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| gainbuy | vb | to recover ownership of something by paying a sum; redeem [obsolete, from GAIN- + buy]
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| gainstand | vb | to speak or stand against something in order to stop it from happening; oppose, resist [obsolete, from GAIN- + stand]
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| gaintake | vb | to take back again; repossess, reacquire [revival, from GAIN- + take]
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| gair | n | a isolated strip of tender grass; sward, greensward [rare OE. "gair"]
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| galder | n | a charm or incantation; a chant [obsolete, from OE. galdor, gealdor to sing]
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| godbode | n | a spiritual and holy entity that acts as a messenger between God and earth; angel [neologism, from god "deity" + bode "message, messenger"]
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| Gotham | n | nickname of New York; The Big Apple [Gotham is an Anglo Saxon word meaning “Goat Town” and was first used by Washington Irving in in his satirical 1807 periodical Salmagundi. Irving was comparing the savvy New Yorkers to inhabitants of the tiny English village of Gotham who gained notoriety way back in the thirteenth century by pretending to be insane just to get out of paying taxes to King John]
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| grith | n | protection, safe conduct; in OE law security, peace or protection guaranteed under limitations; quarter (in battle); peace , protection, asylum [archaic, from OE. gri truce, peace, pardon]
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