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apex and at the basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture. J. H. Parker.

A half gable, as at the end of a penthouse or of the aisle of a church.

The announcement of the incarnation, made by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary.

occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc. Street Arab, a homeless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl. Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.

A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash.

To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See Expect. Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night. Milton.

Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle. "This is mere moral babble." Milton.

of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable. Gwilt.

A red wood of a leguminous tree (Baphia nitida), from Angola and the Gaboon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.

The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively. [Obs.]

Navigable for boats, or small river craft. The boatable waters of the Alleghany. J. Morse.

Of or pertaining to a social gypsy or "Bohemian" (see Bohemian, n., 3); vagabond; unconventional; free and easy. [Modern] Hers was a pleasant Bohemian life till she was five and thirty. Blackw. Mag. Artists have abandoned their Bohemian manners and customs nowadays. W. Black. Bohemian chatterer, or Bohemian waxwing (Zo…

Same as Bugaboo. -- a.

snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous ingabundant in tropical America.

A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage. Etym: [U.S.]

Small gabions. Brande & C.

One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.

The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc. The finials of gables and pinnacles are sometimes called crest. Parker.

ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.

The top stone of the gable end of a house. Halliwell.