Index of English words, starting with "gi"

(1) - Gilt (n.) Money.
(2) - Gilt (n.) Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.
(3) - Gilt (p. p. & a.) Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow.
(4) - Gilt () imp. & p. p. of Gild.
(5) - Gilt (v. t.) A female pig, when young.
(6) - Gilt () of Gild

(1) - Gilt-edged (a.) Of the best quality; -- said of negotiable paper, etc.
(2) - Gilt-edged (a.) Having a gilt edge; as, gilt-edged paper.

(1) - Gilthead (n.) The Crenilabrus melops, of the British coasts; -- called also golden maid, conner, sea partridge.
(2) - Gilthead (n.) The Pagrus, / Chrysophrys, auratus, a valuable food fish common in the Mediterranean (so named from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll.
(3) - Gilthead (n.) A marine fish.

(1) - Gimbals (n.) A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first.