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Giffard injector (?). (Mach.) See under .
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Giffgaff (?), n. [Reduplicated fr. give.] Mutual accommodation; mutual giving. [Scot.]
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Giffy (?), n. [Obs.] See .
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Gift (?), n. [OE. gift, yift, yeft, AS. gift, fr. gifan to give; akin to D. & G. gift, Icel. gift, gipt, Goth. gifts (in comp.). See , v. t.] 1. Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.
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Shall I receive by gift, what of my own, . . .
I can command ? Milton.
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2. The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the President.
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3. A bribe; anything given to corrupt.
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Neither take a gift, for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise. Deut. xvi. 19.
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4. Some exceptional inborn quality or characteristic; a striking or special talent or aptitude; power; faculty; as, the gift of wit; a gift for speaking.
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5. (Law) A voluntary transfer of real or personal property, without any consideration. It can be perfected only by deed, or in case of personal property, by an actual delivery of possession. Bouvier. Burrill.
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Coloq. Gift rope (Naut), a rope extended to a boat for towing it; a guest rope.

Syn. -- Present; donation; grant; largess; benefaction; boon; bounty; gratuity; endowment; talent; faculty. -- , , . These words, as here compared, denote something gratuitously imparted to another out of one's property. A gift is something given whether by a superior or an inferior, and is usually designed for the relief or benefit of him who receives it. A present is ordinarly from an equal or inferior, and is always intended as a compliment or expression of kindness. Donation is a word of more dignity, denoting, properly, a gift of considerable value, and ordinarly a gift made either to some public institution, or to an individual on account of his services to the public; as, a donation to a hospital, a charitable society, or a minister.
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Gift, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Gifting.] To endow with some power or faculty. See {4}.
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He was gifted . . . with philosophical sagacity. I. Taylor.
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gifted adj. [Cf. See {4} and , v. t..] 1. having unusual talent in some field.
Syn. -- talented.
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2. having exceptionally high intelligence; -- said of children, especially in discourse on education; as, a program for gifted children.
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Giftedness, n. The state of being gifted. Echard.
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Gig (jĭg or gĭg), n. [Cf. OF. gigue. See , n.] A fiddle. [Obs.]
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Gig (gĭg), v. t. [Prob. fr. L. gignere to beget.] To engender. [Obs.] Dryden.
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Gig, n. A kind of spear or harpoon. See .
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Gig, v. t. To fish with a gig.
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Gig, n. [OE. gigge. Cf. .] A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.
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Gig, n. [Cf. Icel. gīgja fiddle, MHG. gīge, G. geige, Icel. geiga to take a wrong direction, rove at random, and E. jig.] 1. A top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play.
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Thou disputest like an infant; go, whip thy gig. Shak.
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2. A light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise.
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3. (Naut.) A long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig.
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4. (Mach.) A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth.
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Coloq. Gig machine , Coloq. Gigging machine , Coloq. Gig mill , or Coloq. Napping machine . See , 4. -- Coloq. Gig saw . See .
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Gig, n. A job for a specified, usually short period of time; -- used especially for the temporary engagements of an entertainer, such as a jazz musician or a rock group; as, a one-week gig in Las Vegas.
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Gigantean (?), a. [L. giganteus, fr. gigas, antis. See .] Like a giant; mighty; gigantic. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
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Gigantesque (?), a. [F.] Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent.
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The sort of mock-heroic gigantesque
With which we bantered little Lilia first. Tennyson.
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Gigantic (?), a. [L. gigas, -antis, giant. See .] 1. Of extraordinary size; like a giant.
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2. Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness. Milton.
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When descends on the Atlantic
The gigantic
Strom wind of the equinox. Longfellow.
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Gigantical, a. Bulky, big. [Obs.] Burton. -- Gigantically, adv.
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Giganticide (?), n. [. gigas, -antis, giant + caedere to kill.] The act of killing, or one who kills, a giant. Hallam.
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Gigantine (?), a. Gigantic. [Obs.] Bullokar.
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Gigantology (?), n. [Gr. �, �, giant + -logy: cf. F. gigantologie.] An account or description of giants.
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Gigantomachy (?), n. [L. gigantomachia, fr. Gr. �; �, �, giant + � battle: cf. F. gigantomachie.] A war of giants; especially, the fabulous war of the giants against heaven.

Gige (gĭj or gēj), Guige, n. [OF. guide, guiche.] (Anc. Armor) The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder. Meyrick (Ancient Armor).
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Gigerium (?), n.; pl. Gigeria (#). [NL., fr. L. gigeria, pl., the cooked entrails of poultry.] (Anat.) The muscular stomach, or gizzard, of birds.
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Gigget (?), n. Same as .
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Cut the slaves to giggets. Beau. & Fl.
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Giggle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Giggled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Giggling (?).] [Akin to gaggle: cf. OD. ghichelen, G. kichern.] To laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a light, affected, or silly manner; to titter with childish levity.
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Giggling and laughing with all their might
At the piteous hap of the fairy wight. J. R. Drake.
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Giggle (?), n. A kind of laugh, with short catches of the voice or breath; a light, silly laugh.
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Giggler (?), n. One who giggles or titters.
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Giggly (?), a. Prone to giggling. Carlyle.
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Giggot (?), n. See . [Obs.] Chapman.
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Giggyng (?), n. [See .] The act of fastending the gige or leather strap to the shield. [Obs.] “Gigging of shields.” Chaucer.

{ Giglot (?), Giglet (?), } n. [Cf. Icel. gikkr a pert, rude person, Dan. giek a fool, silly man, AS. gagol, gægl, lascivious, wanton, MHG. gogel wanton, giege fool, and E. gig a wanton person.] A wanton; a lascivious or light, giddy girl. [Obs.]
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The giglet is willful, and is running upon her fate. Sir W. Scott.
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Giglot (?), a. Giddi; light; inconstant; wanton. [Obs.] “O giglot fortune!” Shak.

Gigot, Giggot (�), n. [F., fr. OF. gigue fiddle; -- on account of the resemblance in shape. See , n.]
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1. A leg of mutton.
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2. A small piece of flesh; a slice. [Obs.]
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The rest in giggots cut, they spit. Chapman.
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Gigue (zh�g), n. [F.] A piece of lively dance music, in two strains which are repeated; also, the dance.
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Gila monster (?). (Zoöl.) A large tuberculated lizard (Heloderma suspectum) native of the dry plains of Arizona, New Mexico, etc. It is the only lizard known to have venomous teeth.
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Gilbert prop. n. 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.
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Gilbert and Sullivan William Schwenk Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, who collaborated on a number of light operas. See .
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Gilbertian prop. a. 1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert; as, Gilbertian libretti.
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2. Wildly comic and improbable, as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas; as, Gilbertian coincidences.
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a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings. T. C. Worsley
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Gild (gĭld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gilded or Gilt (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Gilding.] [AS. gyldan, from gold gold. √234. See .] 1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. “Gilded chariots.” Pope.
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No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. Pope.
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2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
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Let oft good humor, mild and gay,
Gild the calm evening of your day. Trumbull.
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3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie. Shak.
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4. To make red with drinking. [Obs.]
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This grand liquior that hath gilded them. Shak.
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Gildale (?), n. [AS. gilgan to pay + E. ale. See , v. t., and .] A drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share. [Obs.]
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Gilden (?), a. Gilded. Holland.
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Gilder (?), n. One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold.
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Gilder (?), n. A Dutch coin. See .
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Gilding (gĭldĭng), n. 1. 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.
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2. Gold in leaf, powder, or liquid, for application to any surface.
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3. Any superficial coating or appearance, as opposed to what is solid and genuine.
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Coloq. Gilding metal , a tough kind of sheet brass from which cartridge shells are made.
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Gile (?), n. [See .] Guile. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Gilgamesh, Gilgamish prop. n. 1. (Sumerian mythology) A legendary king of Sumeria and the hero of famous Sumerian and Babylonian epics.
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2. The Epic of Gilgamesh, a long Babylonian epic written in cuneiform in the Sumerian language on clay tablets. Early versions of the written story date from 2000 B. C.; it is probably the first written story still in existence. A longer version was written in the Akkadian language, on 12 clay tablets found at Nineveh in the ruins of the library of Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria from 669 to 633 B. C. The story depicted the life and heroic deeds of the legendary Gilgamesh, apparently derived from stories about a real king of ancient Mesopotamia who lived around 2700 B. C. The story includes a tale of a great flood, which has some parallels to the biblical story of the flood survived by Noah. The Nineveh tablets name the author of that version of the story, a Shin-eqi-unninni.
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☞ The entire text may be found in:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Translated by Maureen Gallery Kovacs
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990)

and

Gilgamesh
Translated by John Maier and John Gardner
(New York: Vintage Press, 1981)

Gill (gĭl), n. [Dan. giælle, gelle; akin to Sw. gäl, Icel. gjölnar gills; cf. AS. geagl, geahl, jaw.] 1. (Anat.) An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia.
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Fishes perform respiration under water by the gills. Ray.
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☞ Gills are usually lamellar or filamentous appendages, through which the blood circulates, and in which it is exposed to the action of the air contained in the water. In vertebrates they are appendages of the visceral arches on either side of the neck. In invertebrates they occupy various situations.
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2. pl. (Bot.) The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom.
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3. (Zoöl.) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
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4. The flesh under or about the chin. Swift.
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5. (Spinning) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments. [Prob. so called from F. aiguilles, needles. Ure.]
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Coloq. Gill arches , Coloq. Gill bars . (Anat.) Same as Branchial arches. -- Coloq. Gill clefts . (Anat.) Same as Branchial clefts. See under . -- Coloq. Gill cover , Coloq. Gill lid . See . -- Coloq. Gill frame , or Coloq. Gill head (Flax Manuf.), a spreader; a machine for subjecting flax to the action of gills. Knight. -- Coloq. Gill net , a flat net so suspended in the water that its meshes allow the heads of fish to pass, but catch in the gills when they seek to extricate themselves. -- Coloq. Gill opening , or Coloq. Gill slit (Anat.), an opening behind and below the head of most fishes, and some amphibians, by which the water from the gills is discharged. In most fishes there is a single opening on each side, but in the sharks and rays there are five, or more, on each side. -- Coloq. Gill rakes , or Coloq. Gill rakers (Anat.), horny filaments, or progresses, on the inside of the branchial arches of fishes, which help to prevent solid substances from being carried into gill cavities.
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Gill, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber. [Prov. Eng.]
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Gill, n. A leech. [Also gell.] [Scot.] Jameison.
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Gill, n. [Icel. gil.] A woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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Gill (?), n. [OF. gille, gelle, a sort of measure for wine, LL. gillo, gello., Cf. .] A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint.
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Gill (?), n. [Abbrev. from Gillian.] 1. A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl. “Each Jack with his Gill.” B. Jonson.
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2. (Bot.) The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names.
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3. Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy.
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Coloq. Gill ale . (a) Ale flavored with ground ivy. (b) (Bot.) Alehoof.
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gilled adj. Having gills; as, a gilled tadpole. Opposite of abranchiate.
Syn. -- branchiate.
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Gill-flirt (?), n. A thoughtless, giddy girl; a flirt-gill. Sir W. Scott.
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Gillhouse, n. A shop where gill is sold.
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Thee shall each alehouse, thee each gillhouse mourn. Pope.
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Gillian (?), n. [OE. Gillian, a woman's name, for Julian, Juliana. Cf. a girl.] A girl; esp., a wanton; a gill. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

{ Gillie Gilly } (?), n. [Gael. gille, giolla, boy, lad.] A boy or young man; a manservant; a young male attendant, in the Scottish Highlands. Sir W. Scott. [wns=1]
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2. a lowcut shoe without a tongue and decorative lacing.
Syn. -- ghillie.
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Gillyflower (?), n. [OE. gilofre, gilofer, clove, OF. girofre, girofle, F. girofle: cf. F. giroflée gillyflower, fr. girofle, Gr. � clove tree; � nut + � leaf, akin to E. foliage. Cf. , .] [Written also gilliflower.] (Bot.) 1. 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.
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2. A kind of apple, of a roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core.

Coloq. Clove gillyflower , the clove pink. -- Coloq. Marsh gillyflower , the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi). -- Coloq. Queen's gillyflower , or Coloq. Winter gillyflower , damewort. -- Coloq. Sea gillyflower , the thrift (Armeria vulgaris). -- Coloq. Wall gillyflower , the wallflower (Cheiranthus Cheiri). -- Coloq. Water gillyflower , the water violet.
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Gilour (?), n. [OF.] A guiler; deceiver. [Obs.]
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Gilse (?), n. [W. gleisiad, fr. glas blue.] (Zoöl.) See .
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Gilt (?), n. [See , v. t.] (Zoöl.) A female pig, when young.
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Gilt, imp. & p. p. of .
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Gilt, p. p. & a. Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow. “Gilt hair” Chaucer.
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Gilt, n. 1. Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding. Shak.
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2. Money. [Obs.] “The gilt of France.” Shak.

{ Gilt-edge (?), Gilt-edged (?), } a. 1. Having a gilt edge; as, gilt-edged paper.
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2. Of the best quality; -- said of negotiable paper, etc. [Slang, U. S.]
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Gilthead (?), n. (Zoöl.) A marine fish. The name is applied to two species: (a) The Pagrus auratus (syn. Chrysophrys auratus), a valuable food fish common in the Mediterranean (so named from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll. (b) The Crenilabrus melops, of the British coasts; -- called also golden maid, conner, sea partridge.
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Giltif (?), a. [For gilti, by confusion with -if, -ive, in French forms. See .] Guilty. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Gilttail (?), n. A yellow-tailed worm or larva.
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Gim (?), a. [Cf. , a.] Neat; spruce. [Prov.]

Gimbal (gĭmb�l), or Gimbals (gĭmb�lz), n. [See , n.] 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.
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Coloq. Gimbal joint (Mach.), a universal joint embodying the principle of the gimbal. -- Coloq. Gimbal ring , a single gimbal, as that by which the cockeye of the upper millstone is supported on the spindle.
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Gimblet (?), n. & v. See .
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gimcrack (?), n. [OE., a spruce and pert pretender, also, a spruce girl, prob. fr. gim + crack lad, boaster.] A trivial mechanism; a device. Arbuthnot.
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2. A toy; a pretty thing; an ornamental object of no great value.
Syn. -- trinket, gewgaw, knickknack, tchotchke.
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gimcrackery, gimcracks n. Ornamental objects of no great value.
Syn. -- falderal, folderol, frills, nonsense, trumpery, trinkets, gewgaws, knickknacks, tchotchkes.
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gimel n. the 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
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Gimlet (?), n. [Also written and pronounced gimbled (�)] [OF. guimbelet, guibelet, F. gibelet, prob. fr. OD. wimpel, weme, a bore, wemelen to bore, to wimble. See , n.] A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle.
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Coloq. Gimlet eye , a squint-eye. [Colloq.] Wright.
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Gimlet, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gimleted; p. pr. & vb. n. Gimleting.] 1. To pierce or make with a gimlet.
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2. (Naut.) To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet.
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Gimmal (?), n. [Prob. the same word as gemel. See , and cf. .] 1. Joined work whose parts move within each other; a pair or series of interlocked rings.
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2. A quaint piece of machinery; a gimmer. [Obs.]
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Gimmal, a. Made or consisting of interlocked rings or links; as, gimmal mail.
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In their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit
Lies foul with chewed grass. Shak.
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Coloq. Gimmal joint . See Gimbal joint, under .

Gimmer, Gimmor (�), n. [Cf. , n.] A piece of mechanism; mechanical device or contrivance; a gimcrack. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. Shak.
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