geat 
etc.] 1. The hole through which metal runs 
into a mold in castings. 2. In type-founding, 
the little spout or gutter made in the brim of 
a casting-ladle. Moxon, Mech. Exercises, p. 378. 
geat 2 t, An obsolete spelling of jet 2 . 
geat 3 (get), n. See get*, 2. 
Gebia (je'bi-a), n. [NL. (Leach, 1813), < Gr. y?, 
earth, + /J/of, life.] A genus of macrurous dec- 
apod crustaceans, of the family Thatassiiiidn: 
G. stellata, the type, is a small British shrimp. 
gebur (AS. pron. ge-bor'), n. [AS.: see bower& 
and neighbor.] In Anglo-Saxon law, the owner 
of an allotment or yard-land, usually of 30 
acres: corresponding to the villein of later 
times. 
gecarcinian (je-kar-sin'i-an), n. [< NL. Gecar- 
cinus + -inn.] Aland-crab; one of the Gecar- 
cinida;. 
gecarcinid (je-kar'si-nid), n. A land-crab, as 
a member of the Gecarcinida:. 
Gecarcinidae (je-kar-sin'i-de), n. pi. [NL., 
< Gecarcinus + -idw.] A family of terrestrial 
brachyurous decapod crustaceans, inhabiting 
various tropical regions; the land-crabs. Be- 
sides Gecarcinus, the family contains the gen- 
era Cardixoma and Uca. Also written Geoear- 
cinidie. 
Gecarcinus (je-kar'si-nus), . [NL. (Leach, 
1815), < Gr. yfi, the earth, + napnivnf, a crab.] 
The typical genus of land-crabs of the family 
Gecarcinida;. The species, of which G. ntrieola Is an 
example, are terrestrial, am) burrow in the ground, living 
at a distance from the sea, which they visit only at tin 
spawning time. The gills are kept moist by a special ar- 
rangement of the gill-cavity. Also written Geoctminvi. 
Gecco (gek'6), w. [NL. (Laurenti, 1768), also 
Gecko, Gekko; < gecko, q. v.] 1. The name- 
giving genus of Gecconida!, now broken up into 
numerous other genera; the geckos, or wall- 
lizards. Also called Ascalabotes. See Gefco- 
nid(E,gecko. 2. [/. c.] Same as gecko, 1. 
Geccoides (ge-koi'dez), n. pi. [NL., also Geckoi- 
des ; < Gecco + -oidex.] A family of saurian 
squamate reptiles, composed of the geckos, 
stellions, and agamoid lizards. Ojtpel, 1811. 
gecconid (gek'6-nid). . A lizard of the family 
Gecconidte. Also gcckonid. 
Gecconidae (ge-koii'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Gec- 
co(n-) + -wte.] A family of lizards, of the or- 
der Lacertilia ; the geckos or wall-lizards. They 
have amphicuelous vertebrtu, distinct parietal bones, no 
postorbital or frontoiquamonl arches, dilated clavicles 
loop-shaped proximally, a short, thick, fleshy, papillose 
tongue, large eyes with vertical elliptical pupils and rudi- 
mentary lids, and pleurodont dentition. The body is cov- 
ered below with small imbricated scales ; the tail is nor- 
mally long and tapering ; and the limbs are stout and of 
moderate length, with well-developed toes and claws, 
usually furnished with adhesive disks, secreting an acrid 
though not poisonous fluid. Upward of 200 species inhab- 
it the warmer parts of both hemispheres ; many were for- 
merly placed indiscriminately in a genus Gecco or Geckn , 
but about 50 genera have been named, among which are 
Diplodactiilut, Htmidaetyliu, Pht/llodactt/lu*, Platydacty- 
lus, Ptyodactylutt, Spheervdacti/ltt*, Stentxtactylus,' Tlieca- 
dactylu-tt, Phttllunts, and Ptyckozooii. They are all inof- 
fensive lizards of suiill size, from 2 or 3 to 12 or 14 Inches 
long, of active carnivorous habits, and specially noted for 
the agility with which they scramble over walls, etc. 
-Many of them make a croaking or chirping noise, whence 
the name (jecko. A few are found in the south of Europe, 
as the common wall-lizard, Plahjdactylux mnralis; the 
tarente, P. mavritanicus ; and the flemidactylus verntcv- 
latust ami Stetutdactylug ijuttntus. A common species of 
the Lahuan region is the chickchack, Ptyodaclyltit tfecko. 
One small gecko, Sphrerodactylu* notatitt, occurs in Flor- 
ida and Cuba. Two Lower Califoniian species are Phyl- 
lodactylwt xanti and Diplodactylus unctus. The Gecco- 
nidce have also been called Aicalabota and Nyctimura. 
The name of the family is variously written Gfkkonidtt. 
Geekonidft, Gfccotidw, Geckotidtv, Gecotidfe. See cut un- 
der gecko. 
gecconoid (gek'6-noid), a. and . I. a. Re- 
sembling or related to the geckos; of or per- 
taining to the Gecconoidea. 
II. . One of the Gecconoidea. 
Also geccotoid. 
Gecconoidea (gek-6-noi'de-a), n. pi. [NL.. 
< Gccco(n-) + -oidca.] The geckos as a super- 
family of eriglossate lacertilians with bicon- 
cave vertebra, dilated and proximally loop- 
shaped clavicles, and undeveloped postfron- 
tal and nostorbital bony arches. The group is 
conterminous with the single family Gecconidae. 
T. Gill, Smithsonian Report, 1885, 1. 799. Also 
Geckonoidea. 
geccotian, geccotid(ge-ko'shian, gek'o-tid), a. 
and n. I. . Of or relating to the Gecconida;. 
II. n. A gecko. 
Also geckotian, geckotid. 
Geccotidae (ge-kot'i-de), n. pi. Same as Gec- 
conida:. 
geccotoid (gek'o-toid), a. and n. Same as gec- 
conoid. 
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Gecininae (jes-i-ni'ne), n. pi. [NL., < Gecinus 
+ -ina:.] A subfamily of Picida, of which the 
genus Gecinus is a typical representative ; the 
green woodpeckers. Other leading genera are 
Campethera, Ceteus, Chrysoptilus, Jirachypter- 
nus, and Tiga. 
Gecinulus (je-sin'u-lus), . [NL. (E. Blyth, 
1845), < Gecinus +' dim. -ulus.] A genus of 
green woodpeckers of India, having only three 
toes. G. granti and G. viridis compose the ge- 
nus. A form Gfdniscvs is also found. 
Gecinus (je-si'nus), . [NL. (Boie, 1831), said to 
be < Gr. 79, earth, ground, + Ktveiv, move, go.] 
The typical genus of woodpeckers of the sub- 
family Gecinina:. The best-known example is G. viri- 
din, the common green woodpecker or popinjay of Europe, 
a species comparatively terrestrial in habit. 
geek (gek), n. [< D. gek = MLG. geek = MHG. 
geek, gecke, G. geek, a fool, = Dan. gjtek = Sw. 
gcick, a fool, buffoon, jester, wag; cf. Icel. 
gikkr, a pert, rude person. Connection with 
gawk, gowk, is doubtful: see gawk, gowk, and 
cf. gig&.] 1. A fool; a dupe; a gull. 
Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest, 
And made the most notorious </</, and gull 
That e'er invention play'd on. Shak., 1. N., v. 1. 
2. Scorn ; contempt ; also, an object of scorn. 
To become the fjeck and scorn 
O' the other's villainy. Shah., Cymbeline, v. 4. 
3. A toss of the head in derision or from vanity 
or folly; hence, a taunt; a gibe. [Scotch.] 
The carle that hecht sa weill to treit you, 
I think sail get ane aeck. Pliilotut, 1603. 
To give one the geek, (o) To give one the slip. Jamitton. 
(/*) To play one a trick. 
Thocht he be auld, my joy, quhat reck? 
When he is gone trice him ane fleck, 
And take another by the neck. Quoted in Kara. 
[Obsolete or prov. Eng. or Scotch.] 
geek (gek), r. [= D. gekken = MLG. G. gecken 
= Dan. gjcekke = Sw. gacka, mock, banter, 
make a fool of; from the noun.] I. intrans. 
To toss the head in derision or scorn, or from 
vanity or folly ; deride ; mock. 
.She Bauldy looes, Bauldy that drives the car, 
But geek* at me, and says I smell of tar. 
Rnmtiay, (lentle Shepherd, 1. 1. 
II. trans. To cheat; trick; gull. 
Ye shall heir whow he was geclcit. 
Legend of Bp. St. Anriroi*. (Janu'enon.} 
[Obsolete or prov. Eng. or Scotch.] 
gecko (gek'6), n. [Imitative of the animal's 
cry.] 1. A liz- 
ard of the genus 
Gecco or family 
Gecconida; a 
wall-lizard. Al- 
so gecco, gekko. 
See Gecconida:. 
2. [cop.] 
[XL.] Same as 
Gecco. Croak- 
Ing gecko. Same 
as crtHtkiny lizard 
(which see. under 
lizard). Flying 
gecko. SeeAviwr; 
</*<>.- St. Lucas 
gecko, Diplodacty- 
Twt K**: so call- 
ed after Cape St. 
Lucas, Lower Cali- 
fornia, in the vi- 
cinity of which it 
is found. Xantus 
gecko, Phylludae- 
tijliix xanti, of Low- 
er California: named from Louis John Xantua de Vesey, 
who first collected specimens of it (See also volt-gecko.) 
Geckoides, geckonid, etc. See Geccoides, etc. 
ged (ged), n. [< Icel. gedda = Sw. gadda = Dan. 
gjede, a pike (fish) : so named from its sharp 
thin head ; < Icel. gaddr, a gad, goad, spike : 
see gad 1 . Cf. E. pike, AS. Itacod, a pike (see 
liake and hook), F. brochet, a pike (< broche, a 
spit), etc.] A pike (the fish). Also written 
gedd. [Scotch.] 
gedanite (jed'a-nlt), n. [< Gedanum. Latin 
name of Dantzic, + -tie 2 .] A mineral resin re- 
sembling amber, found on the shores of the 
Baltic. 
gedd. . See ged. 
gednte (jed'rit), n. [< Gedre (see def.) + -'te.] 
An aluminous variety of the mineral anthophyl- 
lite, found near Gedre in the French Pyrenees. 
gee 1 , jee 1 (je), v. i. [Of unknown origin.] To 
agree; suit; fit. [Colloq.] 
People say in Pennsylvania, " That won't gee," when 
they wish to express that something won't serve the pur- 
pose. S. S. Haldeman, quoted in S. De Vere's 
[Americanisms, p. 478. 
Gecko (( 
Gehydrophila 
gee 2 , jee 2 (je), a. [Origin unknown.] Crooked; 
awry. [Prov. Eng.] 
gee 2 ,' jee 2 (je), v. [< gee 2 , jee 2 , a. The verb 
has been erroneously referred to F. dia, "the 
cry wherewith carters make their horses turn 
to the left hand" (Cotgrave), in Switzerland 
to the right; cf. Olt. gio, similarly used.] I. 
intrans. 1. To move to one side; in particular, 
to move or turn to the off side, or from the 
driver that is, to the right, the driver stand- 
ing on the left or nigh side : used by teamsters, 
chiefly in the imperative, addressed to the ani- 
mals they are driving: often with off. 2. To 
move; stir. [Scotch.] To gee np, to move faster : 
also used by teamsters as above. See def. 1. 
II. trans. 1. To cause to move or turn to the 
off side, or from the driver: as, to gee a team of 
oxen. 2. To move: as, ye're no able to gee it. 
[Scotch.] 
gee 3 (ge), . [Origin unknown.] 1. Stubborn- 
ness; pettishness. 2. An affront. [Prov. Eng. 
and Scotch.] 
gee 4 (ge), v. f = 8c. gie, a contr. of give.] A dia- 
lectal form of give 1 . 
gee-hq (je'ho), v. i. [< gee 2 + ho, a quasi-im- 
perative or exclamation : see gee 2 .] Same as 
gee 2 . 
gee-hot, [< gee-ho, p.] A kind of heavy sled. 
See the extract. 
They drew all their heavy goods here [to Bristol] on sleds 
or sledges, which they call Gee-hoe, without wheels. 
Defoe, Tour through Great Britain, II. S14. 
Ply close at inns upon the coming in of waggons and 
,rw-Ao-coaches. Tom Brown, Works, II. 262. 
geert, n. and v. See gear. 
geeringt, ". See gearing. 
geese, Plural of goose. 
geest (gest), n. [< LG. and G. geest (geestland) 
= East and North Fries, gant, OFries. gest (gest- 
lond, gastlond), dry and barren land, = D. geest, 
heath, = MLG. gest, gast, < OFries. gest, gast, 
North Fries, gast = LG. giist, gout, gist, barren ; 
cf. AS. gxsnt, barren, empty: see geason.] 1. 
In northern Germany, high, dry, and sandy or 
gravelly land: opposed to marschland. Hence 
2. In various older geological treatises pub- 
lished in England and the United States, dilu- 
vium, coarse drift, or gravel. 
Gee'z, Giz (ge-ez', gez), n. [Ethiopic.] The an- 
cient language of Ethiopia or Abyssinia, a Se- 
mitic tongue closely related to Arabic, it is the 
language of the church and of the old literature of Abys- 
sinia, chiefly ecclesiastical, including an early translation 
of the Bible ; and it is still spoken in a more or less corrupt- 
ed form by the people of the province of Tigre, Its original 
seat, though elsewhere and in official use it has been for 
many centuries superseded by the Amharic. Also called 
Klhiopie. 
The Written Characters of the old Ethiopic. or Gfa, and 
that of the Amharic, are a Syllabary read from left to right. 
Jt. X. Cust, Mod. Langs, of Africa, I. 74. 
Gehenna (ge-hen'a), . [< LL. Gehenna, < Gr. 
1 'teiva, < Heb. ge-hinnom, the valley of Hinnom. ] 
1. In Jeirish hist., the valley of Hinnom, south 
of Jerusalem, in which was Tophet, where the 
Israelites once sacrificed their children to Mo- 
loch (2 Ki. xxiii. 10). Hence the place was after- 
ward regarded as a place of abomination ; into it was 
thrown the refuse of the city, and, according to some au- 
thorities, fires were kept burning in it to prevent pesti- 
lence. 
The pleasant valley of Binnom, Tophet thence 
And black Gehenna, call'd, the type of hell. 
Milton, P. L., i. 405. 
2. In the Bible, the place of the future punish- 
ment of the wicked: a transliteration of the 
Greek word -ytevva, which the authorized ver- 
sion translates Ml and hell-fire, and the re- 
vised version hell of fire and Ml. 
The descensus was a self-manifestation of Christ and his 
work to the whole spirit-world, and affected the condition 
of both the pious in Paradise and the ungodly in Gehenna. 
Scha/, Christ and Christianity, p. 93. 
Adding to this the fact that gehenna of itself was not 
railed a prison, but something far worse, a place of fire, 
we are further helped on to the conclusion that Christ 
jireaching to "spirits in prison" did not preach to the 
impenitent dead. Bibliothcca Sacra, XLV. 640. 
gehlenite (ga'len-It), . [Named after the Ger- 
man chemist A. F. Gehlfn (1775-1815).] A 
mineral of a grayish color and resinous luster, 
found chiefly at Mount Monzoni in Tyrol, it is 
a silicate of aluminium, iron, and calcium, crystallizing in 
tetragonal crystals, related in form to the scapolites. 
Gehydrophila (je-hi-drof'i-la), M. pi. [NL., < 
Gr. yij, the earth, + vfup (i'6p-), water, + ^tf-of, 
loving.] A group of inopereulate pulmonif- 
erous gastropods, corresponding to the family 
Auriculidce. Ferussac, 1819. Also called Hy- 
yrogeophila. 
