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Gabbler
One who gabbles; a prater.
Gainsay
To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.
Gainsayer
One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies.
Galeas
See .
Galingale
A plant of the Sedge family () having aromatic roots; also, any plant of the same genus.
Gall
The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.
Gallic
Pertaining to, or derived from, galls, nutgalls, and the like.
Gallomania
An excessive admiration of what is French.
Gallowglass
A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward
Galvanocautery
Cautery effected by a knife or needle heated by the passage of a galvanic current.
Gamecock
The male game fowl.
Gammon
To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
Gantlope
See .
Garboard
One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake.
Garmenture
Clothing; dress.
gasbag
a person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
Gatewise
In the manner of a gate.
Gaudygreen
Light green.
Gee
To cause (a team) to turn to the off side, or from the driver.
Gelation
The process of becoming solid by cooling; a cooling and solidifying.
Gelechiidae
A family of moths which include important economic pests, feeding on the seeds of the cotton boll.
Gemellipa-rous
Producing twins.
Gemmated
Having buds; adorned with gems or jewels.
Generalize
To form into a genus; to view objects in their relations to a genus or class; to take general or comprehensive views.
Gesture
To accompany or illustrate with gesture or action; to gesticulate.
Ghess
See .
Giggot
See .
Gilbert
, an English dramatist born at London Nov. 18, 1836. He is most famous for his collaborations with 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.
Gilt
Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.
Gimblet
See .
Gimp
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.
Girdle
A griddle.
Girkin
See .
givenness
the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed.
Gladiatory
Gladiatorial.
Glairin
A glairy viscous substance, which forms on the surface of certain mineral waters, or covers the sides of their inclosures; -- called also .
Glum
Moody; silent; sullen.
Glycide
A colorless liquid, obtained from certain derivatives of glycerin, and regarded as a partially dehydrated glycerin; -- called also .
Glyptodont
One of a family () of extinct South American edentates, of which Glyptodon is the type. About twenty species are known.
Goarish
Patched; mean.
Go-between
A negotiator who acts as a link between parties; an intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- sometimes in a disparaging sense.
Goitrous
Pertaining to the goiter; affected with the goiter; of the nature of goiter or bronchocele.
Gold-bound
Encompassed with gold.
goldfield
a district where gold is mined.
goofproof
To design (a device or plan of action) so that it will function properly even if treated badly or executed ineptly; foolproof.
Goosewing
One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.
Gorhen
The female of the gorcock.
Goter
A gutter.
Gozzard
See .
Gradus
A dictionary of prosody, designed as an aid in writing Greek or Latin poetry.
Graf
A German title of nobility, equivalent to earl in English, or count in French. See .
Graftage
The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation.
Grampus
A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus , esp. of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also . The California grampus is .
Grandiloquence
The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense.
Granger
A farm steward.
Gravigrade
Slow-paced.
Greece
See a step.
Greedy
Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; .
greyish
somewhat gray.
Griefful
Full of grief or sorrow.
Griefless
Without grief.
Grind
To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.
Grond
obs. of .
grounder
A batted ball that hits the ground before it leaves the infield, or the act of hitting a baseball along the ground; also called ; -- contrasted with or .
Groundly
Solidly; deeply; thoroughly.
Grum
Morose; severe of countenance; sour; surly; glum; grim.
Guest rope
The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom.
Guffaw
A loud burst of laughter; a horse laugh.
gumbo-limbo
A tropical American tree () yielding a reddish resin used in cements and varnishes.
Gutturine
Pertaining to the throat.
Gyn
To begin. See .
Gynecocracy
Government by a woman, female power; gyneocracy.
Gynne
To begin. See .