482 Mr. Pickering on the present state of the English language : 
¢ it says is “ a local term signifying annual inundations, from the rivers being 
swollen by the melted snows and other fresh waters from the uplands, as is 
the Nile, &c.from periodical or tropical rains.” One of Johnson’s defini- 
tions of Flood is,“ the swelling of a river by rain or inland flood;” and 
Rees’ Cyclofiedia says, “ Fresh denotes the rise of water in a river, or a 
small flood.” But fresh is provincial in England according to Grose, who 
defines it thus: “ Fresh, a flood or overflowing of a river. This heavy rain 
will bring down the freshes. North.” The people of the southern states 
use the word fresh. 
FRONDESCE ; to put forth leaves, “His powers began now to frondesce and 
blossom.” Eulogy on Dr. Rush by William Staughton, D.D. 
I never met with this word in any other instance than the above. 
GAWKY. This is sometimes used in conversation, by the people of New Eng- 
land, in the same sense as in the North of England, where it is provincial: 
“ Gawky ; meen ‘ecm used to — a ue awkward person. 
P J aT. “4: ar 3: x q 4) oa ; whic ice dane 
To GIRDLE: th that of ing the tees h by mak- 
oe ee ee ee es ee 1 it ve ee 3° ie ding.” 
Belknap’ Hist. of New Homfshibe: vol. iii, oe 131. “This is = 
upon as an unauthorized word by a writer in the Monthly Anthology, vol. 
i, p. 635. It is also noticed,as one of our words, in Kendall’s Travels, 
vol. i. p. 235. 
GLUT ; alarge poset saan Nem ny tena This is also a frovincial term 
in England, in the same sense. See Marshall’s Rural Econ. of the Mid- 
land Counties, and Rees’ Cyclopedia. 
GONDOLA. _ Thus noticed and explained by an English traveller: “ Vessels 
of the burden above described are floated down to the sea by means of flat 
boats or lighters, here [in Portsmouth, New Hampshire,} called gondolas, 
and elsewhere scows. ” Kendall’s Trav. vol. iii. p. 31. The word gondola 
is also used in this sense in other parts of Vew England. 
GOUGING. The following account of this word is given by a late English 
traveller, upon the authority of an American: “ The General* in- 
Seeecersesesee 
* General Bradley, a senator in Congress for the state of Vermont. 
