noun. A ravine.

noun. A narrow stream.

noun. A unit of volume or capacity in the US Customary System, used in liquid measure, equal to ¹/₄ of a pint or four ounces (118 milliliters).

noun. A unit of volume or capacity, used in dry and liquid measure, equal to ¹/₄ of a British Imperial pint (142 milliliters).

noun. A girl, often one's sweetheart.

noun. The respiratory organ of most aquatic animals that obtain oxygen from water, consisting of a filamentous structure of vascular membranes across which dissolved gases are exchanged.

noun. undefined

noun. The wattle of a bird.

noun. The area around the chin and neck.

noun. One of the thin, platelike structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus.

intransitive verb. To catch (fish) in a gill net.

intransitive verb. To gut or clean (fish).

intransitive verb. To become entangled in a gill net. Used of fish.

idiom. (to the gills) As full as possible; completely.

To catch (fish) by the gills, as by means of a gill-net: as, gilled fish.

[In allusion to the parallel rows of filaments in a fish's gills.] In making worsted yarn, to make the fibers level and parallel with each other by drawing them through a gilling-machine.

To display the gills in swimming with the head partly out of water: as, mackerel go along gilling.

noun. A narrow valley; a ravine, especially one with a rapid stream running through it.

noun. A corrugation or fold; a hollow, as in a sheet of metal.

noun. A liquid measure, one fourth of a pint in the British and United States systems.

noun. A pint of ale.

noun. A girl; a sweetheart: used in familiarity or contempt, as either a proper or a common noun.

noun. [Short for gill-creep-by-the-ground, or gillrun-over-the-ground, homely names for the plant, in which gill is a familiar application of the feminine name.] The ground-ivy, Nepeta Glechoma.

noun. Same as gill-beer.

noun. A frame with a pair of wheels used for conveying timber.

noun. Same as gill-frame.

noun. The breathing-organ of any animal that lives in the water.

noun. Specifically, an organ in aquatic animals for the aërification of the blood through the medium of water; the respiratory apparatus of any animal that breathes the air which is mixed with water; by extension, a branchia, as of any invertebrate and of the ichthyopsidan vertebrates. See branchiæ.

noun. Some part like or likened to a gill.

noun. One of a number of radiating plates on the under side of the cap or pileus of a mushroom.

noun. In entomology, the branchiæ or external breathing-organs of certain insectlarvæ.

noun. An English penny or quarter bit.

noun. A fellow or ‘cove’: as, a queer gill.

noun. A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.

noun. A woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream.

noun. A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint.

noun. A leech.

noun. A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl.

noun. The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names.

noun. Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy.

noun. Alehoof.

noun. An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia.

noun. The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom.

noun. The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.

noun. The flesh under or about the chin.

noun. One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.

noun. Same as Branchial arches.

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noun. Same as Branchial clefts. See under Branchial.

noun. See Operculum.

"Ignore for the moment, the implication behind the misleading use of the phrase gill slits (and the 18th century frauds of militant evolutionist Ernst Haeckel) and consider the pair of words dramatically offset in the caption: embryonic humans a dramatic yet subtle change from the more common media phrase: human embryos."

aërial gills  extrapulmonary gill  false gills  free gills  lung  

gill bars  gill head  gill lid  gill rakers  gill slit  

to the gills  

british capacity unit  imperial capacity unit  plant organ  united states liquid unit  

Bastille  Belleville  Bill  Brazil  Brill  

allspice  cupful  dessert-spoonful  dram  flavoring  

Dulcinea  adolescent stream  arroyo  beck  bellows  

gell  gill over the ground  

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