| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| giantly | adjective | Appropriate to a giant. |
| giantry | noun | The race of giants. |
| gibbing | present participle & vb. noun | of Gib |
| gibbier | noun | Wild fowl; game. |
| gibbose | adjective | Humped; protuberant; — said of a surface which presents one or more large elevations. |
| gibbous | adjective | 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. |
| gib-cat | noun | A male cat, esp. an old one. See lst Gib. n. |
| gibfish | noun | The male of the salmon. |
| giblets | noun pl. | The inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry. |
| giddily | adverb | In a giddy manner. |
| gifting | present participle & vb. noun | of Gift |
| gigeria | plural | of Gigerium |
| giggled | imp. & past participle | of Giggle |
| giggler | noun | One who giggles or titters. |
| giggyng | noun | The act of fastending the gige or leather strap to the shield. |
| gilding | present participle & vb. noun | of Gild |
| gildale | verb t. | A drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share. |
| gillian | noun | A girl; esp., a wanton; a gill. |
| gimbals | noun | 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 | noun & verb | See Gimlet. |
| ginning | present participle & vb. noun | of Gin, of Gin, Beginning. |
| gingham | noun | 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 | noun | The lining of a mine shaft with stones or bricks to prevent caving. |
| ginseng | noun | 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 | noun | A shop or barroom where gin is sold as a beverage. |
| gipsire | noun | A kind of pouch formerly worn at the girdle. |
| giraffe | noun | 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. |
| girding | present participle & vb. noun | of Gird, That with which one is girded; a girdle. |
| girdled | imp. & past participle | of Girdle |
| girdler | noun | 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. |
| girlish | adjective | Like, or characteristic of, a girl; of or pertaining to girlhood; innocent; artless; immature; weak; as, girlish ways; girlish grief. |
| girlond | noun | A garland; a prize. |
| girrock | noun | A garfish. |
| girting | present participle & vb. noun | of Girt |
| gittern | noun | An instrument like a guitar., To play on gittern. |
| gittith | noun | 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. |
| gizzard | noun | 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. |