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Galena \Ga*le"na\, n.[L. galena lead ore, dross that remains after melting lead: cf. F. gal[8a]ne sulphide of lead ore, antidote to prison, stillness of the sea, calm, tranquility.] 1. (Med.) A remedy or antidose for poison; theriaca. [Obs.] --Parr. 2. (Min.) Lead sulphide; the principal ore of lead. It is of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, and is cubic in crystallization and cleavage. {False galena}. See {Blende}. | |
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Galleon \Gal"le*on\, n. [Sp. galeon, cf. F. galion; fr. LL. galeo, galio. See {Galley}.] (Naut.) A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel. The galleons . . . were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem and stern, like castles. --Motley. | |
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Gallian \Gal"li*an\, a. [See {Gallic}.] Gallic; French. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Gallin \Gal"lin\, n. (Chem.) A substance obtained by the reduction of galle[8b]n. | |
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Gallium \Gal"li*um\, n. [NL.; perh. fr. L. Gallia France.] (Chem.) A rare metallic element, found combined in certain zinc ores. It is white, hard, and malleable, resembling aluminium, and remarkable for its low melting point (86[f8] F., 30[f8] C.). Symbol, Ga; at. wt., 69.9. Gallium is chiefly trivalent, resembling aluminium and indium. It was predicted with most of its properties, under the name eka-aluminium, by Mendelyeev on the basis of the periodic law. This prediction was verified in its discovery (in 1875) by its characteristic spectrum (two violet lines). | |
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Ekaluminium \Ek*al`u*min"i*um\, n. [Skr. [emac]ka one + E. aluminium.] (Chem.) The name given to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called {gallium}. See {Gallium}, and cf. {Ekabor}. | |
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Gallium \Gal"li*um\, n. [NL., fr. L. Gallia France.] (Chem.) A rare metallic element, found in certain zinc ores. It is white, hard, and malleable, resembling aluminium, and remarcable for its low melting point (86[?] F., 30[?]C). Symbol Ga. Atomic weight 69.9. Note: The element was predicted with most of its properties, under the name ekaluminium, by the Russian chemist Mendelejeff, on the basis of the Periodic law. This prediction was verified in its discovery by the French chemist Lecoq de Boisbaudran by its characteristic spectrum (two violet lines), in an examination of a zinc blende from the Pyrenees. | |
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Gallium \Gal"li*um\, n. [NL.; perh. fr. L. Gallia France.] (Chem.) A rare metallic element, found combined in certain zinc ores. It is white, hard, and malleable, resembling aluminium, and remarkable for its low melting point (86[f8] F., 30[f8] C.). Symbol, Ga; at. wt., 69.9. Gallium is chiefly trivalent, resembling aluminium and indium. It was predicted with most of its properties, under the name eka-aluminium, by Mendelyeev on the basis of the periodic law. This prediction was verified in its discovery (in 1875) by its characteristic spectrum (two violet lines). | |
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Ekaluminium \Ek*al`u*min"i*um\, n. [Skr. [emac]ka one + E. aluminium.] (Chem.) The name given to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called {gallium}. See {Gallium}, and cf. {Ekabor}. | |
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Gallium \Gal"li*um\, n. [NL., fr. L. Gallia France.] (Chem.) A rare metallic element, found in certain zinc ores. It is white, hard, and malleable, resembling aluminium, and remarcable for its low melting point (86[?] F., 30[?]C). Symbol Ga. Atomic weight 69.9. Note: The element was predicted with most of its properties, under the name ekaluminium, by the Russian chemist Mendelejeff, on the basis of the Periodic law. This prediction was verified in its discovery by the French chemist Lecoq de Boisbaudran by its characteristic spectrum (two violet lines), in an examination of a zinc blende from the Pyrenees. | |
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Gallium \Gal"li*um\, n. [NL.; perh. fr. L. Gallia France.] (Chem.) A rare metallic element, found combined in certain zinc ores. It is white, hard, and malleable, resembling aluminium, and remarkable for its low melting point (86[f8] F., 30[f8] C.). Symbol, Ga; at. wt., 69.9. Gallium is chiefly trivalent, resembling aluminium and indium. It was predicted with most of its properties, under the name eka-aluminium, by Mendelyeev on the basis of the periodic law. This prediction was verified in its discovery (in 1875) by its characteristic spectrum (two violet lines). | |
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Ekaluminium \Ek*al`u*min"i*um\, n. [Skr. [emac]ka one + E. aluminium.] (Chem.) The name given to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called {gallium}. See {Gallium}, and cf. {Ekabor}. | |
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Gallium \Gal"li*um\, n. [NL., fr. L. Gallia France.] (Chem.) A rare metallic element, found in certain zinc ores. It is white, hard, and malleable, resembling aluminium, and remarcable for its low melting point (86[?] F., 30[?]C). Symbol Ga. Atomic weight 69.9. Note: The element was predicted with most of its properties, under the name ekaluminium, by the Russian chemist Mendelejeff, on the basis of the Periodic law. This prediction was verified in its discovery by the French chemist Lecoq de Boisbaudran by its characteristic spectrum (two violet lines), in an examination of a zinc blende from the Pyrenees. | |
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Gallon \Gal"lon\, n. [OF galon, jalon, LL. galo, galona, fr. galum a liquid measure; cf. F. jale large bowl. Cf. {Gill} a measure.] A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure. Note: The standart gallon of the Unites States contains 231 cubic inches, or 8.3389 pounds avoirdupois of distilled water at its maximum density, and with the barometer at 30 inches. This is almost exactly equivalent to a cylinder of seven inches in diameter and six inches in height, and is the same as the old English wine gallon. The beer gallon, now little used in the United States, contains 282 cubic inches. The English imperial gallon contains 10 pounds avoirdupois of distilled water at 62[?] of Fahrenheit, and barometer at 30 inches, equal to 277.274 cubic inches. | |
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Imperial \Im*pe"ri*al\, a. [OE. emperial, OF. emperial, F. imp[82]rial, fr. L. imperialis, fr. imperium command, sovereignty, empire. See {Empire}.] 1. Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an imperial government; imperial authority or edict. The last That wore the imperial diadem of Rome. --Shak. 2. Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme. [bd]The imperial democracy of Athens.[b8] --Mitford. Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns With an imperial voice. --Shak. To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts, and worthy thee. --Dryden. He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle. --E. Everett. 3. Of superior or unusual size or excellence; as, imperial paper; imperial tea, etc. {Imperial bushel}, {gallon}, etc. See {Bushel}, {Gallon}, etc. {Imperial chamber}, the, the sovereign court of the old German empire. {Imperial city}, under the first German empire, a city having no head but the emperor. {Imperial diet}, an assembly of all the states of the German empire. {Imperial drill}. (Manuf.) See under 8th {Drill}. {Imperial eagle}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Eagle}. {Imperial green}. See {Paris green}, under {Green}. {Imperial guard}, the royal guard instituted by Napoleon I. {Imperial weights and measures}, the standards legalized by the British Parliament. | |
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Gallon \Gal"lon\, n. [OF galon, jalon, LL. galo, galona, fr. galum a liquid measure; cf. F. jale large bowl. Cf. {Gill} a measure.] A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure. Note: The standart gallon of the Unites States contains 231 cubic inches, or 8.3389 pounds avoirdupois of distilled water at its maximum density, and with the barometer at 30 inches. This is almost exactly equivalent to a cylinder of seven inches in diameter and six inches in height, and is the same as the old English wine gallon. The beer gallon, now little used in the United States, contains 282 cubic inches. The English imperial gallon contains 10 pounds avoirdupois of distilled water at 62[?] of Fahrenheit, and barometer at 30 inches, equal to 277.274 cubic inches. | |
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Imperial \Im*pe"ri*al\, a. [OE. emperial, OF. emperial, F. imp[82]rial, fr. L. imperialis, fr. imperium command, sovereignty, empire. See {Empire}.] 1. Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an imperial government; imperial authority or edict. The last That wore the imperial diadem of Rome. --Shak. 2. Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme. [bd]The imperial democracy of Athens.[b8] --Mitford. Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns With an imperial voice. --Shak. To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts, and worthy thee. --Dryden. He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle. --E. Everett. 3. Of superior or unusual size or excellence; as, imperial paper; imperial tea, etc. {Imperial bushel}, {gallon}, etc. See {Bushel}, {Gallon}, etc. {Imperial chamber}, the, the sovereign court of the old German empire. {Imperial city}, under the first German empire, a city having no head but the emperor. {Imperial diet}, an assembly of all the states of the German empire. {Imperial drill}. (Manuf.) See under 8th {Drill}. {Imperial eagle}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Eagle}. {Imperial green}. See {Paris green}, under {Green}. {Imperial guard}, the royal guard instituted by Napoleon I. {Imperial weights and measures}, the standards legalized by the British Parliament. | |
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Galloon \Gal*loon"\, n. [From F. or Sp. galon. See {Gala}. ] 1. A narrow tapelike fabric used for binding hats, shoes, etc., -- sometimes made ornamental. 2. A similar bordering or binding of rich material, such as gold lace. Silver and gold galloons, with the like glittering gewgaws. --Addison. | |
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Gillian \Gil"li*an\, n. [OE. Gillian, a woman's name, for Julian, Juliana. Cf. {Gill} a girl.] A girl; esp., a wanton; a gill. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Glaum \Glaum\, v. i. [Etymol. uncertain.] To grope with the hands, as in the dark. [Scot.] {To glaum at}, to grasp or snatch at; to aspire to. Wha glaum'd at kingdoms three. --Burns. | |
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Gleam \Gleam\, v. t. To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.). Dying eyes gleamed forth their ashy lights. --Shak. | |
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Gleam \Gleam\, v. i. [Cf. OE. glem birdlime, glue, phlegm, and E. englaimed.] (Falconry) To disgorge filth, as a hawk. | |
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Gleam \Gleam\, n. [OE. glem, gleam, AS. gl[91]m, prob. akin to E. glimmer, and perh. to Gr. [?] warm, [?] to warm. Cf. {Glitter}.] 1. A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse. Transient unexpected gleams of joi. --Addison. At last a gleam Of dawning light turned thitherward in haste His [Satan's] traveled steps. --Milton. A glimmer, and then a gleam of light. --Longfellow. 2. Brightness; splendor. In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen. --Pope. | |
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Gleam \Gleam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gleamed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gleaming}.] 1. To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east. 2. To shine; to cast light; to glitter. Syn: To {Gleam}, {Glimmer}, {Glitter}. Usage: To gleam denotes a faint but distinct emission of light. To glimmer describes an indistinct and unsteady giving of light. To glitter imports a brightness that is intense, but varying. The morning light gleams upon the earth; a distant taper glimmers through the mist; a dewdrop glitters in the sun. See {Flash}. | |
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Gleamy \Gleam"y\, a. Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating. In brazed arms, that cast a gleamy ray, Swift through the town the warrior bends his way. --Pope. | |
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Glean \Glean\, n. Cleaning; afterbirth. [Obs.] --Holland. | |
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Glean \Glean\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gleaned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gleaning}.] [OE. glenen, OF. glener, glaner, F. glaner, fr. LL. glenare; cf. W. glan clean, glanh[?]u to clean, purify, or AS. gelm, gilm, a hand[?]ul.] 1. To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering. To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps. --Shak. 2. To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left. 3. To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain. Content to glean what we can from . . . experiments. --Locke. | |
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Glean \Glean\, v. i. 1. To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers. And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers. --Ruth ii. 3. 2. To pick up or gather anything by degrees. Piecemeal they this acre first, then that; Glean on, and gather up the whole estate. --Pope. | |
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Glean \Glean\, n. A collection made by gleaning. The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs. --Dryden. | |
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Gleen \Gleen\, v. i. [Cf. {Glance}, {Glint}.] To glisten; to gleam. [Obs.] --Prior. | |
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Glen \Glen\, n. [Of Celtic origin; cf. W. glyn a deep valley, Ir. & Gael. gleann valley, glen.] A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills. And wooes the widow's daughter of the glen. --Spenser. | |
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Glim \Glim\, n. 1. Brightness; splendor. [Obs.] 2. A light or candle. [Slang] --Dickens. {Douse the glim}, put out the light. [Slang] | |
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Gloam \Gloam\, v. i. [See {Gloom}, {Glum}.] 1. To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky. 2. To be sullen or morose. [Obs.] | |
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Gloam \Gloam\, n. The twilight; gloaming. [R.] --Keats. | |
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Glombe \Glombe\, Glome \Glome\, v. i. To gloom; to look gloomy, morose, or sullen. [Obs.] --Surrey. | |
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Glome \Glome\, n. Gloom. [Obs.] | |
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Glome \Glome\, n. [L. glomus a ball. Cf. {Globe}.] (Anat.) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of the horse's foot. | |
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Gloom \Gloom\ (gl[oomac]m), n. [AS. gl[omac]m twilight, from the root of E. glow. See {Glow}, and cf. {Glum}, {Gloam}.] 1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight. 2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove. Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. --Tennyson . 3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. --Burke. 4. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven. Syn: Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness; depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See {Darkness}. | |
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Gloom \Gloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gloomed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Glooming}.] 1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer. 2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight. The black gibbet glooms beside the way. --Goldsmith. [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom. --Spenser. | |
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Gloom \Gloom\, v. t. 1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. --Walpole. A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. --Tennyson. 2. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen. Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy. --Tennison. What sorrows gloomed that parting day. --Goldsmith. | |
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Gloomy \Gloom"y\, a. [Compar. {Gloomier}; superl. {Gloomiest}.] 1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. [bd]Though hid in gloomiest shade.[b8] --Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance. Syn: Dark; dim; dusky; dismal; cloudy; moody; sullen; morose; melancholy; sad; downcast; depressed; dejected; disheartened. | |
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Glum \Glum\, n. [See {Gloom}.] Sullenness. [Obs.] --Skelton. | |
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Glum \Glum\, a. Moody; silent; sullen. I frighten people by my glun face. --Thackeray. | |
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Glum \Glum\, v. i. To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. [Obs.] --Hawes. | |
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Glume \Glume\, n. [L. gluma hull, husk, fr. glubere to bark or peel: cf. F. glume or gloume.] (Bot.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt. --Gray. | |
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Glummy \Glum"my\, a. [See {Gloom}.] dark; gloomy; dismal. [Obs.] | |
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Glyn \Glyn\, Glynne \Glynne\, n. A glen. See {Glen}. Note: [Obs. singly, but occurring often in locative names in Ireland, as Glen does in Scotland.] He could not beat out the Irish, yet he did shut them up within those narrow corners and glyns under the mountain's foot. --Spenser. | |
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Glyn \Glyn\, Glynne \Glynne\, n. A glen. See {Glen}. Note: [Obs. singly, but occurring often in locative names in Ireland, as Glen does in Scotland.] He could not beat out the Irish, yet he did shut them up within those narrow corners and glyns under the mountain's foot. --Spenser. | |
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Swamp \Swamp\, n. [Cf. AS. swam a fungus, OD. swam a sponge, D. zwam a fungus, G. schwamm a sponge, Icel. sv[94]ppr, Dan. & Sw. swamp, Goth. swamms, Gr. somfo`s porous, spongy.] Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore. Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern. --Tennyson. A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only herbage, plants, and mosses. --Farming Encyc. (E. Edwards, Words). {Swamp blackbird}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Redwing} (b) . {Swamp cabbage} (Bot.), skunk cabbage. {Swamp deer} (Zo[94]l.), an Asiatic deer ({Rucervus Duvaucelli}) of India. {Swamp hen}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) An Australian azure-breasted bird ({Porphyrio bellus}); -- called also {goollema}. (b) An Australian water crake, or rail ({Porzana Tabuensis}); -- called also {little swamp hen}. (c) The European purple gallinule. {Swamp honeysuckle} (Bot.), an American shrub ({Azalea, [or] Rhododendron, viscosa}) growing in swampy places, with fragrant flowers of a white color, or white tinged with rose; -- called also {swamp pink}. {Swamp hook}, a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling logs. Cf. {Cant hook}. {Swamp itch}. (Med.) See {Prairie itch}, under {Prairie}. {Swamp laurel} (Bot.), a shrub ({Kalmia glauca}) having small leaves with the lower surface glaucous. {Swamp maple} (Bot.), red maple. See {Maple}. {Swamp oak} (Bot.), a name given to several kinds of oak which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak ({Quercus palustris}), swamp white oak ({Q. bicolor}), swamp post oak ({Q. lyrata}). {Swamp ore} (Min.), bog ore; limonite. {Swamp partridge} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several Australian game birds of the genera {Synoicus} and {Excalfatoria}, allied to the European partridges. {Swamp robin} (Zo[94]l.), the chewink. {Swamp sassafras} (Bot.), a small North American tree of the genus {Magnolia} ({M. glauca}) with aromatic leaves and fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also {sweet bay}. {Swamp sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), a common North American sparrow ({Melospiza Georgiana}, or {M. palustris}), closely resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy places. {Swamp willow}. (Bot.) See {Pussy willow}, under {Pussy}. | |
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Galion, OH (city, FIPS 29162) Location: 40.73172 N, 82.79047 W Population (1990): 11859 (5169 housing units) Area: 12.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 44833 | |
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Galliano, LA (CDP, FIPS 28065) Location: 29.43098 N, 90.30274 W Population (1990): 4294 (1624 housing units) Area: 21.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 70354 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Gallina, NM Zip code(s): 87017 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Gallion, AL Zip code(s): 36742 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Gillham, AR (town, FIPS 27010) Location: 34.16787 N, 94.31351 W Population (1990): 210 (86 housing units) Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 71841 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Gilliam, LA (village, FIPS 29010) Location: 32.82726 N, 93.84272 W Population (1990): 202 (82 housing units) Area: 5.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 71029 Gilliam, MO (town, FIPS 27028) Location: 39.23277 N, 93.00366 W Population (1990): 212 (97 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 65330 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Glen, MS Zip code(s): 38846 Glen, NH Zip code(s): 03838 Glen, WV Zip code(s): 25088 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Glenn, CA Zip code(s): 95943 Glenn, GA Zip code(s): 30217 | |
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Glennie, MI Zip code(s): 48737 | |
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Glynn, LA Zip code(s): 70736 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
gillion /gil'y*n/ or /jil'y*n/ n. [formed from {giga-} by analogy with mega/million and tera/trillion] 10^9. Same as an American billion or a British `milliard'. How one pronounces this depends on whether one speaks {giga-} with a hard or soft `g'. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
gillion mega/million and tera/trillion) 10^9. Same as an American billion or a British "milliard". How one pronounces this depends on whether one speaks {giga-} with a hard or soft "g". [{Jargon File}] (1995-03-17) | |
From The Elements (22Oct97) [elements]: | |
gallium Symbol: Ga Atomic number: 31 Atomic weight: 69.72 Soft silvery metallic element, belongs to group 13 of the periodic table. The two stable isotopes are Ga-69 and Ga-71. Eight radioactive isotopes are known, all having short half-lives. Gallium Arsenide is used as a semiconductor. Corrodes most other metals by diffusing into their lattice. First identified by Francois Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1875. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Gallim heaps, (1 Sam. 25:44; Isa. 10:30). The native place of Phalti, to whom Michal was given by Saul. It was probably in Benjamin, to the north of Jerusalem. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Glean The corners of fields were not to be reaped, and the sheaf accidentally left behind was not to be fetched away, according to the law of Moses (Lev. 19:9; 23:22; Deut. 24:21). They were to be left for the poor to glean. Similar laws were given regarding vineyards and oliveyards. (Comp. Ruth 2:2.) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Golan exile, a city of Bashan (Deut. 4:43), one of the three cities of refuge east of Jordan, about 12 miles north-east of the Sea of Galilee (Josh. 20:8). There are no further notices of it in Scripture. It became the head of the province of Gaulanitis, one of the four provinces into which Bashan was divided after the Babylonish captivity, and almost identical with the modern Jaulan, in Western Hauran, about 39 miles in length and 18 in breath. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Gallim, who heap up; who cover | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Golan, passage; revolution |