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A little fort. [R.] Bailey.

[Fraise a kind of defense; also Friz.) A kind of small ruffle. Halliwell.

A very small frond, or distinct portion of a compound frond.

A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Deut. vi. 8.

A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.

A little tile of glazed earthenware. [Obs.] "The substance of galletyle." Bacon.

between two files of men facing one another, who struck him as he passed. To run the gantlet, to suffer the punishment of the gantlet; hence, to go through the ordeal of severe criticism or controversy, or ill-treatment at many hands. Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights. Palfrey.

A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet. Mollett.

See Gantlet.

Wearing a gauntlet.

An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent. [Obs.]

Made of giblets; as, a giblet pie.

The inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry.

A wanton; a lascivious or light, giddy girl. [Obs.] The giglet is willful, and is running upon her fate. Sir W. Scott.

See Gimlet.

all tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle. Gimlet eye, a squint-eye. [Colloq.] Wright.

A little globule. Crabb.

vessel having a foot or standard, but without a handle. We love not loaded boards and goblets crowned. Denham.

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The gullet. [Obs.] Chaucer.