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(gil'op'mng), n. The external 
^^gr- 
obsolete fonn 
a proper name (see gill 5 ), + hooter.] A' local 
English name of the barn-owl, Aluco flammeus. 
Also written gil-hoo ter, gillihow ter. See cut un- 
der barn-owl. 
gill-house (jil'hous), n. [< giIP, 3, + house.] A 
dram-shop. Latham. 
Thee shall each ale-house, thee each gill-houie mourn, 
And answering gin-shops sourer sighs return. 
Pope, Dunciad, ill. 147. 
Gillia (jil'i-a), n. [NL., named after Theodore 
N. Gill (born 1837), an American naturalist.] 
1. Same as Gillichthys. A. Giinther, 1865. 2. A 
genus of rissoid mollusks. G. altilis is a fresh- 
water species common in many streams of east- 
ern North America. 
gillian (jil'ian), n. [< ME. Gillian, Gyllian (see 
gill 5 ), a form of Julian, i. e., Juliana, a fern, 
personal name, L. Juliana, < L. Julia, f ., Julius, 
m., a proper name : see Julian, July.] Same as 
gill 6 , 1. 
Thou tookst me up at every word I spoke, 
As I had been a mawkiu, a flirt gillian. 
Fletcher, The Chances. 
D' ye bring your Oillians hither? Nay, she 's punished. 
Your conceal'd love 's cas'd up. 
Fletcher and Shirley, Night-Walker, ii. 3. 
Gillichthys (ji-lik'this), . [NL., named af- 
ter T. N. Gill : see Gillia.] A genus of gobioid 
GillicHtliys mirabilis. 
fishes. G. wirabilis is a Californian species remarkable 
for the great extent of its jaws and for its singular habits, 
living in holes which it digs in the mud. Also Gillia. 
gillie (gil'i), n. [Sc., < Gael, gilte, giolla = Ir. 
giolla, a boy, lad, man-servant.] In the High- 
lands of Scotland, a man-servant ; a lad or young 
man employed as an attendant; an outdoor 
male servant, more especially one who is con- 
nected with or attends a person while hunting. 
In the Celtic language, we have, with other words, " Gil- 
la," a servant, a word familiar to sportsmen and travellers 
in the Highlands, and to readers of Scott in its Anglicised 
shape, Gillie. Maine, Early Hist, of Institutions, p. 217. 
Gillie white-foot, or gillie wet-foot, formerly, in Scot- 
land, a running footman who had to carry his master over 
brooks and watery places in traveling. 
gilliflower, n. See gillyflower. 
gillihowter (jil-i-h6'ter), n. Same as gill-hooter. 
[Scotch.] 
gilling 1 (gil'ing), H. [Verbal n. of gilli, v.] The 
act or process of catching fish with gill-nets. 
gilling 2 (gil'ing), n. [Origin obscure.] A sal- 
mon of the second year. See the extract. 
In the Severn district the name "gilling" is applied to 
a second-year flsh, and the belief prevails that these flsh 
can be distinguished not only from grilse, but from flsh 
of greater age. Quarterly Bee., CXXVI. 355. 
gilling-machine (gil'Ing-ma-sheii*), . In the 
manufacture of woolen yarn or worsted, a ma- 
chine for making all the fibers level and par- 
allel with each other, it consists of a pair of rollers 
which catch the wool, and of a second pair of rollers which 
draw it forward over heavy steel bars, called fallen, which 
are covered with projecting spikes. These machines are 
generally used in sets, each successive machine having 
the pins of the falters finer and more closely set than that 
preceding. Also called gill-box. 
gilliver (jil'i-yer), n. An obsolete or dialectal 
(and more original) form of gillyflower. 
gill-lid (gil'lid), n. Same as gill-cover. 
gill-machine (gil'ma-shen*), n. Same as gill- 
frame. 
gill-membrane (gil'mem^bran), n. The mem- 
branous covering of the foremost branchioste- 
gal arch of the branchial skeleton of ordinary 
fishes. 
gill-net (gil'net), u. A net which catches fish 
by the gills. A gill-net is set In the form of a curtain 
suspended vertically from floats on the surface of the wa- 
ter by means of metallic weights or bullets. The meshes 
of the net are of such size as to catch by its gills a fish 
which tries to force its way through, the flsh being pre- 
vented from advancing by the narrowness of the meshes 
and from backing out by the impossibility of working the 
protecting plates of the gills over the twine of the meshes. 
gill-netter (gil'net*er), n. One who owns or 
uses gill-nets. 
gill-netting (gil'net'ing), n. The use of a gill- 
net ; fishing or taking fish with a gill-net. 
p // ver-ground", -the-grouud"), . The ground- 
ivy, Nepeta Glechpma. 
gill-plate (gil'plat), n. One of the branchial 
lamellee of a mollusk. 
Yet It is very probable that the labial tentacles and gill- 
plates are modifications of a double horseshoe-shaped area 
of ciliated filamentous processes which existed in ances- 
tral Mollusca much as in Phoronis and the Pulyzoa. 
Encyc. Brit., XVI. 688. 
gill-plume (gil'plom), H. A ctenidium. 
gill-raker (gil'ra'ker), w. One of a series of 
cartilaginous or osseous processes which gen- 
erally arm the inner edge or surface of a gill- 
arch of ordinary fishes, and are arranged in a sin- 
gle row on each such arch. See cut under gilli. 
This Labrador form has a larger number of gill-rakers 
than the common fontiualis, and there seem to be fewer 
tubes In the lateral line ; so that we may be obliged to con- 
sider it as a species distinct from fontiualis. 
Science, V. 424. 
gillravage, gillravager. See gilravage, gilrav- 
ager. 
gill-sac (gil'sak), . 1. A cavity or chamber 
containing the gills, as of a crustacean or fish. 
2. A saccular or pouch-like gill; a kind of 
rudimentary gill of some fishes, as the myzonts, 
which have consequently been called marsipo- 
branchiates. 
gill-slit (gil'slit), n. A visceral cleft between 
any two visceral arches of the neck ; a passage- 
way through gill-arches from the mouth or 
pharynx to the exterior ; a branchial cleft, it 
u most commonly used of such slits of an animal actually 
bearing gills, but by extension, In embryology, of the cer- 
tainly homologous visceral clefts of all vertebrates. 
gillyflower (jil'i-flou'er), . [Early mod. E. 
gilloflower, gelliflowre, etc., also geraflour, gerra- 
flour; a corruption, simulating flower, of early 
mod. E. gilliver, gillyvor, gillwer, gillofer, gelevor, 
OF , , , , , m , w , 
also girofle, girofre, F. girofle, clove(-tree),</t>o- 
JMe, gillyflower, = Pr. girofle, gcrofle = Sp. giro- 
fle, girofre = Pg. gyrofe, clove (gyrofeiro, clove- 
tree), = It. garofano, clove (viola garofanata, 
clove-gillyflower), = Turk, qarenfll, karemfil = 
Ar. Par. qaranftil, clove, carnation; corrupted 
from ML. caryophyllttm, < Gr. wipwfytiX/lop, the 
clove-tree, lit. 'nut-leaf,' < napwv, a nut, + </>i-).- 
/.ov = L. folium, a leaf. See c lore-gillyflower.] 
1. The clove-pink orcarnation, Dianthug Caryo- 
phyllus, especially one of the smaller varieties. 
The name was thus applied by Chaucer, Spenser, Shak- 
spere, and old writers generally. Also distinguished as the 
dove-gillyflower. See Dianthui, and cut under carnation. 
Bring hether the Pincke and purple Cullambine 
With Gelliflowres. Spenser, Shop. Cal., April. 
The fairest flowers o' the season 
Are our carnations, and streak'd gillytan. 
Shalr., W. T.,iv. 3. 
2. The Cheiranthus Clieiri. This is the plant 
which now usually bears the name, distinguish- 
ed as the wall-gillyflower. See Cheiranthus. 
3. The wallflower, Matthiola incana, distin- 
guished as the stock-gillyflower, but more fre- 
quently known as the stock. 4. A name of 
several other plants, as the cuckoo- or marsh- 
gillyflower, Lychnis Flos-cuculi; the feathered 
gillyflower, Dianthus plumarius; the queen's, 
rogue's, or winter gillyflower, Hesperis matro- 
nalis; the sea-gillyflower, Armenia vulgaris; and 
the water-gillyflower, Hottonia palustris. 5. 
The gillyflower-apple. 
gillyflower-apple (jil'i-flou-er-ap*l), . A va- 
riety of apple, of elongated form and dark-red 
color, having a delicate spicy flavor. Often 
shortened to gillyflower. 
gilourt, n. A Middle English form of gutter. 
gilpy, gilpey (gil'pi), n. and a. [Origin ob- 
scure.] I. n. ; pi. gilpies, gilpeys (-piz). A 
frolicsome young fellow; a roguish boy; a 
lively young girl. [Scotch.] 
A gilpy that had seen the faught. 
Ramsay, Christ's Kirk, iii. 
I mind, when I was a gilpy of a lassock, seeing the Duke; 
. . . and he said to me, " Tak tent o' yoursell, my bonnie 
lassie." Scott, Old Mortality, v. 
II. a. Adolescent. Hamersly. 
gilravage, gillravage (gil-rav'aj), n. [So., 
also written gilraritch, gilraivitch, f/iileriim/jf . 
galravage, etc.; of uncertain origin. "It seems 
gilthead 
generally, if not always, to include the idea of 
a wasteful use of food, and of an intemperate 
use of strong drink" (Jamieson), and may come 
< ME. gule, gluttony (< L. gula, gluttony, gor- 
mandizing, lit. the throat, gullet: see gular, 
gules, gullet), + ravage.] A merrymaking; a 
noisy frolic, particularly among young people ; 
depredation ; great disorder. 
Huckle din an' loud gilraimtch was aiuang them, gaf- 
fawan an' lauchau. Edinburgh Mag., Sept., 1818, p. 155. 
gilravage, gillravage (gil-rav'aj), v. i.; pret. 
and pp. gilrai-aged, gillravaged,' ppr. qilravag- 
ing, gillravaging. [< gilravage, nj To com- 
mit wild and lawless depredation; plunder; 
spoil. [Scotch.] 
At all former . . . banquets, it had been the custom to 
. . . galravitch both at hack and manger, in a very expen- 
sive manner to the funds of the town. 
Gait, The Provost, p. 316. 
gilravager, gillravager (gil-rav'a-jer), n. One 
guilty of riotous or wasteful conduct; a depre- 
dator; a plunderer. [Scotch.] 
"And whathe deevil's this?" he continued. . . ."Some 
gillravager that ye hae listed, I daur say. He looks as if 
he had a bauld heart to the highway, and a lang craig for 
the gibbet." Scott, Rob Roy, xxiii. 
gilse (gils), n. Same as grilse. 
gilt 1 (gilt). Preterit of mW 1 . 
gilt 1 (gilt), ;>. a. andn. [Pp. of gild^,v.] I. p. a. 
1. Gilded. 
That nayle [wherewith Christ was crucified] I saw set 
in a faire peece of silver plate double gilt. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 46. 
As a parrot turns 
Up thro' gilt wires a crafty loving eye. 
Tennyton, Princess, Prol. 
2. Of the color of gold ; bright-yellow. 
Her gilte heere was corouned with a sonne 
In stede of golde. Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 230. 
Marineo (Cosas memorables de Espafia, 1517) and Er- 
colano (Historia de Valencia, 1610) both praise highly the 
"gilt pottery " made at Valencia and Maniacs. The term 
gilt refers to the metallic golden colour of the lustre. 
Encyc. Brit., XIX. 623. 
II. n. The material used in gilding. 
The double gilt of this opportunity you let time wash 
off. Shale., T. N. , iii. 2. 
Iron of Naples, hid with English gilt. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., 11. 2. 
gilt 1 t, v. t. An obsolete variant of gild 1 . 
Bye hors and harnes good, 
And gylte thy spores all newe. 
Lytell Geite of Souyn Hode (Child's Ballads, V. 92). 
Next behynde the kyng came x. M. horsemen, which 
had all their speares plated with silver, and their speare 
heads gilted. J. Brende, tr. of Quintus C'urtius, fol. 24. 
gilt 2 t (gilt), w. [Var. of gelcft, gel ft.] Money ; 
geld. 
Three corrupted men . . . 
Have, for the gilt of France (O guilt, indeed !), 
Confirm 'd conspiracy with fearful France. 
Shale., Hen. V., ii. (cho.). 
As mekle gude Inglis gilt 
As four of their braid backs dow beir. 
Johnie Armstrong (Child's Ballads, VI. 46). 
gilt 3 (gilt), n. [< ME. gilte, < AS. gilte, a young 
sow, = OHG. gelza, galza, MHG. gelze, a spayed 
sow; cf. gait 2 , geld*.] A young female pig. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
gilt 4 t, n. A Middle English form of guilt. 
gilt 6 t, n. [Origin obscure.] One of a class of 
thieves. [Cant.] 
He maintains as strict a correspondence with gilts and 
lifters as a mountebank with applauding midwives and 
recommending nurses. 
Character of a Quack Aitrologer (1673). 
gilt-bronze (gilt'bronz'), n. A gilded metal 
much used for decorative objects, either real 
bronze, or often brass, latten, or some similar 
yellow metal. The name is given especially to the 
metal used in the incense-burners and other decorative 
pieces from China and Japan, often in part enameled, and 
in the metal pieces applied to furniture of the eighteenth 
century. See orjnolu. 
gilt-edged (gilt'ejd), a. 1. Having the edges 
gilt or gilded, as writing-paper. Gilt-edged 
letter- or note-paper was formerly very fashion- 
able. 2. Of the highest order or quality; un- 
exceptionably good: said especially of com- 
mercial paper, in allusion to the literal sense 
(def. 1) : as, gilt-edged securities ; gilt-edtied but- 
ter. [U. S.] 
Let the merchant who has a surplus capital invest It, 
not in dead property, but in good floating securities, easily 
convertible into money ; and especially let him use it in 
discounting his own four or six months' bills, and his paper 
will be pronounced gilt-edged and flre-proof. 
W . Mathewe, Getting on in the World, p. 312. 
gilthead (gilt'hed), . A popular English name 
of several fishes, (a) A sparoid flsh, Sparut (or Chi-y- 
sophryi) auratvf, about a foot long, abundant in southern 
Bnropmn waters : so named from the predominant colors 
