Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily.
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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.
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.
Fetters.
The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.
The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon.
The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. See Trilobite.
Becoming smooth or glabrous from age.
To make smooth, plain, or bare.
Smoothness; baldness.
Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness.
Smoothly coated with icing or crystals of sugar; iced; glazed; -- said of fruits, sweetmeats, cake, etc.
Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena.
One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers.
To convert into, or cover with, ice.
Act of freezing.
An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland.
Pertaining to, consisting of or resembling, ice; icy.
A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin).
To be glad; to rejoice.
To be or become glad; to rejoice.
One who makes glad.
An iris (Iris foetidissima) with purple flowers and evil-smelling leaves; Southern and Western Europe and North Africa.
Sword grass; any plant with sword-shaped leaves, especially the European Iris f/tidissima.
The European yellow-hammer.
Full of gladness; joyful; glad.
Sword-shaped; resembling a sword in form, as the leaf of the iris, or of the gladiolus.
Originally, a swordplayer; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena, for public amusement.
Of or pertaining to gladiators, or to contests or combatants in general.
The art or practice of a gladiator.
Conduct, state, or art, of a gladiator.
Gladiatorial.
Swordplay; fencing; gladiatorial contest.
A lilylike plant, of the genus Gladiolus; -- called also corn flag.
The internal shell, or pen, of cephalopods like the squids.
State or quality of being glad; pleasure; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness.
A state of gladness.
Pleased; joyful; cheerful.
The state of experiencing joy and pleasure.
A four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two inside seats, calash top, and seats for driver and footman.
See Gladen.
To smear with the white of an egg.
See Glair.
Glairy; covered with glair.
A glairy viscous substance, which forms on the surface of certain mineral waters, or covers the sides of their inclosures; -- called also baregin.
Like glair, or partaking of its qualities; covered with glair; viscous and transparent; slimy.
A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve; also, a light lance with a long sharp-pointed head.
A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude.
Same as glamour.
having an air of allure, romance and excitement; as, glamorous movie stars.
Glamour.
To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.
Shooting, as light.
In a glancing manner; transiently; incidentally; indirectly.
A feeding on nuts or mast.
Affected with glanders; as, a glandered horse.
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