Ghent – Gipsywort
Ghent
TREATY OF. A treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded at Ghent, Dec. 24, 1814, which terminated the War of 1812.
Ghuzel-Hissar
a town of Anatolia in Asia Minor, 55 miles from Smyrna, the site of ancient Tralles.
GIA-DINH. See SAIGON.
Gibbet
a gallows on which the bodies of criminals who had been guilty of particularly atrocious crimes were suspended after execution, incased in an iron frame, near the spot where the crime was committed. This was done for the purpose of striking terror into the evil-minded. The practice, first recognized by law in 1752, was abolished in 1834.
Gibraltar
a town and strongly fortified rocky peninsula near the S. ex- Heritage," and "The Ambassador of tremity of Spain, belonging to Great Christ." He died March 24, 1921. an
Gilghit
or GILGIT (gil-git'), a valley and district in Kashmir, India, on the S. slope of the Hindu Kúsh, and watered by the Gilgit, or Yasm, a tributary of the Indus.
Gillaroo
a variety of the common trout, in which the coats of the stomach are said to be thickened like the gizzard of birds by feeding on shell-fish.
Gilles
ST. (san zhēl), a town in the department of Gard, France, 12 miles S. S. W. of Beaucaire. Its territory produces a strong red wine, which is exported.
Gillingham
a town of Dorsetshire, England, on the Stour, 22 miles W. of Salisbury. It is the center of a fruitgrowing district. Near it are the "Pen Pits," thought variously to be quarry holes or prehistoric dwellings.
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Gill Net
a net suspended in a stream, having meshes which allow the heads of the fish to pass, and which catch in the gills to prevent the fish from detaching itself.
Gill Sac
in ichthyology, one of the rudimentary gills constituted by sacs, occurring in the myxinoids and lampreys. A gill of the ordinary fishes is the homologue, not of a single gill sac, but of the continuous halves of two of them.
Gilman
NICHOLAS PAINE, educator; born in Quincy, Ill., Dec. 21, 1849; was graduated at Harvard Divinity School in 1871; editor of the Boston "Literary World" in 1888-1895; then became Professor of Sociology and Ethics in the Meadville Theological School. His publications include "Profit-Sharing Between Employer and Employee"; "Socialism and the American Spirit." He died in 1912.
Gipsywort
or GYPSYWORT, a labiate plant, with dense whorls of flowers, white, with purple dots. It is about two feet high, and grows in ditches and by river banks.