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English → English (gcide) Definition: Nepeta Glechoma Gill \Gill\, n. [Abbrev. from Gillian.] 1. A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl. “Each Jack with his Gill.” --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names. [1913 Webster] 3. Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy. [1913 Webster] Gill ale. (a) Ale flavored with ground ivy. (b) (Bot.) Alehoof. [1913 Webster] Ivy \I"vy\, n.; pl. Ivies. [AS. [=i]fig; akin to OHG. ebawi, ebah, G. epheu.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Hedera (Hedera helix), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers. [1913 Webster] Direct The clasping ivy where to climb. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere. --Milton. [1913 Webster] American ivy. (Bot.) See Virginia creeper. English ivy (Bot.), a popular name in America for the ivy proper (Hedera helix). German ivy (Bot.), a creeping plant, with smooth, succulent stems, and fleshy, light-green leaves; a species of Senecio (Senecio scandens). Ground ivy. (Bot.) Gill (Nepeta Glechoma). Ivy bush. (Bot.) See Mountain laurel, under Mountain. Ivy owl (Zo["o]l.), the barn owl. Ivy tod (Bot.), the ivy plant. --Tennyson. Japanese ivy (Bot.), a climbing plant (Ampelopsis tricuspidata ), closely related to the Virginia creeper. Poison ivy (Bot.), an American woody creeper (Rhus Toxicodendron ), with trifoliate leaves, and greenish-white berries. It is exceedingly poisonous to the touch for most persons. To pipe in an ivy leaf, to console one's self as best one can. [Obs.] --Chaucer. West Indian ivy, a climbing plant of the genus Marcgravia. [1913 Webster] Alehoof \Ale"hoof`\ ([=a]l"h[=oo]f`), n. [AS. h[=o]fe ground ivy; the first part is perh. a corruption: cf. OE. heyhowe hedgehove, ground ivy, “in old MSS. heyhowe, heyoue, haihoue, halehoue.” --Prior.] Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma). [1913 Webster] Cat's-foot \Cat's`-foot\, n. (Bot.) A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip; ground ivy. [1913 Webster]