Chapter 59

Get (gt), v. t. [imp. Got (gt) (Obs. Gat (gt)); p. p. Got (Obsolescent Gotten (gt"t'n)); p. pr. & vb. n. Getting.] [OE. geten, AS. gitan, gietan (in comp.); akin to Icel. geta, Goth. bigitan to find, L. prehendere to seize, take, Gr. chanda`nein to hold, contain. Cf. Comprehend, Enterprise, Forget, Impregnable, Prehensile.] 1. To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire; to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by purchase, etc.

2. Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have. Johnson.

Thou hast got the face of man.

Herbert.

3. To beget; to procreate; to generate.

I had rather to adopt a child than get it.

Shak.

4. To obtain mental possession of; to learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out; as, to get out one's Greek lesson.

It being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty.

Bp. Fell.

5. To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.

Get him to say his prayers.

Shak.

6. To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle.

Those things I bid you do; get them dispatched.

Shak.

7. To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.

Get thee out from this land.

Gen. xxxi. 13.

He . . . got himself . . . to the strong town of Mega.

Knolles.

Get, as a transitive verb, is combined with adverbs implying motion, to express the causing to, or the effecting in, the object of the verb, of the kind of motion indicated by the preposition; thus, to get in, to cause to enter, to bring under shelter; as, to get in the hay; to get out, to make come forth, to extract; to get off, to take off, to remove; to get together, to cause to come together, to collect.

To get by heart, to commit to memory. - - To get the better of, To get the best of, to obtain an advantage over; to surpass; to subdue. -- To get up, to cause to be established or to exit; to prepare; to arrange; to construct; to invent; as, to get up a celebration, a machine, a book, an agitation.

Syn. -- To obtain; gain; win; acquire. See Obtain.

Get (gt), v. i. 1. To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased.

We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get.

Shak.

2. To arrive at, or bring one's self into, a state, condition, or position; to come to be; to become; -- with a following adjective or past participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected.

To get rid of fools and scoundrels.

Pope.

His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

Coleridge.

It [get] gives to the English language a middle voice, or a power of verbal expression which is neither active nor passive. Thus we say to get acquitted, beaten, confused, dressed. Earle.

Get, as an intransitive verb, is used with a following preposition, or adverb of motion, to indicate, on the part of the subject of the act, movement or action of the kind signified by the preposition or adverb; or, in the general sense, to move, to stir, to make one's way, to advance, to arrive, etc.; as, to get away, to leave, to escape; to disengage one's self from; to get down, to descend, esp. with effort, as from a literal or figurative elevation; to get along, to make progress; hence, to prosper, succeed, or fare; to get in, to enter; to get out, to extricate one's self, to escape; to get through, to traverse; also, to finish, to be done; to get to, to arrive at, to reach; to get off, to alight, to descend from, to dismount; also, to escape, to come off clear; to get together, to assemble, to convene.

To get ahead, to advance; to prosper. - - To get along, to proceed; to advance; to prosper. -- To get a mile (or other distance), to pass over it in traveling. -- To get among, to go or come into the company of; to become one of a number. -- To get asleep, to fall asleep. -- To get astray, to wander out of the right way. -- To get at, to reach; to make way to. To get away with, to carry off; to capture; hence, to get the better of; to defeat. -- To get back, to arrive at the place from which one departed; to return. -- To get before, to arrive in front, or more forward. -- To get behind, to fall in the rear; to lag. -- To get between, to arrive between. -- To get beyond, to pass or go further than; to exceed; to surpass. "Three score and ten is the age of man, a few get beyond it." Thackeray. -- To get clear, to disengage one's self; to be released, as from confinement, obligation, or burden; also, to be freed from danger or embarrassment. -- To get drunk, to become intoxicated. -- To get forward, to proceed; to advance; also, to prosper; to advance in wealth. -- To get home, to arrive at one's dwelling, goal, or aim. -- To get into. (a) To enter, as, "she prepared to get into the coach." Dickens. (b) To pass into, or reach; as, " a language has got into the inflated state." Keary. -- To get loose or free, to disengage one's self; to be released from confinement. -- To get near, to approach within a small distance. -- To get on, to proceed; to advance; to prosper. -- To get over. (a) To pass over, surmount, or overcome, as an obstacle or difficulty. (b) To recover from, as an injury, a calamity. -- To get through. (a) To pass through something. (b) To finish what one was doing. -- To get up. (a) To rise; to arise, as from a bed, chair, etc. (b) To ascend; to climb, as a hill, a tree, a flight of stairs, etc.

Get, n. Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.

Get"en (?), obs. p. p. of Get. Chaucer.

Geth (?), the original third pers. sing. pres. of Go. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Get"-pen`ny (?), n. Something which gets or gains money; a successful affair. [Colloq.] Chapman.

Get"ta*ble (?), a. That may be obtained. [R.]

Get"ter (?), n. One who gets, gains, obtains, acquires, begets, or procreates.

Get"ter*up`, n. One who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc. [Colloq.]

A diligent getter-up of miscellaneous works.

W. Irving.

Get"ting (?), n. 1. The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.

With all thy getting, get understanding.

Prov. iv. 7.

2. That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.

Get"-up (?), n. General composition or structure; manner in which the parts of a thing are combined; make-up; style of dress, etc. [Colloq.] H. Kingsley.

Gew"gaw (?), n. [OE. gigawe, gugawe, gewgaude, prob. the same word as OE. givegove gewgaw, apparently a reduplicated form fr. AS. gifan to give; cf. also F. joujou plaything, and E. gaud, n. See Give, and cf. Giffgaff.] A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble.

A heavy gewgaw called a crown.

Dryden.

Gew"gaw, a. Showy; unreal; pretentious.

Seeing his gewgaw castle shine.

Tennyson.

Gey"ser (?), n. [Icel. geysir, fr. geysa to rush furiously, fr. gjsa to gush. Cf. Gush.] A boiling spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud, etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam.

Geysers were first known in Iceland, and later in New Zealand. In the Yellowstone region in the United States they are numerous, and some of them very powerful, throwing jets of boiling water and steam to a height of 200 feet. They are grouped in several areas called geyser basins. The mineral matter, or geyserite, with which geyser water is charged, forms geyser cones about the orifice, often of great size and beauty.

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Gey"ser*ite (?), n. [From Geyser.] (Min.) A loose hydrated form of silica, a variety of opal, deposited in concretionary cauliflowerlike masses, around some hot springs and geysers.

||Ghar"ry (?), n. [Hind. g&?;i.] Any wheeled cart or carriage. [India]

Ghast (?), v. t. [OE. gasten. See Ghastly, a.] To strike aghast; to affright. [Obs.]

Ghasted by the noise I made. Full suddenly he fled.

Shak.

Ghast"ful (?), a. [See Ghastly, a.] Fit to make one aghast; dismal. [Obs.] -- Ghast"ful*ly, adv.

Ghast"li*ness (?), n. The state of being ghastly; a deathlike look.

Ghast"ly (?), a. [Compar. Ghastlier (?); superl. Ghastliest.] [OE. gastlich, gastli, fearful, causing fear, fr. gasten to terrify, AS. gÊstan. Cf. Aghast, Gast, Gaze, Ghostly.] 1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal.

Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.

Coleridge.

His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized.

Macaulay.

2. Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.

Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.

Milton.

Ghast"ly, adv. In a ghastly manner; hideously.

Staring full ghastly like a strangled man.

Shak.

Ghast"ness, n. Ghastliness. [Obs.] Shak.

{ ||Ghat Ghaut } (?), n. [Hind. ght.]

1. A pass through a mountain. [India] J. D. Hooker.

2. A range of mountains. Balfour (Cyc. of Ind. ).

3. Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf. [India] Malcom.

||Gha*wa"zi (?), n. pl. [Etymol. uncertain.] Egyptian dancing girls, of ||a lower sort than the almeh.

{ Ghe"ber Ghe"bre } (?), n. [Pers. ghebr: cf. F. GuËbre. Cf. Giaour.] A worshiper of fire; a Zoroastrian; a Parsee.

Ghee (g), n. [Hind. gh clarified butter, Skr. ghta.] Butter clarified by boiling, and thus converted into a kind of oil. [India] Malcom.

Gher"kin (gr"kn), n. [D. agurkje, a dim. akin to G. gurke, Dan. agurke; cf. Pol. ogÛrek, Bohem. okurka, LGr. 'aggoy`rion watermelon, Ar. al-khiyr, Per. khiyr.]

1. (Bot.) A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles.

2. (Zoˆl.) See Sea gherkin.

Ghess (?), v. t. & i. See Guess. [Obs.]

||Ghet"to (?), n. [It.] The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city.

I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell.

Evelyn.

Ghib"el*line (?), n. [It. Ghibellino; of German origin.] (It. Hist.) One of a faction in Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses. Brande & C.

Ghole (?), n. See Ghoul.

Ghost (?), n. [OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. gst breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. g&?;st spirit, soul, D. geest, G. geist, and prob. to E. gaze, ghastly.]

1. The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.]

Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.

Spenser.

2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose.

Shak.

I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost.

Coleridge.

3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.

Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Poe.

4. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

Ghost moth (Zoˆl.), a large European moth (Hepialus humuli); so called from the white color of the male, and the peculiar hovering flight; -- called also great swift. -- Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; (Theol.) the third person in the Trinity. -- To give up or yield up the ghost, to die; to expire.

And he gave up the ghost full softly.

Chaucer.

Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people

. Gen. xlix. 33.

Ghost, v. i. To die; to expire. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Ghost, v. t. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [Obs.] Shak.

Ghost"fish` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth.

Ghost"less, a. Without life or spirit. [R.]

Ghost"like` (?), a. Like a ghost; ghastly.

Ghost"li*ness, n. The quality of being ghostly.

Ghost"ly, a. [OE. gastlich, gostlich, AS. gstlic. See Ghost.] 1. Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor.

Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies.

Book of Common Prayer [Ch. of Eng. ]

One of the gostly children of St. Jerome.

Jer. Taylor.

2. Of or pertaining to apparitions. Akenside.

Ghost"ly, adv. Spiritually; mystically. Chaucer.

Ghost*ol"o*gy (?), n. Ghost lore. [R.]

It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft.

Hawthorne.

Ghoul (gl), n. [Per. ghl an imaginary sylvan demon, supposed to devour men and animals: cf. Ar. ghl, F. goule.] An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies. [Written also ghole .] Moore.

Ghoul"ish, a. Characteristic of a ghoul; vampirelike; hyenalike.

Ghyll (?), n. A ravine. See Gill a woody glen. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Wordsworth.

||Gial`lo*li"no (?), n. [It., from giallo yellow, prob. fr. OHG. gelo, ||G. gelb; akin to E. yellow.] A term variously employed by early ||writers on art, though commonly designating the yellow oxide of lead, ||or massicot. Fairholt.

Giam"beux (zhm"b), n. pl. [See Jambeux.] Greaves; armor for the legs. [Obs.] Spenser.

Gi"ant (?), n. [OE. giant, geant, geaunt, OF. jaiant, geant, F. gÈant, L. gigas, fr. Gr. &?;, &?;, from the root of E. gender, genesis. See Gender, and cf. Gigantic.]

1. A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.

Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise.

Milton.

2. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

3. Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.

Giant's Causeway, a vast collection of basaltic pillars, in the county of Antrim on the northern coast of Ireland.

Gi"ant, a. Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.

Giant cell. (Anat.) See Myeloplax. -- Giant clam (Zoˆl.), a bivalve shell of the genus Tridacna, esp. T. gigas, which sometimes weighs 500 pounds. The shells are sometimes used in churches to contain holy water. -- Giant heron (Zoˆl.), a very large African heron (Ardeomega goliath). It is the largest heron known. -- Giant kettle, a pothole of very large dimensions, as found in Norway in connection with glaciers. See Pothole. -- Giant powder. See Nitroglycerin. -- Giant puffball (Bot.), a fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum), edible when young, and when dried used for stanching wounds. -- Giant salamander (Zoˆl.), a very large aquatic salamander (Megalobatrachus maximus), found in Japan. It is the largest of living Amphibia, becoming a yard long. -- Giant squid (Zoˆl.), one of several species of very large squids, belonging to Architeuthis and allied genera. Some are over forty feet long.

Gi"ant*ess, n. A woman of extraordinary size.

Gi"ant*ize (?), v. i. [Cf. F. gÈantiser.] To play the giant. [R.] Sherwood.

Gi"ant*ly, a. Appropriate to a giant. [Obs.] Usher.

Gi"ant*ry (?), n. The race of giants. [R.] Cotgrave.

Gi"ant*ship, n. The state, personality, or character, of a giant; -- a compellation for a giant.

His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen

. Milton.

||Giaour (?), n. [Turk. giaur an infidel, Per. gawr, another form of ||ghebr fire worshiper. Cf. Kaffir, Gheber .] An infidel; -- a term ||applied by Turks to disbelievers in the Mohammedan religion, ||especially Christrians. Byron.

Gib (?), n. [Abbreviated fr. Gilbert, the name of the cat in the old story of "Reynard the Fox". in the "Romaunt of the Rose", etc.] A male cat; a tomcat. [Obs.]

Gib, v. i. To act like a cat. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Gib (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them together, or to afford a bearing surface; -- usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw.

Gib and key, or Gib and cotter (Steam Engine), the fixed wedge or gib, and the driving wedge,key, or cotter, used for tightening the strap which holds the brasses at the end of a connecting rod.

Gib, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gibbed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gibbing.] To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs.

Gibbed lathe, an engine lathe in which the tool carriage is held down to the bed by a gib instead of by a weight.

Gib (?), v. i. To balk. See Jib, v. i. Youatt.

Gib*bar"tas (?), n. [Cf. Ar. jebbr giant; or L. gibber humpbacked: cf. F. gibbar.] (Zoˆl.) One of several finback whales of the North Atlantic; -- called also Jupiter whale. [Written also jubartas, gubertas, dubertus.]

Gib"ber (?), n. [From Gib to balk.] A balky horse. Youatt.

Gib"ber (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gibbered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gibbering.] [Akin to jabber, and gabble.] To speak rapidly and inarticulately. Shak.

Gib"ber*ish (?), n. [From Gibber, v. i.] Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words; jargon.

He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go; All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to know.

Drayton.

Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with.

Hawthorne.

Gib"ber*ish, a. Unmeaning; as, gibberish language.

Gib"bet (?), n. [OE. gibet, F. gibet, in OF. also club, fr. LL. gibetum;; cf. OF. gibe sort of sickle or hook, It. giubbetto gibbet, and giubbetta, dim. of giubba mane, also, an under waistcoat, doublet, Prov. It. gibba (cf. Jupon); so that it perhaps originally signified a halter, a rope round the neck of malefactors; or it is, perhaps, derived fr. L. gibbus hunched, humped, E. gibbous; or cf. E. jib a sail.]

1. A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain as a warning.

2. The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.

Gib"bet, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gibbeted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gibbeting.]

1. To hang and expose on a gibbet.

2. To expose to infamy; to blacken.

I'll gibbet up his name.

Oldham.

Gib"bier (?), n. [F. gibier.] Wild fowl; game. [Obs.] Addison.

Gib"bon (?), n. [Cf. F. gibbon.] (Zoˆl.) Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing.

The white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar), the crowned (H. pilatus), the wou-wou or singing gibbon (H. agilis), the siamang, and the hoolock. are the most common species.

Gib" boom` (?). See Jib boom.

Gib*bose" (?), a. [L. gibbosus, fr. gibbus, gibba, hunch, hump. Cf. Gibbous.] Humped; protuberant; -- said of a surface which presents one or more large elevations. Brande & C.

Gib*bost"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. gibbositÈ.] The state of being gibbous or gibbose; gibbousness.

Gib"bous (?), a. [Cf. F. gibbeux. See Gibbose.]

1. Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half- moon and the full moon.

The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member.

Wiseman.

2. Hunched; hump-backed. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

-- Gib"bous*ly, adv. -- Gib"bous*ness, n.

Gibbs"ite (?), n. [Named after George Gibbs.] (Min.) A hydrate of alumina.

Gib"-cat` (?), n. A male cat, esp. an old one. See lst Gib. n. [Obs.] Shak.

Gibe (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gibed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gibing.] [Cf. Prov. F. giber, equiv. to F. jouer to play, Icel. geipa to talk nonsense, E. jabber.] To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff.

Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout.

Swift.

Gibe, v. i. To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to scoff at; to mock.

Draw the beasts as I describe them, From their features, while I gibe them.

Swift.

Gibe, n. An expression of sarcastic scorn; a sarcastic jest; a scoff; a taunt; a sneer.

Mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns.

Shak.

With solemn gibe did Eustace banter me.

Tennyson.

||Gib"el (?), n. [G. gibel, giebel.] (Zoˆl.) A kind of carp (Cyprinus ||gibelio); -- called also Prussian carp.

Gib"er (?) n. One who utters gibes. B. Jonson.

Gib"fish` (?), n. The male of the salmon. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

Gib"ing*ly (?), adv. In a gibing manner; scornfully.

Gib"let (?), a. Made of giblets; as, a giblet pie.

Gib"lets (?), n. pl. [OE. gibelet, OF. gibelet game: cf. F. gibelotte stewed rabbit. Cf. Gibbier.] The inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry.

Gib"staff` (?), n. [Prov. E. gib a hooked stick + E. staff.] 1. A staff to guage water, or to push a boat.

2. A staff formerly used in fighting beasts on the stage. [Obs.] Bailey.

Gid (?), n. [Cf. Giddy, a.] A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the C&?;nurus, a larval tapeworm, in the brain. See C&?;nurus.

Gid"di*ly (?), adv. In a giddy manner.

Gid"di*ness, n. The quality or state of being giddy.

Gid"dy (?), a. [Compar. Giddier (?); superl. Giddiest.] [OE. gidi mad, silly, AS. gidig, of unknown origin, cf. Norw. gidda to shake, tremble.]

1. Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy.

By giddy head and staggering legs betrayed.

Tate.

2. Promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a giddy precipice. Prior.

Upon the giddy footing of the hatches.

Shak.

3. Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling.

The giddy motion of the whirling mill.

Pope.

4. Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless. "Giddy, foolish hours." Rowe. "Giddy chance." Dryden.

Young heads are giddy and young hearts are warm.

Cowper.

Gid"dy, v. i. To reel; to whirl. Chapman.

Gid"dy, v. t. To make dizzy or unsteady. [Obs.]

Gid"dy-head` (?), n. A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment. [Colloq.] Burton.

Gid"dy-head`ed (?), a. Thoughtless; unsteady.

Gid"dy-paced` (?), a. Moving irregularly; flighty; fickle. [R.] Shak.

Gie (?), v. t. To guide. See Gye . [Obs.] Chaucer.

Gie (?), v. t. To give. [Scot.] Burns.

Gier"-ea`gle (?), n. [Cf. D. gier vulture, G. gier, and E. gyrfalcon.] (Zoˆl.) A bird referred to in the Bible (Lev. xi. 18and Deut. xiv. 17) as unclean, probably the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus).

Gier"-fal`con (?), n. [Cf. Gier- eagle, Gyrfalcon.] (Zoˆl.) The gyrfalcon.

Gie"seck*ite (?), n. [Named after Karl Giesecke.] (Min.) A mineral occurring in greenish gray six-sided prisms, having a greasy luster. It is probably a pseudomorph after elÊolite.

Gif (?), conj. [AS. See If.] If. [Obs.]

Gif is the old form of if, and frequently occurs in the earlier English writers. See If.

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Gif"fard in*ject"or (?). (Mach.) See under Injector.

Giff"gaff (?), n. [Reduplicated fr. give.] Mutual accommodation; mutual giving. [Scot.]

Gif"fy (?), n. [Obs.] See Jiffy.

Gift (?), n. [OE. gift, yift, yeft, AS. gift, fr. gifan to give; akin to D. & G. gift, Icel. gift, gipt, Goth. gifts (in comp.). See Give, v. t.] 1. Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.

Shall I receive by gift, what of my own, . . . I can command ?

Milton.

2. The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the President.

3. A bribe; anything given to corrupt.

Neither take a gift, for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise.

Deut. xvi. 19.

4. Some quality or endowment given to man by God; a preÎminent and special talent or aptitude; power; faculty; as, the gift of wit; a gift for speaking.

5. (Law) A voluntary transfer of real or personal property, without any consideration. It can be perfected only by deed, or in case of personal property, by an actual delivery of possession. Bouvier. Burrill.

Gift rope (Naut), a rope extended to a boat for towing it; a guest rope.