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Grampus \Gram"pus\, n.; pl. {Grampuses}. [Probably corrupted from It. gran pesce great fish, or Sp. gran pez, or Pg. gran peixe, all fr. L. grandis piscis. See {Grand}, and {Fish}. the animal.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus {Grampus}, esp. {G. griseus} of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also {cowfish}. The California grampus is {G. Stearnsii}. 2. A kind of tongs used in a bloomery. [U.S.] | |
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Georgic \Geor"gic\, n. [L. georgicum (sc. carmen), and georgica, pl., Gr. [?], and [?]: cf. F. g[82]orgiques, pl. See {Georgic}, a.] A rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating lands, etc.; as, the Georgics of Virgil. | |
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Georgic \Geor"gic\, Georgical \Geor"gic*al\, a. [L. georgicus, Gr. [?], fr. [?] tillage, agriculture: cf. F. g[82]orgique. See {George}.] Relating to agriculture and rural affairs. | |
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Georgic \Geor"gic\, Georgical \Geor"gic*al\, a. [L. georgicus, Gr. [?], fr. [?] tillage, agriculture: cf. F. g[82]orgique. See {George}.] Relating to agriculture and rural affairs. | |
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Gorcock \Gor"cock`\, n. [Prob. from gore blood.] (Zo[94]l.) The moor cock, or red grouse. See {Grouse}. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Gorge \Gorge\, n. [F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, g[f0] to devour. Cf. {Gorget}.] 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain. --Spenser. Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it. --Shak. 2. A narrow passage or entrance; as: (a) A defile between mountains. (b) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of {Bastion}. 3. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl. And all the way, most like a brutish beast, e spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest. --Spenser. 4. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river. 5. (Arch.) A concave molding; a cavetto. --Gwilt. 6. (Naut.) The groove of a pulley. {Gorge circle} (Gearing), the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution. {Gorge hook}, two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead. --Knight. | |
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Gorge \Gorge\, n. [F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, g[f0] to devour. Cf. {Gorget}.] 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain. --Spenser. Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it. --Shak. 2. A narrow passage or entrance; as: (a) A defile between mountains. (b) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of {Bastion}. 3. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl. And all the way, most like a brutish beast, e spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest. --Spenser. 4. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river. 5. (Arch.) A concave molding; a cavetto. --Gwilt. 6. (Naut.) The groove of a pulley. {Gorge circle} (Gearing), the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution. {Gorge hook}, two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead. --Knight. | |
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Gorgeous \Gor"geous\, a. [OF. gorgias beautiful, glorious, vain, luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff, neck handkerchief, and F. gorge throat, and se pengorger to assume airs. Cf. {Gorge}, n.] Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. --Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. --Shak. -- {Gor"geous*ly}, adv. -- {Gor"geous*ness}, n. | |
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Gorgeous \Gor"geous\, a. [OF. gorgias beautiful, glorious, vain, luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff, neck handkerchief, and F. gorge throat, and se pengorger to assume airs. Cf. {Gorge}, n.] Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. --Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. --Shak. -- {Gor"geous*ly}, adv. -- {Gor"geous*ness}, n. | |
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Gorgeous \Gor"geous\, a. [OF. gorgias beautiful, glorious, vain, luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff, neck handkerchief, and F. gorge throat, and se pengorger to assume airs. Cf. {Gorge}, n.] Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. --Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. --Shak. -- {Gor"geous*ly}, adv. -- {Gor"geous*ness}, n. | |
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Valley \Val"ley\, n.; pl. {Valleys}. [OE. vale, valeie, OF. val[82]e, valede, F. vall[82]e, LL. vallata, L. vallis, valles. See {Vale}.] 1. The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively. The valley of the shadow of death. --Ps. xxiii. 4. Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains. --Milton. Note: Deep and narrow valleys with abrupt sides are usually the results of erosion by water, and are called {gorges}, {ravines}, {ca[a4]ons}, {gulches}, etc. 2. (Arch.) (a) The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a re[89]ntrant angle. (b) The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof. {Valley board} (Arch.), a board for the reception of the lead gutter in the valley of a roof. The valley board and lead gutter are not usual in the United States. {Valley rafter}, [or] {Valley piece} (Arch.), the rafter which supports the valley. {Valley roof} (Arch.), a roof having one or more valleys. See {Valley}, 2, above. | |
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Gorse \Gorse\, n. [OE. & AS. gorst; perh. akin to E. grow, grass.] (Bot.) Furze. See {Furze}. The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse. --Cowper. {Gorse bird} (Zo[94]l.), the European linnet; -- called also {gorse hatcher}. [Prov. Eng.] {Gorse chat} (Zo[94]l.), the winchat. {Gorse duck}, the corncrake; -- called also {grass drake}, {land drake}, and {corn drake}. | |
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6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt. I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. --Longfellow. 7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. The Graces love to weave the rose. --Moore. The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior. 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. How fares your Grace ! --Shak. 9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. --Chaucer. 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. 11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. 12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton. 13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also {grace hoop} or {hoops}. {Act of grace}. See under {Act}. {Day of grace} (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. That day of grace fleets fast away. --I. Watts. {Days of grace} (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. {Good graces}, favor; friendship. {Grace cup}. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. --Hing. {Grace drink}, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc. Brit. {Grace hoop}, a hoop used in playing graces. See {Grace}, n., 13. {Grace note} (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See {Appoggiatura}, and def. 11 above. {Grace stroke}, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. {Means of grace}, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. {To do grace}, to reflect credit upon. Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak. {To say grace}, to render thanks before or after a meal. {With a good grace}, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. {With a bad grace}, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. --Macaulay. Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. Usage: {Grace}, {Mercy}. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See {Elegance}. | |
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6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt. I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. --Longfellow. 7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. The Graces love to weave the rose. --Moore. The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior. 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. How fares your Grace ! --Shak. 9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. --Chaucer. 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. 11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. 12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton. 13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also {grace hoop} or {hoops}. {Act of grace}. See under {Act}. {Day of grace} (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. That day of grace fleets fast away. --I. Watts. {Days of grace} (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. {Good graces}, favor; friendship. {Grace cup}. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. --Hing. {Grace drink}, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc. Brit. {Grace hoop}, a hoop used in playing graces. See {Grace}, n., 13. {Grace note} (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See {Appoggiatura}, and def. 11 above. {Grace stroke}, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. {Means of grace}, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. {To do grace}, to reflect credit upon. Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak. {To say grace}, to render thanks before or after a meal. {With a good grace}, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. {With a bad grace}, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. --Macaulay. Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. Usage: {Grace}, {Mercy}. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See {Elegance}. | |
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Gracious \Gra"cious\, a. [F. gracieux, L. gratiosus. See {Grace}.] 1. Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty. A god ready to pardon, gracious and merciful. --Neh. ix. 17. So hallowed and so gracious in the time. --Shak. 2. Abounding in beauty, loveliness, or amiability; graceful; excellent. Since the birth of Cain, the first male child, . . . There was not such a gracious creature born. --Shak. 3. Produced by divine grace; influenced or controlled by the divine influence; as, gracious affections. Syn: Favorable; kind; benevolent; friendly; beneficent; benignant; merciful. | |
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Graciously \Gra"cious*ly\, adv. 1. In a gracious manner; courteously; benignantly. --Dryden. 2. Fortunately; luckily. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Graciousness \Gra"cious*ness\, n. Quality of being gracious. | |
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Grease cock \Grease cock\ [or] cup \cup\ . (Mach.) A cock or cup containing grease, to serve as a lubricator. | |
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Grecism \Gre"cism\, n. [Cf. F. gr[82]cisme.] An idiom of the Greek language; a Hellenism. --Addison. | |
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Grecize \Gre"cize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Grecized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Grecizing}.] [Cf. F. gr[82]ciser.] 1. To render Grecian; also, to cause (a word or phrase in another language) to take a Greek form; as, the name is Grecized. --T. Warton. 2. To translate into Greek. | |
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Grecize \Gre"cize\, Grecianize \Gre"cian*ize\, v. i. To conform to the Greek custom, especially in speech. | |
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Grecize \Gre"cize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Grecized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Grecizing}.] [Cf. F. gr[82]ciser.] 1. To render Grecian; also, to cause (a word or phrase in another language) to take a Greek form; as, the name is Grecized. --T. Warton. 2. To translate into Greek. | |
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Grecize \Gre"cize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Grecized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Grecizing}.] [Cf. F. gr[82]ciser.] 1. To render Grecian; also, to cause (a word or phrase in another language) to take a Greek form; as, the name is Grecized. --T. Warton. 2. To translate into Greek. | |
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{Greek schism} (Eccl.), the separation of the Greek and Roman churches. {Great schism}, [or] {Western schism} (Eccl.) a schism in the Roman church in the latter part of the 14th century, on account of rival claimants to the papal throne. {Schism act} (Law), an act of the English Parliament requiring all teachers to conform to the Established Church, -- passed in 1714, repealed in 1719. | |
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Greekess \Greek"ess\, n. A female Greek. [R.] | |
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Greekish \Greek"ish\, a. [Cf. AS. Gr[emac]cisc.] Peculiar to Greece. | |
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Griseous \Gris"e*ous\, a. [LL. griseus. See {Gris}.] Of a light color, or white, mottled with black or brown; grizzled or grizzly. --Maunder. | |
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Gross \Gross\, a. [Compar. {Grosser}; superl. {Grossest}.] [F. gros, L. grossus, perh. fr. L. crassus thick, dense, fat, E. crass, cf. Skr. grathita tied together, wound up, hardened. Cf. {Engross}, {Grocer}, {Grogram}.] 1. Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large. [bd]A gross fat man.[b8] --Shak. A gross body of horse under the Duke. --Milton. 2. Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate. 3. Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless. Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear. --Milton. 4. Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure. The terms which are delicate in one age become gross in the next. --Macaulay. 5. Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium. 6. Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence. 7. Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to {net.} {Gross adventure} (Law) the loan of money upon bottomry, i. e., on a mortgage of a ship. {Gross average} (Law), that kind of average which falls upon the gross or entire amount of ship, cargo, and freight; -- commonly called {general average}. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {Gross receipts}, the total of the receipts, before they are diminished by any deduction, as for expenses; -- distinguished from net profits. --Abbott. {Gross weight} the total weight of merchandise or goods, without deduction for tare, tret, or waste; -- distinguished from {neat, [or] net, weight}. | |
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Gross \Gross\, a. [Compar. {Grosser}; superl. {Grossest}.] [F. gros, L. grossus, perh. fr. L. crassus thick, dense, fat, E. crass, cf. Skr. grathita tied together, wound up, hardened. Cf. {Engross}, {Grocer}, {Grogram}.] 1. Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large. [bd]A gross fat man.[b8] --Shak. A gross body of horse under the Duke. --Milton. 2. Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate. 3. Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless. Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear. --Milton. 4. Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure. The terms which are delicate in one age become gross in the next. --Macaulay. 5. Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium. 6. Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence. 7. Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to {net.} {Gross adventure} (Law) the loan of money upon bottomry, i. e., on a mortgage of a ship. {Gross average} (Law), that kind of average which falls upon the gross or entire amount of ship, cargo, and freight; -- commonly called {general average}. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {Gross receipts}, the total of the receipts, before they are diminished by any deduction, as for expenses; -- distinguished from net profits. --Abbott. {Gross weight} the total weight of merchandise or goods, without deduction for tare, tret, or waste; -- distinguished from {neat, [or] net, weight}. | |
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Grosbeak \Gros"beak\, n. [Gross + beak: cf. F. gros-bec.] (Zo[94]l.) One of various species of finches having a large, stout beak. The common European grosbeak or hawfinch is {Coccothraustes vulgaris}. Note: Among the best known American species are the rose-breasted ({Habia Ludoviciana}); the blue ({Guiraca c[d2]rulea}); the pine ({Pinicola enucleator}); and the evening grosbeak. See {Hawfinch}, and {Cardinal grosbeak}, {Evening grosbeak}, under {Cardinal} and {Evening}. [Written also {grossbeak}.] | |
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Garciasville, TX Zip code(s): 78547 | |
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Garza County, TX (county, FIPS 169) Location: 33.18113 N, 101.29985 W Population (1990): 5143 (2184 housing units) Area: 2319.7 sq km (land), 1.6 sq km (water) | |
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George County, MS (county, FIPS 39) Location: 30.86644 N, 88.64272 W Population (1990): 16673 (6663 housing units) Area: 1238.8 sq km (land), 13.8 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
George School, PA Zip code(s): 18940 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
George West, TX (city, FIPS 29348) Location: 28.33027 N, 98.11769 W Population (1990): 2586 (1013 housing units) Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 78022 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Georgia Southwes, GA Zip code(s): 31709 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Grace City, ND (city, FIPS 31740) Location: 47.55046 N, 98.80398 W Population (1990): 108 (49 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58445 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Grassy Creek, KY Zip code(s): 41332 Grassy Creek, NC Zip code(s): 28631 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Grouse Creek, UT Zip code(s): 84313 | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Gergesa =Gerasa, identified with the modern Khersa, "over against Galilee," close to the lake. This was probably the scene of the miracle, Mark 5:1-20, etc. "From the base of the great plateau of Bashan, 2,000 feet or more overhead, the ground slopes down steeply, in places precipitously, to the shore. And at the foot of the declivity a bold spur runs out to the water's edge. By it the frantic swine would rush on headlong into the lake and perish." Porter's Through Samaria. (See {GADARA}.) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Girgashite dwelling in clayey soil, the descendants of the fifth son of Canaan (Gen. 10:16), one of the original tribes inhabiting the land of Canaan before the time of the Israelites (Gen. 15:21; Deut. 7:1). They were a branch of the great family of the Hivites. Of their geographical position nothing is certainly known. Probably they lived somewhere in the central part of Western Palestine. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Gergesenes, those who come from pilgrimage or fight | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Girgashite, who arrives from pilgrimage |