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 Gibier. Looke Gibbier. Giblet: m. A gimlet, or piercer.

Gibolée: f. A swift, great, and sudden showre of raine.

Giboulée. as Gibolée. Gierogliphique: com. Gierogliphicall; of, or belonging to, Gierogliphickes.

Giez. as Gects; A hawkes gests. Gifflard: m. arde: f. Chuffie, full-cheekt; swollen, or puft vp, in the face, and throat.

Giffle: f. A cheeke, or chap; or (most properly) the bag on either side of the chap, wherein meat is hidden, or held.

Gigandal: m. ale: f. Huge, monstrous big, Giant-like.

Gigantal. The same.

Gigantin: m. ine: f. Huge, big-bodied, of an extraordinarie stature, Giant-like.

Gigantomachie: f. The warres of the Giants against the gods.

Gigot (de mouton.). A leg (of mutton) cut large with the whole bone at it, and so roasted; some also, call so a loyne from which the chine is taken.

Gigoteau: m. A knuckle; or, the bonie end of the leg.  Gaigner les gigoteaux. To betake him to his legs, to shew his heeles, to runne away.

Gigotte. chausses à la gigotte. Looke Chausses. Gile. as Gille. Gille. faire gille. To flie, giue the slip; runne away; And hence will some in choller say; Avant gille; Out, be packing, be gone.

Gilles. (A proper name) Giles.  Mal de S. Gilles. A kind of Canker, or Fistula.  Pomme de S. Gilles. A certaine greene sweet apple.  Vis S. Gilles. A fashion of winding staires, vaulted vnder the steps.  Faire Gilles. as Faire gille. Gimbelet: m. A gimlet, or piercer.

Gimbreter. To play the wanton, to doe lasciuiously, to leacher it.

Gimbreteux: m. euse: f. Leacherous, wanton, lasciuious.

Gimpier: m. A maker of Crepines for hoods.

Gindre. See Geindre. Gingembre: m. Ginger.  Gingembre blanc. White Ginger.  Gingembre de iardin. The hearbe Dittanie, or Dittander; some also call so, the plant that bears Guinnie Pepper.

Gingembré: m. ée: f. Begingered; seasoned, or strewed with Ginger.

Gingioule: f. A longish, and yellow fruit of a reasonable good tast, but inferiour to the Loteberrie, for which it hath beene mistaken by some Authors.

Gingioulier: m. The narrow-leaued tree that beares the Gingioule. Ginglyme: m. A mutuall receiuing, or lodging of one bone within another.

Ginguets: m. Sower wines; a tearme first giuen them in the yeare 1555, which being extraordinarily cold, and moist, the grapes could not possibly ripen.

Ginguette: f. Small, poore, or sower wine; called so about Tours. Gippon: m. A (short) Cassocke; also, a rag, clowt, or tatter throwne vp and downe.  Cottonner le moule du gippon. To eat much; to balast the bellie, stuffe the guts; to feed soundly, or excessiuely.

Gips: m. Morter, Plaister, Parget. Giraffe: f. A certaine spotted, and long-necked beast, (gotten (as tis thought) by a Cammell on a female Panther) whose fore-legs are much longer then her hinder; both which shee moues, as shee goes (in their seuerall turnes) together.

Girandin: m. A certaine Snyte-like bird, that vses to wind, or wheele about, in rising.

Girasole: f. A Girasole; or precious stone, of the kind of Opalls, that yeelds an eye-like luster, which way soeuer you turne it, vnlesse it be towards the Sunne; for then it casts forth beames like the Sunne.

Giraudette: f. The name of an Apple.

Girbe: f. The Cawle, or Kell, wherein the bowels be wrapped.

Giré: m. ée: f. Veered, or turned with the wind; twirled, whirled, or twyned about.

Girelle: f. A little sharpe-nosed rocke-fish in the Italian seas, that bites fishers, and swimmers, like a flea.

Girer. To veere, or turne with the wind, to twerle, whirle, or wheele about.

Girets: m. Armour for the thighes of horses.

Giroflade. as Girofleé: ¶Langued. Giroflade de mer. A certaine Gillouer-like excrescence growing on rockes.

Girofle. cloux de girofle. Cloues.

Giroflé: m. ée: f. Set, stucke, sweetened, or seasoned with Cloues.

Girofleat. Made of Cloues, or of Gilloflowers.

Giroflée: f''. A Gilloflower; and, most properly, the Cloue Gilloflower.''  Giroflée jaulne. The Winter, or wall Gilloflower.  Giroflée de Inde. A kind of Tansie that bears a flower like a Gilloflower; or, as Oeillet d'Inde; the French Marigold, Affrican Gilloflower, or Gingioline flower.

Girole: f. The Skirwort, or Skirret-root.

Giromantie: m. Diuination by circles: ¶Rab. Giron: m. The lap, or bosome.  Tender le giron en la Iustice. A defendant to appeare, and confesse the Action.  Il ne se faut fier ni à femme, ny au giron: Prov. (For neither of them keepes verie surely the things entrusted vnto them.)

Gironnée: f. A lapfull, or bosomefull of.

Gironomique: com. Circular: ¶Rab. Girouët: m. as Girouëtte. Girouëtte: f. A fane, or weather-flag; also, (but nothing so properly) a weathercocke.

Girouëtté: m. ée: f. Furnished with a fane, or weathercocke; also, inconstant, variable, turned by euerie wind, as a fane.

Giroufle. as Girofle. Giroule. as Girole; A Skerret root. Gisant: m. The lowest of the three railes of a Cart, &c.  Le gisant d'vn moulin. The Bed, Bedder, or vnder-*mill-stone.

Gisant: m. ante: f. Lying, layed along.

Gisante: f. A woman that lies in.

Gisié: m. The gyserne of birds.

Giste: m. A bed, couch, lodging, place to lie on, or to rest in.  Giste d'vn lievre. The forme of a hare.  Droict de giste. Looke vnder Droict. Tost attrapée est la souris qui n'a pour giste qu'vn pertuis: Prov. Looke Souris. Giste de boeuf: f. A rand of beefe; a long, and fleshie peece, cut out from betweene the flanke, and buttocke.

Gith. Hearbe githen, Bishops wort, Saint Katherines flower, Nigella Romana.