Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 18

Gestured (imp. & p. p.) of Gesture

Gesturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gesture

Gesture (v. t.) To accompany or illustrate with gesture or action; to gesticulate.

Gesture (v. i.) To make gestures; to gesticulate.

Gestureless (a.) Free from gestures.

Gesturement (n.) Act of making gestures; gesturing.

Get (n.) Jet, the mineral.

Get (n.) Fashion; manner; custom.

Get (n.) Artifice; contrivance.

Got (imp.) of Get

Gat () of Get

Got (p. p.) of Get

Gotten () of Get

Getting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Get

Get (v. t.) To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire; to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by purchase, etc.

Get (v. t.) Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have.

Get (v. t.) To beget; to procreate; to generate.

Get (v. t.) To obtain mental possession of; to learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out; as, to get out one's Greek lesson.

Get (v. t.) To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.

Get (v. t.) To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle.

Get (v. t.) To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.

Get (v. i.) To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased.

Get (v. i.) To arrive at, or bring one's self into, a state, condition, or position; to come to be; to become; -- with a following adjective or past participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected.

Get (n.) Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.

Geten () p. p. of Get.

Geth () the original third pers. sing. pres. of Go.

Get-penny (n.) Something which gets or gains money; a successful affair.

Gettable (a.) That may be obtained.

Getter (n.) One who gets, gains, obtains, acquires, begets, or procreates.

Getterup (n.) One who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc.

Getting (n.) The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.

Getting (n.) That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.

Get-up (n.) General composition or structure; manner in which the parts of a thing are combined; make-up; style of dress, etc.

Gewgaw (n.) A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble.

Gewgaw (a.) Showy; unreal; pretentious.

Geyser (n.) A boiling spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud, etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam.

Geyserite (n.) A loose hydrated form of silica, a variety of opal, deposited in concretionary cauliflowerlike masses, around some hot springs and geysers.

Gharry (n.) Any wheeled cart or carriage.

Ghast (a.) To strike aghast; to affright.

Ghastful (a.) Fit to make one aghast; dismal.

Ghastliness (n.) The state of being ghastly; a deathlike look.

Ghastly (superl.) Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal.

Ghastly (superl.) Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.

Ghastly (adv.) In a ghastly manner; hideously.

Ghastness (n.) Ghastliness.

Ghat (n.) Alt. of Ghaut

Ghaut (n.) A pass through a mountain.

Ghaut (n.) A range of mountains.

Ghaut (n.) Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf.

Ghawazi (n. pl.) Egyptian dancing girls, of a lower sort than the almeh.

Gheber Ghebre (n.) A worshiper of fire; a Zoroastrian; a Parsee.

Ghee (n.) Butter clarified by boiling, and thus converted into a kind of oil.

Gherkin (n.) A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles.

Gherkin (n.) See Sea gherkin.

Ghess (v. t. & i.) See Guess.

Ghetto (n.) The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city.

Ghibelline (n.) One of a faction in Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses.

Ghole (n.) See Ghoul.

Ghost (n.) The spirit; the soul of man.

Ghost (n.) The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

Ghost (n.) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.

Ghost (n.) A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

Ghost (v. i.) To die; to expire.

Ghost (v. t.) To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.

Ghostfish (n.) A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth.

Ghostless (a.) Without life or spirit.

Ghostlike (a.) Like a ghost; ghastly.

Ghostliness (n.) The quality of being ghostly.

Ghostly (a.) Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor.

Ghostly (a.) Of or pertaining to apparitions.

Ghostly (adv.) Spiritually; mystically.

Ghostology (n.) Ghost lore.

Ghoul (n.) An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies.

Ghoulish (a.) Characteristic of a ghoul; vampirelike; hyenalike.

Ghyll (n.) A ravine. See Gill a woody glen.

Giallolino (n.) A term variously employed by early writers on art, though commonly designating the yellow oxide of lead, or massicot.

Giambeux (n. pl.) Greaves; armor for the legs.

Giant (n.) A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.

Giant (n.) A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

Giant (n.) Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.

Giant (a.) Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.

Giantess (n.) A woman of extraordinary size.

Giantize (v. i.) To play the giant.

Giantly (a.) Appropriate to a giant.

Giantry (n.) The race of giants.

Giantship (n.) The state, personality, or character, of a giant; -- a compellation for a giant.

Giaour (n.) An infidel; -- a term applied by Turks to disbelievers in the Mohammedan religion, especially Christrians.

Gib (n.) A male cat; a tomcat.

Gib (v. i.) To act like a cat.

Gib (n.) 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.

Gibbed (imp. & p. p.) of Gib

Gibbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gib

Gib (v. t.) To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs.

Gib (v. i.) To balk. See Jib, v. i.

Gibbartas (n.) One of several finback whales of the North Atlantic; -- called also Jupiter whale.

Gibber (n.) A balky horse.

Gibbered (imp. & p. p.) of Gibber

Gibbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gibber

Gibber (v. i.) To speak rapidly and inarticulately.

Gibberish (v. i.) Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words; jargon.

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