Webster's Dictionary 1828

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G

G, the seventh letter and the fifth articulation of the English Alphabet, is derived to us, through the Latin and Greek, from the Assyrian languages; it being found in the Chald...

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GA

GA, in Gothic, is a prefix, answering to ge in Saxon and other Teutonic languages. It sometimes has the force of the Latin cum or con, as in gawithan, to conjoin. But in most wo...

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GAB

GAB, noun The mouth; as in the phrase, the gift of the gab that is, loquaciousness. But the word is so vulgar as rarely to be used.

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GABARDINE

GAB'ARDINE, noun A coarse frock or loose upper garment; a mean dress.

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GABBLE

GAB'BLE, verb intransitive [Eng. to gibe.]1. To prate; to talk fast, or to talk without meaning.Such a rout, and such a rabble,Run to hear Jack Pudding gabble2. To utter inartic...

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GABBLER

GAB'BLER, noun A prater; a noisy talker; one that utters inarticulate sounds.

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GABBLING

GAB'BLING, participle present tense Prating; chattering; uttering unmeaning or inarticulate sounds.

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GABBRO

GAB'BRO, noun In mineralogy, the name given by the Italians to the aggregate of diallage and saussurite. It is the euphotide of the French, and the verde di Corcisa duro of arti...

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GABEL

GA'BEL, noun A tax, import or duty; usually an excise.

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GABELER

GA'BELER, noun A collector of the gabel or of taxes.

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GABION

GA'BION, noun In fortification, a large basket of wickerwork, of a cylindrical form; filled with earth, and serving to shelter men from an enemy's fire.

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GABLE

GA'BLE, noun The triangular end of a house or other building, from the cornice or eaves to the top. In America, it is usually called the gable-end.

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GABRIELITES

GA'BRIELITES, noun In ecclesiastical history, a sect of anabaptists in Pomerania, so called from one Gabriel Scherling.

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GABRONITE

GA'BRONITE, noun A mineral, supposed to be a variety of fettstein. It occurs in masses, whose structure is more or less foliated, or sometimes compact. Its colors are gray, blui...

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GAD

GAD, noun1. A wedge or ingot of steel.2. A style or graver.3. A punch of iron with a wooden handle, used by miners.GAD, verb intransitive1. To walk about; to rove or ramble idly...

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GADDER

GAD'DER, noun A rambler; one that roves about idly.

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GADDING

GAD'DING, participle present tense Rambling; roving; walking about.

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GADFLY

GAD'FLY, noun An insect of the genus Oestrus, which stings cattle, and deposits its eggs in their skin; called also the breeze.

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GADOLINITE

GADO'LINITE, noun A mineral, so called from Professor Gadolin, usually in amorphous masses of a blackish color, and having the appearance of vitreous lava. It contains a new ear...

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GADWALL

GAD'WALL, noun A fowl of the genus Anas, inhabiting the north of Europe.

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GAELIC

GA'ELICGAFF, noun1. A harpoon.2. A sort of boom or pole, used in small ships, to extend the upper edge of the mizen, and of those sails whose foremost edge is joined to the mast...

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GAFF

GAFF, n.1. A harpoon.2. A sort of boom or pole, used in small ships, to extend the upper edge of the mizen, and of those sails whose foremost edge is joined to the mast by hoops...

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GAFFER

GAF'FER, noun [Heb. gebar, a man, vir.] A word or respect, which seems to have degenerated into a term of familiarity or contempt. [Little used.]

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GAFFLE

GAF'FLE, noun1. An artificial spur put on cocks when the are set to fight.2. A steel lever to bend cross-bows.

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GAG

GAG, verb transitive1. To stop the mouth by thrusting something into the throat, so as to hinder speaking.2. To keck; to heave with nausea.GAG, noun Something thrust into the mo...

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GAGE

GAGE, noun1. A box or inclosure, made of boards, or with lattice work of wood, wicker or wire, for confining birds or beasts. For the confinement of the more strong and ferociou...

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GAGED

GA'GED, participle passive Pledged; measured.