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Gay; merry; festal. Tennyson. Let's have one other gaudy night. Shak.

perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon! Tennyson.

Full of gems; bright; glittering like a gem. The gemmy bridle glittered free. Tennyson.

Showy; unreal; pretentious. Seeing his gewgaw castle shine. Tennyson.

e fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns. Shak. With solemn gibe did Eustace banter me. Tennyson.

oquent. The sort of mock-heroic gigantesque With which we bantered little Lilia first. Tennyson.

To surround; to encircle, or encompass. That Nyseian isle, Girt with the River Triton. Milton.

To open; to lead. [A Gallicism] This, yielding, gave into a grassy walk. Tennyson. To give back, to recede; to retire; to retreat. They gave back and came no farther. Bunyan. -- To give in, to yield; to succumb; to acknowledge one's self beaten; to cease opposition. The Scots battalion was enforced to give in. Hayward.…

Witchcraft; magic; a spell. Tennyson.

nces glance, Like light in many a shivered lance, That breaks about the dappled pools. Tennyson.

feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam. Gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls. Tennyson.

A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove. Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. Tennyson .

looming in the sky First lightened into day. Trench. The balmy glooming, crescent-lit. Tennyson.

e three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn. Tennyson.

ing a reverential and loving feeling towards God; religious. A brave good-fearing man. Tennyson.

Pertaining to the gonys of a bird's beak.

a gossip; groundless rumor. Bubbles o'er like a city with gossip, scandal, and spite. Tennyson.

Dressed in a gown; clad. Gowned in pure white, that fitted to the shape. Tennyson.

anges and her bernes wide. Chaucer. Nor burnt the grange, nor bussed the milking maid. Tennyson.

alued as a game fish. And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling. Tennyson.