GALLICISM — GARDENER

GALLICISM — GARDENER NWAD GALLICISM.1

GALLICISM, n. A mode of speech peculiar to the French nation; an idiomatic manner of using words in the French language. NWAD GALLICISM.1

GALLIGASKINS, n. Large open hose; used only in ludicrous language. NWAD GALLIGASKINS.1

GALLIMAUFRY, n. A hash; a medley; a hodge-podge. [Little used.] NWAD GALLIMAUFRY.1

1. Any inconsistent or ridiculous medley. NWAD GALLIMAUFRY.2

2. A woman. [Not in used.] NWAD GALLIMAUFRY.3

GALLINACEOUS, a. [L. gallinaceus, from gallina, a hen, gallus, a cock, whose name is from crowing; Eng. to call.] NWAD GALLINACEOUS.1

1. Designating that order of fowls called gallinoe, including the domestic fowls or those of the pheasant kind. NWAD GALLINACEOUS.2

Gallinaceus Lapis, a glossy substance produced by volcanic fires; the lapis obsidianus of the ancients. A kind of it brought from Peru is of a beautiful black, or crow-color, like the gallinaco. NWAD GALLINACEOUS.3

GALLING, ppr. [See Gall, the verb.] NWAD GALLING.1

1. Fretting the skin; excoriating. NWAD GALLING.2

2. Adapted to fret or chagrin; vexing. NWAD GALLING.3

GALLINULE, n. [L. gallinula, dim. of gallina, a hen.] NWAD GALLINULE.1

A tribe of fowls of the grallic order, included under the genus Fulica, with the coot. NWAD GALLINULE.2

GALLIOT, GALLEOT, [See Galiot.] NWAD GALLIOT.1

GALLIPOT, n. A small pot or vessel painted and glazed, used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines. NWAD GALLIPOT.1

GALLITZINITE, n. Rutile, an ore of titanium. NWAD GALLITZINITE.1

GALLIVAT, n. A small vessel used on the Malabar coast. NWAD GALLIVAT.1

GALLLESS, a. [from gall.] Free from gall or bitterness. NWAD GALLLESS.1

GALLON, n. [Law L. galona.] A measure of capacity for dry or liquid things, but usually for liquids, containing four quarts. But the gallon is not in all cases of uniform contents or dimensions. The gallon of wine contains 231 cubic inches, or eight pounds avordupois of pure water. The gallon of beer and ale contains 281 cubic inches, or ten pounds three ounces and a quarter avordupois of water; and the gallon of corn, meal, etc., 272 1/4 cubic inches, or nine pounds thirteen ounces of pure water. NWAD GALLON.1

GALLOON, n. A kind of close lace made of gold or silver, or of silk only. NWAD GALLOON.1

GALLOP, v.i. NWAD GALLOP.1

1. To move or run with leaps, as a horse to run or move with speed. NWAD GALLOP.2

But gallop lively down the western hill. NWAD GALLOP.3

2. To ride with a galloping pace. NWAD GALLOP.4

We galloped towards the enemy. NWAD GALLOP.5

3. To move very fast; to run over. NWAD GALLOP.6

Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it. NWAD GALLOP.7

GALLOP, n. The movement or pace of a quadruped, particularly of a horse, by springs, reaches or leaps. The animal lifts his fore feet nearly at the same time, and as these descend and are just ready to touch the ground, the hind feet are lifted at once. The gallop is the swiftest pace of a horse, but it is also a moderate pace, at the pleasure of a rider. NWAD GALLOP.8

GALLOPER, n. A horse that gallops; also, a man that gallops or makes haste. NWAD GALLOPER.1

1. In artillery, a carriage which bears a gun of a pound and a half ball. It has shafts so as to be drawn without a limbon, and it may serve for light three and six pounders. NWAD GALLOPER.2

GALLOPIN, n. A servant for the kitchen. NWAD GALLOPIN.1

GALLOW, v.t. To fright or terrify. NWAD GALLOW.1

GALLOWAY, n. A horse or species of horses of a small size, bred in Galloway in Scotland. NWAD GALLOWAY.1

GALLOWGLASS, n. An ancient Irish foot soldier. NWAD GALLOWGLASS.1

GALLOWS, n. singular. [Gallows is in the singular number and should be preceded by a, a gallows. The plural is gallowses.] NWAD GALLOWS.1

1. An instrument of punishment whereon criminals are executed by hanging. It consists of two posts and a cross beam on the top, to which the criminal is suspended by a rope fastened round his neck. NWAD GALLOWS.2

2. A wretch that deserves the gallows. [Not used.] NWAD GALLOWS.3

GALLOWSFREE, a. Free from danger of the gallows. NWAD GALLOWSFREE.1

GALLOWTREE, n. The tree of execution. NWAD GALLOWTREE.1

GALLY, a. Like gall; bitter as gall. NWAD GALLY.1

GALLY, n. A printer’s frame or oblong square board with a ledge on three sides, into which types are emptied from the composing stick. It has a groove to admit a false bottom, called a gally-slice. NWAD GALLY.2

GALLY-WORM, n. An insect of the centiped kind, of several species. NWAD GALLY-WORM.1

GALOCHE, n. A patten, clog or wooden shoe, or a shoe to be worn over another shoe to keep the foot dry. It is written also galoshe. NWAD GALOCHE.1

GALSOME, a. gaul’som. [from gall.] Angry; malignant. NWAD GALSOME.1

GALVANIC, a. Pertaining to galvanism; containing or exhibiting it. NWAD GALVANIC.1

GALVANISM, n. [from Galvani of Bologna, the discover.] NWAD GALVANISM.1

Electrical phenomena in which the electricity is developed without the aid of friction, and in which a chimical action takes place between certain bodies. NWAD GALVANISM.2

Galvanism is heat, light, electricity and magnetism, united in combination or in simultaneous action; sometimes one and sometimes another of them predominating, and thus producing more or less all the effects of each: usual means of excitement, contact of dissimilar bodies, especially of metals and fluids. NWAD GALVANISM.3

GALVANIST, n. One who believes in galvanism; one versed in galvanism. NWAD GALVANIST.1

GALVANIZE, v.t. To affect with galvanism. NWAD GALVANIZE.1

GALVANOLOGIST, n. One who describes the phenomena of galvanism. NWAD GALVANOLOGIST.1

GALVANOLOGY, n. [galvanism, and Gr. discourse.] NWAD GALVANOLOGY.1

A treatise on galvanism, or a description of its phenomena. NWAD GALVANOLOGY.2

GALVANOMETER, n. [galvanism, and Gr. measure.] NWAD GALVANOMETER.1

An instrument or apparatus for measuring minute quantities of electricity, or the operations of galvanism. NWAD GALVANOMETER.2

GAMASHES, n. Short spatterdashes worn by plowmen. NWAD GAMASHES.1

GAMBADOES, n. Spatterdashes. NWAD GAMBADOES.1

GAMBET, n. A bird of the size of the greenshank, found in the Arctic sea, and in Scandinavia and Iceland. NWAD GAMBET.1

GAMBLE, v.i. [from game.] To play or game for money or other stake. NWAD GAMBLE.1

GAMBLE, v.t. To gamble away, is to squander by gaming. NWAD GAMBLE.2

Bankrupts or sots who have gambled or slept away their estates. NWAD GAMBLE.3

GAMBLER, n. One who games or plays for money or other stake. Gamblers often or usually become cheats and knaves. NWAD GAMBLER.1

GAMBLING, ppr. Gaming for money. NWAD GAMBLING.1

GAMBOGE, n. A concrete vegetable juice or gum-resin. It is brought in orbicular masses or cylindrical rolls, from Cambaja, Cambodja, or Cambogia, in the E. Indies, whence its name. It is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beautiful reddish yellow. It is used chiefly as a pigment. Taken internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic. NWAD GAMBOGE.1

GAMBOL, v.i. NWAD GAMBOL.1

1. To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to leap; to play in frolic, like boys and lambs. NWAD GAMBOL.2

2. To leap; to start. NWAD GAMBOL.3

GAMBOL, n. A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a skip; a hop; a leap; a sportive prank. NWAD GAMBOL.4

GAMBOLING, ppr. Leaping; frisking; playing pranks. NWAD GAMBOLING.1

GAMBREL, n. The hind leg of a horse. Hence, in America, a crooked stick used by butchers. A hipped roof is called a gambrel-roof. NWAD GAMBREL.1

GAMBREL, v.t. To tie by the leg. NWAD GAMBREL.2

GAME, n. NWAD GAME.1

1. Sport of any kind. NWAD GAME.2

2. Jest; opposed to earnest; as, betwixt earnest and game. [Not used.] NWAD GAME.3

3. An exercise or play for amusement or winning a stake; as a game of cricket; a game of chess; a game of whist. Some games depend on skill; others on hazard. NWAD GAME.4

4. A single match at play. NWAD GAME.5

5. Advantage in play; as, to play the game into another’s hand. NWAD GAME.6

6. Scheme pursued; measures planned. NWAD GAME.7

This seems to be the present game of that crown. NWAD GAME.8

7. Field sports; the chase, falconry, etc. NWAD GAME.9

8. Animals pursued or taken in the chase, or in the sports of the field; animals appropriated in England to legal sportsmen; as deer, hares, etc. NWAD GAME.10

9. In antiquity, games were public diversions or contests exhibited as spectacles for the gratification of the people. These games consisted of running, leaping, wrestling, riding, etc. Such were the Olympic games, the Pythian, the Isthmian, the Nemean, etc., among the Greeks; and among the Romans, the Apollinarian, the Circensian, the Capitoline, etc. NWAD GAME.11

10. Mockery; sport; derision; as, to make game of a person. NWAD GAME.12

GAME, v.i. To play at any sport or diversion. NWAD GAME.13

1. To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest. NWAD GAME.14

2. To practice gaming. NWAD GAME.15

GAMECOCK, n. A cock bred or used to fight; a cock kept for barbarous sport. NWAD GAMECOCK.1

GAME-EGG, n. An egg from which a fighting cock is bred. NWAD GAME-EGG.1

GAMEKEEPER, n. One who has the care of game; one who is authorized to preserve beasts of the chase, or animals kept for sport. NWAD GAMEKEEPER.1

GAMESOME, a. Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome. NWAD GAMESOME.1

This gamesome humor of children. NWAD GAMESOME.2

GAMESOMENESS, n. Sportiveness; merriment. NWAD GAMESOMENESS.1

GAMESOMELY, adv. Merrily; playfully. NWAD GAMESOMELY.1

GAMESTER, n. NWAD GAMESTER.1

1. A person addicted to gaming; one who is accustomed to play for money or other stake, at cards, dice, billiards and the like; a gambler; one skilled in games. NWAD GAMESTER.2

It is as easy to be a scholar as a gamester. NWAD GAMESTER.3

2. One engaged at play. NWAD GAMESTER.4

3. A merry, frolicsome person. [Not used.] NWAD GAMESTER.5

4. A prostitute. [Not in use.] NWAD GAMESTER.6

GAMING, ppr. Playing; sporting; playing for money. NWAD GAMING.1

GAMING, n. The act or art of playing any game in a context for a victory, or for a prize or stake. NWAD GAMING.2

1. The practice of using cards, dice, billiards and the like, according to certain rules, for winning money, etc. NWAD GAMING.3

GAMING-HOUSE, n. A house where gaming is practiced. NWAD GAMING-HOUSE.1

GAMING-TABLE, n. A table appropriated to gaming. NWAD GAMING-TABLE.1

GAMMER, n. The compellation of an old woman, answering to gaffer, applied to an old man. NWAD GAMMER.1

GAMMON, n. NWAD GAMMON.1

1. The buttock or thigh of a hog, pickled and smoked or dried; a smoked ham. NWAD GAMMON.2

2. A game, called usually back-gammon, which see. NWAD GAMMON.3

GAMMON, v.t. To make bacon; to pickle and dry in smoke. NWAD GAMMON.4

1. To fasten a bowsprit to the stem of a ship by several turns of a rope. NWAD GAMMON.5

GAMMON, v.t. In the game of back-gammon, the party that, by fortunate throws of the dice or by superior skill in moving, withdraws all his men from the board, before his antagonist has been able to get his men home and withdraw any of them from his table, gammons his antagonist. NWAD GAMMON.6

GAMMUT, n. [from the Greek letter so named.] NWAD GAMMUT.1

1. A scale on which notes in music are written or printed, consisting of lines and spaces, which are named after the seven first letters of the alphabet. NWAD GAMMUT.2

2. The first or gravest note in Guido’s scale of music, the modern scale. NWAD GAMMUT.3

GAN, a contraction of began, or rather the original simple word, Sax. gynnan, to begin. NWAD GAN.1

GANCH, v.t. To drop from a high place on hooks, as the Turks do malefactors, by way of punishment. NWAD GANCH.1

GANDER, n. [L. anser.] The male of fowls of the goose kind. NWAD GANDER.1

GANG, v.i. To go; to walk. [Local, or used only in ludicrous language.] NWAD GANG.1

GANG, n. [G., a metallic vein, a streak in a mine.] NWAD GANG.2

1. Properly, a going; hence, a number of going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; as a gang of thieves. NWAD GANG.3

2. In seamen’s language, a select number of a ship’s crew appointed on a particular service, under a suitable officer. NWAD GANG.4

3. In mining, literally a course or vein, but appropriately the earthy, stony, saline or combustible substance which contains the ore of metals, or is only mingled with it, without being chemically combined. This is called the gang or matrix of the ore. It differs from a mineralizer, in not being combined with the metal. NWAD GANG.5

[This word, in the latter sense, is most unwarrantably and erroneously written gangue.] NWAD GANG.6

GANGBOARD, n. A board or plank with cleats for steps, used for walking into or out of a boat. NWAD GANGBOARD.1

GANGDAYS, n. Days or perambulation. NWAD GANGDAYS.1

GANGHON, n. A flower. NWAD GANGHON.1

GANGLION, n. In anatomy, a small circumscribed tumor, found in certain parts of the nervous system. NWAD GANGLION.1

1. In surgery, a movable tumor formed on the tendons, generally about the wrist. NWAD GANGLION.2

GANGRENATE, v.t. To produce a gangrene. NWAD GANGRENATE.1

GANGRENE, n. [L. gangroena.] A mortification of living flesh, or of some part of a living animal body. It is particularly applied to the first state of mortification, before the life of the part is completely extinct. When the part is completely dead, it is called sphacelus. NWAD GANGRENE.1

GANGRENE, v.t. To mortify, or to begin mortification in. NWAD GANGRENE.2

GANGRENE, v.i. To become mortified. NWAD GANGRENE.3

GANGRENESCENT, a. Tending to mortification; beginning to corrupt or putrefy, as living flesh. NWAD GANGRENESCENT.1

GANGRENOUS, a. Mortified; indicating mortification of living flesh. NWAD GANGRENOUS.1

GANGUE, n. gang. [See Gang.] In mining, the earthy, stony, saline, or combustible substance, which contains the ore of metals, or is only mingled with it without being chimically combined, is called the gangue or matrix of the ore. It differs from a mineralizer, in not being combined with the metal. NWAD GANGUE.1

GANGWAY, n. A passage, way or avenue into or out of any inclosed place, especially a passage into or out of a ship, or from one part of a ship to another; also, a narrow platform of planks laid horizontally along the upper part of a ship’s side, from the quarter deck to the forecastle. NWAD GANGWAY.1

To bring to the gangway, in the discipline of ships, is to punish a seaman by seizing him up and flogging him. NWAD GANGWAY.2

GANGWEEK, n. Rogation week, when processions are made to lustrate or survey the bounds of parishes. NWAD GANGWEEK.1

GANIL, n. A kind of brittle limestone. NWAD GANIL.1

GANNET, n. The Solan Goose, a fowl of the genus Pelicanus, about seven pounds in weight, with a straight bill, six inches long, and palmated feet. These fowls frequent the isles of Scotland in summer, and feed chiefly on herrings. NWAD GANNET.1

GANTLET, GAUNTLET, n. A large iron glove with fingers covered with small plates, formerly worn by cavaliers, armed at all points. NWAD GANTLET.1

To throw the gantlet, is to challenge; and NWAD GANTLET.2

To take up the gantlet, is to accept the challenge. NWAD GANTLET.3

GANTLOPE, n. A military punishment inflicted on criminals for some heinous offense. It is executed in this manner; soldiers are arranged in two rows, face to face, each armed with a switch or instrument of punishment; between these rows, the offender, stripped to his waist, is compelled to pass a certain number of times, and each man gives him a stroke. A similar punishment is used on board of ships. Hence this word is chiefly used in the phrase, to run the gantlet or gantlope. NWAD GANTLOPE.1

GANZA, n. A kind of wold goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world. NWAD GANZA.1

GAOL, n. A prison; a place for the confinement of debtors and criminals. NWAD GAOL.1

GAOL, v.t. To imprison; to confine in prison. NWAD GAOL.2

GAOLDELIVERY, n. A judicial process for clearing jails of criminals, by trial and condemnation or acquittal. NWAD GAOLDELIVERY.1

GAOLER, n. The keeper of a gaol or prisoner; a jailor. NWAD GAOLER.1

GAP, n. [See Gape and Gab.] NWAD GAP.1

1. An opening in any thing made by breaking or parting; as a gap in a fence or wall. NWAD GAP.2

2. A breach. NWAD GAP.3

Manifold miseries ensued by the opening of that gap to all that side of christendom. NWAD GAP.4

3. Any avenue or passage; way of entrance or departure. NWAD GAP.5

4. A breach; a defect; a flaw; as a gap in honor or reputation. NWAD GAP.6

5. An interstice; a vacuity. NWAD GAP.7

A third can fill the gap with laughing. NWAD GAP.8

6. A hiatus; a chasm; as a gap between words. NWAD GAP.9

To stop a gap, to secure a weak point; to repair a defect. NWAD GAP.10

To stand in the gap, to expose one’s self for the protection of something; to make defense against any assailing danger. Ezekiel 22:30. NWAD GAP.11

GAPE, v.i. NWAD GAPE.1

1. To open the mouth wide, from sleepiness, drowsiness or dullness; to yawn. NWAD GAPE.2

2. To open the mouth for food, as young birds. NWAD GAPE.3

3. To gape for or after, to desire earnestly; to crave; to look and long for; as, men often gape after court favor. NWAD GAPE.4

The hungry grave for her due tribute gapes. NWAD GAPE.5

To gape at, in a like sense, is hardly correct. NWAD GAPE.6

4. To open in fissures or crevices; as a gaping rock. NWAD GAPE.7

May that ground gape, and swallow me alive. NWAD GAPE.8

5. To have a hiatus; as one vowel gaping on another. NWAD GAPE.9

6. To open the mouth in wonder or surprise; as the gaping fool; the gaping crowd. NWAD GAPE.10

7. To utter sound with open throat. NWAD GAPE.11

8. To open the mouth with hope or expectation. NWAD GAPE.12

9. To open the mouth with a desire to injure or devour. NWAD GAPE.13

They have gaped upon me with their mouth. Job 16:10. NWAD GAPE.14

G`APE, n. A gaping. NWAD GAPE.15

GAPER, n. One who gapes; a yawner. NWAD GAPER.1

1. One who opens his mouth for wonder and stares foolishly. NWAD GAPER.2

2. One who longs or craves. NWAD GAPER.3

3. A fish with six or seven bands and tail undivided. NWAD GAPER.4

GAPING, ppr. Opening the mouth wide from sleepiness, dullness, wonder or admiration; yawning; opening in fissures; craving. NWAD GAPING.1

GAPTOOTHED, a. Having interstices between the teeth. NWAD GAPTOOTHED.1

GAR, in Saxon, a dart, a weapon; as in Edgar, or Eadgar, a happy weapon; Ethelgar, noble weapon. NWAD GAR.1

GARAGAY, n. A rapacious fowl of Mexico, of the size of the kite. NWAD GARAGAY.1

GARB, n. NWAD GARB.1

1. Dress; clothes; habit; as the garb of a clergyman or judge. NWAD GARB.2

2. Fashion or mode of dress. NWAD GARB.3

3. Exterior appearance; looks. NWAD GARB.4

4. In heraldry, a sheaf of corn. NWAD GARB.5

GARBAGE, n. [I know not the component parts of this word.] The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal. NWAD GARBAGE.1

GARBAGED, a. Stripped of the bowels. NWAD GARBAGED.1

GARBEL, n. The plank next the keel of a ship. [See Garboard-streak.] NWAD GARBEL.1

GARBLE, v.t. [L. cribro, cribello.] NWAD GARBLE.1

1. Properly, to sift or bolt; to separate the fine or valuabale parts of a substance from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt; as, to garble spices. NWAD GARBLE.2

2. To separate; to pick; to cull out. NWAD GARBLE.3

GARBLED, pp. Sifted; bolted; separated; culled out. NWAD GARBLED.1

GARBLER, n. One who garbles, sifts or separates. A garbler of spices, is an officer of great antiquity in London. NWAD GARBLER.1

1. One who picks out, culls or selects. NWAD GARBLER.2

GARBLES, n. plu. The dust, soil or filth, severed from good spices, drugs, etc. NWAD GARBLES.1

GARBLING, ppr. Sifting; separating; sorting; culling. NWAD GARBLING.1

GARBOARD, n. The garboard plank, in a ship, is the first plank fastened on the keel on the outside. NWAD GARBOARD.1

Garboard-streak, in a ship, is the first range or streak of planks laid on a ship’s bottom, next the keel. NWAD GARBOARD.2

GARBOIL, n. Tumult; uproar. [Not used.] NWAD GARBOIL.1

GARD. [See Guard and Ward.] NWAD GARD.1

GARDEN, n. [Eng. yard, an inclosed place; L. hortus.] NWAD GARDEN.1

1. A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, or plants, fruits and flowers; usually near a mansion-house. Land appropriated to the raising of culinary herbs and roots for domestic use, is called a kitchen-garden; that appropriated to flowers and shrubs is called a flower garden; and that to fruits, is called a fruit garden. But these uses are sometimes blended. NWAD GARDEN.2

2. A rich, well cultivated spot or tract of country; a delightful spot. The intervals on the river Connecticut are all a garden. Lombardy is the garden of Italy. NWAD GARDEN.3

Garden, in composition, is used adjectively, as garden-mold, a rich fine mold or soil; garden-tillage, the tillage used in cultivating gardens. NWAD GARDEN.4

G`ARDEN, v.i. To layout and to cultivate a garden; to prepare ground to plant and till it, for the purpose of producing plants, shrubs, flowers and fruits. NWAD GARDEN.5