- gill⇄adj. gill-like.
- gill⇄expr. gills,
a. the fine, thin, leaflike structures on the underside of a mushroom.
b. the flesh under a person's jaws.
Ex. to look green around the gills.
c. the red, hanging flesh under the throat of a fowl; wattles. - gill⇄expr. to the gills, very fully; to capacity.
Ex. The house is stuffed to the gills with food but it's all for Christmas (Punch). - gill⇄gill (1), noun, verb.
- gill⇄gill (2), noun.
a small liquid measure, equal to one fourth of a pint. One gill is half a cup or .1183 liter. - gill⇄gill (3), noun.
1. a ravine; glen.
2. a stream in a ravine. Also, ghyll. - gill⇄gill (4), noun.
1. (Dialect.) the ground ivy.
2. (Obsolete.) a woman; girl. Also, jill. - gill⇄noun a part of the body of a fish, tadpole, crab, or other animal that lives in water, by which it breathes in water. Oxygen passes in and carbon dioxide passes out through the thin walls of the gills.
- gill⇄v.t. 1. to catch (fish) by the gills in a gill net.
2. to clean (fish).
3. to cut away the gills of (a mushroom).