gaw3 (ga)

[A var. of gaul4.] A boat-pole. Hamersly. See gaby . gaw by (ga'bi), n. gawdt, dt, n. and v. An obsolete form of gaudl. gawdyt, n. An obsolete form of gaudy. gawf (ga gawf (gaf), n. In costermongers slang, a cheap red-skinned apple, which is rubbed hard with a cloth to give it the appearance and feeling of an apple of superior quality. [Eng.] gawk (gâk) (gak), n. and a. [Also gan ) [Also gauk ; a var. of gouk , gouk , a cuckoo, a fool (see gowk ); wk ); gowke , a cuckoo, hence (spelled goke ) a fool, gaukr = Sw. gök = Dan. gjög , a cuckoo, = AS . geác , a cuckoo (which gave ME. zek , zeke , a cuckoo), = OHG. gouh , a cuckoo, MHG. gouch , G. gauch , a cuckoo, a fool, simpleton. A different word from cuckoo , but perhaps, perhaps, like that ult. of imitative origin. For the transition of sense from 'cuckoo' to 'fool' or 'simpleton." ef. booby , gull, goose.] I. n. 1. A cuckoo. [Scotch and North. Eng.] -2. A stupid, awkEng.]-2. Ast ward fellow; a fool; a simpleton; a booby. Also gawky . A certain gawk, named Chevalier de Ga and, accustomed to visit in the house at Manosque, sees good to IMG:content-2156.png:[blocks in formation] Gawk's errand. See errand1. II. a. Foolish. [Scotch and North. Eng.] gawk (gâk), v . i. [ gawk , n.] To act like a gawk; go about awkwardly; look like a fool. [Colloq. and rare.] We gawked around, a-look in' at all the outside shows. Stock ton , Rudder Grange, p. 230. gawkine (gâ'ki-nes), n . The quality of being gawky. I... determined to revolt against the dominion of gawkine and be sprightly. R. Brought on , Cometh up as a Flower, vii. gawky (ga'ki), a . and n. [ gawk +-y1. Cf. equiv. gawk , a ., Sc. gawk it , gowk it .] I. a . Awkward in manner or bearing; inapt in behavior; clumsy; clownish. A large half-length of Henry Darnley represents him tall, awkward, and gawky. Pennant, Tour in Scotland. II. n.; pl. gawkies (-kiz). Same as gawk, 2. While the great gawky, admiration, Parent of stupid imitation, Intrinsic, proper worth neglects, And copies errours and defects. Lloyd , Familiar Epistle. 2473 6. Quick; fast. [Prov. Eng.] -7. Pretty long; considerable: as, a gay while. Compare gay, adv. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] - The gay sciencet, literature and poetry, especially amorous poetry, in the middle ages. Syn. 1. Gleeful, blithe, lively, sprightly, light-hearted, jolly, hilarious. - 3. Bright, brilliant, dashI I. n. 11. Anything showily fine or ornamental; a gaud. ing. How the gayes han y-gon god wotte the so the Amonge myztfull men alle these many ger is. Richard the Redele , ii. 94. O how I grieue, deer Earth, that (given to gays ) Most of best wits contemn thee now a days. Sylvester , tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 3. Morose and untractable spirits look upon precepts in emblem as they do upon gays and pictures, the fooleries of so many old wives' tales. Sir R. L'Estrange. 21. A gay lady; a beautiful lady. [Poetical.] Hit come to Cas sandra, that was the kynges doughter, That, be counsell of the kyng & comyns a ent, Parys was purpost with pouer to wende Into Grese for a gay , all on grete wise. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2679. gaze Gaylu acia (gā-lu-sā'si-a), n. [NL., named after Gay - Lu ac , a distinguished French chem- ist and physicist (1778-1850).] A genus of ericaceous shrubs of eastern North and South America, of about 40 species, differing from Vaccinium chiefly in the 10-celled and 10-seeded berry. The foliage is commonly glandular, in the South American species evergreen, in those of the United States for the most part deciduous. The fruit of the northern species is edible, and usually known as the huckleberry, distinguished as the common or black huckleberry ( G. resinosa), the blue huckleberry or blue tangle (G. frondosa ), and the more insipid dwarf huckleberry ( G. dumosa ), bear- huckleberry (G. ursina ), and box-huckleberry ( G. brachy- cera ). See huckleberry and Vaccinium . Gay-Lu ac's law. See law1 . gaylu ite (gā'lu-sīt), п. [Named after the French chemist Gay-Lu ac : see Gaylu acia .] A mineral occurring in monoclinic crystals, and consisting of the carbonates of calcium and sodium, in nearly equal quantities, with water. It is found in Peru, and is also abundant in a saline lake near Ragtown in Nevada. gayly, adv . See gaily . 3. A print or picture. [Now only prov. Eng.] gayne (ga'nes), n. [ I must needs own Jacob Tonson's ingenuity to be greater than the translators, who, in the inscription to the fine gay in the front of the book, calls it very honestly Dryden's Virgil. Mil bourne , Notes on Dryden, p. 4. 4. The noon or morning, as the brighter part of the day. [Prov. ov. Eng.] gawm, v. t. See gaum1.