G.

GA, v. To go. North

GAAM, (1) adj. Clammy. Wilts.

(2) v. To daub with dirt. Berks. GAB, 8. (A. N.) Talkativeness. GABBARD, adj. Ill-contrived, as GABBERN, Jrooms; large. West. GABBE, v. (4.-N.) To talk idly; to jest; to lie.

GABBER, (1) v. To talk nonsense.
(2) s. A jester.
GABBERIES, 8. (1) Deceits. Minsh.
(2) Prattle; jests.
GABBLE-RATCHES, 8. Birds which
make a great noise in the even-
ings. North.

GABBO, 8. The game of three
GOBBO, card loo.
GABEL, 8. (4.-N.) An excise.
GABERDINE, 8. (Fr.) A coarse cloak
or mantle.

GABERLILTIE, 8.
North.
GABIE, S.
North.

A ballad-singer.

A large-holed sieve.

GABLE, (1) 8. (Fr.) A cable. (2) adj. High.

GABLE-POLES, 8. Rods placed out

side the roof to secure the thatch. GABLET, 8. A small ornamental gable or canopy over a tabernacle or niche.

GABLICK, 8. A crow-bar. Linc.
GABLOCKS, 8. Spurs for fighting-
cocks.
GABRIEL-BELL, 8. A local name

for the saints' bell or ting-tang. GABRIEL-RATCHET, 8. The name of a ghost or night spirit. North. GABY, 8. A simpleton. GACH, 8. Filth or dirt of children. Glouc.

GAD, (1) 8. (A.-S.) A goad, or sharp point of metal; a spear; a pole pointed with metal.

And, come, I will go get a leaf of brass,
And with a gud of steel will write these
words,
And lay it by.

Tit. Andr., iv. 1.

The boys [at Horncastle] annually keep up the festival of the floralia on Mayday, making a procession to this hill with May gads, as they call them, in their hands: this is a white willow wand, the bark peeled off, tied round with cowslips, a thyrsus of the Bacchanals: at night they have a bonfire and other merriment, which is really a sacrifice or religious festival.

Stukeley's Itiner. Curios., 1776, i, 31.

(2) s. A measuring rod of ten feet.

(3) s. A fishing-rod; any rod or stick. North.

(5) 8. The gad-fly.
(6) v. To flit about as a gad-fly.
(7) v.
To run madly about the
field, said of cattle.

(8) v. To think; to believe. Ken-
nett.

(9) s. A wedge used in mining.

Pick and gad, and keep the kibble going," a very common motto in the mining districts expressive of bustle and activity.

GAD-ABOUT, 8. A rambler. West.
GADAMAN, adj. Roguish. Heref.
GAD-BEE, S. The gad-fly.
GAD-BIT, 8. A nail-passer.
GAD-BREEZE, S. The gad-fly.

4. He's a puppy-I can liken him to
nothing but my bald heffer when she's
got the gad-breeze in her tail.

The Country Farmer's Catechism, 1703. GADDRE, S. A sheep's or calf's pluck.

GADE, 8. A gadling.
GADER, v. To gather.
GADGER, 8. A gauger. North.
GAD-HOOK, 8. A long pole with an
iron crook. Somerset.

GADING, 8. A going about; a
GADDING, pilgrimage.

GADLING, 8. (A.-S.) A worthless vagabond.

GAD-NAIL, 8. A sort of long stout nail.

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GADS, 8. Knobs or spikes of iron used in armour. GAD-STEEL, S. Flemish steel, made in gads, or small bars. GAD-WHIP, S. An ox-whip. Linc. GAERN, 8. A garden. Somerset. GAF, pret. t. Gave.

GAFF, (1) 8. An iron hook. West. Called also a gaffer. (2) s. A gaffer. Linc.

(3) v. To toss up three pence, a game in the North. GAFFER, 8. An old man ; sometimes a grandfather; the foreman of a set of labourers. West. Formerly, a common mode of address among the lower classes, equivalent to friend, neighbour.

Lord, master, goodman, gaffer, or knave;
lady, mistress, goodwife, gammer, or
whore; so they do but buy my book,
and pay honestly for it, it's all one to
me: a knave's money is as good as an
honest man's.
Poor Robin, 1707.

GAFFLE, (1) s. A part of the crossbow used in bending it, moved in a part called the rack.

My cross-bow in my hand, my gaffle on my rack,

To bend it when I please, or when I please to slack. Drayt. Muses Elys.

(2) v. To tease; to incommode. West.

(3) v. To chirp, or chatter.

(4) v. To gad about. West. (5) s. A dung-fork. Somerset. (6) v. A term applied to ducks when feeding together in the mud. Northampt. GAFFET,

GAFFLET,. A cock's spur.

GAFFLED, adj. Silly. Northampt. GAFFLOCK, S. A crow-bar. Derb. GAFFS. 4. Spurs for fighting-cocks. GAFT, 8. A sort of hook for catching eels. Wilts.

GAFTY, adj. Suspicious. Chesh. GAG, v. (1) To nauseate. Suff. (2) To gad about.

GAIBESEEN, adj. Gay-looking.

Now lykewyse what saie you to courtiers? These minion gaibeseen gentilmen.

Sir Tho. Chaloner's Moria Enc., Q 2, b.

GAIGNAGE, 8. (A.-N.) Profit; gain. GAIL, S. A tub used in brewing.

Gail-clear, a tub for wort. Gaildish, a vessel used to pour liquor into a bottle. North.

GAILLARD, adj. (A.-N.) Gay; frisky. GAILY, adj. Pretty well in health. North.

GAIN, adj. Near; convenient; profitable; easy; tolerable; tractable; dexterous; expert; active; respectable; accommodating; good tempered. Var. d. GAINAGE, 8. (A.N.) Profit. GAINCOME, 8. (4.-S.) Return. GAINCOPE, v. To go across a field the nearest way; to meet with. South.

Some indeed there have been, of a more

heroical strain, who striving to gaincope these ambages, by venturing on a new discovery, have made their voyage in half the time.

Comenius's Janua Ling, ed. 1659. GAINFUL, adj. Tractable. Yorksh.

You'll find him gainful, but be sure you curb him,

And get him fairly, if you can, t' his lodg-
ing.
B. & Fl. Pilgrim, iv, 4.

GAINGIVING, 8. A misgiving.
GAINLY, (1) adj. Suitable.

(2) adv. Readily; easily. GAINSHIRE, S. The barb of a hook. Derb.

GAIN-SPUR. v. To excite by the prospect of gain.

Sure, in the legend of absurdest fables
I should enroule most of these admirables;
Save for the reverence of th' unstained
credit

Of many a witnes where I yerst have read it:

And saving that our gain-spurr'd pilots finde,

In our dayes, waters of more wondrous
kinde.
Du Bartas.

GAINSTAND, v. To withstand.
GAINSTRIVE, v. To strive against.
GAIRISH. See Garish.
GAIRN, S. Yarn. Yorksh.
GAIT, (1) s. A path, or street.
(2) 8. Summer pasturage for

cattle in a common field. North.
(3) s. A gait of water is two
buckets carried with a yoke.
(4) s. A goat.

(5) s. A single sheaf of corn.
North.

(6) v. To set up sheaves of corn in wet weather to dry. GAIT-BERDE, s. Goat's beard. GAITING, (1) adj. Frolicsome. Dors.

(2) 8. A single sheaf of corn set on end to dry. North. See Gait. GAITRE-BERRIE, 8. The berry of

the dog-wood tree.

GAKIN, 8. A simpleton. Glouc.

GAL, 8. A girl. Var. d.

GALAGANTING, adj.

Large and

awkward. West.

GALE, (1) v. To cry; to scream.
(2) s. Song; noise.

(3) s. A castrated bull. West.
(4) v. (A.-S. galan.) To sing.
(5) s. Wild myrtle. Cumb.
(6) s. (Fr.) Any sort of excres-
cence. Linc.

(7) v. To ache with cold; to fly
open with heat. North.

(8) v. To gale a mine, to acquire
the right of working it. West.
(9) A taunt, or gibe.
(10) Gaol, or prison.

Litul Johne and Moch for sothe
Toke the way unto the gale.
Cambridge MS., 15th cent.

GALE-HEADED, 8. Stupid. Devon. GALENTINE, S. (Fr.) Asort of sauce. We have in the old cookery receipts for such dishes as "lampreys in galyntyne."

Galyntyne. Take crustes of brede, and grynde hem smalle. Do thereto powdor of galyngale, of canel, gyngyves, and salt it. Tempre it with vynegar, and drawe it up thrugh a straynor, and messe it forth. Forme of Cury, p. 25.

GALES, 8. Wales.

GALEY, adj. Marshy. Devon. GALIARD, adj. Gay. See Gaillard Galiardise, gaiety.

GALILEE, 8. A church porch.