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6. Equivalent to _man_.
_King Hart._
7. A jailor.
_Wodrow._
8. By inversion, this designation has been given to the devil.
_Arnot._
GOOG, _s._
1. An unfledged bird, Ang.
2. Very young meat, that has no firmness, Ang.
A. S. _geoguth_, youth.
GOOL, GULE, _adj._ Yellow.
_Dunbar._
A. S. _geolu_, _guul_, Su. G. _gul_, id.
_To_ GOOSE, _v. a._ To iron linen cloths, S. from a tailor's _goose_.
GOOSE-CORN, _s._ Field Brome-gra.s.s, S.
Sw. _gaas-hafre_, i. e. goose-oats.
GORBACK, _s._ A sort of rampart, Orkn.
Isl. _gior-a_, facere, and _balk-r_, strues.
GORBET, _s._
1. A young bird, S. B.
_Lyndsay._
2. Metaph., a child, Ang.
V. ~Garb~.
GORBY, _s._ A raven, S. _corby_.
_Douglas._
Norw. _gorp_, Isl. _gorbor_, id.
_To_ GORBLE UP, _v. a._ To swallow with eagerness, Loth.
_Ramsay._
~Gorbling~, ~Gorling~, _s._ An unfledged bird, S., _gorbel_, Moray.
_Ramsay._
2. A very young person, Loth. id.
GOR-c.o.c.k, _s._ The red c.o.c.k, or moor-c.o.c.k.
_Burns._
GORDON, _s._ A wild fowl.
V. ~Golding~.
GORDS, _s. pl._ Lands now waste, that had formerly been cultivated, Orkn.
Su. G. _gord_, sepimentum, area clausa.
GORE, _s._ Hardened rheum from the eyes, S.
V. ~Gaar~.
GORE, _s._ A strip of cloth.
V. ~Gair~.
GORFY, _adj._ Having a coa.r.s.e appearance, Ang.
_To_ GORGE, _v. n._ Expressing the sound made in walking, when the shoes are filled with water, Fife.
