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Turning the head towards the spectator, but not the body; -- said of a lion or other beast.

gather one's self together, to collect and dispose one's powers for a great effort, as a beast crouches preparatory to a leap. -- To gather way (Naut.), to begin to move; to move with increasing speed.

See Gaudy, a feast.

A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day. [Oxford Univ.] Conybeare.

An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bibos gauris), of large size and an untamable disposition. [Spelt also gour.]

An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies. [Written also ghole .] Moore.

Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing.

To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to scoff at; to mock. Draw the beasts as I describe them, From their features, while I gibe them. Swift.

A staff formerly used in fighting beasts on the stage. [Obs.] Bailey.

A plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Z. officinale.

the body usually at the waist; a cestus. Within the girdle of these walls. Shak. Their breasts girded with golden girdles. Rev. xv. 6.

r belly; the circumference of anything. He's a lu sty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girth. Addison.

To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east.

Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast. Spenser.

The angle, esp. the least angle, at which a gliding machine or aëroplane will glide to earth by virtue of gravity without applied power.

of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy. His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes. Dryden. The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. C. Kingsley. To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article of tra…

indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. Milton.

A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates. The daily goad urging him to the daily toil. Macaulay.

[Obs.] (b) A church. -- God's penny, earnest penny. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. -- God's Sunday, Easter.

A warehouse. [East Indies]