a certain order of Jewish doctors, who appeared in the East, after the closing of the talmud. The word Gaons signifies "excellent, sublime;" as in the divinity-schools we formerly had Irrefragable, Sublime, Refolute, Angelic, and Subtile doctors. The Gaons succeeded the Seburtans or Opiners, about the beginning of the fifth century. Chanan Meischtia was the head, and first of the excellents. He restored the academy of Pandebita, which had been shut up for 30 years.

GARFISH, Horn-fish, or Sea-needle. See Esox.