G.

GA, v. To go. North.
GAAM, (1) adj. Clammy. Wills.
(2) v. To daub with dirt. Berks.
GAB, 8. (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, S. (1) Deceits. Minsh.
(2) Prattle; jests.
GABBLE-RATCHES, 8. Birds which
make a great noise in the even-
ings. North.

GABBO, 8. The game of three
GOBBO, card loo.
GABEL, S. (4.-N.) An excise.
GABERDINE, S. (Fr.) A coarse cloak

or mantle.

GABERLILTIE, S.
North.
GABIE, S.

A ballad-singer.

A large-holed sieve.

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

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

GABLICK, S. A crow-bar. Linc. GABLOCKS, S. Spurs for fightingcocks.

GABRIEL-BELL, S. A local name for the saints' bell or ting-tang. GABRIEL-RATCHET, s. The name of a ghost or night spirit. North. GABY, S. A simpleton. GACH, S. Filth or dirt of children. Glouc.

GAD, (1) s. (4.-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 gad of steel will write these
words,
And lay it by.

Tit. Andr., iv, 1.

(9) s. 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, 8. 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. GADDRE, S. A sheep's or calf's pluck.

GADE, s. A gadling.
GADER, v. To gather.
GADGER, 8. A gauger. North.
GAD-HOOK, S. A long pole with an
iron crook. Somerset.
GADING, 8. A going about; a
GADDING, pilgrimage.
GADLING, S. (4.-S.) A worthless
vagabond.

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

GADS, S. Knobs or spikes of iron used in armour. GAD-STEEL, S. 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.

GAGY, adj. Showery. Suss.
GAHUSEY, S. A worsted short shirt
with sleeves. East.
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. (A.-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

GAINGIVING, S. A misgiving.
GAINLY, (1) adj. Suitable.

(2) adv. Readily; easily. GAINSHIRE, S. 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) s. A single sheaf of corn.
North.

(6) v. To set up sheaves of corn in wet weather to dry. GAIT-BERDE, s. Goat's beard. GAITING, (1) adj. Frolicsome. Dors.

(2) s. A single sheaf of corn set on end to dry. North. See Gait. GAITRE-BERRIE, S. The berry of the dog-wood tree. GAKIN, s. A simpleton. Glouc. GAL, S. A girl. Var. d. GALAGANTING, adj.

awkward. West.

Large and

GALE, (1) v. To cry; to scream.
(2) s. 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, s. Stupid. Devon. GALENTINE, S. (Fr.) Asort 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.

The

GALING, S. A bruise. Somerset. GALINGALE, s. (A.-N.) GALANGALE, aromatic root of the rush cyperus, used as a drug, or as a seasoning for dishes. GALINIC, 8. A guinea-fowl. Cornw. GALIOT, S. (Fr.) A small vessel. GALKABAW, s. A girl who looks after cows. Suff.

GALL, (Fr.) (1) s. A sarcasm, or severe joke; a galling stroke; vexation, or trouble.

(2) v. To say galling, sarcastic
things.

I have seen you gleeking and galling at
this gentleman twice or thrice.
Hen. V, v, 1.

(3) s. A sore place; a fault. Stronglie they stop up al goon-hole galls. Heywood's Spider and Flie, 1556.

(4) v. To frighten. Somerset.
(5) s. The oak-apple.

(6) s. A defect in a tree. Suss. GALLACES, S. Braces. Yorksh. GALLANT, (1) adj. Finely dressed.

(2) s. A person in gay apparel. GALLANTED, adj. Gallant, well

dressed.

Enter Bubble gallanted.
Greene's Tu Quoque.

GALLAS, 8. The gallows.
GALLEY-BAUK, s. A beam in a
chimney to hang pot-hooks.
North.

GALLEY-BIRD, s. A woodpecker.
Suss.

GALLEY-CROW, 8. A scarecrow. Wilts.

GALLEY-FOIST, S. A long barge with oars.

Because the sands were bare, and water low,

We rested there till it two hours did flow: And then to travell went our galley-foyst, Our ancker quickly weigh'd, our sayle up hoyst,

Where thirty miles we past, a mile from shore,

The water two foot deepe, or little more. Taylor's Works, 1630.

GALLEY-HALFPENCE, S.

These were commonly called gallie men, as men that came up in the gallies, who brought up wines and other merchandizes, which they landed in Thamesstrete, at a place called galley-key: they had a certaine coyne of silver amongst themselv which were half-pence of Genoa, and were called galley-half-pence. These half-pence were forbidden in the thirteenth year of Henry IV, and again by parliament in the third of Henry V, by the name of half-pence of Genoa, forbidden to passe as unlawfull payment amongst the English subjects. Notwithstanding, in my youth, have seen them passe currant.

Stowe's Survey of London, 1599.

GALLEY-NOSE, s. The figure-head of a ship.

GALLIAN, adj. French. Shakesp. GALLIARD, (Fr.) (1) adj. Gay; brisk.

(2) s. A quick lively dance, introduced into England about 1541. GALLIARDISE, S. (Fr.) Exuberant gaiety.

GALLIASS (Fr.) A large kind of
galley.
GALLIBEGGAR, S. A scarecrow.
South.

GALLIC, adj. Bitter as gall.
GALLIC-HANDED, adj. Left-handed.
North.

GALLIER, S. (1) One who keeps teams for hire. Heref.

(2) A fight; romping. West. GALLIGANT. See Gallivanting. GALLIGANTUS, s. An animal above the usual size. Glouc. GALLIMATION, s. (Fr.) Nonsense. GALLIMAWFREY, S. (1) A dish made of several sorts of meat minced, or of remnants and scraps. "A gallimaufrey, une fricassée." The French Schoolmaster, 1636. "O Lord, he hath supped up all the broth of this gallimaufry, Seigneur Dieu, il a humé tout le brouïd de ce pasté en pot." Ib. The word is