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To take out the entrails of (herrings).

A short cassock. [Written also gepoun, gypoun, jupon, juppon.] [Obs.]

A kind of pouch formerly worn at the girdle. Ld. Lytton. A gipser all of silk, Hung at his girdle, white as morné milk. Chaucer.

See Gypsy.

See Gypsyism.

A perfume of jasmine; frangipani.

A perfume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus Plumeria.

A tussock moth (Ocneria dispar) native of the Old World, but accidentally introduced into eastern Massachusetts about 1869, where its caterpillars have done great damage to fruit, shade, and forest trees of many kinds. The male gypsy moth is yellowish brown, the female white, and larger than the male. In both sexes the…

One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.

Having long wings, or quills.

A group of longwinged sea birds, including the gulls, petrels, etc.

Of or pertaining to the Longipennes; longipennate.

Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves. tramps, or beggars.

A genus of small beetles, of which one species (the grapevine Fidia, F. longipes) is very injurious to vines in America.

See Gipoun. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A division of birds; the Longipennes.