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purfued the Philiftines. 2 Sam. v, 25. It is probably 
the fame with Gazara, or Gazera. 
GAZ'ERA. SeeGAZARA. 
GAZ'ET, y. A fmall Venetian coin.— A gazet is al- 
irioft a penny, whereof ten do make a livre, that is, nine 
pence. Cory at's Crudities. 
GAZ'ET (William), a Flemi/h priefl:, and ingenious 
writer, born at Arras in 1554. When young he taught 
the dallies in the univerfity of Louvain, and about the 
year 1580 was prefented to the living of St. Mary Mag¬ 
dalen, at Arras. Afterwards he obtained a canonry of 
the cathedral church of St. Peter, at Aire, in Artois, 
and kept both thofe benefices till his death in 1612, when 
fifty-feven years of age. His writings are, i. Magdalis, 
Tragadia facra, 1589, 8vo. 2. The Order and Succelfion 
of the Bifliops and Archbilhops of Cambray, 1597, 8vo. 
including a fliort liiltory of the moft memorable events 
of their time, &c. 3. The Order of the Bifliops of 
Arras, after the Separation of that See from tlie Bilhopric 
of Cambray, 1598, 8vo. 4. Tk'faurus Precim& l.itania- 
rum, ex Scriptur^e Sacra fanElorumque Patrum GaZophylaciis 
depromptus, 1602, i2mo. 5. The Ecclcfiaftical Hiliory of 
the Low-countries, publiiaed after the author’s deatli, 
1614, 4to. 6. The Lives of the Saints, with moral Re- 
flettions, alfo pollhumous, in 2 vols. 1613, 8vo. 7. The 
Mirror of Confcience. 8. The Holy Feall, or Exercifes 
preparatory to the Reception of the Eucharill. 9. Spi¬ 
ritual Exercifes and Litanies for the whole Vt^eek, with 
Prayers, &c. 
GAZET'TE,^ \_gazetta is a Venetian halfpenny, the 
price of a news paper, of which the firfl: was publiflied 
at Venice. ] A paper of news ; a paper of public intelli¬ 
gence. It is accented indifferently on the firlf or laft 
lyllable.—An Englifh gentleman without geography, 
cannot well underftand a gazette. Locke. 
All, all but truth, falls dead-born from the prefs; 
Like the \d.& gazette, or the lafi addrefs- Pope. 
The firfl gazette in England was publiflied at Oxford, 
the court being there, in a folio haif-ftieet, Nov. 7, 1665, 
On the removal of the court to London, the title was 
changed to the London Gazette, 
GAZETTEER', gazette. A writer of news. 
An officer appointed to publifli news by authority, wliom 
Steele calls the loweft minifter of ftate ; 
Satire is no more : I feel it die : 
,No gazetteer more innocent than I. Pope. 
A book containing the names of cities, towns, villages, 
&c. in any kingdom or country. A title for a newfjpaper; 
Glafles and bottles, pipes and gazetteers. 
As if the table even itfelf was drunk. 
Lie a wet broken feene. Thomjon. 
GA'ZI,^ A title among the Turks and Arabs, given 
to fuch as have made war on Chriftians, and extended 
She religion of Mahomet. Scott. 
GA'ZINGSTOCK, y. A perfon gazed at with fcorn 
or abhorrence.-—Thefe things are offences to us, by 
making us gazingjlocks to others, and objects of their 
fcorn and derifion. Pay. 
GAZ'NA, a decayed city of Afia, once the capital of 
the Gaznavian empire | but which is now either entirely 
ruined, or become of fo little confideration, that it is not 
even noticed in our books of geography.—See the ar¬ 
ticle Hindoostan. 
GAZ'NIN, a town of Afia, in the kingdom of Can- 
dahar: 106 miles eaft of Candahar. 
GAZOL'DO, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Man¬ 
tua : thirteen miles weft-north-weft of Mantua. 
GAZO'LG, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Man¬ 
tua : thirteen miles fouth-weft of Mantua, 
GAZOM'ETER. See Gasometer. 
GA'ZONS,y. in fortification, turfs, or pieces of frefti 
earth covered with grafs, cut io form of a wedge, about 
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a foot long, and half a foot thick, to line or face the out- 
fide of works made of earth, to keep them up, and pre¬ 
vent ilieir mouldering. 
GA'ZUL,y. An Egyptian weed, of which the fineft 
fort of glafles are made. 
GDOV, a town of Rulfia, in the government of Pe- 
terlburg, on the eaft coaft of the Tclmdikoc Lake : ninety 
miles fouth-fouth-weft of Peterfburg. 
GE-HO, a town of Chinefe Tartary: twenty-three 
miles foiith-foutJi-eafl of Pora, and one hundred north- 
eaft of Pekin. 
GEAR,y Lj^ypian, to clothe; j^eappe, Sax. furni¬ 
ture.] Furniture; accoutrements; drels; habit; orna¬ 
ments.—Array thyfelfin her inofl gorgeous gear. Spen/er, 
To fee foine radiant nymph appear 
In all her glitt’ring birthday gear, 
You tliink fome goddefs from the Iky 
Defcended, ready cut and dry. Swift. 
Tlie traces or furniture by which horfes or oxen draw ; 
I'he frauds lie learned in his frantic years 
Made him uneafy in his lawful gears. Dryden. 
Stuft’. Hanmer. —If fortune be a woman, ftie is a good 
wench for this o-ear. Shakefpeare. —[In Scotland.] Goods 
or riches: as, he has gear enough.—[Fromjeapa, Sax.] 
Employment.—That to fir Calidore was ealie geare. 
Spenfer. —Such is alfo the plain fenfe ot the word in tliat 
pallage of Milton’s Comus, which Johnfon has griev- 
oufly misjoined to the firfl fenfe. Mafon's Suppl. 
To GEAR, V. a. To drefs ; to put harnefs on a horfe. 
GE'ARON,, or Jargon, a town of Perfia, in the 
province of Farfiltan; celebrated for its excellent truits, 
raifins, pomegranates, dates,, and quinces: feventy miles 
fouth-eaft of Schiras. 
GEARS, y. A fea term ; the jeers, an aflTemblage of 
fmall tackle. 
GE'ASON, adj. [jaeyne, Sax. rarus."] Wonderful. 
—It to Leeches feemed Itrange and geafon. Hubb. 
GEAS'TER, y. in botany. See Ly coperdon. 
GEAT, y. [corrupted fromje/t. ] The hole through 
which the metal runs into the mold. Moxen. 
GEAUNE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Landes, and chief place of a canton, in the diftri6l 
of St. Sever: four leagues fouth-eaft of St. Sever, and 
fix eaft-north-eaft of Orthez. 
GE'BA, a city of Paleftine, fituated in the tribe of 
Benjamin, and one of the cities of the Levites of the 
family of Kohath. Here was a garrilon of the Philif- 
tines in the reign of Saul, that was routed by his fon 
Jonathan; and from this place David purlued the Phi- 
liftines to Gazer. It was rebuilt by king Ala with the 
ftones intended for the building of Ramah ; from this 
place alfo were the idolatrous priefts and worfhip ex¬ 
pelled by Jofiah ; and near this place Holofernes en¬ 
camped in the days of Judith. Jofl1.xxi.17. I Sam xiii. 
3. 2 Sam. v. 25. I Kings, xv. 22. 2 Kings, xxiii. 8. Ju¬ 
dith, iii. 10. 
GE'BA, a town and country of Africa, on a river of 
the fame name, which foon after joins the river St. Do¬ 
mingo. Lat, 12. 10. N. Ion. 13. 30. W. Greenwich. 
GE'BAH. See Gibeah. 
GE'B AL, the name of a place mentioned by Ezekiel'; 
the ancients of which are faid to have been the calkers 
of the fhips of Tyre, Ezejk. xxii. 9. Mr. Maundrell, 
who vifited this place, ©bferves, “This was probably 
the city of the Giblites mentioned Jofli. xiii. 5. whom 
king Hiram made ufe of, in preparing materials for So¬ 
lomon’s temple, as appears from i Kings, v. 18, where 
the word rendered Jtcme-fquarers, is in the Hebrew Giblim, 
or Giblites, and in the Septuagint, Bibliai, or the men of 
By bins; the former the Hebrew, and the latter the 
Greek, name of this place, which difference may alfo be 
obferved in Ezek. xxvii. 9, where our tranflation has 
tke ancients sf Gebal, and the Septuagint the elders ef 
Byblus, 1 1 was faraeus foi the birth and temple of 
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