Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 20
Gild (v. t.) To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded chariots." -- Pope.
No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. -- Pope.
Gild (v. t.) To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day. -- Trumbull.
Gild (v. t.) To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie. -- Shak.
Gild (v. t.) To make red with drinking. [Obs.]
This grand liquior that hath gilded them. -- Shak.
Gild (n.) A formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" [syn: club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order].
Gild (v.) Decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold [syn: gild, begild, engild].
Gildale (n.) A drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share. [Obs.]
Gilden (a.) Gilded. -- Holland.
Gilder (n.) One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold.
Gilder (n.) A Dutch coin. See Guilder.
Gilding (n.) 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.
Gilding (n.) Gold in leaf, powder, or liquid, for application to any surface.
Gilding (n.) Any superficial coating or appearance, as opposed to what is solid and genuine.
Gilding metal, A tough kind of sheet brass from which cartridge shells are made.
Gile (n.) Guile.
Gill (n.) An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia.
Gill (n.) The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom.
Gill (n.) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
Gill (n.) The flesh under or about the chin.
Gill (n.) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
Gill (n.) A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.
Gill (n.) A leech.
Gill (n.) A woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream.
Gill (n.) A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint.
Gill (n.) A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl.
Gill (n.) The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names.
Gill (n.) Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy.
Gill-flirt (n.) A thoughtless, giddy girl; a flirt-gill.
Gillhouse (n.) A shop where gill is sold.
Gillian (n.) A girl; esp., a wanton; a gill.
Gillie Gilly (n.) A boy or young man; a manservant; a male attendant, in the Scottish Highlands.
Gillyflower (n.) 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.
Gillyflower (n.) A kind of apple, of a roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core.
Gilour (n.) A guiler; deceiver.
Gilse (n.) See Grilse.
Gilt (v. t.) A female pig, when young.
Gilt () imp. & p. p. of Gild.
Gilt (p. p. & a.) Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow.
Gilt (n.) Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.
Gilt (n.) Money.
Gilt-edge (a.) Alt. of Gilt-edged.
Gilt-edged (a.) Having a gilt edge; as, gilt-edged paper.
Gilt-edged (a.) Of the best quality; -- said of negotiable paper, etc.
Gilthead (n.) A marine fish.
Gilthead (n.) The Pagrus, / Chrysophrys, auratus, a valuable food fish common in the Mediterranean (so named from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll.
Gilthead (n.) The Crenilabrus melops, of the British coasts; -- called also golden maid, conner, sea partridge.
Giltif (a.) Guilty.
Gilttail (n.) A yellow-tailed worm or larva.
Gim (a.) Neat; spruce.
Gimbal (n.) Alt. of Gimbals.
Gimbals (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.
Gimblet (n. & v.) See Gimlet.
Gimcrack (n.) 華而不實的東西 A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.
Gimcrack (a.) (disapproving) 華而不實的；劣質的；粗製濫造的 Attractive on the surface but badly made and of no real or permanent value.
Gimlet (n.) A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle.
Gimleted (imp. & p. p.) of Gimlet.
Gimleting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gimlet.
Gimlet (v. t.) To pierce or make with a gimlet.
Gimlet (v. t.) To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet.
Gimmal (n.) Joined work whose parts move within each other; a pair or series of interlocked rings.
Gimmal (n.) A quaint piece of machinery; a gimmer.
Gommal (a.) Made or consisting of interlocked ring/ or links; as, gimmal mail.
Gimmer (n.) Alt. of Gimmor.
Gimmick (n.) 祕密裝置；巧妙的小玩意兒；花招；竅門；暗機關 A drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident; "it sounds good but what's the catch?" [syn: {catch}, {gimmick}].
Gimmick (n.) Something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known; "she eased the ball-shaped doodad back into its socket"; "there may be some great new gizmo around the corner that you will want to use" [syn: {doodad}, {doohickey}, {doojigger}, {gimmick}, {gizmo}, {gismo}, {gubbins}, {thingamabob}, {thingumabob}, {thingmabob}, {thingamajig}, {thingumajig}, {thingmajig}, {thingummy}, {whatchamacallit}, {whatchamacallum}, {whatsis}, {widget}].
Gimmick (n.) Any clever maneuver; "he would stoop to any device to win a point"; "it was a great sales gimmick"; "a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen" [syn: {device}, {gimmick}, {twist}].
Gimmor (n.) A piece of mechanism; mechanical device or contrivance; a gimcrack.
Gimp (a.) Smart; spruce; trim; nice.
Gimp (n.) A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc.
Gimp (v. t.) To notch; to indent; to jag.
Gin (prep.) Against; near by; towards; as, gin night. [Scot.] -- A. Ross (1778).
Gin (conj.) If. [Scotch] -- Jamieson.
Gan (imp. & p. p.) of Gin.
Gon () of Gin.
Gun () of Gin.
Ginning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gin.
Gin (v. i.) To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan. [Obs. or Archaic] "He gan to pray." -- Chaucer.
Gin (n.) A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.
Gin (n.) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare. -- Chaucer. Spenser.
Gin (n.) A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
Gin (n.) (Mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
Gin (n.) A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.
Note: The name is also given to an instrument of torture worked with screws, and to a pump moved by rotary sails.
Gin block, A simple form of tackle block, having one wheel, over which a rope runs; -- called also whip gin, rubbish pulley, and monkey wheel.
Gin power, A form of horse power for driving a cotton gin.
Gin race, or Gin ring, The path of the horse when putting a gin in motion. -- Halliwell.
Gin saw, A saw used in a cotton gin for drawing the fibers through the grid, leaving the seed in the hopper.
Gin wheel. (a) In a cotton gin, a wheel for drawing the fiber through the grid; a brush wheel to clean away the lint.
Gin wheel. (b) (Mining) the drum of a whim.
Ginned (imp. & p. p.) of Gin.
Ginning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gin.
Gin (v. t.) To catch in a trap. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Gin (v. t.) To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.
Gin (n.) Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries
Gin (n.) A trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose [syn: snare, gin, noose].
Gin (n.) A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers [syn: cotton gin, gin].
Gin (n.) A form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points [syn: gin, gin rummy, knock rummy].
Gin (v.) Separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin.
Gin (v.) Trap with a snare; "gin game".
GIN, () A special-purpose macro assembler used to build the GEORGE 3 operating system for ICL1900 series computers. (1994-11-02)
Gin, () A trap. Ps. 140:5, 141:9, Amos 3:5, the Hebrew word used, mokesh_, means a noose or "snare," as it is elsewhere rendered (Ps. 18:5; Prov. 13:14, etc.).
Gin, () Job 18:9, Isa. 8:14, Heb. pah, a plate or thin layer; and hence a net, a snare, trap, especially of a fowler (Ps. 69: 22, "Let their table before them become a net;" Amos 3:5, "Doth a bird fall into a net [pah] upon the ground where there is no trap-stick [mokesh] for her? doth the net [pah] spring up from the ground and take nothing at all?", Gesenius.)
Ging (n.) Same as Gang, n., 2. [Obs.]
There is a knot, a ging, a pack, a conspiracy against me. -- Shak.
Gingal (n.) See Jingal.
Jingal (n.) A small portable piece of ordnance, mounted on a swivel. [Written also gingal and jingall.] [India]
Ginger (n.) (Bot.) A plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Z. officinale.
Ginger (n.) The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine.
Ginger ale (a.) A soft drink flavored with ginger and carbonated.
Ginger ale (a.) See ginger beer, below.
Ginger beer or Ginger ale, A mild beer impregnated with ginger.
Ginger cordial, A liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy.
Ginger pop. See Ginger ale (above).
Ginger wine, Wine impregnated with ginger.
Wild+ginger+(Bot.),+an+American+herb+({Asarum+Canadense">Wild ginger (Bot.), An American herb ({Asarum Canadense) with two reniform leaves and a long, cordlike rootstock which has a strong taste of ginger.
Ginger (a.) (Used especially of hair or fur) Having a bright orange-brown color; "a man with gingery hair and bright blue eyes"; "a ginger kitten" [syn: ginger, gingery].
Ginger (n.) Perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems.
Ginger (n.) Dried ground gingerroot [syn: ginger, powdered ginger].
Ginger (n.) Pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery [syn: ginger, gingerroot].
Ginger (n.) Liveliness and energy; "this tonic is guaranteed to give you more pep" [syn: pep, peppiness, ginger].
Ginger (v.) Add ginger to in order to add flavor; "ginger the soup".
Ginger (n.) See saga.
Ginger, () A simple functional language from the University of Warwick with parallel constructs.
(1994-11-02)
Gingerbread (n.) A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. "Gingerbread that was full fine." -- Chaucer.
Gingerbread tree (Bot.), The doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm.
Gingerbread work, Ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character.
Gingerbread (n.) Cake flavored with ginger.
Gingerly (adv.) Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily.
What is't that you took up so gingerly ? -- Shak.
Gingerly (adv.) In a gingerly manner; "gingerly I raised the edge of the blanket".
Gingerly (a.) With extreme care or delicacy; "they proceeded with gingerly footwork over the jagged stones"; "the issue was handled only in a gingerly way" -- W.S.White
Gingerness (n.) Cautiousness; tenderness.
Gingham (n.) 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.
Gingham (n.) A clothing fabric in a plaid weave.
Ginging (n.) (Mining) The lining of a mine shaft with stones or bricks to prevent caving.
Gingival (a.) Of or pertaining to the gums. -- Holder.
Gingival (a.) Of or relating to the gums.
Gingle (n. & v.) [Obs.] See Jingle.
Compare: Jingle
Jingle (v. i.) To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. [Written also gingle.].
Jingle (v. i.) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. "Jingling street ballads." -- Macaulay.
Ginglyform (a.) (Anat.) Ginglymoid.
Ginglymodi (n.) (Zool.) 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 vertebrae convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See Ganoidel. Ginglymoid.
Ginglymoid (a.) Alt. of Ginglymoidal.
Ginglymoidal (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a ginglymus, or hinge joint; ginglyform.
Ginglymi (n. pl. ) of Ginglymus.
Ginglymus (n.) (Anat.) A hinge joint; an articulation, admitting of flexion and extension, or motion in two directions only, as the elbow and the ankle.
Ginhouse (n.) A building where cotton is ginned.
Ginkgoes (n. pl. ) of Ginkgo.
Ginkgo (n.) (Bot.) A large ornamental tree ({Ginkgo biloba) from China and Japan, belonging to the Yew suborder of Coniferae. Its leaves are so like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is also called the maidenhair tree. Ginkgophytina, Ginkgophyta
Compare: Maidenhair tree
Maidenhair tree (n.) A deciduous dioecious gymnospermous Chinese tree ({Ginkgo biloba) having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds, also called the ginkgo; it exists almost exclusively in cultivation esp. as an ornamental street tree.
Ginkgo (n.) Deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree [syn: ginkgo, gingko, maidenhair tree, Ginkgo biloba].
Ginn (n. pl. ) of Ginnee.
See Jinnee.