Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GIB'ING-LY, adv.

With censorious, sarcastic and contemptuous expressions; scornfully. Shak.

GIB'LETS, n. [Qu. Fr. gibier, game, or Goth. gibla, a wing. See Gip.]

The entrails of a goose or other fowl, as the heart, liver, gizzard, &c.; a considerable article in cookery; as, to boil or stew giblets. It is used only in the plural, except in composition; as, a giblet-pie.

GIB'STAFF, n.

A staff to gauge water or to push a boat; formerly, a staff used in fighting beasts on the stage. Dict.

GID'DI-ED, pp.

Made to reel.

GID'DI-LY, adv. [See Giddy.]

1. With the head seeming to turn or reel.
2. Inconstantly; unsteadily; with various turnings; as, to roam about giddily. Donne.
3. Carelessly; heedlessly; negligently. Shak.

GID'DI-NESS, n.

1. The state of being giddy or vertiginous; vertigo; a sensation of reeling or whirling, when the body loses the power of preserving its balance or a steady attitude, or when objects at rest appear to reel, tremble or whirl; a swimming of the head.
2. Inconstancy; unsteadiness; mutability. Bacon.
3. Frolick; wantonness; levity. Donne. South.

GID'DY, a. [Sax. gidig. Class Gd.]

1. Vertiginous; reeling; whirling; having in the head a sensation of a circular motion or swimming; or having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall, as in the case of some diseases and of drunkenness. In walking on timber aloft or looking down a precipice, we are apt to be giddy.
2. That renders giddy; that induces giddiness; as, a giddy highth; a giddy precipice. Prior.
3. Rotary; whirling; running round with celerity. The giddy motion of the whirling mill. Pope.
4. Inconstant; unstable; changeable. You are as giddy and volatile as ever. Swift.
5. Heedless; thoughtless; wild; roving. Rowe.
6. Tottering; unfixed. As we have paced along / Upon the giddy footing of the hatches. Shak.
7. Intoxicated; elated to thoughtlessness; rendered wild by excitement or joy. Art thou not giddy with the fashion too? Shak.

GID'DY, v.i.

To turn quick. Chapman.

GID'DY, v.t.

To make reeling or unsteady. Farindon.

GID'DY-BRAIN-ED, a.

Careless; thoughtless; unsteady. Olway.

GID'DY-HEAD, n.

A person without thought or judgment.

GID'DY-HEAD-ED, a.

Heedless; unsteady; volatile; incautious. Donne.

GID'DY-PAC-ED, a.

Moving irregularly. Shak.

GIE, n. [a contraction of guide. Not in use.]

Chaucer.

GIER-EA'GLE, n. [Qu. D. gier, a vulture.]

A fowl of the eagle kind, mentioned in Leviticus ii.

GIE'SECK-ITE, n.

A mineral of a rhomboidal form and compact texture, of a gray or brown color, and nearly as hard as calcarious spar. [Obs.]

GIF, v.t. [from Sax. gif, from gifan, to give.]

The old but true spelling of if.

GIFT, n. [from give.]

1. A present; any thing given or bestowed; any thing, the property of which is voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a donation. It is applicable to any thing movable or immovable.
2. The act of giving or conferring. Milton.
3. The right or power of giving or bestowing. The prince has the gift of many lucrative offices.
4. An offering or oblation. If thou bring thy gift to the altar. Matth. v.
5. A reward. Let thy gifts be to thyself. Dan. v.
6. A bribe; any thing given to corrupt the judgment. Neither take a gift, for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise. Deut. xvi.
7. Power; faculty; some quality or endowment conferred by the author of our nature; as, the gift of wit; the gift of ridicule. Addison.

GIFT, v.t.

To endow with any power or faculty.

GIFT'ED, pp. [or a.]

Endowed by nature with any power or faculty; furnished with any particular talent.

GIFT'ED-NESS, n.

The state of being gifted. Echard.

GIFT'ING, ppr.

Endowing with any power or faculty.

GIG, n. [It. giga, a jig; Fr. gigue, a jig, a romp; Sw. giga, a jews-harp; Ice. gigia, a fiddle.]

1. Any little thing that is whirled round in play. Locke.
2. A light carriage with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a chair or chaise.
3. A fiddle.
4. A dart or harpoon. [See Fishgig.]
5. A ship's boat.
6. A wanton girl.

GIG, v.t. [L. gigno.]

1. To engender. [Not in use.] Dryden.
2. To fish with a gig or fishgig.

GI-GAN-TE'AN, a. [L. giganteus. See Giant.]

Like a giant; mighty. More.