Part 4816

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The act of softening, breaking, or yielding.</def> "Upon the first <i>giving</i> of the weather."

<i>Addison.</i>

<cs><col>Giving in</col>, <cd>a falling inwards; a collapse.</cd> -- <col>Giving out</col>, <cd>anything uttered or asserted; an outgiving.</cd></cs>

<blockquote>His <b>givings out</b> were of an infinite distance From his true meant design. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Gizzard</h1> <Xpage=627>

<hw>Giz"zard</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>g\'82sier</ets>, L. gigeria, pl., the cooked entrails of poultry. Cf. <er>Gigerium</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate animals.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks.</def>

<cs><col>Gizzard shad</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>an American herring (<spn>Dorosoma cepedianum</spn>) resembling the shad, but of little value.</cd> -- <col>To fret the gizzard</col>, <cd>to harass; to vex one's self; to worry. <mark></mark> <i>Hudibras</i>.</cd> -- <col>To stick in one's gizzard</col>, <cd>to be difficult of digestion; to be offensive. <mark></mark></cd></cs>

<h1>Glabella</h1> <Xpage=627>

<hw>Gla*bel"la</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Glabell<?/</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[NL., fr. L. <ets>glabellus</ets> hairless, fr. <ets>glaber</ets> bald.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Gla*bel"lar</wf> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Glabellum</h1> <Xpage=627>

<hw>Gla*bel"lum</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Glabella</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[NL. See <er>Glabella</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. See <er>Trilobite</er>.</def>

<h1>Glabrate</h1> <Xpage=627>

<hw>Gla"brate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>glabrare</ets>, fr. <ets>glaber</ets> smooth.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Becoming smooth or glabrous from age.</def>

<i>Gray.</i>

<h1>Glabreate, Glabriate</h1> <Xpage=627>

<hw><hw>Gla"bre*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Gla"bri*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Glabrate</er>.]</ety> <def>To make smooth, plain, or bare.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Glabrity</h1> <Xpage=627>

<hw>Glab"ri*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>glabritas</ets>.]</ety> <def>Smoothness; baldness.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Glabrous</h1> <Xpage=627>

<hw>Gla"brous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>glaber</ets>; cf. Gr. <?/ hollow, smooth, <?/ to hollow.]</ety> <def>Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness.</def>

<h1>Glacial</h1> <Xpage=627>

<hw>Gla"cial</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>glacialis</ets>, from <ets>glacies</ets> ice: cf. F. <ets>glacial</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; <as>as, <ex>glacial</ex> phenomena</as>.</def>

<i>Lyell.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds; <as>as, <ex>glacial</ex> phosphoric or acetic acids</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Glacial acid</col> <fld>(Chem.)</fld>, <cd>an acid of such strength or purity as to crystallize at an ordinary temperature, in an icelike form; as acetic or carbolic acid.</cd> -- <col>Glacial drift</col> <fld>(Geol.)</fld>, <cd>earth and rocks which have been transported by moving ice, land ice, or icebergs; bowlder drift.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Glacial</col> epoch &or; <col>period</mcol> <fld>(Geol.)</fld>, <cd>a period during which the climate of the modern temperate regions was polar, and ice covered large portions of the northern hemisphere to the mountain tops.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Glacial</col> <col>theory &or; hypothesis</col></mcol>. <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <cd>See <cref>Glacier theory</cref>, under <er>Glacier</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Glacialist</h1> <Xpage=627>