=Gashford=, secretary to Lord George Gordon. A detestable, cruel sneak, who dupes his half-mad master, and leads him to imagine he is upholding a noble cause in plotting against the English Catholics. To wreak vengeance on Geoffrey Haredale, he incites the rioters to burn “The Warren,” where Haredale resided. Gashford commits suicide.—C. Dickens, _Barnaby Rudge_ (1841). =Gaspar= or Casper (“_the white one_”), one of the three Magi or kings of Cologne. His offering to the infant Jesus was _frankincense_, in token of divinity. ⁂ The other two were Melchior (“king of light”), who offered _gold_, symbolical of royalty; and Balthazar (“lord of treasures”), who offered _myrrh_, to denote that Christ would die. Klopstock, in his _Messiah_, makes the number of the Magi _six_, not one of which names agrees with those of Cologne Cathedral. =Gaspard=, the steward of Count De Valmont, in whose service he had been for twenty years, and to whom he was most devotedly attached.—W. Dimond, _The Foundling of the Forest_. =Gas´pero=, secretary of state, in the drama called _The Laws of Candy_, by Beaumont and Fletcher (1647). =Gathe´ral= (_Old_), steward to the duke of Buckingham.—Sir W. Scott, _Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.). =Gath´erill= (_Old_), bailiff to Sir Geoffrey Peveril of the Peak.—Sir W. Scott, _Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.). =Gauden´tio di Lucca=, the hero and title of a romance by Simon Berington. He makes a journey to Mezzoramia, an imaginary country in the interior of Africa. =Gau´difer=, a champion in the romance of _Alexander_. =Gaudio´sa= (_Lady_), wife of Pelayo; a wise and faithful counsellor, high-minded, brave in danger, and a real helpmate.—Southey, _Roderick, Last of the Goths_ (1814). =Gaudissart=, the droll French bagman. =Gaul=, son of Morni of Strumon. He was betrothed to Oith´ona, daughter of Nuäth, but before the day of marriage he was called away by Fingal to attend him on an expedition against the Britons. At the same time Nuäth was at war, and sent for his son Lathmon; so Oithona was left unprotected in her home. Donrommath, lord of Uthal (or Cuthal) seized this opportunity to carry her off, and concealed her in a cave in the desert island of Trom´athon. When Gaul returned to claim his betrothed, he found she was gone, and was told by a vision in the night where she was hidden. Next day, with three followers, Gaul went to Tromathon, and the ravisher coming up, he slew him and cut off his head. Oithona, armed as a combatant, mingled with the fighters and was wounded. Gaul saw what he thought a youth dying, and went to offer assistance, but found it was Oithona, who forthwith expired. Disconsolate, he returns to Dunlathmon, and thence to Morven. Ossian, _Oithona_. =Gaunt´grim=, the wolf, in Lord Lytton’s _Pilgrims of the Rhine_ (1834). Bruin is always in the sulks, and Gauntgrim always in a passion.—Ch. xii.