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- English Word Gill Definition A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint.
- English Word Gill Definition A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl.
- English Word Gill Definition The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names.
- English Word Gill Definition Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy.
- English Word Gill-flirt Definition A thoughtless, giddy girl; a flirt-gill.
- English Word Gillhouse Definition A shop where gill is sold.
- English Word Gillian Definition A girl; esp., a wanton; a gill.
- English Word Gillie Gilly Definition A boy or young man; a manservant; a male attendant, in the Scottish Highlands.
- English Word Gillyflower Definition A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white.
- English Word Gillyflower Definition A kind of apple, of a roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core.
- English Word Gilour Definition A guiler; deceiver.
- English Word Gilse Definition See Grilse.
- English Word Gilt Definition of Gild
- English Word Gilt Definition A female pig, when young.
- English Word Gilt Definition imp. & p. p. of Gild.
- English Word Gilt Definition Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow.
- English Word Gilt Definition Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.
- English Word Gilt Definition Money.
- English Word Gilt-edge Definition Alt. of Gilt-edged
- English Word Gilt-edged Definition Having a gilt edge; as, gilt-edged paper.
- English Word Gilt-edged Definition Of the best quality; -- said of negotiable paper, etc.
- English Word Gilthead Definition A marine fish.
- English Word Gilthead Definition The Pagrus, / Chrysophrys, auratus, a valuable food fish common in the Mediterranean (so named from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll.
- English Word Gilthead Definition The Crenilabrus melops, of the British coasts; -- called also golden maid, conner, sea partridge.
- English Word Giltif Definition Guilty.
- English Word Gilttail Definition A yellow-tailed worm or larva.
- English Word Gim Definition Neat; spruce.
- English Word Gimbal Definition Alt. of Gimbals
- English Word Gimbals Definition A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first.
- English Word Gimblet Definition See Gimlet.