Lexicon: get – Gibraltar

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get (-s, -ting, got, gotten), v. [ON geta, to get, obtain.]

  1. Encourage; persuade; invite.
  2. Move; pass; proceed; hurry.
  3. Obtain; have; accomplish; achieve.
  4. Become; make oneself.
  5. Arrive; come; go; appear at.
  6. Receive; welcome.
  7. Phrase. “Got through”: ended; finished.

Gethsemane, proper n. [L. < Gk < Aramaic gath shemani, oil-press.]

  1. Garden on the Mount of Olives; place where Jesus Christ atoned for the sins of mankind; place in Jerusalem where Christ was betrayed and arrested; (see Matthew 26:36).
  2. Scene of agony; circumstance of unimaginable pain; situation of extreme anguish.

ghastly, adj. [gast + lich; NW says Saxon gastilic from gast, spirit < German geist < Dutch geest. In Saxon gast is both ghost and guest from the same radical sense, to move, to rush. Irish gaissem, to flow, English gush, gust.]

  1. Death-like; pale; dismal; ghost-like.
  2. That which incites feeling of shocking horror and disgust.

Ghent, proper n. [Dutch prob.< Celtic gant, confluence.]

City in Flanders, Belgium; important location in the Middle Ages; location of the Belfry of Ghent, a tower 91 meters high; death place of the ill-fated hero in Sir Henry Taylor's Philip can Artevelde.

ghost (-s), n. [OE gast; see ghastly, adj.; see Holy Ghost, proper n.]

  1. Spirit; disembodied person; essence of a deceased person.
  2. Phantom; specter; apparition that causes fear.
  3. Spirit of God; third member of the Godhead.
  4. Essence; intrinsic meaning.
  5. Ancestor; predecessor; previous inhabitant.
  6. Wind; breeze; breath of air.

giant, adj. [see giant, n.]

  1. Extraordinary in size, extent, force, or strength; huge; monstrous.
  2. Phrase. “Giant long”: great length.

giant (-s), n. [ME < OFr < L.]

  1. Being in human form, but having superhuman qualities and characteristics, such as strength, bulk, stature, etc.
  2. [Fig.] large obstacle, physical, mental, or otherwise.
  3. Person of extraordinary strength or intelligence.
  4. Phrase. “The Giant tolerates no Gnat”: superior, dominant power; one holding the power who makes the rules.

gianture, adj. [see giant, n.]

Pertinent to being a giant or large.

gibbets, n. [OFr, 'gallows, staff or cudgel, dim'.]

Group of persons killed byhanging.

Gibraltar ('s), proper n. [Arabic 'mountain of Tarik'.]

  1. The Rock; huge promontory; impressive rock formation; famous geologic feature at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea; [fig.] worldly strength; earthly power; temporal security.
  2. Impregnable stronghold; formidable fortress; pivotal territory on the southern coast of Spain; strategic position captured by Tāriq ibn Ziyād in 711, establishing Moorish power in Spain; [see ED letters.]