guy2 (gi)

[Short for Guy Fawkes: see def. 1.] grotesque effigy intended to represent Guy 1. A gwyn, fem. gwen = Bret. gwenn = Gael. and Ir. fionn, Olr. finn, white.] The Coregonus pen nanti, a kind of whitefish abundant in some of the Welsh lakes, in Ullswater, England, and in many lakes in Europe. It is gregarious, and may be taken in great numbers at a draft. Also guiniad. See whitefish and Coregonus. gyal, n. See gayal. Gyalecta (ji-a-lek'tä), n. [NL.. characters of the genus Gyalecta; having urceolate, waxy apothecia. gyalectoid (ji-a-lek'toid), a. [ Fawkes, the chief conspirator in the gunpowder plot. Such an effigy was formerly burned annually in England, on the 5th of November, the anniversary of the as gyalectine. discovery of the gunpowder plot. See gunpowder plot, gyascutus (ji-as-kü'under gunpowder. tus), n. [An invented Gyascutus plan i cost a. (Line shows natural size. gyascutus name, simulating a scientific (NL.) form.] 1. An imaginary animal, said to be of tremendous size, and to have both legs on one side of the body much shorter than those on the other, so as to be able to keep its balance in feeding on the side of a very steep mountain.-2. [ cap.] [NL.] A genus of buprestid beetles, of western North America, having the mentum rounded in front and the first joint of the hind tarsi elongated. J. L. Le Conte, 1859. See cut on preceding page. gybelt (jib), v. and n. An obsolete spelling of gibel.