10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GILRAVAGE»
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American encyclopedic dictionary
gilravage. glll(n,*gil •5. To give a fair outward appearance to: to make qal = a gill;
Icel. gj6lnar (pl.) = «nlls fair outwardly ; to recommend or set off by super- ficial
decoration. "I'll gild it [the He] with the happiest terras I have." Shakesp.: Henry IV.
Robert Hunter, John Alfred Williams, Sidney John Hervon Herrtage, 1897
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A Dictionary of the Scottish Language
GILPY, Graver, s. A roguish boy ; a frolicsome boy or girl, S. Rameay.—A.S. gilp,
ostentation, arrogance. To GILRAVAGE, Grmuvrrcn, Gaunvrrcn, Gunnnavacn,
r. n. 1. To hold a merry-meeting with noise and riot, although without proceeding
to ...
John Jamieson, John Johnstone, 1846
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A Law Dictionary of Words, Terms, Abbreviations and Phrases ...
Gilda mercatoria. A mercantile company or corporation. Gildable. Same as
Geldable. Gild-ale. A feast; a drinking bout. Gildo. Members of a gild. Gillravage.
Same as Gilravage. GILOUB Gilour. A beguiler; a betrayer. Gilravage. To ravage;
to.
James Arthur Ballentine, 1916
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The Roxburghshire Word-Book
A foolish or silly young man: (Hogg 72). [Cf. Sc. (1742) gillegapus, etc., and Sc.
and E. dialect gawkie simpleton] GILMAW, sb. Rxb., w. A gourmand, especially
one of coarse taste: “A greedy gillmaw” (Jam). [See GULMAW] GILRAVAGE, sb.
The meeting place of a gild. Gilda mercatoria. A mercantile company or
corporation. Gfldabie. Same as Geldable. Gfld-ale. A feast; a drinking bout. Gildo.
Members of a gild. Giilravnge. Same as Gilravage. GILOUB Gilour. A beguiler; a
betrayer ...
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Concise English-Scots Dictionary
... see also cheerful, lively, jocular; croose, blithesome, joco, hertie, rantin, gleg,
mirkie NE. merrily mirkie NE. merry-making daffin, dafferie; (noisy) rant, gilravage.
make merry splore, rant, gilravage, heeze NE. mesh (of a net) mask SHETLAND,
...
Iseabail Macleod, Pauline Cairns, 1999
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The Essential Scots Dictionary: Scots-English, English-Scots
2 (a bell) tingle, jowe. n (ringing of a bell) ringle, jowe. rinse v, n syne, synd,
reenge, sweel. rlot n hurry, gilravage. v gilravage. rlotous randie, camstairie. rip v
rive, screed, raip NE. n rive, raip ME. ripe adj (of fruit etc) maumie. ripple v, ...
Iseabail Macleod, Pauline Cairns, 2004
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A dictionary of Lowland Scotch: with an introductory chapter ...
He thinks it is evidently corrupted from gil- ravery and gilravage, which are words
of a similar meaning. Gilravage he defines as " to hold a merry meeting with
noise and riot." He attempts no etymology. It seems, however, that garraivery is
akin ...
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
See Gilravage. (hit. See Gault. Galumph. gal-urnf, 'v.i. to march along boundingly
and exultmgly. [A coinage of Lewis Carroll.) GiiTanlgm. gal'vnn-izm, n. a branch
of the science of electricity which treats of electric currents produced by chemical
...
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The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the ...
A merrymaking; a noisy frolic, particularly among young people ; depredation;
great disorder. Muckle dlu an* loud gilrairiteh was amaug them, gaf- fawan an*
lauchau. Edinburgh Mag., Sept., 1818, p. 155. gilravage, gillravage (gil-rav'aj), v.
William Dwight Whitney, 1889
