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  • English Word Gingham Definition A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints.
  • English Word Ginging Definition The lining of a mine shaft with stones or bricks to prevent caving.
  • English Word Gingival Definition Of or pertaining to the gums.
  • English Word Gingle Definition See Jingle.
  • English Word Ginglyform Definition Ginglymoid.
  • English Word Ginglymi Definition of Ginglymus
  • English Word Ginglymodi Definition An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebrae convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See Ganoidel.
  • English Word Ginglymoid Definition Alt. of Ginglymoidal
  • English Word Ginglymoidal Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, a ginglymus, or hinge joint; ginglyform.
  • English Word Ginglymus Definition A hinge joint; an articulation, admitting of flexion and extension, or motion in two directions only, as the elbow and the ankle.
  • English Word Ginhouse Definition A building where cotton is ginned.
  • English Word Ginkgo Definition A large ornamental tree (Ginkgo biloba) from China and Japan, belonging to the Yew suborder of Coniferae. Its leaves are so like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is also called the maidenhair tree.
  • English Word Ginkgoes Definition of Ginkgo
  • English Word Ginn Definition of Ginnee
  • English Word Ginned Definition of Gin
  • English Word Ginnee Definition See Jinnee.
  • English Word Ginnet Definition See Genet, a horse.
  • English Word Ginning Definition of Gin
  • English Word Ginning Definition of Gin
  • English Word Ginning Definition Beginning.
  • English Word Ginny-carriage Definition A small, strong carriage for conveying materials on a railroad.
  • English Word Ginseng Definition A plant of the genus Aralia, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese. The Chinese plant (Aralia Schinseng) has become so rare that the American (A. quinquefolia) has largely taken its place, and its root is now an article of export from America to China. The root, when dry, is of a yellowish white color, with a sweetness in the taste somewhat resembling that of licorice, combined with a slight aromatic bitterness.
  • English Word Ginshop Definition A shop or barroom where gin is sold as a beverage.
  • English Word Gip Definition To take out the entrails of (herrings).
  • English Word Gip Definition A servant. See Gyp.
  • English Word Gipoun Definition A short cassock.
  • English Word Gipser Definition Alt. of Gipsire
  • English Word Gipsire Definition A kind of pouch formerly worn at the girdle.
  • English Word Gipsy Definition See Gypsy.
  • English Word Gipsyism Definition See Gypsyism.