FUTTOCKS

In Nautical language, the timbers between the floor timbers and the top timbers. G. G. The seventh letter of the English alphabet, but the third in those of all the Oriental languages, and also of the Greek. The form of our G is borrowed from the Roman alphabet. G, in English, has two sounds: before a, o, and u, and occasionally before i and e, it is the medial letter of the guttural order; the other sound, which it po e es only before e and i, is one of the medial s of the sibilant series. The guttural Gis liable to a variety of changes in different dialects and languages. (See Penny Cyclo.) G, as a Roman abbreviature, is used for gratis, gens, gaudium, . G. V. signifies genio urb is, G. L. genio loci, and G. P. R. gloria populi Romani. As a numeral it denoted 400, — G quadringentos demonstrativa ten»bit. On the French coins G indicates the city of Poictiers; and in chronology it is the seventh Dominical letter. G, in music, is the fifth note or degree of the diatonic scale, corresponding to the sol of the French and Italians. It is used also to designate the treble clef. [s. 494]