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Same as Gang, n., 2. [Obs.] There is a knot, a ging, a pack, a conspiracy against me. Shak.

See Jingal.

nd spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine. Ginger beer or ale, a mild beer impregnated with ginger. -- Ginger cordial, a liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy. -- Ginger pop. See Ginger beer (above). -- Ginger wine, wine…

A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. "Gingerbread that was full fine." Chaucer. Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm. -- Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of…

Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily. What is't that you took up so gingerly Shak.

Cautiousness; tenderness.

A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints.

The lining of a mine shaft with stones or bricks to prevent caving.

Of or pertaining to the gums. Holder.

See Jingle.

Ginglymoid.

An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebræ convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See Ganoidel.…

Pertaining to, or resembling, a ginglymus, or hinge joint; ginglyform.

A hinge joint; an articulation, admitting of flexion and extension, or motion in two directions only, as the elbow and the ankle.

Cloth or other material for bags.

Huge; great in size. [Colloq.] Forby.

elongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak.

That besieges; laying siege to. -- Be*sie"ging*ly, adv.

A building. [Obs.]

The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger. Tomlinson.