'In Bradon Forest growes ... a blew grasse they call July-flower grasse, which cutts the sheepes mouthes, except in the spring.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 49, ed. Brit.
*Gipsy-nuts. Hips and haws.—S.W. (near Trowbridge.)
Girls. Add:—S.W. (Deverill.)
Good liver. A person who lives an exceptionally good and pious life.—N.W.
Good-living. Leading a very pious life. 'Her wur allus a good-living sart o' a 'ooman.'—N.W.
Grained. Add:—Grinted in Berks.
Gramfer (or Granfer) Grig. A woodlouse. At Deverill, S.W., children try to charm it into curling up, when held in the hand, by singing:—
'Granfer Grig killed a pig,
Hung un up in corner;
Granfer cried and Piggy died,
And all the fun was over.'
Granny (or Granny's) Nightcap. Add:—*(5) Geum rivale, L., Water Avens.—S.W. (Little Langford.)