gigerium

[New Lat., from gigeria (pl.)= cooked chicken guts.] Comp. Anat.: The gizzard, or muscular stomach of a fowl. *gigg (1), *gigue, s. [JIG.] 1. A jig. *gigg (2), s. [Icel. geiga =to tremble.) A sort of vane. [GIG (1), 8.] ģig'-gět, s. [GIGOT.] 1. A leg of mutton. 2. A piece, a fragment. gig'-ging, pr. par. or a. [GIG (2), v.] gigging-machine, s. Cloth-manuf.: A machine for dre ing woolen cloth by subjecting it to the action of teasels, whose fine hooks draw the loose fibers to the surface; a napping machine. The teasel is a kind of thistle cultivated for the purpose. [FULLER'S-TEASEL.] Artificial teasels, such as wire cards, have hitherto failed to answer the purpose as fully, on account of their unyielding nature when they become engaged with a knot. gild *gig-gish, a. [GIG (1), s.; -ish.] Giddy, inconstant, fickle, flighty. gig-gle, s. [GIGGLE, v.] A kind of laugh with short catches of the voice or breath.