Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: GID'DY-HEAD-ED – GIL'BERT-INE
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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.]
- 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.
- The act of giving or conferring. Milton.
- The right or power of giving or bestowing. The prince has the gift of many lucrative offices.
- An offering or oblation. If thou bring thy gift to the altar. Matth. v.
- A reward. Let thy gifts be to thyself. Dan. v.
- 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.
- 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.]
- Any little thing that is whirled round in play. Locke.
- A light carriage with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a chair or chaise.
- A fiddle.
- A dart or harpoon. [See Fishgig.]
- A ship's boat.
- A wanton girl.
GIG, v.t. [L. gigno.]
- To engender. [Not in use.] Dryden.
- To fish with a gig or fishgig.
GI-GAN-TE'AN, a. [L. giganteus. See Giant.]
Like a giant; mighty. More.
GI-GAN'TIC, a. [L. giganticus.]
- Of extraordinary size; very large; huge; like a giant. A man of gigantic stature.
- Enormous; very great or mighty; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness. Gigantical and Gigantine, for gigantic, rarely or never used.
GI-GAN-TOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. γιγας, a giant, and λογος, discourse.]
An account or description of giants.
GI-GAN-TOM'A-CHY, n. [Gr. γιγας, giant, and μαχη, fight.]
The fabulous war of the giants against heaven.
GIG'GLE, n. [Sax. geagl; Scot. geck.]
A kind of laugh, with short catches of the voice or breath.
GIGGLE, v.i. [D. gichgelen; Sax. geagl; a laugh or sneer, and gagol, sportive, wanton; It. ghignare, to simper, ghignazzare, to laugh or grin. In Ir. giglim is to tickle; Gr. γιγγλισμος.]
To laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a silly, puerile manner; to titter; to grin with childish levity or mirth. Garrick.
GIG'GLER, n.
One that giggles or titters.
GIG'LET, or GIG'LOT, n. [Sax. geagl, wanton; Fr. giguer, to romp, to frisk. See Gig.]
A wanton; a lascivious girl. Shak.
GIG'LOT, a.
Giddy; light; inconstant; wanton. Shak.
GIG'OT, n. [Fr.]
The hip joint; also, a slice. [Not English.]
GIL'BERT'INE, a.
Belonging to the monastic order mentioned above. Weever.
GIL'BERT-INE, n.
One of a religious order, so named from Gilbert, lord of Sempringham, in Lincolnshire, England.