A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.

A collector of gabels or taxes.

A tax, especially on salt.

A gabeler.

A beggar with a wallet; a licensed beggar.

See Gabardine.

A coarse frock or loose upper garment formerly worn by Jews; a mean dress.

A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation.

A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.

A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire.

The part of a fortification built of gabions.

Furnished with gabions.

See Gabionade.

The vertical triangular portion of the end of a building, from the level of the cornice or eaves to the ridge of the roof. Also, a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and the like. The end wall of a building, as distinguished from the front or rear side. A decorative member having the shape of a triangular gable, such as that above a Gothic arch in a doorway.

furnished or constructed with a gable; -- of a house or roof; as, a gabled roof. Opposite of ungabled.

A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.

A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock.

a native or inhabitant of Gabon.

A simpleton; a dunce; a lout.

To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled.

A gadder

The gadfly.

One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.

Going about much, needlessly or without purpose.

In a roving, idle manner.

Disposed to gad.

A small British fish (Motella argenteola) of the Cod family. A pike, so called at Moray Firth; -- called also gead.

Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.

Of, belonging to, or designating, that division of the Celtic languages which includes the Irish, Gaelic, and Manx.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the cod (Gadus); -- applied to an acid obtained from cod-liver oil, viz., gadic acid.

Of or relating to Cadiz, in Spain. A native or inhabitant of Cadiz.

A roving vagabond.

A gadsman.

Of or pertaining to the family of fishes (Gadid/) which includes the cod, haddock, and hake. One of the Gadid/.

A rare earth associated with yttria and regarded as the oxide (Gd2O3) of a metallic element, gadolinium.

Pertaining to or containing gadolinium.

A mineral of a nearly black color and vitreous luster, and consisting principally of the silicates of yttrium, cerium, and iron.

A rare earth metallic element of the Lanthanide series, with a characteristic spectrum, found associated with yttrium and other rare earth elements. Symbol, Gd; it has an atomic number of 64, an atomic weight of 157.25 (C=12.011), and a valence of +3.

To gather.

One who uses a gad or goad in driving.

A yellow or brown amorphous substance, of indifferent nature, found in cod-liver oil.

A large duck (Anas strepera), valued as a game bird, found in the northern parts of Europe and America; -- called also gray duck.

The goddess of the earth, considered as a personification of the earth. According to Hesiod she was the first-born of Chaos, and mother of Uranus, Pontus, Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.

The title of the ruling Prince of Baroda, in Gujarat, in Bombay, India.

A Celt or the Celts of the Scotch Highlands or of Ireland; now esp., a Scotch Highlander of Celtic origin.

The language of the Gaels, esp. of the Highlanders of Scotland. It is a branch of the Celtic.

To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon.

A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast.

A socially awkward or tactless act.

An old fellow; an aged rustic.

An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks.

Something thrust into the mouth or throat to hinder speaking.

Having gagteeth.

mentally or physically infirm with age.

Agate.

To measure. See Gauge, v. t.

A measurer. See Gauger.

One who gags.

A flock of wild geese, especially when on the ground.

A projecting tooth.

Goddess of the earth; same as Gaea.

Pertaining to hypogeic acid; -- applied to an acid obtained from hypogeic acid.

Same as Gayety.

A jailer.

Gay; brisk; merry; galliard.

A lively French and Italian dance.

Merrily; showily. See gaily.

To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily.

Capable of being obtained or reached.

The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage. The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself.

One who gains.

Profitable; advantageous; lucrative.

A misgiving.

Not producing gain; unprofitable.

Handily; readily; dexterously; advantageously.

Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.

To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.

One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies.

Gainful.

To withstand; to resist.

To strive or struggle against; to withstand.

See Garefowl.

Same as Garish, Garishly, Garishness.

A going; a walk; a march; a way.

Having (such) a gait; -- used in composition; as, slow-gaited; heavy-gaited.

To dress with gaiters.

Pomp, show, or festivity.

An agent exciting secretion of milk.

Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid.

An amorphous, gelatinous substance containing nitrogen, found in milk and other animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously regarded as a coagulating or emulsifying agent. A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree (Galactodendron). An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate resembling gelose, found in the seeds of leguminous plants, and yielding on decomposition several sugars, including galactose.

Same as Galactometer.

An instrument for ascertaining the quality of milk (i.e., its richness in cream) by determining its specific gravity; a lactometer.

One who eats, or subsists on, milk.

Feeding on milk.

Milk-carrying; lactiferous; -- applied to the ducts of mammary glands.

Increasing the flow of milk; milk-producing. A galactopoietic substance.

A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).

See Galoche.

A genus of African lemurs, including numerous species.

The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (Alpinia Galanga and Alpinia officinarum) and of the K/mpferia Galanga), -- all of the Ginger family.

A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold.

A kind of striped cotton fabric, usually of superior quality and striped with blue or red on white.

Of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants. -- A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who settled in Asia Minor.

A gum resin exuding from the stems of certain Asiatic umbelliferous plants, mostly species of Ferula. The Bubon Galbanum of South Africa furnishes an inferior kind of galbanum. It has an acrid, bitter taste, a strong, unpleasant smell, and is used for medical purposes, also in the arts, as in the manufacture of varnish.

The general outward form of any solid object, as of a column or a vase.

A natural family of tropical American birds comprising the jacamars.

The payment of a rent or annuity.

The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.

See Galleass.

Wearing a helmet; protected by a helmet; covered, as with a helmet.

That division of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sharks.

Relating to Galen or to his principles and method of treating diseases.

The doctrines of Galen.

A follower of Galen.

Galena; lead ore.

A genus of flying Insectivora, formerly called flying lemurs. See Colugo.

A group of people with some common characteristic, especially a coterie of undesirable people.

Covered as with a hat or cap.

A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus Galerites.

Of or pertaining to Galicia, in Spain, or to Galicia, the kingdom of Austrian Poland. A native of Galicia in Spain; -- called also Gallegan.