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=furacane, furicane,= a hurricane; ‘These tempestes of the ayer . . . they caule Furacanes’, R. Eden, First three E. Books on America (ed. Arber, p. 81). _Furicanes_, Heywood, Iron Age, Part II, vol. iii, p. 405. O. Span. _furacan_ (Sp. _huracan_), Pg. _furacão_, from the Carib word given by Peter Martyr as _furacan_. See NED. (s.v. Hurricane).

=furbery,= a trick, imposture. Howell, Foreign Travell, sect. viii, p. 43. F. _fourberie_, a trick.

=fur-fare,= to cause to perish, destroy. Morte Arthur, leaf 95, back, 30; bk. vi, c. 6. See =forfare.=

=furniment,= furniture, array. Spenser, F. Q. iv. 3. 38. F. _fourniment_, provision, furniture; _fournir_, to furnish (Cotgr.).

=furniture,= equipment. Tam. Shrew, iv. 3. 182; trappings, All’s Well, ii. 3. 65.

†=furny;= ‘I have a furny card in a place’, Lusty Juventus, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, ii. 78. Meaning doubtful; perhaps = F. _fourni_, provided.

=fustick,= the name of a kind of wood. Ascham, Toxophilus, p. 123; Dyer, The Fleece, bk. iii. 189. The name was given to _two_ kinds of wood: (_a_) that of the Venetian sumach (_Rhus Cotinus_); (_b_) of the _Cladrastis tinctoria_ of the W. Indies. F. and Span. _fustoc_, Arab. _fustuq_; from Gk. πιστάκη, pistachio.

=futile,= unable to hold one’s tongue, loquacious. Bacon, Essay 20, § 4. L. _futilis_, that easily pours out, ‘leaky’.

=fyaunts;= see =fiants.=

G

=gabel,= tribute, tax. Massinger, Emp. of the East, i. 2 (Pulcheria). OF. _gabelle_, Late L. _gabella_; cp. Med. L. _gabulum_, tribute (Ducange). A word of Arabic origin, see Dozy, Glossaire, pp. 74, 75, and Modern Language Review, July, 1912 (note by A. L. Mayhew on ‘Gavelkind’).

=gable,= a ‘cable’, rope. Chapman, tr. of Odyssey, v. 333; ix. 211; x. 165; xii. 47, 577. See NED.

=gaffle,= a steel lever for bonding the cross-bow. Drayton, Muses’ Elysium, Nymphal vi, 67; Complete Gunner, iii. 15. 12 (NED.). Du. _gaffel_, a fork.

=gage,= a quart-pot. (Cant.) Fletcher, Beggar’s Bush, iii. 3 (Higgen); Middleton, Roaring Girl, v. 1 (Song); ‘_A gage of bowse_, whiche is a quart-pot of drinke’, Harman, Caveat, p. 34. For _gauge_, i.e. a measure.

=gag-tooth,= a projecting or prominent tooth. Return from Parnassus, l. 2 (Ingenieso); hence, _gag-toothed_, Chapman, Gent. Usher, i. 1 (Vincentio); _gagge-toothed_, Lyly, Euphues, p. 116.

=gain,= near, straight, direct; said of a way; ‘They told me it was a _gayner_ way, and a fayrer way’, Latimer, 3 Sermon before King, ed. Arber, p. 101 (top). In gen. prov. use in Scotland, and in England in the north country, Midlands, and E. Anglia, EDD. (s.v. Gain, adj. 1). ME. _geyn_, ryȝht forth, ‘directus’ (Prompt.); Icel. _gegn_.

=gaingiving,= a misgiving. Hamlet, v. 2. 226. The prefix _gain-_ has the sense of opposition. OE. _gegn_, see NED.

†=gain-legged= (?); ‘I’ll short that gain-legg’d Longshank by the top’, Peele, Edward I (ed. Dyce, i. 103). Possibly, nimble, active-legged. Cp. EDD. (sv. Gain, adj. 5).

=galage,= a wooden shoe, or shoe with a wooden sole; ‘A Galage, a shoe: _solea_, _sandalium_’, Levins, Manip.; ‘Galage, a startuppe or clownish shoe’, Glosse to Spenser’s Shep. Kal., Feb., 244; ‘Shoe called a gallage or patten whyche hath nothynge but lachettes’, Hulcet. ME. _galegge_ or _galoch_, ‘crepita’ (Prompt. EETS., see note no. 837); Anglo-F. _galoche_. See Dict. (s.v. Galoche).

=gald,= to gall; pt. t. _galded_, Gascoigne, Works, i. 422; pp. _galded_, Eden, First three Books on America, p. 386. A false form; from the pp.

=galley-foist,= a state barge, esp. of the Lord Mayor of London. Beaumont and Fl., Knt. of the B. Pestle, v. 2 (end); B. Jonson, Silent Woman, iv. 2. See =foist.=

=galliard,= lively, brisk, gay. Shadwell, Humorist, ii (Works, ed. 1720, i. 172); _galyarde_, Sir T. Elyot, Governour, bk. ii, ch. 3, § 1. ME. _gaillard_ (Chaucer, C. T. A. 4367); F. _gaillard_, gay.

=galliard,= a quick and lively dance in triple time. Twelfth Nt.
i. 3. 137; Bacon, Essay 32.

=galliardise,= gaiety. Sir T. Browne, Rel. Med., Pt. II, § 11. F. _gaillardise_ (Cotgr.).

=gallimaufry,= a medley. Winter’s Tale, iv. 4. 335; used as a term of contempt, Dekker, Shoemakers’ Holiday, ii. 3 (Eyre); spelt _gallymalfreye_, Robinson, tr. of More’s Utopia, p. 64. F. _galimafrée_, a dish made by hashing up remnants of food; a hodge-podge; OF. _calimafree_ (Hatzfeld).

=galyarde;= see =galliard.=

=gamashes,= leggings or gaiters to protect from mud and wet. Middleton, Father Hubberd’s Tales (Dedication); Marston, What you will, ii. 1 (Laverdure). In common prov. use in the north country (EDD.). Norm. F. _gamaches_, ‘grandes guêtres en toile, montant jusqu’au dessus du genou’ (Moisy); Prov. _garramacho_ (_garamacho_), ‘houseau’ (Mistral); Languedoc dial. _garamachos_, _galamachos_, _gamachos_, ‘guêtres de pêcheurs’ (Boucoiran).

=gambawd,= a gambol, a frisk. Skelton, Ware the Hauke, 65. _To fett gambaudes_, to fetch gambols, to gambol, frisk about, Udall, tr. of Apophthegmes, Aristippus, § 45. F. ‘_gambade_, a gambol, tumbling trick’ (Cotgr.).

=gambone,= a gammon of bacon; ‘a gambone of bakon’, Skelton, El. Rummyng, 327. ME. _gambon_, a ham (Boke St. Albans, fol. f2, back); OF. (Picard) _gambon_ (F. _jambon_), leg; for related words see Moisy (s.v. Gambe).

=gambrel,= a stick placed by butchers between the shoulders of a newly killed sheep, to keep the carcass open. Chapman. Mons. d’Olive, iii (near the end). In gen. prov. use, see EDD. (s.v. Gambrel, sb.^{1} 1).

=gambrill,= the hock of an animal. Holland, Pliny, i. 225. Cp. _gammerel_, ‘a hock’, a Devon and Somerset word, see EDD. (s.v. Gambrel, sb.^{1} 2).

=gamning,= gaming. Ascham, Toxophilus, p. 51. So also _gamnes_, games, id., p. 52. From OE. _gamen_, a game.

=gan,= the mouth. (Cant.) Harman, Caveat, p. 82; Brome, Jovial Crew, ii (Mort’s song).

=ganch, gaunch,= to let one fall on sharp stakes (orig. on a sharp hook), there to remain till death. Dryden, Don Sebastian, iii. 2 (Mufti). Hence _gaunshing_, this kind of punishment; Howell, Foreign Travell, Appendix, p. 85. F. _gancher_: ‘_Ganché_, (a person) let fall (as in a strappado) on sharp stakes pointed with iron, and thereon languishing until he die’ (Cotgr.); Ital. ‘_ganciare_, to sharpen at the point’ (Florio).

=gandermooner,= one who practised gallantry during the gander-moon, or month when his wife was lying in. Middleton, Fair Quarrel, iv. 4 (Meg’s song). ‘Gander-moon’ is still used in Cheshire, meaning the month of the wife’s confinement, see EDD. (s.v. Gander, (6)).

=ganza,= a goose. In The Man in the Moon, by Bp. Godwin, a man is said to have been drawn to the moon by _Ganza’s_. The name was borrowed from Holland’s Pliny, bk. x, c. 22 (vol. i. 281a), where Holland has: ‘The Geese there . . . be called _Ganzæ_.’ But the L. text has _Gantæ_. Hence the pl. _ganzas_, Butler, Hudibras, ii. 3. 782.

=gar,= to cause, to make; ‘I’ll gar take’, I will make you take, B. Jonson, Sad Sheph. ii. 1 (Maud.); ‘_Ays gar_’ (for _I’s’gar_), I shall make, Greene, James IV, Induction (Bohan). In gen. prov. use in Scotland and the north of England (EDD.). ME. _gar_ (Cursor M. 4870); Icel. _ger_(_v_)_a_.

=garb,= a wheat-sheaf. Drayton, Pol. xiii. 370. Norm. F. _garbe_ (F. _gerbe_), see Moisy, p. 533.

=garboil,= a tumult, disturbance, brawl. Ant. and Cl. i. 3. 61; ii. 2. 67; Shirley, Young Admiral, iii. 2. 1. F. _garbouil_, ‘a garboil, hurliburly’ (Cotgr.). Ital. _garbuglio_, a garboile; _garbugliare_, to garboile, to turmoile (Florio).

=gardage, guardage,= keeping, guardianship. Othello, i. 2. 70; Fletcher, Thierry, v. 1 (Vitry).

=garded, guarded,= trimmed, provided with an ornamental border or trimming. Merch. of Venice, ii. 2. 164; Hen. VIII, Prol. 16.

=garden-bull,= a bull baited at Paris Garden, on the Bankside, London. Middleton, The Changeling, ii. 1 (De F.).

=gardes,= the dew-claws of a deer or boar; ‘Gardes [of a boar], which are his hinder clawes or dewclawes’, Turbervile, Hunting, c. 52; p. 154; _gards_ [of a deer], id., c. 37; p. 100. F. _gardes_: ‘les gardes d’un sanglier, the deaw-claws, or hinder claws of a wild Boar’ (Cotgr.).

=gardeviance,= orig. a safe or cupboard for viands, usually, a travelling trunk or wallet; ‘Bagge or gardeviaunce to put meat in, _reticulum_’, Huloet; ‘a gardeviance of usquebagh’, Sir B. Boyle, Diary (NED.); a little casket, Udall, tr. Apoph., Alexander, § 52. F. _garde-r_, to keep, + _viande_(_s_, viands.

=garet,= a watch-tower. Morte Arthur, leaf 100, back, 6; bk. vi, c. 11. ME. _garyt_, ‘specula’ (Prompt. EETS. 187). OF. _garite_ (F. _guérite_); see Cotgrave on both forms, and Estienne, Précellence, 358. See Dict. (s.v. Garret).

=gargarism,= a gargle; humorously, a physician. Webster, White Devil (Flamineo), ed. Dyce, p. 16. Gk. γαργαρίζειν, to gargle.

=gargell-face,= a face like a ‘gargoyle’, or grotesquely carved spout; ‘Before that entry grim, with gargell-face’, Phaer, Aeneid vi, 556 (without any Latin equivalent). See Dict. (s.v. Gargoyle).

=garing,= staring, horrid; ‘With fifty garing heads’, Phaer, tr. of Virgil, bk. vi, l. 576 (Latin text). See =gaure.=

=garnysshe,= to supply (a castle) with defensive force and provisions. Morte Arthur, leaf 18. 32, bk. i, c. 1; lf. 26. 8, bk. i, c. 11. F. ‘_garnir_, to garnish, provide, supply’ (Cotgr.).

=garran, garron,= a small Irish or Scotch horse. Spenser, View of Ireland, Globe ed., p. 619, col. 2. Irish _gearran_, a horse, a gelding (Dinneen).

=gaskins,= a kind of hose or breeches. Dekker, Gentle Craft (Wks., ed. 1873, i. 18); Beaumont and Fl., Knt. Burning Pestle, ii. 2 (Wife); ‘_Gascoigne breeches_, or Venetian hosen, _greguéscos_’, Minsheu, Span. Dict.; ‘_Gascoyne bride_, one who wears breeches’, Middleton, Roaring Girl, v. 2 (Sir Guy). ‘Gaskins’ is a Lincolnsh. word for gaiters (EDD.).

=gast,= to frighten. King Lear, ii. 2. 57; ‘I gasted hym, _Je lui baillay belle paour_’, Palsgrave. ME. _gasten_: ‘To gaste crowen from his corn’ (P. Plowman, A. vii. 129).

=gaster,= to frighten, Giffard, Dial. Witches (Nares); Beaumont and Fl., Wit at Several Weapons, ii. 4 (near end). A north-country and Essex word (EDD.).

=gate,= a way, path, road. Gascoigne, Voyage to Holland (ed. Hazlitt), i. 385; Spenser, F. Q. i. 1. 13. In common use in the north country down to Lincolnsh., see EDD. (s.v. Gate, sb.^{2} 1); cp. ‘Irongate’, the name of the busiest thoroughfare in Derby. ME. _gate_, or way, ‘via’ (Prompt. EETS. 188). Icel. _gata_.

=gate,= to walk; ‘Three stages . . . Neere the seacost gating’, Stanyhurst, Aeneid i, 191. Cp. Worcestersh. phr. _to go gaiting_, to go about for pleasure, see EDD. (s.v. Gate, vb.^{2} 21).

=gate-vein,= the principal vein; applied metaphorically to the chief course of trade. Bacon, Henry VII, ed. Lumby, p. 146; Bacon, Essay 19. See =vena porta.=

=gather-bag;= ‘_Gather-bag_, the bag or skinne, inclosing a young red Deere in the Hyndes belly’, Bullokar (1616); ‘The _Gather-bagge_ or mugwet of a yong Harte when it is in the Hyndes bellie’, Turbervile, Hunting, c. 15; p. 39.

=gauderie,= finery. Hall, Satires, iii. 1. 64; Bacon, Essay 29, § 12.

=gauding,= festivity; hence, jesting, foolery. Udall, Roister Doister, iii. 4. 1.

=gaunt,= a gannet; ‘The gaglynge gaunte’, Skelton, Phyllyp Sparowe, 447. ‘Gaunt’ is the Lincolnsh. word for the great crested grebe (EDD.). ME. _gante_ (Prompt. EETS.); OE. _ganot_.

=gaunt,= thin, slender; ‘She was gaunte agayne’ [after childbirth], Latimer, 5 Sermon before King (ed. Arber, p. 154); ‘They who . . . desire to be gant and slender . . . ought to forbear drinking at meales’, Holland, tr. Pliny, ii. 152. ‘Gant’ is in prov. use for slim, slender; in Suffolk they speak of horses looking ‘gant’; so in Kent, of a greyhound that is thin in the flanks (EDD.). ME. _gawnt_, or lene (Prompt.).

=gaure,= to stare, gaze. Skelton, Magnyfycence, 2275. ME. _gauren_ (Chaucer, Tr. and Cr. ii. 1108 (1157).

=gaurish,= staring, showy, garish. Ascham, Scholemaster, p. 54.

=gavel,= a quantity of corn, cut and ready to be made into a sheaf. _Gavel-heap_, said of wheat that is reaped but not bound, Chapman, tr. of Iliad, xxi. 328. An E. Anglian word, see EDD. (s.v. Gavel, sb.^{2}). Norm. F. _gavelle_, ‘javelle’ (Moisy), Med. L. _gavella_ (Ducange).

=gaw;= see =gow.=

=gawring-stock,= a gazing-stock, a spectacle. Mirror for Mag., Yorke, st. 21. See =gaure.=

=gazet, gazette,= a Venetian coin of small value. B. Jonson, Volpone, ii. 2 (Peregrine); Massinger, Maid of Honour iii. 1 (Jacomo). Ital. ‘_gazzetta_, a kind of small coyn in Venice, not worth a farthing of ours’ (Florio). See Dict.

†=geances.= Only in B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, ii. 4 (Hilts). A rustic pronunciation of _chances_? Nares supposes that _geances_ = _jaunces_. See =jaunce.=

=gear, geer, gere,= dress, apparel. L. L. L. v. 2. 304. (ME. _gere_, equipment, Chaucer, C. T. A. 4016). Also, wealth, property, B. Jonson, Sad Sheph. ii. 1; talk, in depreciatory sense, ‘stuff’, Selden, Table Talk (ed. Arber, 20); an affair, business, Tr. and Cr. i. 1. 6; Romeo, ii. 4. 107; Middleton, A Chaste Maid, i. 1 (Yellow). ‘Gear’ is very common in prov. use in various senses; see EDD. (s.v.): 1, apparel; 9 and 10, goods, property; 15, trash, rubbish; 16, affair, business. See Dict.

=geason,= scantily produced; rare, scarce, uncommon; ‘Ixine is a rare herb and geason to be seen’, Holland, Pliny, ii. 98; Spenser, F. Q. vi. 4. 37. ME. _gesen_ (P. Plowman, B. xiii. 271). OE. _gǣsne_, barren, unproductive. An Essex word (EDD.).

=geats;= ‘The female, which are called Geats, and the buckes Goates’, Turbervile, Hunting, ch. 47; p. 146. ME. _geet_, pl. she-goats (Trevisa’s Higden, i. 311). OE. _gǣt_, nom. pl. of _gāt_, a she-goat.

=gee and ree;= ‘He expostulates with his Oxen very understandingly, and speaks Gee and Ree better than English’, Earle, Microcosm, (ed. Arber, 49). Cp. EDD. (s.v. Gee, _int._): ‘Some or other of the crook horses invariably crossed him on the road . . . owing to two words of the driver, namely “gee” and “ree”,’ Bray’s Desc., Tamar and Tavy. Two words of command to an animal driven; _Gee_, directs it to go forward, to move faster, _Ree_, to turn to the right.

=gelt,= a lunatic; ‘Like a ghastly Gelt whose wits are reaved’, Spenser, F. Q. iv. 7. 21. Irish _gealt_ (_geilt_), a madman (Dinneen).

=gelu,= ‘jelly’. Stanyhurst, tr. of Aeneid, iii. 265.

=gemonies,= steps on the Aventine Hill (Rome) whence the bodies of state criminals were flung down, and afterwards dragged into the Tiber (_scalae Gemoniae_). Massinger, Roman Actor, i. 1 (Lamia); B. Jonson, Sejanus, iv. 5 (Lepidus).

=genethliac,= relating to nativities; hence, one who calculates nativities, an astrologer. Butler, Hudibras, ii. 3. 689. Gk. γενεθλιακός, belonging to birth; from γενέθλη, birth.

=Geneva print.= In the Merry Devil, ii. 1. 64, the Host says to the half-drunken smith, ‘I see by thy eyes thou hast been reading little Geneva print’, i.e. literally, type such as is in the Geneva Bible; but, allusively, it means, ‘you have been drinking _geneva’_, i.e. _gin_.

=geniture,= horoscope, the plan of a nativity, Burton, Anat. Mel. i. 1; that which is generated, offspring, Holland, Plutarch’s Morals, 1345. L. _genitura_, a begetting; seed of generation (Pliny); that which is generated (Tertullian).

=gennet-moyl,= a kind of apple that ripens early; ‘Trees grafted on a gennet-moyl or cider-stock’, Worlidge, Dict. Rust., 1681. p. 121; _genet-moyle_, Butler, Elephant in the Moon, 116. See EDD. (s.v. jennet).

=gent,= noble, high-born; valiant and courteous. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 11. 17; (of women) graceful, elegant, F. Q. i. 9. 27; (of the body) shapely, slender, Greene, Desc. of the Shepherd, 62 (ed. Dyce, p. 305). OF. _gent_, well-born.

=gentee,= genteel, elegant. Butler, Hudibras, ii. 1. 747. F. _gentil_ (_l_ silent).

=gentry-cove,= a nobleman or gentleman. (Cant.) B. Jonson, Gipsies Metamorphosed (Patrico); ‘A gentry cofes ken, a gentleman’s house’, Harman, Caveat, p. 83.

=George,= a half-crown, bearing the image of St. George. Shadwell, Squire of Alsatia, ii. 1 (Belfond Senior).

=gere;= see =gear.=

=gere, gear, geer,= a sudden fit of passion, transient fancy. North, Plutarch (ed. 1676, p. 140); Holland, Am. Marcell. xxxi. 12. 421. ME. _gere_ (Chaucer, C. T. A. 1531).

=gery,= capricious, fitful; ‘His seconde hawke waxid gery’,
Skelton, Ware the Hawke, 66. ME. _gery_ (Chaucer, C. T. A.
1536).

=german,= a brother. Spenser, F. Q. i. 5. 13; ii. 8. 46; cp. Othello, i. 1. 114. L. _germanus_, having the same father and mother.

=gern,= a snarl, a ‘grin’. Marston, Antonio, Pt. I, iii. 2 (Balurdo); _gerne_, to grin, id., The Fawn, iv. 1 (Zuccone); Spenser, F. Q. v. 12. 15. ‘Girn’ is in gen. prov. use in Scotland and in various parts of England (EDD.). ME. _gyrn_, to grin (Barbour’s Bruce, iv. 322; xiii. 157).

†=gernative,= grinning (?). Middleton, A Trick to Catch, iv. 5 (Dampit).

=gerr,= to jar, to be discordant. Udall, tr. of Apoph., Diogenes, § 17.

=gesse,= pl. guests. Lyly, Euphues, 305; spelt _guesse_, Gage, West Indies, xiv. 90; _guess_, Middleton, Phoenix, i. 4. 6. See NED. (s.v. Guest).

=gesseron,= a ‘jazerant’, a light coat of armour. Sir T. Elyot, Governour, bk. i, ch. 17, § 7. OF. _jazeran_ (_jesseran_), a light coat of armour, see Didot (s.v. Jaseran); orig. an adj., as in _osberc jazerenc_ (Ch. Rol. 1604), O. Prov. _jazeren_, ‘de mailles’ (Levy). Dozy (s.v. Jacerina) says that the supposition that the word means ‘Algerian’ is unfounded.

=gest,= pl. _gests_, the various stages of a journey, esp. of a royal progress; ‘In Jacob’s gests Succoth succeeds . . . to Peniel’, Fuller, Pisgah, v. 3. 147; ‘The King’s gests’, L’Estrange, Charles I, 126. _Gest_, the time allotted for a halt, Winter’s Tale, i. 2. 41. A later form of =gist,= q.v.

=gest=(=e,= story, narrative. Spenser, F. Q. i. 10. 15; exploit, Mother Hubberd’s Tale, 978. ME. _geste_, romance, tale; pl. histories, occurrences (Chaucer). Anglo-F. _geste_, L. (res) _gesta_, a thing performed.

=gets,= pl. the jesses of a hawk; ‘Her gets, her jesses and her bells’, Heywood, A Woman killed, i. 3 (Sir Charles). Both _gets_ and _jess_ are plural forms of OF. and Prov. _get_ (F. _jet_), ‘a cast, a throw’, cp. F. _jeter_, to throw. The form _jesses_ is a double plural.

=giambeux,= armour for the legs. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 6. 29. ME. _jambeux_ (Chaucer, C. T. B. 2065). Deriv. of F. _jambe_, the leg (Cotgr.).

=gib,= a familiar name for a cat. Hamlet, iii. 4. 190. Also, _Gib-cat_, ‘I am as melancholy as a gib-cat’, 1 Hen. IV, i. 2. 83. Hence, _Your Gibship_, Beaumont and Fl., Scornful Lady, v. 1. ‘Gib’ and ‘Gib-cat’ are in prov. use in the north, and down to Hereford, in the sense of a male cat, gen. one that has been castrated (EDD.).

=gibbed cat,= gen. taken to mean a castrated cat. Rowley, A Match at Midnight, ii. 1 (Jarvis).

=gibbridge,= unintelligible talk, idle talk. Drayton, Pol. xii. 227; ‘_Bagois_, gibridge, strange talk, idle tattle’, Cotgrave. A Yorksh. pronunciation of _gibberish_ (EDD.).

=Giberalter,= ? a Gibraltar monkey, an ape, Merry Devil, i. 2. 14. See NED.

=gig= (with hard _g_), to produce another like itself, but smaller. Only used metaphorically, and derived from ME. _gigge_, a whipping-top. See NED., which has: ‘The verb seems to denote the action of some kind of _gig_, or whipping-top of peculiar construction, having inside it a smaller _gig_ of the same shape, which was thrown out by the effect of rapid rotation.’ Hence, ‘The first [lampoon] produces, still, a second jig [i.e. lampoon]; You whip them out, like schoolboys [i.e. as schoolboys do], till they gig’; Dryden, Prologue to Amphitryon, 20, 21.

=giggots,= slices, small pieces. Chapman, tr. of Iliad, i. 452; ii. 372; spelt _giggets_, Fletcher, Double Marriage, iii. 2 (Boatswain). F. _gigot_, a leg of mutton. See NED.

=giglet, giglot,= a wanton. Meas. for M. v. 352; B. Jonson, Sejanus, v. 4 (Sej.), where it is applied to Fortune; Middleton, Family of Love, i. 2 (Gudgeon). In prov. use in various parts of England and Scotland (EDD.). ME. _gygelot_, ‘agagula’ (Prompt. EETS. 191). Cp. F. _gigolette_, ‘grisette, faubourienne courant les bals publics’ (Delesalle).

=gilder,= a ‘guilder’, an old Dutch coin. Comedy of Errors, i. 1. 8. Du. _gulden_, ‘a guilder’ (Sewel); with _n_ not pronounced, it sounds like _gilder_ to an English ear. See Dict. (s.v. Guilder).

=gill,= a wench, servant-maid. Butler, Hudibras, ii. 2. 709; ‘A gill or gill-flirt, _gaultiere_, _ricalde_’, Sherwood. A pet name for Gillian or Juliana.

=gilt,= a jocose term for money. Middleton, A Mad World, ii. 2 (Follywit); Family of Love, v. 3 (Dryfat).

=gilt-head,= a name given to various fishes. Webster, Devil’s Law-case, i. 1 (Romelio); Hakluyt, Voy. iii. 520, l. 7. Applied to fishes marked on the head with golden spots or lines; such as the bonito, the dorado or dolphin, and the golden wrasse.

=gim,= smart, spruce. Vanbrugh, The Confederacy, i. 3 (Mrs. Amlet). In prov. use in Lancashire and E. Anglia, see EDD. (s.v. Jim, adj.).

=gimcrack,= an affected or worthless person, a fop. Fletcher, Loyal Subject, iv. 2 (Theodore). Also, a fanciful notion, Massinger, Duke of Milan, iv. 3 (Graccho).

=gimmal,= in pl. _gimmals_, _gimols_, joints, links, connecting parts of machinery, Gosson, Trump. War, F 5 (NED.). Hence _gimmaled_, made with gimmals or joints, ‘The jymold (gimmaled) bitt’, Hen. V, iv. 2. 49; spelt _gymould_, made with links (applied to mailed armour), K. Edw. III, i. 2. 29. ME. _gymew_, _gymowe_, ‘gemella’ (Prompt. EETS. 191, see note no. 877). OF. _gemel_ (F. _gemeau_), L. _gemellus_, twin. See =jimmal-ring.=

=gimmors,= links in machinery, esp. for transmitting motion as in clockwork. 1 Hen. VI, i. 2. 41. ‘Gimmer’ (‘jimmer’) is a name for a hinge in the north country and in E. Anglia, see EDD. (s.v. Jimmer, sb.^{1}).

=gin,= to begin. Macbeth, i. 2. 25; Peele, Tale of Troy (ed. Dyce, p. 556); _gan sort to this_, began to grow to this, grew to this; Peele (as above).

=gin,= a contrivance, ‘engine’. Surrey, tr. of Aeneid ii, 1. 298. See Dict. (s.v. Gin, 2).

=ging,= a company of people. Merry Wives, iv. 2. 3; B. Jonson, Alchemist, v. 1 (Lovewit); New Inn, i. 1 (Lovel). In prov. use, cp. the Leicester saying, ‘The wull ging on ’em’ (i.e. the whole lot of them), see EDD. (s.v. Gang, 12). ME. _ging_(_e_, a company, a following, retinue (Wars Alex., freq., see Glossarial Index); OE. _genge_, a following (Chron. A.D. 1070).

=ginglymus,= a joint. Middleton, A Fair Quarrel, iv. 2 (Surgeon). L. _ginglymus_; Gk. γίγγλυμος, a joint (as of the elbow).

†=ginimony.= Only in following passage, ‘Here is ginimony likewise burned and pulverised, to be mingled with the juice of lemons, &c.’, Westward Ho, i. 1 (Birdlime). Something used as a cosmetic.

=ginniting,= a ‘jenneting’, an early apple. Bacon, Essay 46, § 1. See Dict. (s.v. Jenneting).

=gird,= to strike, smite, pierce; ‘When some sodain stitch girds me in the side’, Bp. Hall, Medit. i, § 92; Palsgrave; _girt_, pp. smitten, ‘Through girt’, Kyd, Span. Tragedy, iv. 4. 112; _to gird forward_, to rush forward, Gosson, School of Abuse (ed. Arber, 58). ME. _gird_, to strike, pierce (Wars Alex. 1219); to rush (id. 1243); see Glossarial Index. See NED. (s.v. Gird, vb.^{2}).

=girdle;= ‘Would my girdle may break if I do’, Match at Midnight, i. 1 (Tim); ‘I pray God my girdle break’, 1 Hen. IV, iii. 3. 171. The girdle was used to keep up the breeches; see _breechgirdle_ in NED. It also usually had the wearer’s purse hung at it, which would be lost if the girdle broke.

=girdle-stead,= place for the girdle, i.e. the waist. Chapman, tr. of Iliad, v. 538; Beaumont and Fl., Faithful Friends, iii. 2 (Flavia).

=girl,= a roebuck in its second year. Turbervile, Hunting, c. 45; p. 143. ME. _gerle_, Book of St. Albans, fol. E 4, back.

=girn,= a ‘grin’, a grim smile. Davenant, The Wits, iv (near the end). See =gern.=

=girt,= to gird, surround with a girdle. 1 Hen. VI, iii. 1. 171; 2 Hen. VI, i. 1. 65.

=girt,= _pp._ of =gird,= q.v.

=gist,= pl. _gists_, the stopping-places or stages in a monarch’s progress; ‘Gists or Gests of the Queen’s Progress, i.e. a Bill or Writing that contains the Names of the Towns or Houses where she intends to lie upon the Way’, Phillips, Dict. (ed. 1706). OF. _giste_ (F. _gîte_), resting- or stopping-place. See =gest.=

=gite,= used by Peele for splendour, magnificence, Tale of Troy (ed. Dyce, p. 558, col. 1); David and Bathsheba (p. 473, col. 2). Fairfax uses the word _gite_ for some kind of apparel, ‘Phœbus . . . dond a gite in deepest purple dide’, tr. of Tasso, xiii. 54. 245. ME. _gyte_, a shirt or mantle (?) (Chaucer, C. T. A. 3954); OF. _guite_ (Godefroy).

=giusts,= ‘justs’, tournaments. Spenser, Shep. Kal., Oct., 39.

=give on,= to advance; ‘And eager flames give on’, Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, st. 280; ‘The enemy gives on, by fury led’, Dryden, Indian Emperor, ii. 3; ‘Where he gives on’, Waller, Instructions to a Painter, 213.

=given,= _pp._ with an adverb, affected, disposed, inclined; ‘cardinally given’, Meas. for M. ii. 1. 81; ‘lewdly given’, 1 Hen. IV, ii. 4. 469; virtuously given’, id., iii. 3. 16; ‘well given’, 3 Hen. VI, iii. 1. 72; ‘cannibally given’, Coriolanus, iv. 5. 200.

=glade:= phr. _to go to glade_, to set; said of the sun. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, bk. ii, c. 11, p. 116; ‘The sunne was gone to glade’, Udall, tr. of Erasmus, Paraphr. on Matt. viii. 18. The phrase is cited as in use in Ireland; see EDD. (s.v. Glade). ME. ‘þe sonne ȝede to glade’ (Trevisa, tr. Higden, v. 189). Cp. Norw. dial. _glada_, to go down, to set (of the sun); see Aasen.

=glaire, glayre,= the white of an egg; any viscid or slimy substance. Skelton, El. Rummyng, 25. Hence _glaired_, smeared, Marston, Sat. iii. 32. ME. _gleyre_, ‘glarea’ (Prompt. EETS. 193); OF. _glaire_, the white of an egg (Hatzfeld). See =glere.=

=glaster,= to bawl. Douglas, Aeneis, viii, Prol. 47. ‘To glaister’ occurs in Scottish poetry, meaning to bawl or bark, also, to babble, to talk indistinctly (EDD.).

=glastynge,= barking like a dog, howling. Morte Arthur, leaf 251. 24; bk. x, c. 53. For _glatising_, cp. OF. _glatisant_, pres. pt. of _glatir_, to cry aloud, howl (Ch. Rol. 3527).

=glaver,= to flatter, wheedle. B. Jonson, Poetaster, iii. 1 (Tucca); Drayton, Pol. xxviii. 198. ‘To glaver’ is in prov. use in the north country down to Shropsh. and Bedfordsh., meaning ‘to flatter, wheedle, talk endearingly to’, see EDD. (s.v. Glaver, vb.^{1} 2). ME. _glavir_, chattering (Wars Alex. 5504).

=glaymy,= sticky, slimy. Skelton, Ag. Garnesche, iii. 168. ME. _gleymy_ (Trevisa), see NED. (s.v. Gleimy); _gleyme_, ‘gluten’, _gleymows_, ‘limosus’ (Prompt. 192, 193).

=glaze,= to make to shine like glass. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Revels, iii. 2. Hence, _Glaze-worm_, a glow-worm, Lyly, Euphues, 91. An E. Anglian word (EDD.). ME. _glasyn_, ‘vitrio’ (Prompt. EETS).

=glaze,= to stare, gaze intently. Jul. Caes. i. 3. 21. Still in use in Devon and Cornwall (EDD.). Cp. G. dial. (Alsace) _gläse_, ‘stieren, scharf u. feurig sehen, sauer sehen’ (Martin-Lienhart).

=glaziers,= eyes; a cant term. Middleton, Roaring Girl, v. 1 (Trapdoor), Harman, Caveat, p. 82; ‘Toure out [look out] with your glaziers’, Brome, Jovial Crew, ii. 1 (Patrico).

=glee:= in phr. _gold and glee_; ‘Not for gold nor glee will I abyde By you’, Spenser, F. Q. i. 9. 32. Perhaps _glee_ in this phr. refers to the bright colour of gold; see NED.

=gleeke,= a game at cards, played by three persons. B. Jonson, Devil an Ass, v. 2; a set of three court cards of the same rank in one hand (NED.); hence, a set of three, B. Jonson, Staple of News, iv. 1 (Mirth). OF. _glic_ (_ghelicque_). Probably adopted fr. Du. _gelyk_, ‘like’ (Sewel); cp. G. _gleich_.

=gleering,= casting sly, cunning glances; ‘That glering Foxe’, Tyndale, on Matt. vi. 19 (Works, ed. 1572, p. 231); ‘Such a gleering eye’, Return from Parnassus, iv. 2 (Furor).

=glent,= glowing, bright; ‘Her eyen glent’, Skelton, Magnyfycence, 993.

=glent,= a slip, a fall. Skelton, Magnyfycence, 1687.

=glere,= the white of an egg; a similar slimy substance; ‘This slimy glere’, Mirror for Mag., Morindus, st. 1 and st. 15. See =glaire.=

=glib,= to geld. Winter’s Tale, ii. 1. 149; Shirley, St. Patrick, v. 1 (2 Soldier). See =lib.=

=glibbery,= slippery, smooth, soft. B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1 (Crispinus); Randolph, Muses’ Looking-glass, ii. 4 (Aneleutherus). A Suffolk word, see EDD. (s.v. Glib, adj. 1 (4)), Du. _glibberig_, slippery (Sewel).

=glidder,= to cover with a smooth glaze. B. Jonson, Devil an Ass, iv. 1 (Wit). In use in Devon and Cornwall (EDD.).

=glimpse, glimse,= to shine faintly, to glimmer. Surrey, The Forsaken Lover, 5, in Tottel’s Misc., p. 23; to appear faintly, Drayton, Barons’ Wars, bk. v, st. 45; to dawn; P. Fletcher, Purple Island, bk. xii, st. 46. Cp. the Devon expression for twilight, ‘The dimmet or glimpse of the evening’ (EDD.).

=glint,= slippery; ‘The stones be full glint’, Skelton, Garl. of Laurell, 572. Cp. Swed. dial. _glinta_, to slip on ice (Rietz).

=gloat, glote,= to look askance, to look furtively. Gascoigne, Complaint of Philomene (ed. Arber, p. 96); Beaumont and Fl., Mad Lover, ii. 2 (Chilax); Chapman, tr. of Odyssey, xii. 150. See NED.

=glode,= _pt. t._, glided. Spenser, F. Q. iv. 4. 23. ME. _glood_, glided, went quickly (Chaucer, C. T. B. 2094); OE. _glād_, pt. t. of _glīdan_.

=glomming,= ‘glumming’, sullenness. Udall, Roister Doister, i. 1 (end); ‘I glome, I loke under the browes or make a louryng countenance’, Palsgrave.

=glooming,= gloomy, dark, dismal. Romeo, v. 3. 305.

=glore,= to glow, to shine; ‘The gloring light’, Return from Parnassus, i. 1 (p. 8). Norw. dial. _glora_, to shine, to sparkle (Aasen); also Swed. dial. (Rietz).

=glorious,= vainglorious, boastful. Bacon, Essay 34 (near end); Beaumont and Fl., Thierry, ii. 1 (Thierry). L. _gloriosus_, vainglorious.

=glory,= to glorify, to honour, to adorn, Greene, Orl. Fur. i. 1. 16; ‘The troop that gloried Venus at her wedding-day’, Greene and Lodge, Looking Glasse, i. 1. 108.

=glote;= see =gloat.=

=gnarl,= to snarl. 2 Hen. VI, iii. 1. 192; to grumble, complain, ‘Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite’, Richard II, i. 3. 292. Cp. north Lincoln dialect, ‘She’s alust a gnarlin’ at me aboot sumthing’ (EDD.).

=gnarre,= to snarl, growl. Spenser, F. Q. i. 5. 34. In prov. use (EDD.). _Gnarren_ is found in many Low German dialects, see Dähnert and the Bremen Wtb. (EDD.).

=gnast,= to gnash the teeth. Morte Arthur, leaf 103, back, 16; bk. vi, c. 15; ‘I gnaste with the tethe’, Palsgrave. ME. _gnastyn_, ‘fremo, strideo’ (Prompt. EETS. 207, see note, no. 946).

=gnathonical,= resembling Gnatho, a parasite or sycophant in Terence. Greene, Orl. Fur. i. 1. 317 (Orgalio, p. 93, col. 1).

=gnoff, gnuff,= a churl, boor, lout; ‘The chubbyshe gnof’, Drant, tr. of Horace, Sat. i. 1; _gnuffe_, Turbervile, A Mirror of the Fall of Pride, st. 5. ME. _gnof_, a churl (Chaucer, C. T. A. 3188). Cp. Low G. _gnuffig_, _knuffig_, rough, coarse, unmannerly (Koolman). So NED.

=go to pot;= see =pot.=

=goawle,= gullet; ‘Their throtes haue puffed goawles’ (riming with _joawles_, jowls); Golding, Metam. vi. 377 (L. inflataque colla tumescunt). Norm. F. _goule_ (F. _gueule_), L. _gula_, the gullet.

=gob,= a gobbet, piece, morsel. Gascoigne, ed. Hazlitt, i. 79, l. 1. In prov. use (EDD.).

=go bet,= go quickly, hurry up. Skelton, El. Rummyng, 332. _Go bet_, lit. go better, i.e. go quicker; hence, used like the modern ‘look sharp’ or ‘hurry up’. Prob. orig. a hunting cry, as in Chaucer, Leg. Good Women, Dido, 288. Once common. ME. _bet_, better (Chaucer, Tr. and Cr. iii. 714), OE. _bet_.

=go by, Jeronimo,= or =go by,= i.e. pass on, wait a little. A very common quotation, used in ridicule, from Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy, iii. 12. 31. In the original used by Hieronimo, or Jeronimo, to himself. Finding his application to the king improper at the moment, he says: ‘Hieronimo, beware! _go by, go by_.’ See Tam. Shrew, Induction, i. 9.

=go less,= to stake less, in a card game. Fletcher, Woman’s Prize, ii. 6; iv. 4; ‘We’ll have no going less’, Little French Lawyer, iii. 2 (La Writ).

=God before,= God going before, with God’s assistance. Hen. V, i. 2. 370. See =God to fore.=

=god den,= good evening; _God you god den_, God (give) you good e’en, Puritan Widow, iii. 4. 163; _God dig-you-den_, L. L. L. iv. 1. 42; _God gi’ god-den_, Romeo, i. 2. 58; _god den_, Yorksh. Tragedy, ii. 120. Still in use in Scotland and in many parts of England, see EDD. (s.v. Good-den).

=God to fore,= God going before, with God’s assistance. Kyd, Cornelia, iii. 2. 69. ME. _God to-forn_ (Chaucer, Tr. and Cr. i. 1049). See =God before.=

=god-phere,= a godfather. B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, iv. 2 (Clench). Cp. the Devon ‘godfer’ (= godfather), see EDD. (s.v. Gatfer).

=gofe,= the quantity of corn or hay laid up in one bay or division of a barn; a ‘goaf’, Tusser, Husbandry, § 56. 20; ‘Goulfe of corne, so moche as may lye bytwene two postes, otherwyse a baye’, Palsgrave. In E. Anglia _goaf_ (_gofe_, _goff_) is used for the bay of a barn, and for the corn or hay laid up in the bay, see EDD. (s.v. Goaf, sb.^{1} 1 and 4). ME. _golf_ of corne, ‘archonium’ (Prompt. EETS. 195, see note, no. 893); Icel. _gōlf_, a floor, apartment, cp. Dan. _gulv_, a bay of a barn. See =gove, gulfe.=

=goggle, gogle,= to roll one’s eyes; ‘He gogled his eyesight’, Stanyhurst, tr. of Aeneid, i. 459; to stare, Butler, Hud. ii. 1. 120.

=gold,= marigold; corn marigold; _golds_, pl., corn marigold, Fitzherbert, Husbandry, § 20. 25; _gouldes_, id. § 20. 25; _gooldes_, Spenser, Colin Clout, 341. ME. _golde_, marigold (Chaucer, C. T. A. 1929; _goolde_, ‘solsequium, elitropium’ (Prompt. EETS. see note, no. 892); _golde_, the sunflower (Gower, C. A. v. 6780). See Napier’s Old English Glosses, 26. 36 (note). OE. _golde_, ‘solsequia’ (Voc. 301. 6).

=gold-end man,= a man who buys odds and ends of gold and silver. B. Jonson, ii. 1 (Dol); Eastward Ho, v. 1 (Gertrude).

=goldfinch,= a piece of gold, piece of money. (Cant.) Middleton, Blurt, Mr. Constable, iv. 1. 9. [Ainsworth, Rookwood, II, ii (EDD.).]

=gold-finder,= a jocular term for a cleanser of cesspools. Middleton, Span. Gipsy, ii. 2 (Soto). Cp. _gold-digger_, a ‘jakesman’, and _gold-dust_, ordure, Warwickshire words, see EDD. (s.v. Gold, 1 (1 and 2)).

=gold-weights,= small weights, for weighing small portions of gold. Hence, _to the gold-weights_ (weighed even down to grains, even in small particulars), B. Jonson, New Inn, ii. 2 (Tipto). See =caract.=

=golilla,= a kind of starched collar. Wycherley, Gent. Dancing-master, iv. 1 (Monsieur); see Stanford. Span. _golilla_, ‘a little Band worn in Spain, starch’d stiff, and sticking out under the Chin like a Ruff’ (Stevens); _gola_, the gullet, L. _gula_.

=golls,= hands. (Cant.) Beaumont and Fl., Coxcomb, i. 6 (Uberto); Woman-hater, v. 5 (2nd Lady); Tourneur, Revengers’ Tragedy, v. 1 (Vindici). Still in use in Essex (EDD.).

=golpol,= prob. for _gold-poll_ (cp. _goldilocks_); a term of endearment for a child. Jacob and Esau, v. 10 (Esau).

=gomme,= a god-mother; ‘_Commere_ . . . a gomme’, Cotgrave; ‘A scornful Gom’, Middleton, The Widow, i. 2 (Ricardo). ME. _gome_, ‘a godmoder’ (Cath. Angl. 161).

=gong,= ‘latrina’. Gascoigne, Grief of Joy, 2nd Song, st. 7; ‘Gonge, a draught, _ortrait_’, Palsgrave; ‘Gonge, _forica_’, Levins, Manipulus. ME. _gonge_ (Chaucer, C. T. I. 885); OE. _gong_ (_gang_), ‘secessus’ (Ælfric Gl.).

=good cheap,= cheap. Webster, White Devil (Flamineo), (ed. Dyce, p. 42); Ascham, Scholemaster, p. 125. ME. _good chep_(_e_ (Chaucer, Tr. and Cr. iii. 641). Cp. F. _à bon marché_. See Dict. (s.v. Cheap).

=good fellow,= a thief. (Cant.) Massinger, Guardian, v. 4 (2 Bandit); Middleton, A Trick to catch, ii. 1 (Lucre, Host).

=good year=(=s,= used as a meaningless expletive in the exclamation, ‘What the good-yere’ (good-year). Merry Wives, i. 4. 129; Much Ado, i. 3. 1; 2 Hen. IV, ii. 4. 64 and 191. Cp. the Northampton expression, ‘What the goodgers be that?’, and the Devon sentence, ‘Our vokes wonder what the goodgers a come o’ me’, see EDD. Low G. (Pomeranian dialect) ‘_Wat to ’m goden Jaar?_, sagt man, wenn man sich über schlechte Handlungen wundert’ (Dähnert).

=goom,= a man. Grimald, Prayse of measurekepyng, 17, in Tottel’s Misc., p. 109. ME. _gome_, a man (Wars Alex., see Glossarial Index); OE. _guma_.

=gords;= see =gourdes.=

=gorebelly,= a fat paunch; a man having a fat paunch. North, tr. of Plutarch, Coriolanus, § 7 (in Shak. Plut., p. 11, n. 4); hence _gorbellied_, fat, 1 Hen. IV, ii. 1. 93.

=gorreau,= the yoke of draught animals. Caxton, Hist. Troye, leaf 246. 1. OF. _goherel_, _gorel_, _gorreau_, a yoke (Godefroy); _gorriau_, ‘collier de cheval’ (Didot); see Ducange (s.v. Gorgia, 2).

=Gospel-tree.= ‘The boundaries of the township of Wolverhampton are in many points marked out by what are called Gospel-trees, from the custom of having the Gospel read under or near them by the clergyman attending the parochial perambulations’, Shaw, Staffordsh., II, i. 165; ‘Dearest bury me Under that Holy oke or Gospel-tree’, Herrick, Hesperides, To Anthea. See Brand’s Pop. Antiq. (ed. 1877, p. 109).

=gossampine,= a cotton-like substance, made from the _Bombax pentandrum_. Greene, Looking Glasse, iv. 1 (1377); p. 135, col. 1; Holland, tr. of Pliny, bk. xii, ch. 11. L. _gossympinus_, a cotton-tree (Pliny).

=gossander,= the ‘goosander’, _Mergus merganser_. Drayton, Pol. xxv. 65. With the suffix _-ander_ cp. _bergander_, an old name for the sheldrake, and the ON. _önd_, pl. _ander_, a duck (NED.).

=gossip,= a godparent. Two Gent. iii. 1. 269; Wint. Tale, ii. 3. 41. In prov. use in various parts of England (EDD.). See Dict.

=gouland, gowland,= a yellow flower; a name given to various kinds of _Ranunculus_, _Caltha_, and _Trollius_. B. Jonson, Pan’s Anniversary (Shepherd, 1. 6). ‘As yalla as a gollan’ is a common Northumberland expression; see EDD. (s.v. Gowlan(d).

=gourdes,= false dice, for gaming; ‘What false dise vse they? as dise . . . of a vauntage, flattes, gourdes to chop and change whan they lyste’, Ascham, Toxophilus (ed. Arber, 54); spelt _gords_, Beaumont and Fl., Scornful Lady, iv. 1 (E. Loveless). OF. _gourd_, ‘fourberie’ (Godefroy).

=gove,= to ‘goave’; to lay up corn in a ‘goaf’. Tusser, Husbandry, § 57. 10, 23. An E. Anglian word, see EDD. (s.v. Goave). ME. _golvyn_, ‘arconiso’ (Prompt. EETS. 207). Cp. Dan. _gulve_, to stack in the bay of a barn. See =gofe.=

=gow,= for _go we_, let us go; ‘Gow, wife, gow’, Three Lords and Three Ladies, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, vi. 440; _gaw_, let’s be gone, Triumphs of Love and Fortune, in the same, vi. 183. ‘Gow’ (‘let us go’) is still common in the Lakeland, and in E. Anglia as an invitation to accompany the speaker, see EDD. (s.v. Go, 2 (b)). ME. _gowe_ (P. Plowman, B, Prol. 226).

=gowked,= stupefied. B. Jonson, Magnetic Lady, iii. 4 (Keep). Cp. ‘gowk’, the north-country word for the cuckoo; applied _fig._ to a fool, simpleton, a clumsy, awkward fellow (EDD.). ME. _goke_, ‘cuculus’ (Cath. Angl.), Icel. _gaukr_, cp. G. _gauch_.

=gowles,= ‘gules’, red. Caxton, Hist. Troye, leaf 286. 17. OF. _goules_ (F. _gueules_). See Dict. (s.v. Gules).

=gowndy,= (of the eyes) full of sore matter. Skelton, El. Rummyng, 34; _gunny_, Meriton, Praise Ale, 263; Skinner, Etym. ME. _gownde_ off þe eye, ‘albugo’ (Prompt. EETS. 197, see note, no. 905). OE. _gund_, matter of a sore.

=gownest,= for _gownist_, one who is entitled to wear a gown, a lawyer. Warner, Albion’s England, bk. v, ch. 27, st. 53.

=grabble,= to grope after, to grapple with, to handle roughly. Dryden, Prol. to Disappointment, 60; ‘He . . . keeps a-grabling and a-fumbling’ (i.e. feeling with his hands), Selden, Table-talk (ed. Arber, 99). In prov. use in many parts of England (EDD.). Du. _grabbelen_, to scramble, or to catch that catch may (Hexham).

=Gracious Street,= Gracechurch Street. Dekker, Shoemakers’ Holiday, iii. 4 (Hodge); Heywood, Wise Woman of Hogsdon, i. 1 (Y. Chartley); Fair Maid of the Exchange, i. 1 (Shaks. Soc. 29). Originally _Grass Church_, ‘Higher in Grasse Street is the Parish Church of St. Bennet, called Grasse Church, of the herb market there kept’, Stow’s Survey (ed. Thoms, 80).

=grail, grayle,= the ‘gradual’, an antiphon sung between the Epistle and Gospel; when the deacon was ascending the step of the ambo or reading-desk; ‘He shall syng the grayle’, Skelton, Phyllyp Sparowe, 441. ME. _grayle_, ‘gradale’ (Prompt.). OF. _graël_, Eccles. L. _gradale_, _graduale_. See Dict. Christ. Antiq. (s.v. Gradual).

=grain,= the dye made from the Scarlet Grain (Kermes); ‘The Scarlet grain which commeth of the Ilex’, Holland, Pliny, i. 461; _to dye in grain_, to dye in scarlet grain, also, in any fast or permanent colour, hence, _in grain_, in permanent colour, Com. Errors, iii. 2. 108; Twelfth Nt. i. 5. 255; _grain_, permanent colour, ‘All in a robe of darkest grain’, Milton, Il Pens. 33. F. _graine_, ‘grain wherewith cloth is died in grain’ (Cotgr.). Med. L. _grana_, ‘bacca cujusdam arboris’ (Ducange).

=grained,= ingrained, dyed in ‘grain’, Hamlet, iii. 4. 90.

=grain,= a bough or branch. Bp. Hall, Sat. Defiance to Envie, 5; _grains_, the prongs of a forked stick, fork, or fish-spear, ‘With three graines like an ele speare’, Holland, Suetonius, 147; the lower limbs, Drayton, Pol. i. 495. ‘Grain’ is in gen. prov. use in various parts of England and Scotland in many senses, esp. a branch or bough of a tree, and the prong or tine of a fork, see EDD. (s.v. Grain, sb.^{1} 1 and 5). Icel. _grein_, a branch of a tree, an arm of the sea.

=grained staff,= a staff forked at the top, Fitzherbert,
Husbandry, § 41. 9.

=graithe,= to prepare, array. Morte Arthur, leaf 86. 34; bk. v, c. 7. In common prov. use in Scotland and in the north of England (EDD.). ME. _graythe_, to prepare, get ready (Wars Alex., see Gloss. Index). Icel. _greiða_.

=grammates,= rudiments, first principles. Ford, Broken Heart, i. 3 (Orgilus). Gk. γράμματα, the letters of the alphabet.

=grandguard,= a piece of plate armour, covering the breast and left shoulder, affixed to the breastplate by screws, and hooked on to the helmet. Two Noble Kinsmen, iii. 6. 72.

=graner,= a ‘garner’, granary. Drayton, Pol. iii. 258.

=grange,= a country-house; a lonely dwelling. Meas. iii. 1. 279; Heywood, Eng. Traveller, iii. 1 (Delavil). In various parts of England the term ‘grange’ is used for a small mansion or farm-house, esp. one standing by itself remote from other dwellings (EDD.). See Dict.

†=gratuling,= congratulating; ‘His gratuling speech’, Fletcher, Beggar’s Bush, ii. 1 (Prigg). Only in this passage. OF. _gratuler_, L. _gratulari_, to congratulate.

=Grave,= a Count; a title. Used of Prince Maurice of Nassau; Fletcher, Love’s Cure, i. 2 (Bobadilla); Ford, Lady’s Trial, iv. 2. Du. _Grave_, an Earle or a Count (Hexham); cp. G. _Graf_.

†=graved.= ‘O, that these gravèd hairs of mine were covered in the clay!’, Appius and Virginia, in Hazlitt’s Dodsley, iv. 143. Perhaps a misprint for _grayed_, become grey; see =graye.=

=gravelled,= stranded; hence, brought to a stand, perplexed. As You Like It, iv. 1. 74; North, tr. of Plutarch, Antonius, § 14 (in Shak. Plut., p. 177, n. 1).

=gray,= a badger; _grice of a gray_, lit. pig of a badger, cub of a badger. B. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, ii. 1 (Lorel). Formerly in prov. use in the north country, and in Wilts., Devon, and Cornwall, see EDD. (s.v. Grey, sb.^{1} 6). ME. _grey_, ‘taxus’ (Prompt. 209, see Way’s note).

=graye,= to become grey; ‘In learning Socrates lives, grayes and dyes’ (Sylvester); see NED. (s.v. Grey, vb.).

=grease;= see =greece.=

=greave,= a thicket. Spenser, F. Q. iii. 10. 42; vi. 2. 43; Drayton, Pol. xiii. 116; ‘Greave or busshe, _boscaige_’, Palsgrave. ‘Greave’ occurs in local names near Sheffield, and appears as a Lancashire word in EDD. ME. _greve_ (Chaucer, C. T. A. 1507), OE. _grǣfa_, a bush (Chron. 852).

=grece,= a flight of stairs or steps; ‘The greece of the quire’, Bacon, Hen. VII (ed. Lumby, 162); _greese_, a single step or stair in a flight, Latimer, 2nd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (ed. Arber, 67); _greise_, Two Noble Kinsmen, ii. 1. 34; greese (grice), Twelfth Nt. iii. 1. 138; Timon, iv. 3. 16; Othello, i. 3. 200; ‘_Eschelette_, a small step or greece’, Cotgrave. See EDD. (s.v. Grees). ME. _grees_, steps, stairs (Wyclif, Acts xxi. 35). OF. _grés_, pl. of _gré_, ‘marche d’un escalier’ (La Curne), L. _gradus_, a step. See =gressinges.=

=gredaline;= see =gridelin.=

=gree,= a step or degree in honour or rank. Spenser, Shep. Kal., July, 215; Greene, Orl. Fur. i. 1. 175 (Orlando). _To win the gree_, to win the highest degree, superiority, mastery, victory, Morte Arthur, bk. x, ch. 21. See EDD. (s.v. Gree, sb.^{1}). ME. _gree_ (Rom. Rose, 2116), OF. _gré_, ‘degré, rang’ (La Curne).

=gree,= favour, goodwill. Spenser, F. Q. ii. 3. 5; _in gree_, with goodwill or favour, kindly, in good part: _to take in gree_, F. Q. v. 6. 21; _to receive in gree_, Gascoigne, Jocasta, iii. 1 (Manto). Cp. F. _en gré_, in good part (Cotgr., s.v. Gré), L. _gratum_, a pleasant thing.

=gree,= short for _agree_. Greene, Friar Bungay, ii. 3 (744), scene 6. 130 (W.); p. 162, col. 1 (D.); Daniel, Philotas, p. 195 (Nares); Sh. Sonn. cxiv.

=greece, herte of,= a hart of grease, a good fat hart, in prime condition. Morte Arthur, leaf 283, back, 22; bk. x, c. 86. See =hart of grease.=

=green,= youthful, of tender age; ‘Green virginity’, Timon, iv. 1. 7; raw, inexperienced, simple, ‘A green girl’, Hamlet, i. 3. 101; ‘green minds’, Othello, ii. 1. 250; silly, ‘green songs’, Two Noble Kinsmen, iv. 3. 61.

=green gown;= to give a lass a green gown, to throw her down upon the grass, so that the gown was stained. Greene, George-a-Greene, ii. 3 (Jenkin); Middleton, Fair Quarrel, ii. 2 (Chough).

=green lion,= a stage in the process of transmutation of metals. B. Jonson, ii. 1 (Face).

=Greensleeves, Lady Greensleeves,= the names of a once well-known ballad and tune. Merry Wives, ii. 1. 64; Fletcher, Woman’s Prize, iii. 4 (Petruchio). See Roxburgh Ballads, vi. 398.

=greete,= to weep, cry, lament, grieve, Spenser, Sheph. Kal., April, 1; weeping and complaint, ib., August. In common prov. use in Scotland, Ireland, and north of England including Derbyshire, see EDD. (s.v. Greet, vb.^{1}). ME. _greten_, to weep (Wars Alex. 4370). OE. _grǣtan_ (Anglian, _grētan_), to weep.

=grement,= ‘agreement’. Mirror for Mag., Cade, st. 1.

=gresco,= an old game at cards. Eastward Ho, iv. 1 [_or_ 2] (Touchstone); see Nares; ‘Hazard or Gresco’ (Florio, s.v. Massáre).

=gresle,= slender. Caxton, Hist. Troye, leaf 270, back, 27. OF. _gresle_ (F. _grêle_); L. _gracilis_, slender.

=gressinges,= steps, stairs; ‘There is another way to go doune, by gressinges’, Latimer, 6 Sermon before King (ed. Arber, p. 170). Cp. EDD. (s.v. Grissens). See =grece.=

=grewnde,= a greyhound. Golding, Metam. i. 533; fol. 9, back (1603); Harington, Ariosto, xxiv. 52; _grewhound_, Bellenden, Boece, I. xxxi (NED.). ME. _gre-hownde_ (Prompt. Harl. MS.). Icel. _greyhundr_, also, _grey_, a greyhound. See NED. (s.v. Greund).

=grice,= a pig, esp. a young pig; ‘_Marcassin_, a young wild boar . . . or grice’, Cotgrave; ‘Bring the Head of the Sow to the Tail of the Grice’ (i.e. balance your Loss with your Gain), Kelly, Scot. Prov. 62. Also, the young of a badger, B. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, ii. 1 (Lorel) (see =gray=). Still in use in Scotland and the north of England (EDD.). ME. _gryse_, pygge, ‘porcellus’ (Prompt. EETS., see note, no. 916). Icel. _grīss_, a young pig; so Norw. dial. _gris_ (Aasen).

=grice;= see =grece.=

=gride,= for _grided_, pp. of _gride_, to pierce. Drayton, Pol. xxii. 1491.

=gridelin,= of a pale purple or violet colour; Dryden seems to say it was a colour between white and green. Dryden, Flower and Leaf, 343. Spelt _gredaline_, The Parson’s Wedding, ii. 3 (Wanton). F. _gridelin_, for _gris de lin_ (i.e. of the grey colour of flax), see Hatzfeld.

=grill, gryll,= fierce. Skelton, El. Rummyng, 6. ME. _gril_, fierce (Cursor M. 719); Low G. _grel_(_l_, angry (Koolman).

†=grindle-tail,= a kind of dog. Only in Fletcher, Island Princess, v. 3 (2 Townsman). Perhaps a misprint for _trindle-tail_ (_trundle-tail_). See NED.

=gripe,= a griffin; ‘Grypes make their nests of gold’, Lyly, Galathea, ii. 3; a vulture, Lucrece, 543. OF. _grip_, griffin. See =gryphon.=

=gripe’s egg,= a large egg supposed to be that of a ‘gripe’, hence, an oval-shaped cup. B. Jonson, Alchemist, ii. 1 (Subtle). Cp. ME. _gripes ey_ (Gower, C. A. i. 2545).

=gripple,= greedy, grasping. Spenser, F. Q. i. 4. 31; vi. 4. 6; Drayton, Pol. i. 106; xiii. 22. A Yorkshire word (EDD.). OE. _gripel_.

=gris-amber,= ambergris or grey amber. Milton, P. R. ii. 344. See Dict. (s.v. Amber).

=grisping,= twilight; either morning or evening. Lyly, Euphues (ed. Arber, 233). Cp. the phr. _in the gropsing of the evening_, in the dusk, Records Quarter Sessions (ann. 1606); see EDD.

=grissel, gristle,= a tender or delicate person; ‘She is but a gristle’, Udall, Roister Doister, i 4. 24; ‘I love no grissels’, Lyly, Endimion, v. 2 (Sir Tophas). See NED. (s.v. Gristle, 3).

=groin,= the snout; hence, a contemptuous term for the face. Golding, Metam. xiv. 292 (fol. 170); Phaer, tr. of Aeneid, x. 34. ME. _groyn_, a pig’s snout (Chaucer, C. T. I. 158). O. Prov. _gronh_, ‘groin, museau’ (Levy). See =Groyne.=

=groin,= to growl; ‘Beares that groynd’, Spenser, F. Q. vi. 12. 27; _groyning_, murmuring, Turnbull, Expos. James, 202 (NED). ME. _groynen_, to murmur (Chaucer, C. T. A. 2460). OF. _grogner_, to grunt, L. _grunnire_.

=groom-porter,= an officer of the royal household (till the time of George III); he was privileged to provide gaming-tables, cards, and dice. B. Jonson, Alchemist, iii. 2 (Face); Dryden, Prol. to Don Sebastian, l. 24.

=grought,= growth, increase. Chapman, tr. of Odyssey, x. 101; xxiii. 289.

=ground,= the plain-song or melody on which a descant is raised; also, the ground-bass. Richard III, iii. 7. 49; Edw. III, ii. 1. 122; ‘The tenor-part, the treble, and the ground’, B. Jonson, Love’s Welcome at Welbeck, 2 Chorus.

=grout,= coarse porridge, made with whole meal. Warner, Albion’s England, bk. iv, ch. 20, st. 28. Icel. _grautr_, porridge.

=grout-head, growthead,= a blockhead, thickhead. Tusser, Husbandry (ed. 1878, 115); ‘Those Turbanto grout-heads’, Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, 39; ‘_Il a une grosse teste_, he is a verie blockhead, grouthead, joulthead’, Cotgrave; Urquhart’s Rabelais, I, xxv (Davies). ‘Grout-headed’ (thick-headed) is known in Sussex (EDD.).

=groutnoll,= a blockhead, thickhead, Beaumont and Fl., Knt. Burning Pestle, ii. 3 (Wife).

=growt,= great. Middleton, Span. Gipsy, iv. 1 (Sancho’s song). Du. _groot_, great.

=groyle,= to move, move forward; ‘He groyleth’ (L. _graditur_), Stanyhurst, tr. of Aeneid, iii. 678. Hence, _groyl_, one who is ever on the move, id., iv 179. F. _grouiller_, ‘to move, stir’ (Cotgr.).

=Groyne, the,= name given by sailors to Corunna, the sea-port in Spain. De Foe, Rob. Crusoe, I. xix. The name appears in the 14th cent., ‘Vocatur _Le Groyne_; est in mare ut rostrum porci’, Pol. Poems (Rolls Ser. i. 112). See =groin.=

=grubble,= to grope, feel; ‘Now, let me roll and grubble thee’ (spoken of a lot which he has taken in his hand, before drawing it out), Dryden, Don Sebastian, i. 1 (Antonio).

=grudgins,= coarse meal; ‘_Annone_, meslin or grudgins, the corne whereof browne bread is made for the meynie’, Cotgrave; Fletcher and Rowley, Maid of Mill, iii. 3. 17. Formerly in prov. use in the Midlands (EDD.). Cp. F. _grugeons_, lumps of crystalline sugar in brown sugar; in Cotgrave ‘the smallest fruit on a tree’. See =gurgeons.=

=grum,= surly, cross, ‘glum’. Etherege, Man of Mode, ii. 1 (Old Bellair); Wycherley, Plain Dealer, iii. 1 (Novel). In prov. use in many parts of England, also in America (Franklin’s Autobiography, 51), see Century Dict. and EDD. Norw. dial. _grum_, proud, haughty (Aasen), Dan. _grum_, fierce, angry.

†=grumbledory,= a grumbler, B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Humour, v. 4 (Carlo).

=grunter,= a pig. Brome, Jovial Crew, ii. 1 (Song). In common prov. use in the north country (EDD.).

=grunting-cheat,= a pig; lit. ‘a thing that grunts’; from _cheat_, a cant word used in the general sense of ‘thing’. Fletcher, Beggar’s Bush, v. 1 (Ferret); Harman, Caveat, p. 83; also _gruntling-cheat_, Middleton, Roaring Girl, v. 1 (Trapdoor). See =cheat.=

=grutch,= to ‘grudge’, repine, murmur. Udall, Paraph. Erasmus, fo. cccxlv; Spenser, F. Q. ii. 2. 34; ‘I grutche, I repyne agaynst a thyng, _Je grommelle_’, Palsgrave. A Lancashire and E. Anglian word (EDD.). ME. _grucche_ (Chaucer, C. T. A. 3863). OF. (Picard) _groucher_ (OF. _grocer_), ‘murmurer’ (La Curne). See Moisy (s.v. Groucher).

=gryphon,= a fabulous monster, a kind of lion with an eagle’s head; a griffin. Milton, P. L. ii. 943; spelt _gryfon_, Spenser, F. Q. i. 5. 8. F. ‘_griffon_, a gripe or griffon’ (Cotgr.).

=G-sol-re-ut,= in old music, the octave of the lower G or lowest note in the old scale. It was denoted by the letter G, and sung to the syllable _sol_ when it occurred in the second hexachord, which began with C; to the syllable _re_ in the third hexachord, which began with F; and to the syllable _ut_ when it began the fourth hexachord. Peacham, Comp. Gentleman, c. 11, p. 104.

=guard,= an ornamental border or trimming on a garment. Much Ado, i. 1. 289. ‘The orig. meaning may have been that of a binding to keep the edge of the cloth from fraying’, NED.

=guarish,= to cure, heal. Spenser. F. Q. iii. 5. 41; iv. 3. 29. OF. _guarir_, _garir_ (Gower, Mirour, 2278). O. Prov. _garir_, ‘guérir, préserver, sauver’ (Levy).

=gubbe,= a lump, quantity; ‘Some good gubbe of money’, Udall, tr. of Apoph., Socrates, § 31; _gubs_, pl., ‘gubs of blood’, Phaer, tr. of Aeneid, iii. 632 (Lat. _saniem_).

=gudgeon,= a small fish, often used as bait for a larger one; phr. _to swallow_ _a gudgeon_, to be caught, to be befooled, alluded to in Chapman, Mons. d’Olive, iv (Mugeron). See EDD.