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OF

OBSOLETE AND PROVINCIAL ENGLISH

CONTAINING

WORDS FROM THE ENGLISH WRITERS PREVIOUS TO THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY WHICH ARE NO LONGER IN USE, OR ARE NOT USED

IN THE SAME SENSE, AND WORDS WHICH ARE NOW

USED ONLY IN THE PROVINCIAL DIALECTS

COMPILED BY

THOMAS WRIGHT, M.A., F.S.A.

VOL. II. G-Z

LONDON

GEORGE BELL AND SONS

[Reprinted from Stereotype plates.]

G.

GA, v. To go. North
GAAM, (1) adj. Clammy. Wilts.

(2) v. To daub with dirt. Berks. GAB, S. (A. N.) Talkativeness. GABBARD, adj. Ill-contrived, as GABBERN,rooms; large. West. GABBE, v. (4.-N.) To talk idly; to jest; to lie.

GABBER, (1) v. To talk nonsense. (2) s. A jester.

GABBERIES, 8. (1) Deceits. Minsh. (2) Prattle; jests. GABBLE-RATCHES, 8. Birds which make a great noise in the evenings. North.

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GOBBO, card loo. GABEL, 8. (4.-N.) An excise. GABERDINE, S. (Fr.) A coarse cloak or mantle.

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GABLE, (1) s. (Fr.) A cable. (2) adj. High. GABLE-POLES, s. Rods placed out

side the roof to secure the thatch. GABLET, 8. A small ornamental gable or canopy over a tabernacle or niche.

GABLICK, 8. A crow-bar. Linc. GABLOCKS, 8. Spurs for fightingcocks. GABRIEL-BELL, 8. A local name for the saints' bell or ting-tang. GABRIEL-RATCHET, 8. The name of a ghost or night spirit. North. GABY, 8. A simpleton.

GACH, 8. Filth or dirt of children. Glouc.

GAD, (1) 8. (A.-S.) A goad, or sharp point of metal; a spear; a pole pointed with metal.

And, come, I will go get a leaf of brass,
And with a gud of steel will write these
words,
And lay it by.

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(5) s. The gad-fly.

(6) v. To flit about as a gad-fly.
(7) v.
To run madly about the
field, said of cattle.

(8) v. To think; to believe. Ken-
nett.

(9) 8. A wedge used in mining.
"Pick and gad, and keep the
kibble going," a very common
motto in the mining districts
expressive of bustle and acti-
vity.

GAD-ABOUT, S. A rambler. West.
GADAMAN, adj. Roguish. Heref.
GAD-BEE, S. The gad-fly.
GAD-BIT, S. A nail-passer.
GAD-BREEZE, S. The gad-fly.

4. He's a puppy-I can liken him to
nothing but my bald heffer when she's
got the gad-breeze in her tail.
The Country Farmer's Catechism, 1703.
A sheep's or calf's

GADDRE, S.

pluck. GADE, s. A gadling. GADER, v. To gather. GADGER, S. A gauger. North. GAD-HOOK, S. A long pole with an iron crook. Somerset. GADING,

s. A going about; a

GADDING, pilgrimage. GADLING, S. (4.-S.) A worthless vagabond.

GAD-NAIL, S. A sort of long stout nail.

Tit. Andr., iv, 1.

349478

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GADS, 8. Knobs or spikes of iron used in armour.

GAD-STEEL, 8. Flemish steel, made
in gads, or small bars.
GAD-WHIP, S. An ox-whip. Linc.
GAERN, s. A garden. Somerset.
GAF, pret. t. Gave.

GAFF, (1) s. An iron hook. West.
Called also a gaffer.
(2) s. A gaffer. Linc.

(3) v. To toss up three pence, a game in the North. GAFFER, S. An old man ; sometimes a grandfather; the foreman of a set of labourers. West. Formerly, a common mode of address among the lower classes, equivalent to friend, neighbour.

Lord, master, goodman, gaffer, or knave;
lady, mistress, goodwife, gammer, or
whore; so they do but buy my book,
and pay honestly for it, it's all one to
me: a knave's money is as good as an
honest man's.
Poor Robin, 1707.

GAFFLE, (1) s. A part of the crossbow used in bending it, moved in a part called the rack.

My cross-bow in my hand, my gaffle on my rack,

To bend it when I please, or when I please to slack. Drayt. Muses' Elys.

(2) v. To tease; to incommode. West.

(3) v. To chirp, or chatter. (4) v. To gad about. West. (5) s. A dung-fork. Somerset. (6) v. A term applied to ducks when feeding together in the mud. Northampt. GAFFET,

GAFFLET, 8. A cock's spur.

GAFFLED, adj. Silly. Northampt. GAFFLOCK, s. A crow-bar. Derb. CAFES.. Spurs for fighting-cocks. GAFT, 8. A sort of hook for catching eels. Wilts.

GAFTY, adj. Suspicious. Chesh. GAG, v. (1) To nauseate. Suff. (2) To gad about.

(3) To hinder motion by tightness. Northampt. GAGATE, 8. (Lat.) An agate. GAGE, (1) s. (A.-N.) A pledge; a defiance for battle.

(2) v. To pledge; to lay as a
wager.

(3) s. A bowl. Pr. Parv. Still
used in the Eastern Counties.
(4) s. A measure of slate, a yard
square.

(5) v. To harness a horse. Bedf. GAGEMENT, 8. An engagement.

Wight. GAGGER, S. A nonconformist. East. GAGGET, 8. (Fr. gigot.) A leg of mutton. See Gigget. GAGGLE, v. To cackle. GAGGLES, S.

pins. North.

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GAIBESEEN, adj. Gay-looking.

Now lykewyse what saie you to courtiers? These minion gaibeseen gentilmen.

Sir Tho. Chaloner's Moria Enc., Q 2, b.

GAIGNAGE, S. (4.-N.) Profit; gain. GAIL, S. A tub used in brewing.

Gail-clear, a tub for wort. Gaildish, a vessel used to pour liquor into a bottle. North.

GAILLARD, adj. (4.-N.) Gay; frisky. GAILY, adj. Pretty well in health. North.

GAIN, adj. Near; convenient; profitable; easy; tolerable; tractable; dexterous; expert; active; respectable; accommodating; good tempered. Var. d. GAINAGE, 8. (A.N.) Profit. GAINCOME, S. (4.-S.) Return. GAINCOPE, v. To go across a field the nearest way; to meet with. South.

Some indeed there have been, of a more

heroical strain, who striving to gaincope these ambages, by venturing on a new discovery, have made their voyage in half the time.

Comenius's Janua Ling, ed. 1659. GAINFUL, adj. Tractable. Yorksh.

You'll find him gainful, but be sure you curb him,

And get him fairly, if you can, t' his lodg-
ing.
B. & Fl. Pilgrim, iv, 4.
GAINGIVING, s. A misgiving.
GAINLY, (1) adj. Suitable.

(2) adv. Readily; easily. GAINSHIRE, 8. The barb of a hook. Derb.

GAIN-SPUR, v. To excite by the prospect of gain.

Sure, in the legend of absurdest fables

I should enroule most of these admirables; Save for the reverence of th' unstained credit

Of many a witnes where I yerst have read it:

And saving that our gain-spurr'd pilots finde,

In our dayes, waters of more_wondrous kinde. Du Bartas.

GAINSTAND, v. To withstand. GAINSTRIVE, v. To strive against. GAIRISH. See Garish. GAIRN, S. Yarn. Yorksh. GAIT, (1) s. A path, or street. (2) s. Summer pasturage for cattle in a common field. North. (3) s. A gait of water is two buckets carried with a yoke. (4) s. A goat.

(5) 8. A single sheaf of corn.

North.

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GALAGE, 8. (Fr. galloche.) A GALLAGE, clog or patten, fastened with latchets; any coarse shoe.

My heart-blood is nigh well frorn I feel, And my galage grown fast to my heel Spens. Shep. Kal. Feb., 243. GALANTNESSE, S. Fashion in dress. GALAOTHE, 8. A chaplet. Maundevile, p. 244.

GALASH, V. To cover the upper

part of the shoe with leather.
Yorksh.

GALCAR, 8. An ale-tub. Yorksh.
GALDER, 8. Vulgar talk. East.
GALDIMENT, 8.
A great fright.

Somerset.

GALE, (1) v. To cry; to scream.
(2) 8. Song; noise.

(3) s. A castrated bull. West.
(4) v. (A.-S. galan.) To sing.
(5) s. Wild myrtle. Cumb.

(6) s. (Fr.) Any sort of excres-
cence. Linc.

(7) v. To ache with cold; to fly
open with heat. North.

(8) v. To gale a mine, to acquire
the right of working it. West.
(9) A taunt, or gibe.
(10) Gaol, or prison.

Litul Johne and Moch for sothe
Toke the way unto the gale.
Cambridge MS., 15th cent.

GALE-HEADED, 8. Stupid. Devon. GALENTINE, 8. (Fr.) A sort of sauce. We have in the old cookery receipts for such dishes as "lampreys in galyntyne."

Galyntyne. Take crustes of brede, and grynde hem smalle. Do thereto powdor of galyngale, of canel, gyngyves, and salt it. Tempre it with vynegar, and drawe it up thrugh a straynor, and messe it forth. Forme of Cury, p. 25.

GALES, 8. Wales.

GALEY, adj. Marshy. Devon. GALIARD, adj. Gay. See Gaillard Galiardise, gaiety.

GALILEE, 8. A church porch.

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