GROUND-GUDGEON, 8. A small fish, the cobitis barbatula of Linn. GROUND-HALE, s. The herb gromwell.

GROUND-ISAAC, s. The yellow wren. West.

GROUND-IVY, s. The plant alehoof. GROUNDLY, adv. Profoundly. GROUND-NEEDLE, s. The name of a plant.

GROUND-RAIN, 8. A steady fall of rain. East.

GROUNDS, 8. (1) A term for a farm. Northampt. (2) Sediment. Var. d. GROUND-SILL, 8. The threshold of a door.

GROUND-SOP, 8. A sop by which

the dregs may be soaked up. GROUND-SWEAT, 8. A person some time buried is said to have taken a ground-sweat. East. GROUND-TABLE. See Earth-table. GROUPE, v. To sculpture with a

fine gouge.

GROUPPADE, 8. (Fr.) A curvet in horsemanship.

GROUSE, 8. Gravel. Northampt.
GROUSOME, adj. (A.-S.) Loath-
some; fearful. Cumb.
GROUT, (1) 8.

Ground malt. In some parts, the liquor with malt infused for ale or beer, before it is fully boiled, is called grout, and before it is tunned up in the vessel it is called wort. A thick sort of ale was also called grout and grout-ale.

This jolly grout is jolly and stout,
I pray you stout it still a.

Tom Tyler and his Wife, 1661. (2) v. To dig up with the snout, like a hog. Yorksh.

(3) Fluid mortar, poured over the courses in building to fill up the interstices between the stones or bricks.

(4) 8. A jocular term for one who takes anything fluid late in a meal.

GROUTED, part.p. Begrimed. V. d. GROUT-HEADED, adj. Great-headed; stupid; stupidly noisy. Sussex. Grouhhead, a blockhead. Urquhart's Rabelais.

GROUTS, 8. Dregs. Var. d. GROUZE, v. To eat vegetables, fruit, &c. "She is always grouzing unripe gooseberries and other such rubbish." Linc. It has sometimes a more general meaning, to devour.

GROVE, (1) v. To dig. North. (2) part. p. of grave. Dug. (3) s. A ditch, or drain. Linc. (4) s. A deep pit sunk into the ground to search for minerals. Grove-wood, timber used in supporting the roof or sides of mines.

GROVED, pret. t. Grew.

GROW, v. (1) To cultivate anything. Grower, a cultivator. (2) To be troubled; to murmur; to repine. North.

(3) To be aguish. Hampsh. GROWBLAR, S. A digger. Pr. P. GROWING, 8. The hot fit of an ague. North.

GROWME, 8. An engine to stretch woollen cloth.

GROWN, adj. A term applied to milk when burnt at the bottom of the pot. Linc. GROWNDE, v. To bellow. GROWNDEN, adj. Sharpened by grinding.

GROWNDER, 8. A founder. GROWNDISWELIE, 8. (A.-S.) GRUNDESWILIC, Groundsel. GROWSOME, adj. Tending to make things grow; as, "its a fine growsome morning," or "its nice growsome weather." Linc. GROWTH-HALFPENNY, 8. A rate paid in some places for the tithe of each fat animal. GROWTNOUL, 8. A blockhead. "Capito, testu, qui a grosse teste. One that hath a great heade: a

grossum caput: a jolt head: a jobber-nozell; a growtnoll." Nomenclator.

GROWZE, v. To be chill before an ague-fit. North.

GROY, adj. Grey-headed with age. Linc.

GROYNE, (1) v. To lament.

(2) pret. t. Grinned. GROZEN, S. A grove. Somerset. GROZENS, S. The herb duck's meat. West.

GRUDGING, 8. A feeling; a symptom.

GRUEL,

GRUB, (1) v. To grumble. To ride grub, or be bitten by the grubs, to be sulky. East.

(2) s.

A little dirty animal. Suffolk.

(3) s. Victuals; a vulgar phrase. (4) s. Idle talk. Norfolk.

(5) v. To toil continually; to search out. GRUB-AXE, S. A rooting-axe. Hampsh.

GRUBBER, S. A rooting axe. Florio. GRUBBLE, v. To grub about. GRUBBY, adj. (1) Poor; stunted; peevish. West.

(2) Dirty. Northampt. GRUBE, (1) s. A drain. Norf. (2) v. To cut the feathers under the wings of a cock. A cockfighting phrase. GRUB-FELLING, s. Felling trees GRUB-STUBBING, by cutting away the roots. East. GRUBLING-IRON, s. A gouge. Pals. GRUCCHE, 8. (A.-S.) To grumble; to murmur; to grudge. GRUCH, S. Discontent; a grudge. By taking peace under condiscion such As maie extinkt (in both partes) all cause of gruch.

Heywood's Spider and Flie, 1556. GRUCHER, S. A kind of hawk. GRUDDY, adj. Greedy; covetous. Norf.

GRUDGER, 8. A grumbler.

Pray, sister, tell me why my husband looks so grum here in town? and keeps me up so close, and will not let me go a walking, nor let me wear my best gown yesterday.

Wycherley, Country Wife, 1688.

(2) Powerful, applied to the

voice.

GRUMBLE-GUTS, s. A discontented person.

GRUMMEL, S. The plant gromwell. GRUMMUT, S. An ignorant person. South.

GRUMPH, v. To growl. North. GRUMPHEY, S. A jostling among schoolboys while hiding anything one from another. North. GRUMPY, adj. (1) Surly. Var. d. (2) Hard; stiff; crisp. Leic. GRUMSEL, S. The dandelion. Devon. GRUN, 8. (1) The upper lip of a beast. North.

(2) Ground. Var. d.
GRUNDEN. See Grounden.
GRUNDLIKE, adv. Deeply; heartily.
GRUNDWALLE, 8. A foundation.
East.

GRUNNY, 8. The snout of a hog.
GRUNSH, v. To scrunch. Shrop.
GRUNT, v. To endeavour. West.
GRUNTER, 8. A pig.

GRUNTING-CHEAT, S. An old cant term for a pig.

GRUNTLE, (1) v. To grunt like a pig.

So boar and sow, when any storm is nigh, Snuff up and smell it gathering in the sky;

GRY, v. To have a slight attack of ague. North.

GRYE, v. To tremble; to be agitated.

GRYFFE, 8. Dragon-wort.

GRYLE, adv. Horribly. See Grille.
GRYNGEN, v. To grind.
GRYNNIE, 8. A snare.
GRYNSTYNG, part. a. Gnashing;
grinding.

GRYPPE, v. To snatch; to seize. GRYSE, V. (A.-S.) To be frightened; troubled; vexed.

GRYZE, v. (1) To squeeze, or rub; to wear or annoy. Heref.

(2) To grind between the teeth. Glouc.

GUAGE, v. To engage. Palsg.
GUARD, 8. A posture of defence.
GUARDANT, adj. In a posture of
defence.

After some short discourse of their affaires,
Eneas on his backe Anchises takes,
For young Askanius he his left hand
spares,

In his right hand his guardant sword he shakes. Great Britaines Troye, 1609. GUARDS, 8. Trimmings, facings, or

other ornaments applied upon a
dress; used also as a v., to orna-
ment with guards or facings.
The cloaks, doublets, &c. were guarded

with velvet guards, or else laced with costly lace. Stubb's Anatomie of Abuses. And who reads Plutarches evther historie or philosophie, shall find he trimmeth both their garments with guardes of poesie. Sir Ph. Sidney Dif. of Poesie. A plaine pair of cloth-breeches, without either welte or garde.

Greene's Quip, &c. Harl. Misc., v, 398. GUARISH, v. (A.-N). To heal, or

cure.

GUARY, 18. Some kind of poetiGARYE, cal or dramatic perform

ance. The word seems to have been preserved in the guarymiracles, performed in Cornwall, so late as the 17th century. Thys ys on of Brytayne layes, That was used by olde dayes, Men callys playn the garye. Emaré, 1032. GUB, S. (1) A pander, or go-between. Devon.

(2) A sum of money. Linc.
(3) A round stone that will not
lay regular in a wall, called also
a gubble-stone. Oxf.

(4) v. To stop up. Northampt. GUBBARN, S. A filthy place; a drain. Wilts.

GUBBER, S. Black mud. Suss. GUBBER-TUSHED, adj. Having irregular projecting teeth.

GUBBINGS, S. Parings; fragments. GUBBINS, 8. A wild class of people about Dartmoor. GUBBLE-STONE. See Gub. GUBBY, (1) s. A crowd. Devon. (2) adj. Knotty. Northampt. GUBERNATION, s. (Lat.) Govern

ment.

Was it not done to this entent, that the conquerors might have the only power and entier gubernacion of all the landes and people within their climate? Hall, Henry V, fol. 5.

GUD-DEVON. Good even. GUDDLE, v. To guzzle. Somerset. GUDE, v. To do good. "I guded 'em as long as I could," that is, gooded him, got him what comfort and good I could. Moor's Suff. MS.

GUDGELL, 8. (1) A puddle.

(2) The gutter in a street. Gudgell-hole, the receptacle for a drain.

GUDGEN, 8. A cutting of a plant

set in the ground. West. GUDGEON, S. (1) The large pivot of the axis of a wheel. "The gudgions of the spindle of a wheele." Nomenclator.

(2) A piece of wood for roofing. North.

(3) A lie; a joke or taunt. (4) To swallow a gudgeon, to be deceived, or made a fool of. To gape for gudgeons, to look out for impossibilities. GUDGEONS, 8. The rings which

bear up the rudder of a ship. GUDGIL-HOLE, s. A place for dung and other filth. West. GUDLY, adj. Courteous. Gawayne. GUE, s. (Fr. gueux.) A sharper, or rogue; a low-lived person.

Diligent search was made all thereabout, But my ingenious gue had got him out. Honest Ghost, p. 232. GUEOUT, 8. A soft damp place in a field. Chesh.

GUERDON, (1) s. (A.-N.) Reward. (2) v. To reward. GUERDONIZE, v. To reward. GUERDONLES, adj. Without reward. GUERRE, 8. (4.-N.) War. GUERYSSHE, V. (A.-N.) To be cured; to recover from sickness. GUESS, (1) s. A corruption of guests. (2) adj. Barren, applied to cows and ewes. Kent.

(3) v. To suppose. Var. d. GUESS-SHEEP, 8. Young ewes that have been with the ram, but not yet had lambs. Suss. GUEST, 8. A ghost. North. GUESTLINGS, 8. Municipal meetings at the Cinque Ports. GUEST-MEAL, S. A dinner-party. Linc.

GUESTNING, 8. A hospitable reception. North.

GUFF, s. A fool. Cumb. GUGAW, S. (1) A flute. Pr. P. (2) A Jew's harp. See Gewgaw. GUGGLE, v. (1) To cheat. North. (2) v. To gargle. Warw.

(3) s. A snail-shell. Oxfordsh. GUGGLER, 8. A funnel. East. GUIDERS, S. The tendons. North. GUIDES, 8. (1) The arcs of circles fastened on the fore-axle of a waggon, as a bearing for the bed of the waggon when it locks. Dorset.

(2) Tendons. Northampt. GUIDE-STOOP, s. A guide-post. North.

GUIDON, 8. (A.-N.) A standard. GUIDRESSE, s. A female guide. GUIE, v. (4.-N.) To guide; to go

vern.

GUILD-BROTHER, s. A member of a guild or corporation. "A guildbrother, a brother of a fratry, company, corporation, or fellowship." Nomenclator.

GUILE, 8. As much liquor as is
brewed at once. North.
GUILERY, S. Deceit.
GUILE-SHARES, s. Cheating shares.
Kent.

GUIL-FAT, S. A wort-tub. North. GUILL, v. To be dazzled. Chesh. GUILTY-CUPS, s. Butter-cups. Dev. GUIMAD, 8. The name of a fish formerly caught in the Dee. GUINEA-HEN, s. An old cant term for a prostitute.

GUIPON, 8. (4.-N.) The jupon, or pourpoint.

GUIRDING, 8. Breaking wind loudly. GUISERS, S. Mummers. North. GUISSETTES, S. Short pieces of armour for the thighs.

GUITONEN, 8. A vagrant. Middleton. GUIZENED, adj. (1) Strangely dressed. Guizinny is used in the same sense. Linc. (2) Leaky. North.

GULARDOUS, S. A goliard. Gulyardy, minstrelsy.

(4) s. A heavy fall.

Devon.

GULCHY, adj. (1) Fat. (2) Greedy of drink. GULDER, v. To speak loud and harshly. Cumb. GULE, (1) 8. (A.-N.) Gluttony. (2) 8. (A.-S.) Christmas. (3) s. Lammas-day.

(4) v. To boast; to laugh; to sneer. Heref.

GULED, adj. Amazed; bewildered. Berks.

GULF, 8. The stomach.

GULF, s. A breach in a pit GULF-JOINT, of marl, intervening between the joints of the rock. Northampt.

GULF-HOLE, s. The mouth of a drain. Florio.

GULGE, v. (1) To bulge out. GULL, Northampt. (2) To drink.

And zit and chat and gulge a can.

Jordan's Triumphs of London, 1678. GULK, v. To gulp down. Devon. GULL, (1) s. A dupe; a fool.

(2) s. An unfledged bird. North. (3) s. A gosling.

(4) s. The bloom of the willow.
South.

(5) s. The name of a game.
(6) v. To sweep away by force
of running water.

(7) s. A breach made by a

stream.

(8) 8. A creek of water.

(9) v. To guzzle.

(10) 8. An old cant term for a

crown.

GULLE, adj. (4.-S. gyl.) Gay; fine.
GULLERY, S. Deceit; mockery.
GULLET, 8. (1) A small stream.
(2) A parcel, or lot.

And the residewe beinge xx. li. lyeth in
sundrye gullettes in severall townes
and shers.

Ludlow Muniments, temp. Edw. VI.

(3) A jack. North.

(4) The arch of a bridge. Devon. (5) A gore in a shirt, &c. GULL-GROPER, 8. An usurer who lent money to gamesters. Dekker. GULLION, (1) 8. (A.-N.) A wretch. North.

(2) The colic. East. GULLOWING, adj. Swallowing; devouring.

O cloacam edacem ac bibacem. O thou devouring and gullowing panch of a glutton. Terence in English, 1641. GULLS, S. Hasty-pudding. Yorksh. GULLY, S. (1) A large knife, called, in Urquhart's Rabelais, "a cutpurse knife."

(2) A ravine; a small stream; a ditch.

(3) A hand-barrow. Devon. (4) A calf's pluck. North. GULLYGUT, 8. A glutton.

Nothing behinde in number with the invincible Spanish armada, though they were not such Gargantuan boysterous gulliguts as they. Nash's Lenten Stuff. Whereunto he added a very pleasant and plausible act of clemency; Goe too, insatiable gulliguts, said he, I protest I see its but lost labour to endeavour to hinder thee from stealing of my fruit, for that I cannot keep watch every night, nor will I be at the charges of heightning my walls.

History of Francion, 1655. GULLY-HOLE, 8. The mouth of a drain. Norf.

GULLY-MOUTH, s. A small pitcher. Devon.

GULLY-PIT, 8. A whirlpool. Devon. GULOSITY, 8. (Lat.) Greediness. GULP, S. The young of an animal in its softest state; a very diminutive person. East. GULPH, 8. A mow. Norf. See Gouf.

GULSH, 8. Mud; sediment. East.

(2) Ribaldry. Northampt. GULSHING, adj. Fat. Northampt. GULSKY, adj. Grossly corpulent. East.

GULT, pret. t. Injured; offended against.