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  • GLADIOLUS
    A little sword or dagger; a kind of sedge. Mat Paris.
  • GLADIUS
    Lat. A sword. An ancient emblem of defense. Hence the ancient earls or comites (the king's attendants, advisers, and associates in his government) were made by being girt with swords, (gladio succincti.) The emblem of the executory power of the law in punishing crimes. 4 Bl. Comm. 177. In old More...
  • GLAIVE
    A sword, lance, or horseman's staff. One of the weapons allowed in a trial by combat
  • GLANS
    In the civil law. Acorns or nuts of the oak or other trees. In a larger sense, all fruits of trees.
  • GLASS-MEN
    A term used in St. 1 Jac. I. c. 7, for wandering rogues or vagrants.
  • GLAVEA
    A hand dart. Cowell.
  • GLEANING
    The gathering of grain after reapers, or of grain left ungathered by reapers. Held not to be a right at common law. 1 H. Bl. 51.
  • GLEBA
    A turf, sod, or clod of earth. The soil or ground; cultivated land in general. Church land, (solum et dos ecclesiw.) Spelman. See GLEBE.
  • GLEBAE ASCRIPTITII
    Villeln-socmen, who could not be removed from the land while they did the service due. Bract, c. 7; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 269.
  • GLEBARIAE
    Turfs dug out of the ground. Cowell.
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