gesture language

Anthrop.: Gesture language is the name given to those movements of the hands and other parts of the body by means of which people of low culture eke out the deficiencies of their vocabulary, and persons ignorant of each other's language communicate their thoughts. Gesture-language exists wherever man is found. The expre ion of pain or surprise, the threatening shake of the head, the pointing of the finger po e the same me ages for the cultured American and the debased savage. [LANGUAGE, ΟΝΟΜΑΤΟΡΕΙΑ.] "Gesture- language is instinct the heritage of the days, it may be, of the days before man acquired articulate language, or differed thus far from the brute beast." Sayce : Nature and Science of Language , i. 93. *ģěst-üre, v. i. . [GESTURE, 8. ] A. In trans.: To make use of gestures; to gesticulate. "For the plaiers, who were sent for out of Hetruria, as they daunced the measures to the minstrel and sound of flute, gestured not undecently with all, after the Tuscane fashion."-P. Holland: Livius, p. 250. B. Trans.: To accompany or represent with gestures or action. "Not only does it [the dog] understand man's gestured threat-it distinguishes that which can be carried out from that which is impotent." - Lindsay: Mind in the Lower Animals , i. 355. ġěst-üre-le , a. [Eng. gesture; -le .] Without or free from gestures. *gest-üre-ment, s. [Eng. gesture; -ment.] The act of making gestures; gesticulation, gesture. *ġěs-tür-er, s . [Eng. gestur(e); -er.) An actor. *ģes-tür-ous, a. [Eng. gestur(e); -ous.] Full of gestures. *ģět (1), *gette, *Jette, v. i. [O. Fr. jetter .] To swagger, to strut about. gět (2), *get-en, *gete (pa. t. * gat , * gate , * gatt , * gatte , * geet , * gete , * get , got ; pa. par. * get , geten , getyn , get on , * getun , got , * goten , * gotten , * gotun , *gotyn), v. t. & i . [A. S. git an , gytan , gietan , geotan (generally in composition as for git an , begitan , .); cogn. with Icel. geta ; Goth. git an ; Lat. -hen do (in prehendo); Gr. chandanō; O. Fris. ieta , ietta ; O. Sax. get an ; O. H. Ger.gezan; M. H. Ger. gezzen .] A. Transitive : 1. To procure; to obtain; to gain po e ion of by any means; to acquire. "We gat our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderne ." - Lamentations v. 9. 2. To deserve; to meet with. 3. To come into po e ion of; hence, to po e , to have. "Then forcing thee, by fire he made thee bright; Nay, thou has got the face of man." Herbert: Avarice. 4. To beget; to procreate; to generate. "If a man gete a rebel sone and a fraward."-Wycliffe: Deuteronomy xxi. 18. 5. To earn; to gain by labor. "There, London's voice: ' Get money, money still!' And then let virtue follow, if she will." Pope: Horace, bk. i., ep. 1., 79. 6. To gain as profit; to obtain as a price or reward. "Alas! he gets nothing by that." Shakesp.: Much Ado about Nothing , i. 1. 2000 7. To win over; to induce; to prevail on; to persuade. "Only get the learned writer to set down our excommunication." --Shakesp .: Much Ado about Nothing , iii. 5. *8. To draw away or aside. "I could never get him from it." Shakesp.: Timon, iii. 1. 9. To put or cause to be in any state or condition. "But get your hearts deeply affected with religion as well as your heads, and then there is no fear but you will all be sons of peace." -Sharpe, vol i., ser. 1. 10. To lay hold of; to seize; to catch. "The plebeians have got your fellow tribune." Shakesp.: Coriolanus, v. 4. 11. To receive; to obtain; as, I could get no answer from him. 12. To procure; to supply; to furnish. " Get me a taper in my study." Shakesp.: Julius Cæsar, ii. 1. *B. Reflex.: To betake; to remove; to carry; to take off (betokening haste or danger). "Arise, get thee out from this land." -Genesis xxx i. 13. C. Intransitive: 1. To gain, to win; to be a gainer; to profit. "So that now they got by their collectorships, whereas before they spent about £100, besides their gains on clothes or needle entertainments."-Life of A. à Wood, p. 286. 2. To arrive at any state, condition, or posture, by some kind of labor, effort, or exertion. "Those that are very cold, and especially in their feet, cannot get to sleep." - Bacon: Natural History . 3. To betake one's self; to go, to remove, to de part. Get home with thy fewel made ready to set." Tu er: Husbandry. 4. To fall or come by accident or chance. "Two or three men of the town are got among them." Tatler . 5. To find the way; to insinuate itself. "If there should be any leak at the bottom of the ve el, yet very little water would get in, because no air could get out."- Wilkins . 6. To fall into the way of. "Lying is so cheap a cover for any miscarriage, and so much in fashion, that a child can scarce be kept from getting into it."- Locke : On Education , § 131. 7. To become by any act what one was not before. "The laughing sot, like all unthinking men, Bathes and gets drunk; then bathes and drinks again." Dryden: Persius , sat. iii. 8. To arrive at; as, I got to the house early. 1. To get about: (1) To be able to move or walk about. (Said of one recovering from sickne .) (2) To spread about; to be commonly reported; as, The story got about . 2. To get ahead : To advance, to prosper, to succeed. 3. To get along : To proceed, to advance; hence, to prosper, to succeed. 4. To get at: (1) Ordinary Language: (a) Lit .: To be able to reach; to come or make way to; as, to get at the truth of a matter. (b) Fig .: To banter, to tease, to aggravate. ( Colloq .) (2) Racing : To corrupt, in the case of the jockey; to hocu , in the case of the horse. 5. To get back : (1) In trans.: To arrive back at the place from which one originally started; to return; to draw back or toward the rear. (2) Trans .: To receive back or in return; as, to get one's money back . (3) To retaliate; generally followed by at ; as, I'll get back at him. *6. To get before : To arrive in front or move for ward. 7. To get behind: (1) Lit .: To fall in the rear; to lag. (2) Figuratively : IMG:content-0433.png:[blocks in formation] 18. To get out : (1) Transitive : (a) To draw out; to extract. "Smiling upon thee, get out thy secrets."- Eccles . xiii. 1. ( b ) To draw out; to disengage; to get rid of; as, to get out a tooth. "They would be glad to get out those weeds which now have taken too deep root to be easily extirpated." Locke . (2) In trans.: To depart or escape from any place or state of confinement or restraint. "Philantus was entrapped, and saw round about him, but could not get out ."- Sidney : Arcadia . IMG:content-0434.png:[blocks in formation] "As the obtaining the love of valuable men is the hap. piest end of this life, so the next felicity is to get rid of fools and scoundrels." -Pope to Swift. 22. To get round: To gain an advantage over; to circumvent; to win over. 23. To get the day: To win the day; to gain the victory; to conquer. "To get the day of them of his own nation, would be a most unhappy day for him."-2 Maccabees v. 6. 24. To get the hang of a thing: To become familiar with the arrangement or construction of anything; (a) To fall into arrears; to be backward; as, He to acquire the art or knack of. got behind with his rent. (b) To penetrate, to unravel. 8. To get behind the scenes : To become acquainted with the intimate working of any scheme or design. 9. To get by heart : To learn off by heart. "This defect he frequently lamented, it being harder with him to get one sermon by heart than to pen twenty." -Fell: Life of Hammond. 10. To get clear : To disengage one's self; to be released or freed from confinement, obligation, burden, or embarra ment. "From your love I have a warranty To unburden all my plots and purposes How to get clear of all the debts I owe." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice , i. 1. we, wět, hëre, camel, her, thêre; IMG:content-0435.png:[blocks in formation] ( a ) To accomplish; to complete; as, to get through one's work. (b) To pa in any examination. "So you see, Giglamps, I'm safe to get through."Cuthbert Bede: Verdant Green, pt. ii., ch. xii. 26. To get to: To reach; to arrive at. 27. To get together: (1) Trans .: To collect or bring together; to convene; to ama . " Get your apparel together ." --Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, iv. 2. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-0436.jpg:[merged small][graphic][merged small] IMG:content-0437.png:[blocks in formation] "Kipp let ring an was distant at first a gey bit , then the gey bit was accurately described as 'aiblins three mile, and then the 'three mile' diminishes into 'like a mile and a bittoch; then extended into 'four mile or there- awa.'"-Scott: Guy Manner ing , ch. i. geyş-er, *geyş-ir, s. [Icel. geysa =to gush.] Geology, .: 1. Certain intermittent hot springs in various por- tions of the earth, the most notable specimens be- ing those in the Yellow stone region of the Rocky Mountains and those of the southwestern division of Iceland, about thirty miles from Mount Hecla. Nearly one hundred of the latter are said to break play longer than five or six minutes at a time, al though sometimes they go on for half an hour. The largest is called the Great Geyser. It has a pipe 78 feet in vertical depth, and from eight to ten feet in diameter, but gradually widening as it rises into the basin. The latter is 56 feet long by 46 feet broad, and is lined with an incrustation of silica deposited from the hot water, the proce being aided by the alkali soda, which, with minute quan- tities of various salts, exists in the water. When the geyser is about to act, subterranean noises are heard like the distant firing of cannon, and the earth is slightly shaken; then a column of the liquid element is thrown up to the height of 100 or 200 feet. Steam after a time makes its way out of the rent, and the fountain ceases to play. The second in size is the Strokkur. If stones or turf be thrown down its pipe, an eruption will follow in a few minutes, and eject them with great the lower part of the geyser tube, as Profe or Tyndall was able to show experimentally. 2. Any similar intermittent hot springs. There are geysers in New Zealand, in the Northern Island, as remarkable as those of the Yellow stone Park or of Iceland. They are on three parallel lines run- ning in a direction north 36° E. by the compa . (Lyell: Princip . of Geol . (11th ed., 1872), ch. xxxiii.) gey-şer-ite, *gey-şir-ite, s . [Eng., ., geyser, and suff. -ite ( Min .) (q. v.).] IMG:content-0438.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0439.png:[blocks in formation] ened form of a gherkin , from Dut. agurkje ; Dan. agurke ; Ger. gurke , from Arab.al=the, and khirgár =a cucumber; Hind. khiyar .] A small variety of the cucumber used for pickling. *ghe , *ghe e, v. t. & i. [GUESS, v .] *ghe , s . [GUESS, 8. ] ghồ hō-nạ, s . [An Indian word.] ghohona-gra , s . IMG:content-0440.png:[blocks in formation] A canopy most fatal, under which Our army lies ready to give up the ghost." VISION. *ghost-demon, s. The spirit of a man adored as a deity. ghost-god, s . The same as GHOST-DEMON (q. v.). ghost-moth, s. IMG:content-0441.png:[blocks in formation] Zool .: The English name given to Tridacnide backed.」 q. v.), a family of conchiferous mollusks. giant-fennel, s. Bot.: The genus Ferula, the species of which are found in the south of Europe, the north of Africa, Persia, Siberia, . Ferula persica is the a afoet- ida (q. v.). Bot.: Hedera vegeta ; called also Irish ivy. giant-powder, s. A form of dynamite, consist. ing of infusorial earth saturated with nitro-glycer- ine. The siliceous earth consists of diatoms and frustules, and the result is a brown powder, some- thing like fine sawdust. giant puff-ball, s . "I wish thee, Vin, before all wealth Both bodily and ghostly health." Of graves, and hoary vaults, and cloistered cells." Akenside: Pleasures of Memory. *B. As adv.: In a ghostly or spiritual manner; spiritually. ghost-ol-o-gy, s. [Eng. ghost , and Gr. logos =a discourse or science. The science of ghosts and their nature and characteristics. IMG:content-0442.jpg:[blocks in formation] 1. A man of size much above the ordinary stature of men; a man of extraordinary size or bulk. "Gates of monarchs Are arched so high, that giants may jet through." Shakesp.: Cymbeline , iii. 3. IMG:content-0443.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0444.png:[blocks in formation] I. Lit .: To hang on a gibbet. II. Figuratively : IMG:content-0445.jpg:[graphic] Some think that the gibbons approach the human structure more closely than the gorilla does. ġib'-boôm, s . [JIBBOOM.] "I am as melancholy as a gib - cat , or a lugged bear." - proceed further."- Lyell : Princip . Geol . (11th ed.), i. 641. Shakesp.: Henry IV ., Pt . I. , i. 2. ģlb (3), s . [JIB.] ġib-bar-tăs, s. [Lat. gibber =humpbacked.] Zool .: The Jupiter whale, a fin-backed species of the North Atlantic. gib-běr, v. i. [A variant of jabber (q. v.).] To jabber, to talk inarticulately, to gabble. ġib-běr, s . IMG:content-0446.png:[blocks in formation] gibbousne