(n.) A sharper; a rogue.

(v. t.) To guide; to govern.

(v. i.) To begin [Obs.] See Gin.

(n.) A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout.

(n.) An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.

(v. t.) To notch, as a sword or knife.

(v. t.) To make an opening in; to breach.

() An Anglo-Saxon prefix. See Y-.

(n.) Jet, the mineral.

(n.) Fashion; manner; custom.

(n.) Artifice; contrivance.

(imp.) of Get

(p. p.) of Get

(v. t.) To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire; to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by purchase, etc.

(v. t.) Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have.

(v. t.) To beget; to procreate; to generate.

(v. t.) To obtain mental possession of; to learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out; as, to get out one's Greek lesson.

(v. t.) To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.

(v. t.) To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle.

(v. t.) To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.

(v. i.) To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased.

(v. i.) To arrive at, or bring one's self into, a state, condition, or position; to come to be; to become; -- with a following adjective or past participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected.

(n.) Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.

(v. t.) To guide. See Gye .

(v. t.) To give.

(n.) A fiddle.

(v. t.) To engender.

(n.) A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig.

(v. t.) To fish with a gig.

(n.) A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.

(n.) A top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play.

(n.) A light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise.

(n.) A long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig.

(n.) A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth.

(a.) Neat; spruce.

(v. t.) To take out the entrails of (herrings).

(n.) A servant. See Gyp.

(n.) See Geat.

(n.) Same as Goaf.

(n.) A little mass or collection; a small quantity; a mouthful.

(n.) The mouth.

() of Gin

() imp. & p. p. of Go.

() imp. & p. p. of Get. See Get.

(n.) See Gree, a step.

(n.) See Gree, good will.

(n.) A measure equal to one tenth of a line.

(n.) Anything very small, or of little value.