One evening Sherlock Holmes was going along the street and suddenly saw a man down…
- It’s certain, this gentleman is very tired after work… or he is dead drunk… or he is after being with a woman, … — reflected Holmes. As it’s Sunday today, he can’t be coming back from work… At such a late hour all shops are closed, and he couldn’t buy alcohol. So he is coming back from a woman. But in this remote place there are only two women — Watson’s wife and mine. Consequently, as I’m coming back from Watson’s wife, …
- Watson, rascal, get up!!!
v. (-ling) eat or drink greedily. [probably french gosiller from gosier throat]
GYPSUM
n. Mineral used esp. To make plaster of paris. [greek gupsos]
GYRATE
v. (-ting) move in a circle or spiral; revolve, whirl. gyration n. Gyratory adj. [greek: related to *gyro-]
GADWALL
n. Brownish-grey freshwater duck. [origin unknown]
GAINFUL
adj. - (of employment) paid.
- lucrative. gainfully adv.
GAINSAY
v. Deny, contradict. [old norse: related to *against, *say]
GALLANT
—adj. - brave.
- fine, stately.
- very attentive to women. —n. Ladies' man. gallantly adv. [french galer make merry]
GALLEON
n. Hist. Warship (usu. Spanish). [french or spanish: related to *galley]
GALLERY
n. (pl. -ies) 1 room or building for showing works of art.
- balcony, esp. In a church, hall, etc. (minstrels' gallery).
- highest balcony in a theatre.
- a covered walk partly open at the side; colonnade. B narrow passage in the thickness of a wall or on corbels, open towards the interior of the building.
- long narrow room or passage (shooting-gallery).
- horizontal underground passage in a mine etc.
- group of spectators at a golf-match etc. play to the gallery seek to win approval by appealing to popular taste. [french galerie]
GALLIUM
n. Soft bluish-white metallic element. [latin gallia france: so named patriotically by its discoverer lecoq]
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