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Gum ammoniac:
The concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the Dorema ammoniacum. It is brought chiefly from Persia in the form of yellowish tears, which occur singly, or are aggregated into masses. It ...
G:
G is the name of the fifth tone of the natural or model scale; -- called also sol by the Italians and French. It was also originally used as the treble clef, and has gradually changed into the charact ...
Gab:
The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric.
Gab:
The mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness.
Gab:
To deceive; to lie.
Gab:
To talk idly; to prate; to chatter.
Gabarage:
A kind of coarse cloth for packing goods.
Gabardine:
Alt. of Gaberdine
Gaberdine:
A coarse frock or loose upper garment formerly worn by Jews; a mean dress.
Gabber:
A liar; a deceiver.
Gabber:
One addicted to idle talk.
Gabbled:
of Gabble
Gabbling:
of Gabble
Gabble:
To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.
Gabble:
To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls.
Gabble:
Loud or rapid talk without meaning.
Gabble:
Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.
Gabbier:
One who gabbles; a prater.
Gabbro:
A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (di ...
Gabel:
A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
Gabeler:
A collector of gabels or taxes.
Gabelle:
A tax, especially on salt.
Gabelleman:
A gabeler.
Gaberdine:
See Gabardine.
Gaber-lunzie:
A beggar with a wallet; a licensed beggar.
Gabert:
A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation.
Gabion:
A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.
Gabion:
An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement.
Gabionade:
A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire.
Gabionade:
A structure of gabions sunk in lines, as a core for a sand bar in harbor improvements.
Gabionage:
The part of a fortification built of gabions.
Gabioned:
Furnished with gabions.
Gabionnade:
See Gabionade.
Gable:
A cable.
Gable:
The vertical triangular portion of the end of a building, from the level of the cornice or eaves to the ridge of the roof. Also, a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and th ...
Gable:
The end wall of a building, as distinguished from the front or rear side.
Gable:
A decorative member having the shape of a triangular gable, such as that above a Gothic arch in a doorway.
Gablet:
A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.
Gablock:
A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock.
Gaby:
A simpleton; a dunce; a lout.
