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FULL-FORTUN'D-GAIT.

of face ("completely, exuberantly beautiful," MALONE), viii. 6; the fullest man, vii. 559.

full-fortun'd, vii. 581: compare the preceding article.

fullam: see gourd and fullam.

:

fulfil, to fill completely that they are so fulfill'd With men's abuses, viii. 323; fulfilling bolts (bolts that quite fill the staples), vi. 5. fulsome, lustful: the fulsome ewes, ii. 355 (The meaning of fulsome in this line is determined by what precedes, "the ewes, being rank”). fulsome wine, v. 446: see note 102, v. 473.

fumiter or fumitory, the fumaria officinalis, a weed common in corn-fields, vii. 319; iv. 500.

funerals, vi. 294, 683: see note 108, vi. 709.

furnaces, throws out as from a furnace, vii. 652.

furnishings, vii. 293: Explained by Steevens "samples.”

furred pack, "a wallet or knapsack of skin with the hair outward” (JOHNSON), v. 170.

fust, to grow fusty or mouldy, vii. 178.

fustilarian, a low term of abuse,-formed from fusty (surely not, as Steevens conjectures, from fustis), iv. 331.

G.

gaberdine, a coarse loose outer garment, a frock or mantle (Span. gavardina: "Gaban. A cloake of Felt for rainie weather; a Gabardine." Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl. Dict.), i. 203, 205; ii. 356.

gad of steel-A, A pointed instrument of steel, a steel point, vi. 326. gad-Done Upon the, "Done suddenly, while the iron (the gad-the iron bar) is hot” (RITSON), vii. 258.

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gage, a pledge, iv. 107, 109 (four times), 110, 157, 158 (twice), &c. : Gage. A pledge, French. Hence the glove or gauntlet thrown down in challenges was called a gage, because, by throwing it, the challenger pledged himself to meet the person who should take it up." Nares's Gloss.

gage, to pledge: gage them both in an unjust behalf, iv. 220; Hath left me gag'd, ii. 348; Was gagèd by our king, vii. 106.

gage-Lay to, to leave in pawn: Pawn'd honest looks, but laid no words to gage, viii. 325.

gain-giving, misgiving, vii. 206.

gait, way: take his gait (“take his way, or direct his steps," STEEVENS), ii. 322; go your gait, vii. 328.

gait, proceeding: to suppress His further gait herein, vii. 109.

GALATHE GARBOILS.

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Galathe, the name of Hector's horse, according to the modern additions to the tale of Troy, vi. 94.

gallant-springing, "blooming, in the spring of life" (JOHNSON), v. 378.

Gallian, Gallic, French, v. 78; vii. 652.

galliard, a quick and lively dance, "With lofty turnes and capriols in the ayre" (Sir John Davies's Orchestra, &c. st. 68), iii. 333 (three times); iv. 431.

galliasses, iii. 138: "Galliass, or Galleasse. A large galley; a vessel of the same construction as a galley, but larger and heavier. Galeazza, Italian; galleasse, French. According to the explanation given in Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, the masts of a galleasse were three, which could not be lowered like those in a galley; and the number of seats for rowers was thirty-two." Nares's Gloss. gallimaufry, a strange medley, a confused jumble, a hotchpotch (Fr. gallimafrée), i. 362; iii. 475.

gallow, to scare, to frighten, vii. 295.

Galloway nags, "common hackneys" (JOHNSON), iv. 346. gallowglasses, heavy-armed foot-soldiers of Ireland and of the Western Isles, v. 184; vii. 6. (And see Jamieson's Etym. Dict. of the Scottish Language, sub "Galloglach :" the etymon of the term is doubtful.)

gallows, a rogue (one deserving the gallows), ii. 211.

Gam-Davy, iv. 494: "This gentleman being sent by Henry, before the battle, to reconnoitre the enemy, and to find out their strength, made this report: 'May it please you, my liege, there are enough to be killed, enough to be taken prisoners, and enough to run away.' He saved the king's life in the field. Had our poet been apprized of this circumstance, this brave Welshman would probably have been more particularly noticed, and not have been merely registered in a muster-roll of names" (MALONE).

gamester, a frolicksome, adventurous person: Now will I stir this gamester, iii. 9; Sirrah young gamester, iii. 139.

gamester, a facetious fellow, a wag: You're a merry gamester, my Lord Sands, v. 502.

gamester, a prostitute: a common gamester to the camp, iii. 282; a gamester at five or at seven, viii. 58.

gap of breath-This, This mouth, iv. 42.

gaping, shouting, roaring ("Littleton in his Dictionary has 'To gape or bawl, vociferor'," REED): leave your gaping, v. 567. garboils, tumults, uproars, commotions (Fr. garbouille), vii. 506,

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GARDEN-GENERAL.

garden-The world's best, France, iv. 508.

garden-house, a summer-house (formerly often used for purposes of intrigue), i. 512, 513; viii. 190.

gardon, Costard's blunder for guerdon, ii. 187 (four times). Gargantua's mouth, iii. 41: An allusion to the giant Gargantua

in the immortal satire of Rabelais.

garish, splendid, shining, showy, gaudy, v. 427; vi. 433.

gaskins, loose hose or breeches, iii. 335.

gasted, frightened, vii. 276.

gastness, ghastliness, vii. 458.

gaud, a bawble, a trinket, a piece of finery, a showy ornament, ii. 309; gauds, ii. 266; iii. 128; iv. 39; vi. 57; viii. 185.

gaudy-night, a night of festivity and rejoicing, vii. 562. gear, dress: shapeless gear, ii. 219.

gear, matter in hand, business: I'll grow a talker for this gear, ii. 348; a good wench for this gear, ii. 363; To this gear, v. 125; vi. 333; I will remedy this gear, v. 145; Will this gear ne'er be mended? vi. 6.

gear, stuff: provide this gear, vi. 53; goodly gear, vi. 420; soon-speeding gear, vi. 463.

geck, a fool, a bubble: made the most notorious geck and gull, iii. 394. geck, a subject of ridicule, a jest to become the geck and scorn, vii. 717.

geese-Since I plucked, i. 409: "The allusion is to the schoolboys' custom of plucking quills out of the wings of geese, not only on the commons where they graze, but in the markets, as they hang by the neck, from the hands of the farmers who are selling them." Sherwen Mss.,-apud Halliwell.

geminy, a pair, i. 365.

general-The, The people, the multitude: The general, subject to a well-wish'd king, i. 472 ; good or bad unto the general, vi. 23; caviare to the general, vii. 143.

general is not like the hive-When that the, vi. 19: see note

104.

แ

22, vi.

The

general of our gracious empress, &c.—Were now the, iv. 496 : allusion is to the Earl of Essex, who in April, 1599, went to Ireland, as Governour, to quell the rebellion of Tyrone. On his departure a throng of all ranks and conditions pressed round him, cheering and blessing him. His return, in September of the same year, far from being what the poet here reasonably predicted, was secret and solitary, for it had been preceded by disaster” (GRANT WHITE).

GENERAL-GENTRY.

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general gender-The, "The common race of the people" (JOHNSON), vii. 187.

general louts-Our, "Our common clowns" (JOHNSON), vi. 192. generation, children, offspring: that makes his generation messes To gorge his appetite, vii. 252.

generosity, high birth: To break the heart of generosity ("To give the final blow to the nobles," JOHNSON), vi. 140.

generous, noble : The generous and gravest citizens, i. 506; the generous islanders, vii. 424.

Genius and the mortal instruments-The, vi. 632: แ Apparently, by the genius we are to understand the contriving and immortal mind, and most probably the mortal instruments are the earthly passions" (CRAIK).

gennets, horses,-properly, Spanish horses, of the race of the Barbs, vii. 378.

Gentile, and no Jew-A, ii. 369: "A jest arising from the ambiguity of Gentile, which signifies both a heathen, and one well born" (JOHNSON).

gentle, of liberal rank: In whose success (succession) we are gentle, iii. 432; He said he was gentle, but unfortunate, vii. 695; no gentler than my dog, iv. 485.

gentle, and not fearful—He's: see fearful—He's, &c.

gentle his condition, "advance him to the rank of a gentleman" (JOHNSON), iv. 481.

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gentleman of the very first house-A, vi. 418: According to Steevens, a gentleman of the first rank, of the first eminence among these duellists:" according to Mr. Staunton, "a gentleman-scholar of the very first school of fencing :" while Mr. Halliwell and Mr. Grant White adopt the perhaps doubtful explanation which I gave long ago, viz. a gentleman of the very first rank, alias an upstart fellow, a nobody;" an explanation to which I was led by finding in Fletcher's Woman's Prize, act iv. sc. 1,

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66 ... but to be made a whim-wham,

A jib-crack, and a gentleman o' the first house,
For all my kindness to her;"

also, in Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl. Dict. "Gentilhomme de ville. A Gentleman of the first head, an vpstart Gentleman ;" and in Coles's Lat. and Engl. Dict. "An upstart Gentleman, A Gentleman of the first head, homo novus, a se ortus."

gentles, gentlefolks: Will you go, gentles? i. 380; but, gentles, agree, ii. 181; the gentles are at their game, ii. 196; Gentles, methinks you frown, iii. 145; But pardon, gentles all, iv. 421; the scene Is now transported, gentles, iv. 434.

gentry, complaisance, courtesy: To show us so much gentry, vii. 132.

gentry, "rank derived from inheritance" (Johnson's Dict.), rank as gentlefolks: the article of thy gentry, i. 361; which no less adorns Our gentry, &c. iii. 432; gentry, title, wisdom, vi. 183.

George, the figure of Saint George on horseback worn by Knights of the Garter, v. 166, 434 (twice).

german, a "brother, one approaching to a brother in proximity of blood" (Johnson's Dict.): german to the lion, vi. 559; gennets for germans (relations), vii. 378. German clock, still a-repairing-Like a, ii. 187: So in Jonson's Silent Woman, Otter says, "She takes herself asunder still when she goes to bed, into some twenty boxes; and about next day noon is put together again, like a great German clock;" on which passage Gifford remarks, "These and similar allusions to the cumbrous and complicated machinery of the first clocks (which we received from Germany) are very frequent in our old dramatists." Jonson's Works, vol. iii. p. 432. German Hunting in water-work-The, iv. 333: The representation

of a German boar-hunt,—perhaps, of some particular boar-hunt (with no reference, surely, to the legend of the Wild Huntsman), executed in water-colour (or distemper?) on cloth.

germane, or german, related, akin: those that are germane to him, iii. 488; more german to the matter, vii. 204.

Germans desire to have three of your horses: the duke himself will

be, &c.—The, i. 400; there is three cozen-germans that has cozened, &c. i. 405: see duke de Jarmany-A.

Germany, can dearly witness—The upper, v. 563: “Alluding to the heresy of Thomas Muntzer, which sprung up in Saxony in the years 1521 and 1522. See an account of his tenets in Alexander Ross's View of all Religions in the World, 6th edit. p. 398, &c." (GREY.) germens, germs, seeds, vii. 47, 294.

gest prefix'd for's parting-To let him there a month behind the, To detain him there a month beyond the time prescribed for his departure, iii. 421 : In a royal "progress" the lodgings and stages for rest were called gests (from the Fr. giste); and, as Nares (in Gloss.) remarks, the table of the gests limited not only the places, but the time of staying at each.

gests, exploits, vii. 571.

get within him, get within his guard, close with him, ii. 44. ghost, a dead body: see timely-parted ghost.

ghosted, haunted as a ghost, vii. 529.

giant-Some mollification for your, iii. 340: "Ladies, in romance, are guarded by giants, who repell all improper or troublesome advances. Viola, seeing the waiting-maid so eager to oppose her message, entreats Olivia to pacify her giant" (JOHNSON): "Viola likewise alludes to the diminutive size of Maria" (STEEVENS).