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- English Word Gilt-edged Definition Of the best quality; -- said of negotiable paper, etc.
- English Word Gilthead Definition A marine fish.
- English Word Gilthead Definition The Pagrus, / Chrysophrys, auratus, a valuable food fish common in the Mediterranean (so named from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll.
- English Word Gilthead Definition The Crenilabrus melops, of the British coasts; -- called also golden maid, conner, sea partridge.
- English Word Giltif Definition Guilty.
- English Word Gilttail Definition A yellow-tailed worm or larva.
- English Word Gim Definition Neat; spruce.
- English Word Gimbal Definition Alt. of Gimbals
- English Word Gimbals Definition 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.
- English Word Gimblet Definition See Gimlet.
- English Word Gimcrack Definition A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.
- English Word Gimlet Definition A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle.
- English Word Gimlet Definition To pierce or make with a gimlet.
- English Word Gimlet Definition To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet.
- English Word Gimleted Definition of Gimlet
- English Word Gimleting Definition of Gimlet
- English Word Gimmal Definition Joined work whose parts move within each other; a pair or series of interlocked rings.
- English Word Gimmal Definition A quaint piece of machinery; a gimmer.
- English Word Gimmer Definition Alt. of Gimmor
- English Word Gimmor Definition A piece of mechanism; mechanical device or contrivance; a gimcrack.