n. (pl. -s) young man paid by an older woman to be her escort or lover. [french]

n. (also ghillie) scot. Man or boy attending a person hunting or fishing. [gaelic]

eye n. Eye with a piercing glance.

- n. Small tool with a screw-tip for boring holes. [french]

ale n. Ginger-flavoured non-alcoholic drink.

- beer n. Mildly alcoholic or non-alcoholic cloudy drink made from fermented ginger and syrup.

- group n. Group urging a party or movement to stronger policy or action.

- —n. - a hot spicy root usu. Powdered for use in cooking, or preserved in syrup, or candied. B plant having this root.

- light reddish-yellow.

- spirit, mettle. —adj. Of a ginger colour. —v. - flavour with ginger.

- (foll. By up) enliven. gingery adj. [old english and french, ultimately from sanskrit]

n. (pl. -s) tree with fan-shaped leaves and yellow flowers. [chinese, = silver apricot]

n. Iron or steel beam or compound structure for bridge-building etc.

—n. - belt or cord worn round the waist.

- corset.

- thing that surrounds.

- bony support for the limbs (pelvic girdle). —v. (-ling) surround with a girdle. [old english]

- n. Scot. & n.engl. Var. Of *griddle.

adj. Colloq. (of a magazine etc.) Depicting young women in erotic poses.

n. (brit. Glamour) 1 physical, esp. Cosmetic, attractiveness.

- alluring or exciting beauty or charm. glamorous adj. Glamorously adv. [var. Of *grammar in obsolete sense ‘magic’]

—v. (-cing) 1 (often foll. By down, up, over, etc.) Look briefly, direct one's eye.

- strike at an angle and glide off an object (glancing blow; ball glanced off his bat).

- (usu. Foll. By over) refer briefly or indirectly to a subject or subjects.

- (of light etc.) Flash or dart. —n. - brief look.

- flash or gleam.

- glancing stroke in cricket. at a glance immediately upon looking. [origin uncertain]