The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gill \Gill\, n. [Abbrev. from Gillian.]
A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl. ``Each Jack with his Gill.''
--B. Jonson.(Bot.) The ground ivy ( Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names.
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Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy. Gill ale.
Ale flavored with ground ivy.
(Bot.) Alehoof.
Ivy \I"vy\, n.; pl. Ivies. [AS. [=i]fig; akin to OHG. ebawi, ebah, G. epheu.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Hedera ( Hedera helix), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers.
Direct
The clasping ivy where to climb.
--Milton.
Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere.
--Milton.
American ivy. (Bot.) See Virginia creeper.
English ivy (Bot.), a popular name in America for the ivy proper ( Hedera helix).
German ivy (Bot.), a creeping plant, with smooth, succulent stems, and fleshy, light-green leaves; a species of Senecio ( Senecio scandens).
Ground ivy. (Bot.) Gill ( Nepeta Glechoma).
Ivy bush. (Bot.) See Mountain laurel, under Mountain.
Ivy owl (Zo["o]l.), the barn owl.
Ivy tod (Bot.), the ivy plant.
--Tennyson.
Japanese ivy (Bot.), a climbing plant ( Ampelopsis tricuspidata), closely related to the Virginia creeper.
Poison ivy (Bot.), an American woody creeper ( Rhus Toxicodendron), with trifoliate leaves, and greenish-white berries. It is exceedingly poisonous to the touch for most persons.
To pipe in an ivy leaf, to console one's self as best one
can. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
West Indian ivy, a climbing plant of the genus Marcgravia.
Alehoof \Ale"hoof`\ ([=a]l"h[=oo]f`), n. [AS. h[=o]fe ground
ivy; the first part is perh. a corruption: cf. OE. heyhowe
hedgehove, ground ivy, ``in old MSS. heyhowe, heyoue,
haihoue, halehoue.''
--Prior.]
Ground ivy ( Nepeta Glechoma).
Cat's-foot \Cat's`-foot\, n. (Bot.) A plant ( Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip; ground ivy.
Usage examples of "nepeta glechoma".
Closely allied to the Catmint is the Ground Ivy (Nepeta glechoma, Benth.