gainstandt (ganstand)

[ Battle of Balrinnes (Child's Ballads, VII. 219). Love proved himself valiant, that durst..... gainst and the force of so many enraged desires. Sir P. Sidney. Not gainstandingt, notwithstanding. And noght gaynestandyng oure grete eelde [age], A semely sone he has vs sente. York Plays , p. 58. II. in trans. To make or offer resistance. And then throw fair Strath bogie land His purpose was for to pursew, And quhasoevir durst gainst and , That race they should full sairly rew. Battle of Harlaw (Child's Ballads, VII. 184). gains trivet (gān-striv'), v. [ In case yet all the Fates gainstrive us not, Neither shall we, perchance, die unreveng'd. N. Grimoald, Death of Cicero. In his strong armes he stifly him embraste, Who him gainstriving nought at all prevaild. Spenser, F. Q., II. iv. 14. II. in trans. To make or offer resistance. He may them catch unable to gainest rive. Spenser, F. Q., IV. vii. 12. galactocele On her legs were shooting gaiters of ru et leather, decidedly influenced as to color by the tyrannic soil. Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 189. 2. Originally, a kind of shoe, consisting partly of cloth, covering the ankle; now, also, a shoe of similar form, with or without cloth, generally with an insertion of elastic on each side. gaiter1 (gā'ter), v. t. [ The cavalry must be saddled, the artillery-horses harne ed, and the infantry gaitered . Trial of Lord G. Sackville (1760), p. 11.