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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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GIBBOUS a. 2 definitions

ve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon. The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member. Wiseman.

GIBRALTAR n. 2 definitions

A kind of candy sweetmeat, or a piece of it; -- called, in full, Gibraltar rock.

t cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. "Gingerbread that was full fine." Chaucer. Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm. -- Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial…

Full of gladness; joyful; glad. [R.] -- Glad"ful*ness, n. [R.] Spenser. It followed him with gladful glee. Spenser.

A boaster. [Obs.] Fuller.

GLUT v. 9 definitions

To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving 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…

GLUTTON a. 5 definitions

n souls." Dryden. A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days. Fuller.

Knotty; full of knots or gnarls; twisted; crossgrained. The unwedgeable and gnarléd oak. Shak.

Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained.

ous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome. To whom the goblin, full of wrath, replied. Milton.

GOGGLE a. 7 definitions

Full and rolling, or staring; -- said of the eyes. The long, sallow vissage, the goggle eyes. Sir W. Scott.

GOOD a. 16 definitions

Not lacking or deficient; full; complete. Good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over. Luke vi. 38.

Beauty of form; grace; elegance; comeliness. Her goodliness was full of harmony to his eyes. Sir P. Sidney.

GORGED a. 3 definitions

Glutted; fed to the full.

GORGET n. 7 definitions

ually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies.

Full of, or given to, gossip.

GRACE n. 17 definitions

aracter of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. Blair.

Endowed with grace; beautiful; full of graces; honorable. Shak.

GRAMMATICIZE v.

To render grammatical. Fuller.

GRANULIFEROUS a.

Full of granulations.