G

G

• • Gaberdine

  • a loose outer coat, or smock frock

  • Gad

  • a pointed instrument, a goad
    Upon the gad, with impetuous haste, upon the spur
    of the moment

  • Gain-giving

  • misgiving

  • Gait

  • going, steps

  • Galliard

  • a kind of dance

  • Galliasse

  • a kind of ship

  • Gallimaufry

  • a ridiculous medley

  • Gallow

  • to scare

  • Gallowglass

  • the irregular infantry of Ireland, and the
    Highlands of Scotland

  • Gamester

  • a frolicsome person
    A loose woman

  • Garboil

  • disorder, uproar

  • Garish

  • gaudy, staring

  • Garner

  • to lay by, as corn in a barn

  • Gast

  • frightened

  • Gaudy

  • festive

  • Gaze

  • an object of wonder

  • Gear

  • matter of business of any kind

  • Geck

  • a fool

  • General

  • the generality, common people

  • Generations

  • children

  • Generosity

  • noble birth

  • Generous

  • noble

  • Gentility

  • good manners

  • Gentle

  • gentlefolk

  • Gentle

  • noble

  • Gentle

  • to ennoble

  • Gentry

  • complaisance, conduct becoming gentlefolk

  • German

  • akin
    Appropriate

  • Germen

  • seed, embryo

  • Gest

  • period

  • Gib

  • a he-cat

  • Gifts

  • talents, endowment

  • Giglot

  • a wanton girl

  • Gilder

  • a coin of the value of 1s. 6d. or 2s

  • Gilt

  • money
    State of wealth

  • Gimmal

  • double

  • Gimmor

  • contrivance

  • Ging

  • gang

  • Gird

  • to gibe

  • Gird

  • a sarcasm or gibe

  • Gleek

  • to scoff

  • Gleek

  • a scoff

  • Glose

  • to comment; hence, to be garrulous

  • Glut

  • to swallow

  • Gnarl

  • to snarl

  • Good-deed

  • indeed

  • Good-den

  • good-evening, contracted from 'Good-even.'

  • Good-year

  • Good-year

  • Or

  • Good-jer a corruption of the French goujere; the
    venereal disease

  • Gorbellied

  • corpulent

  • Gourd

  • a species of game of chance

  • Gout

  • a drop

  • Government

  • discretion

  • Gracious

  • abounding in grace Divine

  • Grained

  • engrained

  • Gramercy

  • int. grand mercy, much thanks

  • Grange

  • the farmstead attached to a monastery, a
    solitary farm-house

  • Gratillity

  • used ridiculously for 'gratuity.'

  • Gratulate

  • to congratulate

  • Grave

  • to bury

  • Greasily

  • grossly

  • Greek

  • a bawd

  • Green

  • immature, fresh, unused

  • Greenly

  • foolishly

  • Greet

  • to weep

  • Grize

  • a step

  • Grossly

  • palpably

  • Groundling

  • one who sits in the pit of a theatre

  • Growing

  • accruing

  • Guard

  • decoration

  • Guard

  • to decorate

  • Guardage

  • guardianship

  • Guinea-hen

  • the pintado, a cant term

  • Gules

  • red, a term in heraldry

  • Gulf

  • the throat

  • Gun-stone

  • a cannon ball

  • Gust

  • taste, relish

  • Gyve

  • to fetter