one for pleasure, and the other for profit. Lambard's Perambulation, 1596. GAMEBOYS, S. Gambles; sports. GAMELING, adj. Romping about.

Suss.

GAMENE, S. (4.-S.) Game. GAMESTER, 8. A dissolute or debauched person of either sex.

'Tis a catalogue

Of all the gamesters in the court and city, Which lord lies with that lady, and what gallant

Sports with that merchant's wife.

B. & Fl. False One, i, 1.

She's impudent, my lord, And was a common gamester to the camp. Shakesp., All's Well, v, 3.

GAMMALKIN, S. An awkward ram

bling fellow. North. See Gamock. GAMMER, (1) s. An old wife; a grandmother. See Gaffer. Gammer-stang, a rude girl. (2) v. To idle.

GAMMEREI, s. The small of the leg. Devon.

GAMMET, S. Sport; fun; gameGAMMOT, someness; banter; a trick put upon a person. Gammets, whims, fancies. Var. d. GAMMICKING,s. Gossiping. Essex. GAMMON, 8. (4.-S.) Sport; nonsense. Var. d. GAMMOUTHE, s. The gamut. Palsg. GAMOCK, S. Silly sport. To gamock, to romp or play practical jokes; to go feasting and frollicking from place to place. Shropsh. GAMY, adj. Sticky. Hants. GAN, (1) pret. t. Began.

(2) s. An old cant term for mouth.

(3) pret. t. of give. GANCH, v. (Ital.) To punish by suspending a criminal on a hook.

Their formes of putting to death (besides such as are common els-where) are impaling upon stakes, ganching, which is to be let fall from on high upon hookes, and there to hang untill they die by the anguish of their wounds, or more miserable famine. Sandys' Travels.

GANDER, v. To ramble about without object. East. GANDERGOOSE, S. Ragwort. GANDER-MONTH, S. The month in which a man's wife is confined. Gander-mooner, one who acts the gallant at that season. To go a gandering, to gallant during this season. Var. d. GANDERNOPED, adj. Thoughtless; Giddy. West.

GANDY, adj. Idly disposed. Shropsh. GANE, (1) v. To yawn.

(2) pret. t. Gone; went. North. GANE-FISH, S. A hornbeak. Somers.

Acus, aculeatus, Plin., papis Beλóvn, aßlevvns; Esquille, orphie; a hornebecke, snacotfishe, ganefishe, piperfishe, hornefishe, apud Cimbros dicitur, robias apud Saxones. Nomenclator.

GANG, (4.-S.) (1) v. To go. Still used in the North. Ganger, a good goer. North.

(2) s. A set, or company. Var. d. (3) s. A set of calf's feet. Northampt. GANG-BOOSE, s. The passage from a cow-house to the barn. North. GANG-DAYS, S. Rogation week. GANGERAL, s. A vagrant. North. GANGING-GEAR, s. The machinery of a mill. GANGINGS-ON, North.

S. Proceedings.

GANGLE, v. (4.-N.) To make a noise. GANGLING, adj. Tall and slender in

proportion to the bulk, so as not to support itself well. Applied to vegetable productions. Warw. GANGREL, S. (1) A tall ill-made fellow.

GANG-TIDE, S. Rogation week.

At fasts-eve pass-puffes; gang-tide gaites did alie masses bring.

Warner's Albions England, 1592.

GANG-WAY, 8. A passage. GANG-WEEK, S. Rogation week. GANNER, 8. A gander. Var. d. GANNER-HEAD, S. A dunce. South. GANNING, 8. The barking of foxes. GANNOK, S. A standard. GANNOKER, S. A tavern-keeper. GANNY, 8. A turkey. Devon. GANNY-WEDGE, s. A wooden wedge for splitting timber. West. GANSE, (1) s. Merriment. Suss. (2) adj. Thin; slender. Kent. GANT, (1) 8. (A.-S.) A gander. (2) s. The gannet, a Cornish bird.

(3) v. To yawn. North.

(4) adj. Scanty.

GANTRIL,

(5) adj. Hearty; well. North. (6) s. A village wake. East. GANTREE, 8. A stand for barrels. North. GANTY, adj. (1) Frolicsome. Suss. (2) Lean. East. GANZAS, 8. (Span.) Geese. GAOWE, v. To chide. Exmoor. GAP, v. To notch; to jag. South. GAPE-SEED, s. A ludicrous term for any sight. He was looking for a little gape-seed, i.e. looking about for any sight or idle entainment. North. A strange sight is called a gape's nest in Devon.

GAPESING, 8. Sight-seeing. Var. d. GAPESNATCH, s. A fool. Glouc. GAPE-STICK, S. (1) A large wooden spoon. East.

(2) An awkward country clown. Norf.

GAR, v. To make; to compel. GARATWIST, adv. Awry. Suss. GARB, 8. (4.-N.) A sheaf of corn. GARBASH, S. Garbage. Florio. GARBELLER, 8. A person employed to examine spices, drugs, &c., to find out impurities, or garbles.

GARB-FEATHERS, s. The feathers under a hawk's bill.

GARBOIL, S. A commotion, or up

roar.

GARCIL, 8. Underwood. North.
GARGLIVE, 8. Agrimony.
GARD, 8. (Fr.) A facing, or trim-
ming to a dress.

GARDE, pret. t. Made. GARDEBRACE, 8. (4.-N.) Armour for the arm.

GARDEEN, s. A guardian. Suffolk. GARDEES, S. Guardians. GARDEMANGER, s. (Fr.) A cupboard.

GARDEN, v. To put a hawk on a piece of turf.

GARDEN-GINGER, S. Cayenne pep

per.

GARDEN-HOUSE, 8. A summerhouse. Garden-pot, a watering pot.

GARDEN-WARBLER, S. The blackcap, motacilla atricapilla of Linn. GARDEROBE, S.(A.-N.) (1) A wardrobe.

(2) The necessary offices in a castle or palace.

(3) A cloak or cover over the dress. "Savegard, garderobe." French Alphabet, 1615. GARDEVIANCE, s. (Fr.) A chest, or pannier; a bag for meat. GARDWYNE, S. (A.-N.) A reward.

Gifene us gersoms and golde,
And gardwynes many,
Grewhoundes and grett horse,
And alkyne gammes.

Morte Arthure.

GARDIANCE, 8. Defence, guarding. I got it nobly in the kings defence, and in the guardiance of my faire queenes right. Chapman's Sum. Day's Mirth.

GARDINE, 8.

He not onely thanked the capitaines, and praised the eitezens for their assured fidelitie and good will towarde their kynge and sovereigne lorde, but also extolled their gardines and manly doynges above the starres.

Hall, Henry VI, fol. 30.

(5) s. Coarse wool. GARE-BRAINED, adj. Giddy. South. GARE-LOCKS, 8. The gaffles of a cock. Chesh.

GARETT, 8. A watch-tower; a room at the top of a house or tower.

GARFANGYL, 8. An eel-spear. Pr. Parv.

GARFISH, 8. The sea-needle. GARFITS, 8. Garbage. North. GARGATE, S. The throat. GARGEL, 8. (A.-N. gargoyle.) GARGYLE, A projecting spout of a gutter in a building. GARGET, 8. A disease in cows affecting the udder. East. GARGILOUN, 8. (A.-N.) Part of the numbles of a deer. GARGLE, v. To warble. GARGOUN, 8. (A.-N.) Language; jargon.

GARGUT, 8. A disease incident to

calves; a kind of murrain. Norf. GARGUT-ROOT,s. Bear's-foot. Norf. GARISH, adj. (A.-S.) (1) Fine; splendid; showy, especially in dress.

Not being contented with that, thou byndest mee wyth garishe bandes, one while of one colour, and another while of another, and sometyme with many coloures at once, as if I were mad: howe is it possible to suffer so many chaunges?

Dial. between the Cap and the Head, 1565.

The second leafe of this lilly hath engraven in it, Asperitas vestitus, that is, coarseness and plainenesse of apparrell: for garish and fantasticall cloathes are speechlesse reporters of wanton mindes.

Man in the Moone, 1609.

(2) Frightened; very wild; silly. Var. d. GARISOUN, (1) v. (A.-N.) To heal. (2) s. A reward. GARLAND, S. (1) The ring in a target in which the prick was set. (2) A small collection of ballads. GARLE, v. To spoil butter in making by handling it with hot hands. East.

GARLED, adj. Streaked; spotted; applied to animals.

GARLIC-EATER, 8. A stinking fellow. South.

GARLONG, 8. A garland.

GARN, S. (1) A garden; a garner. South.

(2) Yarn. North. GARNADE, 8. A dish in ancient cookery, of which an account will be found in Ord. and Reg., p. 465.

GARNARDE, S. Wine of Granada. GARNEMENT, 8. (A.-N.) A gar

ment.

GARNER, 8. A granary; a store

room.

GARNETOUR, S. (A.-N.) Provisions. GARNETT, 8. (1) The pomegranate. (2) (Ital.) A sort of firework. (3) A sort of hinge. GARNISH, 8. (A.-N.) (1) A tableservice, consisting generally of sets of twelve dishes, saucers, &c. To garnish, to set the dishes on the table.

(2) The fees paid by a prisoner on entering the jail. GARNISHEE, s. One who holds in his hand something disputed, until the claim is decided. GARNISON, 8. (4.-N.) A garrison. GARNITURE, s. An article of dress fashionable at the end of the 17th century.

Besides, every good man is not acquainted with this principle among you, that you can be in love with nothing but yourselves, and may be jealous of his wife, when indeed you come innocently to take a view of your persons

GASCOINES, 8. Gally-gaskins.
GASE, (1) 8. A goose.
(2) pres. t. Goes.

GASE-HOUND, 8. A kind of hound valued for its excellent sight. GASHFUL, adj. Ghastly. East. GASK-HEIFER, 8. A young beast, which has taken the bull, but is not yet in calf. Norf.

GASKIN,

GASCOYN,

s. (1) A horse's thighs.

Nay, more, in my conscience, he has a horse that shall be nameless, the sight of whose gaskins does more please his eyes than if he beheld the thighs of a second Rosamond.

Howard, Man of Newmarket, 1678. (2) A gally-gaskin.

GAST, (1) S. (4.-S.) A ghost; spirit; breath.

(2) v. To frighten; to be frightened.

GAST-BIRD, 8. A single partridge in the shooting season. Suffolk. GAST-COW, S. A cow which does not produce a calf in the season. East.

GASTER, v. To frighten. Essex. GASTERN, adj. Frightened. Leic. GASTFUL, adj. Frightful. Palsg. GASTNE, S. An apparition. GASTNESS, 8. (A4.-S.) Ghastliness. GASTOYNE, 8. (A.-N.) A solitude. GAT, 8. (1) A goat.

(2) An opening. East.

GATCHEL, S. The mouth. Somerset. GATE, 8. (A.-S.) (1) A street, or road. "Go thi gate," go thy

Isle of Thanet owe much to this

source.

Other

(3) A farm-yard. South. (4) Manner; fashion. gates, in another manner. GATE-DOOR, S. The street door. GATE-DOWN, 8. A going down. GATEL, S. For Catel, goods. Beves of Hamtoun, p. 129. GATE-PENNY, s. A tribute for leave to pass through gates. GATE-POST-BARGAIN, the money is paid on the gatepost before the stock sold leave the field. North. GATE-ROOM, S. A paddock. GATEROW, S. A street, or lane.

8. When

GATE-SCHADYLLE, s. The division
of a road. Pr. P.
GATE-SHORD, S. A gate-way.
Somerset.

GATE-WARD, 8. (4.-S.) A porter.
GATHER, (1) s. An animal's pluck.
See Gaddre.

(2) v. To glean. Somerset. GATHERER, 8. The money-taker at a theatre. Alleyn Papers. GATHERERS, S. The teeth of a horse by which he draws in his food.

GATHERING, S. Raking mown hay

or corn into cocks or rows. GATHERING-TUB, S. A tub used in brewing.

GATLESS, adj. Heedless. East. GATTARDS, adv. Gatewards. Leic. GATTERAM, 8. A green lane. Linc. GATTER-BUSH, s. The wild gelderGATTRIDGE, rose. GATTLEHEADED, adj. Forgetful. Cumb.

GAT-TOTHED, adj. Having teeth projecting out.

I have good cause to set the cocke on the hope, and make gaudye chere. Palsgrave's Acolastus, 1540.

And, Phedria, thinkest thou mee to be so undiscreet and foolish, that thou canst deceive me with gawdie tearms, and so lead mine away for nothing. Terence in English, 1641.

(2) s. Gaiety. GAUDY-DAY, 8. A showery day with gleams of sunshine. Northampt. GAUDY-FAT, adj. Excessively fat, a term applied solely to butcher's meat. North.

GAUDY-GREEN, s. Light green. GAUF, v. To go off. Somerset. GAUGHLING, adj. Tall and slender. Warw.

GAUK, v. To stare vacantly. North. GAUK-HANDED, adj. Left-handed. Craven.

GAUKY, adj. Clownish; awkward. GAUL, 8. A large wooden lever.

Lanc. GAULDRING. Drawling. Somerset. GAULS, 8. Void spaces in coppices. Essex.

GAULT, 8. Blue clay. Var. d. GAUM, v. (1) To understand; to distinguish; to consider.