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Catechu. [Written also gambeer and gambir.]

eatiful reddish yellow. Taking internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic ad emetic. [Written also camboge.]

enses or provisional imprisonment; a jail. [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 holdin…

The great auk; also, the razorbill. See Auk. [Written also gairfowl, and gurfel.]

A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely. [Written also gargle, gargyle, and gurgoyle.]

One of the Gastropoda. [Written also gasteropod.]

al side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca. [Written also Gasteropoda.]

The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. [Written also geat and git.] Gate chamber, a recess in the side wall of a canal lock, which receives the opened gate. -- Gate channel. See Gate, 5. -- Gate hook, the hook-formed piece of a gate hinge. -- Gate money, entrance money for admission…

has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over. [Written also gavotte.]

and kevel. The gazelles are celebrated for the luster and soft expression of their eyes. [Written also gazel.]

The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting. [Written also git, gate.]

ften with off, by drivers of oxen, in directing their teams, and opposed to haw, or hoi. [Written also jee.]

A small South American deer (Furcifer Chilensis), with simple forked horns. [Written also guemul.]

btained from the crane's-bill (Geranium maculatum), and having a peculiar mulberry odor. [Written also geranium.]

ure composed of unfermented grape juice, brandy, sugar, etc., for adulteration of wines. [Written also jerupigia.]

A kind of Oriental lyric, and usually erotic, poetry, written in recurring rhymes.

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

One of several finback whales of the North Atlantic; -- called also Jupiter whale. [Written also jubartas, gubertas, dubertus.]

kind of apple, of a roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core. [Written also gilliflower.] Clove gillflower, the clove pink. -- Marsh gillyflower, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi). -- Queen's, or Winter, gillyflower, damewort. -- Sea gillyflower, the thrift (Armeria vulgaris). -- Wal…

A short cassock. [Written also gepoun, gypoun, jupon, juppon.] [Obs.]