Glossarist. A word-culler.
Glossary. Gr. glossa, tongue, speech. A word-list or word-list:—‘Mei en lyst vin oade spreckworden’ (with a list of old saws).—Friesic.
Grandiloquent. High-talking.
Gratuitous. Out of kindness. Gratia is good will, free kindness; and gratuitus is freely bestowed of gratia, without hire or reward. But a writer says that an attack of slander on a woman’s purity ‘was gratuitous,’ or of gratia or good will, without hire or reward, as if gratuitous meant without grounds of malice.
Hendiadys. One-in-twice. A wording of one thing at twice, or as two things; as, ‘I heard shouting and men’ for ‘shouting of men.’ ‘An arm and strength’ for ‘a strong arm.’ A fortwaining.
Hendiadys will give you two
Clear words where one alone would do.
Hexameter. Gr. hex, six; metron, measure, metre. A metre in Greek and Latin verse, lines of six feet.
-hood (an ending). It means a state of being, rank, or standing among other things:—Childhood, manhood.
Horizon. Sky-sill, sky-line.
Hybrid (word). L. hybrida, a mongrel.