GESTATORY — GIN NWAD GESTATORY.1

GESTATORY, a. That may be carried or worn. NWAD GESTATORY.1

GESTIC, a. Pertaining to deeds; legendary. NWAD GESTIC.1

GESTICULATE, v.i. [L. gesticulor, from gestum, gero, to bear or carry, or gestio.] NWAD GESTICULATE.1

To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures. NWAD GESTICULATE.2

GESTICULATE, v.t. To imitate; to act. NWAD GESTICULATE.3

GESTICULATION, n. [L. gesticulatio.] NWAD GESTICULATION.1

1. The act of making gestures, to express passion or enforce sentiments. NWAD GESTICULATION.2

2. Gesture; a motion of the body or limbs in speaking, or in representing action or passion, and enforcing arguments and sentiments. NWAD GESTICULATION.3

3. Antic tricks or motions. NWAD GESTICULATION.4

GESTICULATOR, n. One that shows postures, or makes gestures. NWAD GESTICULATOR.1

GESTICULATORY, a. Representing in gestures. NWAD GESTICULATORY.1

GESTURE, n. [L. gestus, from gero, to bear, to do.] NWAD GESTURE.1

1. A motion of the body or limbs, expressive of sentiment or passion; any action or posture intended to express an idea or a passion, or to enforce an argument or opinion. It consists chiefly in the actions or movements of the hands and face, and should be suited to the subject. NWAD GESTURE.2

2. Movement of the body or limbs. NWAD GESTURE.3

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, NWAD GESTURE.4

In every gesture dignity and love. NWAD GESTURE.5

GESTURE, v.t. To accompany with gesture or action. NWAD GESTURE.6

GET, v.t. pret. got. [gat, Obs.] pp. got, gotten. NWAD GET.1

1. To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of, by almost any means. We get favor by kindness; we get wealth by industry and economy; we get land by purchase; we get praise by good conduct; and we get blame by doing injustice. The merchant should get a profit on his goods; the laborer should get a due reward for his labor; most men get what they can for their goods or for their services. Get differs from acquire, as it does not always express permanence of possession, which is the appropriate sense of acquire. We get a book or a loaf of bread by borrowing, we do not acquire it; but we get or acquire an estate. NWAD GET.2

2. To have. NWAD GET.3

Thou hast got the face of a man. NWAD GET.4

This is a most common, but gross abuse of this word. We constantly hear it said, I have got no corn, I have got no money, she has got a fair complexion, when the person means only, I have no corn, I have no money, she has a fair complexion. NWAD GET.5

3. To beget; to procreate; to generate. NWAD GET.6

4. To learn; as, to get a lesson. NWAD GET.7

5. To prevail on; to induce; to persuade. NWAD GET.8

Though the king could not get him to engage in a life of business. [This is not elegant.] NWAD GET.9

6. To procure to be. We could not get the work done. [Not elegant.] NWAD GET.10

To get off, to put off; to take or pull off; as, to get off a garment: also, to remove; as, to get off a ship from shoals. NWAD GET.11

To sell; to dispose of; as, to get off goods. NWAD GET.12

To get on, to put on; to draw or pull on; as, to get on a coat; to get on boots. NWAD GET.13

To get in, to collect and shelter; to bring under cover; as, to get in corn. NWAD GET.14

To get out, to draw forth; as, to get out a secret. NWAD GET.15

To draw out; to disengage. NWAD GET.16

To get the day, to win; to conquer; to gain the victory. NWAD GET.17

To get together, to collect; to amass. NWAD GET.18

To get over, to surmount; to conquer; to pass without being obstructed; as, to get over difficulties: also, to recover; as, to get over sickness. NWAD GET.19

To get above, to surmount; to surpass. NWAD GET.20

To get up, to prepare and introduce upon the stage; to bring forward. NWAD GET.21

With a pronoun following, it signifies to betake; to remove; to go; as, get you to bed; get thee out of the land. But this mode of expression can hardly be deemed elegant. NWAD GET.22

GET, v.i. To arrive at any place or state; followed by some modifying word, and sometimes implying difficulty or labor; as, NWAD GET.23

To get away or away from, to depart; to quit; to leave; or to disengage one’s self from. NWAD GET.24

To get among, to arrive in the midst of; to become one of a number. NWAD GET.25

To get before, to arrive in front, or more forward. NWAD GET.26

To get behind, to fall in the rear; to lag. NWAD GET.27

To get back, to arrive at the place from which one departed; to return. NWAD GET.28

To get clear, to disengage one’s self; to be released, as from confinement, obligation or burden; also, to be freed from danger or embarrassment. NWAD GET.29

To get down, to descend; to come from an elevation. NWAD GET.30

To get home, to arrive at one’s dwelling. NWAD GET.31

To get in or into, to arrive within an inclosure, or a mixed body; to pass in; to insinuate one’s self. NWAD GET.32

To get loose or free, to disengage one’s self; to be released from confinement. NWAD GET.33

To get off, to escape; to depart; to get clear; also, to alight; to descend from. NWAD GET.34

To get out, to depart from an inclosed place or from confinement; to escape; to free one’s self from embarrassment. NWAD GET.35

To get along, to proceed; to advance. NWAD GET.36

To get rid of, to disengage one’s self from; also, to shift off; to remove. NWAD GET.37

To get together, to meet; to assemble; to convene. NWAD GET.38

To get up, to arise; to rise from a bed or a seat; also, to ascend; to climb. NWAD GET.39

To get through, to pass through and reach a point beyond any thing; also, to finish; to accomplish. NWAD GET.40

To get quit of, to get rid of; to shift off, or to disengage one’s self from. NWAD GET.41

To get forward, to proceed; to advance; also, to prosper; to advance in wealth. NWAD GET.42

To get near, to approach within a small distance. NWAD GET.43

To get ahead, to advance; to prosper. NWAD GET.44

To get on, to proceed; to advance. NWAD GET.45

To get a mile or other distance, to pass over it in traveling. NWAD GET.46

To get at, to reach; to make way to. NWAD GET.47

To get asleep, to fall asleep. NWAD GET.48

To get drunk, to become intoxicated. NWAD GET.49

To get between, to arrive between. NWAD GET.50

To get to, to reach; to arrive. NWAD GET.51

GETTER, n. One who gets, gains, obtains or acquires. NWAD GETTER.1

1. One who begets or procreates. NWAD GETTER.2

GETTING, ppr. Obtaining; procuring; gaining; winning; begetting. NWAD GETTING.1

GETTING, n. The act of obtaining, gaining or acquiring; acquisition. NWAD GETTING.2

Get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding. Proverbs 4:7. NWAD GETTING.3

1. Gain; profit. NWAD GETTING.4

GEWGAW, n. A showy trifle; a pretty thing of little worth; a toy; a bauble; a splendid plaything. NWAD GEWGAW.1

A heavy gewgaw, called a crown. NWAD GEWGAW.2

GEWGAW, a. Showy without value. NWAD GEWGAW.3

GHASTFUL, a. [See Ghastly.] Dreary; dismal; fit for walking ghosts. NWAD GHASTFUL.1

GHASTFULLY, adv. Frightfully. NWAD GHASTFULLY.1

GHASTLINESS, n. [from ghastly.] Horror of countenance; a deathlike look; resemblance of a ghost; paleness. NWAD GHASTLINESS.1

GHASTLY, a. [Eng. gush, gust.] NWAD GHASTLY.1

1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; dismal; as a ghastly face; ghastly smiles. NWAD GHASTLY.2

2. Horrible; shocking; dreadful. NWAD GHASTLY.3

Mangled with ghastly wounds. NWAD GHASTLY.4

GHASTNESS, n. Ghastliness. [Not used.] NWAD GHASTNESS.1

GHERKIN, n. A small pickled cucumber. NWAD GHERKIN.1

GHESS, for guess. [Not used.] NWAD GHESS.1

GHOST, n. [See Ghastly.] NWAD GHOST.1

1. Spirit; the soul of man. NWAD GHOST.2

In this sense seldom used. But hence, NWAD GHOST.3

2. The soul of a deceased person; the soul or spirit separate from the body; an apparition. NWAD GHOST.4

The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. NWAD GHOST.5

To give up the ghost, is to die; to yield up the breath or spirit; to expire. NWAD GHOST.6

The Holy Ghost, is the third person in the adorable Trinity. NWAD GHOST.7

GHOST, v.i. To die; to expire. NWAD GHOST.8

GHOST, v.t. To haunt with an apparition. NWAD GHOST.9

GHOSTLIKE, a. Withered; having sunken eyes; ghastly. NWAD GHOSTLIKE.1

GHOSTLINESS, n. Spiritual tendency. [Little used.] NWAD GHOSTLINESS.1

GHOSTLY, a. Spiritual; relating to the soul; not carnal or secular. NWAD GHOSTLY.1

Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. NWAD GHOSTLY.2

1. Spiritual; having a character from religion; as a ghostly father. NWAD GHOSTLY.3

2. Pertaining to apparitions. NWAD GHOSTLY.4

GIALLOLINO, n. [Eng. yellow.] A fine yellow pigment much used under the name of Naples Yellow. NWAD GIALLOLINO.1

GIAMBEAUX, n. Greaves; armor for the legs. NWAD GIAMBEAUX.1

GIANT, n. [L. gigas; Gr. probably from the earth. The word originally signified earth-born, terrigena. The ancients believed the first inhabitants of the earth to be produced from the ground and to be of enormous size.] NWAD GIANT.1

1. A man of extraordinary bulk and stature. NWAD GIANT.2

Giants of mighty bone, and bold emprise. NWAD GIANT.3

2. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual. The judge is a giant in his profession. NWAD GIANT.4

Giants-causey, a vast collection of basaltic pillars in the county of Antrim, in Ireland. NWAD GIANT.5

GIANT, a. Like a giant; extraordinary in size or strength; as giant brothers; a giant son. NWAD GIANT.6

GIANTESS, n. A female giant; a female of extraordinary size and stature. NWAD GIANTESS.1

GIANTIZE, v.i. To play the giant. NWAD GIANTIZE.1

GIANT-KILLING, a. Killing or destroying giants. NWAD GIANT-KILLING.1

GIANTLIKE, GIANTLY, a. Of unusual size; resembling a giant in bulk or stature; gigantic; huge. NWAD GIANTLIKE.1

[Giantly is not much used.] NWAD GIANTLIKE.2

GIANTRY, n. The race of giants. [Little used.] NWAD GIANTRY.1

GIANTSHIP, n. The state, quality or character of a giant. NWAD GIANTSHIP.1

His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen. NWAD GIANTSHIP.2

GIB, n. A cat. [Not in use.] NWAD GIB.1

GIB, v.i. To act like a cat. [Not in use.] NWAD GIB.2

GIBBE, n. An old worn-out animal. [Not used.] NWAD GIBBE.1

GIBBER, v.i. [See Gabble. It is probably allied to gabble, and to jabber.] To speak rapidly and inarticulately. [Not used.] NWAD GIBBER.1

GIBBERISH, n. [from gibber.] Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words. NWAD GIBBERISH.1

GIBBERISH, a. Unmeaning, as words. NWAD GIBBERISH.2

GIBBET, n. A gallows; a post or machine in form of a gallows, on which notorious malefactors are hanged in chains, and on which their bodies are suffered to remain, as spectacles in terrorem. NWAD GIBBET.1

1. Any traverse beam. NWAD GIBBET.2

GIBBET, v.t. To hang and expose on a gibbet or gallows. NWAD GIBBET.3

1. To hang or expose on anything going travers, as the beam of a gibbet. NWAD GIBBET.4

GIBBETED, pp. Hanged and exposed on a gibbet. NWAD GIBBETED.1

GIBBETING, ppr. Hanging and exposing on a gibbet. NWAD GIBBETING.1

GIBBIER, n. Wild fowl; game. [Not used.] NWAD GIBBIER.1

GIBBOSITY, n. [L. gibbosus. See Gibbous.] NWAD GIBBOSITY.1

Protuberance; a round or swelling prominence; convexity. NWAD GIBBOSITY.2

GIBBOUS, a. [L. gibbus; Gr. to bend.] NWAD GIBBOUS.1

1. Swelling; protuberant; convex. The moon is gibbous between the quarters and the full moon; the enlightened part being then convex. NWAD GIBBOUS.2

The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member. NWAD GIBBOUS.3

2. Hunched; hump-backed; crook-backed. NWAD GIBBOUS.4

GIBBOUSLY, adv. In a gibbous or protuberant form. NWAD GIBBOUSLY.1

GIBBOUSNESS, n. Protuberance; a round prominence; convexity. [This word is preferable to gibbosity.] NWAD GIBBOUSNESS.1

GIBBSITE, n. A mineral found at Richmond, in Massachusetts, and named in honor of George Gibbs, Esq. It occurs in irregular stalactical masses, which present an aggregation of elongated, tuberous branches, parallel and united. Its structure is fibrous, the fibers radiating from an axis. Its colors are a dirty white, greenish white and grayish. NWAD GIBBSITE.1

GIBCAT, n. A he-cat, or an old worn-out cat. NWAD GIBCAT.1

GIBE, v.i. To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail at; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff. NWAD GIBE.1

Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. NWAD GIBE.2

GIBE, v.t. To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to scoff at; to treat with sarcastic reflections; to taunt. NWAD GIBE.3

Draw the beasts as I describe them, NWAD GIBE.4

From their features, while I gibe them. NWAD GIBE.5

GIBE, n. An expression of censure mingled with contempt; a scoff; a railing; an expression of sarcastic scorn. NWAD GIBE.6

Mark the fleers, the gibes, and the notable scorns, NWAD GIBE.7

That dwell in every region of his face. NWAD GIBE.8

GIBELINE, n. The Gibelines were a faction in Italy, that opposed another faction called Guelfs, in the 13th century. NWAD GIBELINE.1

GIBER, n. One who utters reproachful, censorious and contemptuous expressions, or who casts cutting, sarcastic reflections; one who derides; a scoffer. NWAD GIBER.1

GIBING, ppr. Uttering reproachful, contemptuous and censorious words; scoffing. NWAD GIBING.1

GIBINGLY, adv. With censorious, sarcastic and contemptuous expressions; scornfully. NWAD GIBINGLY.1

GIBLETS, n. The entrails of a goose or other fowl, as the heart, liver, gizzard, etc.; a considerable article in cookery; as, to boil or stew giblets. It is used only in the plural, except in composition; as a giblet-pie. NWAD GIBLETS.1

GIBSTAFF, n. A staff to gauge water or to push a boat; formerly, a staff used in fighting beasts on the stage. NWAD GIBSTAFF.1

GIDDILY, adv. [See Giddy.] With the head seeming to turn or reel. NWAD GIDDILY.1

1. Inconstantly; unsteadily; with various turnings; as, to roam about giddily. NWAD GIDDILY.2

2. Carelessly; heedlessly; negligently. NWAD GIDDILY.3

GIDDINESS, n. The state of being giddy or vertiginous; vertigo; a sensation of reeling or whirling, when the body loses the power of preserving its balance or a steady attitude, or when objects at rest appear to reel, tremble or whirl; a swimming of the head. NWAD GIDDINESS.1

1. Inconstancy; unsteadiness; mutability. NWAD GIDDINESS.2

2. Frolic; wantonness; levity. NWAD GIDDINESS.3

GIDDY, a. Vertiginous; reeling; whirling; having in the head a sensation of a circular motion or swimming; or having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall, as in the case of some diseases and of drunkenness. In walking on timber aloft, or looking down a precipice, we are apt to be giddy. NWAD GIDDY.1

1. That renders giddy; that induces giddiness; as a giddy highth; a giddy precipice. NWAD GIDDY.2

2. Rotary; whirling; running round with celerity. NWAD GIDDY.3

The giddy motion of the whirling mill. NWAD GIDDY.4

3. Inconstant; unstable; changeable. NWAD GIDDY.5

You are as giddy and volatile as ever. NWAD GIDDY.6

4. Heedless; thoughtless; wild; roving. NWAD GIDDY.7

5. Tottering; unfixed. NWAD GIDDY.8

As we have paced along NWAD GIDDY.9

Upon the giddy footing of the hatches. NWAD GIDDY.10

6. Intoxicated; elated to thoughtlessness; rendered wild by excitement or joy. NWAD GIDDY.11

Art thou not giddy with the fashion too? NWAD GIDDY.12

GIDDY, v.i. To turn quick. NWAD GIDDY.13

GIDDY, v.t. To make reeling or unsteady. NWAD GIDDY.14

GIDDY-BRAINED, a. Careless; thoughtless; unsteady. NWAD GIDDY-BRAINED.1

GIDDY-HEAD, n. A person without thought or judgment. NWAD GIDDY-HEAD.1

GIDDY-HEADED, a. Heedless; unsteady; volatile; incautious. NWAD GIDDY-HEADED.1

GIDDY-PACED, a. Moving irregularly. NWAD GIDDY-PACED.1

GIE, a contraction of guide. [Not in use.] NWAD GIE.1

GIER-EAGLE, n. A fowl of the eagle kind, mentioned in Leviticus 11:18. NWAD GIER-EAGLE.1

GIESECKITE, n. A mineral of a rhomboidal form and compact texture, of a gray or brown color, and nearly as hard as calcarious spar. NWAD GIESECKITE.1

GIF, v.t. The old but true spelling of if. NWAD GIF.1

GIFT, n. [from give.] A present; any thing given or bestowed; any thing, the property of which is voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a donation. It is applicable to any thing movable or immovable. NWAD GIFT.1

1. The act of giving or conferring. NWAD GIFT.2

2. The right or power of giving or bestowing. The prince has the gift of many lucrative offices. NWAD GIFT.3

3. An offering or oblation. NWAD GIFT.4

If thou bring thy gift to the altar. Matthew 5:23. NWAD GIFT.5

4. A reward. NWAD GIFT.6

Let thy gifts be to thyself. Daniel 5:17. NWAD GIFT.7

5. A bribe; any thing given to corrupt the judgment. NWAD GIFT.8

Neither take a gift; for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise. Deuteronomy 16:19. NWAD GIFT.9

6. Power; faculty; some quality or endowment conferred by the author of our nature; as the gift of wit; the gift of ridicule. NWAD GIFT.10

GIFT, v.t. To endow with any power or faculty. NWAD GIFT.11

GIFTED, pp. or a. Endowed by nature with any power or faculty; furnished with any particular talent. NWAD GIFTED.1

GIFTEDNESS, n. The state of being gifted. NWAD GIFTEDNESS.1

GIFTING, ppr. Endowing with any power or faculty. NWAD GIFTING.1

GIG, v.t. [L. gigno.] To engender. [Not in use.] NWAD GIG.1

1. To fish with a gig or fishgig. NWAD GIG.2

GIG, n. NWAD GIG.3

1. Any little thing that is whirled round in play. NWAD GIG.4

2. A light carriage with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a chair or chaise. NWAD GIG.5

3. A fiddle. NWAD GIG.6

4. A dart or harpoon. [See Fishgig.] NWAD GIG.7

5. A ship’s boat. NWAD GIG.8

6. A wanton girl. NWAD GIG.9

GIGANTEAN, a. [L. giganteus. See Giant.] Like a giant; mighty. NWAD GIGANTEAN.1

GIGANTIC, a. [L. giganticus.] Of extraordinary size; very large; huge; like a giant. A man of gigantic stature. NWAD GIGANTIC.1

1. Enormous; very great or mighty; as gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness. NWAD GIGANTIC.2

Gigantical and gigantine, for gigantic, rarely or never used. NWAD GIGANTIC.3

GIGANTOLOGY, n. [Gr. a giant, and discourse.] An account or description of giants. NWAD GIGANTOLOGY.1

GIGGLE, n. A kind of laugh, with short catches of the voice or breath. NWAD GIGGLE.1

GIGGLE, v.i. To laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a silly, puerile manner; to titter; to grin with childish levity or mirth. NWAD GIGGLE.2

GIGGLER, n. One that giggles or titters. NWAD GIGGLER.1

GIGLET, GIGLOT, n. A wanton; a lascivious girl. NWAD GIGLET.1

GIGLOT, a. Giddy; light; inconstant; wanton. NWAD GIGLOT.1

GIGOT, n. The hip-joint; also, a slice. [Not English.] NWAD GIGOT.1

GILBERTINE, n. One of a religious order, so named from Gilbert, lord of Sempringham, in Lincolnshire, England. NWAD GILBERTINE.1

GILBERTINE, a. Belonging to the monastic order, mentioned above. NWAD GILBERTINE.2

GILD, v.t. pret. and pp. gilded or gilt. NWAD GILD.1

1. To overlay with gold, either in leaf or powder, or in amalgam with quicksilver; to overspread with a thin covering of gold; as the gilt frame of a mirror. NWAD GILD.2

Her joy in gilded chariots when alive, NWAD GILD.3

And love of ombre after death survive. NWAD GILD.4

2. To cover with any yellow matter. NWAD GILD.5

3. To adorn with luster; to render bright. NWAD GILD.6

No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. NWAD GILD.7

4. To illuminate; to brighten. NWAD GILD.8

Let oft good humor, mild and gay, NWAD GILD.9

Gild the calm evening of your day. NWAD GILD.10

5. To give a fair and agreeable external appearance; to recommend to favor and reception by superficial decoration; as, to gild flattery or falsehood. NWAD GILD.11

GILDED, pp. Overlaid with gold leaf or liquid; illuminated. NWAD GILDED.1

GILDER, n. One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay things with gold. NWAD GILDER.1

1. A Dutch coin of the value of 20 stivers, about 38 cents, or one shilling and ninepence sterling. It is usually written guilder. NWAD GILDER.2

GILDING, ppr. Overlaying with gold; giving a fair external appearance. NWAD GILDING.1

GILDING, n. The art or practice of overlaying things with gold leaf or liquid. NWAD GILDING.2

1. That which is laid on in overlaying with gold. NWAD GILDING.3

GILL, n. NWAD GILL.1

1. The organ of respiration in fishes, consisting of a cartilaginous or bony arch, attached to the bones of the head, and furnished on the exterior convex side with a multitude of fleshy leaves, or fringed vascular fibrils, resembling plumes, and of a red color in a healthy state. The water is admitted by the gill-opening, and acts upon the blood as it circulates in the fibrils. Other animals also breathe by gills, as frogs in their tadpole state, lobsters, etc. NWAD GILL.2

Fishes perform respiration under water by the gills. NWAD GILL.3

2. The flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl. NWAD GILL.4

3. The flesh under the chin. NWAD GILL.5

4. In England, a pair of wheels and a frame on which timber is conveyed. [Local.] NWAD GILL.6

GILL-FLAP, n. A membrane attached to the posterior edge of the gill-lid, immediately closing the gill-opening. NWAD GILL-FLAP.1

GILL-LID, n. The covering of the gills. NWAD GILL-LID.1

GILL-OPENING, n. The aperture of a fish or other animal, by which water is admitted to the gills. NWAD GILL-OPENING.1

GILL, n. [Low L. gilla, gillo or gello, a drinking glass, a gill. This word has the same elementary letters as Gr. a pail or bucket, and Eng. gallon, probably from one of the roots in Gl, which signify to hold or contain.] NWAD GILL.1

1. A measure of capacity, containing the fourth part of a pint. It is said to be in some places in England, half a pint. NWAD GILL.2

2. A measure among miners, equal to a pint. NWAD GILL.3

GILL, n. A plant, ground-ivy, of the genus Gleehoma. NWAD GILL.4

1. Malt liquor medicated with ground-ivy. NWAD GILL.5

GILL, n. NWAD GILL.6

1. In ludicrous language, a female; a wanton girl. NWAD GILL.7

Each Jack with his Gill. NWAD GILL.8

2. A fissure in a hill; also, a place between steep banks and a rivulet flowing through it; a brook. NWAD GILL.9

GILLHOUSE, n. A place where gill is sold. NWAD GILLHOUSE.1

GILLIAN, n. A wanton girl. NWAD GILLIAN.1

GILLYFLOWER, n. [supposed to be a corruption of July-flower.] NWAD GILLYFLOWER.1

The name of certain plants. The clove gilly-flower is of the genus Dianthus, or carnation pink; the stock gillyflower is the Cheiranthus; the queen’s gillyflower is the Hesperis. NWAD GILLYFLOWER.2

GILSE, n. A young salmon. NWAD GILSE.1

GILT, pp. of gild. Overlaid with gold leaf, or washed with gold; illuminated; adorned. NWAD GILT.1

GILT, n. Gold laid on the surface of a thing; gilding. NWAD GILT.2

1. In England, a young female pig. NWAD GILT.3

GILTHEAD, n. [gilt and head.] In ichthyology, a fish or a genus of fishes, the Sparus, of many species; so named from their color, or from a golden spot between the eyes. NWAD GILTHEAD.1

1. A bird. NWAD GILTHEAD.2

GILTTAIL, n. A worm so called from its yellow tail. NWAD GILTTAIL.1

GIM, a. [contracted from gemmy.] Neat; spruce; well dressed. NWAD GIM.1

GIMBAL, n. A brass ring by which a sea compass is suspended in its box, by means of which the card is kept in a horizontal position, notwithstanding the rolling of the ship. NWAD GIMBAL.1

GIMBLET, n. A borer; small instrument with a pointed screw at the end, for boring holes in wood by turning. It is applied only to small instruments; a large instrument of the like kind is called an auger. NWAD GIMBLET.1

GIMBLET, v.t. In seamen’s language, to turn round an anchor by the stock; a motion resembling that of the turning of a gimblet. NWAD GIMBLET.2

GIMCRACK, n. A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing. NWAD GIMCRACK.1

GIMMAL, n. Some device or machinery. NWAD GIMMAL.1

GIMMAL, a. Consisting of links. NWAD GIMMAL.2

GIMMER, n. Movement or machinery. NWAD GIMMER.1

GIMP, n. [Eng. to whip.] A kind of silk twist or edging. NWAD GIMP.1

GIMP, a. Smart; spruce; trim; nice. [Not in use.] NWAD GIMP.2

GIN, n. A contraction of Geneva, a distilled spirit. [See Geneva.] NWAD GIN.1

GIN, n. [A contraction of engine.] A machine or instrument by which the mechanical powers are employed in aid of human strength. The word is applied to various engines, as a machine for driving piles, another for raising weights, etc., and a machine for separating the seeds from cotton, invented by E. Whitney, is called a cotton-gin. It is also the name given to an engine of torture, and to a pump moved by rotary sails. NWAD GIN.2

1. A trap; a snare. NWAD GIN.3

GIN, v.t. To clear cotton of its seeds by a machine which separates them with expedition. NWAD GIN.4

1. To catch in a trap. NWAD GIN.5

GIN, v.i. To begin. NWAD GIN.6