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(Gentiana) of herbaceous plants with opposite leaves and a tubular four- or five-lobed corolla, usually blue, but sometimes white, yellow, or red. See Illust. of Capsule.

A figure of St. George (the patron saint of England) on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter.

To make gestures; to gesticulate. The players . . . gestured not undecently withal. Holland.

Gilded. Holland.

liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.

. [Obs.] These quails have their set gists; to wit, ordinary resting and baiting places. Holland.

elding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving out, anything uttered or asserted; an outgiving. His givings out were of an infinite distance From his true meant design. Shak.

Cleaning; afterbirth. [Obs.] Holland.

A glowworm. {Obs.] Holland.

A buffoon. See Gollard. [Obs.] Chaucer.

s reflected from two surfaces successively shall have the same direction; -- called also Wollaston's goniometer, from the inventor.

noted for their powerful flight, activity, and courage. The Australian goshawk (A. Novæ-Hollandiæ) is pure white.

A silver dollar; -- so called in Cuba, Hayti, etc. Simmonds.

Capable of being governed, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient. Locke.

of Freemasons or of Good Templars, etc. -- Grand paunch, a glutton or gourmand. [Obs.] Holland. -- Grand pensionary. See under Pensionary. -- Grand piano (Mus.), a large piano, usually harp-shaped, in which the wires or strings are generally triplicated, increasing the power, and all the mechanism is introduced in…

Grandeur. Wollaston.

s, or art, of graving or carving; engraving. Either of picture or gravery and embossing. Holland.

Grasp; reach. [Obs.] A vein of gold ore within one spade's griff. Holland.

bstance, or matrix, of tissues. -- Ground swell. (a) (Bot.) The plant groundsel. [Obs.] Holland. (b) A broad, deep swell or undulation of the ocean, caused by a long continued gale, and felt even at a remote distance after the gale has ceased. -- Ground table. (Arch.) See Earth table, under Earth. -- Ground tackle (…

Guardianship. [Obs. & R.] " His tuition and guardenage." Holland.