belonging or relating to the belly, or stomach. _Gastric juice_, the
fluid which dissolves the food in the stomach. It is limpid, like water,
of a saltish taste, and without odor.

_Geology_, the science which treats of the earth, as composed of rocks
and stones.

_Gore_, a triangular piece of cloth. _Goring_, cut in a triangular
shape.

_Gothic_, a peculiar and strongly-marked style of architecture,
sometimes called the ecclesiastical style, because it is most frequently
used in cathedrals, churches, abbeys, and other religious edifices. Its
principle seems to have originated in the imitation of groves and
bowers, under which the ancients performed their sacred rites; its
clustered pillars and pointed arches very well representing the trunks
of trees and their interlocking branches.

_Gourmand_, or _Gormand_, a glutton, a greedy eater. In agriculture, it
is applied to twigs which take up the sap, but bear only leaves.

_Green vitriol_, see _Copperas_.

_Griddle_, an iron pan, of a peculiarly broad and shallow construction,
used for baking cakes.

_Ground-plan_, the map or plan of the lower floor of any building, in
which the various apartments, windows, doors, fireplaces, and other
things, are represented, like the rivers, towns, mountains, roads, &c.,
on a map.

_Gum Arabic_, a vegetable juice which exudes through the bark of the
_Acacia_, _Mimosa nilotica_, and some other similar trees, growing in
Arabia, Egypt, Senegal, and Central Africa. It is the purest of all
gums.

_Hardpan_, the hard, unbroken layer of earth, below the mould or
cultivated soil.

_Hartshorn_, (spirits of,) a volatile alkali, originally prepared from
the horns of the stag or hart, but now procured from various other
substances. It is known by the name of ammonia, or spirits of ammonia.

_Hemlock_, see _Cicuta_.

_Horticulturist_, one skilled in horticulture, or the art of cultivating
gardens; horticulture being to the garden, what agriculture is to the
farm, the application of labor and science to a limited spot, for
convenience, for profit, or for ornament,--though implying a higher
state of cultivation, than is common in agriculture. It includes the
cultivation of culinary vegetables and of fruits, and forcing or exotic
gardening, as far as respects useful products.

_Hoskin's gloves_, gloves made by a person named Hoskin, whose
manufacture was formerly much celebrated.

_Hydrogen_, a very light, inflammable gas, of which w