*gill*

a. [ L. argilla white clay + -ferous. ] Producing clay; -- applied to such earths as abound with argil. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; clay + -lite. ] (Min.) Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc. -- Ar`gil*lit"ic, a. [1913 Webster]

a. Consisting of, or containing, clay and sand, as a soil. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of, or containing, clay and calcareous earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing clay and iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. argillosus, fr. argilla. See Argil. ] Argillaceous; clayey. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Aspergillum + -form. ] (Bot.) Resembling the aspergillum in form; as, an aspergilliform stigma. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ LL. aspergillum, fr. L. aspergere. See Asperse, v. t. ] 1. The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people. [ Also written aspergillus. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) See Wateringpot shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. consisting of, or containing, calcareous and argillaceous earths. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman of light behavior; a gill-flirt. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

You heard him take me up like a flirt-gill. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ NL., fr. L. fringilla a chaffinch. ] (Zool.) A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Fringilline. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A natural family of birds of the finch group having short conical bills adapted for eating seeds, including finches, goldfinches, bullfinches, chaffinches, siskins, canaries, cardinals, grosbeaks, crossbills, linnets, and buntings. This family at one time included the sparrows of the family Emberizinae, but has more recently been restricted in usage.
Syn. -- family Fringillidae. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. (Zool.) Pertaining to the family Fringillidæ; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shaped like a small fungus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Icel. gil. ] A woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. gille, gelle, a sort of measure for wine, LL. gillo, gello., Cf. Gallon. ] A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dan. giælle, gelle; akin to Sw. gäl, Icel. gjölnar gills; cf. AS. geagl, geahl, jaw. ] 1. (Anat.) An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fishes perform respiration under water by the gills. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Gills are usually lamellar or filamentous appendages, through which the blood circulates, and in which it is exposed to the action of the air contained in the water. In vertebrates they are appendages of the visceral arches on either side of the neck. In invertebrates they occupy various situations. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Bot.) The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The flesh under or about the chin. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Spinning) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments. [ Prob. so called from F. aiguilles, needles. Ure. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Gill arches,
Gill bars. (Anat.) Same as Branchial arches. --
Gill clefts. (Anat.) Same as Branchial clefts. See under Branchial. --
Gill cover,
Gill lid. See Operculum. --
Gill frame, or
Gill head (Flax Manuf.), a spreader; a machine for subjecting flax to the action of gills. Knight. --
Gill net, a flat net so suspended in the water that its meshes allow the heads of fish to pass, but catch in the gills when they seek to extricate themselves. --
Gill opening, or
Gill slit (Anat.), an opening behind and below the head of most fishes, and some amphibians, by which the water from the gills is discharged. In most fishes there is a single opening on each side, but in the sharks and rays there are five, or more, on each side. --
Gill rakes, or
Gill rakers (Anat.), horny filaments, or progresses, on the inside of the branchial arches of fishes, which help to prevent solid substances from being carried into gill cavities. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A leech. [ Also gell. ] [ Scot. ] Jameison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Abbrev. from Gillian. ] 1. A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl. “Each Jack with his Gill.” B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gill ale. (a) Ale flavored with ground ivy. (b) (Bot.) Alehoof. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Having gills; as, a gilled tadpole. Opposite of abranchiate.
Syn. -- branchiate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A thoughtless, giddy girl; a flirt-gill. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A shop where gill is sold. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thee shall each alehouse, thee each gillhouse mourn. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. Gillian, a woman's name, for Julian, Juliana. Cf. Gill a girl. ] A girl; esp., a wanton; a gill. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl.

{ } n. [ Gael. gille, giolla, boy, lad. ] A boy or young man; a manservant; a young male attendant, in the Scottish Highlands. Sir W. Scott. [ wns=1 ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a lowcut shoe without a tongue and decorative lacing.
Syn. -- ghillie. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. gilofre, gilofer, clove, OF. girofre, girofle, F. girofle: cf. F. giroflée gillyflower, fr. girofle, Gr. &unr_; clove tree; &unr_; nut + &unr_; leaf, akin to E. foliage. Cf. Caryophyllus, July-flower. ] [ Written also gilliflower. ] (Bot.) 1. A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of apple, of a roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core.

Clove gillyflower, the clove pink. --
Marsh gillyflower, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi). --
Queen's gillyflower, or
Winter gillyflower, damewort. --
Sea gillyflower, the thrift (Armeria vulgaris). --
Wall gillyflower, the wallflower (Cheiranthus Cheiri). --
Water gillyflower, the water violet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) An oyster which has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ob (see Ob-) + sigillum a seal. ] A sealing up. [ Obs. ] Maunder. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. orguillous, F. orgueilleux, fr. OF. orgoil pride, F. orgueil. ] Proud; haughty. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ NL., fem sing. fr. L. sigillum a seal. ] (Paleon.) A genus of fossil trees principally found in the coal formation; -- so named from the seallike leaf scars in vertical rows on the surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L., from sigillum a seal. See Sigil. ] (Rom. Antic.) Little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or given as presents, on the last two days of the Saturnalia; hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the Saturnalia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Paleon.) One of an extinct family of cryptagamous trees, including the genus Sigillaria and its allies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sigillatus adorned with little images. ] Decorated by means of stamps; -- said of pottery. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sigillum a seal: cf. OF. sigillatif. ] Fit to seal; belonging to a seal; composed of wax. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Sigilla [ L. ] (Rom. & Old Eng. Law) A seal. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., dim. of spongia a sponge. ] (Zool.) A genus of siliceous sponges found in fresh water. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Dim. fr. strigose. ] (Bot.) Set with stiff, slender bristles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Suggil. ] To beat livid, or black and blue. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]