G E T 
7 o Off, in all its fignifications, both active and neu¬ 
tral, implies- the acquilltion of I'oinetJiing, or tlie arri¬ 
val at fome hate or place by feme means; except in 
the ule of the preterite compound, which often implies 
mere polfeffion : as, he has got a good ejlair, does not al¬ 
ways mean that he has acquired, but barely that he 
pofTcfTes it. So we fay the lady has got black eyes, merely 
meaning that die has them. Johnfun. 
GE'l'A (Septimius), fecond ion of the emperor Se- 
verus, and bi'other of Caracalla, born at Milan in 189, 
and fucceeded to the title of Auguhus in 208. Thougli 
he was not free from many vices, his milder difpofition 
made him a greater favourite with the people than Ids 
brother; and this circumftar.ee doubtlels intlamed tlieir 
mutual hatred. On the death of their father Severus, 
in 211, both princes I'ucceeded to a joint fovereignty ; 
but it was impollible that fuch a date lliould be laiting. 
It was terminated in the very next year by tJie detell- 
able Caracalla, wlio murdered his brother in their mo¬ 
ther’s arms.—Sec the article Rome. 
GE'TdE, orGETu'HANs, in ancient geography, a 
brancli of the Scythian.s, who i'ettled on the weifern 
boundary ot the Indus, thence called by fome writers 
Indo-Scythia. They are reprefented as a brave and war¬ 
like people, who firlt expelled the ancient Greeks from 
this weltern border of Hindoodan, after tiiey liad been 
iettled there by Alexander the Great. See Geogra- 
rtty, p. 383, of this volume. 
GETH'BRECK, /i A breach of the peace. Phillips. 
Cbfoluc. 
GIC'THER, [Ileb. the vale of contemplation.] A 
man’s name. 
GETH'ILD, [Saxon.] The name of a woman. 
GE'TllIK (Lady Grace), an Englilh lady of virtuous 
didintlion, daugliter of lir George Norton, of Abbots- 
Leigh in Somerl'etdiirc, born in 1676. She had all the 
advantages of a liberal education ; and became the wife 
of lir Richard Gethin, of Gethin Court, in Ireland. 
She pofl’eded great accomplidiments, but did not live to 
difplay them ; for die died in the 21 d year of her age. 
She was buried in Wedminder-abbey ; and, for perpe¬ 
tuating lier memory, provilion is made for a fermon to 
be preached in Weluuinder-abbey, yearly, on Afli-Wed- 
nefday, for ever. She wrote a work which, foon after 
her death, was metliodized, and publilbed under the 
title of Reliquia: Gcthiniana, Lond. 1700, 4to. with her 
portrait. 
GEITIIOTDES,y. in botany. See Allium Fal¬ 
lens. 
GEd HSEM'ANE, the name of the garden wliere 
Jefus Chrid frequently reforted with his difciples ; ar.d 
where he was betrayed. It was fituated without the 
walls of Jerulalem, near the brook of Cedron, or Ki- 
deon. xxvi. 36. 'John,y.\'\\\. t- 
GETHYL'LIS, J. [r-ziOuMi?, or yr.Syov, is the name of 
a plant in Aridophanes, Athemeus, &c. fo named, as 
fpringing from yu, the earth.] In botany, a genus of the 
clafs hexandria, order monogynia, natural order fpatha- 
eeae, (narcilli, JuJf.) The generic charadlers are — Ca¬ 
lyx ; none, unlels a flieath obliquely truncate. Co- 
roll.a: one-petalled, fuperior; tube long, filiform, ra¬ 
dical ; border expanding flat, fix-parted ; divifious ob¬ 
long. Stamina : filaments fix, iid'erted into the mouth 
of tlie tube, Ihorter than the border, ufually divided ; 
antheras linear, fpirally bent in. Piltillum : germ infe¬ 
rior ; dyle fimple, longer than the dapiens; digma ca¬ 
pitate. Fericarpium : berry club-fiiaped,. blunt, radi¬ 
cal, (fellile in the bulb itfelf, and proceeding from it,) 
fomewhat flclhy, one-celled. Seeds : nedling, one upon 
another in tliree rows, globular, fmooth.— pjjhitial Cka- 
rabler. Calyx, none ; corolla, fix-parted ; berry, club- 
Ihaped, radical, one-celled. 
Species. i. Gethyllis villofa, or hairy gethyllis : 
leaves linear-filiform, fpiral, villofe; fegments of the 
corolla ovate-oblong. 2, Gethyllis ciliariSj or fringed 
G E 'I' 5)9 
gethyllis ; leaves linear, fpiral, ciliate ; fegments of 
the corolla ovate-oblong. 3. Gethyllis I’piralis, or'fpi- 
ral gctliyllis : leaves linear, fpir.il, I'mooth fegments 
of the corolla oblong. 4. Gethyllis lanceolata, oiTan- 
ceolate gethyllis; leaves lanceolate, flat; i'egments of 
the corolla lanceolate. 
All thele plants hav^e the habit or air of Colchicum, 
but are luificiently didinguifiicd from it, by having a mo- 
nopetalous corolla, and a beny for a fruit, 'i'here is 
but one flower on a naked dalk; and the .fruit has a 
gratetul odour, with a pleafant tade. They are nativeS 
ot the Cape of Good Hope, where they were obferved 
by 1 hunberg, who lias figured and del'cribed them. 
1 he third fjiecies only has been long known in Isurope; 
that was cultivated in 1780, by tiie late Dr. Eolhergill. 
J he tvvo fil'd were introduced here by Mr. /Francis 
Alallbn, in 1777 and 1778. 
GEl FF.N'N Y, yi [an old term for] A theatrical 
piece, that lucceeded.—The Gunpowder plot, there was 
a getpenny! I have preferted that to an eighteen or 
twenty-pence audience nine times in an afternoon. Bra 
JonJon's Bartholomew Fair. 
GET'S'iORFF, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy ot Audria : fix miles Ibuth-ead df Meilfai. 
GF.T'lTvNDORFF, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy ot Audria: five miles louth of Aigen. 
Gt,TT'ER, f. One wlio procures or obtains. One 
wiio begets on a female.—Feace is a very lethargy, a 
getter ot more badard children than war’s a dedroyer of 
men. Shakefpeare. 
GET'TING, /i Act of getting; acquifition.—Wif. 
dom is the principal thing, thereibre get wil'dom ; and 
with all thy getting get underltanding. Prov. iv. 7.— 
Gain ; profit.—Who hath a date to repair may not de- 
Ipife Imall things ; and it is lets diflionourable to abridge 
a petty charge than to doop to petty gettings^ Bacon. 
GET'TYSBURGH, a town of the American States, 
in York county, Fennfylvania, fituated at the head of 
Rock Creek, one of the head waters of the Monococy., 
It is nine miles north of the Maryland line, eight miles 
from Millcrdown, fifteen from Abbotdown, thirty-lix 
from Williamfport in Maryland, and one hundred and 
eighteen wed by fouth of Philadelphia. 
GET'ZENBORFF, a town of Germany,.in the arch¬ 
duchy of Audria : four miles louth of Zidertzdorlf. 
GET'ZENDOR FF, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy ot Audria, lituated on the river Reifenpach : 
twelve miles louth-ead of Vienna, and tenwedof Bruck. 
GEVAU'DAN, befor.e tlie revolution a mountainous 
country of France, in Languedoc, of which Mende was 
tlie capital. 
GEiV'ELSBERGH, or Gretti.esberg, , a town of 
Germany, in the circle of Wedphalia, and county of 
Mark : lix miles fouth-ead of Blanckendein. 
GEV'-ES, a town of Africa, fituated on a river of the 
fame name, louth of the river St. Domingo. 
GEVEZE', a town of France, in the department of 
the Hie and Viiaine, and chief place of a canton, in the 
didriet of Rennes : tvvo leagues and a half north-north- 
wed of Rennes, and one and a half louth of Fledeei 
GEVIEZ', a town of Moravia, in tli<‘ circle of 01 - 
mutz : twelve miles louth-wed of .Muglitz. 
GE'UL, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Meule, about live miles below Maedricht. 
GE'UL, a town of Germany, in the duchy of-Lim¬ 
burg, near the Meule ; five miles north of Wyck. 
GE'UM, f. [of Fliny. Derivation uncertain.} 
Avens, or Herb-BENNE'E ; ill botaiiy, a genus of tlie 
clafs icofandria, order polygynia, natural order fenti- 
cofae, (roface.'e, JuJJ.) The'generic characters are— 
Calyx : perianthium one-leafed, ten-cleft, uprightilh ; 
fegments alternately very fmall, lharp. Corolla : pe¬ 
tals five, rounded ; claws the length of the calyx, nar¬ 
row, inferted into the calyx. Stamina; filaments nu- 
juei'ous, I'ubulate, length of the caly.x, into which they 
arc 
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