GA, v. To go. North.
GAAM, (1) adj. Clammy. Wills.
(2) v. To daub with dirt. Berks.
GAB, S. (A. N.) Talkativeness.
GABBARD, adj. Ill-contrived, as
GABBERN, rooms; large. West.
GABBE, V. (A.-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, s. Birds which
make a great noise in the even-
ings. North.
GABBO, S. The game of thrce
GOBBO, card loo.
GABEL, S. (A.-N.) An excise.
GABERDINE, S. (Fr.) A coarse cloak
or mantle.
GABERLILTIE, S.
North.

A ballad-singer.

GABIE, S.
North.
GABLE, (1) 8. (Fr.) A cable.

A large-holed sieve.

(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.

The boys [at Horncastle] annually keep up the festival of the floralia on Mayday, making a procession to this hill with May gads, as they call them, in their hands: this is a white willow wand, the bark peeled off, tied round with cowslips, a thyrsus of the Bacchanals: at night they have a bonfire and other merriment, which is really a sacrifice or religious festival.

Stukeley's Itiner. Curios., 1776, i, 31.

(2) s. A measuring rod of ten feet.

(3) s. A fishing-rod; any rod or stick. North.

(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) 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, 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, 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 Drayt. Muses Elys.

to slack.

(3) To hinder motion by tightness. Northampt. GAGATE, s. (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, S. An engagement. Wight. GAGGER, s. A nonconformist. East. GAGGET, s. (Fr. gigot.) A leg of mutton. See Gigget. GAGGLE, v. To cackle. GAGGLES, S. The game of ninepins. North.

GAGS, S. Children's pictures. Suff. GAG-TEETH, S. Teeth projecting

out. Nomencl. GAGY, adj. Showery. Suss. GAHUSEY, 8. 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. (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, S. (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, 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.

Large and

awkward. West.

GALAGANTING, adj.

GALAGE, 18. (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., 213.

GALANTNESSE, S. Fashion in dress.
GALAOTHE, S. A chaplet. Maun-
devile, p. 244.
GALASH, V.

To cover the upper part of the shoe with leather. Yorksh.

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

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 haye 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, S. Wales.

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

GALILEE, 8. A church porch.

GALING, S. A bruise. Somerset. GALINGALE, s. (A.-N.)

The

BALLAGGALE,} aromatic root of

the rush cyperus, used as a drug, or as a seasoning for dishes. GALINIC, S. 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, s. The gallows.
GALLEY-BAUK, S. A beam in a
chimney to hang pot-hooks.
North.

GALLEY-BIRD, s. A woodpecker.
Suss.

GALLEY-CROW, S. 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-HALFFENCE, 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 themselves, 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, I 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

applied in printing offices to any
eatables or drinkables.
(2) Metaphorically, any confused
medley of things.

GALLIMENT, S. Anything frightful.
Devon.

GALLIOON, S. (Span.) A small ship. Hyppias the Troyan the broad lyter framed, The Cyrenens the hoy, which some more fine,

The gallioon call: with barks the Cyprians tamed

The rude sea-rovers, cockboates (some divine). Great Britaines Troye, 1609. GALLIVANTING, S. Rustic gallanting.

GALLOC, S. The plant comfrey. GALLOCK-HAND, S. The left hand. Yorksh.

GALLOPED-BEER, S.

Poor beer for

immediate use. East. GALLOPIN, 8. A scullion or undercook.

GALLOW, v. (A.-S.) To frighten. GALLOWAY, S. A horse under fifteen hands high; a hackney. North. GALLOW-CLAPPER, S. A very wild youth.

GALLOWGLASS, s. (1) A sort of Irish foot-soldier.

(2) A heavy axe used by the gallowglasses.

GALLOWS, adv. Very. Var. d. GALLOW-TREE, s. The gallows. GALLS, 8. Springs or wet places in

a field; bare places in a crop. GALLY, (1) v. To frighten; to taunt; to hurry. West.

(2) adj. Wet; moist; applied to land.

GALLY-BIRD, s. The woodpecker.

GALOCHE, S. See Galage.
GALORE, S. Plenty (from the Irish).
GALPE, v. (4.-S.) To yawn; to
belch.

GALT, (1) s. A boar pig.
(2) s. Clay. Suffolk.
(3) v. To rub, or gall.
GALVER, v. To throb, or move
quickly. East.

GALWES, S. (4.-S.) The gallows.
GAM, v. To mock. North.
GAMASHES,

GAMBADOES, GAMOGINS,

s.

A sort of loose drawers or stock

ings worn outside

the legs over the other clothing; cases of leather to protect the shoes and stockings from the dirt when on horseback; gaiters.

Daccus is all bedawb'd with golden lace, Hose, doublet, jerkin; and gamashes too. Davies, Scourge of Folly, 1611.

GAMAWDLED, adj. Half tipsy. Linc. GAMBA, S.

Some likewise there affect the gamba with the voice,

To shew that England could varietie afford. Drayton's Polyolbion, song 4.

GAMBAUDE, S. (A.-N.) A gambol. GAMBESON, S. (4.-N.) A stiff coat, worn under the armour, and descending to the middle of the thighs; a similar though less substantial habit worn by women to improve their figure. GAMBLE, S. (1) A leg. Somerset. (2) A butcher's staff. GAMBONE, s. A gammon. Skelton. GAMBREL, (Ital.) (1) s. A piece of wood used by butchers for expanding a slaughtered animal. s. The leg of a horse.

(3) v. To tie by the leg.

(4) s. A cart with rails. Heref. GAME, S. (1) (4.-S.) Pleasure; sport. Gameliche, joyfully, playfully.

(2) A rabbit-warren.

Parkes of fallow deere, and games of graie conies, it maintaineth many, the