=Gottlieb= [_Got.leeb_], a cottage farmer, with whom Prince Henry of Hoheneck went to live after he was struck with leprosy. The cottager’s daughter Elsie volunteered to sacrifice her life for the cure of the prince, and was ultimately married to him.—Hartmann von der Aue, _Poor Henry_ (twelfth century); Longfellow, _Golden Legend_. =Gour´lay= (_Ailsie_), a privileged fool or jester.—Sir W. Scott, _The Antiquary_ (time, George III.). _Gourlay_ (_Ailsie_), an old sibyl at the death of Alice Gray.—Sir W. Scott, _Bride of Lammermoor_ (time, William III.). =Gourmaz= (_Don_), a national portrait of the Spanish nobility.—Pierre Corneille, _The Cid_ (1636). The character of Don Gourmaz, for its very excellence, drew down the censure of the French Academy.—Sir W. Scott, _The Drama_. =Go´vernale= (3 _syl._), first the tutor and then the attendant of Sir Tristram de Lionês. =Gow= (_Old Niell_), the fiddler. _Nathaniel Grow_, son of the fiddler.—Sir W. Scott, _St. Ronan’s Well_ (time, George III.). _Gow_ (_Henry_) or HENRY SMITH, also called “Gow Chrom” and “Hal of the Wynd,” the armorer. Suitor of Catharine Glover “the fair maid of Perth,” whom he marries.—Sir W. Scott, _Fair Maid of Perth_ (time, Henry IV.). =Gowk-thrapple= (_Maister_), a covenanting preacher.—Sir W. Scott, _Waverley_ (time, George II.). A man of coarse, mechanical, perhaps rather intrinsically feeble intellect, with the vehemence of some pulpit-drumming Gowk-thrapple.—Carlyle. =Graaf= (_Count_), was a great speculator in corn. One year a sad famine prevailed, and he expected, like Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to make an enormous fortune by his speculation, but an army of rats, pressed by hunger, invaded his barns, and then swarming into the castle, fell on the old baron, worried him to death, and then devoured him. (See HATTO). =Graal= (_Saint_) or ST. GREAL, is generally said to be the vessel or platter used by Christ at the last supper, in which Joseph of Arimathea caught the blood of the crucified Christ. In all descriptions of it in the Arthurian romances, it is simply the visible “presence” of Christ, or realization of the Catholic idea that the wafer, after consecration, is changed into the very body of the Saviour, and when Sir Galahad “achieved the quest of the Holy Graal,” all that is meant is that he saw with his bodily eyes the visible Saviour into which the holy wafer had been transmuted. Then the bishop took a wafer, which was made in the likeness of bread, and at the lifting up [_the elevation of the host_] there came a figure in the likeness of a child, and the visage was as red and as bright as fire, and he smote himself into that bread: so they saw that the bread was formed of a fleshly man, and then he put it into the holy vessel again ... then [_the bishop_] took the holy vessel and came to Sir Galahad as he kneeled down, and there he received his Saviour.—Pt. iii. 101, 102.