George (jorj)

[From the proper name George, Look on my George ; I am a gentleman. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iv. 1. Before his going he did give me some jewells to keep for him: viz. that that the King of Sweden did give him, with the King's own picture in it, most excellently done, and a brave George , all of diamonds. Pepys , Diary, I. 158. 21. [1. c.] A loaf, supposed to have been originally stamped with a figure of St. George. Cubb'd in a cabin, on a mattra laid, On a brown george with lowsie swobbers fed. Dryden, tr. of Persius's Satires, v. 3. [l. c.] A large curled wig worn in the eighteenth century.-4. [ l . c.] Same as gorge , 10. - 5. A George-noble. - Le er George, a badge of the Order of the Garter worn, on occasions of comparatively little ceremony, pendent from a ribbon. It is an oval with the representation of St. George killing the dragon in gold upon an enameled ground, bordered by a buckled garter.