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See Sforzato.

The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.

The act of fraternizing or uniting as brothers. I hope that no French fraternization . . . could so change the hearts of Englishmen. Burke.

Capable of being frozen.

The act of process of galvanizing.

A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world. [Also gansa.] Johnson.

Same as Gelatination.

l form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge

culars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars. Generalization is only the apprehension of the one in the many. Sir W. Hamilton.

The act of Germanizing. M. Arnold.

A kind of Oriental lyric, and usually erotic, poetry, written in recurring rhymes.

ch armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks. Gizzard shad (Zoöl.), an American herring (Dorosoma cepedianum) resembling the shad, but of little value. -- To fret the gizzard, to harass; to vex one's self; to worry. [Low] Hudibras. -- To stick in one's gizzard, to be difficult…

The root of Glycyrrhiza glabra (liquorice root), used as a demulcent, etc.

See Gosherd. [Prov. Eng.]

A beautiful Abyssinian monkey (Colobus guereza), having the body black, with a fringe of long, silky, white hair along the sides, and a tuft of the same at the end of the tail. The frontal band, cheeks, and chin are white.

Extra hazard; chance; accident; random. We take our principles at haphazard, upon trust. Locke.

The act of harmonizing.

throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty. I will stand the hazard of the die. Shak.

Liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky. Sir T. Browne.

A player at the game of hazard; a gamester. [Obs.] Chaucer.