Gielgath
Gielgath is an important Nansur city located on the Meneanor coast .

Gierra
Gierra is the Goddess of carnal passion. One of the so-called Compensatory Gods , who reward devotion in life with paradise in the afterlife, Gierra is very popular throughout the Three Seas , particularly among aging men drawn to the “aphrodisica,” Cultic nostrums reputed to enhance virility. In the Higarata , the collection of subsidiary writings that form the scriptural core of the Cults , Gierra is rarely depicted with any consistency, and is often cast as a malign temptress, luring men to the luxury of her couch, often with fatal consequences. In the Mar’eddat , she is wife of the faithless Ajokli . Gierra’s “voluptuous” idol, depicts “wide-thrown ankles.” “The temple prostitutes of Gierra believes, that despite the hundreds of men who uses them, they couples with only one, Hotos , the Priapic God.” Priestesses of Gierra tattoo their limbs in inscriptions and cover their bodies with oil. Part of their duties is to have sex with male worshippers. Sumni harlots must have the Sign of Gierra , twin serpents, tattooed on the back of their left hand, apparently in imitation of the Priestesses of Gierra.

Gilcûnya
Gilcûnya is the tongue of the Nonmen Qûya and the Gnostic Schools . Derived from Auja-Gilcûnni .

Languages derived from Gilcûnya

- High Kunna : Debased version of Gilcûnya, used by the Anagogic Schools of the Three Seas .

Gilgaöl
Gilgaöl is the God of war and conflict. He is one of the so-called Compensatory Gods , who reward devotion in life with paradise in the afterlife. Gilgaöl is the second most popular of the Hundred Gods, only after his sister Yatwer . In the Higarata , the collection of subsidiary writings that form the scriptural core of the Cults , Gilgaöl is depicted as harsh and sceptical of Men , continually demanding proof of worth from those who would follow him. Though subordinate to the Thousand Temples , the Gilgallic Cult boasts nearly as many priests, and perhaps receives more in the way of sacrificial donations . Gilgaöl is also known as the Shield-Breaker and One-Eyed War . At least the position of High Cultist of Gilgaöl is hereditary. The priests took part in the celebration of Ikurei Conphas ’s victory over the Scylvendi : They also sacrifice goshawks, dogs and lions, by burning them in godfires for the sake of those at war . Other goshawks are released into the setting evening sun . At least in one case, the hide of a lion was retained by the offerer . After battle the priests of Gilgaöl preside over the declaration of Battle-Celebrant . In their ornamental red hauberks, the Gilgallic Priests rise to declare the Battle-Celebrant. The High Cultist of Gilgaöl steps to the forefront of the others, performs the Gilgallic rites, and moves to stand over the Battle-Celebrant. He is told to kneel, and a circlet woven of thorns and olive sprigs, is placed on his head; the High Cultist of Gilgaöl finally cries, “Rise, [name], … Battle-Celebrant!” It is also the task of the High Cultist to consult his omen-texts to determine the will of the God . In ancient Sakarpi legend, Gilgaöl is said to have had a mortal daughter named Aelswë .

Gin'yursis
Gin’yursis was the Nonman King of Cil-Aujas during the Apocalypse . Gin’yursis was alive as far back as the Nonman Tutelage ; his greatest student was Sos-Praniura , who founded the Mangaecca in 684. In the autumn of 2151, Gin’yursis allied with a band of Meöri led by the hero Nostol . The forces succeeded in holding back the Horde of the No-God at the Battle of Kathol Pass , which would be the only victory during the Years of the Crib . However, the following spring, the resentment of the Men towards the Nonmen led them to betray their allies. The Nonmen of Cil-Aujas were massacred, including Gin’yursis. Common legend holds that the famous fractiousness of the Galeoth is due to a curse placed on their Meöri forefathers by Gin’yursis. In actuality, Gin’yursis was not so discriminate in his dying; he cursed all Men. However, because Cil-Aujas was a topos , Gin’yursis survived past his death as a ghostly apparition, the Wight-in-the-Mountain. He continued to haunt the halls of Cil-Aujas until 4132, when Mimara exorcized him using a Chorae and her Judging Eye .

Gin’yursis

Title(s): King
Aliases: Wight-in-the-Mountain
Lived: ? - 2152
Race: Nonmen
Nationality: Cil-Aujas
Gender: Male
Occupation: King of Cil-Aujas
Relatives: Risaphial (nephew)
Books: The Thousandfold Thought (mentioned) The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior (mentioned) The Great Ordeal (mentioned) The Unholy Consult (mentioned) The False Sun (mentioned)

Gin’yursis

Ginsil
Ginsil was the wife of General En-Kaujalau . She is mentioned in The Sagas as having pretended to be her husband in order to to fool the assassins coming to kill him .

Ginsil

Lived: 2115 - ca. 2147
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Kûniüric
Gender: Female
Relatives: En-Kaujalau (husband)
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before (mentioned) The Thousandfold Thought (mentioned) The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

Ginsil

Gin’gûrima
Gin’gûrima was the greatest Nonman Hero of the ancient Mansion of Viri . He was the first to turn on Nin’janjin and his Inchoroi allies at the Battle of Pir Pahal . Gin’gûrima was killed by a Dragon on the Inniür-Shigogli during the Cûno-Inchoroi Wars .

Gin’gûrima

Lived: ? - ?
Race: Nonmen
Nationality: Viri
Gender: Male
Occupation: Ishroi
Books: mentioned only

Gin’gûrima

Lived: ? - ?
Race: Nonmen
Nationality: Viri
Gender: Male
Occupation: Ishroi
Books: mentioned only

Gin’yursis
Gin’yursis was the Nonman King of Cil-Aujas during the Apocalypse . Gin’yursis was alive as far back as the Nonman Tutelage ; his greatest student was Sos-Praniura , who founded the Mangaecca in 684. In the autumn of 2151, Gin’yursis allied with a band of Meöri led by the hero Nostol . The forces succeeded in holding back the Horde of the No-God at the Battle of Kathol Pass , which would be the only victory during the Years of the Crib . However, the following spring, the resentment of the Men towards the Nonmen led them to betray their allies. The Nonmen of Cil-Aujas were massacred, including Gin’yursis. Common legend holds that the famous fractiousness of the Galeoth is due to a curse placed on their Meöri forefathers by Gin’yursis. In actuality, Gin’yursis was not so discriminate in his dying; he cursed all Men. However, because Cil-Aujas was a topos , Gin’yursis survived past his death as a ghostly apparition, the Wight-in-the-Mountain. He continued to haunt the halls of Cil-Aujas until 4132, when Mimara exorcized him using a Chorae and her Judging Eye .

Gin’yursis

Girgalla
Girgalla was an ancient Kûniüric poet famed for his Epic of Sauglish .

Girgalla

Lived: 1798 - 1841
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Kûniüric
Gender: Male
Books: mentioned only

Girgalla

Lived: 1798 - 1841
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Kûniüric
Gender: Male
Books: mentioned only

Girgash
Girgash is a nation of the Three Seas , located on the mountainous northern frontier of Nilnamesh , and the only Fanim nation aside from Kian . The King of Girgash at the time of the First Holy War was Pilaskanda . Under the New Empire , Urmakthi ab Makthi became the Believer-King of Girgash .

Cities

- Ajowai

Girgashi
Language of Fanic-Girgash . Derived from Sapmatari . One of the Ketyai languages .

Girgilioth
Girgilioth is a ruined city on the south bank of the River Sempis , which was once the capital of Kyraneas -occupied Shigek but was destroyed following Kyraneas's demise in the Apocalypse .

Girûmmû
"Girûmmû Tansiri" Ordealman, sorcerer of the Scarlet Spires.

Girûmmû Tansiri
Ordealman, sorcerer of the Scarlet Spires.

Gishtari
"Gishtari Therishut" Gishtari Therishut is a Conriyan Baron from the Ainoni frontier, murdered by persons unknown.

Appearance

Therishut has a thin beard.

The Warrior-Prophet

After the Holy War captures Shigek , Therishut informs Krijates Xinemus about the discovery of books related to the Gnosis in the Sareötic Library . Xinemus then passes the information to Drusas Achamian , who travels there only to discover it to be a trap set by the Scarlet Spires .

Gishtari Therishut

Title(s): Baron
Lived: 4067 - 4111
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Conriyan
Gender: Male
Occupation: Baron
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Gishtari Therishut

Title(s): Baron
Lived: 4067 - 4111
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Conriyan
Gender: Male
Occupation: Baron
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Gishtari Therishut
Gishtari Therishut is a Conriyan Baron from the Ainoni frontier, murdered by persons unknown.

Appearance

Therishut has a thin beard.

The Warrior-Prophet

Gishtari Therishut

Title(s): Baron
Lived: 4067 - 4111
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Conriyan
Gender: Male
Occupation: Baron
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Gishtari Therishut

Title(s): Baron
Lived: 4067 - 4111
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Conriyan
Gender: Male
Occupation: Baron
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

giallolino
-a term variously employed by early writers on art, though commonly designating the yellow oxide of lead, or massicot.

giambeux
-greaves; armor for the legs.

giant
-a man of extraordinari bulk and stature.
-a person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
-any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.
-like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.

giantess
-a woman of extraordinary size.

giantize
-to play the giant.

giantly
-appropriate to a giant.

giantry
-the race of giants.

giantship
-the state, personality, or character, of a giant;
-- a compellation for a giant.

giaour
-an infidel;
-- a term applied by turks to disbelievers in the mohammedan religion, especially christrians.

gib
-a male cat; a tomcat.
-to act like a cat.
-a piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them together, or to afford a bearing surface;
-- usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw.
-to secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs.
-to balk. see jib, v. i.

gib boom
-see jib boom.

gib
-cat
-a male cat, esp. an old one. see lst gib. n.

gibbartas
-one of several finback whales of the north atlantic;
-- called also jupiter whale.

gibbed
-of gib

gibber
-a balky horse.
-to speak rapidly and inarticulately.

gibbered
-of gibber

gibbering
-of gibber

gibberish
-rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words; jargon.
-unmeaning; as, gibberish language.

gibbet
-a kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning.
-the projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.
-to hang and expose on a gibbet.
-to expose to infamy; to blacken.

gibbeted
-of gibbet

gibbeting
-of gibbet

gibbier
-wild fowl; game.

gibbing
-of gib

gibbon
-any arboreal ape of the genus hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the east indies and southern asia. they are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing.

gibbose
-humped; protuberant;
-- said of a surface which presents one or more large elevations.

gibbostity
-the state of being gibbous or gibbose; gibbousness.

gibbous
-swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half
-moon and the full moon.
-hunched; hump
-backed.

gibbsite
-a hydrate of alumina.

gibe
-to cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff.
-to reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to scoff at; to mock.
-an expression of sarcastic scorn; a sarcastic jest; a scoff; a taunt; a sneer.

gibed
-of gibe

gibel
-a kind of carp (cyprinus gibelio);
-- called also prussian carp.

giber
-one who utters gibes.

gibfish
-the male of the salmon.

gibing
-of gibe

gibingly
-in a gibing manner; scornfully.

giblet
-made of giblets; as, a giblet pie.

giblets
-the inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry.

gibstaff
-a staff to guage water, or to push a boat.
-a staff formerly used in fighting beasts on the stage.

gid
-a disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. it is caused by the presence of the c/nurus, a larval tapeworm, in the brain. see c/nurus.

giddily
-in a giddy manner.

giddiness
-the quality or state of being giddy.

giddy
-having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy.
-promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a giddy precipice.
-bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling.
-characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless.
-to reel; to whirl.
-to make dizzy or unsteady.

giddy
-head
-a person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment.

giddy
-headed
-thoughtless; unsteady.

giddy
-paced
-moving irregularly; flighty; fickle.

gide
-alt. of guide

gie
-to guide. see gye .
-to give.

gier
-eagle
-a bird referred to in the bible (lev. xi. 18and deut. xiv. 17) as unclean, probably the egyptian vulture (neophron percnopterus).

gier
-falcon
-the gyrfalcon.

gieseckite
-a mineral occurring in greenish gray six
-sided prisms, having a greasy luster. it is probably a pseudomorph after elaeolite.

gif
-if.

giffard injector
-see under injector.

giffgaff
-mutial accommodation; mutual giving.

giffy
-see jiffy.

gift
-anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.
-the act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the president.
-a bribe; anything given to corrupt.
-some quality or endowment given to man by god; a preeminent and special talent or aptitude; power; faculty; as, the gift of wit; a gift for speaking.
-a voluntary transfer of real or personal property, without any consideration. it can be perfected only by deed, or in case of personal property, by an actual delivery of possession.
-to endow with some power or faculty.

gifted
-of gift

giftedness
-the state of being gifted.

gifting
-of gift

gig
-a fiddle.
-to engender.
-a kind of spear or harpoon. see fishgig.
-to fish with a gig.
-a playful or wanton girl; a giglot.
-a top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play.
-a light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise.
-a long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig.
-a rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth.

gigantean
-like a giant; mighty; gigantic.

gigantesque
-befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent.

gigantic
-of extraordinary size; like a giant.
-such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness.

gigantical
-bulky, big.

giganticide
-the act of killing, or one who kills, a giant.

gigantine
-gigantic.

gigantology
-an account or description of giants.

gigantomachy
-a war of giants; especially, the fabulous war of the giants against heaven.

gigeria
-of gigerium

gigerium
-the muscular stomach, or gizzard, of birds.

gigget
-same as gigot.

giggle
-to laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a light, affected, or silly manner; to titter with childish levity.
-a kind of laugh, with short catches of the voice or breath; a light, silly laugh.

giggled
-of giggle

giggler
-one who giggles or titters.

giggling
-of giggle

giggly
-prone to giggling.

giggot
-see gigot.
-a leg of mutton.
-a small piece of flesh; a slice.

giggyng
-the act of fastending the gige or leather strap to the shield.

giglet
-a wanton; a lascivious or light, giddy girl.

giglot
-alt. of giglet
-giddi; light; inconstant; wanton.

gigot
-alt. of giggot

gila monster
-a large tuberculated lizard (heloderma suspectum) native of the dry plains of arizona, new mexico, etc. it is the only lizard known to have venomous teeth.

gilbbery
-slippery; changeable.
-moving easily; nimble; voluble.

gild
-to overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.
-to make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
-to give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie.
-to make red with drinking.

gildale
-a drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share.

gilded
-of gild

gilden
-gilded.

gilder
-one who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold.
-a dutch coin. see guilder.

gilding
-of gild

gile
-guile.

gill
-an organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia.
-the radiating, gill
-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom.
-the fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
-the flesh under or about the chin.
-one of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
-a two
-wheeled frame for transporting timber.
-a leech.
-a woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream.
-a measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint.
-a young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl.
-the ground ivy (nepeta glechoma);
-- called also gill over the ground, and other like names.
-malt liquor medicated with ground ivy.

gill
-flirt
-a thoughtless, giddy girl; a flirt
-gill.

gillhouse
-a shop where gill is sold.

gillian
-a girl; esp., a wanton; a gill.

gillie gilly
-a boy or young man; a manservant; a male attendant, in the scottish highlands.

gillyflower
-a name given by old writers to the clove pink (dianthus caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white.
-a kind of apple, of a roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core.

gilour
-a guiler; deceiver.

gilse
-see grilse.

gilt
-of gild
-a female pig, when young.
-imp. & p. p. of gild.
-gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow.
-gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.
-money.

gilt
-edge
-alt. of gilt
-edged

gilt
-edged
-having a gilt edge; as, gilt
-edged paper.
-of the best quality;
-- said of negotiable paper, etc.

gilthead
-a marine fish.
-the pagrus, / chrysophrys, auratus, a valuable food fish common in the mediterranean (so named from its golden
-colored head);
-- called also giltpoll.
-the crenilabrus melops, of the british coasts;
-- called also golden maid, conner, sea partridge.

giltif
-guilty.

gilttail
-a yellow
-tailed worm or larva.

gim
-neat; spruce.

gimbal
-alt. of gimbals

gimbals
-a contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. it consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first.

gimblet
-see gimlet.

gimcrack
-a trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.

gimlet
-a small tool for boring holes. it has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle.
-to pierce or make with a gimlet.
-to turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet.

gimleted
-of gimlet

gimleting
-of gimlet

gimmal
-joined work whose parts move within each other; a pair or series of interlocked rings.
-a quaint piece of machinery; a gimmer.

gimmer
-alt. of gimmor

gimmor
-a piece of mechanism; mechanical device or contrivance; a gimcrack.

gimp
-smart; spruce; trim; nice.
-a narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it;
-- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc.
-to notch; to indent; to jag.

gin
-against; near by; towards; as, gin night.
-if.
-to begin;
-- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. see gan.
-a strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries;
-- also called hollands and holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in holland. common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.
-contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
-a machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
-a hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
-a machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.
-to catch in a trap.
-to clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.

ging
-same as gang, n., 2.

gingal
-see jingal.

ginger
-a plant of the genus zingiber, of the east and west indies. the species most known is z. officinale.
-the hot and spicy rootstock of zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine.

gingerbread
-a kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes.

gingerly
-cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily.

gingerness
-cautiousness; tenderness.

gingham
-a kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven;
-- distinguished from printed cotton or prints.

ginging
-the lining of a mine shaft with stones or bricks to prevent caving.

gingival
-of or pertaining to the gums.

gingle
-see jingle.

ginglyform
-ginglymoid.

ginglymi
-of ginglymus

ginglymodi
-an order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. they have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebrae convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. see ganoidel.

ginglymoid
-alt. of ginglymoidal

ginglymoidal
-pertaining to, or resembling, a ginglymus, or hinge joint; ginglyform.

ginglymus
-a hinge joint; an articulation, admitting of flexion and extension, or motion in two directions only, as the elbow and the ankle.

ginhouse
-a building where cotton is ginned.

ginkgo
-a large ornamental tree (ginkgo biloba) from china and japan, belonging to the yew suborder of coniferae. its leaves are so like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is also called the maidenhair tree.

ginkgoes
-of ginkgo

ginn
-of ginnee

ginned
-of gin

ginnee
-see jinnee.

ginnet
-see genet, a horse.

ginning
-of gin
-of gin
-beginning.

ginny
-carriage
-a small, strong carriage for conveying materials on a railroad.

ginseng
-a plant of the genus aralia, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the chinese. the chinese plant (aralia schinseng) has become so rare that the american (a. quinquefolia) has largely taken its place, and its root is now an article of export from america to china. the root, when dry, is of a yellowish white color, with a sweetness in the taste somewhat resembling that of licorice, combined with a slight aromatic bitterness.

ginshop
-a shop or barroom where gin is sold as a beverage.

gip
-to take out the entrails of (herrings).
-a servant. see gyp.

gipoun
-a short cassock.

gipser
-alt. of gipsire

gipsire
-a kind of pouch formerly worn at the girdle.

gipsy
-see gypsy.

gipsyism
-see gypsyism.

giraffe
-an african ruminant (camelopardalis giraffa) related to the deers and antelopes, but placed in a family by itself; the camelopard. it is the tallest of animals, being sometimes twenty feet from the hoofs to the top of the head. its neck is very long, and its fore legs are much longer than its hind legs.

girandole
-an ornamental branched candlestick.
-a flower stand, fountain, or the like, of branching form.
-a kind of revolving firework.
-a series of chambers in defensive mines.

girasole girasol
-see heliotrope.
-a variety of opal which is usually milk white, bluish white, or sky blue; but in a bright light it reflects a reddish color.

gird
-a stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
-a cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer.
-to strike; to smite.
-to sneer at; to mock; to gibe.
-to gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms.
-to encircle or bind with any flexible band.
-to make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.
-to surround; to encircle, or encompass.
-to clothe; to swathe; to invest.
-to prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest.

girded
-of gird

girder
-one who girds; a satirist.
-one who, or that which, girds.
-a main beam; a stright, horizontal beam to span an opening or carry weight, such as ends of floor beams, etc.; hence, a framed or built
-up member discharging the same office, technically called a compound girder. see illusts. of frame, and doubleframed floor, under double.

girding
-of gird
-that with which one is girded; a girdle.

girdle
-a griddle.
-that which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.
-the zodiac; also, the equator.
-the line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant
-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. see illust. of brilliant.
-a thin bed or stratum of stone.
-the clitellus of an earthworm.
-to bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
-to inclose; to environ; to shut in.
-to make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.

girdled
-of girdle

girdler
-one who girdles.
-a maker of girdles.
-an american longicorn beetle (oncideres cingulatus) which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvae.

girdlestead
-that part of the body where the girdle is worn.
-the lap.

girdling
-of girdle

gire
-see gyre.

girkin
-see gherkin.

girl
-a young person of either sex; a child.
-a female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden.
-a female servant; a maidservant.
-a roebuck two years old.

girlhood
-state or time of being a girl.

girlish
-like, or characteristic of, a girl; of or pertaining to girlhood; innocent; artless; immature; weak; as, girlish ways; girlish grief.

girlond
-a garland; a prize.

girn
-to grin.

girondist
-a member of the moderate republican party formed in the french legislative assembly in 1791. the girondists were so called because their leaders were deputies from the department of la gironde.
-of or pertaining to the girondists.

girrock
-a garfish.

girt
-of gird
-imp. & p. p. of gird.
-to gird; to encircle; to invest by means of a girdle; to measure the girth of; as, to girt a tree.
-bound by a cable;
-- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.
-same as girth.

girted
-of girt

girth
-a band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.
-the measure round the body, as at the waist or belly; the circumference of anything.
-a small horizontal brace or girder.
-to bind as with a girth.

girting
-of girt

girtline
-a gantline.

gisarm
-a weapon with a scythe
-shaped blade, and a separate long sharp point, mounted on a long staff and carried by foot soldiers.

gise
-to feed or pasture.
-guise; manner.

gisle
-a pledge.

gismondine
-alt. of gismondite

gismondite
-a native hydrated silicate of alumina, lime, and potash, first noticed near rome.

gist
-a resting place.
-the main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question.

git
-see geat.

gite
-a gown.

gith
-the corn cockle; also anciently applied to the nigella, or fennel flower.

gittern
-an instrument like a guitar.
-to play on gittern.

gittith
-a musical instrument, of unknown character, supposed by some to have been used by the people of gath, and thence obtained by david. it is mentioned in the title of psalms viii., lxxxi., and lxxxiv.

giusto
-in just, correct, or suitable time.

give
-to bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow.
-to yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy.
-to yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks.
-to communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc.
-to grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission.
-to exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show; as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
-to devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study.
-to set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason;
-- used principally in the passive form given.
-to allow or admit by way of supposition.
-to attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
-to excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain.
-to pledge; as, to give one's word.
-to cause; to make;
-- with the infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know, etc.
-to give a gift or gifts.
-to yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.
-to become soft or moist.
-to move; to recede.
-to shed tears; to weep.
-to have a misgiving.
-to open; to lead.

given
-of give
-p. p. & a. from give, v.
-granted; assumed; supposed to be known; set forth as a known quantity, relation, or premise.
-disposed; inclined;
-- used with an adv.; as, virtuously given.
-stated; fixed; as, in a given time.

giver
-one who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes.

gives
-fetters.

giving
-of give
-the act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.
-a gift; a benefaction.
-the act of softening, breaking, or yielding.

gizzard
-the second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.
-a thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate animals.
-a stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks.