gawset

An obsolete spelling of gauze. gawsy, gawsie, a. See gaucie. gayl (ga), a. and n. [ Alle the grete of Grece and other gaie pepul, That no man vpon mold mizt ayme the noumber. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), l. 1596. Pope , R. of the L., ii. 52. Be linda smiled, and all the world was gay . 2. Such as to excite or indicate mirth or pleasure; hence, cheering; enlivening. The concord of brethren, and agreeing of brethren, is a gay thing. Latimer , 2d Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1550. He [Arlington] had two aspects, a busy and serious one for the public, and a gay one for Charles. Macaulay , Sir William Temple. 3. Bright or lively, especially in color; gaudy; showy: as, a gay dre ; a gay flower. And louely ladies y-wrouzt. In many gay garmentes that weren gold-beten. adv. [Sc. also gae, gey; Pretty; moderately:: as, gay gude. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] IMG:content-2157.png:[blocks in formation] a path. [Prov. Eng.] gayal, gyal (gi'al), n. [East Indian name.] + -ne .] The state or quality of being gay, in any sense; gaiety; finene . IMG:content-2158.png:[blocks in formation] A prison is as gaysome . Ford , Broken Heart, ii. 1. A kind of East Indian ox long since domesticated from the wild stock of the gaur, and gay-you (gi'u), n. [An E. spelling of the nare cognized by some naturalists as a different tive name.] A narrow flat-bottomed fishing species called Bibos frontal is. It has a moderate hump, no dewlap, but wrinkled skin on the neck, a short tail, and comparatively slender horns. The color is brownish, with white "stockings" on all the legs. It cro es with the common Indian bull. Much confusion has arisen from misunderstanding of the relation of the gaur and gayal, these names being often interchanged. Gayals are simply the domesticated descendants of gaurs, now owned by various Indian tribes from A am to Aracan along the eastern frontier of the Indian peninsula, and are never IMG:content-2159.png:[blocks in formation] They will pluck The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' heads. Shak ., Hen. V., iv. 3. Enjoy your dear wit, and gay rhetorick, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence. Milton , Comus, 1. 790. The houses [of Genoa) are most of them painted on the outside, so that they look extremely gay and lively. Add is on, Remarks on Italy (ed. Bohn), I. 362. 4. Richly or showily dre ed; adorned with fine clothing; highly ornamented. Aboute that temple daunseden alway Wemen inowe, of whiche some ther were Fayre of hemself, and some of hem were gay . Chaucer , Parliament of Fowls, 1. 234. Prince Robert has wedded a gay lad ye, He has wedded her with a ring. Prince Robert (Child's Ballads, III. 22). Seeing one so gay in purple silks. Tennyson, Geraint, 5. Given to pleasure; lively; in a bad sense, given to vicious pleasure; loose; di ipated. All grauntid the go me to the gay qwene [Helen], ffor to proker hir pes, & pyne hym therfore. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 11557. Some gay gerl, God it woot, Hath brought you thus upon the viritoot. Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 584. Rowe , Fair Penitent. Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario? IMG:content-2160.png:[blocks in formation] Gay-you of Annam. boat having an outrigger, much used in Annam. It has two and sometimes three masts, and is usually covered in the middle by a movable roof. The helm is peculiar, resembling that used in China. Gazania (ga-zāʼni-ä), n. [NL., named after The odor us Gaza, a learned Greek scholar in Italy in the 15th century.] A genus of South African herbaceous composites, with large solitary heads of showy flowers, the rays expanding only in bright weather. Of the 25 species, several are cultivated in conservatories and for bedding purposes, especially G. rigens, which has orange rays with a dark spot at the base and the leaves white-cottony beneath. gaze (gāz), v.; pret. and pp. gazed, ppr. gazing. [ nan, Gaase nat aboute, tournyng ouer alle; Make nat thi myrrour also of the walle. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 26. Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? Acts i. 11. All this long eve, so balmy and serene, Have I been gazing on the western sky And its peculiar tint of yellow green. Cole ridge. The good Peter took his pipe from his mouth, and gazed at them for a moment in mute astonishment. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 298. =Syn. Gape, etc. See starel. II.t trans. To look at intently or with fixed attention. Straight toward heaven my wondering eyes I turn'd, And gazed awhile the ample sky. Milton , P. L., viii. 258. Why doth my mistre credit so her gla , Gazing her beauty, deigned her by the skies? Daniel (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 583).