.

Gilded.

A Dutch coin. See Guilder.

The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold.

Guile.

A legendary king of Sumeria and the hero of famous Sumerian and Babylonian epics.

A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl.

A thoughtless, giddy girl; a flirt-gill.

Having gills; as, a gilled tadpole. Opposite of abranchiate.

A shop where gill is sold.

A girl; esp., a wanton; a gill.

A boy or young man; a manservant; a young male attendant, in the Scottish Highlands.

A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white.

A guiler; deceiver.

See Grilse.

Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.

Having a gilt edge; as, gilt-edged paper.

A marine fish. The Pagrus auratus (syn. Chrysophrys auratus), a valuable food fish common in the Mediterranean (so named from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll. The Crenilabrus melops, of the British coasts; -- called also golden maid, conner, sea partridge.

Guilty.

A yellow-tailed worm or larva.

Neat; spruce.

A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first.

See Gimlet.

A trivial mechanism; a device.

Ornamental objects of no great value.

the 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

To pierce or make with a gimlet.

Made or consisting of interlocked rings or links; as, gimmal mail.

A piece of mechanism; mechanical device or contrivance; a gimcrack.

To notch; to indent; to jag.

To catch in a trap.

A commercial establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; a barroom; -- a disparaging term suggesting a cheap or disreputable bar.

A tropical American tree (Melicocca bijuga) bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.

Same as Gang, n., 2.

See Jingal.

A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes.

Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily.

Cautiousness; tenderness.

The pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; -- it is used fresh as a seasoning, especially in Oriental cookery.

A crisp cookie flavored with ginger.

tasting of ginger; spicy; -- used of tastes.

A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints.

The lining of a mine shaft with stones or bricks to prevent caving.

Of or pertaining to the gums.

See Jingle.

Ginglymoid.

An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebr/ convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See Ganoidel.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a ginglymus, or hinge joint; ginglyform.

A hinge joint; an articulation, admitting of flexion and extension, or motion in two directions only, as the elbow and the ankle.

A building where cotton is ginned.

A large ornamental tree (Ginkgo biloba) from China and Japan, belonging to the Yew suborder of Conifer/. Its leaves are so like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is also called the maidenhair tree.

A division of trees comprising the ginkgos. In some systems it is classified as a class (Ginkgopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Ginkgophytina or Ginkgophyta); used in some classifications for one of five subdivisions of Gymnospermophyta.

See Jinnee.

See Genet, a horse.

Beginning.

A small, strong carriage for conveying materials on a railroad.

A plant of the genus Aralia, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese. The Chinese plant (Aralia Schinseng) has become so rare that the American (A. quinquefolia) has largely taken its place, and its root is now an article of export from America to China. The root, when dry, is of a yellowish white color, with a sweetness in the taste somewhat resembling that of licorice, combined with a slight aromatic bitterness.