Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GEAL, v.i. [Fr. geler; L. gelo.]

To congeal. [Obs.]

GEAR, n. [Sax. gearwian, gyrian, to prepare; gearw, prepared, prompt; gearwa, habit, clothing, apparatus; G. gar, D. gaar, dressed, done, ready; perhaps Sw. garfva, to tan.]

1. Apparatus; whatever is prepared; hence, habit; dress; ornaments. Array thyself in her most gorgeous gear. Spenser.
2. More generally, the harness or furniture of beasts; whatever is used in equipping horses or cattle for draught; tackle.
3. In Scotland, warlike accouterments; also, goods, riches. Jamieson.
4. Business; matters. [Obs.] Spenser.
5. By seamen pronounced jears, – which see.

GEAR, v.t.

To dress; to put on gear; to harness.

GEAR'ED, pp.

Dressed; harnessed.

GEAR'ING, n.

1. Harness.
2. The manner of arranging machinery.

GEAR'ING, ppr.

Dressing; harnessing.

GE'A-SON, n. [s as z.]

Rare; uncommon; wonderful. [Obs.] Spenser.

GEAT, n. [D. gat. See Gate.]

The hole through which metal runs into a mold in castings. Moxon.

GECK, n. [G. geck; Sw. gäck; Dan. giek.]

A dupe. [Obs.] Shak.

GECK, v.t. [To cheat, trick or gull. Obs.]

GEE, or JEE, exclam.

A word used by teamsters, directing their teams to pass further to the right, or from the driver, when on the near aide; opposed to hoi or haw.

GEESE, n. [plural of goose.]

GEEST, n.

Alluvial matter on the surface of land, not of recent origin. Jameson.

GE-HEN'NA, n. [Gr. γεεννα, from the Heb. ge-hinom, the valley of Hinom, in which was Tophet, where the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch. 2 Kings xxiii. 10.]

This word has been used by the Jews as equivalent to hell, place of fire or torment and punishment, and the Greek word is rendered by our translators by hell and hell-fire. Matth. xviii. 9; xxiii. 15.

GEH'LEN-ITE, n. [from Gehlen, the chimist.]

A mineral of a grayish color. and resinous luster, found chiefly at Mt. Monzoni. Its primary form is a right square prism.

GEL'A-BLE, a. [from L. gelu, frost, or gelo, to congeal.]

That may or can be congealed; capable of being converted into jelly.

GEL'A-TIN, or GE-LAT'I-NOUS, a.

Of the nature and consistence of gelatin; resembling jelly; viscous; moderately stiff and cohesive.

GEL'A-TIN, n. [It. and Sp. gelatina, from L. gelo, to congeal, to freeze.]

A concrete animal substance, transparent, and soluble slowly in cold water, but rapidly in warm water. With tannin, a yellowish white precipitate is thrown down from a solution of gelatin, which forms an elastic adhesive mass, not unlike vegetable gluten, and is a compound of tannin and gelatin. Parr.

GE-LAT'I-NATE, v.i.

To be converted into gelatin or into a substance like jelly. Lapis lazuli, if calcined, does not effervesce, but gelatinates with the mineral acids. Kirwan.

GE-LAT'I-NATE, v.t.

To convert into gelatin or into a substance resembling jelly.

GE-LAT-I-NA'TION, n.

The act or process of converting or being turned into gelatin, or into a substance like jelly. Kirwan.

GE-LAT'I-NI-FORM, a.

Having the form of gelatin. Med. and Surg. Journal.

GEL'A-TIN-IZE, v.i.

The same as gelatinate. Fleming.

GE-LAT-I-NO'SA, n.

An order of gelatinous animals. Cuvier.

GELD, n. [Sax. gild; Sw. gäld; Dan. gield; G. and D. geld.]

Money; tribute; compensation. This word is obsolete in English, but it occurs in old laws and law books in composition; as in Danegeld, or Danegelt, a tax imposed by the Danes; Weregeld, compensation for the life of a man, &c.