Part 4787

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf.</def> <mark>[India]</mark>

<i>Malcom.</i>

<h1>Ghawazi</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Gha*wa"zi</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[Etymol. uncertain.]</ety> <def>Egyptian dancing girls, of a lower sort than the almeh.</def>

<h1>Gheber Ghebre</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw><hw>Ghe"ber Ghe"bre</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Pers. <ets>ghebr</ets>: cf. F. <ets>Gu\'8abre</ets>. Cf. <er>Giaour</er>.]</ety> <def>A worshiper of fire; a Zoroastrian; a Parsee.</def>

<h1>Ghee</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Ghee</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Hind. <ets>gh\'c6</ets> clarified butter, Skr. <ets>gh<?/ta</ets>.]</ety> <def>Butter clarified by boiling, and thus converted into a kind of oil.</def> <mark>[India]</mark>

<i>Malcom.</i>

<h1>Gherkin</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Gher"kin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[D. <ets>agurkje</ets>, a dim. akin to G. <ets>gurke</ets>, Dan. <ets>ag<?/rke</ets>; cf. Pol. <ets>og\'a2rek</ets>, Bohem. <ets>okurka</ets>, LGr. <?/ watermelon, Ar. <ets>al-khiy\'ber</ets>, Per. <ets>khiy\'ber</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>See <er>Sea gherkin</er>.</def>

<h1>Ghess</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Ghess</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t. & i.</tt> <def>See <er>Guess</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Ghetto</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Ghet"to</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[It.]</ety> <def>The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city.</def>

<blockquote>I went to the <b>Ghetto</b>, where the Jews dwell. <i>Evelyn.</i></blockquote>

<-- 2. by extension, any section of a town inhabited predominantly by members of a specific ethnic, national or racial group, such segregation usually arising from social or economic pressure. 3. (fig.) any isolated group of people. 4. (fig) any group isolated by external pressures, with an implication of inferiority.

Ghettoize v. -->

<h1>Ghibelline</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Ghib"el*line</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[It. <ets>Ghibellino</ets>; of German origin.]</ety> <fld>(It. Hist.)</fld> <def>One of a faction in Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses.</def>

<i>Brande & C.</i>

<h1>Ghole</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Ghole</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Ghoul</er>.</def>

<h1>Ghost</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Ghost</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>gast</ets>, <ets>gost</ets>, soul, spirit, AS. <ets>g\'best</ets> breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. <ets>g<?/st</ets> spirit, soul, D. <ets>geest</ets>, G. <ets>geist</ets>, and prob. to E. <ets>gaze</ets>, <ets>ghastly</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The spirit; the soul of man.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>