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A ravine. See Gill a woody glen. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Wordsworth.

The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills.

(Min.), serpentine. -- Green mineral, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment. See Greengill. -- Green monkey (Zoöl.) a West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus callitrichus), very commonly tamed, and trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West Indies early in the last century, and has become ve…

ter before it forms on the surface. -- Ground ivy. (Bot.) A trailing plant; alehoof. See Gill. -- Ground joist, a joist for a basement or ground floor; a. sleeper. -- Ground lark (Zoöl.), the European pipit. See Pipit. -- Ground laurel (Bot.). See Trailing arbutus, under Arbutus. -- Ground line (Descriptive Geom.)…

a. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie. Norway haddock, a marine edible fish (Sebastes marinus) of Northern Europe and America. See Rose fish.

ed to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.

A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure. W. H. Ward.

An extensive artificial division of gastropod mollusks, including those that breathe by gills, as contrasted with the Pulmonifera. -- Hy`dro*bran"chi*ate, a.

The spore-bearing surface of certain fungi, as that on the gills of a mushroom.

e India paper, under India. -- Indian physic (Bot.), a plant of two species of the genus Gillenia (G. trifoliata, and G. stipulacea), common in the United States, the roots of which are used in medicine as a mild emetic; -- called also American ipecac, and bowman's root. Gray. -- Indian pink. (Bot.) (a) The Cypress v…

A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle.

Having the gills on the sides of the body, under the margin of the mantle; belonging to the Inferobranchiata.

Below the gills; -- applied to the ventral portion of the pallial chamber in the lamellibranchs.

nd fleshy, light-green leaves; a species of Senecio (S. scandens). -- Ground ivy. (Bot.) Gill (Nepeta Glechoma). -- Ivy bush. (Bot.) See Mountain laurel, under Mountain. -- Ivy owl (Zoöl.), the barn owl. -- Ivy tod (Bot.), the ivy plant. Tennyson. -- Japanese ivy (Bot.), a climbing plant (Ampelopsis tricuspidata),…

A young woman; a sweetheart. See Gill. Beau. & Fl.

A light, giddy, or wanton girl or woman. See Gill-flirt.

See Gillyflower.

Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n.

An argillaceous sandstone, of a red color, and much seamed; -- found in India.

A leaflike organ or part; as, a leaflet of the gills of fishes.