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GIFT'ROPE, f. Tlie rope w'uh which the boat is 
faftened to tlie bow of the lliip \vlien taken in tow. 
GIG, f. [etymology uncertain.] Any thing that is 
whirled round in play .—Playthings, as tops, gtgs, bnttle- 
dores, rtiould be procured them. Locke. — [Qigia, Iflandic.] 
A fiddle. Now out of ufe. A quick tune or dance. 
GIGALC'BIUM, f. in botany. See Mimosa. 
GIGAN'TIC, adj. {^gigantes, Lat.] Suitable to a giant; 
big; bulky; enormous; likewife wicked ; atrocious: 
The fon of Hercules he juftly feems. 
By his broad flioulders and gigantic limbs. Dryden. 
The Cyclopean race in arms arole ; 
A lawlefs nation oigigantic foes. Pope. 
GIG AN'TICNESS, y. The ffate or quality of being 
gigantic. 
GIGANTOM'ACHY, yi [from yjyac, a giant, and 
Gr. to fight,] The fabulous war of the giants 
agaiiift heaven. 
GIGEAU', a town of France, in the department of 
the Herault : fevcn miles fonth of Montpellier. 
GIG'GEO (Anihony), a learned Italian ecclefiaftic, 
of the coiigregation of Oblati, founded by St. Charles 
Borromco at Milan, and was admitted to the degree of 
dodtor by tlie Ambrofian college in that city. He was 
the au-hor of a Latin tranfiation of the Commentaries of 
R. R. Solomon, Aben Ezra, and Levi Gerforn, on the 
Book of Proverbs, publiflied at Milan in 1620, 4to. and 
he alfo drew up a Chaldee and Targumic Grammar, 
.adapted to the corrupted fiate of the Chaldee dialedl in 
the later Targums, which is preferved in manufeript in 
the Ambrofian library. But the work which principally 
contributed to his reputation was, Thefaurus Linguce Ara- 
bicce, feu Lexicon Arabico-Latinurn, 1632, in four volumes, 
folio, which is held in great efteem. As a recompence 
for the learning and induftry which it difeovered, pope 
Urban Vlir. nominated him to aii honourable poll in 
the college de Propaganda at Rome; but he died w'hen 
on the point of fening out for that city, in the fame year 
in ivliich his grand work made its appearance. 
To GIG'GLE, V. n. \_gichekn, Dut.] To laugh idly; 
to titter; to grin with merry levity : 
Wc fhew our prefent joking race. 
True joy confilfs in gravity and grace. Garrick. 
GIG'GLER,y. A laugher; atitterer; one idly and 
foolifilly merry : 
A fad wife valour is the brave complexion. 
That leads the van, and Iwallows up the cities ; 
The gzgg/er is a milk-maid, whom infeflion. 
Or the fir’d beacon, frighteth from his ditties. Herbert. 
GIG'GLET, or Gig LET, orGic LOT,y. {ffomgiggle.^ 
A wanton girl.—Away with \.[\Qkgiglets too. Shahe/peare. 
GIG'LET, adj. Wanton: 
Young Talbot wa.s not born 
To be the pillage of a. giglet wench. 
The fam’d Calfibelan was once at point. 
Oh fortune ! to tnafier Ctefar’s fword. Shakefpeare. 
GIGLETLI'KE, adj. Like a giglet; like a wanton 
girl. 
GI'GLIO, a fmall ifiand in the Mediterranean, near 
the coalf of Italy, belonging to Sienna : eleven leagues 
fouth-fouth-eafi frou tjie ifiand of Elva. Lat. 42.23. N. 
Ion. 28. 40. E. Ferro. 
GIG'lVilLL, y. A mill to drefs woollen cloth. 
GIGNAC', a town of France, in the department of 
the Herault, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriiR 
of Lodeve, on thehierault: three leagues and a half 
fouth-eall of Lodeve, and four and a half weft of Moiit- 
pellier. Lat. 43. 39. N. Ion. 21. 13, E. Ferro. 
G I'GN Y, a town of Fraiu e, in the dej artment of the 
Juia, and chief place of a canton, in ih diftrict of Orae- 
kt, on the Surain: two leagues and a 1 .df foiith-weft°of 
Orgelet,. and four and a half fouth of Lons-k-Saunier. 
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GI'GO, an ifiand of Scotland, near the Weft coaft ; 
about five miles long, and one broad: eleven miles eaft- 
fouth eaft from the ifiand of Ha, .-.nd a little to the v/efl 
of the peninfula of Kintyre, in the county of Argyle. 
Lat. 55.40. N. Ion. 2. 35. W. Edinburgh. 
Gl'GOT, f. [French.] The hip joint. It feems to 
mean in Chapman a joint for the fpit.—They broil’d on 
coales, and eate ; the reft, in gigots cut, they I'plit. Chapts. 
GI'G 01 'BRANCF!,y. That branch of a bridle which 
has the form of a leg. 
GIGS, /'. in farriery, a difeafe incident to horfes; a 
fwelling on the infide of the lips. 
GI'HON, lituated in Paleftine, near Jerufalem ; the 
place where Solomon was anointed and proclaimed king 
of Ifrael by order of Ids father David. 1 Kings i. 33-45. 
GI'HON, the name of one of the rivers that watered 
Paradife, faid by Mofes to compafs the land of Ethiopia^ 
or Cufii. Gen. ii. 13. 
GI'JON, a fea-port town of Spain, in the province of 
Afturia, with an ancient caftle, formerly the capital of 
Arturia, and the refidence of king Pelagius and his imme¬ 
diate fuccefi’ors: eighteen miles north of Oviedo. Lat. 
43. 32. N. Ion. II.5. E. Peak of Teneriife. 
GILAR'ZA, a town of the ifiand of Sardinia: fifteen 
miles fouth-eaft of Bofa. 
GILATl'EL'KE, a town of Tranfilvania : fourteen 
miles north of Claufenburg. 
GIL'BERT, [of glib. Sax. a college, and berickten,. 
Teut. to inftrudt.] A proper name. 
GIL'BERT (lir Humphrey, one of the gallant ad¬ 
venturers of queen Elizabeth’s reign, delcended from an 
ancient family in Devonftiire, and born about 1539. His 
mother, after becoming a widow, married Mr. Raleigh, 
by whom file had the celebrated fir Walter, lo that thefe 
congenial fpirits were half-brothers. He firft bore arms 
in the expedition to Havre, in 1563 ; and in that and fe- 
veral fubfequent enterprizes he fo well approved his 
courage and conduft, tha.t he was fent over to Ireland 
to afiift in quelling the difordersof that country, and rofe 
there to the ch'ief command in the province ot Munfter. 
As a reward for his fuccefsful fervices he received 
knighthood in 1570. In 1571, he ferved as a burgefs in 
parliament for Plymouth. His thoughts were now oc¬ 
cupied with thofe fchemes for the advancement of man- 
time difeovery, and the improvement of trade and navi¬ 
gation, which were become the mofl laudable topics of 
difeuftion in the houfe of commons ; and in 1576, he 
publifiied a Difeourfe to prove a PaiTage by the North- 
weft to Cathaia and the Eaft indies. This is laid to be 
a folid and fcientific performance, written in a phiin Ityle 
and good method. It is probable that he hiinlelt de- 
figned to make attempts for the difeovery of this fup- 
pofed palfage ; but an anterior pirojeiil was that of fet- 
tlingfome of the countries in the northern part ot Ame¬ 
rica. For this purpofe, in 1583, with the alfiitance of 
his friends, and his brother fir Waiter Raleigh,, he fitted 
out a fmall fleet, with which he proceeded to Neivtound- 
land. He took poUelfion of the harbour of St. John, in 
the queen’s name, and granted leales ot the circumja¬ 
cent country, as patentee, to thofe ot his company who 
chofe to take them. He periihed at fea, fitting in the 
ftern of his velfel, with a book in his hand, and -was 
heard to cry, “ Courage, my h.ds ! we are as near heaven 
at fea as at land.” He delerves to be recorded among 
the benefaCfors to his country, for his project of I’ettling 
Newfoundland, the fifiiery of which coalf is ot to much 
advantage to tliis country. 
GEL BERT (William), a phylician and experimental 
philofopher, born in 1540, at Colchefter, of which town 
his father had been recorder. After Itudying at the 
Englilh univerlities, he travelled abroad lor improve¬ 
ment. Retuimngto his native country, he fettled in 
London about 1573, became a member of the college of 
j hyficians, and prat-tiled m his profeflion with great re¬ 
putation. Queen Elizabeth appointed him her firft phy. 
3, lician^ 
