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gilbert

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gilbert is a surname of Germanic origin. The English-language surname is derived from Giselbert , a mediaeval personal name composed of the following Germanic elements gisil ("pledge", "hostage", "noble youth") and berht ("bright", "famous"). This personal ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gilbert \Gilbert\ prop. n. William Schwenk Gilbert, an English dramatist born at London Nov. 18, 1836. He is most famous for his collaborations with Sir Arthur Sullivan on a number of humorous light operas which are known as ``Gilbert and Sullivan Operas''. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, from Old French Guillebert (from Old High German Williberht , literally "a bright will") or Old French Gilebert , from Gisilbert , literally "a bright pledge," from Old High German gisil "pledge," a Celtic loan-word (compare Old Irish ...

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Population (2000): 500 Housing Units (2000): 195 Land area (2000): 2.265512 sq. miles (5.867648 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.062235 sq. miles (0.161188 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.327747 sq. miles (6.028836 sq. km) FIPS code: 29050 Located within: South ...

Usage examples of gilbert.

William Winter at a dinner given by the Lotos Club, New York City, November 30, 1878, to John Gilbert, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of his first appearance on the stage.

Gilbert kept me in a kind of enchantment which lasted while I was in company with her friends, for whom I did not care.

Occasionally some man more thoughtful than the rest would he drawn to him by curiosity, but, finding himself met with so much reserve, involuntary in Gilbert, would become doubtful and turn elsewhither for sympathy.

Of the few biographies ever written of John Adams, those by Gilbert Chinard, Page Smith, and John Ferling are first-rate, fair in judgment, and well written.

Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell and Gilbert Grosvenor of the National Geographic Society.

Paracelsus and Gilbert both felt in the direction of hylozoism, or the theory of the animation of all things.

Their second visit to America in 1930-31 was far better enjoyed by Gilbert, and also I think by Frances until she got ill, because on it they came much closer to the real people of the country, especially during the period when he was lecturing at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

Sunday, February 9, we fetched Minnie, Lightening, Orah, Kirk, Essie, Abe, Moose, Pete, Boomer, Bandit, Scamp, Taro, and, just in case, Gilbert.

Patterson, T A, Gilbert, D B, and Rose, S P R Pre- and posttraining lesions of the intermediate medial hyperstriatum ventrale and passive avoidance learning in the chick.

Thank you all, especially those of you who got me through graduate school and the writing of this novel: Darnell Arnoult, Debbie and Tim Atkinson, Tamara and Brent Barringer, Virginia Boyd, Renee and Nathan Coppley, Elizabeth Duncan, Kelly Duncan, Pat and Bill Eaton, Becky Hart, Aaron Henderson, Silas House, Jenny Lewis, Cason Lynley, Joy Patterson, Billy Joe Price, Gary Price, Nealie Price, Lisa and Jimmy Rogers, Amy Trester, Nicky and Gilbert Turner, and Lynn York.

Therefore, and to enable the said Gilbert Burns to make good his said engagement, wit ye me to have assigned, disponed, conveyed and made over to, and in favours of, the said Gilbert Burns, his heirs, executors, and assignees, who are always to be bound in like manner, with, himself, all and sundry goods, gear, corns, cattle, horses, nolt, sheep, household furniture, and all other moveable effects of whatever kind that I shall leave behind me on my departure from this Kingdom, after allowing for my part of the conjunct debts due by the said Gilbert Burns and me as joint tacksmen of the farm of Mossgiel.

She practically purred as she told Kate that a rather firm interview with Melanie Gilbert had given them some prime hints not only about the Banderas sex life, which had been far kinkier than Gilbert had been willing to admit at first, but also led to a storage locker in Novate It was currently being gone over with the finest-toothed combs in the Crime Scene repertoire, but it looked to be where Matty had stashed his rape souvenirs.

My discourse on the sadomasochistic subtext of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas has been called a minor masterpiece.

Two days later Gilbert participated in a three-way conference call between himself, Korina Soldo, and State Security Investigator Milo Bosic of the Klincica Police Department, the Pec Secretariat, the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Serbia.

Reluctantly, Gilbert went, tucking the rod into the placket at the front of his doublet.