GENTLEMAN'S MASTER. A highway robber, because he makes a gentleman obey his commands, i.e. stand and deliver.
GENTLEMAN OF THREE INS. In debt, in gaol, and in danger
of remaining there for life: or, in gaol, indicted, and
in danger of being hanged in chains.
GENTLEMAN OF THREE OUTS. That is, without money,
without wit, and without manners: some add another
out, i.e. without credit.
GENTRY COVE. A gentleman. CANT.
GENTRY COVE KEN. A gentleman's house. CANT.
GENTRY MORT. A gentlewoman.
GEORGE. Yellow George; a guinea. Brown George: an ammunition loaf.
GERMAN DUCK. Haifa sheep's head boiled with onions.
GET. One of his get; one of his offspring, or begetting.
GIB CAT. A northern name for a he cat, there commonly called Gilbert. As melancholy as a gib cat; as melancholy as a he cat who has been caterwauling, whence they always return scratched, hungry, and out of spirits. Aristotle says, Omne animal post coitum est triste; to which an anonymous author has given the following exception, preter gallum gallinaceum, et sucerdotem gratis fornicantem.