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The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.

A gay, lively dance. Cf. Gailliarde. Never a hall such a galliard did grace. Sir. W. Scott.

An inferior kind of olive oil, brought from Gallipoli, in Italy.

ode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed. But gallop lively down the western hill. Donne.

A kind of lively dance, in 2-4 time; also, the music to the dance.

eek, when formerly processions were made to survey the bounds of parishes. Halliwell. -- Live gang, or Round gang, the Western and the Eastern names, respectively, for a gang of saws for cutting the round log into boards at one operation. Knight. -- Slabbing gang, an arrangement of saws which cuts slabs from two side…

Preferably, and in the United States usually, written jail.] Commission of general gaol delivery, an authority conferred upon judges and others included in it, for trying and delivering every prisoner in jail when the judges, upon their circuit, arrive at the place for holding court, and for discharging any whom the gr…

r part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus. May that ground gape and swallow me alive! Shak.

to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the money or deliver the goods to the defendant, but to appear in court and give information as garnishee.

One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack. Macaulay.

Pertaining to the stomach and liver; hepatogastric; as, the gastrohepatic, or lesser, omentum.

On of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle.

A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over. [Written also gavotte.]

Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry. Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay. Pope. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed. Gray.

general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively. Generally speaking, they live very quietly. Addison.

ul and cheering; jovial and inspiring joy or happiness; exciting pleasure and sympathy; enlivening; kindly; as, she was of a cheerful and genial disposition. So much I feel my genial spirits droop. Milton.

Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live in a genteel allowance.

To live like a gentile or heathen. [Obs.] Milton.

The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.

drawing near when the whole Indian race, the dead with the living, should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth. The religion inculcates peace, righteousness, and work, and holds that in good time, without warlike intervention, the oppressive white rule will be removed by the high…