330 
¢ 
G. 
Gadding, 10/51, v. going about gossip- 
ping, 
Gaffe, 22/18, v. man, gaffer. ‘‘ For- 
merly a common mode of address, 
equivalent to friend, neighbour.” — 
Halliwell. 
Gage, 94/13, s. pawn, sweepeth to gage 
=hurries to pledge or place in 
pawn. 
*Gage, 53, v. assert, maintain. 
Galling, 57/31, v. causing sore or bare 
places. 
Gallond, 19/42, s. gallon. 
Gap, 1138/20, s. an opening, cause. 
Gaping, 57/45, gr. p. being greedy, 
grasping. 
Garlike, 21/12, s. garlic. 
Garmander, 42/8, s. germander. Fr. 
gamandrée, from Lat. chamedrys. 
Garsong, 33/41, s. boy, lad. Fr. garvcon. 
Gasing, 99/1, gr. p. gazing, staring. 
Gate, 64/17, s. walk, gait. 
Gayler, 86/11, s. guardian, housekeeper. 
Geanie, 2/6, adj. profitable, useful. 
A.S. gegn, fit, suitable. Robert 
de Brunne in his History of England, 
3376, has, ‘“‘a peimer way” =a 
more direct advantageous way. 
Scot. ane, fit, useful. Lane. 
gainest way =the shortest cut. 
Geld, 15/17, v. castrate, spay. 
*Gentiles, 17, s. A/. gentle-folk. 
Gentilie, 9/14, adv. kindly, with proper 
respect. 
Gentils, 49/c, s.A2. gentles, maggots. 
Gentlenes, 102/7, s. gentlemanly man- 
ners. 
Gently, 102/7, adv. as gentlemen, in a 
gentlemanly manner. 
Gentrie, 113/33, s. true nobility. 
Gesse, 113/1, v. cmp. guess, believe. 
Gest, 4/2, 5. a guest. A.S. vest. 
Get, 9/5, uv. earn. 
Gettings, 9/5, s. earnings. 
Giddie braine, 10/23, adj. giddy, un- 
steady. 
Giles, 113/18, s. £2. traps, deceits. 
Gillet, 50/30, s. lad. Gael. ville, giolla, 
alad. Halliwell gives ‘an instru- 
ment for thatching ” as the mean- 
ing in this passage, but why, I do 
not know. 
Gillian spendal, 23/18, wasteful, care- 
less housekeeper. 
Glossary. 
Giloflowers, 15/42, s. f/. carnations, 
pinks. Fr. gzvoflée, from Lat. ca- 
ryophyllus, a clove, from the clove- 
like smell of the flowers.—Wedg- 
wood. 
Gin, 10/19, s. trap. 
Ginnes, 106/22, s. #7. means, contri- 
vances. 
Ginnie, 90/5, Jenny. 
Ginny, 33/38, s. a name for a filly. 
Mavor reads Jilly. 
Gise, 97/4, s. fashion, way. 
Gloues, 57/9, s. pl. gloves. 
God night, 18/49. A phrase equivalent 
to ‘‘it is all over,” ‘‘it is too late. 
Goef, 55/4, s. the stack or rick. 
Goeler, 46/4, adj. ‘* The Goeler is the 
yellower, which are the best setts, 
old roots (of hops) being red.”— 
T.R. A.S. geolewe. 
Gofe, 56/20, s. rick, stack. In Addit. 
MS. 1295, a Lat. Eng. Vocab. 
written in Norfolk in the 15th 
century, occur ‘‘ Ge/imo, to golue, 
Ingelimum, golfe.” Palsgrave gives 
‘a goulfe of corne.” 
Gofe ladder, 17/1, s. a ladder for hay 
ricks. 
Gole, 114/3, s. goal, prize. 
Goom, 33/59, s. gum. 
Goordes, 41/5, s. f/. gourds. 
curbita. 
Gossep, 94/7, s. gossips, companions. 
Got, 113/16, pp. caught. 
Gotten, 10/4, Af. earned, acquired. 
Gould, 3/3, s. gold, money. 
Goue, 57/10, ff. laid up in the barn in 
the straw. Another form of Goaf/. 
** Goulfe of corne, so moche as 
may lye betwene two postes.”— 
Palsgrave. Dan. gulve = to lay 
corn sheaves on the floor, from 
Dan. gly, a floor. 
Gouing, 57/23, v. laying up in the barn 
in the straw. See Goue. 
Graffing, 46/10, s. grafting. O. Fr. 
erafe, from Lat. graphium, a pencil, 
from the resemblance of the graft 
to a pointed pencil. 
Grassebeefe, 12/4, s. beef of an ox 
fattened upon grass. 
Grate, 10/29, s. prison (grating). 
Greaseth, 68/2, v. pr. ¢ bribes, en- 
riches. 
Great, 57/8, by great=task or piece- 
work, in contradistinction to day- 
work. 
Lat. cu- 
