“Now safe the stately saumon sail, An’ trouts bedropp’d wi’ crimson hail, An’ eels weel kenn’d for souple tail, An’ _geds_ for greed.” _Burns._ Tam Samson. Gezlin, C and S, goslin, young goose. “Peat’ lass, wid her yallow muffs, Steud kaakin like a _gezlin_.” _Mark Lonsdale._ The Upshot. “If I canna keep geese I’ll keep _gezlins_.”—Proverb. Ghem, ga way tull’t, C, game, go to it; a hunting phrase; used proverbially to signify any attractive fun or quarreling. “There was a fine see howe—an’ _ghem ga way tull’t_.” Gin, S, if. “_Gin_ a body meet a body.” Song—Coming through the Rye. Gledge, S, look slyly. “Mr. Forret, alias _Gledgin_ Gibbie, had borne the brunt of incensed kirk-sessions before that time.” _Hogg._ Tibbie Hyslop. Glent, S and C, gleam. “Where flowers an’ gowans wont to _glent_ I’ bonnie blinks beside the bent.” _Ferguson._ Auld Reekie. Gliff, C and S, glimpse. “Here, here it was (a wae leet on the pleace) ’At furst I gat a _gliff_ o’ Betty’s feace.” _Relph._ Harvest. Glime, C, look sideways. “’Twad mak a deid man laugh to see Them _glime_ at yen anudder.” _Anderson._ The Village Gang. Gloamin’, S, twilight. “The _gloamin_’ grey out owre the welkin keeks.” _Ferguson._ The Farmer’s Ingle. Gloom, S, frown. “Still away his heid was shyin’, _Gloomin’_ like a boxing bull.” _John Johnston._ Dear Meal Johnnie. Glower, S and C, stare. “He _glower’t_ at the mune till he fell i’ the midden.”—Proverb. “What’s t’e _glowerin_’ at? Does t’e see any cat’ horns?” Sauce. Glump, C, sulk. “Neist time we met he _glumpt_ and glower’t An’ leukt anudder way.” _Anderson._ The lass abeun thirty. God Speed, C, a small wooden partition or screen placed within the house door, when it opens directly upon the sitting room. It has probably been called so from departing guests being wished “God Speed” beside it. I first heard the word at Harrington, from a humourist who asked a group of neighbours if they’d seen Tommy Wilson, who lived next door to him, adding, “If ye sud see him, tell him ’at his barns an’ mine hev been feightin’ till they’ve knock’d t’ _God-speed_ doon.” The fun of this lay in the well known fact that both were childless. Gorb, C, an unfledged bird. “Geàp, _gorbie_, an’ thou’ll git a wūrm.”—Proverb. Gowk, S and C, cuckoo, fool. “Ye breed o’ the _gowk_, ye’ve nae rhyme but ane.”—Proverb.