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.

A piece of lively dance music, in two strains which are repeated; also, the dance.

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.

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.

A shop or barroom where gin is sold as a beverage.

A servant. See Gyp.

A short cassock.

A kind of pouch formerly worn at the girdle.

See Gypsy.

See Gypsyism.

A hairy Eurasian herb (Lycopus europaeus) with two-lipped white flowers.

The type genus of the Giraffidae.

An African ruminant (Giraffa camelopardalis formerly Camelopardalis giraffa) related to the deers and antelopes, but placed in a family (Giraffidae) by itself; the camelopard. It is the tallest of quadriped animals, being sometimes twenty feet from the hoofs to the top of the head. Its neck is very long, and its fore legs are much longer than its hind legs. There are three types, having different patterns of spots on the pelt and different territories: the Reticulated Giraffe, the Masai Giraffe, and the Uganda Giraffe. Intermediate crosses are also observed.

The natural family of mammals including the giraffes.

An ornate ornamental branched candlestick, often with a mirror at the back.

To encircle or bind with any flexible band.

One who girds; a satirist.

That with which one is girded; a girdle.

To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.

One who girdles.

See Gyre.

See Gherkin.

any female friend; as, Mary and her girlfriend organized the party.

State or time of being a girl.

Like, or characteristic of, a girl; of or pertaining to girlhood; innocent; artless; immature; weak; as, girlish ways; girlish grief.

A garland; a prize.

To grin.

Of or pertaining to the Girondists.

A garfish.

The Babylonian god of fire; often invoked in incantations against sorcery.

Same as Girth.

To bind as with a girth.

A gantline.

A weapon with a scythe-shaped blade, and a separate long sharp point, mounted on a long staff and carried by foot soldiers.

Guise; manner.

A pledge.

A native hydrated silicate of alumina, lime, and potash, first noticed near Rome.

A resting place.

See Geat.

A Spanish gypsy.

A gown.

The corn cockle; also anciently applied to the Nigella, or fennel flower.

To play on gittern.

A musical instrument, of unknown character, supposed by some to have been used by the people of Gath, and thence obtained by David. It is mentioned in the title of Psalms viii., lxxxi., and lxxxiv.

Same as Joust.

In just, correct, or suitable time.

To give a gift or gifts.

A maneuver in which one offensive player passes the ball to another, then runs toward the basket to take a return pass.

p. p. a. from Give, v.

the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed.

One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes.