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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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GATEWISE adv.
In the manner of a gate. Three circles of stones set up gatewise. Fuller.
GENTLEWOMAN n. 2 definitions
A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon.
GEWGAW n. 2 definitions
A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble. A heavy gewgaw called a crown. Dryden.
GLEW n.
See Glue. [Obs.]
GNEW n.
imp. of Gnaw. Chaucer.
GOOSEWING n.
One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.
GOOSEWINGED a. 2 definitions
Having a "goosewing."
GRANDNEPHEW n.
The grandson of one's brother or sister.
GREW n.
imp. of Grow.
GREWSOME; GRUESOME n. 2 definitions
Ugly; frightful. Grewsome sights of war. C. Kingsley.
HEBREW n. 3 definitions
tive of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew. There came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew. Gen. xiv. 13.
HEBREW CALENDAR n.
= Jewish calendar.
HEBREWESS n.
An Israelitish woman.
HELLBREWED a.
Prepared in hell. Milton.
HEREWITH adv.
With this.
HERONSEW n.
A heronshaw. [Obs.] Chaucer.
HEW v. 6 definitions
e with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; -- often with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher. Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn. Is. li. 1. Rather polishing old works than hewing out new. Pope.
HEWE n.
A domestic servant; a retainer. [Obs.] "False homely hewe." Chaucer.
HEWER n.
One who hews.
HEWHOLE n.
The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.
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