geternt

An obsolete form of gittern. getht. An obsolete variant of goeth, third person singular of the present indicative of go. Chaucer. getle t, a. [ zif we gettle e goo home, the kyng wille be grevede, frightened]. Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 2728. And say we are gadlynges, agaste for a lyttille [easily get-nothing (get'nuthing), n. [ IMG:content-2264.png:[blocks in formation] with the usual variation of vowel, of give, geve, geove, often with initial palatal, zire, zeve, zeme, a gift, And where as men do honour you as auncient per sones, ye shew yourselfe wanton: and whanne folk renne to see gewgawes ye are not the last. Golden Book, From the Emperor to Claudius and his Wife. A heavy gewgaw , call'd a crown, that spread About his temples, drown'd his narrow head, And would have crush'd it. Dryden , tr. of Juvenal. Such painted puppets! such a varnish'd race Of hollow gewgaws , only dre and face! Pope, Satires of Donne, iv. 209. They think that, though the men may be contented with homespun stuffs, the women will never get the bet ter of their vanity and fondne for English modes and gewgaws , B. Franklin, Autobiog., p. 420. 21. A pipe or flute. IMG:content-2265.png:[blocks in formation] Before some new Madonna gaily decked, Tinselled and gewgawed . D. G. Ro etti, A Last Confe ion. gey, adv. See gay1. [Scotch.] geyser (gi'sèr), n. [Also written geysir; Giant Geyser, Yellow stone National Park, United States. nearly 100 feet. The height of the column is probably diminishing, as some old estimates make it much greater. There are numerous geysers in the Yellow stone region the United States, some of which throw water to an elevation of 200 feet or more, and also on the North Island of New Zealand; and in the Napa valley of California are boiling springs that have been improperly called geysers. (See boiling spring, under boiling.) The true theory of the action of the Great Geyser of Iceland, and hence of gey sers in general, was first established by Bunsen. The ejection of the water is caused by explosive action, due to the heating of the water, under pre ure, in the lower part of Silicious Cone of the Beehive Geyser, Yellow stone National Park, United States. the geyser-tube, to considerably above the boiling-point. The heated water acquires after a time elastic force sufficient to overcome the weight of the superincumbent water; and the relief from compre ion during the ascent is so great that steam is generated rapidly, and to such an amount as to eject violently from the tube a great quantity of the water. geyseric (gi'sėr-ik), a. [ white or grayish, porous, in stalactitic, filamentous, or cauliflower like forms.