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Of or pertaining to the Girondists. [Written also Girondin.]

Sword grass; any plant with sword-shaped leaves, esp. the European Iris foetidissima. [Written also gladwyn, gladdon, and glader.]

mmon European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard. [Written also glead, gled, gleed, glade, and glide.]

the element was isolated. Symbol Gl. Atomic weight 9.1. Called also beryllium. [Formerly written also glucinium.]

A white amorphous powder, C4H4O, obtained by heating and dehydrating glycolic acid. [Written also glycollide.]

ining to, or designating, an aldehyde acid, intermediate between glycol and oxalic acid. [Written also glyoxylic.]

A knot or gnarl in wood; hence, a tough, thickset man; -- written also gnarr. [Archaic] He was . . . a thick gnarre. Chaucer.

ws, in contrast with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them. [Written also Gnathostomata.]

of the genus Catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes. [Written also gnoo.]

e in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out. [Written also gowt.]

Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, "God speed you." [Written also as two separate words.] Receive him not into house, neither bid him God speed. 2 John 10.

rn Russia early in the 18th century. -- Golden Legend, a hagiology (the "Aurea Legenda") written by James de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, in the 13th century, translated and printed by Caxton in 1483, and partially paraphrased by Longfellow in a poem thus entitled. -- Golden marcasite tin. [Obs.] -- Golden mean, th…

One of the four narratives of the life and death of Jesus Christ, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

ood fish. Many unsuccessful efforts have been made to introduce it into Southern Europe. [Written also goramy.]

tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon. [Formerly written graff.]

A suffix indicating something drawn or written, a drawing, writing; -- as, monogram, telegram, chronogram.

A suffix signifying something written, a writing; also, a writer; as autograph, crystograph, telegraph, photograph.

Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines. The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical, or composed of letters. Sir T. Browne.

Any species of slate suitable to be written on.

vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; -- written also grapline, and crapnel.