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nguage; unmeaning words; jargon. He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go; All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to known. Drayton. Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with. Hawthorne.

The art or practice of a gladiator.

A writer of glosses or of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. Tyrwhitt.

Patched; mean. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

One of the followers of Francis Gomar or Gomarus, a Dutch disciple of Calvin in the 17th century, who strongly opposed the Arminians.

An affected elegance or euphuism of style, for which the Spanish poet Gongora y Argote (1561-1627), among others of his time, was noted.

Separation of the sexes in different individuals; -- opposed to hermaphroditism.

The practice of illustrating a particular book by engravings collected from other books.

Gray. [R.] Chaucer.

Decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in English especially for painted glass.

Ambergris. [Obs.] Milton.

A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree. [Obs.] Every grise of fortune Is smoothed by that below. Shak.

Of a light color, or white, mottled with black or brown; grizzled or grizzly. Maunder.

A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry. Sterne.

The spine of a hog. [Obs.]

See Grizzled.

The quality or state of being grisly; horrid. Sir P. Sidney.

Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson (More's Utopia). Grisly bear. (Zoöl.) See under Grizzly.

A South American animal of the family Mustelidae (Galictis vittata). It is about two feet long, exclusive of the tail. Its under parts are black. Also called South American glutton. (b) A South American monkey (Lagothrix infumatus), said to be gluttonous.

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