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 36 HAMPSHIRE GLOSSARY. Gameling [gamnilini, romping about. — Cooper. Used of children playing. — Wise. Merely a corruption of gamhoUing, tricks. Ex. ' He played strange games wi' Oames [gainiz], sb^jpL 'un.'--N. H. Oamesome [gai'umsum], adj. forward, dissolute. — ^. H. Oammer [gammr], sh. grandmother. — Cooper. > Ganunoolcy [gammki], adj, wild, full of tricks. Ex. * Most boys be gammocky at first.*— ^. H. Oant [gaant], adj. gaunt; thin, lean, long-legged. — Cooper. 0am [gaan], sb. a garden. *Ak. Oawney [gaun*i], sb. a simpleton. *Ak. A stupid person. — N. H. Gear [geer], sb. the harness of horses, &c. *Ak. Oeam [gaim], sb. a garden. — N. H. Oeaxt [gurt], adj. great — N. H. Oee [jee], v. to agree, to go on well together. *Ak. OexLniue [gen*euin], sb. praise. The adjective * immense ' was pre- scriptively attached to it. Ex. 'He got immense genuine for his voluntary from the Doctor.* —Adams' WykeJiamica, p. 424. Oettet [get'et], pp. or adj. sprung, or slightly cracked. — Wise, New Forest. Oibber [jib'ur], sb. foolish talk. — ^Wise. Gie [gee], v. to give. *Ak. Oigg^le [gig'l]} V. to stand awry, to stand crooked. Especially of small things, which do not stand upright. — ^Wise, Netv Forest Oild-cups [gild'kupz], sb. pi. buttercups and marsh marigolds. The latter are sometimes called halcups. * Mardon-ground, that takes more pride in the company of the cowslipp, then the giJt-cup which carrieth the garland from the rest.^^— Vaugnan (of New Court); Hert- fordsh. Waterworks, sig. Q. 2. Oill-go-by-ground [jil-goa-bei-ground], sb, Nepeta glechoma. — "R. Turner, Botanologia, 1664. — J. £. Oiinmel [gim-l], sh. a ' gambrel,' an iron or wooden splinter used in hanging up a pig, sheep, &a by the tendons of the hock. *Ak. Girt, adj. See Oeart. Olincy [glinsi], adj. smooth, slippery; applied only to ice. — Cooper. Olope [gloap], t;. to spit. — Winch. 8ch. 01. Olozing [gloks'in], sb. the noise made by falling, gurgling water. — Wise, New Forest, p. 186. *Ak, has * Qlox, — the sound of liquids when shaken in a barrel.' Glum [glum], adj. dull, heavy, out of spirits, sulky, gloomy. — Cooper. Com.