Emily Dickinson Lexicon

gable (-s, gambrels), n. [gavel < ON gafl.] (webplay: eaves, house).

1. Arch; dome; firmament; support for a roof.
2. Slope; pitch; incline; rooftop.

Gabriel (-s), proper n. [Heb. 'valiant man of God'.]

1. Angel; archangel; divine messenger; holy personage; spiritual being who announced the mission of John the Baptist to Zacharias and the birth of Jesus Christ to Mary; (see Daniel 8 & 9; Luke 1; ED's letters).
2. Songbird; [fig.] oracle; prophet; bearer of glad tidings.
3. Gabriel Lajuenesse; Evangeline's betrothed; male protagonist who dies in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's narrative poem Evangeline.

gad, v. [ON gaddr, spike.]

Coax; remove; steal; pry.

gag, v. [onomatopoetic.]

Cover the mouth so as to prevent speech; choke; close an opening.

gaiety, n. [Fr. gaieté.] (webplay: America, showy).

Uplifting, lighthearted, pleasing sight; ornate, decorative object.

gaily, adv. [see gay, adj.]

Joyfully; happily; merrily; ornately; decoratively.

gain (-s), n. [ON gagn.] (webplay: come, conceive, good, grow, hopes, industry, living, lose, measures, mountain, reach, rich, sea, shoulder, take, things, victory, whole, wind).

1. Favor; reward; booty.
2. Profit; increase.
3. Anything opposed to loss.
4. Increase (in heart rate).

gain (-ed, -ing, -s), v. [F. gagner.] (webplay: advance, Christ, come, competitor, difficult, ease, emperor, extend, favor, grow, hopes, land, liberty, live, lose, mountain, nearer, obtain, persuade, possess, prevail, prize, reach, rich, sea, side, soul, superiority, take, things, time, whole, wind, world).

1. Obtain; acquire.
2. Win.
3. Receive; achieve favor of.
4. Reach; arrive at.
5. [Lit.] reach; [fig.] win.

gait, n. [OE gangan < OFris gunga, to walk.] (webplay: go, man, way).

Style or manner of walking; way in which one carries one's self in walking or movement.

gala, adj. [Fr. gala.] (webplay: day).

NW says: day of pomp, show, or festivity, when persons appear in their best apparel.