=Gum´midge= (_Mrs._), the widow of Dan’el Peggotty’s partner. She kept house for Dan’el, who was a bachelor. Old Mrs. Gummidge had a craze that she was neglected and uncared for, a waif in the wide world, of no use to any one. She was always talking of herself as the “lone lorn cre’tur’.” When about to sail for Australia, one of the sailors asked her to marry him, when “she ups with a pail of water and flings it at his head.”—C. Dickens, _David Copperfield_ (1849.) =Gundof´orus=, an Indian king for whom the Apostle Thomas built a palace of sethym wood, the roof of which was ebony. He made the gates of the horn of the “horned snake,” that no one with poison might be able to pass through. =Gungnir=, Odin’s spear.—_Scandinavian Mythology_. =Günther=, king of Burgundy, and brother of Kriemhild (2 _syl._). He resolved to wed Brunhild, the martial queen of Issland, and won her by the aid of Siegfried; but the bride behaved so obstreperously that the bridegroom had again to apply to his friend for assistance. Siegfried contrived to get possession of her ring and girdle, after which she became a submissive wife. Günther, with base ingratitude, was privy to the murder of his friend, and was himself slain in the dungeon of Etzel by his sister Kriemhield.—_The Nibelungen Lied._ ⁂ In history, Günther is called “Güntacher,” and Etzel “Attila.” =Gup´py= (_Mr._), clerk in the office of Kenge and Carboy. A weak, commonplace youth, who has the conceit to propose to Esther Summerson, the ward in Chancery.—C. Dickens, _Bleak House_ (1853). =Gurgus´tus=, according to Drayton, son of Belīnus. This is a mistake, as Gurgustus, or rather Gurgustius, was son of Rivallo; and the son of Belīnus was Gurgiunt Brabtruc. The names given by Geoffrey, in his _British History_, run thus; Leir (_Lear_), Cunedag, his grandson, Rivallo, his son, Gurgustius, his son, Sisillius, his son, Jago, nephew of Gurguitius, Kinmarc, son of Sisillius, then Gorbogud. Here the line is broken, and the new dynasty begins with Molmutius of Cornwall, then his son Belinus, who was succeeded by his son Gurgiunt Brabtruc, whose son and successor was Guithelin, called by Drayton “Guynteline.”—Geoffrey, _British History,_ ii., iii. (1142). In greatness next succeeds Belinus’ worthy son Gurgustus, who soon left what his great father won To Guynteline his heir M. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, viii. (1612). =Gurney= (_Gilbert_), the hero and title of a novel by Theodore Hook. This novel is a spiced autobiography of the author himself (1835). _Gurney_ (_Thomas_), shorthand writer, and author of a work on the subject called _Brachygraphy_ (1705-1770). If you would like to see the whole proceedings... The best is that in shorthand ta’en by Gurney, Who to Madrid on purpose made a journey. Byron, _Don Juan_, i. 189 (1819).