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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>GIGANTOP</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="gigantomachy"> gigantomachy, noun, pl. -chies.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (Greek Mythology.) the war of the giants against the gods. <DD> 2. a contest resembling this. </DL> <A NAME="gigantomania"> gigantomania, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a mania for bigness. </DL> <A NAME="gigantopithecus"> gigantopithecus, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a genus of extinct primates of the Pliocene, whose large fossil remains have been found in southern China and northern India. </DL> <A NAME="gigantosaurus"> gigantosaurus, noun, pl. -sauri.<DL COMPACT><DD> an extremely large dinosaur whose remains have been found in eastern Africa. </DL> <A NAME="gigaton"> gigaton, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a measure of atomic power equivalent to the explosive force of one billion tons of TNT. </DL> <A NAME="gigavolt"> gigavolt, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one billion volts. </DL> <A NAME="gigawatt"> gigawatt, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one billion watts. </DL> <A NAME="giggle"> giggle, verb, -gled, -gling, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.i. to laugh in a silly or undignified way. Ex. The girls whispered and giggled together. <DD>noun 1. a silly or undignified laugh. <DD> 2. (Informal.) a joke. Ex. "What a giggle," said Claudia. "Imagine Prescott-Clark as a captain" (New Yorker). <DD> 3. (Informal.) a group of girls or women. Ex. ... a giggle of pretty undergraduates (London Times). noun giggler. adv. gigglingly. </DL> <A NAME="gigglish"> gigglish, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> disposed to giggle. </DL> <A NAME="giggly"> giggly, adjective, -glier, -gliest.<DL COMPACT><DD> having the habit of giggling. Ex. a giggly girl. noun giggliness. </DL> <A NAME="giglamp"> gig lamp,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a lamp attached to a gig (carriage). <DD> 2. (Dialect.) a firefly. </DL> <A NAME="giglet"> giglet, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a giddy girl. <DD> 2. (Obsolete.) a wanton. </DL> <A NAME="giglio"> giglio, noun, pl. -glios.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Italian.) the lily on the coat of arms of Florence, resembling the fleur-de-lis, with two more petals. </DL> <A NAME="giglot"> giglot, noun. =giglet.</DL> <A NAME="gigo"> GIGO (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> garbage in, garbage out. Ex. New technology and curriculum changes, he says, can be beneficial, but "it's a matter of GIGO ... You put garbage into a computer, you get garbage out." Simply investing money into new ideas isn't enough (Science News). </DL> <A NAME="gigolette"> gigolette, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a woman hired as a dancing partner or escort for a man. </DL> <A NAME="gigolo"> gigolo, noun, pl. -los.<DL COMPACT><DD> a man hired as a dancing partner, escort, or lover for a woman. </DL> <A NAME="gigot"> gigot, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a leg-of-mutton sleeve. <DD> 2. a leg of mutton, veal, venison, or other meat. </DL> <A NAME="gigue"> gigue, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. =jig (1). <DD> 2. music, usually in 6/8 or 3/8 time, forming the last movement of a dance suite. </DL> <A NAME="gilamonster"> Gila monster,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a large, poisonous lizard of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, which has a thick tail and a heavy body covered with beadlike orange-and-black scales. <DD> 2. a closely related lizard of Mexico and Central America. </DL> <A NAME="gilawoodpecker"> Gila woodpecker,<DL COMPACT><DD> a woodpecker of southwestern U.S., that nests in giant cactuses. </DL> <A NAME="gilbert"> gilbert, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> unit of magnetomotive force, equivalent to 10/4 pi ampere turns. </DL> <A NAME="gilbertese"> Gilbertese, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the Micronesian language of Kiribati (an island country in the southwestern Pacific including the Gilbert Islands). </DL> <A NAME="gilbertian"> Gilbertian, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, having to do with, or in the style of William S. Gilbert or his librettos; witty; satirical. </DL> <A NAME="gilbertines"> Gilbertines, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a religious order founded in England in the early 1100's by Saint Gilbert of Sempringham. </DL> <A NAME="gild"> gild (1), transitive verb, gilded or gilt, gilding.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to cover with a thin layer of gold or similar material; make golden. Ex. to gild a picture frame with gold leaf. <DD> 2. to color like gold. Ex. The sun gilds the clouds. <DD> 3. (Figurative.) to make (something) look bright and pleasing. Ex. Love gilds the scene (Sheridan). <DD> 4. (Figurative.) to make (something) seem better than it is. <DD> 5. (Archaic.) to smear (with blood). expr. gild the lily. See under lily. </DL> <A NAME="gild"> gild (2), noun. =guild.</DL> <A NAME="gilded"> gilded, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. coated with or as if with gold. <DD> 2. colored like gold. <DD> 3. (Figurative.) made to appear better than it is. <DD> 4. wealthy. </DL> <A NAME="gildedage"> Gilded Age,<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) any period of wealth and growth of a nation or culture, especially the 35 years in America following the Civil War, marked by a shift to a complex, urban culture. </DL> <A NAME="gilder"> gilder (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who gilds, especially as a trade or art. </DL> <A NAME="gilder"> gilder (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Obsolete.) guilder. </DL> <A NAME="gilding"> gilding, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a thin layer of gold or similar material with which a thing is gilded. <DD> 2. the act of covering with such a layer. <DD> 3. a gilded thing or surface. <DD> 4. (Figurative.) an attractive coating; veneer. Ex. a gilding of politeness. </DL> <A NAME="gildsman"> gildsman, noun, pl. -men. =guildsman.</DL> <A NAME="gildsocialism"> gild socialism, =guild socialism.</DL> <A NAME="gileadite"> Gileadite, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a native or inhabitant of Gilead, a region in ancient Palestine. <DD> 2. a member of a branch of the tribe of Manasseh. </DL> <A NAME="gilgai"> gilgai, noun. =ghilgai.</DL> <A NAME="gilgamesh"> Gilgamesh, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a legendary Babylonian king, hero of the Gilgamesh Epic. </DL> <A NAME="gilgameshepic"> Gilgamesh Epic,<DL COMPACT><DD> a literary work predating the Old Testament, which tells the story of Gilgamesh and has an account similar to that of Noah and the Flood in Genesis. </DL> <A NAME="gilgie"> gilgie, noun. =yabbie.</DL> <A NAME="gilguy"> gilguy, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (Nautical.) a temporary or makeshift device of rope, as for rigging. <DD> 2. a showy, useless trifle; gimcrack. </DL> <A NAME="gilia"> gilia, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a large group of plants related to the phlox, found chiefly in the western United States and often cultivated for their showy flowers. </DL> <A NAME="gill"> gill (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a part of the body of a fish, tadpole, crab, or other animal that lives in water, by which it breathes in water. Oxygen passes in and carbon dioxide passes out through the thin walls of the gills. <DD>v.t. 1. to catch (fish) by the gills in a gill net. <DD> 2. to clean (fish). <DD> 3. to cut away the gills of (a mushroom). expr. gills, <DD> a. the fine, thin, leaflike structures on the underside of a mushroom. <DD> b. the flesh under a person's jaws. Ex. to look green around the gills. <DD> c. the red, hanging flesh under the throat of a fowl; wattles. expr. to the gills, very fully; to capacity. Ex. The house is stuffed to the gills with food but it's all for Christmas (Punch). adj. gill-like. </DL> <A NAME="gill"> gill (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small liquid measure, equal to one fourth of a pint. One gill is half a cup or .1183 liter. </DL> <A NAME="gill"> gill (3), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a ravine; glen. <DD> 2. a stream in a ravine. Also, ghyll. </DL> <A NAME="gill"> gill (4), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (Dialect.) the ground ivy. <DD> 2. (Obsolete.) a woman; girl. Also, jill. </DL> <A NAME="gillarch"> gill arch,<DL COMPACT><DD> one of the cartilaginous arches supporting the gill of a fish or amphibian. </DL> <A NAME="gillbooks"> gill books,<DL COMPACT><DD> the leaflike gills through which a king crab breathes, borne on the second to sixth pairs of swimming organs. </DL> <A NAME="gillcleft"> gill cleft,<DL COMPACT><DD> one of the openings in the pharynx of a fish or amphibian that serve as channels for the passage of water to the exterior. </DL> <A NAME="gilled"> gilled, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having gills, as fishes. </DL> <A NAME="gillfilament"> gill filament,<DL COMPACT><DD> the threadlike part of a gill filled with the blood vessels that absorb oxygen and give off carbon dioxide. </DL> <A NAME="gillflirt"> gillflirt, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) a giddy girl. </DL> <A NAME="gillfungus"> gill fungus, =agaric.</DL> <A NAME="gillie"> gillie, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a man who goes with and helps a hunter or fisherman in the Scottish Highlands. <DD> 2. a follower; servant. <DD> 3. a sports shoe for women with laces that tie about the ankle. Also, gilly, ghillie. </DL> <A NAME="gilliflower"> gilliflower, noun. =gillyflower.</DL> <A NAME="gillnet"> gill net,<DL COMPACT><DD> a net, suspended vertically in the water, to catch by the gills a fish that has thrust its head through. </DL> <A NAME="gillnet"> gill-net, transitive verb, intransitive verb, -netted, -netting.<DL COMPACT><DD> to catch fish by means of a gill net. </DL> <A NAME="gillnetter"> gill netter,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person who uses a gill net in fishing. <DD> 2. a boat used for gill-netting. </DL> <A NAME="gillovertheground"> gill-over-the-ground, noun. =ground ivy.</DL> <A NAME="gillraker"> gill raker,<DL COMPACT><DD> one of the series of bony processes on the inner edge of a gill arch to strain organic material from water passing to the gill. </DL> <A NAME="gills"> gills, noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under gill (1). </DL> <A NAME="gillslit"> gill slit, =gill cleft.</DL> <A HREF="gilly.dic">NEXT</A>