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  • English Word Gibstaff Definition A staff to guage water, or to push a boat.
  • English Word Gibstaff Definition A staff formerly used in fighting beasts on the stage.
  • English Word Gid Definition A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the C/nurus, a larval tapeworm, in the brain. See C/nurus.
  • English Word Giddily Definition In a giddy manner.
  • English Word Giddiness Definition The quality or state of being giddy.
  • English Word Giddy Definition Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy.
  • English Word Giddy Definition Promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a giddy precipice.
  • English Word Giddy Definition Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling.
  • English Word Giddy Definition Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless.
  • English Word Giddy Definition To reel; to whirl.
  • English Word Giddy Definition To make dizzy or unsteady.
  • English Word Giddy-head Definition A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment.
  • English Word Giddy-headed Definition Thoughtless; unsteady.
  • English Word Giddy-paced Definition Moving irregularly; flighty; fickle.
  • English Word Gide Definition Alt. of Guide
  • English Word Gie Definition To guide. See Gye .
  • English Word Gie Definition To give.
  • English Word Gier-eagle Definition A bird referred to in the Bible (Lev. xi. 18and Deut. xiv. 17) as unclean, probably the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus).
  • English Word Gier-falcon Definition The gyrfalcon.
  • English Word Gieseckite Definition A mineral occurring in greenish gray six-sided prisms, having a greasy luster. It is probably a pseudomorph after elaeolite.
  • English Word Gif Definition If.
  • English Word Giffard injector Definition See under Injector.
  • English Word Giffgaff Definition Mutial accommodation; mutual giving.
  • English Word Giffy Definition See Jiffy.
  • English Word Gift Definition Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.
  • English Word Gift Definition The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the President.
  • English Word Gift Definition A bribe; anything given to corrupt.
  • English Word Gift Definition Some quality or endowment given to man by God; a preeminent and special talent or aptitude; power; faculty; as, the gift of wit; a gift for speaking.
  • English Word Gift Definition A voluntary transfer of real or personal property, without any consideration. It can be perfected only by deed, or in case of personal property, by an actual delivery of possession.
  • English Word Gift Definition To endow with some power or faculty.