gix

Parsley and "gix," and clogweed, and sauce-alone, whose white flowers smell of garlic if crushed in the fingers, came up along the hedge; by the gateway from the bare trodden earth appeared the shepherd's purse; small must be the coin to go in its seed capsule, and therefore it was so called with grim and truthful humour, for the shepherd, hard as is his work, facing wind and weather, carries home but little money.

Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

But the "gix," or wild parsnip, reached already high above both, and would rear its fluted stalk, joint on joint, till it could face a man.

The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867

Slanting among the underwood, against which it leans, the dry white "gix" (cow-parsnip) of last year has rotted from its root, and is only upheld by branches.

Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

By the banks great cow-parsnips or "gix" have opened their broad heads of white flowers; teazles have lifted themselves into view, every opening is occupied.

Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

Flowers are very local in habit; the spurge, for instance, which is common in a road parallel to this, is not to be seen, and not very much cow-parsnip, or "gix," one of the most freely-growing hedge plants, which almost chokes the mounds near by.

Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

But the other names, _ix_, _hix_, _hiix_ or _gix_, as they are variously written (though really one word), present a more serious difficulty to the attempt to bring them into harmony with the others.

Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266. Cyrus Thomas 1867

And when his late Ma - jesty, of glorious memory, had freed us from that fear, yet stiU he thought this duty of so much importance, as to gix-eit a par - ticular place in his Injunctions, set forth for the better estab - lishment of our Church in the year 1694.

Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... 1812

Principem accedo, - & faluto in sedibus villae primariis, formae graecae vel romanae fane egre - gix, fimilisque guftus fupelle&ili inftru&is.

Opera omnia sanctorum patrum Latinorum 1789

Ar. Efpcfial Ir Go Ibnradha.;;, go h'airig, go Ipcifialta, go prinlapalta, i's gix, tar ga; j, no os kcan gax 'ni.

Archaeologia Britannica, giving some account additional to what has been hitherto publish'd, of the languages, histories and customs of the original inhabitants of Great Britain: : from collections and observations in travels through Wales, Cornwal, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland. 1707

Section twenty-gix of chapter four hun - i893, 444, § 2g, dred and forty - four of the acts of the year eighteen hun - 'dred and ninety-three is hereby amended by striking out the words "or provided by the general laws", in the third and fourth lines, so as to read as follows: — Section Appoiutments

Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663