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imp. & p. p. of Get. See Get.

A channel for water. [Prov. Eng.] Crose.

a gutter. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One of an ancient Teutonic race, who dwelt between the Elbe and the Vistula in the early part of the Christian era, and who overran and took an important part in subverting the Roman empire.

A wiseacre; a person deficient in wisdom; -- so called from Gotham, in Nottinghamshire, England, noted for some pleasant blunders. Bp. Morton.

A gothamist.

Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.

A Gothic idiom.

To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism.

A hydrous oxide of iron, occurring in prismatic crystals, also massive, with a fibrous, reniform, or stalactitic structure. The color varies from yellowish to blackish brown.

p. p. of Get.

A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash.

imp. & p. p. of Beget.

p. p. of Beget.

ately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion. To doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and believe. Macaulay.

nreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others. "Bigoted to strife." Byron.

In the manner of a bigot.

The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.

cal and social outcasts (Christian Pariahs). They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths.

The deification of self. [R.]