The American Printer: A Manual of Typography / Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office, as well as complete instructions for apprentices; with several useful tables, numerous schemes for imposing forms in every variety, hints to authors, etc.

by Thomas MacKellar

Gendarmerie.—The body of the gendarmes.

Genius loci.—The genius of the place.

Genus irritabile vatum.—Irritable tribe of poets.

Gloria in excelsis.—Glory to God in the highest.

Gratis.—Free of cost.

Gratis dictum.—Mere assertion.

Gravamen.—The thing complained of.

Grisette.—Dressed in gray (a term applied to French shop-girls, &c.)

Gusto.—Great relish.

Habeas corpus.—You are to have the body; a writ of right, by virtue of which every citizen can, when imprisoned, demand to be put on his trial.