Part 4805

<cs><mcol><col>Ginger</col> <col>beer &or; ale</col></mcol>, <cd>a mild beer impregnated with ginger.</cd> -- <col>Ginger cordial</col>, <cd>a liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy.</cd> -- <col>Ginger pop</col>. <cd>See <cref>Ginger beer</cref> (above).</cd> -- <col>Ginger wine</col>, <cd>wine impregnated with ginger.</cd> -- <col>Wild ginger</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>an American herb (<spn>Asarum Canadense</spn>) with two reniform leaves and a long, cordlike rootstock which has a strong taste of ginger.</cd></cs>

<h1>Gingerbread</h1> <Xpage=626>

<hw>Gin"ger*bread`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. <i>Gingerbread</i> that was full fine."

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<cs><col>Gingerbread tree</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See <er>Doom Palm</er>.</cd> -- <col>Gingerbread work</col>, <cd>ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character.</cd></cs>

<h1>Gingerly</h1> <Xpage=626>

<hw>Gin"ger*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <ety>[Prov. E. <ets>ginger</ets> brittle, tender; cf. dial. Sw. <ets>gingla</ets>, <ets>g\'84ngla</ets>, to go gently, totter, akin to E. <ets>gang</ets>.]</ety> <def>Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily.</def>

<blockquote>What is't that you took up so <b>gingerly</b> ? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Gingerness</h1> <Xpage=626>

<hw>Gin"ger*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Cautiousness; tenderness.</def>

<h1>Gingham</h1> <Xpage=626>

<hw>Ging"ham</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>guingan</ets>; cf. Jav. <ets>ginggang</ets>; <ets>or perh</ets>. <ets>fr</ets>. <ets>Guingamp</ets>, in France.]</ety> <def>A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints.</def>

<h1>Ginging</h1> <Xpage=626>

<hw>Ging"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <def>The lining of a mine shaft with stones or bricks to prevent caving.</def>

<h1>Gingival</h1> <Xpage=626>

<hw>Gin"gi*val</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>gingiva</ets> the gum.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to the gums.</def>

<i>Holder.</i>

<h1>Gingle</h1> <Xpage=626>

<hw>Gin"gle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. & v.</tt> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <def>See <er>Jingle</er>.</def>

<h1>Ginglyform</h1> <Xpage=626>

<hw>Gin"gly*form</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Ginglymoid.</def>

<h1>Ginglymodi</h1> <Xpage=626>

<hw>Gin`gly*mo"di</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL.; cf. Gr. <?/ ginglymoid. See <er>Ginglymoid</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebr\'91 convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See <er>Ganoidel</er>.</def>

<h1>Ginglymoid, Ginglymoidal</h1> <Xpage=626>

<hw><hw>Gin"gly*moid</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Gin`gly*moid"al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/; <?/ ginglymus + <?/ form: cf. F. <ets>ginglymoide</ets>, <ets>ginglymo\'8bdal</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to, or resembling, a ginglymus, or hinge joint; ginglyform.</def>

<h1>Ginglymus</h1> <Xpage=626>

<hw>Gin"gly*mus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Ginglymi</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ a hingelike joint, a ball and socket joint.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>A hinge joint; an articulation, admitting of flexion and extension, or motion in two directions only, as the elbow and the ankle.</def>

<h1>Ginhouse</h1> <Xpage=626>