Webster's Dictionary 1828

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GALVANOLOGY

GALVANOL'OGY, noun [galvanism, and Gr. discourse.]A treatise on galvanism, or a description of its phenomena.

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GALVANOMETER

GALVANOM'ETER, noun [galvanism, and Gr. measure.]An instrument or apparatus for measuring minute quantities of electricity, or the operations of galvanism.

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GAMASHES

GAMASH'ES, noun Short spatterdashes worn by plowmen.

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GAMBADOES

GAMBA'DOES, noun Spatterdashes.

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GAMBET

GAM'BET, noun A bird of the size of the greenshank, found in the Arctic sea, and in Scandinavia and Iceland.

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GAMBLE

GAM'BLE, verb intransitive [from game.] To play or game for money or other stake.GAM'BLE, verb transitive To gamble away, is to squander by gaming.Bankrupts or sots who have gam...

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GAMBLER

GAM'BLER, noun One who games or plays for money or other stake. Gamblers often or usually become cheats and knaves.

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GAMBLING

GAM'BLING, participle present tense Gaming for money.

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GAMBOGE

GAMBO'GE, noun A concrete vegetable juice or gum-resin. It is brought in orbicular masses or cylindrical rolls, from Cambaja, Cambodja, or Cambogia, in the E. Indies, whence its...

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GAMBOL

GAM'BOL, verb intransitive1. To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to leap; to play in frolic, like boys and lambs.2. To leap; to start.GAM'BOL, noun A skipping or leaping...

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GAMBOLING

GAM'BOLING, participle present tense Leaping; frisking; playing pranks.

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GAMBREL

GAM'BREL, noun The hind leg of a horse. Hence, in America, a crooked stick used by butchers. A hipped roof is called a gambrel-roof.GAM'BREL, verb transitive To tie by the leg.

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GAME

GAME, noun1. Sport of any kind.2. Jest; opposed to earnest; as, betwixt earnest and game [Not used.]3. An exercise or play for amusement or winning a stake; as a game of cricket...

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GAME-EGG

GA'ME-EGG, noun An egg from which a fighting cock is bred.

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GAMECOCK

GA'MECOCK, noun A cock bred or used to fight; a cock kept for barbarous sport.

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GAMEKEEPER

GA'MEKEEPER, noun One who has the care of game; one who is authorized to preserve beasts of the chase, or animals kept for sport.

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GAMESOME

GA'MESOME, adjective Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome.This gamesome humor of children.

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GAMESOMELY

GA'MESOMELY, adverb Merrily; playfully.

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GAMESOMENESS

GA'MESOMENESS, noun Sportiveness; merriment.

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GAMESTER

GA'MESTER, noun1. A person addicted to gaming; one who is accustomed to play for money or other stake, at cards, dice, billiards and the like; a gambler; one skilled in games.It...

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GAMING

GA'MING, participle present tense Playing; sporting; playing for money.GA'MING, noun The act or art of playing any game in a context for a victory, or for a prize or stake.1. Th...

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GAMING-HOUSE

GA'MING-HOUSE, noun A house where gaming is practiced.

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GAMING-TABLE

GA'MING-TABLE, noun A table appropriated to gaming.

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GAMMER

GAM'MER, noun The compellation of an old woman, answering to gaffer, applied to an old man.

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GAMMON

GAM'MON, noun1. The buttock or thigh of a hog, pickled and smoked or dried; a smoked ham.2. A game, called usually back-gammon, which see.GAM'MON, verb transitive To make bacon;...

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GAMMUT

GAM'MUT, noun [from the Greek letter so named.]1. A scale on which notes in music are written or printed, consisting of lines and spaces, which are named after the seven first l...

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GAN

GAN, a contraction of began, or rather the original simple word, Sax. gynnan, to begin.