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 Gagate: f. The blacke stone called, Iet.

Gage: m. A gage, pawne, pledge; also, a wager; and, a stake at play; also, a guerdon, reward, or salarie; also, a distresse, or moueable taken for a distresse.  Gages. Plural. Wages, hire, stipend, intertainement; also, goods taken by a Sergeant vpon an Execution.  Gage de bataille, ou de combat. A gage, or pledge (and most commonly, a gloue, or gantelet) throwne down by one that offers, or vndertakes, to fight with another.  Amende de gage. Looke Amende. Clameur de gage pleige. C'est vne Action proprietaire, & possessoire ensemble; quand aucun se doute qu'autre face entreprise sur saisine possessoire, ou droicture à luy appartenant. Gagé: m. ée: f. Gaged, pledged, pawned; also, taken to pledge, or in pawne; also, betted, or layed, as a wager; also, waged, as battell; also, distrained, or taken, as a distresse.

Gagement: m. A gaging, pawning, impledging; also, a betting, or laying; also, a waging of battell; also, a distraining, or taking as a distresse; also, the obligation, assurance, or pawne of an obliged debtors goods.

Gage-mort: m. as Mortgage; also, the pawne, or fee giuen for the deliuerie of beasts found Damage-fesant. Gager: m. as Gaiger. Gager. To gage, or ingage, to pledge, or lay to pawne; also, to take in pawne; also, to bet, or lay a wager; also, to wage battell; also, to distraine, take a distresse, or take as a distresse.  Gager l'amende. To discharge, or pay the amercement.  Gager personnes en son domaine. To arrest their bodies, or seize vpon, as a pawne, somewhat about them.  Gager le rachapt. To pay, or offer to pay it downe.

Gagerie: f. A distraining; a distresse; or, as Gagement. Gagerie de rachapt. as in Gager. Simple gagerie. A distraining, without carrying away the distresse.

Gages. A kind of artificiall stone (made of Bitumen) the smoake whereof driues away Serpents; (Looke vnder Gage.) Gageure: f. A wager; also, a reall and actuall offer.

Gagier: m. An hireling, or stipendarie; one that hath, or taketh, wages.

Gagnole: f. A little, long, small-eyed, and lesse-mouthed fish, couered, in stead of scales, with a hard, and crustie skin; Some hold it to be a kind of Hornebeake.

Gagrille: f. The Robin-red-breast.

Gahets. A generation of poore, irreligious, and verie laborious leapers, in Gascoigne.

Gai. as Gay; Merrie, iocond, buxome, blithe. Gaian: m. A fish (and by Gesners description, the ninth kind of the fish Turdus) not much vnlike a Pearch, and of colour in some parts yellow, in others, greene; onely it hath a white line running along from the gylls to the tayle; Some also call so, the fish Auriol. Gaiderope. The vnsauorie, or ill-tasting oyster, tearmed in Latin, Spondylus. Gaige-plege. A kind of Iurisdiction, or Court, in Normandie, wherein the parties must bind themselues by pawnes, or sureties, to continue, or make good, their suites.

Gaiger: m. A Church-warden, or ouerseer of a particular Churches businesses. Gaignable: com. Gettable, winnable, gaineable; to be got; auaileable, commodious, profitable.  Terres gaignables. Rich, or fruitfull ground; arable grounds that yeeld much, or are of great, increase.

Gaignage: m. The crop, or fruits of tilled, or planted grounds; the gaine, reuenue, profit, or increase thereof; also, a Ground, Coast, or Countrey, wherein there growes plentie of corne, and hearbes; a fruitfull Plot, or Place; also, a Farme (so tearmed by the inhabitants of Champaigne;) also, a kind of graine.  Gaignages. (Hunters tearme so) all kind of corne-grounds, and gardens, wherein there grow no trees.)  Bon gaignage fait bon potage: Prov. Fruitfull crops yeeld fattening sops; or, good hearbes good pottage yeeld.

Gaignaux. Prez gaignaux. Fertile medowes, which yeeld a double crop, or may be twice mowed.

Gaigne: f. Gaine, profit, increase, commings in; or, as  Gaignage in the first sence.   Gaigne coustumiere. The part, or portion of goods whereunto, by custome, the suruiuor of a married couple succeeds.

Gaigné: m. ée: f. Gained, woon, procured, gotten.  Ie te le donne gaigné. J graunt it, I yeeld it thee; I confesse thy action; I giue thee the bucklers.  Il a bien gaigné la mort. He hath well deserued to dye.  Sans l'avoir gaigné. Without cause, without desert.

Gaigneau. Pré gaigneau. as Gaignau. ¶Poictevin. Gaigne-denier. A Porter; or, a day-Labourer; who, in old time, tooke for his dayes worke but a Denier; (but then it was of siluer, and worth vj d sterl.)

Gaigne-iournée. A Labourer by the day.

Gaigne-pain. as Gaigne-denier; (and hence, Vn bon gaigne-pain. A painefull Labourer; a thriftie, and prouident workeman;) also, the trade, art, exercise, occupation, or meanes, whereby one gets his liuing; and thence will the French souldior tearme, oft times his Sword, and sometimes his Harguebuse, Son Gaigne-pain.

Gaigner. To gaine, get, win; procure, purchase, obtaine; to profit, or thriue by; to atchieue, attaine; reach, or come vnto; also, to ouercome, conquer, win; also, to merit, or deserue. Gaigner son avoine. Looke Avoine. Gaigner les champs. To runne away. Gaigner chemin. To make hast, rid way apace. Gaigner le devant par derriere. To outstrip, ouerrun, or get before, one by a contrarie course; or, to preuent the designes of another by policies contrarie to his. Gaigner les gigoteaux; To betake him to his heeles; to fly as fast as his legs will carry him. Gaigner le hault. To runne his countrey; to fly as if fire were at his tayle. Gaigner le hault bout. To win the spurres, to carry away the best prize; also, to take the highest place at a table. Gaigner païs. To steale on, to rid way. Gaigner peine &c. pour gaigner peine & papier ie le fais brief. To saue labor, and spare paper I write the lesse. Gaigner au pied. To run away. Gaigner le temps. To dispatch; to rid away time apace. Gaigner leur vie à reculons. To liue by going back-*ward; viz. by rope-making. ¶Rab. Gaigner le tour du roule. See Roule.