_Goose_, or _Goose-cap_, a Fool. _Find fault with a Fat Goose_, or without a Cause. _Go Shoe the Goose._ _Fie upon Pride when Geese go Bare-legg’d._ _He’ll be a Man among the Geese when the Gander is gon_, or a Man before his Mother. _A Tayler’s Goose Roasted_, a Red-hot smoothing Iron, to Close the Seams. _Hot and heavy like a Tayler’s Goose_, may be applied to a Passionate Coxcomb. _Goree_, c. Money, but chiefly Gold. _Gossips_, the Godfathers and Godmothers at Christnings; also those that are noted for _Gossiping_, much Idle Prating, and Tittle Tattle. _Graces_, or Ornaments of Speech. _With a good Grace_, what is Becoming, Agreeable. _With an ill Grace_, what is Unbecoming or Disagreeable. _Grafted_, made a Cuckold of. _Grannam_, c. Corn. _Grannam gold_, old Hoarded Coin. _Granny_, an old Woman, also a Grandmother. _Grapple_, to close in Fisticuffs or Fighting, Oppos’d to Combating at Arms-end; also a fastning of Ships together in an Engagement with Grappling Irons, a kind of Anchors (or resembling them) with four Flooks and no Stock. _Grasp_, to Catch and Hold fast, or press with the close Fist. _Grating_, harsh Sounds, disagreeable, shocking and Offensive to the Ear. _Great Buck_, the Sixth Year. _Great Hare_, the Third Year and afterwards. _Gratings_, the chequer’d Work clapt on the Deck of a Ship to let in the Light and Air. _Green-bag_, a Lawyer. _Green-gown_, a throwing of young Lasses on the Grass and Kissing them. _Green-head_, a very raw Novice, or unexperienc’d Fellow. _Greshamite_, a Virtuoso, or Member of the Royal Society. _Grig_, c. a Farthing; also a very small Eel. _A merry Grig_, a merry Fellow. _Not a Grig did he tip me_, c. not a Farthing wou’d he give me. _Grilliade_, any Broild Meats, Fish or Flesh. _Grimaces_, Mops and Mows, or making of Faces. _Grim_, Stern, Fierce, Surly. _Grinders_, c. Teeth, _The Cove has Rum Grinders_, c. the Rogue has excellent Teeth. _Gripe_ or _Griper_, an old Covetous Wretch; also a Banker, Money Scrivener, or Usurer. _Griping_, is an Epithet commonly affixed either to the Exactions of Oppressive Governors, or to the Extortions of Usurers; Griping Usurers, and griping Usury being as ordinary in English as _Usura vorax_ in Latin. _Griskins_, Steaks off the Rump of Beef, also Pork-bones with some tho’ not much Flesh on them, accounted very sweet Meat Broyled. _Gropers_, c. blind Men. _Grotesque_, a wild sort of Painting mostly us’d for Banquetting or Summer-houses. _Grounds_, Unscented Hair Powder, made of Starch, or Rice. See Alabaster. _Grownd-Sweat_, a Grave. _Growse_, Heath-polts. _Growneth_, the Noise a Buck makes at Rutting time. _Groyne_, corruptly by the Tarrs for _Coronna_, a Seaport of _Galicia_ in _Spain_. _Grub Street News_, false, Forg’d. _Grum_, the same as _Grim_, Stern or Fierce. _Grumbletonians_, Malecontents, out of Humour with the Government, for want of a Place, or having lost one.