girnal, girnel

[Ir. geirneal =a granary.] A meal chest; granary. 2009 Gir-onde', s. [See def.] 1. Geography: (1) A maritime department in the southwest of France, adjacent to the Bay of Biscay. (2) An estuary in this department. It is formed by the junction of the rivers Garonne and Dordogne, thirteen miles north of Bordeaux. ( Keith John ston .) 2. Hist .: The Giron dist party. Gir-on-dist, Gir-on-din, s . & a. din; Eng., ., suff. -ist. See def.] A. As substantive: give *gişe (1), *gyse, v . t . [GISE, s. Sp. & Port. guisar .] To dre up. *gişe (2), v . t . [AGIST.] To feed or graze; to take in cattle to pasture on; as, to gise ground. *gişe, *gyse, s. [Fr. guise .] Guise, fashion. [GUISE.] *gis-erne, *gis-arne, s. The gizzard. *giş'-le (le as el), s. [A. S. gisel .] A pledge; a Hist .: The name of a great political party in France; one of the most powerful factors in at least the earlier part of the first French Revolution. When the Legislative A embly met in A. D. 1791, it was found to contain representatives of all the three parties which naturally exist in every country -those of the upper, the middle, and the lower cla es. The Girondists were the second of these the party of the middle cla es, and were republican in sentiment. They obtained their designation from the fact that their most celebrated leaders, Vergniaud, Guadet, Gensonné, ., were members for the department of the Gironde, originally lawyers in the law court of Bordeaux. Their followers were the burge cla , the profe ionals, and the smaller agriculturists. In 1791 they were the most powerful party in the A embly, and for a time shaped the policy of their country. When conservative Europe, in the interests of monarchy, threatened France with invasion, it was the Girondists who, in April, 1792, declared war, the Jacobins deprecating hostilities, as fearing the result. To overcome their monarchic rivals, the Girondists coquetted with the last-named party, and found that they had gained, not a servant, but a cruel and exacting master. The quarrel between the two arose after the ma acres perpetrated in August and September, 1792, and the extreme revolutionists ultimately prevailing, an armed mob on May 31, 1793, a ailed the Convention, and demanded the imprisonment of twenty-nine Giron dist deputies. These were arrested on June 2, and twenty-one of them were guillotined on October 31. Others were subsequently put to death; a few escaping, reappeared in the Convention after the fall of Robes pierre. B. As adjective : 1. Hist .: Pertaining or relating to the party described under A. 2. Geog .: Of or belonging to the department of the Gironde (q. v.). gì-răn-nê, gì-ron-nỹ, a. [GYRONNY.] gir-oû-ět te, s . [Fr. a weather-cock.] A name given in France to time-serving politicians, who veer about with every shift of popular opinion; a political weather-cock; a trimmer; an opportunist. girr, 8. [GIRD (2), s.] A hoop for a cask or tub. gir-rocks, s . [A dim in. of gar (?).] Ichthy.: A species of garfish. gis-mond-ine, s. [GISM ON DITE.]