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organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia. Fishes perform respiration under water by the gills. Ray.

A thoughtless, giddy girl; a flirt-gill. Sir W. Scott.

A shop where gill is sold. Thee shall each alehouse, thee each gillhouse mourn. Pope.

A girl; esp., a wanton; a gill. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A boy or young man; a manservant; a male attendant, in the Scottish Highlands. Sir W. Scott.

, of a roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core. [Written also gilliflower.] Clove gillflower, the clove pink. -- Marsh gillyflower, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi). -- Queen's, or Winter, gillyflower, damewort. -- Sea gillyflower, the thrift (Armeria vulgaris). -- Wall gillyflower…

Of the nature of clay; consisting of, or containing, argil or clay; clayey. Argillaceous sandstone (Geol.), a sandstone containing much clay. -- Argillaceous iron ore, the clay ironstone. -- Argillaceous schist or state. See Argillite.

Producing clay; -- applied to such earths as abound with argil. Kirwan.

Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc. -- Ar`gil*lit"ic, a.

Consisting of, or containing, clay and sand, as a soil.

Consisting of, or containing, clay and calcareous earth.

Containing clay and iron.

Argillaceous; clayey. Sir T. Browne.

in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people. [Also written aspergillus.]

Resembling the aspergillum in form; as, an aspergilliform stigma. Gray.

consisting of, or containing, calcareous and argillaceous earths.

A woman of light behavior; a gill-flirt. [Obs.] Shak. You heard him take me up like a flirt-gill. Beau. & Fl.

A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling.

Fringilline.

Pertaining to the family Fringillidæ; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike.