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The science of tongues or languages; comparative philology; glossology.

Knowing; wise; shrewd. [Old Slang] I said you were a gnostic fellow. Sir W. Scott.

To retrace (one's path or footsteps). (b) To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [Slang, U. S.] -- To go below (Naut), to go below deck. -- To go between, to interpose or mediate between; to be a secret agent between parties; in a bad sense, to pander. -- To go beyond. See under Beyond. -- To go by, to pass away un…

ation. Goldsmith. To gobble up, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly. [Slang]

A spoon. [Prov. Eng. or Slang]

Good, Duke of Burgundy; -- called also Toison d'Or. -- Golden grease, a bribe; a fee. [Slang] -- Golden hair (Bot.), a South African shrubby composite plant with golden yellow flowers, the Chrysocoma Coma-aurea. -- Golden Horde (Hist.), a tribe of Mongolian Tartars who overran and settled in Southern Russia early in…

A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common.

A pickpocket or thief. [Eng. Slang] Dickens.

- so named in allusion to the egglike outline of the zero sign 0. Called also duck egg. [Slang]

The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See Goth.

Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person. [Slang, U. S.] Gouge bit, a boring bit, shaped like a gouge.

The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use aud application of the rules of a language, in speaking or writing.

One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.

One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history. De Quincey.

An idiom of the Greek language; a Hellenism. Addison.

To render Grecian; also, to cause (a word or phrase in another language) to take a Greek form; as, the name is Grecized. T. Warton.

A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece.

To study hard for examination. [College Slang]

A grogshop. [Slang, U. S.]

Weakened in a fight so as to stagger; -- said of pugilists. [Cant or Slang]