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The third letter (G) of the Greek alphabet.

zed form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul).

An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.

he region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland.

A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps. Tyndall.

The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.

To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. Walpole. A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. Tennyson.

Gloom. [R.] Walpole.

er good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable. Goodish pictures in rich frames. Walpole.

Inhabitants of the eastern Swiss Alps. (b) sing.

Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.

A tree of the genus Eucalyptus. See Eucalpytus. (c) The sweet gum tree of the United States (Liquidambar styraciflua), a large and beautiful tree with pointedly lobed leaves and woody burlike fruit. It exudes an aromatic terebinthine juice. -- Gum water, a solution of gum, esp. of gum arabic, in water. -- Gum wood, t…

the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the consonants, and is formed with the mouth organs in the same position as that of the succeeding vowel. It is used with certain consonants to form digraphs representing sounds which are not found in the alphabet, as sh, th, th, as in shall, thing, thine (for…

ters; to chaffer; to higgle. Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood. Walpole.

as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; -- with from. [Colloq.] G. G. Halpine.

ope, variously dated at from 1000 to 1500 b. c. and usually associated with the Celtic or Alpine race. It was characterized by expert use of bronze, a knowledge of iron, possession of domestic animals, agriculture, and artistic skill and sentiment in manufacturing pottery, ornaments, etc.

I can not bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session. Walpole.

That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitant of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions; as, the Helvetic confederacy; Helvetic states.

the phonetic, consisting of symbols employed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet, having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel a.