352° GLOSSARY. ie 
G. 
Gamester, sb. A player at any game ; not necessarily a gambler: p. 198, — 
1, 23. 
Generosity, sb. Nobility: p. 69, 1. 30. 
Gigantine, adj. Giantlike: p. 194, 1. 13. Referring to the war of the 
giants against Jupiter. 
Glance, sb. An allusion, hint: p. 57,1, 17. 
Glass, sb. A mirror: p.108, 1. 6; p. 161, 1.6; p.176,1.7. In the New 
Atlantis Bacon uses ‘ glass’ for ‘ lens’ (Works, iii. 162). 
Glory, sb. Ostentation: p. 7, 1.27; p. 112, l. 19; p. 171, 1. 4. See 
Essay lvi. p. 224, 1. 31: ‘ Whatsoever is above these, is too much; and 
proceedeth either of glory and willingnesse to speake ; or of impatience to 
hear, &c. 
Go, v.¢. Used in a transitive sense: p. 83, I. 29. 
Go about. To endeavour: p. 173,1. 10. See Rom. x. 3. 
Grace, v.t. To compliment, praise; p. 236, 1. 29. Comp. Essay lvi. 
p- 225: ‘ There is due from the iudge, to the advocate, some commend- 
ation and gracing, where causes are well handled, and faire pleaded.’ 
Gravelled, ~.~. Puzzled. To be gravelled=to hesitate: p. 57, 1. 15. 
‘Nay, you were better speak first, and when you were gravelled for 
lack of matter, you might take occasion to kiss.’ Shakespeare, As You 
Like It, iv. 1. 74. 
Grecia, sb, Greece: p. 2,1. 25; p. 12,1. 10. See Dan. viii. 21. 
Grecians, sb. Greeks: p. 11, 1.15. Comp. Joel iii. 6. 
Grift, v.¢. To graft: p. 255,122. The ed. of 1605 has grifte, which 
in ed. 1629 became grit, and in ed, 1633 graft. Baret (Alvearie, s. v.) 
gives ‘To griffe. Inserere arbori.’ 
Grossly, adv. Clumsily, unskilfully: p. 37, 1.7; p. 153, 1. 22. 
Grot, sb. A grotto or cave: p. 162, |. 26. 
Ground, sb. The plain-song of a tune, on which the variations or descants 
are made: p. 197, |. 11. 
Ground, sb, Foundation: p. 76,1. 12. 
Ground, v.z. To lay the foundation of: p. 113, |. 9. 
Grounded, p.~. Well founded: p, 110, 1.15. ‘ Well grounded’=with 
good foundations: p, 217, |. 21. 
Grounds, sb, Soils: p. 207, 1. 20. Among the disadvantages in the 
site of a house, Bacon enumerates ‘want of fruitfulnesse, and mixture 
of grounds of severall natures,’ Essay xlv. p. 180, 
H. 
Hand. Tobe in hand with=to have in hand, to treat of: p. 18,1. 30; 
p. 98, 1. 32. 
Hap, v. i, To happen: p. 61,1. 4. ‘The remnant of people, which hap 
to be reserved, are commonly ignorant and mountancus people,’ 
Essay lviii. p. 232. 
