Gild (v. t.) To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.
Gild (v. t.) To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
Gild (v. t.) To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie.
Gild (v. t.) To make red with drinking.
Gildale (v. t.) A drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share.
Gilden (a.) Gilded.
Gilder (n.) One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold.
Gilder (n.) A Dutch coin. See Guilder.
Guilding (n.) The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold.
Guilding (n.) Gold in leaf, powder, or liquid, for application to any surface.
Guilding (n.) Any superficial coating or appearance, as opposed to what is solid and genuine.
Gile (n.) Guile.
Gill (n.) An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia.
Gill (n.) The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom.
Gill (n.) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
Gill (n.) The flesh under or about the chin.
Gill (n.) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
Gill (n.) A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.
Gill (n.) A leech.
Gill (n.) A woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream.
Gill (n.) A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint.
Gill (n.) A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl.
Gill (n.) The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names.
Gill (n.) Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy.
Gill-flirt (n.) A thoughtless, giddy girl; a flirt-gill.
Gillhouse (n.) A shop where gill is sold.
Gillian (n.) A girl; esp., a wanton; a gill.
Gillie Gilly (n.) A boy or young man; a manservant; a male attendant, in the Scottish Highlands.
Gillyflower (n.) 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.
Gillyflower (n.) A kind of apple, of a roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core.
Gilour (n.) A guiler; deceiver.
Gilse (n.) See Grilse.
Gilt (v. t.) A female pig, when young.
Gilt () imp. & p. p. of Gild.
Gilt (p. p. & a.) Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow.
Gilt (n.) Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.
Gilt (n.) Money.
Gilt-edge (a.) Alt. of Gilt-edged
Gilt-edged (a.) Having a gilt edge; as, gilt-edged paper.
Gilt-edged (a.) Of the best quality; -- said of negotiable paper, etc.
Gilthead (n.) A marine fish.
Gilthead (n.) The Pagrus, / Chrysophrys, auratus, a valuable food fish common in the Mediterranean (so named from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll.
Gilthead (n.) The Crenilabrus melops, of the British coasts; -- called also golden maid, conner, sea partridge.
Giltif (a.) Guilty.
Gilttail (n.) A yellow-tailed worm or larva.
Gim (a.) Neat; spruce.
Gimbal (n.) Alt. of Gimbals
Gimbals (n.) 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 (n. & v.) See Gimlet.
Gimcrack (n.) A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.
Gimlet (n.) A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle.
Gimleted (imp. & p. p.) of Gimlet
Gimleting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gimlet
Gimlet (v. t.) To pierce or make with a gimlet.
Gimlet (v. t.) To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet.
Gimmal (n.) Joined work whose parts move within each other; a pair or series of interlocked rings.
Gimmal (n.) A quaint piece of machinery; a gimmer.
Gommal (a.) Made or consisting of interlocked ring/ or links; as, gimmal mail.
Gimmer (n.) Alt. of Gimmor
Gimmor (n.) A piece of mechanism; mechanical device or contrivance; a gimcrack.
Gimp (a.) Smart; spruce; trim; nice.
Gimp (n.) 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.
Gimp (v. t.) To notch; to indent; to jag.
Gin (n.) Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.
Gin (conj.) If.
Gan (imp. & p. p.) of Gin
Gon () of Gin
Gun () of Gin
Ginning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gin
Gin (v. i.) To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.
Gin (n.) 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.
Gin (n.) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
Gin (n.) 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.
Gin (n.) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
Gin (n.) A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.
Ginned (imp. & p. p.) of Gin
Ginning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gin
Gin (v. t.) To catch in a trap.
Gin (v. t.) To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.
Ging (n.) Same as Gang, n., 2.
Gingal (n.) See Jingal.
Ginger (n.) A plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Z. officinale.
Ginger (n.) The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine.
Gingerbread (n.) A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes.
Gingerly (adv.) Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily.
Gingerness (n.) Cautiousness; tenderness.
Gingham (n.) 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 (n.) The lining of a mine shaft with stones or bricks to prevent caving.
Gingival (a.) Of or pertaining to the gums.
Gingle (n. & v.) See Jingle.
Ginglyform (a.) Ginglymoid.
Ginglymodi (n.) 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 (a.) Alt. of Ginglymoidal
Ginglymoidal (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a ginglymus, or hinge joint; ginglyform.
Ginglymi (pl. ) of Ginglymus
Ginglymus (n.) A hinge joint; an articulation, admitting of flexion and extension, or motion in two directions only, as the elbow and the ankle.
Ginhouse (n.) A building where cotton is ginned.
Ginkgoes (pl. ) of Ginkgo
Ginkgo (n.) 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.
Ginn (pl. ) of Ginnee