FUSTIC.
Geelhout, . . . . DUT. Fustiek, . . . . GER. Bois jaune de Bresil, FR. Legno giallo de Brasilio, IT. Gelbholz, . . . . GER. Palo delBrasillomaxillo,Sr.
A dye-wood the produce of the Madura tinctoria, Nutt, a large tree Of tropical America and the West Indies.-21PCulloch ; Tomlinson.
G. This letter is used in most of the languages of Southern Asia, but with the hard sound, as in gardener, get, gild, golf, gun. There is not, apparently, any Eastern tongue in which it has the soft sound of the languages of Europe before e and i, in general, geometry, gin giorno, Gerusalemme. In writing Eastern wora.s, there fore, this letter, where it occurs, presents similar difficulties to the letter c, which Europeans make interchangeable with k, as in Cashmir, Kashmir, Cabul, Kabul. Gehoon, HIND., wheat, which has the hard sound, might, by a native of Europe, be pronounced, erroneously, Jehun; and Gentoo, a word derived from the Portuguese, and pronounced Jentoo might be, erroneously, pronounced hard.
The Arabic Jabl, a, mountain, is pronounced Gabal by the northern Arabs. Ginti, HIND., a muster, Gird, HIND., PERS., a round or circle (Scotch, a gird or hoop), are alike hard. The English letters gh are generally to be pronounced separately in Eastern tongues as if written eh but in the Arabic, and taken /mom it into Persian and Urdu or Hindustani, there is a separate letter, the ghain, which has a combined softened guttural sound of gh, as Ghulam, a slave. Arabic has no letter gaf, or hard g.
GAB, fruits of Diospyros embryopteris (D. glutinosa), the size of a small orange ; deep green, with a rusty dust ; strongly astringent and muci laginous.—Irvine, Med. Top.