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will appear, that Nares' conjecture MD. 4, 1. jewel for gimmal is superfluous.

Ghost, dead person. bHf. 3, 2. Kin to the hebr. chai, life, and the pers. Gahs, good spirits, (Jzeds), of the day's parts. Gin, snare to catch birds, trap. TN. 2, 5. M. to Ghost, to haunt as a ghost. AC. 2, 6. 4, 2. bHf. 3, 1. cHf. 1, 4. Contracted, as it Gib, gib cat, male cat. An expression exactly seems, from engine, like genius and ingenium. analogous to that of a Jack ass, the one being to Gin, to begin. M. 1, 2. Anglos. gynnan. formerly called Gib, or Gilbert, in old French Ginevra, king Arthur's false consort LL. 4, 1. Tibert. Tib was also a common name for a cat. Ginger, a sort of spice very current in Shk's aHd. 1, 2. H. 3, 4. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 415. times. ald. 2, 1. WT. 4, 2. MM. 4, 3. MV. to Gibber, to gab, gabble, babble, jabber, 3, 1. Gr. zingiberis. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, gabber, gibe, jape. H. 1, 1. Alltogether rela- 142. tions, as varieties of the gr. chaō, chainō, engl. Gingerly, softly, heedfully, carefully. TG. 1, 2. to yawn, jawn, chaun, to open the mouth, Kin to the germ. zimperlich, zipperlich, zappcalled also gab. The consonants being but later precipitates of earlier aspirations, their change must be the greater and the more licentious in a mixt and hybridous language chiefly, that fluctuates between various assonances of words and ideas.

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Gibe, jest, mockery, scorn. MW. 3, 3. 4, 5. H. 5, 1. O. 4, 1.

Giber, mocker, jeerer. Co. 2, 1. S. to gibber. Gig, turning top. LL. 4, 3. 5, 1. Kin to the gr

kio, kikys, kikō, kichō, the engl. quick, etc. Giglet, giglot, gigle, wanton wench, drab, strumpet. MM. 5, 1. aHf. 5, 1. Cy. 3, 1. An assonance of the anglos. gagol, gaegl, lascivious, the engl. to giggle, gr. kichlizō, kichliskō, germ. kichern, the subst. giggle for mistress. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. III, 124. to Gild, to cover with foliated gold. MV. 2, 6. KJ. 2, 2; to pay, bHd. 4, 4., where the pun with gild and guilt: See also He. 2. ch. Rb. 2, 1. Gold was popularly styled red; hence to gild with blood a common phrase in the sixteenth century. M. 2, 2. Gilt, gilded, drunk. T. 5, 1. by a jocular allusion to the grand elixir of alchymists as stone. bHd. 3, 2. TA. 2, 2. or as aurum potabile bHd. 4, 4. AC. 1,5. AW. 5, 2. JC. 1, 3.

Gilded puddle AC. 1, 4. puddles of urine, where there is formed a film, which reflects all the prismatic colours and very principally yellow and other tinges of a golden hue. Gill, abridged for Gillet, from Julietta. RJ. 2,4. as Gillian CE. 3, 1. from Juliana. Gilt, gold, gilding. Rb. 2, 1. cHf. 2, 2. Gimmal, or gemmow is in general all what is mechanically artificial, and nicely or curiously formed machinery, mechanical work or performance; whence aHf. 1, 2. some odd gimmals or device are joined, and He. 4, 2. g. bit is a curious bit. Of course gimmal and gimmer, or gimcrack, or curious contrivance or machinery are the same word-for and r notoriously. are changed not seldom-. The notion of double ring here intruded by an odd etymology must therefore be wholly abandoned. For the word is an assonance of the gr. keimelion, as well, meaning a curious, precious and therefore kept up thing, as of the german verb zimmern, kin to the gr. demein, the engl. timber, that is to - work curiously in mechanics. Even by gim, gimmy, pretty, spruce, neat, it assonates the gr. komos, kompsos, komo, the engl. gimp, scot jimp, jemmy, the lat, comptus, comtus, of whom the general notion is the same. So it

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Gipsy, gipsey, giptian, Egyptian. AC. 4, 10. to Gird, to cut, or lash with wit, to reproach, fob, jeer. bhd. 1, 2. Co. 1, 1. Gird, a cut, sarcasm, stroke of satire. TS. 5, 2 aHf. 3, 1. Nares derives it from the sax. gyrd, virga, switch, germ. Gerte. Gifford's Ben Jons. III, 385. deems it a mere metathesis of gride, viz thrust, blow, metaphorically a smart stroke of wit, taunt, reproachful retort. Girdle. There is no discretion below the girdle, a proverb alluded to KL. 4, 6. by the words But to the g. do the gods inherit, beneath is all the fiends. cf. H. 2, 2. On fortunes cap we are not etc. Another proverb: If he be angry, let him turn the buckle of his girdle, or in Ireland turn his brogues, that is prepare himself for combat by turning the girdle behind, and to obtain redress, is alluded to MA. 5, 1. By Gis, Gisse, Jyse, Jis by Jesus! an oath. H. 4, 5.

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Gist, gest, lodging or stage for rest in a progress or journey, chiefly of the king, written in a scroll and containing also the time of staying at each place, WT. I, 2. The fr. word gite. to Give off, to cease, leave off, to diminish, relent. AC. 4, 3.

Given, endowed. bHf. 3, 1. JC. 1, 2. aHd. 3, 3. MM. 2, 1.

Gives, gyres, fetters for feet. MM. 4, 2. alld. 4, 2. Cy. 5, 4. RJ. 2, 2. H. 4, 7. From the gr. kyphōn, originally a crooked, courbed wood for shackling, from kybō, kypō, kyphō, kyptō. to Give, gyve, to fetter. O. 2, 1. to Glance, to allude, give a hint of. MD. 2, 2. Kin to the gr. laō, glaussō, engl. gloss, to varnish over, of course to polish, forbish, make sleek, even, also in a metaphorical sense, assonant in to glose, wh.s.; leios, germ. gleissen; engl. glad, sax. glaed, glad, germ. glatt, icel. gladr, gladvaer.

to Glare, to look with piercing eyes, to stare at. KL. 3, 6. H. 3, 4. Kin to flare, by the gr. laō (s. to glance), and the lowsax. glaren, glören, to glow like coals, whence angloren, anglotzen (gr. glaussein), glarogig, metath. grallogig, answering to the homerical glaukops. Of the same root is

to Glass, to euclose in a glass. LL. 2, 1. Gleam, a beam of light, corrected by Voss MD. 5, 1. for beam, or stream. The lineage extends itself farther to glow, glimmer, gleen, glimpse (gr. lampō, lampsō) glisten, gloss. leusso), germ. glühen, glimmen, sax. leoman, lioman, geleoman, radiare, coruscare, lucere, lat. lumen, flamma. S. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 373.

Gleeful, joyful, mirthful, merry. TɅn. 2, 3. The primitive word glee is used by Chaucer and in Tristan 2. 7. 10. 13 for music, so that

it is from the sax. gligg, glie, gle, kin to the gr. kaleō, klazō, klangō, germ. klingen, Klang, engl. gleek, transferred to mirth, and joy. There assonates however also the gr. gelaō, to laugh.

Gleek, jest, scoff. aHf. 3, 2. From the sax.glig, ludibrium, jest. S. gleeful. To give the gleek, to pass a jest upon, to make appear ridiculous. RJ. 4, 5. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 192.

to Gleek, to jest, scoff at. MD. 3, 1. He. 5, 1, where gleek and gall, wh. s. The nearest etymon of this word in this meaning is the gr. glaux, owl, as mocking bird in mythology. Gleek, a game at cards, played by three persons with 44 cards, each hand having 12, and 8 being left for the stock. Gleek were 8 cards of a sort, as 8 aces, 8 kings etc. from the germ. gleich. To this and the double meaning of scoffing is alluded Rb. 4, 5.

to Glew, or glue, to join with a viscous cement, to join, unite. cHf. 2, 6. 5, 2. KJ. 3, 4. From the fr. glu, kin to cleave, germ. kleben. to Glib, or lib, to geld, castrate. WT. 2, 1. Probably from the gr. kolobun, to mutilate, whence the engl. collop, wh. s. reducible therefore to leō, lepō, to make thin, hollow, smooth, sleek, even, plain, slippery, to glib TC. 4, 5. gr. leios, lat. laevis. Hence

Glib, pliant, flexible. TA. 1, 1. where it is joined with slippery. KL. 1, 1. where glib and oily art to speak.

to Gloom, to be dark, tenebrous, to look gloomy, melancholy, sullen. RJ. 5, 3. S. gleam. to Glose, gloze, to interpret or put construction upon any thing, to expound, comment upon, to prate. Rb. 2, 1; to fawn, flatter by speaking. TC. 2, 2. Kin to gloss (S. to glare, glance and gleam) and the gr. glossa, tongue. Gloss, varnish. aHf. 4, 1.

Glove, gauntlet, of a lady worn in the helmet as a favour, was a very honourable token in the times of chivalry, and much of the wearer's success was derived from the virtue of the lady. Rb. 5, 3. It was also a fashion, that by and by fell into the hands of coxcombical and dissolute servants. KL. 3, 4. Sometimes they were token of challenge, He. 4, 1. and of enmity to him from whom it was taken, ib. 4, 7. Gloves were often perfumed. WT. 4, 3.

te Glut, to cloy, overfill, swallow. T. 1, 1. aHd. 4, 2. (lat. glutio.)

to Gnarl, to snarl. Rb. 1, 3. bHf. 3, 1. Sax. gnyrran, germ. knurren, lat. grunnio, gr. gryzo, germ. grunzen.

Gnarled, knotted. MM. 2, 2. Kin by metathesis
to the gr. grynos, grunos, germ. Knorr.
Gnat is to be restored for knot, knott, or sot
LL. 3, 3.

Goad, sting, pointed stick to prick oxen forward. WT. 1, 2. where it is joined to thorns, nettles, tails of wasps.

to Goad, to stimulate, incite. MM. 2, 2. AW. 5, 1. Co. 2, 3.

Goal, landmark set up to bound a race; aim, scope. WT. 1,2. AC. 4, 8. From the gr. kaulos, shaft, or stalk.

Gobbet, a mouthful, draught, gulp, swallowing. bHf. 4, 1. 5, 2. Kin to gab, gag, wh. s. Goblet, cup for drinking. Rb. 3, 3. bld. 2, 1. From the gr. kypellon.

Goblin, fairy; spirit. T. 4, 1. CE. 2, 2. WT. 2, 1. TC. 5, 11. H. 1, 4. 5, 2. The germ. Kobold, from the gr. kobalos, koballos, kōbalos,

one of the mates or pheres of Bacchus, a company like the Satyri and Fauni. The idea was individually formed and framed by every people, and accommodated to the language, and vice versa. It implies however the notion of a playful, merry, droll, harmless spirit. S. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 892.

God 'ild or dild you, corrupt form instead of god yield or give you some advantage. AL. 3, 8. 5, 4. S. M. 1, 6. AC. 4, 2.

God before, either god going before, assisting, guiding, favouring, or be fore, viz god may defend, assist, shield by an archaism. He. 1, 2. 3, 6.

God's blessing. To go out of god's bl. into the warm sun was a proverbial phrase for quitting a better for a worse situation. Thereat is alluded H. 1, 2. by I am too much in the sun, viz out of God's blessing, unfortunate, unblessed. God's santies, or corruptedly sonties, for god's sancti, or saints, an oath. MV. 2, 2. Gongarian, gipsy, supposed to be a corruption of Hungarian, perhaps to make a more tremendous sound. MW. 1, 3. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 57.

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Good. To do good, to have effect. aHd. 3, 1. – To make good, to justify, maintain, secure. CE. 5, 1. TS. ind. 1. · A-good (at good) seriously, earnestly. TG. 4, 4. Good deed, indeed, in very deed. WT. 1, 2. Good leave, ready assent. AL. 1, 1. A good man, in mercantile style, solid, trusty. MV. 1, 3. Co. 1, 1. Good night, serenade, a species of minor poem of the ballad kind, bld. 3. end. Goose, smoothing or pressing iron of tailors, from its being often roasting. M. 2, 8. Lowsax. goos, bohem. huss, lowgerm. gant, from ant, and, whence the lat. anser, the gr. chen, the germ. Ente.

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Gooseberry, bHd. 1, 2. corrupted from the nord. groser, grosert, groset, gael. grosaid, sued. krus baer, lat. grossula.

Gorbelly, gorbellied, a person bacon fat, fatgut, fat kidney'd, having a large paunch. and. 2, 2. There is also a form of it, gorrel bellied, probably from gore, wh. s., of course kin to the lat. crudelis, as the Germans in this series use grausam, or greulich.

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Gore, blood. M. 2, 3. He. 4, 6. TA. 3, 5. Oldgerm. Grau, cambr. crau, bohem. krew, lat. cruor, from the gr. krao, aeol. krauō, lat. creo, to curd, kin to crew, crystal.

to Gore, to prick, stab, pierce, bore. Rb. 1, 3. TC. 1, 1. 3, 3. KL. 5, 3. Probably kin to the gr. kerō, keraō, karō, keirō, keraizō, to shear, cut, kill, send a ship to the bottom. The verb. bore, sax. geborian, whence Johnson derives it arbitrarily, lay in other series of notions; and perhaps it would not be absurd, to hear assonate the precedent word.

to Gorge, to fill the gorge, to feed. KL. 1, 1. TS. 4, 1; to swallow, devour. JC. 5, 1. From the lat. gurges.

Gorgeous, pompous, magnificent, stately, splendid. T. 4, 1. aHƒ. 5, 4. KL. 2, 4. Gorget, piece of armour to defend the neck. TC. 1, 3. No doubt originally the gorge, and therefore the same with habergeon, heburgeon, hauberk, germ. Halsberge.

to Gormandize, to gluttonize, banket. MV. 2, 5. bHd. 5, 5. In French gourmand, from the lowsax. Körmann, from kören, kiesen, to choose, to taste, gr. geuein.

Gorse, goss, furze, the low sort that only grows to Gravel, to cover with gravel (Hh. 1, 1.) or upon wet ground; it has prickles like those on a rosetree, or gooseberrybush. T. 4, 1. Originally furze and gorse seem however to have been the same word.

Gospell'd, bound by the gospel, pious, religious. M. 3, 1. Gospel is god's spell, god's letter or word.

Gossamer, gossomer, gossamour, properly cotton; light downy matter; the long floating cobwebs seen in fine weather in the air, allhallown-summer. KL. 4, 5. RJ. 2, 6. From the gr. gausapos, lat. gossipium, fr. gossampine. Gossip, relation or sponsor in baptism; familiar acquaintance, chiefly tattling women. TG. 3, 1. CE. 5, 1. MD. 2, 1. MV. 3, 1. WT. 2, 3. Sax. godsibbe, whence Chaucer's godsib, from the sax. syb, sippe, germ. Sippe, kin to the lat. cippus, prosapia, germ. Saft.

sand; to make stop, to perplex. AL. 4, 1. Gravel seems a labial form of grail, fr. grêle, transposed from glarea, like the germ. Gries, gr. cheras.

Graymalkin, Grimalkin, a fiend supposed to resemble a grey cat. M. 1, 1; a cat. S. Malkin. to Graze, to fret (wh. s.), gall, glance, as a bullet. He. 4, 3. O. 4, 1. In this signification it is kin to the gr. rhaō. s. fret, and add chrauō, grauō, graō, graphō, chrao. In the other of feeding on grass, it is from the latter word, kin to the gr. grastis, krastis, sax. gaers, graes, related to chortos. Cf. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 875.

Greedy, covetous, eager, desirous. MW. 1, 3. Goth. gredig, ind. gridhne, sax. graedig, germ. Gier, gierig, kin to the gr. kear, ker. Greek, jovial fellow, fond of good living and free potations; whence the proverb as merry as a Greek, corrupted since into grig. TC.1, 2. 4, 4; pander, bawd. TN. 4, 1. Gifford's Ben Jons. III, 261. observes 'That patronymic appellation, like Trojan, Lacedaemonian etc. was merely used as augmentative and must be understood from the context.

to Gossip, to act as a gossip, to stand sponsor to any one in giving a name. AW. 1, 1. Goujere, goodjer, goujeer, the french disease, KL. 5, 3. corrupted to good year, like to the ital. malanno, and vice versa; for goujere or goodjer is an exclamation. MA. 1, 3. ¿Hd. 2, 4. MW. 1, 4. It is derived from the fr. gouge, a trull; but that etymology seems not altogether Green, unexperienced, unskilful. KJ. 3, 4. 0. to be questionless, so that one might suspect 2, 1. H. 1, 3; fresh. TC. 2, 8. H. 1, 2. yet a far deeper corruption of some word or Greenly, unskilfully. O. 2, 1.

words, like guajac, gout, germ. Gicht, Kopf-Greenness Warburton restores for grossness schur (answering to the french crown. At least of his years Rc. 3, 1.

terms like the lowsax. Dumm Jörkenpulver for Green sickness, chlorosis. AC. 3, 2. RJ.3, 5. pulvis gummi guttae, Violenrumor for philo-Greensleeves, an old popular ballad of the nium romanum show evidently the licentiousness of the language.

In Government, regularly, according to the time. MD. 5, 1.

Gourd, a species of false dice, probably bored internally, with a secret cavity. MW. 1, 3. S. fullam.

Gouty, that has the gout (germ. Gicht.) TA.
4,3.

Grace at meat was often said in metre. MM.
1, 2. TA. 1, 2. 3, 6. Co. 4, 2. Herb of grace,
the rue. Rb.3, 4. AW.4, 5. cf. WT. 4,3. because
used, it is said, in exorcisms againts evil spirits.
S. Gifford's Ben Jons. V, 389.
Gracious, graceful, beautiful. KJ. 3, 4.
Grain, in, in true red colour. TN. 1,5. Against
the grain, contrary to the proper direction.
Co. 2, 8. From granum.

Grained, rough, wrinkled, chiefly of leather.
H. 3, 4. Co. 4, 5.

Gramercy, many thanks, much obliged. MV.
2, 2. From the fr. grand merci. TAR. 1. end.
TS. 1, 1.

to Grapple, to hook. H. 1, 8. to contend, fight, strive. bHf. 1, 1. Kin to the gr. chriō, chripō, chriptō, whence to gripe, germ. geifen, to grasp, grope, lat. rapio, pers, giriften Add gripizo, gripeuo.

to Grate, to rub, bruise (wh. s.); to offend,
vex, injure, with on, bHd. 4, 1. AC. 1, 1, with
upon MW. 2, 2.

Gratillity, for gratnity. TN. 2, 3.
to Grave, to bury. Rb. 3, 2. TA. 4, 3.
Graves for greaves, armour for the legs. bHd.
4, 1. French greves, from the gr. krupala,
krēpides. Warburton corrects glaives, or
swords, needlessly; since the boards of books
bear more resemblance to greaves, than to
swords.

amorous kind. The character of Lady Greensleeves is rather suspicious; for green was a colour assumed by loose women. MW.2, 1. 5, 5. Gregory, St, pope Hildebrand. TG. 4, 2. aHd. 5, 8.

Grice, greece, greese, grieze, grize, grise, stip, flight of steps. TN. 3, 1. TA. 4, 3. 0. 1, 3. From degrees, by gressus.

Grief, sorrow, affliction. T. 1, 2; bodily
dolour. Steevens to bHd. 1, 1. From the fr.
grief, lat. gravis.

Griefshot, shot, hit by grief. Co. 5, 1.
to Grime, to besmear. KL. 2, 3. From the gr.
rhymmarhypos, filth, by rhyptō.

to Grin, to gnar, grumble. Hƒ. 3, 1. S. to
cringe, to gnarl, groan.

to Grind, to bruise, crush. Co. 3, 2. AC. 3, 5.
TC. 1, 1; to whet, sharpen. H. 5, 2. Anciently
grint, grinst, grynst, kin to the gr. rhaiō,
rhaō, rhassō, thraō.
Gripe, grype, vulture.

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Sometimes old writers inadvertantly use the word for grife, or gryphe, the griffin. Gifford's Ben Jons. IV, 61; paw, talon, fist, hand. Hh. 5, 2. M. 3, 1. In Germ. Griff, from greifen, gr. chriō, chriptō, chrimptō.

Gripe, to hold with the fingers closed, to seize, close. Rb. 2, 1. ald. 5, 2; to pinch, press, squeeze. Cy.3, 1. Hh. 2, 2. S. to grapple. Grisly, horrible, ghastly. aHf. 1, 4. From the gr. rhissō, rhigeō, phrisso, krisso, to bristle, wh. s., to be rough.

Grizzle, grizzled, gray black. AC. 3, 11. H. 1, 2. TN. 5, 1.

to Groan, to breathe with a hoarse noise. TA. 3, 2. LL. 4,3. S. to grin, and compare further the gr. krainein, krene, the austr. grainen, lat. grunnire, fr. gronder, pers. gharendieh, rugiens.

Groin, parts about the privities. bHd. 2, 4. Kin Gurnet, gurnard, a fish of the piper kind, to the gr. choiras, tumour of the jugular glands.

Groom, denotes always attendance, observance,
care, custody whether of horses, chambers,
garments, bride etc. It is applied to the person
by whom something is attended. From the sax.
cyman, curare, regere, custodire, cavere, atten-
dere. It should be goom, like Brautigam.'
Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 261.

to Grope, to feel for, to touch, fumble. H.
5, 2. MM. 1, 2. S. gripe, grapple.
Grossness, roughness, rawness. MW. 5, 5.
TC. 1, 3. S. greenness.
Grove, place covered with trees. aHd. 1, 1.
bHf. 1, 2. Sax. graef, middlelat. grava, pro-
bably because surrounded with a grave, or

ditch.

to Grovel, to. creep. bHf. 1, 2. 1, 4. Kin to creep, croop, gr. herpō, serpo, repo, germ. krabbeln.

Ground, soil, land. H. 1, 1; air or musical theme, on which variations and divisions (the) descant) are to be made. Rc. 3, 7. Groundling, a spectator in the pit, or the groundstands, ground, where the spectators actually stood on the ground without benches.

probably a very bad and vulgar dish, when soused or pickled; hence sous'd gurnet au appellation of contempt. aHd. 4, 1.

Gust, sudden, violent blast. aHf.5, 6. bHf. 3, 2. cHf. 3, 1. Co. 1, 6; top, height. TA. 3, 5. Icel. gustr, giostr is cool wind.

to Gust, to taste. WT. 1, 2. Kin to the lat. gustus, gustare, gr. geuō, engl. choose, germ. kosten.

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Haberdasher, one who sells small fashionable wares, pedler. Hh. 5, 3. cf. TS. 4, 3. where there is some catalogue; and Walt. Scott's Heart of Midloth. I, 85. where hosiers, glovers, hatters, mercers, milliners and all who dealt in the miscellaneous wares now termed haberdasher's goods.' It is derived from berdash, a kind of necklace, or from the germ. habt ihr das (ridiculously enough!) But there seems rather to lay in the word averium, ware, and the germ. Tasche, budget, bag, likewise as budget, bag and pocket, of course the dental letters related, as the labial ones. So it would be one that has a bag or budget of wares.

H. 3, 2. Ben Jonson IV, 366. terms them the to Hack, to cut, chop. The appropriate term understanding gentlemen of the ground. S. Malone's Shaksp. II, 50.

to Grub up, to dig up, to root up, to extirpate.
Hh. 5, 1.

to Guard, to ornament with guards or facings.
KJ. 4, 2. MV. 2, 2.
Guards, borders, trimmings, facings or other
ornaments applied upon a dress. MA. 3, 4. LL.
4. 3; ornaments in general, or dress. MM 3, 1.
bodyguard. He. 4, 2. The word itself is kin
to the germ. waren, gr. horaō, to see, ōreuō,
ōreō, to care, fr. garder, it. guardare, middle-
lat. warens, kin to guarantee, warrant.
Guerdon, reward. "MA. 5, 3. LL. 3, 1.
fr. word, from the germ. Werth.
to Guerdon, to recompense. bHf. 1, 4.

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3, 3. Guile, fraud, deceit, treason. aHf. 4, 1. Guiled, treacherous. W. 3, 2. Guileful, deceitful. aHf. 1, 1. Alltogether from the Sas. wiglian, gewiglian, begiglian, to conjure, to divine, to practice cheat, imposture aud enchantments; kin to guilt, wile, gull, Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 324. Add to those the holl. gylen, the gr. kyklos, circle, magic

circle, enchantment.

Gules, red fields in heraldry; red. TA. 4, 8. H. 2, 2. from gula, gall. gueule, vocabulum, quo frequenter utuntur feciales nostri ad designandum in armis seu insignibus rubeum colorem. Est autem gula pellis rubricata.

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Gulf, stomach, paunch. M. 4, 1. Gr. kolpos.
Gull, dupe, fool, easy credulous person. 0.5, 2.
He. 3, 6. Rc. 1, 3. TN. 3, 2. 5, 1. TA. 2, 1;
cheat, imposition, fraud, knavery. MA. 2, 3.
to Gull, to fob, fleer, deceive. TN. 2, 8. S.
guileful. Gifford's Ben Jons. I, 13.
Gunner, constable. T. 2, 2. Horne Tooke Div.
of P. II, 307. derives gun from gynian, hiare;
unless it be from engine.

Gunstones, balls of stone, used in heavy
artillery before the introduction of iron shot.
He. 1, 2.

for chopping off the spurs of a knight, when he was to be degraded. MW. 2, 1. whence it is to become cheap and vulgar, alluding to the prodigality of James I., in bestowing these honours (cf. Warburton at O. 3, 4). Ibid. 4, 1. he teaches him to hick and to hack in Mrs. Quickly's cant punning with hic, haec seems to mean to make whores, to debauch, and would answer to the german hucken und hocken, or hecken und höckern.

Hackney, hired, much used, common. LL. 3, 1. Whether from equus, or from the germ. Höker, is uncertain.

let out,

to lease.

to Hackney, to lend, put,
alld. 3, 2.
Hag, witch. T. 1, 2. WT. 2, 8. M. 4, 1. aHƒ.
3, 2. 5, 4. bHf. 4, 1. KL. 2, 4. From the gr.
aix, coat, form of the frightening god in my-
thology.

Haggard, a hawk not manned, or trained to
obedience, a wild hawk. O. 3, 3. MA. 3, 2.
TS. 4, 1. Kin to hawk, sax. hafoc, hafue,
havoc, germ. Habicht, Hacht, Falk, falco,
faucon, auca, oca, sax. gof, aquila, gawk.
Haggle, to maim, mangle. He. 4, 6. Kin to

to

hack.

Hair, grain, wh. s., texture, quality of any thing. aHd. 4, 1. M. 4, 1. where the reading air is a glossem. Against the hair, against the grain, contrary to the nature of any thing. MW. 2, 3. TC. 1, 2. Abundance of hair denoted a lack of brains, whence more hair than wit

TG. 3, 1. To dye the hairs was customary in Shk's times. MA. 2, 3. False hair was much worn by ladies. MV. 3, 2. S. 68. — A horsehair dropped into corrupted water was believed to become soon an animal. AC. 1, 2.

Halberd, an ox or hatchet for striving. CE. 5, 1. From the germ. Hellebarte, from hille, combat, strife, and barte, ax.

Halcyon, or king's fisher. It was a currently received opinion, that the body of this bird, hung up, so as to move freely, would always turn its breast to the wind. KL. 2, 2. It was said to breed in the main, during which time

( 129 )* calm does domineer; hence for placid, quiet, peaceful, still. aHf. 1, 2. Half caps, half bows, slight salutations with the cap. TA. 2, 2.

Halffaced, showing only half the face, the
rest being concealed. bHf. 4. 1. Said also of
a face drawn in profile. KJ. 1, 1. where half
face alludes to a thin, meagre face, half
formed, as it were, as bld. 3, 3. aHd. 1, §.
Half kirtle, a common dress of courtesans,
a short skirted loose bodied gown. bHd. 5, 4.
Halfsword, at close fight, or handstrokes.
aйd. 2, 4.

Halidom, holiness, faith, sanctity, honesty.
TG. 4, 2. From the germ. Heiligthum. Douce's
Ill. of Sh. I, 45.

A hall, a hall, an exclamation commonly used
to make room in a crowd. RJ. 1, 5. Gifford's
Ben Jonson VI, 235. VII, 416-
Hallowmas, the mass or feastday of All-hallows,
or all Saints. Nov. 2. On all Saint's day the
poor people went from parish to parish a soul-
ing, that is, begging in a certain lamentable
tone, for a kind of cakes called soulcakes, and|
singing a song which they call the souler's
song. TG. 2, 1. Rb. 5, 1. MM. 2, 1.

to Hamper, to fetter, entangle, perplex, seduce.
bHf. 1, 3. where hamper and dandle are joined.
Kin to hemp, lat. canabis, sax. haenep, germ.
Hanf.

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Hamstring, senew, or tendon of the hip.
TC. 1, 3.
Hand. A hot and moist or oily hand was ac-
counted a sign of an amorous constitution, a
dry and cold one sign of debility and age. TN.
1, 3. AC. 1, 2. 0.3, 4. VA. 5. At any hand,
at any rate, at all events. TS. 1, 2. sometimes
in any hand. AW. 3, 6. of all hands LL. 4, 5.
Of his hands, of his inches, of his size; a
hand being the measure of four inches. MW.
1, 4. WT. 5, 8. At my hand, on my behalf.
MA. 5, 2.

Handfast, hold, custody, confinement. WT.
4,3.

Handy dandy, a play, where somewhat is
held in the hands, and is to be guessed by
another, answering to Hocuspocus. KL. 4, 6.
Hanger, loops in which the dagger was con-
stantly worn, adorned with fringes and tassels
of needlework, often very costly. H. 5, 2.
S. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 449. cf. carriage.
Germ. Gehenk, Henkel, Haken.
Hanging, tapestry, hanging carpet. TS. 2, 1.
bHf. 5, 2; the action of suspending by the neck.
Hanging and wiving go by destiny, a proverb
T. 1, 1. MV. 2, 9. Hence a good hanging
prevents a bad marriage, TN. 1, 5.
Harbinger, forerunner, an officer in the royal
household, whose duty was to allot and mark
the lodgings of all the king's attendants in a
progress. H. 1, 1. From the germ. herbergen,
properly to lodge or quarter an army, engl.
to harbour.

Hardiment, courage, acts of courage. aHd.
1, 8.

Hare was called melancholy on account of her
solitary sitting in her form; hence also her
flesh was supposed to engender melancholy.
aHd. 1, 2. Allusion to the proverb: mortuo
leoni et lepores insultant is KJ. 2, 1.
Harlock, a plant; probably a corruption of
charlock, the wild mustard, a common weed
in fields. KL. 4, 4. Various corrections are

burdocks, bordocks, hardokes, hoardocks. The gr. eryngion, the lat. eruca seems to assonate, Harm, malice, wickedness. aHd. 2, 4. Sax. yrmth, iermth, what hurteth, from yrman laedere. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 425. Harness, armour. M. 5, 5; horse trappings. TS. 1, 2; instruments of war. aHd. 3, 2. From the fr. harnois, it. arnese, by the sax. ar, iren, engl. iron, cambr. haiarn, kin to the lat. ues ; germ. Harnisch.

to Harrow, to break with the harrow. Co. 5, 8; to vex, plunder, torment, confound, perplex. H. 1, 1. 1, 5. AC. 3, 3. In this latter meaning, unless corrupted from harry, yet the same in notion, and kin to harass, from the sax. her¬ gian, gr. arassō; whereas in the originary notion kin to rake, germ. Rechen, provincially Harke, kin to the fr. charrue, the lat. irpices, sirpices, urpices.

to

Hatch, to engrave, or mark with lines. TC. 1, 8. From the fr, hacher.

Hatches, the openings by which they descend
from one deck of a ship to another, bHf. 3, 2.
Rc. 1, 4. T. 1, 2. KJ. 5, 2.

Hatchment, escutcheon put upon the wall of
a house, where a person died. H,4,5. Gifford's
Ben Jons. V, 289. It is esteemed to be a cor-
ruption of atchievment, where the case is
perhaps rather reversed, since hatchment is
nearer to hatchet, that very well in heraldry
could be an emblem of lordly jurisdiction,
right on life and death.
Having, estate, fortune. MW, 3, 2. WT. 4, 3.
M. 1, 3. 0.4, 3. TN. 3, 4. He. 2, 3, 3, 2. TA.
2,2. Germ. Habe,

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Haviour, for behaviour. TN. 3, 4. Cy. 3, 4.
Rb. 1, 3. MM. 1. 3. RJ. 2, 2. H. 1, 2.
Haunch, hip; rear, bHd. 4, 4. From the
middlelat. anca, hanca, fr, hanche, gr, an-
kōn, sax. scanca, germ, Anke, Ankel, Enkel,
Schienbein, Schenkel, Schinken.

Haunt, way of venison. AC. 4, 12. MD. 2, 2..
RJ. 3, 1. Out of haunt, out of company, as
Steevens explains, or removed, kept far from
places, where men have intercourse. H. 4, 1.
AL. 2. 1.

to Haunt, to frequent, to trouble, vex by
frequent appearing. alld. 5, 5. TC. 4, 1. 0.
4, 1. LL. 1, 1. Cy. 4, 2. aHd. 3, 1. From the
fr. hanter, and this whether from Hand, to
handle, manage, or from the gr. antaō, antiaō,
francon. anden, or from an indian word anah,
life, spirit, we venture not to decide.
Havock, ruin, waste, destruction. Hence to cry
havock, to provoke to slaughter. KJ. 2, 2. Co.
3, 1. JC. 3, 1. Kin to hawk.

to Hawk, to spit, to retch in spitting. AL. 5, 3.
Head. To gather head, to get the better, to
overmatch, or to come to maturity, to ripen.
Rb. 5, 1. For head is also power, force, do-
minion. cHf. 1, 1. It is confounded in the
prints LL, 3, 3. with heed, that is restored by
Voss for: when the suspicious head of theft is
stopp'd.

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Headsman, executioner, when a person is to be beheaded. AW. 4, 5.

Hearse, coffin, bier. bHd. 4, 4. aHf. 1, 1. JC. 3, 2 To the derivation from the middlelat. hercia, hersia, harrow and branched candlestick, or from the sax. hyrscan, ornare, decorare. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 823. we add one, from corse, or from the gr. arō, to prepare, fit out,

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