Giottesque 
II. ii. An artist resembling Giotto in his 
work or manner; specifically, a follower of the 
artistic school of Giotto. [Rare.] 
The Giottesques among whom I include the immediate 
precursors, sculptors as well as painters, of Giotto. 
Contemporary Ren., LI. 508. 
gip 1 (Jip). " *; pret. and pp. gipped, ppr. gip- 
plng. Another form of gib*, 2. 
gip 2 ', ". See gyp. 
Gipciant, Gipcient, . See Gipsen. 
gipcieret, " Same as gipser. 
gipet, . [ME. gype, < OF. gipe, jupe, F. jupe, 
a petticoat, a skirt : see gipon, jupon.] An up- 
per frock or cassock. 
And high shoes knopped with dagges 
That frouncen like a quaile pipe 
Or boteB revelyng as a gype. 
Bain, of the Rote, 1. 7264. 
gipont, n. Same asjupon. 
gipst, . and v. See gypse. 
fripset, . and v. See gypse. 
Glpsent, " [Early mod. E. also Gipson, Gypson, 
Gipcien, Gipcian, Gyptian, abbr. of Egipcien, 
Egipcian, Egyptian : see Egyptian, Gipsy.] A 
Gipsy. 
Certes (said he) I meane me to disguize 
In some strange habit, after uncouth wize, 
Or like a Pilgrim, or a Lymiter, 
Or like a Gipsen, or a Juggeler. 
Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 86. 
The kinges majestic aboute a twelfmoneth past gave a 
pardonne to a company of lewde personnes within this 
realme calling themselves Qipcyans, for a most shamfull 
and detestable murder commytted amonges them. 
Crmnwell, To the Lord President of Marches of Wales, 
[Dec. 3, 1537. 
Rough grisly beard, eyes staring, visage wan, 
All parcht, and sunneburud, and deforni'd in sight, 
In fine he lookt (to make n true description) 
In face like death, in culler like a Giiptian. 
Sir J. Harrington, tr. of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, 
[xxix. 58. 
gipsert, gipsiret, [Also gipciere; < ME. gip- 
ser, gypser, gypsere, gypcyere, < AF. gipser, OF. 
gibeciere, a pouch or purse, prop, a game-pouch : 
see gibier.] A pouch or bag carried at the 
side, whether slung from the shoulder or sus- 
pended from the belt; especially, the pilgrim's 
pouch. 
An anlas, and a ffipler al of silk 
Heng at his girdel. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 357. 
gipsery, gypsery (jip'se-ri), n.; pi. gipseries, 
(lypseries (-riz). [< Gipsy, Gypsy, + -ery.] 
Same as gipsyry. 
Near the city [Philadelphia] are three distinct gypseries, 
where in summer-time the wagon and the tent may be 
found. C. O. Leland, The Gypsies. 
gipsify, gypsify (jip'si-fi), . t.; pret. and pp. 
gipsified, gypsified, ppr. gmsifying, gypsifying. 
[<. Gipsy, Gypsy, + -fy.~\ To cause to resemble 
a Gipsy, as by darkening the skin. 
With rusty bacon thus I gipsify thee. 
Middleton, More Dissemblers besides Women, iv. 1. 
gipsiret, n. See gipser. 
gipsismt, n. Same as gipsyism. 
The companion of his travels is some foule sunneburnt 
Queane, that since the terrible statute [5 Eliz., c. 20] re- 
canted gvpsisme, and is termed pedleresse. 
6V T. Overbury (1616), quoted in Ribton-Turner's 
[Vagrants and Vagrancy, p. 603. 
Are then the Sibyls dead ? what is become 
Of the loud oracles? are the augures dumb? 
Live not the Magi that so oft reveal'd 
Natures intents? iagipsisme quite repeal'd? 
Randolph, Poems (1643). 
gipsologist, gypsologist (jip-sol'o-jist), n. [< 
gipsology, gypsology, + -ist.] A student of gip- 
gipsology, gypsology (jip-sol'o-ji), . [< Gipsy, 
Gypsy, + Gr. -Aoyia, < Xeyetv, speak: see-ology.'] 
The study of, or a treatise upon, the history, 
language, manners, and customs of the Gipsies. 
Gipsont, . See Gipsen, Gipsy. 
gipsoust, a. Same as gypseous. 
Gipsy, Gypsy (jip'si), n. and a. [Also Gipsey, 
Gypsey, formerly also Gipsie, Gipson, Gypson; 
a reduced form of the early mod. E. Gipsen, 
Gipcien, Gypcien, Gypcian, Giptian, by apheresis 
from Egipcien, Egypcian, Egyptian, the Gipsies 
being popularly supposed to be Egyptians, a 
belief reflected by their names in some other 
languages, as Sp. Pg. Gitano (= E. Egyptian), 
NGr. ru0roc, Turk. Qibti(= E. Coptf, Egyptian), 
Albanian Jevk (Egyptian), Hung. Pharao nepek 
(Pharaoh's people), Turk. Farawni, ML. Nnbi- 
ani, etc. They were also called Saracens. The 
F. name is Bohemien (whence E. Bohemian, a 
vagabond), D. ffeiden (heathen), Sw. Tatars, 
Dan. Tater (Tatar, Tartar), W. Crwydriad, Crwy- 
dryn (vagabond), etc. The most wide-spread 
name appears in It. Zingaro, Zinga.no, Sp. Zin- 
2518 
(faro, Pg. Cigano, G. Dan. Zigcuncr, Sw. Zigenarc, 
Bohem. Cingdn, Cigdn, Hung. Cigany, Turk. 
Chingeni, OBulg. Athinganinii, Atsiganinii, Bulg. 
Atzigan, ML. Atliinganus, NGr. 'Affiyyavof, AT- 
oiyiiavof, identified by Miklosich with 'AOiyyavoi, 
a separatist sect in Asia Minor (< Gr. a- priv. 
+ ffiyyavetv, touch), with whom he supposes the 
Gipsies to have been popularly confused with 
reference to their locality or to their su; 
religious belief. The AT. name is Karami 
(villain), Pers. Karachi (swarthy), etc.; the 
Gipsy name is Rom (lit. man), whence Bomani, 
Romany, the name of their language.] I. n. ; pi. 
Gipsies, Gypsies (-siz). 1 . One of a peculiar vag- 
abond race which appeared in England for the 
first time about the beginning of the sixteenth 
century, and in eastern Europe at least two 
centuries earlier, and is now found in every 
country of Europe, as well as in parts of Asia, 
Africa, and America. The Gipsies are distinguisha- 
ble from the peoples among whom they rove by theirbodily 
appearance and by their language. Their forms are gen- 
erally light, lithe, and agile ; skin of a tawny color ; eyes 
large, black, and brilliant; hair long, coal-black, and of- 
ten ringleted ; mouth well shaped ; and teeth of dazzling 
whiteness. Ethnologists generally concur in regarding 
the Gipsies as descendants of some obscure Hindu tribe. 
They pursue various nomadic occupations, being tinkers, 
basket-makers, fortune-tellers, dealers in horses, etc., are 
often expert musicians, and are credited with thievish 
propensities. They appear to be destitute of any system 
of religion, but traces of various forms of paganism are 
found in their language and customs. The name Gipsy 
is also sometimes applied to or assumed by other vagrants 
of like habits. 
O this false soul of Egypt ! this grave charm, . . . 
Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose, 
Beguil'd me to the very heart of loss. 
Shak,, A. andC., iv. 10. 
The Egyptian and Chaldean strangers 
Known by the name of Gypsies shall henceforth 
Be banished from the realm. 
Longfellow, Spanish Student, ill. 2. 
2. The language of the Gipsies. This language, 
which the Gipsies call Romany chiv or chib, is a Hindu 
dialect derived from Sanskrit, but much corrupted by 
admixture with the tongues of the peoples among whom 
they have sojourned. Thus, in the vocabulary of the An- 
glo-Scottish Gipsies there are Greek, Slavic, Rumanian, 
Magyar, German, and French ingredients, evidencing that 
they had sojourned in the countries where these lan- 
guages are spoken. 
3. [1. c.] A person exhibiting any of the quali- 
ties attributed to Gipsies, as darkness of com- 
plexion, trickery in trade, arts of cajolery, and 
especially, as applied to a young woman, play- 
ful freedom or innocent roguishness of action 
or manner. 
Laura, to his lady, was but a kitchen-wench ; . . . Dido, 
a dowdy ; Cleopatra, a gipsy. Shak., R. and J., ii. 4. 
A slave I am to Clara's eyes ; 
The gipsy knows her power and flies. Prior. 
4. [/. c.] Naut., a small winch or crab used on 
board ship: same as gipsy-winch. 5. [/. <.] 
The gipsy-moth (which see). 
II. a. 1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a 
Gipsy or the Gipsies. 
God send the Gypsy lassie here, 
And not the Gypsy man. 
Longfellow, Spanish Student, iii. 5. 
The traveller who comes on the right day may come in 
for a gipsy fair at Duino. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 57. 
2. Unconventional; outdoor; considered as re- 
sembling the free life of a Gipsy. 
The young ladies insisted on making it the first of the 
series of alfresco gipsy meals. 
.1 . /. Shand, Shooting the Rapids, I. 176. 
Gipsy bat or bonnet, a woman's bonnet with Urge side- 
flaps. 
Whether 
The habit, hat, and feather, 
Or the frock and gypsy bonnet 
Be the neater and completes 
Tennyson, Maud, xx. 
Gipsy sweat. See the extract. 
Most of them [convicts] are in a shiver or, as they 
sometimes call it, & gypsy sweat from cold and from long 
exposure to rain. O. Kennan, The Century, XXXVII. 185. 
Gipsy table, a light table made for covering with a tex- 
tile material, and often used for displaying embroidery, 
tapestry, etc. Gipsy wagon, a wagon or van resembling 
a dwelling-house on wheels, including conveniences for 
sleeping and preparing fond, as used by Gipsies, peddlers, 
surveyors, traveling photographers, and other persons 
whose business is migratory. 
gipsy, gypsy (jip'si), v. i.; pret. and pp. gip. 
sied, gypsied, ppr. gipsying, gypsying. [< Gipsy, 
Gypsy, ?!.] To picnic; play at being a Gipsy. 
In the days when we went gyptying, 
A long time ago, 
The lads and lassies in their best 
Were dressed from top to toe. 
E. Rainsford, Gypsying. 
The young English are fine animals, full of blood ; and 
when they have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, 
they seek for travels as dangerous as war, diving into 
maelstroms ; swimming Hellesponts ; . . . gyptying with 
Borrow in Spain and Algiers. 
Emenon, Prose Works, II. 351. 
giraffe 
gipsydom, gypsydom (jip'si-dnin), . [< Gipsy, 
Gypsy, + -aom.] 1. The life and habits of a 
Gipsy. 
Her misery had reached a point at which gypsi/ilmn was 
her only refuge. George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, 1. 11. 
2. Gipsies collectively. 
gipsy-herb (jip'si-erb), . A book-name for 
the water-hoarhound, Lycopus Europanis. 
_ jip / si-her''ing), w. A local Scotch 
name of the pilchard. 
gipsying, gypsying (jip'si-ing), . [Verbal n. 
01 gipsy, gypsy, i'.] 1. The Gipsy mode of life 
or conduct ; the act of consorting with or liv- 
ing like Gipsies. 
I, in pity of this trade of gypsying, 
Being base, idle, and slavish, offer you 
A state to settle you. 
Middleton and Rowley, "Spanish Gypsy, iv. 1. 
2. The act of playing Gipsy, or making holiday 
in the woods and fields; picnicking. 
gipsyism, gypsyism (jip si-izm), . [< Gipsy, 
Gypsy, + -ism. Cf. gipsism."} 1. The state or 
condition of a Gipsy. 2. The arts and prac- 
tices of Gipsies ; cajolery; flattery; deception. 
True gypsyitm consists in wandering about, in preying 
upon the Gentiles, but not living amongst them. 
Borrow, Wordbook of Eng. Gypsy. 
gipsy-moth (jip'si-mdth), n. A moth, Liparis or 
Jlypogymna dispar of naturalists, the sexes of 
which differ much in appearance, the male 
being blackish-brown and the female grayish- 
white: so called in England. Also called gipsy. 
gipsyry, gypsyry (jip'si-ri), .; pi. gipsyries, 
gypsyries (-riz). [< Gipsy, Gypsy, + -ry. Cf. 
gipsery.'] A colony of Gipsies; a place of en- 
campment for Gipsies. Also gipsery, gypsery. 
Metropolitan gypsyrws Wandsworth, 1864. The gyp- 
sies are not the sole occupiers of Wandsworth grounds. 
Strange, wild guests are to be found there who, without 
being gypsies, have much gypsyism in their habits, and 
who far exceed the gypsies in number. 
Quoted in Riuton-Turner's Vagrants and Vagrancy, p. 503. 
gipsy-winch (jip'si-wineh), . A small winch 
with drum, ratenet, and pawl, and fittings for 
attaching it to a post. The handle is set in a cap 
revolving on an axis, and is provided with a pair of pawls 
and a ratchet, so that the winch can be worked either by 
a rotary motion or by a reciprocating action of the handle, 
like that of a punch. By the latter method a gain of power 
is secured. 
gipsywort,gypsywort(jip'si-wert),M. A book- 
name for the i/ucoptts Europeeus. 
Giptiant, Gyptiant, . See Gipsen. 
How now, Giptian * All a-mort, knave, for want of com- 
pany. O. Whetstone, Promos and Cassandra, I., ii. 6. 
trip-tub 
Giraffa 
-tub (jip'tub), n. Same as gib-tub. 
raffa (ji-raf'a), . [NL., < ML. girafa: see 
giraffe.'] The typical genus ^of Giraffidce. G.C. 
C. Storr, 1780. Also called Camelopardalis. 
giraffe (ji-raf), n. [Formerly also jaraff; = 
D. G. Dan. giraffe = Sw. giraff, < F. giraffe 
= It. giraffa, < Sp. Pg. girafa (NL. giraffa) = 
Pers. zarqf = Hind, zarafa, < Ar. saraf, zarqfa, 
zorqfa, a giraffe. In ME. in the corrupted form 
gerfaunt, q. v.] 1. The camelopard, Giraffa 
camelopardalis or Camelopardalis giraffa, a ru- 
minant animal inhabiting various parts of 
Africa, and constituting the only species of its 
genus and family. It is the tallest of all animals, a 
full-grown male reaching the height of 18 or 20 feet. This 
great stature is mainly due to the extraordinary length of 
Giraffe {Giraffa camelopardalis}. 
the neck, in which, however, there are but seven vertebrae, 
as is usual in mammals. It has two bony excrescences on 
its head resembling horns covered with skin. It feeds upon 
the leaves of trees, which its great height and its prehen- 
sile and extensile tongue enable it to procure easily. It 
