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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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4,946 words match “GIN”

FULIGINOUSLY adv.

In a smoky manner.

A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms.

A kind of internal-combustion engine (which see) using fixed gas; also, broadly, any internal-combustion engine.

GASOLINE ENGINE; GASOLENE ENGINE n.

A kind of internal-combustion engine; -- in British countries called usually petrol engine.

See Gauge rod, under Gauge, n.

GROGGINESS n. 2 definitions

State of being groggy.

GRUDGINGLY adv.

In a grudging manner.

GRUDGINGNESS n.

The state or quality of grudging, or of being full of grudge or unwillingness.

HANGING a. 6 definitions

Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. "What a hanging face!" Dryden.

HEDGING BILL n.

A hedge bill. See under Hedge.

Drooping at the ends; arching;-in distinction from sagging. Hogging frame. See Hogframe.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, homology; as, homologinic qualities, or differences.

IMAGINABILITY n.

Capacity for imagination. [R.] Coleridge.

Capable of being imagined; conceivable. Men sunk into the greatest darkness imaginable. Tillotson. -- Im*ag"i*na*ble*ness, n. -- Im*ag"i*na*bly, adv.

IMAGINAL a. 2 definitions

Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins.

IMAGINANT a. 2 definitions

Imagining; conceiving. [Obs.] Bacon. -- n.

In a imaginary manner; in imagination. B. Jonson.

IMAGINARINESS n.

The state or quality of being imaginary; unreality.

IMAGINARY a. 2 definitions

Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity (Alg.), an algebraic expression which involves the impossible operation of taking…

Imaginative. [Obs.] Holland.