Webster's Dictionary 1828

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GINGIVAL

GIN'GIVAL, adjective [Latin gingiva, the gum.] Pertaining to the gums.

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GINGLE

GIN'GLEGIN'GLYMOID, adjective [Gr. a hinge, and form.] Pertaining to or resembling a ginglymus.

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GINGLYMOID

GIN'GLYMOID, a. [Gr. a hinge, and form.] Pertaining to or resembling a ginglymus.

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GINGLYMUS

GIN'GLYMUS, noun [Gr.] In anatomy, a species of articulation resembling a hinge. That species of articulation in which each bone partly receives and is partly received by the ot...

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GINNET

GIN'NET, noun A nag. [See Jennet.]

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GINSENG

GIN'SENG, noun [This word is probably Chinese, and it is said by Grosier, to signify the resemblance of a man, or man's thigh. He observes also that the root in the language of ...

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GIP

GIP, verb transitive To take out the entrails of herrings.

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GIPSEY

GIP'SEY, noun The Gipseys are a race of vagabonds which infest Europe, Africa and Asia, strolling about and subsisting mostly by theft, robbery and fortune-telling. The name is ...

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GIPSEYISM

GIP'SEYISM, noun The arts and practices of gipseys; deception; cheating; flattery.1. The state of a gipsey.

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GIRAFF

GIRAFF', noun The camelopard, a quadruped. [See Camelopard.]

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GIRANDOLE

GIR'ANDOLE, noun A chandelier; a large kind of branched candlestick.

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GIRASOL

GIR'ASOL, noun [Latin gyrus, a turn; Latin sol, the sun.]1. The turnsole, a plant of the genus Heliotropium.2. A mineral usually milk white, bluish white or sky blue, but when t...

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GIRD

GIRD, noun gurd. [Eng. a yard.]1. A twitch or pang; a sudden spasm, which resembles the stroke of a rod or the pressure of a band.2. In popular language, a severe stroke of a st...

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GIRDED

GIRD'ED, participle passive Bound; surrounded; invested; put on.

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GIRDER

GIRD'ER, noun In architecture, the principal piece of timber in a floor. Its end is usually fastened into the summers or breast summers, and the joists are framed in it at one e...

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GIRDING

GIRD'ING, participle present tense Binding; surrounding; investing.GIRD'ING, noun A covering. Isaiah 3:24.

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GIRDLE

GIRD'LE, noun1. A band or belt; something drawn round the waist of a person, and tied or buckled; as a girdle of fine lines; a leathern girdle2. Inclosure; circumference.3. The ...

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GIRDLE-BELT

GIRD'LE-BELT, noun A belt that encircles the waist.

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GIRDLE-STEAD

GIRD'LE-STEAD, noun The part of the body where the girdle is worn.

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GIRDLER

GIRD'LER, noun One who girdles; a maker of girdles.

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GIRE

GIRE, noun [Latin gyrus.] A circle, or circular motion. [See Gyre.]

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GIRL

GIRL, noun gerl. [Low Latin gerula, a young woman employed in tending children and carrying them about, from gero, to carry; a word probably received from the Romans while in En...

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GIRLHOOD

GIRL'HOOD, noun The state of a girl. [Little used.]

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GIRLISH

GIRL'ISH, adjective Like a young woman or child; befitting a girl.1. Pertaining to the youth of a female.

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GIRLISHLY

GIRL'ISHLY, adverb In the manner of a girl.

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GIRROCK

GIR'ROCK, noun A species of gar-fish, the lacertus.

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GIRT

GIRT, preterit tense and participle passive of gird.GIRT, verb transitive To gird; to surround.[This verb, if derived from the noun, girt may be proper.]GIRT