▪ I. † gargil1 Obs. rare.
Also 6 gargill, 7–8 gargle.
[ad. OF. gargouille ‘the weesle, or weason of the throat’ (Cotgr.), perh. connected with L. gurgulio; see gargle and gargoyle.]
The gullet.
| 1558–68 Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. 29 b, A verie exquisite remedie against the disease called in Latine angina..whiche is an inflammation of the Muscle of the inner Gargill. 1559 Morwyng Evonym. 146 Evyll distillacions, whiche, onles a man finde remeadye for, oftentimes the gargil is wasted. 1609 C. Butler Fem. Mon. (1634) 168. 1632 Sherwood, The gargle of the throte, gargouille. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Gargle, the Gullet of the Throat. |
▪ II. gargil2 Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 7 gargell, -gill, -gyll, 7–8 gargil, 8 gargol, 7–9 gargle.
[f. prec.: cf. garget1.]
1. A disease in cattle and pigs, attacking the head and throat; a distemper, murrain.
| 1601 Holland Pliny II. 216 The same is holden to be good for to heale the Squinancy or Gargle in swine. 1639 T. de Grey Compl. Horsem. 277 The pestilence or plague..some doe call it the murraine, others the garget, others the gargill. 1707 Mortimer Husb. 187 For the Gargol in Hogs. The signs of which are, hanging down of the Head..moist Eyes, staggering, and loss of Appetite. |
b. A similar disease in geese.
| 1614 Markham Cheap Husb. vii. xvi. (1668) 121 For the..infirmities in Geese, the most and worst they are subject unto is the Gargil. 1741 Compl. Fam.-Piece iii. 510 The Gargil is a great Stopping of the Head in Geese. |
2. An inflamed condition of the udder in cows.
| c 1760 Pegge Derbicisms (E.D.S. 78), Gargle, a distemper incident to cows, when they give bad milk, and have knots in the paps. 1886 Chester Gloss., Gargle, an inflammation in a cow's udder, known to veterinary surgeons as Mammitis. |
▪ III. gargil(le
obs. forms of gargoyle.