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GLOSSARY
GALLOW (more usually 'gaily* (Hi) 'go to it*=copulatej 4.
and now only dial,), terrifyj 6. 112, 122
3- 2. 44 GOATISH, lustful; 1. 2. 130
GARB, style, fashion (of speech GORGED, lit. throated; 'shrill-
or behaviour); never= 'fash- gorged'=shrill-sounding; 4#
ion in dress' with Sh.j 2. 2. 6.58
95 GRACE (sb.), (i) natural charm,
GASTED, frightened; 2. i. 55 attractiveness; 1. 1. 57; (ii)
GATE, way (see O.E.D. sb.*); favour; 1. 1. 228, 264, 271;
'go thy gate'=get along 1.4. 1665 (iii) divine favour;
with you! 4. 6. 235 5. 2. 4; (iv) honour; 2. 2.
GENERAL (adj.), (i) collective; 129; (v) a person of high
'the general dependants'= rank (here='a king'); 3. 2.
all the dependants; 1.4. 62; 40; (vi) mercy; 3. 2. 59}
(ii) universal, i.e. involving (vii) good qualities; 5. 3.
the whole human race; 4. 6. 68
204 GRACE (vb.), honour; 5. 3.
GENERATION, parents; 1. 1. 62
116 GRACED, honourable, digni-
GENEROUS, of quality befitting fied; 1. 4. 246
the high-born; 1. 2. 8 GRACIOUS, kindly; 4. 2.41
GENTLE, (i) noble, well-bora GROSS, (i) flagrant; 1. 3. 55
(conventional complimen- (ii) large; 4. 6. 14
tary epithet); 4. 6. 206j GROSSLY, obviously; 1. 1. 289
(ii) merciful; 4. 6. 215 GUARDIAN, an official title,
GENTLEMAN, man of good now Warden, e.g. Lord
birth attached as servant to Warden of the Cinque Ports
household of person of high (see O.E.D. 3)5 2.4. 247
rank; 1. 3. 1
GERMEN, germ, seed; 3. 2. 8 HALCYON, kingfisher; 2. 2.76.
GET, beget; 1. 2. 15; 2. 1. 785 A dried specimen of the bird
3. 4. 146; 4. 6. 116 hung up so as to move freely
GIVE FROM, deprive someone of was supposed to turn in the
Something; 1. 1. 124—5 direction of the wind (after
GIVE (ONE) WAY, let him go his Steev.)
own way (cf. Caes. G.); 2. 4. HALF-BLOODED, of good family
294 only by virtue of one
GLASS-GAZING, given to study- parent; 5- 3- 81
ing one's appearance in the HANDY-DANDY. A game: a
mirror, vain; 2. 2. 16 child passes an object from
GLASS EYES, spectacles; 4. 6. one hand to the other behind
169 his back while another child
Go, (i) walk; 1.4.1225 (ii) 'go has to guess in which hand it
to' (exclam.)=Come, come!, is. Here=take your choice!
Enough!} 1. 4. 92; 3. 3. 8j 4. 6. 152