gingt (ging)

[ genge, a company, retinue (=MLG. gink, going, a going, turn, way) (cf. gengan, a secondary verb, go, pa ), Ciurma [It.], the common rascal i tie of gallie slaves, a base route, the mariners call in English ghing . Florio. There's a knot, a ging , a pack, a conspiracy against me. Shak ., M. W. of W., iv. 2. Proceeding furder I am met with a whole ging of words and phrases not mine, for he hath maim'd them, and like a slye depraver mangl'd them in this his wicked Limbo. Milton , Apology for Smectymnuus. gingal (jin'gal), n . Another spelling of jingal . ginge (ginj), v. t. [E. dial. Hence ginging .] In mining , to line (a shaft) with wood or stone. gingeley, gingely, gingelly, n. Same as gin gili . gingerl (jin'jėr), n. and a. [ = Pg. gengibre, gengivre = It. zenzevero, zenzo vero, zenzero, gengero, gengioro = AS. gingiber = D. gember ( on distinct leafle stems. The species is a native of the warmer parts of Asia, though not known in a wild state; it is extencultivated sively throughout tropical Asia, and has been introduced into most other tropical countries. The rhizome has a peculiar agreeable, aromatic odor and a pungent taste, and its substance has been in use as a spice from the remotest times. It is distinguished as black or Ginger-plant ( Zingiber of ficin ale). a, flower on larger scale. white, according as it retains its dark integument or has had it removed by scraping. The kind now most esteemed is known as Jamaica ginger, and comes mainly from the island of Jamaica. In medicine ginger is used as a carminative stimulant, and externally as a rubefacient and anodyne, but it is employed much more largely as a condiment than as a drug. Be alle that Contree growe the gode Gyngevere: and therfore thidre gon the Marchauntes for Spicerye. Mandeville , Travels, p. 170. Ginger shall be hot i' the mouth too. Shak ., T. N., ii. 3. Mango ginger, the root of Curcuma Amada , a plant of Bengal, belonging to the same natural order as Zingiber of ficin ale . Wild ginger, in the United States, the Asa rum Can a dense , the root of which has an aromatic odor and a warm pungent taste. II. a. Made of or flavored with ginger.Ginger cordial, a cordial made of various ingredients and flavored with ginger. ginger2 (jin'jer), a. [In use only in adv. and adj. gingerly, q. v.: see also ginger ne . The adv. is used exclusively with reference to manner of walking, or, le frequently, of handling, thus giving some color to Skeat's derivation, namely, Sw. dial. gingla, gängla, go gently, totter, freq. verb from gång, a going: see gang, n., and cf. gangling; cf. also ging, from the same ult. In this view, the adj., with its sense of 'brittle, tender, delicate,' would be a development from the more lit. adverb. The Scand. gingla would reg. give an E. verb * gingle, variable to * ginger (with hard g in both syllables, subject, however, to a ibilation in conformation to the more common word ginger1, n.); but no such verb is found.] Brittle; tender; delicate. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] source.