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GIGOT; GIGGOT n. 2 definitions

A small piece of flesh; a slice. [Obs.] The rest in giggots cut, they spit. Chapman.

A large ornamental tree (Ginkgo biloba) from China and Japan, belonging to the Yew suborder of Coniferæ. Its leaves are so like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is also called the maidenhair tree.

GREGGOE; GREGO n.

oth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant. [Written also griego.]

Pertaining to, or originated by, some person named Gregory, especially one of the popes of that name. Gregorian calendar, the calendar as reformed by Pope Gregory XIII. in 1582, including the method of adjusting the leap years so as to harmonize the civil year with the solar, and also the regulation of the time of East…

Among Spanish Americans, a foreigner, esp. an Englishman or American; -- often used as a term of reproach.

The petrified fruit of the Chara hispida, a species of stonewort. See Stonewort. Lyell.

A grappling iron. [Obs.]

High relish or flavor; high seasoning.

HELMINTHAGOGUE n.

A plane figure of eleven sides and eleven angles. [Written also endecagon.]

A plane figure consisting of seven sides and having seven angles.

Having seven angles or sides. Heptagonal numbers (Arith.), the numbers of the series 1, 7, 18, 34, 55, etc., being figurate numbers formed by adding successively the terms of the arithmetical series 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, etc.

HETEROGONOUS a.

Characterized by heterogony. -- Het`er*og"o*nous*ly, adv.

The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils.

HETEROLOGOUS a.

nt elements, or of like elements in different proportions; different; -- opposed to homologous; as, heterologous organs. Heterologous stimulus. (Physiol.) See under Stimulus. -- Heterologous tumor (Med.), a tumor differing in structure from the normal tissues of the body.

A plane figure of six angles. Regular hexagon, a hexagon in which the angles are all equal, and the sides are also all equal.

Having six sides and six angles; six-sided. Hexagonal system. (Crystal.) See under Crystallization.

HEXAGONALLY adv.

In an hexagonal manner.