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ellatahs, Foulahs, and Fellani. Fulah is also used adjectively; as, Fulah empire, tribes, language.

union or blending together of things, as, melted together. The universal fusion of races, languages, and customs . . . had produced a corresponding fusion of creeds. C. Kingsley. Watery fusion (Chem.) the melting of certain crystals by heat in their own water of crystallization.

Of or pertaining to that division of the Celtic languages, which includes the Irish, Gaelic, and Manx. J. Peile.

Of or pertaining to the Gael, esp. to the Celtic Highlanders of Scotland; as, the Gaelic language.

To introduce gags or interpolations. See Gag, n., 3. [Slang] Cornill Mag.

Impudence; brazen assurance. [Slang] Gall bladder (Anat.), the membranous sac, in which the bile, or gall, is stored up, as secreted by the liver; the cholecystis. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus. -- Gall duct, a duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct, or the hepatic duct. -- Gall sickness, a remitting biliou…

u; to wait upon the ladies; also, to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan. [Slang] Dickens.

A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy. [Slang, U. S.]

Boasting; insincere or empty talk. [Slang]

level in a steam boiler. -- Gauge concussion (Railroads), the jar caused by a car-wheel flange striking the edge of the rail. -- Gauge glass, a glass tube for a water gauge. -- Gauge lathe, an automatic lathe for turning a round object having an irregular profile, as a baluster or chair round, to a templet or gauge.…

The original native name for the ancient Ethiopic language or people. See Ethiopic.

A queer old fellow; an old chap; an old woman. [Contemptuous, Slang or Dial.]

Peculiar character; animating spirit, as of a nation, a religion, a language.

The German language.

An idiom of the German language.

To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society.

Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; 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.

Of the best quality; -- said of negotiable paper, etc. [Slang, U. S.]

A light or candle. [Slang] Dickens. Douse the glim, put out the light. [Slang]

The science of language; comparative philology; linguistics; glottology.