GAULISH
GAUL'ISH, adjective Pertaining to ancient France or Gaul.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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GAUNT
GAUNTGAUNT'LET, noun A large iron glove with fingers covered with small plates, formerly worn by cavaliers, armed at all points.To throw the gantlet, is to challenge; andTo take...
GAUNTLET
GAUNT'LET, n. A large iron glove with fingers covered with small plates, formerly worn by cavaliers, armed at all points.To throw the gantlet, is to challenge; andTo take up the...
GAUNTLY
GAUNT'LY, adverb gant'ly. Leanly; meagerly.GAUNT'LET, noun [See Gantlet.]
GAUZE
GAUZE, noun [Latin gausape, or gossipium.]A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, of silk or linen.
GAUZELOOM
GAUZELOOM, noun A loom in which gauze is wove.
GAUZY
GAUZ'Y, adjective Like gauze; thin as gauze.
GAVE
GAVE, preterit tense of give.
GAVEL
GAV'EL, noun In law, tribute; toll; custom. [See Gable.]GAV'EL, noun1. A small parcel of wheat, rye or other grain, laid together by reapers, consisting of two, three or more ha...
GAVELET
GAV'ELET, noun An ancient and special cessavit in Kent, in England, where the custom of gavelkind continues, by which the tenant, if he withdraws his rent and services due to hi...
GAVELKIND
GAV'ELKIND, noun A tenure in England, by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equall...
GAVELOCK
GAV'ELOCK, noun An iron crow.
GAVILAN
GAV'ILAN, noun A species of hawk in the Philippine isles; the back and wings yellow; the belly white.
GAVOT
GAV'OT, noun A kind of dance, the air of which has two brisk and lively strains in common time, each of which is played twice over. The first has usually four or eight bars, and...
GAWBY
GAW'BY, noun A dunce. [Not in use.]
GAWK
GAWK, noun1. A cuckoo.2. A fool; a simpleton. [In both senses, it is retained in Scotland.]
GAWKY
GAWK'Y, adjective Foolish; awkward; clumsy; clownish. [In this sense it is retained in vulgar use in America.]GAWK'Y, noun A stupid, ignorant, awkward fellow.
GAY
GAY, adjective1. Merry; airy; jovial; sportive; frolicksome. It denotes more life and animation than cheerful.Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay2. Fine; showy; as a gay d...
GAYETY
GA'YETY, noun1. Merriment; mirth; airiness; as a company full of gayety2. Act of juvenile pleasure; the gayeties of youth.3. Finery; show; as the gayety of dress.
GAYLY
GA'YLY, adverb Merrily; with mirth and frolick.1. Finely; splendidly; pompously; as ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming.
GAYNESS
GA'YNESS, noun Gayety; finery.
GAYSOME
GA'YSOME, adjective Full of gayety. [Little used.]
GAZE
GAZE, verb intransitive [Gr. to be astonished, and Heb. to see or look, that is, to fix the eye or to reach with the eye.]To fix the eyes and look steadily and earnestly; to loo...
GAZEFUL
GA'ZEFUL, adjective Looking with a gaze; looking intently.
GAZEHOUND
GA'ZEHOUND, noun A hound that pursues by the sight rather than by the scent.
GAZEL
GAZ'EL, noun An animal of Africa and India, of the genus Antilope. It partakes of the nature of the goat and the deer. Like the goat, the gazel has hollow permanent horns, and i...
GAZEMENT
GA'ZEMENT, noun View. [Not in use.]