Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GHOST'LI-NESS, n.

Spiritual tendency. [Little used.] Johnson.

GHOST'LY, a.

1. Spiritual; relating to the soul; not carnal or secular. Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. Common Prayer.
2. Spiritual; having a character from religion; as, a ghostly father. Shak.
3. 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.]

1. A man of extraordinary bulk and stature. Giants of mighty bone, and bold emprise. Milton.
2. 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.

GI'ANT-LIKE, or GI'ANT-LY, a.

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.]

1. 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.
2. Any traverse beam. Johnson.

GIB'BET, v.t.

1. To hang and expose on a gibbet or gallows.
2. 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.