gilp-word, st. n., _defiant word before the coming combat, vaunting word_: gen. pl. gespræc ... gylp-worda sum, 676. gim, st. m., _gem, precious stone, jewel_: nom. sg. heofones gim, _heaven's jewel_, i.e. the sun, 2073. Comp. searo-gim. gimme-rīce, adj., _rich in jewels_: acc. sg. gimme-rīce hord-burh hæleða, 466. gin (according to Bout., ginne), adj., properly _gaping_, hence, _wide, extended_: acc. sg. gynne grund (_the bottom of the sea_), 1552. gin-fæst, adj., _extensive, rich_: acc. sg. gim-fæste gife (gim-, on account of the following _f_), 1272; in weak form, gin-fæstan gife, 2183. ginnan, st. v., original meaning, _to be open, ready_; in on-ginnan, _to begin, to undertake_: pret. oð þæt ān ongan fyrene fremman fēond on helle, 100; secg eft ongan sīð Bēowulfes snyttrum styrian, 872; þā þæt sweord ongan ... wanian, _the sword began to diminish_, 1606; Higelāc ongan sīnne geseldan ... fægre fricgean, _began with propriety to question his companion_, 1984, etc.; ongon, 2791; pret. pl. nō hēr cūðlīcor cuman ongunnon lindhæbbende, _no shield-bearing men e'er undertook more openly to come hither_, 244; pret. part. hæbbe ic mǣrða fela ongunnen on geogoðe, _have in my youth undertaken many deeds of renown_, 409. gist. See gæst. gistran, adv., _yesterday_: gystran niht, _yesterday night_, 1335. git, pron., _ye two_, dual of þū, 508, 512, 513, etc. gīt, gȳt, adv., _yet; then still_, 536, 1128, 1165, 2142; _hitherto_, 957; nǣfre gīt, _never yet_, 583; _still_, 945, 1059, 1135; _once more_, 2513; _moreover_, 47, 1051, 1867. gitan (original meaning, _to take hold of, to seize, to attain_), in be-gitan, w. acc., _to grasp, to seize, to reach_: pret. sg. begeat, 1147, 2231; þā hine wīg beget, _when war seized him, came upon him_, 2873; similarly, begeat, 1069; pret. pl. hit ǣr on þē gōde be-geāton, _good men received it formerly from thee_, 2250; subj. sg. for pl. þæt wæs Hrōðgāre hrēowa tornost þāra þe lēodfruman lange begeāte, _the bitterest of the troubles that for a long time had befallen the people's chief_, 2131. for-gitan, w. acc., _to forget_: pres. sg. III. hē þā forðgesceaft forgyteð and forgȳmeð, 1752. an-gitan, on-gitan, w. acc.: 1) _to take hold of, to grasp_: imp. sg. gumcyste ongit, _lay hold of manly virtue, of what becomes the man_, 1724; pret. sg. þē hine se brōga angeat, _whom terror seized_, 1292.--2) _to grasp intellectually, to comprehend, to perceive, to distinguish, to behold_: pres. subj. I. þæt ic ǣrwelan ... ongite, _that I may behold the ancient wealth_ (the treasures of the drake's cave), 2749; inf. sæl timbred ... ongytan, 308, 1497; Gēata clifu ongitan, 1912; pret. sg. fyren-þearfe ongeat, _had perceived their distress from hostile snares_, 14; ongeat ... grund-wyrgenne, _beheld the she-wolf of the bottom_, 1519; pret. pl. bearhtm ongeāton, gūðhorn galan, _perceived the noise_, (heard) _the battle-trumpet sound_, 1432; syððan hīe Hygelāces horn and bȳman gealdor ongeāton, 2945.