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_Gabb._ _Gabbe_, to jest, to talk idly, to lie.

_Gaylord._ _Gaylard_, gay, licentious. Perhaps from _galliard_, a

sprightly kind of dance.

_Gentil._ _Gentil_, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly. Gentel, Gentle, of like

kinship.

_Gentry._ _Genterye_, gentility. Chaucer spelt the word with the

additional e’s. Even at the present day it is not unusual to find some

writing the name—Gentery.

_Gerry._ _Gery_, changeable, inconstant, uncertain.

_Geyler._ _Gylour_, a deceiver.

_Glose._ _Glose_, a comment, an interpretation.

_Grace._ _Grace_, favor, kindness, good-will, benignity.

_Gracey._ _Grace_, favor, kindness; _ig_, an adjective termination.

Gracious; kind.

_Grange._ _Graunge_, a farm-house.

_Granger._ _Graunge_, a farm-house; _ere_, an agent. One who has a

farm-house; a farmer.

_Greeley._ _Gree_, pleasure, satisfaction, prize, grade; _líc_, like.

Pleasurable; satisfactory; estimable; gradual.

_Greaser._ _Grees_, grease, ointment; _ere_, an agent. An anointer.

_Greasly._ _Grees_, grease; _líc_, like. Grease-like; unctuous.

_Grone._ _Grone_, to groan, to grunt.

_Groner._ _Grone_, to groan, to grunt; _ere_, an agent. A groaner; a

grunter.

_Groning._ _Grone_, to groan, to grunt; _ing_, expressive of action.

Groaning; grunting.

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