gudgeon, gojon, gojone, gojune, goy on

[Fr. goujon, from Lat. gobionem, acc us. of gobio = a gudgeon, from Gr. kōbios = a gudgeon or tench.] A. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. Lit .: A kind of small fresh-water fish, Gobio gue Guelph, Guelf (u as w), s. [A proper name= Wolf.] (See def.) History : 1. Gen .: The name given to succe ive dukes of Bavaria. 2. Specif .: The name of a political party. It a rose in the twelfth century. The royal family of Britain are by descent Guelphs. Guěl-phic (uas w), a. [German Guelph (q. v.), and suff. ic .] Of or belonging to the Guelphs. Guelphic-order, s . Her.: An order of knighthood instituted for Hanover on Aug. 12. 1815, by the English Prince Regent, afterward George IV. guê-non, s. [Fr.) Badge of Guelphic Order. Zoology : The name given by the French to certain Simiadæ (Monkeys) of the Old World. They belong to the genera Cercopithecus and Cercocebus; their type is the Green Monkey, Cercocebus sabœus . †guer-dồn, *guer-dōne, s. [O. Fr., from Low Lat. widerdonum , widarlón , a hybrid compound, from O. H. Ger. wider (Ger. wieder )=against, and Low Lat. donum a gift; cf. A. S. widherleán, a recompense, from widher = against, back again, and leán a loan. ( Skeat .)] A reward, a recompense, a return, a requital. "Verse, like the laurel, its immortal meed, Should be the guerdon of a noble deed." Cowper: Charity, 293. *guer'-dồn, v . t. [GUERDON, 8.] To reward, to recompense, to give a guerdon to. "For al it be so that they ben youre frendes, therefore shullen ye not sufren, that they serve you for nought, but ye oughte the rather guerdone hem, and she we hem youre large e." Chaucer: Tale of Melibeus. IMG:content-0818.png:[blocks in formation]