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Smoky; vaporous. Sir T. Broune.

Smoky; hot; choleric.

Producing smoke; smoky.

A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers, but particularly of amyl alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol.

Of or pertaining to the galaxy or Milky Way. Galactic circle (Astron.), the great circle of the heavens, to which the course of the galaxy most nearly conforms. Herschel. -- Galactic poles, the poles of the galactic circle.

The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used for remote clusters of stars. Nichol.

Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky. I was game . . . .I felt that I could have fought even to the death. W. Irving.

In a plucky manner; spiritedly.

Showing an unyielding spirit to the last; plucky; furnishing sport; as, a gamy trout.

A simpleton; a booby; a gawky. Carlyle.

To view with attention; to gaze on . [R.] And gazed a while the ample sky. Milton.

A balky horse. Youatt.

Bulky, big. [Obs.] Burton. -- Gi*gan"tic*al*ly, adv.

ger cordial, a liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy. -- Ginger pop. See Ginger beer (above). -- Ginger wine, wine impregnated with ginger. -- Wild ginger (Bot.), an American herb (Asarum Canadense) with two reniform leaves and a long, cordlike rootstock which has a…

A variety of opal which is usually milk white, bluish white, or sky blue; but in a bright light it reflects a reddish color.

ctive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.

A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made. W. E. Aytoun.

To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.

Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming. When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day. Trench. The balmy glooming, crescent-lit. Tennyson.

Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton.