Search the Dictionary

ewcomer. [Cant] Fielding. Garnish bolt (Carp.), a bolt with a chamfered or faceted head. Knight.

The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself.

inding), a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book. Knight. -- Gathering coal, a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning. -- Gathering hoop, a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow t…

Gay; merry; festal. Tennyson. Let's have one other gaudy night. Shak.

aracter, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of. You shall not gauge me By what we do to-night. Shak.

the gauntlet, to offer or send a challenge. The gauntlet or glove was thrown down by the knight challenging, and was taken up by the one who accepted the challenge; -- hence the phrases.

A scaffolding or frame carrying a crane or other structure. Knight.

A mason's setting maul. Knight.

A portable apparatus for making soda water or aërated liquids on a small scale. Knight.

Gentle; noble; of gentle birth. [Obs.] All of a knight [who] was fair and gent. Chaucer.

by birth. [Obs.] "Pride of gentrie." Chaucer. She conquers him by high almighty Jove, By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath. Shak.

; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials. "True, genuine night." Dryden.

The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder. Meyrick (Ancient Armor).

ll head (Flax Manuf.), a spreader; a machine for subjecting flax to the action of gills. Knight. -- Gill net, a flat net so suspended in the water that its meshes allow the heads of fish to pass, but catch in the gills when they seek to extricate themselves. -- Gill opening, or Gill slit (Anat.), an opening behind an…

Against; near by; towards; as, gin night. [Scot.] A. Ross (1778).

posite directions so as to divide the space between the bars into a series of triangles. Knight. -- Sandwich girder, a girder consisting of two parallel wooden beams, between which is an iron plate, the whole clamped together by iron bolts.

brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant. Knight.

ift of fascination peculiar to women. It had much of glamour might To make a lady seem a knight. Sir W. Scott.

Echinops. -- Globe valve. (a) A ball valve. (b) A valve inclosed in a globular chamber. Knight.

Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.