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Another spelling of ghoul. gowlan, n. Same as gowan. gowlee (gou'le), n. [Repr. Hind. gauli, a cowherd, a caste living by keeping cows and selling milk, The comparison then is briefly between a gownd man and a souldier's condition in respect of expedition. Holyday, Juvenal, Illus. of the Sixteenth Satyre. For travel girt, for busine gowned . Words worth, Sonnets, iii. 20. II. in trans. To put on a gown. gown-clotht, n. A piece of cloth sufficient to make a gown. Tell, quod the lord, and thou shalt have anon A goune - cloth , by God and by Saint John. Chaucer, Summoner's Tale, 1. 552. Paid to John Pope, draper, for 2 gown - cloths , eight yards, of 2 colors. [Time of Henry VI.] Quoted in Archæologia , XXXIX. 367. gownman (goun'man), n.; pl. gownmen (-men). Same as gownsman . IMG:content-2546.png:[blocks in formation] gown-piece (goun'pēs), n. A piece of cloth fit to make a gown of, and sufficient in quantity. gownsman (gounz'man), n.; pl. gownsmen (-men). 1. One whose profe ional habit is a gown, as a lawyer, or a profe or or student of a university, especially the last. gown (goun), n. [Early mod. E. and dial. also gownd, gound; goune , a gown, either (1) gune , gone = Pr. gon a = OSp. gon a = It. gonna (ML. gunna , MGr. γούνa , Albanian gunë ), a gown, a petticoat; or (2) gwn = Corn. gun =Manx goon = Ir.gunn =Gael.gun , a gown. The Rom. forms are themselves prob. of Celtic origin. Cf. W.gwnio , sew, stitch.] 1. An outer garment, generally long and loose, of various shapes and uses. Specifically - (a) A long and loose outer robe usually worn by men at the beginning of the gowt (gout), n. See gout2. fifteenth century and later, and by women continuously from an early date in the middle ages; e entially, a gar- We used to meet gownsmen in High Street reading the goodly volume as they walked - pensive with a grave and sage delight. Hogg , in Dowden's Shelley, L. 92. The townsmen came on with a rush and shout, and were met by the gownsmen with settled, steady pluck. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford. ment meant to be girded at the waist, somewhat close fitting above and large and loose below. He came with all speed, In a gownd of green velvet from heel to the head. Death of Queen Jane (Child's Ballads, VII. 77). I [Dogberry] am a wise fellow,... and one that hath two gowns and everything handsome about him. Shak., Much Ado, iv. 2. (b) Same as dre , 2. [ Dre is preferred for a garment cut to fit the person, the gown being more properly a loose garment hanging from the shoulders. Compare (c).] She pat on her back her silken gown , An' on her breast a siller pin. Erlinton (Child's Ballads, III. 221). The Queen, I hear, is now very well again, and that she hath bespoke herself a new gown. Pepys , Diary, II. 61. She clad herself in a ru et gown , She was no longer Lady Clare. Tennyson , Lady Clare. (c) A loose garment worn in the house; a wrapper: as, a dre ing- gown ; a night-gown. My skin hangs about me like an old lady's loose gown . Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iii. 3. gowar (gou'är), n . Same as gouaree . gowd (goud), n. A Scotch form of gold . gowden (gou'dn), a . A Scotch form of golden . gowdie, gowdy (gou'di), n. [Sc., E. goldy ; a dim. name applied to various animals having yellow or yellowish color or spots.] 1. The gemmous dragonet.-2. The gray gurnard.- 3. The golden-eyed duck, Clangula glaucion . Also gowdie - duck . -4. Acow. - Heels o'er gowdy. See heell . IMG:content-2547.png:[blocks in formation] Ye hae gi'en me the gowk , Annet, But I'll gie you the scorn; For there's no a bell in a' the town Shall ring for you the morn. Sweet Willie (Child's Ballads, II. 96). gowkt (gouk), v . t . [ gowk , n.] To make (a person) look like a fool or gawk; puzzle. Nay, look how the man stands as he were gowked . B. Jonson, Magnet ick Lady, iii. 4. gowk it (gou'kit), a . [ gowk + -it2 = -ed2 .] Foolish; stupid; giddy. [Scotch.] gowkmeat (gouk'mēt), n. The wood-sorrel, Oxalis Ace to sell a . Same as cuckoo's - bread , gowkyt, n. An obsolete variant of gawky . men, judges, lawyers, and university profe ors and students; hence, the emblem of civil power or place, as opposed to the sword. We hear The lawyers plead in armour 'stead of youns. Webster and Dekker , Sir Thomas Wyat, p. 47. There is a reverence due From children of the goun to men of action. Fletcher (and others ), Bloody Brother, i. 1. I saw two grave auncient Judges... in their Scarlet gownes , in blacke gownes. with many other Civilians IMG:content-2548.png:[blocks in formation] goyazite (go-yaz'it), n. [ Goyaz , a large in- land province of Brazil, noted for gold and diamonds, + -ite2 .] A phosphate of alumin- ium and calcium, occurring, in rounded grains of a yellowish-white color, in the diamond-bear- ing gravels of Brazil. gozzan, n. See go an . gozzard, gozzerd (goz'ärd, -ėrd), n. [E. dial., ME.gosherde , a gooseherd: see gooseherd , and ef. goshawk , gosling.] 1. One who herds geese. Malme . [Prov. Eng.] A person called a gozzard , i. e., goose-herd, attends the flocks, and twice a day drives the whole to water. Pennant , Brit. Zool., The Gray Lag Goose. The man who tended them was called a gooseherd, cor- rupted into gozzerd . Encyc . Brit ., X. 711. 2. A fool; a silly fellow. Pegge . [Prov. Eng.] G. P. O. An abbreviation of General Post- office . gr. An abbreviation ( a ) of grain or grains ; (b) of gram or grams ; (c) of groschen. Gr. An abbreviation of Greek. Graafian follicle. See follicle , 2. graalt, n . See grail2 . grabl (grab), v . t .; pret. and pp. grabbed , ppr. grabbing . [ Sw.grabba = MLG.grabben , grasp: a secondary verb (ef. its freq. grabble ) connect- ed with grub , grope1 , grasp , and ult. gripel , but not with grapple .] To seize forcibly or rough- ly; grip suddenly; snatch; hence, to get pos- se ion of rudely, roughly, forcibly, or illegally. [Colloq.] The desire to grab the lands of the weaker races is also le enveloped now than it was earlier in the century in such specious forms of words as "the ble ings of civilisation." Fortnightly Rev. , N. S., XLL. 1. Coryat, Crudities, I. 31. grabl (grab), n. [ I past beside the reverend walls In which of old I wore the gown . Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxxxvii. 3t. The toga. Then were the Roman fashions imitated, and the Gown. Milton, Hist. Eng., ii. The toga, or gown , seems to have been of a semicircular form, without sleeves, different in largene according to the wealth or poverty of the wearer, and used only upon occasion of appearing in publick. Kennet , Roman Antiquities, II. v. 7. Geneva gown, the form of preaching-gown, academic rather than ecclesiastical in character, affected by the early Genevan reformers, and adopted generally among Puritans and Low-churchmen. It is made to fit the body loosely, has full sleeves, and can be worn with or without a ca ock. It is now seldom worn in the Anglican Church, the surplice or the masters' gown being used instead; but it is still the common form of pulpit-gown among Presbyterian and other di enting ministers. Guarded gownt. See guard, v. Town and gown, at Oxford and other university and college towns in Great Britain, the citizens or townspeople on the one hand, and the profe ors and students on the other. At Oxford quarrels and riots between town and gown were of frequent occurrence in the middle ages, and have broken out occasionally in later times. gown (goun), v. [ The person that is gowned is by his gowne putt in mynd Spenser, State of Ireland, of gravitye. The girls wonder how those gunners sit so straight with folded arms, and never make hysterical grabs at the bars or at each other, as they would do under like circumstances. Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 788. The late se ion has left a record singularly free from scandals, and the results of its work will be searched in vain for "big grabs " or "jobs" out of which to make cam The Nation , July 10, 1884, p. 21. paign thunder. 2. Something that is grabbed or obtained by grabbing.-3. A mechanical device for gripping an object; a grip. Specifically-(a) In mining, a tool intended for extricating broken rods or other articles from a boring. (b) A pair of iron hooks or grapples for gripping an object. - Back-pay grab, salary grab, in U. S. hist., a retroactive congre ional act of 1873 for the increase of the salaries of congre men: an opprobri ous name. grab2 (grab), n. [Anglo-Ind., repr. Ar. gha rab, Marathi gurab, ghurāb.] A ve el used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.