Gaern. s. A garden.

Gale. s. An old bull castrated.

Gal'libagger. s. [From gally and beggar] A bug-bear.

Gal'lise. s. The gallows.

Gallid. adj. Frightened.

To Gal'ly. v. a. To frighten.

Gallant'ing, Galligant'ing. part. Wandering about in gaiety and enjoyment: applied chiefly to associations of the sexes.

Gam'bril. s. A crooked piece of wood used by butchers to spread, and by which to suspend the carcase.

Gan'ny-cock. s. A turkey-cock.

Ganny-cock's Snob. s. The long membranous appendage at the beak, by which the cock-turkey is distinguished.

Gare. s. The iron work for wheels, waggons, &c., is called ire-gare; accoutrements.

Gate-shord. s. A gate-way; a place for a gate.

Gat'fer. s. An old man.

Gaw'cum. s. A simpleton; a gawkey.

Gawl-cup. s. Gold cup.

To Gee. v.n. [g soft] To agree; to go on well together.

To Gee. v.n. [g hard; part, and past tense, gid.] To give. Gee often includes the pronoun, thus, "I'll gee" means I'll give you; the gee, and ye for you, combining into gee.

To G'auf. v.n. To go off.

To G'auver. v.n. To go over.

To G'in. v.n. To go in.

To G'on. v.n. To go on.

To G'out. v.n. To go out.

To G'under. v.n. To go under,

To G'up. v.n. To go up.

Gib'bol. s. [g soft] The sprout of an onion of the second year.

Gid. pret. v. Gave.

Gifts. s.pl. The white spots frequently seen on the finger nails.

Gig'letin. adj. Wanton; trifling; applied to the female sex.

Gil'awfer. s. A term applied to all the kinds of flowers termed stocks; and also to a few others: as a Whitsuntide gilawfer, a species of Lychnidea.

Gim'mace. s. A hinge.

Gim'maces. s. pl. When a criminal is gibbeted, or hung in irons or chains, he is said to be hung in Gimmaces, most probably because the apparatus swings about as if on hinges.

Ginnin. s. Beginning.

Girnin. part. Grinning.

Girt. adj. Great.

Gird'l. Contracted from great deal; as, gird'l o' work; great deal of work.

To Glare. v. a. To glaze earthenware.

Glare. s. The glaze of earthenware.

G'lore. adv. In plenty.

This word, without the apostrophe, Glore, is to be found in
Todd's Johnson, and there defined fat. The true meaning is,
I doubt not, as above; fat g'lore, is fat in plenty.

Gold. s. The shrub called sweet-willow or wild myrtle; Myrica gale.

This plant grows only in peat soils; it is abundant in the boggy moors of Somersetshire; it has a powerful and fragrant smell.

Gold-cup. s. A species of crow-foot, or ranunculus, growing plentifully in pastures; ranunculus pratensis.

To Goo. v. n. [Gwain, going; gwon, gone.] To go.

Gookoo. s. Cookoo.

Goo'ner. interj. Goodnow!

Good'-Hussey. s. A thread-case.

Goose-cap. s. A silly person.

Graint'ed. adj. Fixed in the grain; difficult to be removed; dirty.

Gram'fer. s. Grandfather.

Gram'mer. s. Grandmother.

To Gree. v. n. To agree.

Gribble. s. A young apple-tree raised from seed.

To Gripe, v. a. To cut into gripes. See GRIPE.

Gripe. s. [from Dutch, groep.] A small drain, or ditch, about a foot deep, and six or eight inches wide.

In English Dictionaries spelled grip.

Griping-line. s. A line to direct the spade in cutting gripes.

Groan'in. s. Parturition; the time at which a woman is in labour.

Ground, s. A field.

Gro'zens. s. pl. The green minute round-leaved plants growing upon the surface of water in ditches; duck's-meat; the Lens palustris of Ray.

Gruff. s. A mine.

Gruf'fer. Gruf'fier. s. A miner.

To Gud'dle. v. n. To drink much and greedily.

Gud'dler. s. A greedy drinker; one who is fond of liquor.

To Gulch, v. n. To swallow greedily.

Gulch. s. A sudden swallowing.

Gump'tion. s. Contrivance; common sense.

Gum'py. adj. Abounding in protuberances.

Gurds. s. pl. Eructations. [By Fits and gurds.]

Guss. s. A girth.

To Guss. v. a. To girth.

Gwain. part. Going.

Gwon. part. Gone.