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A color mixed of white, and red, or a gray violet. [Written also gredaline, grizelin.] Dryden.

e. It is supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible. The bearded griffin is the lammergeir. [Written also gryphon.]

trand of an unlaid rope; also, a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag. Sometimes written grummet.

cause of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera. [Written also gromill.]

In California, the name is often applied to the rockfishes. [Written also groper, gruper, and trooper.]

One who grovels; an abject wretch. [Written also groveller.]

Lying prone; low; debased. [Written also grovelling.] "A groveling creature." Cowper.

A West Indian name for several kinds of palm. See Macaw tree, under Macaw. [Written also grigri palm.]

A vulture; the griffin. [Written also gripe.] [Obs.]

vitæ, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It is much used in medicine. [Written also guaiac.]

he southern Andes and Patagonia. It is supposed by some to be the llama in a wild state. [Written also huanaco.]

to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull. [Written also gunnel.]

are highly esteemed for food. The name is sometimes applied to the American sea robins. [Written also gournet.] Plyling gurnard. See under Flying.

es and Northern Europe, allied to the lake whitefish; -- called also powan, and schelly. [Written also gwyniad, guiniad, gurniad.]

The part of a large house, among the ancients, exclusively appropriated to women. [Written also gyneceum, gynecium.] Tennyson.

rcumpolar. The black and the gray are varieties of the former. See Illust. of Accipiter. [Written also gerfalcon, gierfalcon, and jerfalcon.]

A shackle; especially, one to confine the legs; a fetter. [Written also give.] Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves. Shak. With gyves upon his wrist. Hood.

p, with the former of which it represents a compound sound like that of tsh, as in charm (written also tch as in catch), with the latter, the sound of f, as in phase, phantom. In some words, mostly derived or introduced from foreign languages, h following c and g indicates that those consonants have the hard sound befo…

An exclamation denoting surprise, joy, or grief. Both as uttered and as written, it expresses a great variety of emotions, determined by the tone or the context. When repeated, ha, ha, it is an expression of laughter, satisfaction, or triumph, sometimes of derisive laughter; or sometimes it is equivalent to "Well, it i…

A harquebus, of which the but was bent down or hooked for convenience in taking aim. [Written also haguebut and hackbuss.]