n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, milk + &unr_; to eat: cf. &unr_; to live on milk. ] One who eats, or subsists on, milk. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A follower of Galen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in galvanism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who describes the phenomena of galvanism; a writer on galvanism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. gamba leg. ] (Mus.) A performer upon the viola di gamba. See under Viola. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. gasten, g&aemacr_;sten to frighten, akin to Goth. usgaisjan. See Aghast, Ghastly, and cf. Gaze. ] To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See Aghast. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. gasth`r, gastro`s, stomach + L. loqui to speak. ] One who appears to speak from his stomach; a ventriloquist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A gastromomer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging post or hinging post. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A post against which a gate closes; -- called also shutting post. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. LG. geest, geestland, sandy, dry and, OFries. gēst, gāst, gēstlond, gāstlond, fr. Fries. gāst barren. Cf. Geason. ] Alluvial matter on the surface of land, not of recent origin. R. Jameson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in the Gemara, or adhering to its teachings. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. généalogiste. ] One who traces genealogies or the descent of persons or families. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a scientist who specializes in genetics. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One versed in geodesy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. géognoste. ] One versed in geognosy; a geologist. [ R. ]

n. [ Cf. F. Géologiste. ] One versed in the science of geology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who eats earth, as dirt, clay, chalk, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a specialist in geology.
Syn. -- geologist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A guest. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. geste exploit. See Jest. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony. [ Obs. ] Mede. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Gesture; bearing; deportment. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Through his heroic grace and honorable gest. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Gist a resting place. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest. [ Obs. ] Kersey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's office. [ Obs. ] Hanmer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. gasten. See Ghastly, a. ] To strike aghast; to affright. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Ghasted by the noise I made.
Full suddenly he fled. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. gāst breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. gēst spirit, soul, D. geest, G. geist, and prob. to E. gaze, ghastly. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The spirit; the soul of man. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I thought that I had died in sleep,
And was a blessed ghost. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Poe. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ghost moth (Zool.), a large European moth (Hepialus humuli); so called from the white color of the male, and the peculiar hovering flight; -- called also great swift. --
Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; (Theol.) the third person in the Trinity. --
To give up the ghost or
To yield up the ghost, to die; to expire. [ 1913 Webster ]

And he gave up the ghost full softly. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. Gen. xlix. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To die; to expire. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. Girondiste. ] A member of the moderate republican party formed in the French legislative assembly in 1791. The Girondists were so called because their leaders were deputies from the department of La Gironde. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the Girondists. [ Written also Girondin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. giste abode, lodgings, F. gîte, fr. gésir to lie, L. jacēre, prop., to be thrown, hence, to lie, fr. jac&ebreve_;re to throw. In the second sense fr. OF. gist, F. gît, 3d pers. sing. ind. of gésir to lie, used in a proverb, F., c'est là que gît le lièvre, it is there that the hare lies, i. e., that is the point, the difficulty. See Jet a shooting forth, and cf. Agist, Joist, n., Gest a stage in traveling. ] 1. A resting place. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

These quails have their set gists; to wit, ordinary resting and baiting places. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] Same as Joust. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Glisten. ] Glimmer; mica. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A writer of glosses or of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. Tyrwhitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A writer of comments. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who defines and explains terms; one who is versed in glossology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 1st Gloss. ] (Ceramics) The lead glaze used for pottery. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A linguist; a philologist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in gnomonics. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Sport) One of two posts supporting a crossbar which forms a goal{ 3 }, especially in American football; also, in football the entire structure consisting of the posts, crossbar, and two uprights. To score a goal by kicking the football, the ball must pass above the crossbar and between the vertical lines formed by the uprights. [ PJC ]

n. (Zool.) The European golden-crested kinglet (Regulus cristatus, or Regulus regulus); -- called also golden-crested wren, and golden wren. The name is also sometimes applied to the American golden-crested kinglet. See Kinglet. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Eccl.-Hist.) One of the followers of Francis Gomar or Gomarus, a Dutch disciple of Calvin in the 17th century, who strongly opposed the Arminians. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ghost; spirit. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A wiseacre; a person deficient in wisdom; -- so called from Gotham, in Nottinghamshire, England, noted for some pleasant blunders. Bp. Morton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. grammatista schoolmaster, Gr. &unr_;, from &unr_; to teach the letters, to be a scribe: cf. F. grammatiste. See Grammatical. ] A petty grammarian. [ R. ] Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person professing to be skilled in graphoanalysis. The synonymous term Graphoanalyst was trademarked by the International Graphoanalysis Society. [ PJC ]

n. A person skilled in or professing to be skilled in graphology. [ PJC ]

adj. [ superl. of great. ] 1. not to be surpassed.
Syn. -- top. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. largest in size of those under consideration.
Syn. -- biggest, largest. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. most of. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. highest in importance or degree or significance or achievement; most eminent; as, our greatest statesmen.
Syn. -- leading(prenominal), preeminent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

5. highest in quality.
Syn. -- sterling(prenominal), superlative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ AS. grist, fr. grindan. See Grind. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces. [ 1913 Webster ]

Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store. Tusser. Q. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Supply; provision. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

All is grist that comes to his mill, all that he has anything to do with is a source of profit. [ Colloq. ] --
To bring grist to the maill, to bring profitable business into one's hands; to be a source of profit. [ Colloq. ] Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. gest, AS. gæst, gest; akin to OS., D., & G. gast, Icel. gestr, Sw. gäst, Dan. Gjäst, Goth. gasts, Russ. goste, and to L. hostis enemy, stranger; the meaning stranger is the older one, but the root is unknown. Cf. Host an army, Hostile. ] 1. A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cheer his guests, whom he had stayed that night. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest.
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A lodger or a boarder at a hotel, lodging house, or boarding house. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) (a) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite. (b) An inquiline. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To receive or entertain hospitably. [ Obs. ] Sylvester. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be, or act the part of, a guest. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And tell me, best of princes, who he was
That guested here so late. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]