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A receptacle for jewels or gems; a jewel house; jewels or gems, collectively.

Spruce; smart. [Colloq. Eng.]

Sex, male or female. [Obs. or Colloq.]

Collectively; as a whole; without omissions. [Obs.] I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee. 2 Sam. xvii. ll.

A native or inhabitant of Geneva; collectively, the inhabitants of Geneva; people of Geneva.

A native or inhabitant of Genoa; collectively, the people of Genoa.

To make kind and docile, as a horse. [Colloq.]

A figure of St. George (the patron saint of England) on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter.

Something which gets or gains money; a successful affair. [Colloq.] Chapman.

One who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc. [Colloq.] A diligent getter-up of miscellaneous works. W. Irving.

ucture; manner in which the parts of a thing are combined; make-up; style of dress, etc. [Colloq.] H. Kingsley.

Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power. Giant's Causeway, a vast collection of basaltic pillars, in the county of Antrim on the northern coast of Ireland.

A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment. [Colloq.] Burton.

s. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle. Gimlet eye, a squint-eye. [Colloq.] Wright.

A shop or barroom where gin is sold as a beverage. [Colloq.]

te surrender of one's cause, an unintentional disclosure of one's purposes, or the like. [Colloq.] -- To give out. (a) To utter publicly; to report; to announce or declare. One that gives out himself Prince Florizel. Shak. Give out you are of Epidamnum. Shak.

en by one's parents or guardians, as distinguished from the surname, which is inherited. [Colloq.]

ielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving out, anything uttered or asserted; an outgiving. His givings out were of an infinite distance From his true meant design. Shak.

your eyes. Shak. Glad am I that your highness is so armed. Shak. Glad on 't, glad of it. [Colloq.] Shak.

Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. [R.] Sir T. Browne.