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GABERDINE - a loose outer coat, or smock frock

GAD - a sharp spike

GAIN-GIVING - misgiving

GAIT - going, steps

GALLIARD - a kind of dance

GALLIASSE - a kind of ship

GALLIMAUFRY - a ridiculous medley

GALLOW - to scare

GALLOWGLASS - soldiers formerly maintained by Irish chiefs

GAMESTER - a frolicsome person

GARBOIL - disorder, uproar

GARISH - gaudy, staring

GARNER - to lay by, as corn in a barn

GAST - frightened

GAUDY - festive

GAZE - an object of wonder

GEAR - matter of business of any kind

GECK - a fool

GENERAL - the generality, common people

GENERATIONS - children

GENEROSITY - noble birth

GENEROUS - noble

GENTILITY - good manners

GENTLE - gentlefolk

GENTLE - noble

GENTLE - to ennoble

GENTRY - complaisance, conduct becoming gentlefolk

GERMAN - akin

GERMEN - seed, embryo

GEST - period

GIB - a he-cat

GIFTS - talents, endowment

GIGLOT - a wanton girl

GILDER - a coin

GILT - money

GIMMAL - double

GIMMOR - contrivance

GING - gang

GIRD - to gibe

GIRD - a sarcasm or gibe

GLEEK - to scoff

GLEEK - a scoff

GLOSE - to comment; hence, to be garrulous

GLUT - to swallow

GNARL - to snarl

GOOD-DEED - indeed

GOOD-DEN - good-evening, contracted from ‘Good-even’

GORBELLIED - corpulent

GOURD - a species of game of chance

GOUT - a drop

GOVERNMENT - discretion

GRACIOUS - abounding in grace Divine

GRAINED - engrained

GRAMERCY - int grand mercy, much thanks

GRANGE - the farmstead attached to a monastery

GRATILLITY - used ridiculously for ‘gratuity’

GRATULATE - to congratulate

GRAVE - to bury

GREASILY - grossly

GREEK - a bawd

GREEN - immature, fresh, unused

GREENLY - foolishly

GREET - to weep

GRIZE - a step

GROSSLY - palpably

GROUNDLING - one who sits in the pit of a theatre

GROWING - accruing

GUARD - decoration

GUARD - to decorate

GUARDAGE - guardianship

GUINEA-HEN - the pintado, a cant term

GULES - red, a term in heraldry

GULF - the throat

GUN-STONE - a cannon ball

GUST - taste, relish

GYVE - to fetter