=Gib´bie= (_Guse_), a half-witted lad in the service of Lady Bellenden.—Sir W. Scott, _Old Mortality_ (time, Charles II.). Like Goose Gibbie of famous memory, he first kept the turkeys, and then, as his years advanced, was promoted to the more important office of minding the cows.—Keightley. =Gibby=, a Scotch Highlander in attendance on Colonel Briton. He marries Inis, the waiting-woman of Isabella.—Mrs. Centlivre, _The Wonder_ (1714). =Gibou=, (_Madame_), a type of feminine vulgarity. A hard-headed, keen-witted, coarsely clever, and pragmatical _maîtresse femme_, who believes in nothing but a good digestion and money in the Funds.—Henri Monnier, _Scènes Populaires_ (1852.) Mde. Pochet and Mde. Gibou are the French “Mrs. Gamp and Mrs. Harris.” =Gibson= (_Janet_), a young dependent on Mrs. Margaret Bertram of Singleside.—Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, George II.). =Gifford= (_John_). This pseudonym has been adopted by three authors: (1) John Richards Green, _Blackstone’s Commentaries Abridged_, 1823; (2) Edward Foss, _An Abridgment of Blackstone’s Commentaries_ (1821); (3) Alexander Whellier, _The English Lawyer_. _Gifford_ (_William_), author of _The Baviad_, a poetical satire, which annihilated the Delia Crusca school of poets (1794). In 1796, Gifford published _The Mœviad_, to expose the low state of dramatic authorship. He was a man with whom I had no literary sympathies.... He had, however, a heart full of kindness for all living creatures except authors: _them_ he regarded as a fishmonger regards eels, or as Izaak Walton did worms.—Southey. =Giggleswick Fountain= ebbs and flows eight times a day. The tale is that Giggleswick was once a nymph living with the Oreads on Mount Craven. A satyr chanced to see her, and resolved to win her; but Giggleswick fled to escape her pursuer, and praying to the “topic gods” (the local genii), was converted into a fountain, which still pants with fear. The tale is told by Drayton, in his _Polyolbion_, xxviii. (1622). =Gilbert=, butler to Sir Patrick Charteris, provost of Perth.—Sir W. Scott, _Fair Maid of Perth_ (time, Henry IV.). _Gilbert_ (_Miss_), an ambitious girl with a taste for literary celebrity. She writes one book which is a slight success, another which “takes.” Petted from her childhood, and spoiled by the tolerable measure of adulation she receives subsequently, she needs the discipline of mortification and schooling to tone her down to what an originally fine nature was designed to become. She becomes the happy wife of a self-made man who has done his work well.—Josiah Gilbert Holland, _Miss Gilbert’s Career_ (1859). _Gilbert_ (_Sir_), noted for the sanative virtue of his sword and cere-cloth. Sir Launcelot touched the wounds of Sir Meliot with Sir Gilbert’s sword and wiped them with a cere-cloth, and “anon a wholer man was he never in all his life”—Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_, i. 116 (1470).