Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: GHOST'LI-NESS – GIB'BET-ED
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GHOST'LI-NESS, n.
Spiritual tendency. [Little used.] Johnson.
GHOST'LY, a.
- Spiritual; relating to the soul; not carnal or secular. Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. Common Prayer.
- Spiritual; having a character from religion; as, a ghostly father. Shak.
- Pertaining to apparitions. Akenside.
GHOTE, n.
An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations. T. Moore.
GHOUL, n.
A demon that feeds on the dead.
GI-AL-LO-LI'NO, n. [It. giallo; Eng. yellow.]
A fine yellow pigment much used under the name of Naples Yellow. Encyc.
GI-AM'BEAUX, n. [Fr. jambe, the leg.]
Greaves; armor for the legs. [Obs.]
GI'ANT, a.
Like a giant; extraordinary in size or strength; as, giant brothers; a giant son. Dryden. Pope.
GI'ANT, n. [Fr. geant; Sp. gigante; It. id; L. gigas; Gr. γιγας, probably from γη, the earth, and γαω or γινομαι. The word originally signified earth-born, terrigena, The ancients believed the first inhabitants of the earth to be produced from the ground and to be of enormous size.]
- A man of extraordinary bulk and stature. Giants of mighty bone, and bold emprise. Milton.
- A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual. The judge is a giant in his profession.
GI'ANT-ESS, n.
A female giant; a female of extraordinary size and stature. Shak.
GI'ANT-IZE, v.i.
To play the giant. Sherwood.
GI'ANT-KILL-ING, a.
Killing or destroying giants. Cowper.
Of unusual size; resembling a giant in bulk or stature; gigantic; huge. South. [Giantly is not much used.]
GI'ANT-RY, n.
The race of giants. [Little used.]
GIANTS-CAUSEY, n.
A vast collection of basaltic pillars in the county of Antrim, in Ireland. Encyc.
GI'ANT-SHIP, n.
The state, quality or character of a giant. His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen. Milton.
GIAOUR, n. [djowr; Arab.]
In Turkey an unbeliever or infidel.
GIB, n.
A cat. [Not in use.] Skelton.
GIB, v.i.
To act like a cat. [Not in use.] Beaum.
GIBBE, n.
An old worn-out animal. [Not used.] Shak.
GIB'BER, v.i. [See Gabble. It is probably allied to gabble, and to jabber.]
To speak rapidly and inarticulately. [Not used.] Shak.
GIB'BER-ISH, a.
Unmeaning, as words. Swift.
GIB'BER-ISH, n. [from gibber.]
Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words.
GIB'BET, n. [Fr. gibet; Arm. gibel.]
- A gallows; a post or machine in form of a gallows, on which notorious malefactors are hanged in chains, and on which their bodies are suffered to remain, as spectacles in terrorem. Swift.
- Any traverse beam. Johnson.
GIB'BET, v.t.
- To hang and expose on a gibbet or gallows.
- To hang or expose on any thing going traverse, as the beam of a gibbet. Shak.
GIB'BET-ED, pp.
Hanged and exposed on a gibbet.