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G Dictionary G - G is the name of the fifth tone of the natural or model scale; - called also sol by the Italians and French. It was also originally used as the treble clef, and has gradually changed into the character represented in the margin. See Clef. G (G sharp) is a tone intermediate between G and A.
Gab Dictionary G - noun The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric.
Gabarage Dictionary G - noun A kind of coarse cloth for packing goods.
Gabardine Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gaberdine.
Gaberdine Dictionary G - noun A coarse frock or loose upper garment formerly worn by Jews; a mean dress.
Gabber Dictionary G - noun A liar; a deceiver.
Gabbled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gabble.
Gabbling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gabble.
Gabble Dictionary G - intransitive verb To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.
Gabbier Dictionary G - noun One who gabbles; a prater.
Gabbro Dictionary G - noun A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro).
Gabel Dictionary G - noun A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
Gabeler Dictionary G - noun A collector of gabels or taxes.
Gabelle Dictionary G - noun A tax, especially on salt.
Gabelleman Dictionary G - noun A gabeler.
Gaber-lunzie Dictionary G - noun A beggar with a wallet; a licensed beggar.
Gabert Dictionary G - noun A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation.
Gabion Dictionary G - noun A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.
Gabionade Dictionary G - noun A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire.
Gabionage Dictionary G - noun The part of a fortification built of gabions.
Gabioned Dictionary G - particle adjective Furnished with gabions.
Gabionnade Dictionary G - noun See Gabionade.
Gable Dictionary G - noun A cable.
Gablet Dictionary G - noun A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.
Gablock Dictionary G - noun A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock.
Gaby Dictionary G - noun A simpleton; a dunce; a lout.
Gad Dictionary G - noun The point of a spear, or an arrowhead.
Gadded Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gad.
Gadding Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gad.
Gadabout Dictionary G - noun A gadder.
Gadbee Dictionary G - noun The gadfly.
Gadder Dictionary G - noun One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.
Gaddingly Dictionary G - adverb In a roving, idle manner.
Gaddish Dictionary G - adjective Disposed to gad.
Gade Dictionary G - noun A small British fish (Motella argenteola) of the Cod family.
Gadere Dictionary G - verb transitive & intransitive Alt. of Gadre.
Gadre Dictionary G - verb transitive & intransitive To gather.
Gadflies Dictionary G - pleural of Gadfly.
Gadfly Dictionary G - noun Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.
Gadhelic Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to that division of the Celtic languages, which includes the Irish, Gaelic, and Manx.
Gadic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, the cod (Gadus); - applied to an acid obtained from cod-liver oil, viz., gadic acid.
Gaditanian Dictionary G - adjective Of or relating to Cadiz, in Spain.
Gadling Dictionary G - noun See Gad, n., 4.
Gadman Dictionary G - noun A gadsman.
Gadoid Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the family of fishes (Gadidae) which includes the cod, haddock, and hake.
Gadolinia Dictionary G - noun A rare earth, regarded by some as an oxide of the supposed element gadolinium, by others as only a mixture of the oxides of yttrium, erbium, ytterbium, etc.
Gadolinic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to or containing gadolinium.
Gadolinite Dictionary G - noun A mineral of a nearly black color and vitreous luster, and consisting principally of the silicates of yttrium, cerium, and iron.
Gadolinium Dictionary G - noun A supposed rare metallic element, with a characteristic spectrum, found associated with yttrium and other rare metals. Its individuality and properties have not yet been determined.
Gadsman Dictionary G - noun One who uses a gad or goad in driving.
Gaduin Dictionary G - noun A yellow or brown amorphous substance, of indifferent nature, found in cod-liver oil.
Gadwall Dictionary G - noun A large duck (Anas strepera), valued as a game bird, found in the northern parts of Europe and America; - called also gray duck.
Gael Dictionary G - noun singular & plural A Celt or the Celts of the Scotch Highlands or of Ireland; now esp., a Scotch Highlander of Celtic origin.
Gaelic Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the Gael, esp. to the Celtic Highlanders of Scotland; as, the Gaelic language.
Gaff Dictionary G - noun A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish.
Gaffed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gaff.
Gaffing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gaff.
Gaffer Dictionary G - noun An old fellow; an aged rustic.
Gaffle Dictionary G - noun An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks.
Gaff-topsail Dictionary G - noun A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast.
Gagged Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gag.
Gagging Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gag.
Gag Dictionary G - verb transitive To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of speech to.
Gagate Dictionary G - noun Agate.
Gage Dictionary G - noun A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security.
Gaged Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gage.
Gaging Dictionary G - particle pr & verb noun of Gage.
Gager Dictionary G - noun A measurer. See Gauger.
Gagger Dictionary G - noun One who gags.
Gaggled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gaggle.
Gaggling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gaggle.
Gaggle Dictionary G - intransitive verb To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.
Gagtooth Dictionary G - noun A projecting tooth.
Gag-toothed Dictionary G - adjective Having gagteeth.
Gahnite Dictionary G - noun Zinc spinel; automolite.
Gaidic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to hypogeic acid; - applied to an acid obtained from hypogeic acid.
Gaiety Dictionary G - noun Same as Gayety.
Gailer Dictionary G - noun A jailer.
Gaillard Dictionary G - adjective Gay; brisk; merry; galliard.
Gailliarde Dictionary G - noun A lively French and Italian dance.
Gaily Dictionary G - adverb Merrily; showily. See gaily.
Gain Dictionary G - noun A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
Gained Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gain.
Gaining Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gain.
Gainable Dictionary G - verb transitive Capable of being obtained or reached.
Gainage Dictionary G - verb transitive The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.
Gainer Dictionary G - noun One who gains.
Gainful Dictionary G - adjective Profitable; advantageous; lucrative.
Gaingiving Dictionary G - noun A misgiving.
Gainless Dictionary G - adjective Not producing gain; unprofitable.
Gainly Dictionary G - adjective Handily; readily; dexterously; advantageously.
Gainpain Dictionary G - noun Bread-gainer; - a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.
Gainsaid Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gainsay.
Gainsaying Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gainsay.
Gainsay Dictionary G - verb transitive To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.
Gainsayer Dictionary G - noun One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies.
Gainsome Dictionary G - adjective Gainful.
'Gainst Dictionary G - preposition A contraction of Against.
Gainstood Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gainstand.
gainstanding Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gainstand.
Gainstand Dictionary G - verb transitive To withstand; to resist.
Gainstrive Dictionary G - verb transitive & intransitive To strive or struggle against; to withstand.
Gairfowl Dictionary G - noun See Garefowl.
Gairish Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gairish/ness.
Gairishly Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gairish/ness.
Gairish/ness Dictionary G - noun Same as Garish, Garishly, Garishness.
Gait Dictionary G - noun A going; a walk; a march; a way.
Gaited Dictionary G - adjective Having (such) a gait; - used in composition; as, slow-gaited; heavy-gaited.
Gaiter Dictionary G - noun A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep, or for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.
Gaitre Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gaytre.
Gaytre Dictionary G - noun The dogwood tree.
Gala Dictionary G - noun Pomp, show, or festivity.
Galacta-gogue Dictionary G - noun An agent exciting secretion of milk.
Galactic Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid.
Galactin Dictionary G - noun An amorphous, gelatinous substance containing nitrogen, found in milk and other animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously regarded as a coagulating or emulsifying agent.
Galactodensimeter Dictionary G - noun Same as Galactometer.
Galactometer Dictionary G - noun An instrument for ascertaining the quality of milk (i.e., its richness in cream) by determining its specific gravity; a lactometer.
Galactophagist Dictionary G - noun One who eats, or subsists on, milk.
Galactophagous Dictionary G - adjective Feeding on milk.
Galactophorous Dictionary G - adjective Milk-carrying; lactiferous; - applied to the ducts of mammary glands.
Galactopoietic Dictionary G - adjective Increasing the flow of milk; milk-producing. - n. A galactopoietic substance.
Galactose Dictionary G - noun A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).
Galage Dictionary G - noun See Galoche.
Galagos Dictionary G - pleural of Galago.
Galago Dictionary G - noun A genus of African lemurs, including numerous species.
Galanga Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Galangal.
Galangal Dictionary G - noun The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (A. Galanga and A. officinarum) and of the Kaempferia Galanga), #NAME?.
Galantine Dictionary G - noun A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold.
Galapee tree Dictionary G - The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves.
Galatian Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants. - A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who settled in Asia Minor.
Galaxies Dictionary G - pleural of Galaxy.
Galaxy Dictionary G - noun The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used for remote clusters of stars.
Galban Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Galbanum.
Galbanum Dictionary G - noun A gum resin exuding from the stems of certain Asiatic umbelliferous plants, mostly species of Ferula. The Bubon Galbanum of South Africa furnishes an inferior kind of galbanum. It has an acrid, bitter taste, a strong, unpleasant smell, and is used for medical purposes, also in the arts, as in the manufacture of varnish.
Gale Dictionary G - noun A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.
Galea Dictionary G - noun The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.
Galeas Dictionary G - noun See Galleass.
Galeate Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Galeated.
Galeated Dictionary G - adjective Wearing a helmet; protected by a helmet; covered, as with a helmet.
Galei Dictionary G - noun plural That division of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sharks.
Galena Dictionary G - noun A remedy or antidose for poison; theriaca.
Galenic Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Galenical.
Galenical Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, galena.
Galenism Dictionary G - noun The doctrines of Galen.
Galenist Dictionary G - noun A follower of Galen.
Galenite Dictionary G - noun Galena; lead ore.
Gale-opithecus Dictionary G - noun A genus of flying Insectivora, formerly called flying lemurs. See Colugo.
Galericu-late Dictionary G - adjective Covered as with a hat or cap.
Galerite Dictionary G - noun A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus Galerites.
Galician Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to Galicia, in Spain, or to Galicia, the kingdom of Austrian Poland.
Galilean Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to Galileo; as, the Galilean telescope. See Telescope.
Galilee Dictionary G - noun A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bodies were laid previous to interment, and where women were allowed to see the monks to whom they were related, or to hear divine service. Also, frequently applied to the porch of a church, as at Ely and Durham cathedrals.
Galimatias Dictionary G - noun Nonsense; gibberish; confused and unmeaning talk; confused mixture.
Galingale Dictionary G - noun A plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus longus) having aromatic roots; also, any plant of the same genus.
Galiot Dictionary G - noun A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers.
Galipot Dictionary G - noun An impure resin of turpentine, hardened on the outside of pine trees by the spontaneous evaporation of its essential oil. When purified, it is called yellow pitch, white pitch, or Burgundy pitch.
Gall Dictionary G - noun The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.
Galled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gall.
Galling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gall.
Gallant Dictionary G - adjective Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
Gallanted Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gallant.
Gallanting Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gallant.
Gallantly Dictionary G - adverb In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.
Gallantness Dictionary G - noun The quality of being gallant.
Gallantries Dictionary G - pleural of Gallantry.
Gallantry Dictionary G - noun Splendor of appearance; ostentatious finery.
Gallate Dictionary G - noun A salt of gallic acid.
Gallature Dictionary G - noun The tread, treadle, or chalasa of an egg.
Galleass Dictionary G - noun A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley.
Gallegan Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gallego.
Gallego Dictionary G - noun A native or inhabitant of Galicia, in Spain; a Galician.
Gallein Dictionary G - noun A red crystalline dyestuff, obtained by heating together pyrogallic and phthalic acids.
Galleon Dictionary G - noun A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel.
Galleot Dictionary G - noun See Galiot.
Galleries Dictionary G - pleural of Gallery.
Gallery Dictionary G - adjective A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.
Galletyle Dictionary G - noun A little tile of glazed earthenware.
Galleys Dictionary G - pleural of Galley.
Galley Dictionary G - noun A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not.
Galley-bird Dictionary G - noun The European green woodpecker; also, the spotted woodpecker.
Galley-worm Dictionary G - noun A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along the sides; a milliped or "thousand legs." See Chilognatha.
Gallflies Dictionary G - pleural of Gallfly.
Gallfly Dictionary G - noun An insect that deposits its eggs in plants, and occasions galls, esp. any small hymenopteran of the genus Cynips and allied genera. See Illust. of Gall.
Gallyambic Dictionary G - adjective Consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; - said of a kind of verse.
Gallian Dictionary G - adjective Gallic; French.
Galliard Dictionary G - adjective Gay; brisk; active.
Galliardise Dictionary G - adjective Excessive gayety; merriment.
Galliardness Dictionary G - noun Gayety.
Galliass Dictionary G - noun Same as Galleass.
Gallic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, gallium.
Gallican Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallic; French; as, the Gallican church or clergy.
Gallicanism Dictionary G - noun The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church.
Gallicism Dictionary G - noun A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom.
Gallicized Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gallicize.
Gallicizing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gallicize.
Gallicize Dictionary G - verb transitive To conform to the French mode or idiom.
Gallied Dictionary G - past particle & adjective Worried; flurried; frightened.
Galliform Dictionary G - adjective Like the Gallinae (or Galliformes) in structure.
Galligaskins Dictionary G - noun plural Loose hose or breeches; leather leg quards. The word is used loosely and often in a jocose sense.
Gallimatia Dictionary G - noun Senseless talk. Obs. or R. See Galimatias.
Gallimaufries Dictionary G - pleural of Gallimaufry.
Gallimaufry Dictionary G - noun A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout.
Gallin Dictionary G - noun A substance obtained by the reduction of gallein.
Gallinaceae Dictionary G - noun plural Same as Gallinae.
Gallinacean Dictionary G - noun One of the Gallinae or gallinaceous birds.
Gallinaceous Dictionary G - adjective Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae.
Gallinae Dictionary G - noun An order of birds, including the common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, quails, and allied forms; - sometimes called Rasores.
Gallinipper Dictionary G - noun A large mosquito.
Gallinule Dictionary G - noun One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule (Gallinula galeata).
Galliot Dictionary G - noun See Galiot.
Gallipoli oil Dictionary G - An inferior kind of olive oil, brought from Gallipoli, in Italy.
Gallipot Dictionary G - noun A glazed earthen pot or vessel, used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines, etc.
Gallium Dictionary G - noun A rare metallic element, found in certain zinc ores. It is white, hard, and malleable, resembling aluminium, and remarcable for its low melting point (86/ F., 30/C). Symbol Ga. Atomic weight 69.9.
Gallivant Dictionary G - intransitive verb To play the beau; to wait upon the ladies; also, to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.
Gallivat Dictionary G - noun A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, - used on the Malabar coast.
Galliwasp Dictionary G - noun A West Indian lizard (Celestus occiduus), about a foot long, imagined by the natives to be venomous.
Gallnut Dictionary G - noun A round gall produced on the leaves and shoots of various species of the oak tree. See Gall, and Nutgall.
Gallomania Dictionary G - noun An excessive admiration of what is French.
Gallon Dictionary G - noun A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; - used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.
Galloon Dictionary G - noun A narrow tapelike fabric used for binding hats, shoes, etc., - sometimes made ornamental.
Gallooned Dictionary G - adjective Furnished or adorned with galloon.
Galloped Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gallop.
Galloping Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gallop.
Gallop Dictionary G - intransitive verb To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
Gallopade Dictionary G - noun I horsemanship, a sidelong or curveting kind of gallop.
Gallopaded Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gallopade.
Gallopading Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gallopade.
Galloper Dictionary G - noun One who, or that which, gallops.
Gallopin Dictionary G - intransitive verb An under servant for the kitchen; a scullion; a cook's errand boy.
Gallotannic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to the tannin or nutgalls.
Gallow Dictionary G - verb transitive To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t.
Galloway Dictionary G - noun A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; - called also garran, and garron.
Gallowglass Dictionary G - noun A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward /.
Gallowses Dictionary G - pleural of Gallows.
Gallows Dictionary G - pleural of Gallows.
Gallstone Dictionary G - noun A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.
Gally Dictionary G - verb transitive To frighten; to worry.
Gallygaskins Dictionary G - noun plural See Galligaskins.
Galoche Dictionary G - Alt. of Galoshe.
Galoshe Dictionary G - A clog or patten.
Galoot Dictionary G - noun A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy.
Galop Dictionary G - noun A kind of lively dance, in 2-4 time; also, the music to the dance.
Galore Dictionary G - noun & adjective Plenty; abundance; in abundance.
Galpe Dictionary G - intransitive verb To gape,; to yawn.
Galsome Dictionary G - adjective Angry; malignant.
Galt Dictionary G - noun Same as Gault.
Galvanic Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.
Galvanism Dictionary G - noun Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity.
Galvanist Dictionary G - noun One versed in galvanism.
Galvanization Dictionary G - noun The act of process of galvanizing.
Galvanized Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Galvanize.
Galvanizing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Galvanize.
Galvanize Dictionary G - verb transitive To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.
Galvanizer Dictionary G - noun One who, or that which, galvanize.
Galvanocaustic Dictionary G - adjective Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine.
Galvanocautery Dictionary G - noun Cautery effected by a knife or needle heated by the passage of a galvanic current.
Galvanoglyphy Dictionary G - noun Same as Glyphography.
Galvanograph Dictionary G - noun A copperplate produced by the method of galvanography; also, a picture printed from such a plate.
Galvanographic Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to galvanography.
Galvanography Dictionary G - noun The art or process of depositing metals by electricity; electrotypy.
Galvanologist Dictionary G - noun One who describes the phenomena of galvanism; a writer on galvanism.
Galvanology Dictionary G - noun A treatise on galvanism, or a description of its phenomena.
Galvanometer Dictionary G - noun An instrument or apparatus for measuring the intensity of an electric current, usually by the deflection of a magnetic needle.
Galvanometric Dictionary G - adjective Of, pertaining to, or measured by, a galvanometer.
Galvanometry Dictionary G - noun The art or process of measuring the force of electric currents.
Galvanoplastic Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the art or process of electrotyping; employing, or produced by, the process of electolytic deposition; as, a galvano-plastic copy of a medal or the like.
Galvanoplasty Dictionary G - noun The art or process of electrotypy.
Galvanopuncture Dictionary G - noun Same as Electro-puncture.
Galvanoscope Dictionary G - noun An instrument or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents, especially such as are of feeble intensity.
Galvanoscopic Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to a galvanoscope.
Galvanoscopy Dictionary G - noun The use of galvanism in physiological experiments.
Galvanotonus Dictionary G - noun Same as Electrotonus.
Galvanotropism Dictionary G - noun The tendency of a root to place its axis in the line of a galvanic current.
Galwes Dictionary G - noun Gallows.
Gama grass Dictionary G - A species of grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass; - called also sesame grass.
Gamashes Dictionary G - noun plural High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.
Gamba Dictionary G - noun A viola da gamba.
Gambadoes Dictionary G - noun Same as Gamashes.
Gambeson Dictionary G - noun Same as Gambison.
Gambet Dictionary G - noun Any bird of the genuis Totanus. See Tattler.
Gambier Dictionary G - noun The inspissated juice of a plant (Uncaria Gambir) growing in Malacca. It is a powerful astringent, and, under the name of Terra Japonica, is used for chewing with the Areca nut, and is exported for tanning and dyeing.
Gambison Dictionary G - noun A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted.
Gambist Dictionary G - noun A performer upon the viola di gamba. See under Viola.
Gambit Dictionary G - noun A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.
Gambled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gamble.
Gambling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gamble.
Gamble Dictionary G - intransitive verb To play or game for money or other stake.
Gambler Dictionary G - noun One who gambles.
Gamboge Dictionary G - noun A concrete juice, or gum resin, produced by several species of trees in Siam, Ceylon, and Malabar. It is brought in masses, or cylindrical rolls, from Cambodia, or Cambogia, - whence its name. The best kind is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beatiful reddish yellow. Taking internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic.
Gambogian Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gambogic.
Gambogic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, gamboge.
Gambol Dictionary G - noun A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.
Gamboled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gambol.
Gambolled Dictionary G - of Gambol.
Gamboling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gambol.
Gambolling Dictionary G - of Gambol.
Gambrel Dictionary G - noun The hind leg of a horse.
Gambroon Dictionary G - noun A kind of twilled linen cloth for lining.
Game Dictionary G - noun Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.
Gamed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Game.
Gaming Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Game.
Gamecock Dictionary G - noun The male game fowl.
Game fowl Dictionary G - A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males.
Gameful Dictionary G - adjective Full of game or games.
Gamekeeper Dictionary G - noun One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve.
Gameless Dictionary G - adjective Destitute of game.
Gamely Dictionary G - adverb In a plucky manner; spiritedly.
Gameness Dictionary G - noun Endurance; pluck.
Gamesome Dictionary G - adjective Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry.
Gamester Dictionary G - noun A merry, frolicsome person.
Gamic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.
Gamin Dictionary G - noun A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab.
Gamma Dictionary G - noun The third letter (/, / = Eng. G) of the Greek alphabet.
Gammadion Dictionary G - noun A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot.
Gammer Dictionary G - noun An old wife; an old woman; - correlative of gaffer, an old man.
Gammon Dictionary G - noun The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
Gammoned Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gammon.
Gammoning Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gammon.
Gamogenesis Dictionary G - noun The production of offspring by the union of parents of different sexes; sexual reproduction; - the opposite of agamogenesis.
Gamogenetic Dictionary G - adjective Relating to gamogenesis.
Gamomorphism Dictionary G - noun That stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species.
Gamopetalous Dictionary G - adjective Having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup; monopetalous.
Gamophyllous Dictionary G - adjective Composed of leaves united by their edges (coalescent).
Gamosepalous Dictionary G - adjective Formed of united sepals; monosepalous.
Gamut Dictionary G - noun The scale.
Gamy Dictionary G - adjective Having the flavor of game, esp. of game kept uncooked till near the condition of tainting; high-flavored.
Gan Dictionary G - verb Began; commenced.
Ganch Dictionary G - noun To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment.
Gander Dictionary G - noun The male of any species of goose.
Gane Dictionary G - intransitive verb To yawn; to gape.
Ganesa Dictionary G - noun The Hindoo god of wisdom or prudence.
Gang Dictionary G - intransitive verb To go; to walk.
Ganger Dictionary G - noun One who oversees a gang of workmen.
Gangetic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or inhabiting, the Ganges; as, the Gangetic shark.
Gang-flower Dictionary G - noun The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week.
Gangion Dictionary G - noun A short line attached to a trawl. See Trawl, n.
Gangliac Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Ganglial.
Ganglial Dictionary G - adjective Relating to a ganglion; ganglionic.
Gangliate Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gangliated.
Gangliated Dictionary G - adjective Furnished with ganglia; as, the gangliated cords of the sympathetic nervous system.
Gangliform Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Ganglioform.
Ganglioform Dictionary G - adjective Having the form of a ganglion.
Ganglia Dictionary G - pleural of Ganglion.
Ganglions Dictionary G - pleural of Ganglion.
Ganglion Dictionary G - noun A mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve.
Ganglionary Dictionary G - adjective Ganglionic.
Ganglionic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, ganglia or ganglion cells; as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord.
Gangrel Dictionary G - intransitive verb Wandering; vagrant.
Gangrenate Dictionary G - verb transitive To gangrene.
Gangrene Dictionary G - noun A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applied to mortification of the soft parts in any stage.
Gangrened Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gangrene.
Gangrening Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gangrene.
Gangrenescent Dictionary G - adjective Tending to mortification or gangrene.
Gangrenous Dictionary G - adjective Affected by, or produced by, gangrene; of the nature of gangrene.
Gangue Dictionary G - noun The mineral or earthy substance associated with metallic ore.
Gangway Dictionary G - intransitive verb A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp., a temporary way of access formed of planks.
Ganil Dictionary G - noun A kind of brittle limestone.
Ganister Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gannister.
Gannister Dictionary G - noun A refractory material consisting of crushed or ground siliceous stone, mixed with fire clay; - used for lining Bessemer converters; also used for macadamizing roads.
Ganja Dictionary G - noun The dried hemp plant, used in India for smoking. It is extremely narcotic and intoxicating.
Gannet Dictionary G - noun One of several species of sea birds of the genus Sula, allied to the pelicans.
Ganocephala Dictionary G - noun plural A group of fossil amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fishes.
Ganocephalous Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the Ganocephala.
Ganoid Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to Ganoidei. - n. One of the Ganoidei.
Ganoidal Dictionary G - adjective Ganoid.
Ganoidei Dictionary G - noun plural One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales.
Ganoidian Dictionary G - adjective & noun Ganoid.
Ganoine Dictionary G - noun A peculiar bony tissue beneath the enamel of a ganoid scale.
Gansa Dictionary G - noun Same as Ganza.
Gantlet Dictionary G - noun A military punishment formerly in use, wherein the offender was made to run between two files of men facing one another, who struck him as he passed.
Gantline Dictionary G - noun A line rigged to a mast; - used in hoisting rigging; a girtline.
Gantlope Dictionary G - noun See Gantlet.
Gantry Dictionary G - noun See Gauntree.
Ganza Dictionary G - noun A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world.
Gaol Dictionary G - noun A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.
Gaoler Dictionary G - noun The keeper of a jail. See Jailer.
Gap Dictionary G - noun An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.
Gaped Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gape.
Gaping Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gape.
Gape Dictionary G - intransitive verb To open the mouth wide.
The gapes Dictionary G - A fit of yawning.
Gaper Dictionary G - noun One who gapes.
Gapeseed Dictionary G - noun Any strange sight.
Gapesing Dictionary G - noun Act of gazing about; sightseeing.
Gapeworm Dictionary G - noun The parasitic worm that causes the gapes in birds. See Illustration in Appendix.
Gapingstock Dictionary G - noun One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder.
Gap-toothed Dictionary G - adjective Having interstices between the teeth.
Gar Dictionary G - verb Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish.
Garancin Dictionary G - noun An extract of madder by sulphuric acid. It consists essentially of alizarin.
Garb Dictionary G - noun Clothing in general.
Garbage Dictionary G - noun Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome.
Garbed Dictionary G - adjective Dressed; habited; clad.
Garbel Dictionary G - noun Same as Garboard.
Garbled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Garble.
Garbling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Garble.
Garble Dictionary G - verb transitive To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices.
Garbler Dictionary G - noun One who garbles.
Garboard Dictionary G - noun One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake.
Garboil Dictionary G - noun Tumult; disturbance; disorder.
Garcinia Dictionary G - noun A genus of plants, including the mangosteen tree (Garcinia Mangostana), found in the islands of the Indian Archipelago; - so called in honor of Dr. Garcin.
Gard Dictionary G - noun Garden.
Gardant Dictionary G - adjective Turning the head towards the spectator, but not the body; - said of a lion or other beast.
Garden Dictionary G - noun A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
Gardened Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Garden.
Gardening Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Garden.
Gardener Dictionary G - noun One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.
Gardenia Dictionary G - noun A genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; - so called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden.
Gardenless Dictionary G - adjective Destitute of a garden.
Gardenly Dictionary G - adjective Like a garden.
Gardenship Dictionary G - noun Horticulture.
Gardon Dictionary G - noun A European cyprinoid fish; the id.
Gardyloo Dictionary G - noun An old cry in throwing water, slops, etc., from the windows in Edingburgh.
Gare Dictionary G - noun Coarse wool on the legs of sheep.
Garefowl Dictionary G - noun The great auk; also, the razorbill. See Auk.
Garfish Dictionary G - noun A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); - called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike.
Gargalize Dictionary G - verb transitive To gargle; to rinse.
Garganey Dictionary G - noun A small European duck (Anas querquedula); - called also cricket teal, and summer teal.
Gargantuan Dictionary G - adjective Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.
Gargarism Dictionary G - noun A gargle.
Gargarize Dictionary G - verb transitive To gargle; to rinse or wash, as the mouth and throat.
Garget Dictionary G - noun The throat.
Gargil Dictionary G - noun A distemper in geese, affecting the head.
Gargle Dictionary G - noun See Gargoyle.
Garggled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gargle.
Gargling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gargle.
Gargol Dictionary G - noun A distemper in swine; garget.
Gargoulette Dictionary G - noun A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet.
Gargoyle Dictionary G - noun A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely.
Gargyle Dictionary G - noun See Gargoyle.
Garibaldi Dictionary G - noun A jacket worn by women; - so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi.
Garish Dictionary G - adjective Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention.
Garland Dictionary G - noun The crown of a king.
Garlanded Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Garland.
Garlanding Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Garland.
Garlandless Dictionary G - adjective Destitute of a garland.
Garlic Dictionary G - noun A plant of the genus Allium (A. sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable.
Garlicky Dictionary G - adjective Like or containing garlic.
Garment Dictionary G - noun Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc.
Garmented Dictionary G - particle adjective Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment.
Garmenture Dictionary G - noun Clothing; dress.
Garner Dictionary G - noun A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.
Garnered Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Garner.
Garnering Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Garner.
Garnet Dictionary G - noun A mineral having many varieties differing in color and in their constituents, but with the same crystallization (isometric), and conforming to the same general chemical formula. The commonest color is red, the luster is vitreous, and the hardness greater than that of quartz. The dodecahedron and trapezohedron are the common forms.
Garnetiferous Dictionary G - adjective Containing garnets.
Garnierite Dictionary G - noun An amorphous mineral of apple-green color; a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesia. It is an important ore of nickel.
Garnished Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Garnish.
Garnishing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Garnish.
Garnish Dictionary G - verb transitive To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
Garnishee Dictionary G - noun One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money.
Garnisheed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Garnishee.
Garnisheeing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Garnishee.
Garnisher Dictionary G - noun One who, or that which, garnishes.
Garnishment Dictionary G - noun Ornament; embellishment; decoration.
Garniture Dictionary G - verb transitive That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress.
Garookuh Dictionary G - noun A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.
Garous Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, garum.
Gar pike Dictionary G - Alt. of Garpike.
Garpike Dictionary G - See under Gar.
Garran Dictionary G - noun See Galloway.
Garret Dictionary G - noun A turret; a watchtower.
Garreted Dictionary G - adjective Protected by turrets.
Garreteer Dictionary G - noun One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack.
Garreting Dictionary G - noun Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.
Garrison Dictionary G - noun A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town.
Garrisoned Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Garrison.
Garrisoning Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Garrison.
Garron Dictionary G - noun Same as Garran.
Garrot Dictionary G - noun A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.
Garrote Dictionary G - noun A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the punishment is inflicted.
Garroted Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Garrote.
Garroting Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Garrote.
Garroter Dictionary G - noun One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.
Garrulity Dictionary G - noun Talkativeness; loquacity.
Garrulous Dictionary G - adjective Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious.
Garrupa Dictionary G - noun One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; - called also rockfish. See Rockfish.
Garter Dictionary G - noun A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.
Gartered Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Garter.
Gartering Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Garter.
Garth Dictionary G - noun A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth.
Garum Dictionary G - noun A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.
Garvie Dictionary G - noun The sprat; - called also garvie herring, and garvock.
Gases Dictionary G - pleural of Gas.
Gas Dictionary G - noun An aeriform fluid; - a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction from vapors, as steam, which become liquid on a reduction of temperature. In present usage, since all of the supposed permanent gases have been liquified by cold and pressure, the term has resumed nearly its original signification, and is applied to any substance in the elastic or aeriform state.
Gasalier Dictionary G - noun A chandelier arranged to burn gas.
Gas-burner Dictionary G - noun The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
Gascoines Dictionary G - noun plural See Gaskins, 1.
Gascon Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering.
Gasconade Dictionary G - noun A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio.
Gasconaded Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gasconade.
Gasconading Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gasconade.
Gasconader Dictionary G - noun A great boaster; a blusterer.
Gascoynes Dictionary G - noun plural Gaskins.
Gaseity Dictionary G - noun State of being gaseous.
Gaseous Dictionary G - adjective In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aeriform fluid.
Gashed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gash.
Gashing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gash.
Gash Dictionary G - verb transitive To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; - applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.
Gashful Dictionary G - adjective Full of gashes; hideous; frightful.
Gasification Dictionary G - noun The act or process of converting into gas.
Gasiform Dictionary G - adjective Having a form of gas; gaseous.
Gasified Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gasify.
Gasifying Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gasify.
Gasify Dictionary G - verb transitive To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.
Gasket Dictionary G - noun A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket.
Gaskins Dictionary G - noun plural Loose hose or breeches; galligaskins.
Gaslight Dictionary G - noun The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.
Gasogen Dictionary G - noun An apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid.
Gasolene Dictionary G - noun See Gasoline.
Gasolier Dictionary G - noun Same as Gasalier.
Gasoline Dictionary G - noun A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. See Carburetor.
Gasometer Dictionary G - noun An apparatus for holding and measuring of gas; in gas works, a huge iron cylinder closed at one end and having the other end immersed in water, in which it is made to rise or fall, according to the volume of gas it contains, or the pressure required.
Gasometric Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gasometrical.
Gasometrical Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the measurement of gases; as, gasometric analysis.
Gasometry Dictionary G - noun The art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids.
Gasoscope Dictionary G - noun An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.
Gasped Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gasp.
Gasping Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gasp.
Gasp Dictionary G - intransitive verb To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently.
Gaspereau Dictionary G - noun The alewife.
Gasserian Dictionary G - adjective Relating to Casserio (L. Gasserius), the discover of the Gasserian ganglion.
Gassing Dictionary G - noun The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing.
Gassy Dictionary G - adjective Full of gas; like gas. Hence: Colloq. Inflated; full of boastful or insincere talk.
Gast Dictionary G - verb transitive To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See Aghast.
Gaster Dictionary G - verb transitive To gast.
Gasteromycetes Dictionary G - noun plural An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.
Gasteropod Dictionary G - noun Same as Gastropod.
Gasteropoda Dictionary G - noun plural Same as Gastropoda.
Gasteropodous Dictionary G - adjective Same as Gastropodous.
Gastful Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gastly.
Gastly Dictionary G - adjective See Ghastful, Ghastly.
Gastight Dictionary G - adjective So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.
Gastness Dictionary G - noun See Ghastness.
Gastornis Dictionary G - noun A genus of large eocene birds from the Paris basin.
Gastraea Dictionary G - noun A primeval larval form; a double-walled sac from which, according to the hypothesis of Haeckel, man and all other animals, that in the first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two-layered structural stage, or gastrula form, must have descended. This idea constitutes the Gastraea theory of Haeckel. See Gastrula.
Gastralgia Dictionary G - noun Pain in the stomach or epigastrium, as in gastric disorders.
Gastric Dictionary G - adjective Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the gastric artery.
Gastriloquist Dictionary G - noun One who appears to speak from his stomach; a ventriloquist.
Gastriloquous Dictionary G - adjective Ventriloquous.
Gastriloquy Dictionary G - noun A voice or utterance which appears to proceed from the stomach; ventriloquy.
Gastritis Dictionary G - noun Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane.
Gastro- Dictionary G - A combining form from the Gr. /, /, the stomach, or belly; as in gastrocolic, gastrocele, gastrotomy.
Gastrocnemius Dictionary G - noun The muscle which makes the greater part of the calf of the leg.
Gastrocolic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to both the stomach and the colon; as, the gastrocolic, or great, omentum.
Gastrodisc Dictionary G - noun That part of blastoderm where the hypoblast appears like a small disk on the inner face of the epibladst.
Gastroduodenal Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to the stomach and duodenum; as, the gastroduodenal artery.
Gastroduodenitis Dictionary G - noun Inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. It is one of the most frequent causes of jaundice.
Gastroelytrotomy Dictionary G - noun The operation of cutting into the upper part of the vagina, through the abdomen (without opening the peritoneum), for the purpose of removing a fetus. It is a substitute for the Caesarean operation, and less dangerous.
Gastroenteric Dictionary G - adjective Gastrointestinal.
Gastroenteritis Dictionary G - noun Inflammation of the lining membrane of the stomach and the intestines.
Gastroepiploic Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the stomach and omentum.
Gastrohepatic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to the stomach and liver; hepatogastric; as, the gastrohepatic, or lesser, omentum.
Gastrohysterotomy Dictionary G - noun Caesarean section. See under Caesarean.
Gastrointestinal Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric.
Gastrolith Dictionary G - noun See Crab's eyes, under Crab.
Gastrology Dictionary G - noun The science which treats of the structure and functions of the stomach; a treatise of the stomach.
Gastromalacia Dictionary G - noun A softening of the coats of the stomach; - usually a post-morten change.
Gastromancy Dictionary G - noun A kind of divination, by means of words seemingly uttered from the stomach.
Gastromyces Dictionary G - noun The fungoid growths sometimes found in the stomach; such as Torula, etc.
Gastromyth Dictionary G - noun One whose voice appears to proceed from the stomach; a ventriloquist.
Gastronome Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gastronomer.
Gastronomer Dictionary G - noun One fond of good living; an epicure.
Gastronomic Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gastronomical.
Gastronomical Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to gastromony.
Gastronomist Dictionary G - noun A gastromomer.
Gastronomy Dictionary G - noun The art or science of good eating; epicurism; the art of good cheer.
Gastrophrenic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm; as, the gastrophrenic ligament.
Gastropneumatic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to the alimentary canal and air passages, and to the cavities connected with them; as, the gastropneumatic mucuos membranes.
Gastropod Dictionary G - noun One of the Gastropoda.
Gastropoda Dictionary G - noun plural One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca.
Gastropodous Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the Gastropoda.
Gastroraphy Dictionary G - noun The operation of sewing up wounds of the abdomen.
Gastroscope Dictionary G - noun An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach.
Gastroscopic Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.
Gastroscopy Dictionary G - noun Examination of the abdomen or stomach, as with the gastroscope.
Gastrosplenic Dictionary G - noun Pertaining to the stomach and spleen; as, the gastrosplenic ligament.
Gastrostege Dictionary G - noun One of the large scales on the belly of a serpent.
Gastrostomy Dictionary G - noun The operation of making a permanent opening into the stomach, for the introduction of food.
Gastrotomy Dictionary G - noun A cutting into, or opening of, the abdomen or the stomach.
Gastrotricha Dictionary G - noun plural A group of small wormlike animals, having cilia on the ventral side. The group is regarded as an ancestral or synthetic one, related to rotifers and annelids.
Gastrotrocha Dictionary G - noun A form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral side.
Gastrovascular Dictionary G - adjective Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of c/lenterates.
Gastrulae Dictionary G - pleural of Gastrula.
Gastrula Dictionary G - noun An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). See Illust. under Invagination. In a more general sense, an ideal stage in embryonic development. See Gastraea.
Gastrulation Dictionary G - noun The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.
Gastrura Dictionary G - noun plural See Stomatopoda.
Gastrurous Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to the Gastrura.
Gat Dictionary G - imp. of Get.
Gate Dictionary G - noun A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.
Gated Dictionary G - adjective Having gates.
Gatehouse Dictionary G - noun A house connected or associated with a gate.
Gateless Dictionary G - adjective Having no gate.
Gateman Dictionary G - noun A gate keeper; a gate tender.
Gatepost Dictionary G - noun A post to which a gate is hung; - called also swinging / hinging post.
Gateway Dictionary G - noun A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.
Gatewise Dictionary G - adverb In the manner of a gate.
Gathered Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gather.
Gathering Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gather.
Gather Dictionary G - verb transitive To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.
Gatherable Dictionary G - adjective Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises.
Gatherer Dictionary G - noun One who gathers or collects.
Gatling gun Dictionary G - An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired.
Gatten tree Dictionary G - A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europaeus).
Gat-toothed Dictionary G - adjective Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton.
Gauche Dictionary G - noun Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.
Gaucherie Dictionary G - noun An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.
Gauchos Dictionary G - pleural of Gaucho.
Gaucho Dictionary G - noun One of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle.
Gaud Dictionary G - noun Trick; jest; sport.
Gauded Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gaud.
Gauding Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gaud.
Gaud-day Dictionary G - noun See Gaudy, a feast.
Gaudery Dictionary G - noun Finery; ornaments; ostentatious display.
Gaudful Dictionary G - adjective Joyful; showy.
Gaudily Dictionary G - adverb In a gaudy manner.
Gaudiness Dictionary G - noun The quality of being gaudy.
Gaudish Dictionary G - adjective Gaudy.
Gaudless Dictionary G - adjective Destitute of ornament.
Gaudy Dictionary G - superlative Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.
Gaudies Dictionary G - pleural of Gaudy.
Gaudygreen Dictionary G - adjective / noun Light green.
Gauffer Dictionary G - verb transitive To plait, crimp, or flute; to goffer, as lace. See Goffer.
Gauffering Dictionary G - noun A mode of plaiting or fluting.
Gauffre Dictionary G - noun A gopher, esp. the pocket gopher.
Gauged Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gauge.
Gauging Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gauge.
Gauge Dictionary G - verb transitive To measure or determine with a gauge.
Gaugeable Dictionary G - adjective Capable of being gauged.
Gauger Dictionary G - noun One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
Gauger-ship Dictionary G - noun The office of a gauger.
Gauging rod Dictionary G - See Gauge rod, under Gauge, n.
Gaul Dictionary G - noun The Anglicized form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul).
Gaulish Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to ancient France, or Gaul; Gallic.
Gault Dictionary G - noun A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period.
Gaultheria Dictionary G - noun A genus of ericaceous shrubs with evergreen foliage, and, often, edible berries. It includes the American winter-green (Gaultheria procumbens), and the larger-fruited salal of Northwestern America (Gaultheria Shallon).
Gaunt Dictionary G - adjective Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
Gauntlet Dictionary G - noun See Gantlet.
Gauntletted Dictionary G - adjective Wearing a gauntlet.
Gauntly Dictionary G - adverb In a gaunt manner; meagerly.
Gauntree Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gauntry.
Gauntry Dictionary G - noun A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere.
Gaur Dictionary G - noun An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bibos gauris), of large size and an untamable disposition.
Gaure Dictionary G - intransitive verb To gaze; to stare.
Gauze Dictionary G - noun A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.
Gauziness Dictionary G - noun The quality of being gauzy; flimsiness.
Gauzy Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.
Gave Dictionary G - imp. of Give.
Gavel Dictionary G - noun A gable.
Gavelet Dictionary G - noun An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent.
Gavelkind Dictionary G - noun A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent.
Gaveloche Dictionary G - noun Same as Gavelock.
Gavelock Dictionary G - noun A spear or dart.
Gaverick Dictionary G - noun The European red gurnard (Trigla cuculus).
Gaviae Dictionary G - noun plural The division of birds which includes the gulls and terns.
Gavial Dictionary G - noun A large Asiatic crocodilian (Gavialis Gangeticus); - called also nako, and Gangetic crocodile.
Gavot Dictionary G - noun A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over.
Gawby Dictionary G - noun A baby; a dunce.
Gawk Dictionary G - noun A cuckoo.
Gawky Dictionary G - superlative Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. - n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.
Gawn Dictionary G - noun A small tub or lading vessel.
Gawntree Dictionary G - noun See Gauntree.
Gay Dictionary G - superlative Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry.
Gayal Dictionary G - noun A Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle (Bibos frontalis).
Gaydiang Dictionary G - noun A vessel of Anam, with two or three masts, lofty triangular sails, and in construction somewhat resembling a Chinese junk.
Gayeties Dictionary G - pleural of Gayety.
Gayety Dictionary G - adjective The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; - used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season.
Gaylussite Dictionary G - noun A yellowish white, translucent mineral, consisting of the carbonates of lime and soda, with water.
Gayly Dictionary G - adverb With mirth and frolic; merrily; blithely; gleefully.
Gayne Dictionary G - intransitive verb To avail.
Gayness Dictionary G - noun Gayety; finery.
Gaysome Dictionary G - adjective Full of gayety. Mir. for Mag.
Gazed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gaze.
Gazing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gaze.
Gaze Dictionary G - intransitive verb To fixx the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.
Gazeebo Dictionary G - noun A summerhouse so situated as to command an extensive prospect.
Gazeful Dictionary G - adjective Gazing.
Gazehound Dictionary G - noun A hound that pursues by the sight rather than by the scent.
Gazel Dictionary G - noun The black currant; also, the wild plum.
Gazelle Dictionary G - noun One of several small, swift, elegantly formed species of antelope, of the genus Gazella, esp. G. dorcas; - called also algazel, corinne, korin, and kevel. The gazelles are celebrated for the luster and soft expression of their eyes.
Gazement Dictionary G - noun View.
Gazer Dictionary G - noun One who gazes.
Gazet Dictionary G - noun A Venetian coin, worth about three English farthings, or one and a half cents.
Gazette Dictionary G - noun A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices.
Gazetted Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gazette.
Gazetting Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gazette.
Gazetteer Dictionary G - noun A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority.
Gazingstock Dictionary G - noun A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt.
Gazogene Dictionary G - noun A portable apparatus for making soda water or aerated liquids on a small scale.
Gazon Dictionary G - noun One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.
Ge- Dictionary G - An Anglo-Saxon prefix. See Y-.
Geal Dictionary G - intransitive verb To congeal.
Gean Dictionary G - noun A species of cherry tree common in Europe (Prunus avium); also, the fruit, which is usually small and dark in color.
Geanticlinal Dictionary G - noun An upward bend or flexure of a considerable portion of the earth's crust, resulting in the formation of a class of mountain elevations called anticlinoria; - opposed to geosynclinal.
Gear Dictionary G - noun Clothing; garments; ornaments.
Geared Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gear.
Gearing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gear.
Geason Dictionary G - adjective Rare; wonderful.
Geat Dictionary G - noun The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting.
Gecarcinian Dictionary G - noun A land crab of the genus Gecarcinus, or of allied genera.
Geck Dictionary G - noun Scorn, derision, or contempt.
Geckoes Dictionary G - pleural of Gecko.
Gecko Dictionary G - noun Any lizard of the family Geckonidae. The geckoes are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and vertical, elliptical pupils. Their toes are generally expanded, and furnished with adhesive disks, by which they can run over walls and ceilings. They are numerous in warm countries, and a few species are found in Europe and the United States. See Wall gecko, Fanfoot.
Geckotian Dictionary G - noun A gecko.
Ged Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gedd.
Gedd Dictionary G - noun The European pike.
Geed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gee.
Geeing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gee.
Gee Dictionary G - intransitive verb To agree; to harmonize.
Geer Dictionary G - Alt. of Geering.
Geering Dictionary G - See Gear, Gearing.
Geese Dictionary G - noun plural of Goose.
Geest Dictionary G - noun Alluvial matter on the surface of land, not of recent origin.
Geet Dictionary G - noun Jet.
Geez Dictionary G - noun The original native name for the ancient Ethiopic language or people. See Ethiopic.
Gehenna Dictionary G - noun The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell.
Geic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, earthy or vegetable mold.
Gein Dictionary G - noun See Humin.
Geissler tube Dictionary G - A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; - so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plucker tube, from the German physicist who devised it.
Geitonogamy Dictionary G - noun Fertilization of flowers by pollen from other flowers on the same plant.
Gelable Dictionary G - adjective Capable of being congealed; capable of being converted into jelly.
Gelada Dictionary G - noun A baboon (Gelada Ruppelli) of Abyssinia, remarkable for the length of the hair on the neck and shoulders of the adult male.
Gelastic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing.
Gelatification Dictionary G - noun The formation of gelatin.
Gelatigenous Dictionary G - noun Producing, or yielding, gelatin; gelatiniferous; as, the gelatigeneous tissues.
Gelatin Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gelatine.
Gelatine Dictionary G - noun Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on the collagen of various kinds of connective tissue (as tendons, bones, ligaments, etc.). Its distinguishing character is that of dissolving in hot water, and forming a jelly on cooling. It is an important ingredient of calf's-foot jelly, isinglass, glue, etc. It is used as food, but its nutritious qualities are of a low order.
Gelatinated Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gelatinate.
Gelatinating Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gelatinate.
Gelatinate Dictionary G - verb transitive To convert into gelatin, or into a substance resembling jelly.
Gelatination Dictionary G - noun The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly.
Gelatiniferous Dictionary G - adjective Yielding gelatin on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
Gelatiniform Dictionary G - adjective Having the form of gelatin.
Gelatinization Dictionary G - noun Same as Gelatination.
Gelatinize Dictionary G - verb transitive To convert into gelatin or jelly. Same as Gelatinate, v. t.
Gelatinous Dictionary G - adjective Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.
Gelation Dictionary G - noun The process of becoming solid by cooling; a cooling and solidifying.
Geld Dictionary G - noun Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.
Gelded Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Geld.
Gelding Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Geld.
Geldable Dictionary G - adjective Capable of being gelded.
Gelder Dictionary G - noun One who gelds or castrates.
Gelder-rose Dictionary G - noun Same as Guelder-rose.
Gelid Dictionary G - adjective Cold; very cold; frozen.
Gelidity Dictionary G - noun The state of being gelid.
Gelidly Dictionary G - adverb In a gelid manner; coldly.
Gelidness Dictionary G - noun The state of being gelid; gelidity.
Gelly Dictionary G - noun Jelly.
Geloscopy Dictionary G - noun Divination by means of laughter.
Gelose Dictionary G - noun An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate, found in Gelidium, agar-agar, and other seaweeds.
Gelsemic Dictionary G - adjective Gelseminic.
Gelsemine Dictionary G - noun An alkaloid obtained from the yellow jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens), as a bitter white semicrystalline substance; - called also gelsemia.
Gelseminic Dictionary G - noun Pertaining to, or derived from, the yellow jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens); as, gelseminic acid, a white crystalline substance resembling esculin.
Gelsemium Dictionary G - noun A genus of climbing plants. The yellow (false) jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens) is a native of the Southern United States. It has showy and deliciously fragrant flowers.
Gelt Dictionary G - noun Trubute, tax.
Gem Dictionary G - noun A bud.
Gemmed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gem.
Gemming Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gem.
Gemara Dictionary G - noun The second part of the Talmud, or the commentary on the Mishna (which forms the first part or text).
Gemaric Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to the Gemara.
Gemarist Dictionary G - noun One versed in the Gemara, or adhering to its teachings.
Gemel Dictionary G - adjective Coupled; paired.
Gemellipa-rous Dictionary G - adjective Producing twins.
Geminal Dictionary G - adjective A pair.
Geminate Dictionary G - adjective In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers.
Gemination Dictionary G - noun A doubling; duplication; repetition.
Gemini Dictionary G - noun plural A constellation of the zodiac, containing the two bright stars Castor and Pollux; also, the third sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about May 20th.
Geminiflorous Dictionary G - adjective Having the flowers arranged in pairs.
Geminous Dictionary G - adjective Double; in pairs.
Geminy Dictionary G - noun Twins; a pair; a couple.
Gemitores Dictionary G - noun plural A division of birds including the true pigeons.
Gemmae Dictionary G - pleural of Gemma.
Gemma Dictionary G - noun A leaf bud, as distinguished from a flower bud.
Gemmaceous Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to gems or to gemmae; of the nature of, or resembling, gems or gemmae.
Gemmary Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to gems.
Gemmate Dictionary G - adjective Having buds; reproducing by buds.
Gemmated Dictionary G - adjective Having buds; adorned with gems or jewels.
Gemmation Dictionary G - noun The formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. See Budding.
Gemmeous Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to gems; of the nature of gems; resembling gems.
Gemmiferous Dictionary G - adjective Producing gems or buds.
Gemmification Dictionary G - noun The production of a bud or gem.
Gemmiflorate Dictionary G - adjective Having flowers like buds.
Gemminess Dictionary G - noun The state or quality of being gemmy; spruceness; smartness.
Gemmipara Dictionary G - noun plural Alt. of Gemmipares.
Gemmipares Dictionary G - noun plural Animals which increase by budding, as hydroids.
Gemmiparity Dictionary G - noun Reproduction by budding; gemmation. See Budding.
Gemmiparous Dictionary G - adjective Producing buds; reproducing by buds. See Gemmation, 1.
Gemmosity Dictionary G - noun The quality or characteristics of a gem or jewel.
Gemmulation Dictionary G - noun See Gemmation.
Gemmule Dictionary G - noun A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons.
Gemmuliferous Dictionary G - adjective Bearing or producing gemmules or buds.
Gemmy Dictionary G - noun Full of gems; bright; glittering like a gem.
Gemote Dictionary G - verb transitive A meeting; - used in combination, as, Witenagemote, an assembly of the wise men.
Gems Dictionary G - noun The chamois.
Gemsbok Dictionary G - noun A South African antelope (Oryx Capensis), having long, sharp, nearly straight horns.
Gems-horn Dictionary G - noun An organ stop with conical tin pipes.
Gemul Dictionary G - noun A small South American deer (Furcifer Chilensis), with simple forked horns.
-gen Dictionary G - A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing, generating: as, amphigen, amidogen, halogen.
Gena Dictionary G - The cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a bird.
Genappe Dictionary G - noun A worsted yarn or cord of peculiar smoothness, used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, etc.
Gendarmes Dictionary G - pleural of Gendarme.
Gens d'armes Dictionary G - pleural of Gendarme.
Gendarme Dictionary G - noun One of a body of heavy cavalry.
Gendarmery Dictionary G - noun The body of gendarmes.
Gender Dictionary G - noun Kind; sort.
Gendered Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gender.
Gendering Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gender.
Genderless Dictionary G - adjective Having no gender.
Geneagenesis Dictionary G - noun Alternate generation. See under Generation.
Genealogic Dictionary G - adjective Genealogical.
Genealogical Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to genealogy; as, a genealogical table; genealogical order.
Genealogist Dictionary G - noun One who traces genealogies or the descent of persons or families.
Genealogize Dictionary G - intransitive verb To investigate, or relate the history of, descents.
Genealogies Dictionary G - pleural of Genealogy.
Genealogy Dictionary G - noun An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.
Genearch Dictionary G - noun The chief of a family or tribe.
Genera Dictionary G - noun plural See Genus.
Generability Dictionary G - noun Capability of being generated.
Generable Dictionary G - adjective Capable of being generated or produced.
General Dictionary G - adjective Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy.
Generalia Dictionary G - noun plural Generalities; general terms.
Generalissimo Dictionary G - adjective The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; - a title used in most foreign countries.
Generalities Dictionary G - pleural of Generality.
Generality Dictionary G - noun The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.
Generalizable Dictionary G - adjective Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule.
Generalization Dictionary G - noun The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars.
Generalized Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Generalize.
Generalizing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Generalize.
Generalize Dictionary G - verb transitive To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.
Generalizer Dictionary G - noun One who takes general or comprehensive views.
Generally Dictionary G - adverb In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.
Generalness Dictionary G - noun The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness.
Generalship Dictionary G - noun The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; - sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general.
Generalty Dictionary G - noun Generality.
Generant Dictionary G - adjective Generative; producing.
Generated Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Generate.
Generating Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Generate.
Generate Dictionary G - verb transitive To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.
Generation Dictionary G - noun The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
Generative Dictionary G - adjective Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
Generator Dictionary G - noun One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
Generatrices Dictionary G - pleural of Generatrix.
Generatrixes Dictionary G - pleural of Generatrix.
Generatrix Dictionary G - noun That which generates; the point, or the mathematical magnitude, which, by its motion, generates another magnitude, as a line, surface, or solid; - called also describent.
Generic Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Generical.
Generical Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to a genus or kind; relating to a genus, as distinct from a species, or from another genus; as, a generic description; a generic difference; a generic name.
Generically Dictionary G - adverb With regard to a genus, or an extensive class; as, an animal generically distinct from another, or two animals or plants generically allied.
Genericalness Dictionary G - noun The quality of being generic.
Generification Dictionary G - noun The act or process of generalizing.
Generosity Dictionary G - noun Noble birth.
Generous Dictionary G - adjective Of honorable birth or origin; highborn.
Genesee epoch Dictionary G - The closing subdivision of the Hamilton period in the American Devonian system; - so called because the formations of this period crop out in Genesee, New York.
Genesial Dictionary G - adjective Of or relating to generation.
Genesiolgy Dictionary G - noun The doctrine or science of generation.
Genesis Dictionary G - noun The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination.
Genet Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Genette.
Genette Dictionary G - noun One of several species of small Carnivora of the genus Genetta, allied to the civets, but having the scent glands less developed, and without a pouch.
Genethliac Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to nativities; calculated by astrologers; showing position of stars at one's birth.
Genethliacal Dictionary G - adjective Genethliac.
Genethliacs Dictionary G - noun The science of calculating nativities, or predicting the future events of life from the stars which preside at birth.
Genethlialogy Dictionary G - noun Divination as to the destinies of one newly born; the act or art of casting nativities; astrology.
Genethliatic Dictionary G - noun One who calculates nativities.
Genetic Dictionary G - adjective Same as Genetical.
Genetical Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, concerned with, or determined by, the genesis of anything, or its natural mode of production or development.
Genetically Dictionary G - adverb In a genetical manner.
Geneva Dictionary G - noun The chief city of Switzerland.
Genevan Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to Geneva, in Switzerland; Genevese.
Genevanism Dictionary G - noun Strict Calvinism.
Genevese Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to Geneva, in Switzerland; Genevan.
Genial Dictionary G - adjective Same as Genian.
Geniality Dictionary G - noun The quality of being genial; sympathetic cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.
Genially Dictionary G - adverb By genius or nature; naturally.
Genialness Dictionary G - noun The quality of being genial.
Genian Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the chin; mental; as, the genian prominence.
Geniculate Dictionary G - adjective Bent abruptly at an angle, like the knee when bent; as, a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal.
Geniculated Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Geniculate.
Geniculating Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Geniculate.
Geniculation Dictionary G - noun The act of kneeling.
Genie Dictionary G - noun See Genius.
Genio Dictionary G - noun A man of a particular turn of mind.
Geniohyoid Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the chin and hyoid bone; as, the geniohyoid muscle.
Genipap Dictionary G - noun The edible fruit of a West Indian tree (Genipa Americana) of the order Rubiaceae. It is oval in shape, as a large as a small orange, of a pale greenish color, and with dark purple juice.
Genista Dictionary G - noun A genus of plants including the common broom of Western Europe.
Genital Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to generation, or to the generative organs.
Genitals Dictionary G - adjective The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts.
Geniting Dictionary G - noun A species of apple that ripens very early.
Genitival Dictionary G - adjective Possessing genitive from; pertaining to, or derived from, the genitive case; as, a genitival adverb.
Genitive Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses source or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.
Genitocrural Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to the genital organs and the thigh; - applied especially to one of the lumbar nerves.
Genitor Dictionary G - noun One who begets; a generator; an originator.
Genitourinary Dictionary G - adjective See Urogenital.
Geniture Dictionary G - noun Generation; procreation; birth.
Geniuses Dictionary G - pleural of Genius.
Genii Dictionary G - pleural of Genius.
Genius Dictionary G - noun A good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit, good or bad. Cf. Jinnee.
Genoese Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to Genoa, a city of Italy.
Genouillere Dictionary G - noun A metal plate covering the knee.
-genous Dictionary G - A suffix signifying producing, yielding; as, alkaligenous; endogenous.
Genre Dictionary G - noun A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.
Gentes Dictionary G - pleural of Gens.
Gens Dictionary G - adjective A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe.
Gent Dictionary G - adjective Gentle; noble; of gentle birth.
Genteel Dictionary G - adjective Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address.
Genteelish Dictionary G - adjective Somewhat genteel.
Genteelly Dictionary G - adverb In a genteel manner.
Genteelness Dictionary G - noun The quality of being genteel.
Genterie Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gentrie.
Gentrie Dictionary G - noun Nobility of birth or of character; gentility.
Gentian Dictionary G - noun Any one of a genus (Gentiana) of herbaceous plants with opposite leaves and a tubular four- or five-lobed corolla, usually blue, but sometimes white, yellow, or red. See Illust. of Capsule.
Gentianaceous Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Gentianaceae) of which the gentian is the type.
Gentianella Dictionary G - noun A kind of blue color.
Gentianic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to or derived from the gentian; as, gentianic acid.
Gentianine Dictionary G - noun A bitter, crystallizable substance obtained from gentian.
Gentianose Dictionary G - noun A crystallizable, sugarlike substance, with a slightly sweetish taste, obtained from the gentian.
Gentil Dictionary G - adjective & noun Gentle.
Gentile Dictionary G - adjective One of a non-Jewish nation; one neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen.
Gentile-falcon Dictionary G - noun See Falcon-gentil.
Gentilesse Dictionary G - adjective Gentleness; courtesy; kindness; nobility.
Gentilish Dictionary G - adjective Heathenish; pagan.
Gentilism Dictionary G - noun Hethenism; paganism; the worship of false gods.
Gentilitial Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gentilitious.
Gentilitious Dictionary G - adjective Peculiar to a people; national.
Gentility Dictionary G - noun Good extraction; dignity of birth.
Gentilize Dictionary G - intransitive verb To live like a gentile or heathen.
Gentilly Dictionary G - adjective In a gentle or hoble manner; frankly.
Gentiopikrin Dictionary G - noun A bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and obtained from the gentian.
Gentisin Dictionary G - noun A tasteless, yellow, crystalline substance, obtained from the gentian; - called also gentianin.
Gentle Dictionary G - superlative Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.
Gentlefolk Dictionary G - noun plural Alt. of Gentlefolks.
Gentlefolks Dictionary G - noun plural Persons of gentle or good family and breeding.
Gentle-hearted Dictionary G - adjective Having a kind or gentle disposition.
Gentlemen Dictionary G - pleural of Gentleman.
Gentleman Dictionary G - noun A man well born; one of good family; one above the condition of a yeoman.
Gentlemanhood Dictionary G - noun The qualities or condition of a gentleman.
Gentlemanlike Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gentlemanly.
Gentlemanly Dictionary G - adjective Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well-behaved; courteous; polite.
Gentlemanliness Dictionary G - noun The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners.
Gentlemanship Dictionary G - noun The carriage or quality of a gentleman.
Gentleness Dictionary G - noun The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.
Gentleship Dictionary G - noun The deportment or conduct of a gentleman.
Gentlesse Dictionary G - noun Gentilesse; gentleness.
Gentlewomen Dictionary G - pleural of Gentlewoman.
Gentlewoman Dictionary G - noun A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.
Gently Dictionary G - adverb In a gentle manner.
Gentoos Dictionary G - pleural of Gentoo.
Gentoo Dictionary G - noun A native of Hindostan; a Hindoo.
Gentry Dictionary G - adjective Birth; condition; rank by birth.
Genty Dictionary G - adjective Neat; trim.
Genua Dictionary G - pleural of Genu.
Genu Dictionary G - noun The knee.
Genuflected Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Genuflect.
Genuflecting Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Genuflect.
Genuflect Dictionary G - intransitive verb To bend the knee, as in worship.
Genuflection Dictionary G - noun The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship.
Genuine Dictionary G - adjective Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials.
Genus Dictionary G - noun A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
Genys Dictionary G - noun See Gonys.
Geocentric Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Geocentrical.
Geocentrical Dictionary G - adjective Having reference to the earth as center; in relation to or seen from the earth, - usually opposed to heliocentric, as seen from the sun; as, the geocentric longitude or latitude of a planet.
Geocentrically Dictionary G - adverb In a geocentric manner.
Geocronite Dictionary G - noun A lead-gray or grayish blue mineral with a metallic luster, consisting of sulphur, antimony, and lead, with a small proportion of arsenic.
Geocyclic Dictionary G - adjective Of, pertaining to, or illustrating, the revolutions of the earth; as, a geocyclic machine.
Geode Dictionary G - noun A nodule of stone, containing a cavity, lined with crystals or mineral matter.
Geodephagous Dictionary G - adjective Living in the earth; - applied to the ground beetles.
Geodesic Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Geodesical.
Geodesical Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to geodesy; geodetic.
Geodesist Dictionary G - noun One versed in geodesy.
Geodesy Dictionary G - noun That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portions of the earth's surface, or the general figure and dimenshions of the earth; or that branch of surveying in which the curvature of the earth is taken into account, as in the surveys of States, or of long lines of coast.
Geodetic Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Geodetical.
Geodetical Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to geodesy; obtained or determined by the operations of geodesy; engaged in geodesy; geodesic; as, geodetic surveying; geodetic observers.
Geodetically Dictionary G - adverb In a geodetic manner; according to geodesy.
Geodetics Dictionary G - noun Same as Geodesy.
Geodiferous Dictionary G - adjective Producing geodes; containing geodes.
Geoduck Dictionary G - noun A gigantic clam (Glycimeris generosa) of the Pacific coast of North America, highly valued as an article of food.
Geognosis Dictionary G - noun Knowledge of the earth.
Geognost Dictionary G - noun One versed in geognosy; a geologist.
Geognostic Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Geognostical.
Geognostical Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to geognosy, or to a knowledge of the structure of the earth; geological.
Geognosy Dictionary G - noun That part of geology which treats of the materials of the earth's structure, and its general exterior and interior constitution.
Geogonic Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Geogonical.
Geogonical Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to geogony, or to the formation of the earth.
Geogony Dictionary G - noun The branch of science which treats of the formation of the earth.
Geographer Dictionary G - noun One versed in geography.
Geographic Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Geographical.
Geographical Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to geography.
Geographically Dictionary G - adverb In a geographical manner or method; according to geography.
Geographies Dictionary G - pleural of Geography.
Geography Dictionary G - noun The science which treats of the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, fetures, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited.
Geolatry Dictionary G - noun The worship of the earth.
Geologer Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Geologian.
Geologian Dictionary G - noun A geologist.
Geologic Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Geological.
Geological Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to geology, or the science of the earth.
Geologically Dictionary G - adverb In a geological manner.
Geologist Dictionary G - noun One versed in the science of geology.
Geologized Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Geologize.
Geologizing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Geologize.
Geologize Dictionary G - intransitive verb To study geology or make geological investigations in the field; to discourse as a geologist.
Geologies Dictionary G - pleural of Geology.
Geology Dictionary G - noun The science which treats: (a) Of the structure and mineral constitution of the globe; structural geology. (b) Of its history as regards rocks, minerals, rivers, valleys, mountains, climates, life, etc.; historical geology. (c) Of the causes and methods by which its structure, features, changes, and conditions have been produced; dynamical geology. See Chart of The Geological Series.
Geomalism Dictionary G - noun The tendency of an organism to respond, during its growth, to the force of gravitation.
Geomancer Dictionary G - noun One who practices, or is versed in, geomancy.
Geomancy Dictionary G - noun A kind of divination by means of figures or lines, formed by little dots or points, originally on the earth, and latterly on paper.
Geomantic Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Geomantical.
Geomantical Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining or belonging to geomancy.
Geometer Dictionary G - noun One skilled in geometry; a geometrician; a mathematician.
Geometral Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to geometry.
Geometric Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Geometrical.
Geometrical Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or according to the rules or principles of, geometry; determined by geometry; as, a geometrical solution of a problem.
Geometrically Dictionary G - adverb According to the rules or laws of geometry.
Geometrician Dictionary G - noun One skilled in geometry; a geometer; a mathematician.
Geometrid Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining or belonging to the Geometridae.
Geometrized Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Geometrize.
Geometrizing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Geometrize.
Geometrize Dictionary G - intransitive verb To investigate or apprehend geometrical quantities or laws; to make geometrical constructions; to proceed in accordance with the principles of geometry.
Geometries Dictionary G - pleural of Geometry.
Geometry Dictionary G - noun That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space.
Geophagism Dictionary G - noun The act or habit of eating earth. See Dirt eating, under Dirt.
Geophagist Dictionary G - noun One who eats earth, as dirt, clay, chalk, etc.
Geophagous Dictionary G - adjective Earth-eating.
Geophila Dictionary G - noun plural The division of Mollusca which includes the land snails and slugs.
Geoponic Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Geoponical.
Geoponical Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to tillage of the earth, or agriculture.
Geoponics Dictionary G - noun The art or science of cultivating the earth; agriculture.
Georama Dictionary G - noun A hollow globe on the inner surface of which a map of the world is depicted, to be examined by one standing inside.
Geordie Dictionary G - noun A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp.
George Dictionary G - noun A figure of St. George (the patron saint of England) on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter.
George noble Dictionary G - A gold noble of the time of Henry VIII. See Noble, n.
Georgian Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to Georgia, in Asia, or to Georgia, one of the United States.
Georgic Dictionary G - adjective A rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating lands, etc.; as, the Georgics of Virgil.
Georgical Dictionary G - adjective Relating to agriculture and rural affairs.
Georgium Sidus Dictionary G - The planet Uranus, so named by its discoverer, Sir W. Herschel.
Geoscopy Dictionary G - noun Knowledge of the earth, ground, or soil, obtained by inspection.
Geoselenic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to the earth and moon; belonging to the joint action or mutual relations of the earth and moon; as, geoselenic phenomena.
Geostatic Dictionary G - adjective Relating to the pressure exerted by earth or similar substance.
Geosynclinal Dictionary G - noun the downward bend or subsidence of the earth's crust, which allows of the gradual accumulation of sediment, and hence forms the first step in the making of a mountain range; - opposed to geanticlinal.
Geothermometer Dictionary G - noun A thermometer specially constructed for measuring temperetures at a depth below the surface of the ground.
Geotic Dictionary G - adjective Belonging to earth; terrestrial.
Geotropic Dictionary G - adjective Relating to, or showing, geotropism.
Geotropism Dictionary G - noun A disposition to turn or incline towards the earth; the influence of gravity in determining the direction of growth of an organ.
Gephyrea Dictionary G - noun plural An order of marine Annelida, in which the body is imperfectly, or not at all, annulated externally, and is mostly without setae.
Gephyrean Dictionary G - adjective Belonging to the Gephyrea. - n. One of the Gerphyrea.
Gephyreoid Dictionary G - adjective & noun Gephyrean.
Gepound Dictionary G - noun See Gipoun.
Gerah Dictionary G - noun A small coin and weight; 1-20th of a shekel.
Geraniaceous Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to a natural order of pants (Geraniaceae) which includes the genera Geranium, Pelargonium, and many others.
Geraniine Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Geranine.
Geranine Dictionary G - noun A valuable astringent obtained from the root of the Geranium maculatum or crane's-bill.
Geranium Dictionary G - noun A genus of plants having a beaklike tours or receptacle, around which the seed capsules are arranged, and membranous projections, or stipules, at the joints. Most of the species have showy flowers and a pungent odor. Called sometimes crane's-bill.
Gerant Dictionary G - noun The manager or acting partner of a company, joint-stock association, etc.
Gerbe Dictionary G - noun A kind of ornamental firework.
Gerbil Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gerbille.
Gerbille Dictionary G - noun One of several species of small, jumping, murine rodents, of the genus Gerbillus. In their leaping powers they resemble the jerboa. They inhabit Africa, India, and Southern Europe.
Gerboa Dictionary G - noun The jerboa.
Gere Dictionary G - noun Gear.
Gerent Dictionary G - adjective Bearing; carrying.
Gerfalcon Dictionary G - noun See Gyrfalcon.
Gerful Dictionary G - adjective Changeable; capricious.
Gerland Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gerlond.
Gerlond Dictionary G - noun A garland.
Gerlind Dictionary G - noun A salmon returning from the sea the second time.
Germ Dictionary G - noun That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism appears.
Germain Dictionary G - adjective See Germane.
German Dictionary G - adjective Nearly related; closely akin.
Germans Dictionary G - pleural of German.
Germander Dictionary G - noun A plant of the genus Teucrium (esp. Teucrium Chamaedrys or wall germander), mintlike herbs and low shrubs.
Germane Dictionary G - adjective Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant.
Germanic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, germanium.
Germanism Dictionary G - noun An idiom of the German language.
Germanium Dictionary G - noun A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge. Atomic weight 72.3.
Germanization Dictionary G - noun The act of Germanizing.
Germanized Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Germanize.
Germanizing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Germanize.
Germanize Dictionary G - verb transitive To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society.
Germarium Dictionary G - noun An organ in which the ova are developed in certain Turbellaria.
Germens Dictionary G - pleural of Germen.
Germina Dictionary G - pleural of Germen.
Germen Dictionary G - noun See Germ.
Germicidal Dictionary G - adjective Germicide.
Germicide Dictionary G - adjective Destructive to germs; - applied to any agent which has a destructive action upon living germs, particularly bacteria, or bacterial germs, which are considered the cause of many infectious diseases.
Germinal Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle.
Germinant Dictionary G - adjective Sprouting; sending forth germs or buds.
Germinated Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Germinate.
Germinating Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Germinate.
Germinate Dictionary G - intransitive verb To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.
Germination Dictionary G - noun The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.
Germinative Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to germination; having power to bud or develop.
Germiparity Dictionary G - noun Reproduction by means of germs.
Germless Dictionary G - adjective Without germs.
Germogen Dictionary G - noun A polynuclear mass of protoplasm, not divided into separate cells, from which certain ova are developed.
Germ plasm Dictionary G - See Plasmogen, and Idioplasm.
Germule Dictionary G - noun A small germ.
Gern Dictionary G - verb transitive To grin or yawn.
Gerner Dictionary G - noun A garner.
Gerocomia Dictionary G - noun See Gerocomy.
Gerocomical Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to gerocomy.
Gerocomy Dictionary G - noun That part of medicine which treats of regimen for old people.
Gerontes Dictionary G - noun plural Magistrates in Sparta, who with the ephori and kings, constituted the supreme civil authority.
Gerontocracy Dictionary G - noun Government by old men.
Geropigia Dictionary G - noun A mixture composed of unfermented grape juice, brandy, sugar, etc., for adulteration of wines.
-gerous Dictionary G - A suffix signifying bearing, producing; as, calcigerous; dentigerous.
Gerrymandered Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gerrymander.
Gerrymandering Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gerrymander.
Gerrymander Dictionary G - verb transitive To divide (a State) into districts for the choice of representatives, in an unnatural and unfair way, with a view to give a political party an advantage over its opponent.
Gerund Dictionary G - noun A kind of verbal noun, having only the four oblique cases of the singular number, and governing cases like a participle.
Gerundial Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, a gerund; as, a gerundial use.
Gerundive Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or partaking of, the nature of the gerund; gerundial.
Gerundively Dictionary G - adverb In the manner of a gerund; as, or in place of, a gerund.
Gery Dictionary G - adjective Changeable; fickle.
Gesling Dictionary G - noun A gosling.
Gesse Dictionary G - verb transitive & intransitive To guess.
Gest Dictionary G - noun A guest.
Gestant Dictionary G - adjective Bearing within; laden; burdened; pregnant.
Gestation Dictionary G - noun The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).
Gestatory Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to gestation or pregnancy.
Geste Dictionary G - intransitive verb To tell stories or gests.
Gestic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to deeds or feats of arms; legendary.
Gesticulated Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gesticulate.
Gesticulating Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gesticulate.
Gesticulate Dictionary G - intransitive verb To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.
Gesticulation Dictionary G - noun The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to express passion or enforce sentiments.
Gesticulator Dictionary G - noun One who gesticulates.
Gesticulatory Dictionary G - adjective Representing by, or belonging to, gestures.
Gestour Dictionary G - noun A reciter of gests or legendary tales; a story-teller.
Gestural Dictionary G - adjective Relating to gesture.
Gesture Dictionary G - noun Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.
Gestured Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gesture.
Gesturing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gesture.
Gestureless Dictionary G - adjective Free from gestures.
Gesturement Dictionary G - noun Act of making gestures; gesturing.
Get Dictionary G - noun Jet, the mineral.
Got Dictionary G - imperative of Get.
Gotten Dictionary G - of Get.
Getting Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Get.
Geten Dictionary G - p. p. of Get.
Geth Dictionary G - the original third pers. sing. pres. of Go.
Get-penny Dictionary G - noun Something which gets or gains money; a successful affair.
Gettable Dictionary G - adjective That may be obtained.
Getter Dictionary G - noun One who gets, gains, obtains, acquires, begets, or procreates.
Getterup Dictionary G - noun One who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc.
Get-up Dictionary G - noun General composition or structure; manner in which the parts of a thing are combined; make-up; style of dress, etc.
Gewgaw Dictionary G - noun A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble.
Geyser Dictionary G - noun A boiling spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud, etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam.
Geyserite Dictionary G - noun A loose hydrated form of silica, a variety of opal, deposited in concretionary cauliflowerlike masses, around some hot springs and geysers.
Gharry Dictionary G - noun Any wheeled cart or carriage.
Ghast Dictionary G - adjective To strike aghast; to affright.
Ghastful Dictionary G - adjective Fit to make one aghast; dismal.
Ghastliness Dictionary G - noun The state of being ghastly; a deathlike look.
Ghastly Dictionary G - superlative Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal.
Ghastness Dictionary G - noun Ghastliness.
Ghat Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Ghaut.
Ghaut Dictionary G - noun A pass through a mountain.
Ghawazi Dictionary G - noun plural Egyptian dancing girls, of a lower sort than the almeh.
Gheber Ghebre Dictionary G - noun A worshiper of fire; a Zoroastrian; a Parsee.
Ghee Dictionary G - noun Butter clarified by boiling, and thus converted into a kind of oil.
Gherkin Dictionary G - noun A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles.
Ghess Dictionary G - verb transitive & intransitive See Guess.
Ghetto Dictionary G - noun The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city.
Ghibelline Dictionary G - noun One of a faction in Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses.
Ghole Dictionary G - noun See Ghoul.
Ghost Dictionary G - noun The spirit; the soul of man.
Ghostfish Dictionary G - noun A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth.
Ghostless Dictionary G - adjective Without life or spirit.
Ghostlike Dictionary G - adjective Like a ghost; ghastly.
Ghostliness Dictionary G - noun The quality of being ghostly.
Ghostly Dictionary G - adjective Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor.
Ghostology Dictionary G - noun Ghost lore.
Ghoul Dictionary G - noun An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies.
Ghoulish Dictionary G - adjective Characteristic of a ghoul; vampirelike; hyenalike.
Ghyll Dictionary G - noun A ravine. See Gill a woody glen.
Giallolino Dictionary G - noun A term variously employed by early writers on art, though commonly designating the yellow oxide of lead, or massicot.
Giambeux Dictionary G - noun plural Greaves; armor for the legs.
Giant Dictionary G - noun A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.
Giantess Dictionary G - noun A woman of extraordinary size.
Giantize Dictionary G - intransitive verb To play the giant.
Giantly Dictionary G - adjective Appropriate to a giant.
Giantry Dictionary G - noun The race of giants.
Giantship Dictionary G - noun The state, personality, or character, of a giant; - a compellation for a giant.
Giaour Dictionary G - noun An infidel; - a term applied by Turks to disbelievers in the Mohammedan religion, especially Christrians.
Gib Dictionary G - noun A male cat; a tomcat.
Gibbed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gib.
Gibbing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gib.
Gibbartas Dictionary G - noun One of several finback whales of the North Atlantic; - called also Jupiter whale.
Gibber Dictionary G - noun A balky horse.
Gibbered Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gibber.
Gibbering Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gibber.
Gibberish Dictionary G - intransitive verb Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words; jargon.
Gibbet Dictionary G - noun A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning.
Gibbeted Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gibbet.
Gibbeting Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gibbet.
Gibbier Dictionary G - noun Wild fowl; game.
Gibbon Dictionary G - noun Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing.
Gib boom Dictionary G - See Jib boom.
Gibbose Dictionary G - adjective Humped; protuberant; - said of a surface which presents one or more large elevations.
Gibbostity Dictionary G - noun The state of being gibbous or gibbose; gibbousness.
Gibbous Dictionary G - adjective Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon.
Gibbsite Dictionary G - noun A hydrate of alumina.
Gib-cat Dictionary G - noun A male cat, esp. an old one. See lst Gib. n.
Gibed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gibe.
Gibing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gibe.
Gibe Dictionary G - intransitive verb To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff.
Gibel Dictionary G - noun A kind of carp (Cyprinus gibelio); - called also Prussian carp.
Giber Dictionary G - noun One who utters gibes.
Gibfish Dictionary G - noun The male of the salmon.
Gibingly Dictionary G - adverb In a gibing manner; scornfully.
Giblet Dictionary G - adjective Made of giblets; as, a giblet pie.
Giblets Dictionary G - noun plural The inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry.
Gibstaff Dictionary G - noun A staff to guage water, or to push a boat.
Gid Dictionary G - adjective A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the C/nurus, a larval tapeworm, in the brain. See C/nurus.
Giddily Dictionary G - adverb In a giddy manner.
Giddiness Dictionary G - noun The quality or state of being giddy.
Giddy Dictionary G - superlative Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy.
Giddy-head Dictionary G - noun A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment.
Giddy-headed Dictionary G - adjective Thoughtless; unsteady.
Giddy-paced Dictionary G - adjective Moving irregularly; flighty; fickle.
Gie Dictionary G - verb transitive To guide. See Gye.
Gier-eagle Dictionary G - noun A bird referred to in the Bible (Lev. xi. 18and Deut. xiv. 17) as unclean, probably the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus).
Gier-falcon Dictionary G - noun The gyrfalcon.
Gieseckite Dictionary G - noun A mineral occurring in greenish gray six-sided prisms, having a greasy luster. It is probably a pseudomorph after elaeolite.
Gif Dictionary G - conjecture If.
Giffard injector Dictionary G - See under Injector.
Giffgaff Dictionary G - noun Mutial accommodation; mutual giving.
Giffy Dictionary G - noun See Jiffy.
Gift Dictionary G - verb transitive Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.
Gifted Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gift.
Gifting Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gift.
Giftedness Dictionary G - noun The state of being gifted.
Gig Dictionary G - noun A fiddle.
Gigantean Dictionary G - adjective Like a giant; mighty; gigantic.
Gigantesque Dictionary G - adjective Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent.
Gigantic Dictionary G - adjective Of extraordinary size; like a giant.
Gigantical Dictionary G - adjective Bulky, big.
Giganticide Dictionary G - noun The act of killing, or one who kills, a giant.
Gigantine Dictionary G - adjective Gigantic.
Gigantology Dictionary G - noun An account or description of giants.
Gigantomachy Dictionary G - noun A war of giants; especially, the fabulous war of the giants against heaven.
Gide Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Guide.
Guide Dictionary G - noun The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.
Gigeria Dictionary G - pleural of Gigerium.
Gigerium Dictionary G - noun The muscular stomach, or gizzard, of birds.
Gigget Dictionary G - noun Same as Gigot.
Giggled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Giggle.
Giggling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Giggle.
Giggle Dictionary G - verb transitive To laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a light, affected, or silly manner; to titter with childish levity.
Giggler Dictionary G - noun One who giggles or titters.
Giggly Dictionary G - adjective Prone to giggling.
Giggot Dictionary G - noun See Gigot.
Giggyng Dictionary G - noun The act of fastending the gige or leather strap to the shield.
Giglot Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Giglet.
Giglet Dictionary G - noun A wanton; a lascivious or light, giddy girl.
Gigot Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Giggot.
Gila monster Dictionary G - A large tuberculated lizard (Heloderma suspectum) native of the dry plains of Arizona, New Mexico, etc. It is the only lizard known to have venomous teeth.
Gilded Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gild.
Gilt Dictionary G - of Gild.
Gilding Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gild.
Gild Dictionary G - verb transitive To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.
Gildale Dictionary G - verb transitive A drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share.
Gilden Dictionary G - adjective Gilded.
Gilder Dictionary G - noun One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold.
Guilding Dictionary G - noun The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold.
Gile Dictionary G - noun Guile.
Gill Dictionary G - noun An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia.
Gill-flirt Dictionary G - noun A thoughtless, giddy girl; a flirt-gill.
Gillhouse Dictionary G - noun A shop where gill is sold.
Gillian Dictionary G - noun A girl; esp., a wanton; a gill.
Gillie Gilly Dictionary G - noun A boy or young man; a manservant; a male attendant, in the Scottish Highlands.
Gillyflower Dictionary G - noun A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white.
Gilour Dictionary G - noun A guiler; deceiver.
Gilse Dictionary G - noun See Grilse.
Gilt-edge Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gilt-edged.
Gilt-edged Dictionary G - adjective Having a gilt edge; as, gilt-edged paper.
Gilthead Dictionary G - noun A marine fish.
Giltif Dictionary G - adjective Guilty.
Gilttail Dictionary G - noun A yellow-tailed worm or larva.
Gim Dictionary G - adjective Neat; spruce.
Gimbal Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gimbals.
Gimbals Dictionary G - noun A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first.
Gimblet Dictionary G - noun & verb See Gimlet.
Gimcrack Dictionary G - noun A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.
Gimlet Dictionary G - noun A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle.
Gimleted Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gimlet.
Gimleting Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gimlet.
Gimmal Dictionary G - noun Joined work whose parts move within each other; a pair or series of interlocked rings.
Gommal Dictionary G - adjective Made or consisting of interlocked ring/ or links; as, gimmal mail.
Gimmer Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gimmor.
Gimmor Dictionary G - noun A piece of mechanism; mechanical device or contrivance; a gimcrack.
Gimp Dictionary G - adjective Smart; spruce; trim; nice.
Gin Dictionary G - noun Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.
Gon Dictionary G - of Gin.
Gun Dictionary G - of Gin.
Ginning Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gin.
Ginned Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gin.
Ging Dictionary G - noun Same as Gang, n., 2.
Gingal Dictionary G - noun See Jingal.
Ginger Dictionary G - noun A plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Z. officinale.
Gingerbread Dictionary G - noun A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes.
Gingerly Dictionary G - adverb Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily.
Gingerness Dictionary G - noun Cautiousness; tenderness.
Gingham Dictionary G - noun A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; - distinguished from printed cotton or prints.
Ginging Dictionary G - noun The lining of a mine shaft with stones or bricks to prevent caving.
Gingival Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the gums.
Gingle Dictionary G - noun & verb See Jingle.
Ginglyform Dictionary G - adjective Ginglymoid.
Ginglymodi Dictionary G - noun An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebrae convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See Ganoidel.
Ginglymoid Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Ginglymoidal.
Ginglymoidal Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, a ginglymus, or hinge joint; ginglyform.
Ginglymi Dictionary G - pleural of Ginglymus.
Ginglymus Dictionary G - noun A hinge joint; an articulation, admitting of flexion and extension, or motion in two directions only, as the elbow and the ankle.
Ginhouse Dictionary G - noun A building where cotton is ginned.
Ginkgoes Dictionary G - pleural of Ginkgo.
Ginkgo Dictionary G - noun A large ornamental tree (Ginkgo biloba) from China and Japan, belonging to the Yew suborder of Coniferae. Its leaves are so like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is also called the maidenhair tree.
Ginn Dictionary G - pleural of Ginnee.
Ginnee Dictionary G - noun See Jinnee.
Ginnet Dictionary G - noun See Genet, a horse.
Ginny-carriage Dictionary G - noun A small, strong carriage for conveying materials on a railroad.
Ginseng Dictionary G - noun A plant of the genus Aralia, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese. The Chinese plant (Aralia Schinseng) has become so rare that the American (A. quinquefolia) has largely taken its place, and its root is now an article of export from America to China. The root, when dry, is of a yellowish white color, with a sweetness in the taste somewhat resembling that of licorice, combined with a slight aromatic bitterness.
Ginshop Dictionary G - noun A shop or barroom where gin is sold as a beverage.
Gip Dictionary G - verb transitive To take out the entrails of (herrings).
Gipoun Dictionary G - noun A short cassock.
Gipser Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gipsire.
Gipsire Dictionary G - noun A kind of pouch formerly worn at the girdle.
Gipsy Dictionary G - noun adjective See Gypsy.
Gipsyism Dictionary G - noun See Gypsyism.
Giraffe Dictionary G - noun An African ruminant (Camelopardalis giraffa) related to the deers and antelopes, but placed in a family by itself; the camelopard. It is the tallest of animals, being sometimes twenty feet from the hoofs to the top of the head. Its neck is very long, and its fore legs are much longer than its hind legs.
Girandole Dictionary G - noun An ornamental branched candlestick.
Girasole Girasol Dictionary G - noun See Heliotrope.
Gird Dictionary G - noun A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
Girt Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gird.
Girded Dictionary G - of Gird.
Girding Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gird.
Girder Dictionary G - noun One who girds; a satirist.
Girdle Dictionary G - noun A griddle.
Girdled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Girdle.
Girdling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Girdle.
Girdler Dictionary G - noun One who girdles.
Girdlestead Dictionary G - noun That part of the body where the girdle is worn.
Gire Dictionary G - noun See Gyre.
Girkin Dictionary G - noun See Gherkin.
Girl Dictionary G - noun A young person of either sex; a child.
Girlhood Dictionary G - noun State or time of being a girl.
Girlish Dictionary G - adjective Like, or characteristic of, a girl; of or pertaining to girlhood; innocent; artless; immature; weak; as, girlish ways; girlish grief.
Girlond Dictionary G - noun A garland; a prize.
Girn Dictionary G - noun To grin.
Girondist Dictionary G - noun A member of the moderate republican party formed in the French legislative assembly in 1791. The Girondists were so called because their leaders were deputies from the department of La Gironde.
Girrock Dictionary G - noun A garfish.
Girted Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Girt.
Girting Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Girt.
Girth Dictionary G - noun A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.
Girtline Dictionary G - noun A gantline.
Gisarm Dictionary G - noun A weapon with a scythe-shaped blade, and a separate long sharp point, mounted on a long staff and carried by foot soldiers.
Gise Dictionary G - verb transitive To feed or pasture.
Gisle Dictionary G - noun A pledge.
Gismondine Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gismondite.
Gismondite Dictionary G - noun A native hydrated silicate of alumina, lime, and potash, first noticed near Rome.
Gist Dictionary G - noun A resting place.
Git Dictionary G - noun See Geat.
Gite Dictionary G - noun A gown.
Gith Dictionary G - noun The corn cockle; also anciently applied to the Nigella, or fennel flower.
Gittern Dictionary G - noun An instrument like a guitar.
Gittith Dictionary G - noun A musical instrument, of unknown character, supposed by some to have been used by the people of Gath, and thence obtained by David. It is mentioned in the title of Psalms viii., lxxxi., and lxxxiv.
Guist Dictionary G - noun Same as Joust.
Giusto Dictionary G - adjective In just, correct, or suitable time.
Given Dictionary G - past participle of Give.
Giving Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Give.
Give Dictionary G - noun To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow.
Giver Dictionary G - noun One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes.
Gives Dictionary G - noun Fetters.
Gizzard Dictionary G - noun The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.
Glabell/ Dictionary G - pleural of Glabella.
Glabella Dictionary G - noun The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon.
Glabellum Dictionary G - noun The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. See Trilobite.
Glabrate Dictionary G - adjective Becoming smooth or glabrous from age.
Glabreate Dictionary G - verb transitive Alt. of Glabriate.
Glabriate Dictionary G - verb transitive To make smooth, plain, or bare.
Glabrity Dictionary G - noun Smoothness; baldness.
Glabrous Dictionary G - adjective Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness.
Glacial Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena.
Glacialist Dictionary G - noun One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers.
Glaciate Dictionary G - intransitive verb To turn to ice.
Glaciation Dictionary G - noun Act of freezing.
Glacier Dictionary G - noun An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland.
Glacious Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, consisting of or resembling, ice; icy.
Glacis Dictionary G - noun A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin).
Glad Dictionary G - superlative Pleased; joyous; happy; cheerful; gratified; - opposed to sorry, sorrowful, or unhappy; - said of persons, and often followed by of, at, that, or by the infinitive, and sometimes by with, introducing the cause or reason.
Gladded Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glad.
Gladding Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glad.
Gladdened Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gladden.
Gladdening Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gladden.
Gladden Dictionary G - verb transitive To make glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to exhilarate.
Gladder Dictionary G - noun One who makes glad.
Glade Dictionary G - noun An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
Gladen Dictionary G - noun Sword grass; any plant with sword-shaped leaves, esp. the European Iris foetidissima.
Gladeye Dictionary G - noun The European yellow-hammer.
Gladful Dictionary G - adjective Full of gladness; joyful; glad.
Gladiate Dictionary G - adjective Sword-shaped; resembling a sword in form, as the leaf of the iris, or of the gladiolus.
Gladiator Dictionary G - noun Originally, a swordplayer; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena, for public amusement.
Gladiatorial Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gladiatorian.
Gladiatorian Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to gladiators, or to contests or combatants in general.
Gladiatorism Dictionary G - noun The art or practice of a gladiator.
Gladiatorship Dictionary G - noun Conduct, state, or art, of a gladiator.
Gladiatory Dictionary G - adjective Gladiatorial.
Gladiature Dictionary G - noun Swordplay; fencing; gladiatorial contest.
Gladiole Dictionary G - noun A lilylike plant, of the genus Gladiolus; - called also corn flag.
Gladioli Dictionary G - pleural of Gladiolus.
Gladioluses Dictionary G - pleural of Gladiolus.
Gladiolus Dictionary G - noun A genus of plants having bulbous roots and gladiate leaves, and including many species, some of which are cultivated and valued for the beauty of their flowers; the corn flag; the sword lily.
Gladii Dictionary G - pleural of Gladius.
Gladius Dictionary G - noun The internal shell, or pen, of cephalopods like the squids.
Gladly Dictionary G - adjective Preferably; by choice.
Gladness Dictionary G - noun State or quality of being glad; pleasure; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness.
Gladship Dictionary G - noun A state of gladness.
Gladsome Dictionary G - adjective Pleased; joyful; cheerful.
Gladstone Dictionary G - noun A four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two inside seats, calash top, and seats for driver and footman.
Gladwyn Dictionary G - noun See Gladen.
Glair Dictionary G - adjective The white of egg. It is used as a size or a glaze in bookbinding, for pastry, etc.
Glaired Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glair.
Glairing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glair.
Glaire Dictionary G - noun See Glair.
Glaireous Dictionary G - adjective Glairy; covered with glair.
Glairin Dictionary G - noun A glairy viscous substance, which forms on the surface of certain mineral waters, or covers the sides of their inclosures; - called also baregin.
Glairy Dictionary G - adjective Like glair, or partaking of its qualities; covered with glair; viscous and transparent; slimy.
Glaive Dictionary G - noun A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve; also, a light lance with a long sharp-pointed head.
Glama Dictionary G - noun A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude.
Glamour Dictionary G - noun A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.
Glamourie Dictionary G - noun Glamour.
Glance Dictionary G - noun A sudden flash of light or splendor.
Glanced Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glance.
Glancing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glance.
Glancingly Dictionary G - adverb In a glancing manner; transiently; incidentally; indirectly.
Gland Dictionary G - noun An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth.
Glandage Dictionary G - noun A feeding on nuts or mast.
Glandered Dictionary G - adjective Affected with glanders; as, a glandered horse.
Glanderous Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to glanders; of the nature of glanders.
Glanders Dictionary G - noun A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.
Glandiferous Dictionary G - adjective Bearing acorns or other nuts; as, glandiferous trees.
Glandiform Dictionary G - adjective Having the form of a gland or nut; resembling a gland.
Glandular Dictionary G - adjective Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
Glandulation Dictionary G - noun The situation and structure of the secretory vessels in plants.
Glandule Dictionary G - noun A small gland or secreting vessel.
Glanduliferous Dictionary G - adjective Bearing glandules.
Glandulose Dictionary G - adjective Same as Glandulous.
Glandulosity Dictionary G - noun Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands.
Glandulous Dictionary G - adjective Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands; resembling glands.
Glandes Dictionary G - pleural of Glans.
Glans Dictionary G - noun The vascular body which forms the apex of the penis, and the extremity of the clitoris.
Glared Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glare.
Glaring Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glare.
Glare Dictionary G - intransitive verb To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
Glareous Dictionary G - adjective Glairy.
Glariness Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Glaringness.
Glaringness Dictionary G - noun A dazzling luster or brilliancy.
Glary Dictionary G - adjective Of a dazzling luster; glaring; bright; shining; smooth.
Glass Dictionary G - verb transitive A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament.
Glassed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glass.
Glassing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glass.
Glass-crab Dictionary G - noun The larval state (Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma.
Glassen Dictionary G - adjective Glassy; glazed.
Glasseye Dictionary G - noun A fish of the great lakes; the wall-eyed pike.
Glass-faced Dictionary G - adjective Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another.
Glassfuls Dictionary G - pleural of Glassful.
Glassful Dictionary G - noun The contents of a glass; as much of anything as a glass will hold.
Glass-gazing Dictionary G - adjective Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical.
Glasshouse Dictionary G - noun A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.
Glassily Dictionary G - adverb So as to resemble glass.
Glassiness Dictionary G - noun The quality of being glassy.
Glassite Dictionary G - noun A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is "no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding." The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass.
Glass maker Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Glassmaker.
Glassmaker Dictionary G - noun One who makes, or manufactures, glass.
Glass-rope Dictionary G - noun A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.
Glass-snail Dictionary G - noun A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.
Glass-snake Dictionary G - noun A long, footless lizard (Ophiosaurus ventralis), of the Southern United States; - so called from its fragility, the tail easily breaking into small pieces. It grows to the length of three feet. The name is applied also to similar species found in the Old World.
Glass-sponge Dictionary G - noun A siliceous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, and allied genera; - so called from their glassy fibers or spicules; - called also vitreous sponge. See Glass-rope, and Euplectella.
Glassware Dictionary G - noun Ware, or articles collectively, made of glass.
Glasswork Dictionary G - noun Manufacture of glass; articles or ornamentation made of glass.
Glasswort Dictionary G - noun A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
Glassy Dictionary G - adjective Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance.
Glasstonbury thorn Dictionary G - A variety of the common hawthorn.
Glasynge Dictionary G - noun Glazing or glass.
Glauberite Dictionary G - noun A mineral, consisting of the sulphates of soda and lime.
Glauber's salt Dictionary G - Alt. of Glauber's salts.
Glauber's salts Dictionary G - Sulphate of soda, a well-known cathartic. It is a white crystalline substance, with a cooling, slightly bitter taste, and is commonly called "salts.".
Glaucescent Dictionary G - adjective Having a somewhat glaucous appearance or nature; becoming glaucous.
Glaucic Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the Glaucium or horned poppy; - formerly applied to an acid derived from it, now known to be fumaric acid.
Glaucine Dictionary G - adjective Glaucous or glaucescent.
Glaucodot Dictionary G - noun A metallic mineral having a grayish tin-white color, and containing cobalt and iron, with sulphur and arsenic.
Glaucoma Dictionary G - noun Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball.
Glaucomatous Dictionary G - adjective Having the nature of glaucoma.
Glaucometer Dictionary G - noun See Gleucometer.
Glauconite Dictionary G - noun The green mineral characteristic of the greensand of the chalk and other formations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and potash. See Greensand.
Glaucophane Dictionary G - noun A mineral of a dark bluish color, related to amphibole. It is characteristic of certain crystalline rocks.
Glaucosis Dictionary G - noun Same as Glaucoma.
Glaucous Dictionary G - adjective Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue.
Glaucus Dictionary G - noun A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white.
Glaum Dictionary G - intransitive verb To grope with the hands, as in the dark.
Glave Dictionary G - noun See Glaive.
Glaver Dictionary G - intransitive verb To prate; to jabber; to babble.
Glaverer Dictionary G - noun A flatterer.
Glaymore Dictionary G - noun A claymore.
Glased Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glase.
Glazing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glase.
Glase Dictionary G - verb transitive To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a ease, etc.) with glass.
Glaze Dictionary G - intransitive verb To become glazed of glassy.
Glazen Dictionary G - adjective Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed.
Glazer Dictionary G - noun One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like.
Glazier Dictionary G - noun One whose business is to set glass.
Glazy Dictionary G - adjective Having a glazed appearance; - said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.
Glead Dictionary G - noun A live coal. See Gleed.
Gleam Dictionary G - intransitive verb To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
Gleamed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gleam.
Gleaming Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gleam.
Gleamy Dictionary G - adjective Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating.
Gleaned Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glean.
Gleaning Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glean.
Glean Dictionary G - verb transitive To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.
Gleaner Dictionary G - noun One who gathers after reapers.
Glebe Dictionary G - noun A lump; a clod.
Glebeless Dictionary G - adjective Having no glebe.
Glebosity Dictionary G - noun The quality of being glebous.
Glebous Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gleby.
Gleby Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful.
Glede Dictionary G - intransitive verb The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard.
Glee Dictionary G - noun Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
Gleed Dictionary G - intransitive verb A live or glowing coal; a glede.
Gleeful Dictionary G - adjective Merry; gay; joyous.
Gleek Dictionary G - noun A jest or scoff; a trick or deception.
Gleemen Dictionary G - pleural of Gleeman.
Gleeman Dictionary G - noun A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician.
Gleen Dictionary G - intransitive verb To glisten; to gleam.
Gleesome Dictionary G - adjective Merry; joyous; gleeful.
Gleet Dictionary G - noun A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea.
Gleety Dictionary G - adjective Ichorous; thin; limpid.
Gleg Dictionary G - adjective Quick of perception; alert; sharp.
Gleire Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gleyre.
Gleyre Dictionary G - noun See Glair.
Glen Dictionary G - noun A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills.
Glenlivat Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Glenlivet.
Glenlivet Dictionary G - noun A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made.
Glenoid Dictionary G - adjective Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; - applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates.
Glenoidal Dictionary G - adjective Glenoid.
Glent Dictionary G - noun & verb See Glint.
Gleucometer Dictionary G - noun An instrument for measuring the specific gravity and ascertaining the quantity of sugar contained in must.
Glew Dictionary G - noun See Glue.
Gley Dictionary G - intransitive verb To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.
Gliadin Dictionary G - noun Vegetable glue or gelatin; glutin. It is one of the constituents of wheat gluten, and is a tough, amorphous substance, which resembles animal glue or gelatin.
Glib Dictionary G - superlative Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib.
Gilbbery Dictionary G - adjective Slippery; changeable.
Glibly Dictionary G - adverb In a glib manner; as, to speak glibly.
Glibness Dictionary G - noun The quality of being glib.
Glicke Dictionary G - noun An ogling look.
Glidden Dictionary G - p. p. of Glide.
Glidder Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gliddery.
Gliddery Dictionary G - adjective Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery.
Glide Dictionary G - noun The glede or kite.
Glided Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glide.
Gliding Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glide.
Gliden Dictionary G - p. p. of Glide.
Glider Dictionary G - noun One who, or that which, glides.
Glidingly Dictionary G - adverb In a gliding manner.
Gliff Dictionary G - noun A transient glance; an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear.
Glike Dictionary G - noun A sneer; a flout.
Glim Dictionary G - noun Brightness; splendor.
Glimmered Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glimmer.
Glimmering Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glimmer.
Glimmer Dictionary G - intransitive verb To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp.
Glimpse Dictionary G - noun A sudden flash; transient luster.
Glimpsed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glimpse.
Glimpsing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glimpse.
Glint Dictionary G - noun A glimpse, glance, or gleam.
Glinted Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glint.
Glinting Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glint.
Glioma Dictionary G - noun A tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.
Glires Dictionary G - noun plural An order of mammals; the Rodentia.
Glissade Dictionary G - noun A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps.
Glissando Dictionary G - noun & adjective A gliding effect; gliding.
Glissette Dictionary G - noun The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.
Glist Dictionary G - noun Glimmer; mica.
Glistened Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glisten.
Glistening Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glisten.
Glisten Dictionary G - intransitive verb To sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars.
Glistered Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glister.
Glistering Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glister.
Glister Dictionary G - intransitive verb To be bright; to sparkle; to be brilliant; to shine; to glisten; to glitter.
Glisteringly Dictionary G - adverb In a glistering manner.
Glittered Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glitter.
Glittering Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glitter.
Glitter Dictionary G - intransitive verb To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword.
Glitterand Dictionary G - adjective Glittering.
Glitteringly Dictionary G - adverb In a glittering manner.
Gloam Dictionary G - intransitive verb To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.
Gloaming Dictionary G - noun Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening.
Gloar Dictionary G - intransitive verb To squint; to stare.
Gloated Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gloat.
Gloating Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gloat.
Gloat Dictionary G - intransitive verb To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; - usually in a bad sense, to gaze with malignant satisfaction, passionate desire, lust, or avarice.
Globard Dictionary G - noun A glowworm.
Globate Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Globated.
Globated Dictionary G - adjective Having the form of a globe; spherical.
Globe Dictionary G - noun A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphere.
Globed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Globe.
Globing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Globe.
Globefish Dictionary G - noun A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon.
Globeflower Dictionary G - noun A plant of the genus Trollius (T. Europaeus), found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers.
Globe-shaped Dictionary G - adjective Shaped like a globe.
Globiferous Dictionary G - adjective Having a round or globular tip.
Globigerin/ Dictionary G - pleural of Globigerina.
Globigerina Dictionary G - noun A genus of small Foraminifera, which live abundantly at or near the surface of the sea. Their dead shells, falling to the bottom, make up a large part of the soft mud, generally found in depths below 3,000 feet, and called globigerina ooze. See Illust. of Foraminifera.
Globose Dictionary G - adjective Having a rounded form resembling that of a globe; globular, or nearly so; spherical.
Globosely Dictionary G - adverb In a globular manner; globularly.
Globosity Dictionary G - noun Sphericity.
Globous Dictionary G - adjective Spherical.
Globular Dictionary G - adjective Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms.
Globularity Dictionary G - noun The state of being globular; globosity; sphericity.
Globularly Dictionary G - adverb Spherically.
Globularness Dictionary G - noun Sphericity; globosity.
Globule Dictionary G - noun A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form.
Globulet Dictionary G - noun A little globule.
Globuliferous Dictionary G - adjective Bearing globules; in geology, used of rocks, and denoting a variety of concretionary structure, where the concretions are isolated globules and evenly distributed through the texture of the rock.
Globulimeter Dictionary G - noun An instrument for measuring the number of red blood corpuscles in the blood.
Globulin Dictionary G - noun An albuminous body, insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute solutions of salt. It is present in the red blood corpuscles united with haematin to form haemoglobin. It is also found in the crystalline lens of the eye, and in blood serum, and is sometimes called crystallin. In the plural the word is applied to a group of proteid substances such as vitellin, myosin, fibrinogen, etc., all insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute salt solutions.
Globulite Dictionary G - noun A rudimentary form of crystallite, spherical in shape.
Globulous Dictionary G - adjective Globular; spherical; orbicular.
Globy Dictionary G - adjective Resembling, or pertaining to, a globe; round; orbicular.
Glochidiate Dictionary G - adjective Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles.
Glochidia Dictionary G - pleural of Glochidium.
Glochidium Dictionary G - noun The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills.
Glode Dictionary G - imp. of Glide.
Glombe Dictionary G - intransitive verb Alt. of Glome.
Glome Dictionary G - intransitive verb To gloom; to look gloomy, morose, or sullen.
Glomerate Dictionary G - adjective Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate.
Glomerated Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glomerate.
Glomerating Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glomerate.
Glomeration Dictionary G - noun The act of forming or gathering into a ball or round mass; the state of being gathered into a ball; conglomeration.
Glomerous Dictionary G - adjective Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.
Glomerule Dictionary G - noun A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood.
Glomeruli Dictionary G - pleural of Glomerulus.
Glomerulus Dictionary G - noun The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.
Glomuliferous Dictionary G - adjective Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.
Glonoin Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Glonoine.
Glonoine Dictionary G - noun Same as Nitroglycerin; - called also oil of glonoin.
Gloom Dictionary G - noun Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
Gloomed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gloom.
Glooming Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gloom.
Gloomily Dictionary G - adverb In a gloomy manner.
Gloominess Dictionary G - noun State of being gloomy.
Gloomth Dictionary G - noun Gloom.
Gloomy Dictionary G - superlative Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.
Gloppen Dictionary G - verb transitive & intransitive To surprise or astonish; to be startled or astonished.
Glore Dictionary G - intransitive verb To glare; to glower.
Gloria Dictionary G - noun A doxology (beginning Gloria Patri, Glory be to the Father), sung or said at the end of the Psalms in the service of the Roman Catholic and other churches.
Gloriation Dictionary G - noun Boast; a triumphing.
Gloried Dictionary G - adjective Illustrious; honorable; noble.
Glorification Dictionary G - noun The act of glorifyng or of giving glory to.
Glorified Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glorify.
Glorifying Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glorify.
Glorify Dictionary G - verb transitive To make glorious by bestowing glory upon; to confer honor and distinction upon; to elevate to power or happiness, or to celestial glory.
Gloriole Dictionary G - noun An aureole.
Gloriosa Dictionary G - noun A genus of climbing plants with very showy lilylike blossoms, natives of India.
Glorioser Dictionary G - noun A boaster.
Glorioso Dictionary G - noun A boaster.
Glorious Dictionary G - noun Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; splendid; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds.
Glory Dictionary G - noun Praise, honor, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; honorable fame; renown.
Glorying Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glory.
Glose Dictionary G - noun & verb See Gloze.
Gloser Dictionary G - noun See Glosser.
Gloss Dictionary G - noun Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss.
Glossed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gloss.
Glossing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gloss.
Gloss/ Dictionary G - pleural of Glossa.
Glossa Dictionary G - noun The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
Glossal Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the tongue; lingual.
Glossanthrax Dictionary G - noun A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.
Glossarial Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary.
Glossarially Dictionary G - adverb In the manner of a glossary.
Glossarist Dictionary G - noun A writer of glosses or of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast.
Gossaries Dictionary G - pleural of Glossary.
Glossary Dictionary G - noun A collection of glosses or explanations of words and passages of a work or author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialect, art, or science, explaining archaic, technical, or other uncommon words.
Glossata Dictionary G - noun plural The Lepidoptera.
Glossator Dictionary G - noun A writer of glosses or comments; a commentator.
Glosser Dictionary G - noun A polisher; one who gives a luster.
Glossic Dictionary G - noun A system of phonetic spelling based upon the present values of English letters, but invariably using one symbol to represent one sound only.
Glossily Dictionary G - adverb In a glossy manner.
Glossiness Dictionary G - noun The condition or quality of being glossy; the luster or brightness of a smooth surface.
Glossist Dictionary G - noun A writer of comments.
Glossitis Dictionary G - noun Inflammation of the tongue.
Glossly Dictionary G - adverb Like gloss; specious.
Glossocomon Dictionary G - noun A kind of hoisting winch.
Glossoepiglottic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to both tongue and epiglottis; as, glossoepiglottic folds.
Glossographer Dictionary G - noun A writer of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast.
Glossographical Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to glossography.
Glossography Dictionary G - noun The writing of glossaries, glosses, or comments for illustrating an author.
Glossohyal Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to both the hyoidean arch and the tongue; - applied to the anterior segment of the hyoidean arch in many fishes. - n. The glossohyal bone or cartilage; lingual bone; entoglossal bone.
Glossolalia Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Glossolaly.
Glossolaly Dictionary G - noun The gift of tongues. Farrar.
Glossological Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to glossology.
Glassologist Dictionary G - noun One who defines and explains terms; one who is versed in glossology.
Glossology Dictionary G - noun The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary.
Glossopharyngeal Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to both the tongue and the pharynx; - applied especially to the ninth pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the pharynx and tongue. - n. One of the glossopharyngeal nerves.
Glossy Dictionary G - superlative Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface.
Glost oven Dictionary G - An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; - also called glaze kiln, or glaze.
Glottal Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to, or produced by, the glottis; glottic.
Glottic Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Glottidean.
Glottidean Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the glottis; glottal.
Glottis Dictionary G - noun The opening from the pharynx into the larynx or into the trachea. See Larynx.
Glottological Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to glottology.
Glottologist Dictionary G - noun A linguist; a philologist.
Glottology Dictionary G - noun The science of tongues or languages; comparative philology; glossology.
Glout Dictionary G - intransitive verb To pout; to look sullen.
Glove Dictionary G - noun A cover for the hand, or for the hand and wrist, with a separate sheath for each finger. The latter characteristic distinguishes the glove from the mitten.
Gloved Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glove.
Gloving Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glove.
Glover Dictionary G - noun One whose trade it is to make or sell gloves.
Glowed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glow.
Glowing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glow.
Glow Dictionary G - intransitive verb To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.
Glowbard Dictionary G - noun The glowworm.
Glowered Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glower.
Glowering Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glower.
Glower Dictionary G - intransitive verb to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl.
Glowingly Dictionary G - adverb In a glowing manner; with ardent heat or passion.
Glowlamp Dictionary G - noun An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic.
Glowworm Dictionary G - noun A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvae of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments.
Gloxinia Dictionary G - noun American genus of herbaceous plants with very handsome bell-shaped blossoms; - named after B. P. Gloxin, a German botanist.
Glozed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gloze.
Glozing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gloze.
Gloze Dictionary G - intransitive verb To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly.
Glozer Dictionary G - noun A flatterer.
Glucic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or obtained from, sugar; as, glucic acid.
Glucina Dictionary G - noun A white or gray tasteless powder, the oxide of the element glucinum; - formerly called glucine.
Glucinic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, glucinum; as, glucinic oxide.
Glucinum Dictionary G - noun A rare metallic element, of a silver white color, and low specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally in the free state, but is always combined, usually with silica or alumina, or both; as in the minerals phenacite, chrysoberyl, beryl or emerald, euclase, and danalite. It was named from its oxide glucina, which was known long before the element was isolated. Symbol Gl. Atomic weight 9.1. Called also beryllium.
Glucogen Dictionary G - noun See Glycogen.
Glucogenesis Dictionary G - noun Glycogenesis.
Gluconic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, glucose.
Glucose Dictionary G - noun A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also dextrose, grape sugar, diabetic sugar, and starch sugar. See Dextrose.
Glucoside Dictionary G - noun One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste, but, by the action of ferments, or of dilute acids and alkalies, always break down into some characteristic substance (acid, aldehyde, alcohol, phenole, or alkaloid) and glucose (or some other sugar); hence the name. They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers, and ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates.
Glucosuria Dictionary G - noun A condition in which glucose is discharged in the urine; diabetes mellitus.
Glue Dictionary G - noun A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances.
Glued Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glue.
Gluing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glue.
Gluepot Dictionary G - noun A utensil for melting glue, consisting of an inner pot holding the glue, immersed in an outer one containing water which is heated to soften the glue.
Gluer Dictionary G - noun One who cements with glue.
Gluey Dictionary G - adjective Viscous; glutinous; of the nature of, or like, glue.
Glueyness Dictionary G - noun Viscidity.
Gluish Dictionary G - adjective Somewhat gluey.
Glum Dictionary G - noun Sullenness.
Glumaceous Dictionary G - adjective Having glumes; consisting of glumes.
Glumal Dictionary G - adjective Characterized by a glume, or having the nature of a glume.
Glume Dictionary G - noun The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt.
Glumella Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Glumelle.
Glumelle Dictionary G - noun One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.
Glumly Dictionary G - adverb In a glum manner; sullenly; moodily.
Glummy Dictionary G - adjective dark; gloomy; dismal.
Glumness Dictionary G - noun Moodiness; sullenness.
Glump Dictionary G - intransitive verb To manifest sullenness; to sulk.
Glumpy Dictionary G - adjective Glum; sullen; sulky.
Glunch Dictionary G - adjective Frowning; sulky; sullen.
Glutted Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glut.
Glutting Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glut.
Glut Dictionary G - verb transitive To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.
Glutaconic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, an acid intermediate between glutaric and aconitic acids.
Glutaeus Dictionary G - noun The great muscle of the buttock in man and most mammals, and the corresponding muscle in many lower animals.
Glutamic Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to gluten.
Glutaric Dictionary G - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid so called; as, glutaric ethers.
Glutazine Dictionary G - noun A nitrogenous substance, forming a heavy, sandy powder, white or nearly so. It is a derivative of pyridine.
Gluteal Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or in the region of, the glutaeus.
Gluten Dictionary G - noun The viscid, tenacious substance which gives adhesiveness to dough.
Gluteus Dictionary G - noun Same as Glut/us.
Glutin Dictionary G - noun Same as Gliadin.
Glutinated Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Glutinate.
Glutinating Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Glutinate.
Glutinate Dictionary G - verb transitive To unite with glue; to cement; to stick together.
Glutination Dictionary G - noun The act of uniting with glue; sticking together.
Glutinative Dictionary G - adjective Having the quality of cementing; tenacious; viscous; glutinous.
Glutinosity Dictionary G - noun The quality of being glutinous; viscousness.
Glutinous Dictionary G - adjective Of the nature of glue; resembling glue; viscous; viscid; adhesive; gluey.
Glutinousness Dictionary G - noun The quality of being glutinous.
Glutton Dictionary G - noun One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.
Gluttonish Dictionary G - adjective Gluttonous; greedy.
Gluttonized Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gluttonize.
Gluttonizing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gluttonize.
Gluttonize Dictionary G - intransitive verb To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to gormandize.
Gluttonous Dictionary G - adjective Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age.
Gluttonies Dictionary G - pleural of Gluttony.
Gluttony Dictionary G - noun Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity.
Glycerate Dictionary G - noun A salt of glyceric acid.
Glyceric Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, glycerin.
Glyceride Dictionary G - noun A compound ether (formed from glycerin). Some glycerides exist ready formed as natural fats, others are produced artificially.
Glycerin Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Glycerine.
Glycerine Dictionary G - noun An oily, viscous liquid, C3H5(OH)3, colorless and odorless, and with a hot, sweetish taste, existing in the natural fats and oils as the base, combined with various acids, as oleic, margaric, stearic, and palmitic. It is a triatomic alcohol, and hence is also called glycerol. See Note under Gelatin.
Glycerite Dictionary G - noun A medicinal preparation made by mixing or dissolving a substance in glycerin.
Glycerol Dictionary G - noun Same as Glycerin.
Clycerole Dictionary G - noun Same as Glycerite.
Glyceryl Dictionary G - noun A compound radical, C3H5, regarded as the essential radical of glycerin. It is metameric with allyl. Called also propenyl.
Glycide Dictionary G - noun A colorless liquid, obtained from certain derivatives of glycerin, and regarded as a partially dehydrated glycerin; - called also glycidic alcohol.
Glycidic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, glycide; as, glycidic acid.
Glycin Dictionary G - noun Same as Glycocoll.
Glycocholate Dictionary G - noun A salt of glycocholic acid; as, sodium glycocholate.
Glycocholic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or composed of, glycocoll and cholic acid.
Glycocin Dictionary G - noun Same as Glycocoll.
Glycocoll Dictionary G - noun A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, with a sweet taste, formed from hippuric acid by boiling with hydrochloric acid, and present in bile united with cholic acid. It is also formed from gelatin by decomposition with acids. Chemically, it is amido-acetic acid. Called also glycin, and glycocin.
Glycogen Dictionary G - noun A white, amorphous, tasteless substance resembling starch, soluble in water to an opalescent fluid. It is found abundantly in the liver of most animals, and in small quantity in other organs and tissues, particularly in the embryo. It is quickly changed into sugar when boiled with dilute sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, and also by the action of amylolytic ferments.
Glycogenic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or caused by, glycogen; as, the glycogenic function of the liver.
Glycogeny Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Glycogenesis.
Glycogenesis Dictionary G - noun The production or formation of sugar from gycogen, as in the liver.
Glycol Dictionary G - noun A thick, colorless liquid, C2H4(OH)2, of a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds. It is a diacid alcohol, intermediate between ordinary ethyl alcohol and glycerin.
Glycolic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, glycol; as, glycolic ether; glycolic acid.
Glycolide Dictionary G - noun A white amorphous powder, C4H4O, obtained by heating and dehydrating glycolic acid.
Glycoluric Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, derived from, glycol and urea; as, glycoluric acid, which is called also hydantoic acid.
Glycoluril Dictionary G - noun A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, obtained by the reduction of allantoin.
Glycolyl Dictionary G - noun A divalent, compound radical, CO.CH2, regarded as the essential radical of glycolic acid, and a large series of related compounds.
Glyconian Dictionary G - adjective & noun Glyconic.
Glyconic Dictionary G - adjective Consisting of a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic; - applied to a kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry.
Glyconin Dictionary G - noun An emulsion of glycerin and the yolk of eggs, used as an ointment, as a vehicle for medicines, etc.
Glycosine Dictionary G - noun An organic base, C6H6N4, produced artificially as a white, crystalline powder, by the action of ammonia on glyoxal.
Glycosuria Dictionary G - noun Same as Glucosuria.
Glycyrrhiza Dictionary G - noun A genus of papilionaceous herbaceous plants, one species of which (G. glabra), is the licorice plant, the roots of which have a bittersweet mucilaginous taste.
Glycyrrhizimic Dictionary G - adjective From, or pertaining to, glycyrrhizin; as, glycyrrhizimic acid.
Glycyrrhizin Dictionary G - noun A glucoside found in licorice root (Glycyrrhiza), in monesia bark (Chrysophyllum), in the root of the walnut, etc., and extracted as a yellow, amorphous powder, of a bittersweet taste.
Glyn Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Glynne.
Glynne Dictionary G - noun A glen. See Glen. Obs. singly, but occurring often in locative names in Ireland, as Glen does in Scotland..
Glyoxal Dictionary G - noun A white, amorphous, deliquescent powder, (CO.H)2, obtained by the partial oxidation of glycol. It is a double aldehyde, between glycol and oxalic acid.
Glyoxalic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an aldehyde acid, intermediate between glycol and oxalic acid.
Glyoxaline Dictionary G - noun A white, crystalline, organic base, C3H4N2, produced by the action of ammonia on glyoxal, and forming the origin of a large class of derivatives hence, any one of the series of which glyoxaline is a type; - called also oxaline.
Glyoxime Dictionary G - noun A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, produced by the action of hydroxylamine on glyoxal, and belonging to the class of oximes; also, any one of a group of substances resembling glyoxime proper, and of which it is a type. See Oxime.
Glyph Dictionary G - noun A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph.
Glyphic Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to sculpture or carving of any sort, esp. to glyphs.
Glyphograph Dictionary G - noun A plate made by glyphography, or an impression taken from such a plate.
Glyphographic Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to glyphography.
Glyphography Dictionary G - noun A process similar to etching, in which, by means of voltaic electricity, a raised copy of a drawing is made, so that it can be used to print from.
Glyptic Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to gem engraving.
Glyptics Dictionary G - noun The art of engraving on precious stones.
Glyptodon Dictionary G - noun An extinct South American quaternary mammal, allied to the armadillos. It was as large as an ox, was covered with tessellated scales, and had fluted teeth.
Glyptodont Dictionary G - noun One of a family (Glyptodontidae) of extinct South American edentates, of which Glyptodon is the type. About twenty species are known.
Glyptographic Dictionary G - adjective Relating to glyptography, or the art of engraving on precious stones.
Glyptography Dictionary G - noun The art or process of engraving on precious stones.
Glyptotheca Dictionary G - noun A building or room devoted to works of sculpture.
Glyster Dictionary G - noun Same as Clyster.
Gmelinite Dictionary G - noun A rhombohedral zeolitic mineral, related in form and composition to chabazite.
Gnaphalium Dictionary G - noun A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting.
Gnar Dictionary G - noun A knot or gnarl in wood; hence, a tough, thickset man; - written also gnarr.
Gnarred Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gnar.
Gnarring Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gnar.
Gnarled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gnarl.
Gnarling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gnarl.
Gnarl Dictionary G - intransitive verb To growl; to snarl.
Gnarly Dictionary G - adjective Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained.
Gnashed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gnash.
Gnashing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gnash.
Gnash Dictionary G - verb transitive To strike together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth.
Gnashingly Dictionary G - adverb With gnashing.
Gnat Dictionary G - noun A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See Mosquito.
Gnathic Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the jaw.
Gnathidia Dictionary G - pleural of Gnathidium.
Gnathidium Dictionary G - noun The ramus of the lower jaw of a bird as far as it is naked; - commonly used in the plural.
Gnathite Dictionary G - noun Any one of the mouth appendages of the Arthropoda. They are known as mandibles, maxillae, and maxillipeds.
Gnathonic Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gnathonical.
Gnathonical Dictionary G - adjective Flattering; deceitful.
Gnathopod Dictionary G - noun A gnathopodite or maxilliped. See Maxilliped.
Gnathopodite Dictionary G - noun Any leglike appendage of a crustacean, when modified wholly, or in part, to serve as a jaw, esp. one of the maxillipeds.
Gnathastegite Dictionary G - noun One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs.
Gnathostoma Dictionary G - noun plural A comprehensive division of vertebrates, including all that have distinct jaws, in contrast with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them.
GnathothecAe Dictionary G - pleural of Gnathotheca.
Gnathotheca Dictionary G - noun The horney covering of the lower mandible of a bird.
Gnatling Dictionary G - noun A small gnat.
Gnatworm Dictionary G - noun The aquatic larva of a gnat; - called also, colloquially, wiggler.
Gnawed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gnaw.
Gnawing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gnaw.
Gnaw Dictionary G - verb transitive To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily separated or crushed; to bite off little by little, with effort; to wear or eat away by scraping or continuous biting with the teeth; to nibble at.
Gnawer Dictionary G - noun One who, or that which, gnaws.
Gneiss Dictionary G - noun A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic / syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss.
Gneissic Dictionary G - adjective Relating to, or resembling, gneiss; consisting of gneiss.
Gneissoid Dictionary G - adjective Resembling gneiss; having some of the characteristics of gneiss; - applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and gneiss, or mica slate and gneiss.
Gneissose Dictionary G - adjective Having the structure of gneiss.
Gnew Dictionary G - imp. of Gnaw.
Gnide Dictionary G - verb transitive To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces.
Gnof Dictionary G - noun Churl; curmudgeon.
Gnome Dictionary G - noun An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc.
Gnomic Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gnomical.
Gnomical Dictionary G - adjective Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic.
Gnomically Dictionary G - adverb In a gnomic, didactic, or sententious manner.
Gnomologic Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gnomological.
Gnomological Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a gnomology.
Gnomology Dictionary G - noun A collection of, or a treatise on, maxims, grave sentences, or reflections.
Gnomon Dictionary G - noun The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis.
Gnomonic Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gnomonical.
Gnomonical Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the gnomon, or the art of dialing.
Gnomonically Dictionary G - adverb According to the principles of the gnomonic projection.
Gnomonics Dictionary G - noun The art or science of dialing, or of constructing dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon.
Gnomonist Dictionary G - noun One skilled in gnomonics.
Gnomonology Dictionary G - noun A treatise on gnomonics.
Gnoscopine Dictionary G - noun An alkaloid existing in small quantities in opium.
Gnosis Dictionary G - noun The deeper wisdom; knowledge of spiritual truth, such as was claimed by the Gnostics.
Gnostic Dictionary G - adjective Knowing; wise; shrewd.
Gnosticism Dictionary G - noun The system of philosophy taught by the Gnostics.
Gnow Dictionary G - imperative Gnawed.
Gnu Dictionary G - noun One of two species of large South African antelopes of the genus Catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes.
Go Dictionary G - past participle Gone.
Went Dictionary G - imperative of Go.
Gone Dictionary G - past participle of Go.
Going Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Go.
Goa Dictionary G - noun A species of antelope (Procapra picticauda), inhabiting Thibet.
Goad Dictionary G - verb transitive A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.
Goaded Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Goad.
Goading Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Goad.
Goafs Dictionary G - pleural of Goaf.
Goaves Dictionary G - pleural of Goaf.
Goaf Dictionary G - noun That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; - called also gob.
Goal Dictionary G - noun The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end.
Goa powder Dictionary G - A bitter powder (also called araroba) found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree (Andira araroba) and used as a medicine. It is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained.
Goar Dictionary G - noun Same as lst Gore.
Goarish Dictionary G - adjective Patched; mean.
Goat Dictionary G - noun A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (C. hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin.
Goatee Dictionary G - noun A part of a man's beard on the chin or lower lip which is allowed to grow, and trimmed so as to resemble the beard of a goat.
Goatfish Dictionary G - noun A fish of the genus Upeneus, inhabiting the Gulf of Mexico. It is allied to the surmullet.
Goatherd Dictionary G - noun One who tends goats.
Goatish Dictionary G - adjective Characteristic of a goat; goatlike.
Goatlike Dictionary G - adjective Like a goat; goatish.
Goatskin Dictionary G - noun The skin of a goat, or leather made from it.
Goatsucker Dictionary G - noun One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europaeus); - so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk.
Gob Dictionary G - noun Same as Goaf.
Gobbet Dictionary G - noun A mouthful; a lump; a small piece.
Gobbetly Dictionary G - adverb In pieces.
Gobbing Dictionary G - noun The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal. It is called also gob stuff.
Gobbled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gobble.
Gobbling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gobble.
Gobble Dictionary G - verb transitive To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
Gobbler Dictionary G - noun A turkey cock; a bubbling Jock.
Gobelin Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to tapestry produced in the so-called Gobelin works, which have been maintained by the French Government since 1667.
Gobemouche Dictionary G - noun Literally, a fly swallower; hence, once who keeps his mouth open; a boor; a silly and credulous person.
Gobet Dictionary G - noun See Gobbet.
Go-between Dictionary G - noun An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; - usually in a disparaging sense.
Gobioid Dictionary G - adjective Like, or pertaining to, the goby, or the genus Gobius.
Goblet Dictionary G - noun A kind of cup or drinking vessel having a foot or standard, but without a handle.
Goblin Dictionary G - noun An evil or mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome.
Gobline Dictionary G - noun One of the ropes or chains serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit; - called also gobrope and gaubline.
Goblinize Dictionary G - verb transitive To transform into a goblin.
Gobies Dictionary G - pleural of Goby.
Goby Dictionary G - noun One of several species of small marine fishes of the genus Gobius and allied genera.
Go-by Dictionary G - noun A passing without notice; intentional neglect; thrusting away; a shifting off; adieu; as, to give a proposal the go-by.
Gocart Dictionary G - noun A framework moving on casters, designed to support children while learning to walk.
God Dictionary G - adjective & noun Good.
Godchild Dictionary G - noun One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
Goddaughter Dictionary G - noun A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism.
Goddess Dictionary G - noun A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex.
Gode Dictionary G - adjective & noun Good.
Godelich Dictionary G - adjective Goodly.
Godfather Dictionary G - noun A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction.
God-fearing Dictionary G - adjective Having a reverential and loving feeling towards God; religious.
Godhead Dictionary G - noun Godship; deity; divinity; divine nature or essence; godhood.
Godhood Dictionary G - noun Divine nature or essence; deity; godhead.
Godild Dictionary G - A corruption of God yield, i. e., God reward or bless.
Godless Dictionary G - adjective Having, or acknowledging, no God; without reverence for God; impious; wicked.
Godlike Dictionary G - adjective Resembling or befitting a god or God; divine; hence, preeminently good; as, godlike virtue.
Godlily Dictionary G - adverb Righteously.
Godliness Dictionary G - noun Careful observance of, or conformity to, the laws of God; the state or quality of being godly; piety.
Godling Dictionary G - noun A diminutive god.
Godly Dictionary G - noun Pious; reverencing God, and his character and laws; obedient to the commands of God from love for, and reverence of, his character; conformed to God's law; devout; righteous; as, a godly life.
Godlyhead Dictionary G - noun Goodness.
Godmother Dictionary G - noun A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See Godfather.
Godown Dictionary G - noun A warehouse.
Godroon Dictionary G - noun An ornament produced by notching or carving a rounded molding.
Godsend Dictionary G - noun Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune.
Godship Dictionary G - noun The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god or goddess.
Godsib Dictionary G - noun A gossip.
Godson Dictionary G - noun A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather.
Godspeed Dictionary G - noun Success; prosperous journeying; - a contraction of the phrase, "God speed you.".
Godward Dictionary G - adverb Toward God.
Godwit Dictionary G - noun One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringidae. The European black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit (L. fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit (L. haemastica), and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin.
Goel Dictionary G - adjective Yellow.
Goeland Dictionary G - noun A white tropical tern (Cygis candida).
Goemin Dictionary G - noun A complex mixture of several substances extracted from Irish moss.
Goen Dictionary G - p. p. of Go.
Goer Dictionary G - noun One who, or that which, goes; a runner or walker.
Goety Dictionary G - noun Invocation of evil spirits; witchcraft.
Goff Dictionary G - noun A silly clown.
Goffered Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Goffer.
Goffering Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Goffer.
Goffer Dictionary G - verb transitive To plait, flute, or crimp. See Gauffer.
Gog Dictionary G - noun Haste; ardent desire to go.
Goggled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Goggle.
Goggling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Goggle.
Goggle Dictionary G - intransitive verb To roll the eyes; to stare.
Goggle-eye Dictionary G - noun One of two or more species of American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrarchidae, esp. Chaenobryttus antistius, of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters, and Ambloplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; - so called from their prominent eyes.
Goggle-eyed Dictionary G - adjective Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes.
Goggler Dictionary G - noun A carangoid oceanic fish (Trachurops crumenophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes; - called also goggle-eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra.
Goglet Dictionary G - noun See Gurglet.
Goiter Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Goitre.
Goitre Dictionary G - noun An enlargement of the thyroid gland, on the anterior part of the neck; bronchocele. It is frequently associated with cretinism, and is most common in mountainous regions, especially in certain parts of Switzerland.
Goitered Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Goitred.
Goitred Dictionary G - adjective Affected with goiter.
Goitrous Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to the goiter; affected with the goiter; of the nature of goiter or bronchocele.
Gold Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Goolde.
Golde Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Goolde.
Goolde Dictionary G - noun An old English name of some yellow flower, - the marigold (Calendula), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole.
Gold-beaten Dictionary G - adjective Gilded.
Gold-beating Dictionary G - noun The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer.
Gold-bound Dictionary G - adjective Encompassed with gold.
Goldcrest Dictionary G - noun The European golden-crested kinglet (Regulus cristatus, or R. regulus); - called also golden-crested wren, and golden wren. The name is also sometimes applied to the American golden-crested kinglet. See Kinglet.
Goldcup Dictionary G - noun The cuckoobud.
Golden Dictionary G - adjective Made of gold; consisting of gold.
Golden-eye Dictionary G - noun A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common.
Goden ly Dictionary G - adverb In golden terms or a golden manner; splendidly; delightfully.
Golden-rod Dictionary G - noun A tall herb (Solidago Virga-aurea), bearing yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago.
Goldfinch Dictionary G - noun A beautiful bright-colored European finch (Carduelis elegans). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings. The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; - called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William.
Goldfinny Dictionary G - noun One of two or more species of European labroid fishes (Crenilabrus melops, and Ctenolabrus rupestris); - called also goldsinny, and goldney.
Goldfish Dictionary G - noun A small domesticated cyprinoid fish (Carassius auratus); - so named from its color. It is native of China, and is said to have been introduced into Europe in 1691. It is often kept as an ornament, in small ponds or glass globes. Many varieties are known. Called also golden fish, and golden carp. See Telescope fish, under Telescope.
Gold-hammer Dictionary G - noun The yellow-hammer.
Goldie Dictionary G - noun The European goldfinch.
Goldilocks Dictionary G - noun Same as Goldylocks.
Goldin Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Golding.
Golding Dictionary G - noun A conspicuous yellow flower, commonly the corn marigold (Chrysanthemum segetum).
Goldless Dictionary G - adjective Destitute of gold.
Goldney Dictionary G - noun See Gilthead.
Goldseed Dictionary G - noun Dog's-tail grass.
Goldsinny Dictionary G - noun See Goldfinny.
Goldsmith Dictionary G - noun An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments, etc., of gold.
Goldtit Dictionary G - noun See Verdin.
Goldylocks Dictionary G - noun A plant of several species of the genus Chrysocoma; - so called from the tufts of yellow flowers which terminate the stems; also, the Ranunculus auricomus, a kind of buttercup.
Golet Dictionary G - noun The gullet.
Golf Dictionary G - noun A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.
Golfer Dictionary G - noun One who plays golf.
Golgotha Dictionary G - noun Calvary. See the Note under Calvary.
Goliard Dictionary G - noun A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs.
Goliardery Dictionary G - noun The satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards.
Goliath beetle Dictionary G - Any species of Goliathus, a genus of very large and handsome African beetles.
Goll Dictionary G - noun A hand, paw, or claw.
Goloe-shoe Dictionary G - noun A galoche.
Golore Dictionary G - noun See Galore.
Goloshe Dictionary G - noun See Galoche.
Goltschut Dictionary G - noun A small ingot of gold.
Golyardeys Dictionary G - noun A buffoon. See Gollard.
Goman Dictionary G - noun A husband; a master of a family.
Gomarist Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gomarite.
Gomarite Dictionary G - noun One of the followers of Francis Gomar or Gomarus, a Dutch disciple of Calvin in the 17th century, who strongly opposed the Arminians.
Gombo Dictionary G - noun See Gumbo.
Gome Dictionary G - noun A man.
Gomer Dictionary G - noun A Hebrew measure. See Homer.
Gommelin Dictionary G - noun See Dextrin.
Gomphiasis Dictionary G - noun A disease of the teeth, which causes them to loosen and fall out of their sockets.
Gomphosis Dictionary G - noun A form of union or immovable articulation where a hard part is received into the cavity of a bone, as the teeth into the jaws.
Gomuti Dictionary G - noun A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two kinds of palms, Metroxylon Sagu, and Arenga saccharifera, of the Indian islands. It is used for making cordage. Called also ejoo.
Gonads Dictionary G - pleural of Gonad.
Gonad Dictionary G - noun One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland.
Gonakie Dictionary G - noun An African timber tree (Acacia Adansonii).
Gonangia Dictionary G - pleural of Gonangium.
Gonangiums Dictionary G - pleural of Gonangium.
Gonangium Dictionary G - noun See Gonotheca.
Gondola Dictionary G - noun A long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, used in the canals of Venice. A gondola is usually propelled by one or two oarsmen who stand facing the prow, or by poling. A gondola for passengers has a small open cabin amidships, for their protection against the sun or rain. A sumptuary law of Venice required that gondolas should be painted black, and they are customarily so painted now.
Gondolet Dictionary G - noun A small gondola.
Gondolier Dictionary G - noun A man who rows a gondola.
Goneness Dictionary G - noun A state of exhaustion; faintness, especially as resulting from hunger.
Gonfalon Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gonfanon.
Gonfanon Dictionary G - noun The ensign or standard in use by certain princes or states, such as the mediaeval republics of Italy, and in more recent times by the pope.
Gonfalonier Dictionary G - noun He who bears the gonfalon; a standard bearer.
Gong Dictionary G - noun A privy or jakes.
Goniatite Dictionary G - noun One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the latest, in the Triassic.
Gonidial Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia.
Gonidium Dictionary G - noun A special groove or furrow at one or both angles of the mouth of many Anthozoa.
Gonidia Dictionary G - pleural of Gonidium.
Gonimia Dictionary G - noun plural Bluish green granules which occur in certain lichens, as Collema, Peltigera, etc., and which replace the more usual gonidia.
Gonimous Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells.
Goniometer Dictionary G - noun An instrument for measuring angles, especially the angles of crystals, or the inclination of planes.
Goniometric Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Goniometrical.
Goniometrical Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or determined by means of, a goniometer; trigonometric.
Goniometry Dictionary G - noun The art of measuring angles; trigonometry.
Gonoblastid Dictionary G - noun A reproductive bud of a hydroid; a simple gonophore.
Gonoblastidia Dictionary G - pleural of Gonoblastidium.
Gonoblastidium Dictionary G - noun A blastostyle.
Gonocalyx Dictionary G - noun The bell of a sessile gonozooid.
Gonochorism Dictionary G - noun Separation of the sexes in different individuals; - opposed to hermaphroditism.
Gonococcus Dictionary G - noun A vegetable microorganism of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea. It is believed by some to constitute the cause of this disease.
Gonoph Dictionary G - noun A pickpocket or thief.
Gonophore Dictionary G - noun A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome.
Gonorrhea Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gonorrhoea.
Gonorrhoea Dictionary G - noun A contagious inflammatory disease of the genitourinary tract, affecting especially the urethra and vagina, and characterized by a mucopurulent discharge, pain in urination, and chordee; clap.
Gonorrheal Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gonorrhoeal.
Gonorrhoeal Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to gonorrhea; as, gonorrheal rheumatism.
Gonosome Dictionary G - noun The reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively.
Gonothec/ Dictionary G - pleural of Gonotheca.
Gonotheca Dictionary G - noun A capsule developed on certain hydroids (Thecaphora), inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; - called also gonangium, and teleophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.
Gonozooid Dictionary G - noun A sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a gonophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.
Gonydial Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to the gonys of a bird's beak.
Gonys Dictionary G - noun The keel or lower outline of a bird's bill, so far as the mandibular rami are united.
Goober Dictionary G - noun A peanut.
Good Dictionary G - superlative Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; admirable; commendable; not bad, corrupt, evil, noxious, offensive, or troublesome, etc.
Good-by Dictionary G - noun noun interjection Alt. of Good-bye.
Good-bye Dictionary G - noun noun interjection Farewell; a form of address used at parting. See the last Note under By, prep.
Good-den Dictionary G - interjection A form of salutation.
Good-fellowship Dictionary G - noun Agreeable companionship; companionableness.
Goodgeon Dictionary G - noun Same as Gudgeon, 5.
Good-humored Dictionary G - adjective Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good-natured.
Good-humoredly Dictionary G - adverb With a cheerful spirit; in a cheerful or good-tempered manner.
Goodish Dictionary G - adjective Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.
Goodless Dictionary G - adjective Having no goods.
Goodlich Dictionary G - adjective Goodly.
Goodliness Dictionary G - noun Beauty of form; grace; elegance; comeliness.
Good-looking Dictionary G - adjective Handsome.
Goodly Dictionary G - adverb Excellently.
Goodlyhead Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Goodlyhood.
Goodlyhood Dictionary G - noun Goodness; grace; goodliness.
Goodman Dictionary G - noun A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to "My friend", "Good sir", "Mister;" - sometimes used ironically.
Good-natured Dictionary G - adjective Naturally mild in temper; not easily provoked.
Good-naturedly Dictionary G - adverb With maldness of temper.
Goodness Dictionary G - noun The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of disposition, of conduct, etc.
Good now Dictionary G - An exclamation of wonder, surprise, or entreaty.
Goods Dictionary G - noun plural See Good, n., 3.
Goodship Dictionary G - noun Favor; grace.
Good-tempered Dictionary G - adjective Having a good temper; not easily vexed. See Good-natured.
Goodwife Dictionary G - noun The mistress of a house.
Goodies Dictionary G - pleural of Goody.
Goody Dictionary G - noun A bonbon, cake, or the like; - usually in the pl.
Gode-year Dictionary G - noun The venereal disease; - often used as a mild oath.
Goody-goody Dictionary G - adjective Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness.
Goodyship Dictionary G - noun The state or quality of a goody or goodwife.
Gooroo Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Guru.
Guru Dictionary G - noun A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor amoung the Hindoos.
Goosander Dictionary G - noun A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; - called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser.
Goose Dictionary G - noun Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.
Gooseberries Dictionary G - pleural of Gooseberry.
Gooseberry Dictionary G - adjective Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated.
Goosefish Dictionary G - noun See Angler.
Goosefoot Dictionary G - noun A genus of herbs (Chenopodium) mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
Gooseries Dictionary G - pleural of Goosery.
Goosery Dictionary G - noun A place for keeping geese.
Goosewing Dictionary G - noun One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.
Goosewinged Dictionary G - adjective Having a "goosewing.".
Goosish Dictionary G - adjective Like a goose; foolish.
Goost Dictionary G - noun Ghost; spirit.
Goot Dictionary G - noun A goat.
Go-out Dictionary G - noun A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out.
Gopher Dictionary G - noun One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidae; - called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.
Gopher wood Dictionary G - A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark.
Goracco Dictionary G - noun A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in hookahs in Western India.
Goral Dictionary G - noun An Indian goat antelope (Nemorhedus goral), resembling the chamois.
Goramy Dictionary G - noun Same as Gourami.
Gor-bellied Dictionary G - adjective Bog-bellied.
Gor-belly Dictionary G - noun A prominent belly; a big-bellied person.
Gorce Dictionary G - noun A pool of water to keep fish in; a wear.
Gorcock Dictionary G - noun The moor cock, or red grouse. See Grouse.
Gorcrow Dictionary G - noun The carrion crow; - called also gercrow.
Gord Dictionary G - noun An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.
Gordiacea Dictionary G - noun plural A division of nematoid worms, including the hairworms or hair eels (Gordius and Mermis). See Gordius, and Illustration in Appendix.
Gordian Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia, or to a knot tied by him; hence, intricate; complicated; inextricable.
Gordius Dictionary G - noun A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in which they deposit their eggs; - called also hair eel, hairworm, and hair snake, from the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs.
Gore Dictionary G - noun Dirt; mud.
Gored Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gore.
Goring Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gore.
Gorebill Dictionary G - noun The garfish.
Gorflies Dictionary G - pleural of Gorfly.
Gorfly Dictionary G - noun A dung fly.
Gorge Dictionary G - noun The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
Gorged Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gorge.
Gorging Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gorge.
Gorgelet Dictionary G - noun A small gorget, as of a humming bird.
Gorgeous Dictionary G - noun Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent.
Gorgerin Dictionary G - noun In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; - called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column.
Gorget Dictionary G - noun A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century.
Gorgon Dictionary G - noun One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa.
Gorgonacea Dictionary G - noun plural See Gorgoniacea.
Gorgonean Dictionary G - adjective See Gorgonian, 1.
Gorgoneia Dictionary G - pleural of Gorgoneion.
Gorgoneion Dictionary G - noun A mask carved in imitation of a Gorgon's head.
Gorgonia Dictionary G - noun A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis.
Gorgoniacea Dictionary G - noun plural One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c/nenchyma, in which the polyp cells are situated.
Gorgonian Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific.
Gorgonize Dictionary G - verb transitive To have the effect of a Gorgon upon; to turn into stone; to petrify.
Gorhen Dictionary G - noun The female of the gorcock.
Gorilla Dictionary G - noun A large, arboreal, anthropoid ape of West Africa. It is larger than a man, and is remarkable for its massive skeleton and powerful muscles, which give it enormous strength. In some respects its anatomy, more than that of any other ape, except the chimpanzee, resembles that of man.
Goring cloth Dictionary G - noun A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the foot.
Gorm Dictionary G - noun Axle grease. See Gome.
Gorma Dictionary G - noun The European cormorant.
Gormand Dictionary G - noun A greedy or ravenous eater; a luxurious feeder; a gourmand.
Gormander Dictionary G - noun See Gormand, n.
Gormandism Dictionary G - noun Gluttony.
Gormandized Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gormandize.
Gormandizing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gormandize.
Gormandize Dictionary G - verb intransitive & transitive To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton.
Gormandizer Dictionary G - noun A greedy, voracious eater; a gormand; a glutton.
Goroon shell Dictionary G - A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell (Triton femorale).
Gorse Dictionary G - noun Furze. See Furze.
Gory Dictionary G - adjective Covered with gore or clotted blood.
Goshawk Dictionary G - noun Any large hawk of the genus Astur, of which many species and varieties are known. The European (Astur palumbarius) and the American (A. atricapillus) are the best known species. They are noted for their powerful flight, activity, and courage. The Australian goshawk (A. Novae-Hollandiae) is pure white.
Gosherd Dictionary G - noun One who takes care of geese.
Goslet Dictionary G - noun One of several species of pygmy geese, of the genus Nettepus. They are about the size of a teal, and inhabit Africa, India, and Australia.
Gosling Dictionary G - noun A young or unfledged goose.
Gospel Dictionary G - verb Glad tidings; especially, the good news concerning Christ, the Kingdom of God, and salvation.
Gospeler Dictionary G - noun One of the four evangelists.
Gospelized Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gospelize.
Gospelizing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gospelize.
Gospelize Dictionary G - verb transitive To form according to the gospel; as, a command gospelized to us.
Goss Dictionary G - noun Gorse.
Gossamer Dictionary G - noun A fine, filmy substance, like cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm, clear weather, especially in autumn. It is seen in stubble fields and on furze or low bushes, and is formed by small spiders.
Gossamery Dictionary G - adjective Like gossamer; flimsy.
Gossan Dictionary G - noun Decomposed rock, usually reddish or ferruginous (owing to oxidized pyrites), forming the upper part of a metallic vein.
Gossaniferous Dictionary G - adjective Containing or producing gossan.
Gossat Dictionary G - noun A small British marine fish (Motella tricirrata); - called also whistler and three-bearded rockling.
Gossib Dictionary G - noun A gossip.
Gossip Dictionary G - noun A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.
Gossiped Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gossip.
Gossiping Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gossip.
Gossiper Dictionary G - noun One given to gossip.
Gossiprede Dictionary G - noun The relationship between a person and his sponsors.
Gossipry Dictionary G - noun Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy.
Gossipy Dictionary G - adjective Full of, or given to, gossip.
Gossoon Dictionary G - noun A boy; a servant.
Gossypium Dictionary G - noun A genus of plants which yield the cotton of the arts. The species are much confused. G. herbaceum is the name given to the common cotton plant, while the long-stapled sea-island cotton is produced by G. Barbadense, a shrubby variety. There are several other kinds besides these.
Gote Dictionary G - noun A channel for water.
Goter Dictionary G - noun a gutter.
Goth Dictionary G - noun One of an ancient Teutonic race, who dwelt between the Elbe and the Vistula in the early part of the Christian era, and who overran and took an important part in subverting the Roman empire.
Gothamist Dictionary G - noun A wiseacre; a person deficient in wisdom; - so called from Gotham, in Nottinghamshire, England, noted for some pleasant blunders.
Gothamite Dictionary G - noun A gothamist.
Gothic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.
Gothicism Dictionary G - noun A Gothic idiom.
Gothicized Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gothicize.
Gothicizing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gothicize.
Gothicize Dictionary G - verb transitive To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism.
Gothite Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Goethite.
Goethite Dictionary G - noun A hydrous oxide of iron, occurring in prismatic crystals, also massive, with a fibrous, reniform, or stalactitic structure. The color varies from yellowish to blackish brown.
Gouache Dictionary G - noun A method of painting with opaque colors, which have been ground in water and mingled with a preparation of gum; also, a picture thus painted.
Goud Dictionary G - noun Woad.
Goudron Dictionary G - noun a small fascine or fagot, steeped in wax, pitch, and glue, used in various ways, as for igniting buildings or works, or to light ditches and ramparts.
Gouge Dictionary G - noun A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.
Gouged Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Bouge.
Gouging Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Bouge.
Gouger Dictionary G - noun See Plum Gouger.
Gougeshell Dictionary G - noun A sharp-edged, tubular, marine shell, of the genus Vermetus; also, the pinna. See Vermetus.
Goujere Dictionary G - noun The venereal disease.
Gouland Dictionary G - noun See Golding.
Goulards extract Dictionary G - An aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract.
Gour Dictionary G - noun A fire worshiper; a Gheber or Gueber.
Goura Dictionary G - noun One of several species of large, crested ground pigeons of the genus Goura, inhabiting New Guinea and adjacent islands. The Queen Victoria pigeon (Goura Victoria) and the crowned pigeon (G. coronata) are among the beat known species.
Gourami Dictionary G - noun A very largo East Indian freshwater fish (Osphromenus gorami), extensively reared in artificial ponds in tropical countries, and highly valued as a food fish. Many unsuccessful efforts have been made to introduce it into Southern Europe.
Gourd Dictionary G - noun A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order Cucurbitaceae; and especially the bottle gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris) which occurs in a great variety of forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes.
Gourde Dictionary G - noun A silver dollar; - so called in Cuba, Hayti, etc.
Gourdiness Dictionary G - noun The state of being gourdy.
Gourd tree Dictionary G - A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America.
Gourdworm Dictionary G - noun The fluke of sheep. See Fluke.
Gourdy Dictionary G - adjective Swelled in the legs.
Gourmand Dictionary G - noun A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand.
Gourmet Dictionary G - noun A connoisseur in eating and drinking; an epicure.
Gournet Dictionary G - noun A fish. See Gurnet.
Gout Dictionary G - noun A drop; a clot or coagulation.
Goutily Dictionary G - adverb In a gouty manner.
Goutiness Dictionary G - noun The state of being gouty; gout.
Goutweed Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Goutwort.
Goutwort Dictionary G - noun A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Aegopodium Podagraria); - called also bishop's weed, ashweed, and herb gerard.
Gouty Dictionary G - adjective Diseased with, or subject to, the gout; as, a gouty person; a gouty joint.
Gove Dictionary G - noun A mow; a rick for hay.
Governed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Govern.
Governing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Govern.
Govern Dictionary G - verb transitive To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority.
Governability Dictionary G - noun Governableness.
Governable Dictionary G - adjective Capable of being governed, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient.
Governableness Dictionary G - noun The quality of being governable; manageableness.
Governal Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Governail.
Governail Dictionary G - noun Management; mastery.
Governance Dictionary G - noun Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement.
Governante Dictionary G - noun A governess.
Governess Dictionary G - noun A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, - usually in their homes.
Government Dictionary G - noun The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.
Governmental Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
Governor Dictionary G - noun One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania.
Governor general Dictionary G - A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him; as, the governor general of Canada, of India.
Governorship Dictionary G - noun The office of a governor.
Gowan Dictionary G - noun The daisy, or mountain daisy.
Gowany Dictionary G - adjective Having, abounding in, or decked with, daisies.
Gowd Dictionary G - noun Gold; wealth.
Gowden Dictionary G - adjective Golden.
Gowdie Dictionary G - noun See Dragont.
Gowdnook Dictionary G - noun The saury pike; - called also gofnick.
Gowk Dictionary G - verb transitive To make a, booby of one); to stupefy.
Gowl Dictionary G - intransitive verb To howl.
Gown Dictionary G - noun A loose, flowing upper garment.
Gowned Dictionary G - particle adjective Dressed in a gown; clad.
Gownsman Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gownman.
Gownman Dictionary G - noun One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier.
Gozzard Dictionary G - noun See Gosherd.
Graafian Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or discovered by, Regnier de Graaf, a Dutch physician.
Graal Dictionary G - noun See Grail., a dish.
Grab Dictionary G - noun A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.
Grabbed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grab.
Grabbing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grab.
Grabber Dictionary G - noun One who seizes or grabs.
Grabbled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grabble.
Grabbling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grabble.
Grabble Dictionary G - intransitive verb To grope; to feel with the hands.
Grace Dictionary G - noun The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.
Graced Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grace.
Gracing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grace.
Graceful Dictionary G - adjective Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech.
Graceless Dictionary G - adjective Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt.
Gracile Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gracillent.
Gracillent Dictionary G - adjective Slender; thin.
Gracility Dictionary G - noun State of being gracilent; slenderness.
Gracious Dictionary G - adjective Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty.
Graciously Dictionary G - adverb In a gracious manner; courteously; benignantly.
Graciousness Dictionary G - noun Quality of being gracious.
Grackle Dictionary G - noun One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridae; as, the rusty grackle (Scolecophagus Carolinus); the boat-tailed grackle (see Boat-tail); the purple grackle (Quiscalus quiscula, or Q. versicolor). See Crow blackbird, under Crow.
Gradate Dictionary G - verb transitive To grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize.
Gradation Dictionary G - noun The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes.
Gradational Dictionary G - adjective By regular steps or gradations; of or pertaining to gradation.
Gradatory Dictionary G - adjective Proceeding step by step, or by gradations; gradual.
Grade Dictionary G - noun A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour.
Graded Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grade.
Grading Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grade.
Gradely Dictionary G - adjective Decent; orderly.
Grader Dictionary G - noun One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.
Gradient Dictionary G - adjective Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata.
Gradin Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gradine.
Gradine Dictionary G - noun Any member like a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like; a set raised over another.
Gradinos Dictionary G - pleural of Gradino.
Gradino Dictionary G - noun A step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar. Cf. Superaltar, and Gradin.
Gradual Dictionary G - noun Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline.
Graduality Dictionary G - noun The state of being gradual; gradualness.
Gradually Dictionary G - adverb In a gradual manner.
Gradualness Dictionary G - noun The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness.
Graduated Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Graduate.
Graduating Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Graduate.
Graduate Dictionary G - noun To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
Graduateship Dictionary G - noun State of being a graduate.
Graduation Dictionary G - noun The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evaporation; the graduation of a bird's tail, etc.
Graduator Dictionary G - noun One who determines or indicates graduation; as, a graduator of instruments.
Gradus Dictionary G - noun A dictionary of prosody, designed as an aid in writing Greek or Latin poetry.
Graf Dictionary G - noun A German title of nobility, equivalent to earl in English, or count in French. See Earl.
Graff Dictionary G - noun A steward; an overseer.
Graffage Dictionary G - noun The scarp of a ditch or moat.
Graffer Dictionary G - noun a notary or scrivener.
Graffiti Dictionary G - noun plural Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii.
Graft Dictionary G - noun A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
Grafted Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Graft.
Grafting Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Graft.
Grafter Dictionary G - noun One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting.
Graham bread Dictionary G - Bread made of unbolted wheat flour.
Grahamite Dictionary G - noun One who follows the dietetic system of Graham.
Grail Dictionary G - noun A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
Graille Dictionary G - noun A halfround single-cut file or fioat, having one curved face and one straight face, - used by comb makers.
Grain Dictionary G - Verb & noun See Groan.
Grained Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grain.
Graining. Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grain.
Grainer Dictionary G - noun An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; - called also grains and bate.
Grainfield Dictionary G - noun A field where grain is grown.
Graining Dictionary G - noun Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.
Grains Dictionary G - noun plural See 5th Grain, n., 2 (b).
Grainy Dictionary G - adjective Resembling grains; granular.
Graip Dictionary G - noun A dungfork.
Graith Dictionary G - verb transitive See Greith.
Grakle Dictionary G - noun See Grackle.
Grallae Dictionary G - noun plural An order of birds which formerly included all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and allied forms; - called also Grallatores.
Grallatores Dictionary G - noun plural See Grallae.
Grallatorial Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Grallatory.
Grallatory Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the Grallatores, or waders.
Grallic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to the Grallae.
Gralline Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the Grallae.
Gralloch Dictionary G - noun Offal of a deer.
-gram Dictionary G - A suffix indicating something drawn or written, a drawing, writing; - as, monogram, telegram, chronogram.
Gram Dictionary G - adjective Angry.
Gramme Dictionary G - noun The unit of weight in the metric system. It was intended to be exactly, and is very nearly, equivalent to the weight in a vacuum of one cubic centimeter of pure water at its maximum density. It is equal to 15.432 grains. See Grain, n., 4.
Grama grass Dictionary G - The name of several kinds of pasture grasses found in the Western United States, esp. the Bouteloua oligostachya.
Gramarye Dictionary G - noun Necromancy; magic.
Gramashes Dictionary G - noun plural Gaiters reaching to the knee; leggings.
Grame Dictionary G - adjective Anger; wrath; scorn.
Gramercy Dictionary G - interjection A word formerly used to express thankfulness, with surprise; many thanks.
Graminaceous Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, the grasses; gramineous; as, graminaceous plants.
Gramineal Dictionary G - adjective Gramineous.
Gramineous Dictionary G - adjective Like, Or pertaining to, grass. See Grass, n., 2.
Graminifolious Dictionary G - adjective Bearing leaves resembling those of grass.
Graminivorous Dictionary G - adjective Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; - said of horses, cattle, and other animals.
Grammalogue Dictionary G - noun Literally, a letter word; a word represented by a logogram; as, it, represented by |, that is, t. pitman.
Grammar Dictionary G - noun The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use aud application of the rules of a language, in speaking or writing.
Grammarian Dictionary G - noun One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.
Grammarianism Dictionary G - noun The principles, practices, or peculiarities of grammarians.
Grammarless Dictionary G - adjective Without grammar.
Grammates Dictionary G - noun plural Rudiments; first principles, as of grammar.
Grammatic Dictionary G - adjective Grammatical.
Grammatical Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as, a grammatical rule.
Grammaticaster Dictionary G - noun A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.
Grammatication Dictionary G - noun A principle of grammar; a grammatical rule.
Grammaticism Dictionary G - noun A point or principle of grammar.
Grammaticized Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grammaticize.
Grammaticizing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grammaticize.
Grammaticize Dictionary G - verb transitive To render grammatical.
Grammatist Dictionary G - noun A petty grammarian.
Gramme machine Dictionary G - A kind of dynamo-electric machine; - so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme.
Grampuses Dictionary G - pleural of Grampus.
Grampus Dictionary G - noun A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii.
Granade Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Granado.
Granado Dictionary G - noun See Grenade.
Granadilla Dictionary G - noun The fruit of certain species of passion flower (esp. Passiflora quadrangularis) found in Brazil and the West Indies. It is as large as a child's head, and is a good dessert fruit. The fruit of Passiflora edulis is used for flavoring ices.
Granaries Dictionary G - pleural of Granary.
Granary Dictionary G - noun A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornbouse; also (Fig.), a region fertile in grain.
Granate Dictionary G - noun See Garnet.
Granatin Dictionary G - noun Mannite; - so called because found in the pomegranate.
Granatite Dictionary G - noun See Staurolite.
Grand Dictionary G - superlative Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake.
Grandam Dictionary G - noun An old woman; specifically, a grandmother.
Grandaunt Dictionary G - noun The aunt of one's father or mother.
Grandchild Dictionary G - noun A son's or daughter's child; a child in the second degree of descent.
Granddaughter Dictionary G - noun The daughter of one's son or daughter.
Grandee Dictionary G - noun A man of elevated rank or station; a nobleman. In Spain, a nobleman of the first rank, who may be covered in the king's presence.
Grandeeship Dictionary G - noun The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship.
Grandeur Dictionary G - noun The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action.
Grandevity Dictionary G - noun Great age; long life.
Grandevous Dictionary G - adjective Of great age; aged; longlived.
Grand-ducal Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to a grand duke.
Grandfather Dictionary G - noun A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.
Grandfatherly Dictionary G - adjective Like a grandfather in age or manner; kind; benignant; indulgent.
Grandific Dictionary G - adjective Making great.
Grandiloquence Dictionary G - noun The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; - usually in a bad sense.
Grandiloquent Dictionary G - adjective Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
Grandiloquous Dictionary G - adjective Grandiloquent.
Grandinous Dictionary G - adjective Consisting of hail; abounding in hail.
Grandiose Dictionary G - adjective Impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid; striking; - in a good sense.
Grandiosity Dictionary G - noun The state or quality of being grandiose,.
Grandity Dictionary G - noun Grandness.
Grandly Dictionary G - adverb In a grand manner.
Grandma Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Grandmamma.
Grandmamma Dictionary G - noun A grandmother.
Grand mercy Dictionary G - See Gramercy.
Grandmother Dictionary G - noun The mother of one's father or mother.
Grandmotherly Dictionary G - adjective Like a grandmother in age or manner; kind; indulgent.
Grandnephew Dictionary G - noun The grandson of one's brother or sister.
Grandness Dictionary G - noun Grandeur.
Grandniece Dictionary G - noun The granddaughter of one's brother or sister.
Grandpa Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Grandpapa.
Grandpapa Dictionary G - noun A grandfather.
Grandsire Dictionary G - noun Specifically, a grandfather; more generally, any ancestor.
Grandson Dictionary G - noun A son's or daughter's son.
Granduncle Dictionary G - noun A father's or mother's uncle.
Grane Dictionary G - Verb & noun See Groan.
Grange Dictionary G - noun A building for storing grain; a granary.
Granger Dictionary G - noun A farm steward.
Grangerism Dictionary G - noun The practice of illustrating a particular book by engravings collected from other books.
Grangerite Dictionary G - noun One who collects illustrations from various books for the decoration of one book.
Grangerize Dictionary G - verb transitive & intransitive To collect (illustrations from books) for decoration of other books.
Graniferous Dictionary G - adjective Bearing grain, or seeds like grain.
Graniform Dictionary G - adjective Formed like of corn.
Granilla Dictionary G - noun Small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect.
Granite Dictionary G - noun A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure.
Granite State Dictionary G - New Hampshire; - a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite.
Granitic Dictionary G - adjective Like granite in composition, color, etc.; having the nature of granite; as, granitic texture.
Granitical Dictionary G - adjective Granitic.
Granitification Dictionary G - noun The act or the process of forming into granite.
Granitiform Dictionary G - adjective Resembling granite in structure or shape.
Granitoid Dictionary G - adjective Resembling granite in granular appearance; as, granitoid gneiss; a granitoid pavement.
Granivorous Dictionary G - adjective Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as, granivorous birds.
Grannam Dictionary G - noun A grandam.
Granny Dictionary G - noun A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman.
Granolithic Dictionary G - noun A kind of hard artificial stone, used for pavements.
Granted Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grant.
Granting Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grant.
Grant Dictionary G - verb transitive To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; - usually in answer to petition.
Grantable Dictionary G - adjective Capable of being granted.
Grantee Dictionary G - noun The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made.
Granter Dictionary G - noun One who grants.
Grantor Dictionary G - noun The person by whom a grant or conveyance is made.
Granular Dictionary G - adjective Consisting of, or resembling, grains; as, a granular substance.
Granularly Dictionary G - adverb In a granular form.
Granulary Dictionary G - adjective Granular.
Granulated Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Granulate.
Granulating Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Granulate.
Granulate Dictionary G - verb transitive To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal.
Granulation Dictionary G - noun The act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains; as, the granulation of powder and sugar.
Granule Dictionary G - noun A little grain a small particle; a pellet.
Granuliferous Dictionary G - adjective Full of granulations.
Granuliform Dictionary G - adjective Having a granular structure; granular; as, granuliform limestone.
Granulite Dictionary G - noun A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; - sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.
Granulose Dictionary G - noun The main constituent of the starch grain or granule, in distinction from the framework of cellulose. Unlike cellulose, it is colored blue by iodine, and is converted into dextrin and sugar by boiling acids and amylolytic ferments.
Granulous Dictionary G - adjective Full of grains; abounding with granular substances; granular.
Grape Dictionary G - noun A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins.
Grape fruit Dictionary G - The shaddock.
Grapeless Dictionary G - adjective Wanting grapes or the flavor of grapes.
Grapery Dictionary G - noun A building or inclosure used for the cultivation of grapes.
Grapeshot Dictionary G - noun A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags.
Grapestone Dictionary G - noun A seed of the grape.
Grapevine Dictionary G - noun A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus Vitis, having small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called grapes.
Graphic Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Graphical.
Graphical Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing.
Graphically Dictionary G - adverb In a graphic manner; vividly.
Graphicness Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Graphicalness.
Graphicalness Dictionary G - noun The quality or state of being graphic.
Graphics Dictionary G - noun The art or the science of drawing; esp. of drawing according to mathematical rules, as in perspective, projection, and the like.
Graphiscope Dictionary G - noun See Graphoscope.
Graphite Dictionary G - noun Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. Often called plumbago or black lead.
Graphitic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, containing, derived from, or resembling, graphite.
Graphitoid Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Graphitoidal.
Graphitoidal Dictionary G - adjective Resembling graphite or plumbago.
Grapholite Dictionary G - noun Any species of slate suitable to be written on.
Graphology Dictionary G - noun The art of judging of a person's character, disposition, and aptitude from his handwriting.
Graphoscope Dictionary G - noun An optical instrument for magnifying engravings, photographs, etc., usually having one large lens and two smaller ones.
Graphotype Dictionary G - noun A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied. The surface is then carefully rubbed or brushed, leaving the lines in relief.
-graphy Dictionary G - A suffix denoting the art of writing or describing; also, the writing or description itself; a treatise; as, calligraphy, biography, geography.
Grapnel Dictionary G - noun A small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; - written also grapline, and crapnel.
Grappled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grapple.
Grappling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grapple.
Grapple Dictionary G - verb transitive To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist.
Grapplement Dictionary G - noun A grappling; close fight or embrace.
Grapsoid Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to the genus Grapsus or the family Grapsidae.
Graptolite Dictionary G - noun One of numerous species of slender and delicate fossils, of the genus Graptolites and allied genera, found in the Silurian rocks. They belong to an extinct group (Graptolithina) supposed to be hydroids.
Graptolitic Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to graptolites; containing graptolites; as, a graptolitic slate.
Grapy Dictionary G - adjective Composed of, or resembling, grapes.
Grasper Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grasp.
Qraspine Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grasp.
Grasp Dictionary G - verb transitive To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.
Graspable Dictionary G - adjective Capable of being grasped.
Graaper Dictionary G - noun One who grasps or seizes; one who catches or holds.
Grasping Dictionary G - adjective Seizing; embracing; catching.
Graspless Dictionary G - adjective Without a grasp; relaxed.
Grass Dictionary G - noun Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
Grassed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grass.
Grassing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grass.
Grassation Dictionary G - noun A wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting.
Grass-green Dictionary G - adjective Green with grass.
Grass-grown Dictionary G - adjective Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.
Grasshopper Dictionary G - noun Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididae and Locustidae. The species and genera are very numerous. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in the region beyond the Mississippi. In the Eastern United States the red-legged (Caloptenus femurrubrum and C. atlanis) are closely related species, but their ravages are less important. They are closely related to the migratory locusts of the Old World. See Locust.
Grassiness Dictionary G - noun The state of abounding with grass; a grassy state.
Grassless Dictionary G - adjective Destitute of grass.
Grassplot Dictionary G - noun A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn.
Grass tree Dictionary G - An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides.
Grassy Dictionary G - adjective Covered with grass; abounding with grass; as, a grassy lawn.
Grate Dictionary G - adjective Serving to gratify; agreeable.
Grated Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grate.
Grating Dictionary G - past particle &. verb noun of Grate.
Grateful Dictionary G - adjective Having a due sense of benefits received; kindly disposed toward one from whom a favor has been received; willing to acknowledge and repay, or give thanks for, benefits; as, a grateful heart.
Grater Dictionary G - adjective One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.
Graticulation Dictionary G - noun The division of a design or draught into squares, in order the more easily to reproduce it in larger or smaller dimensions.
Graticule Dictionary G - noun A design or draught which has been divided into squares, in order to reproduce it in other dimensions.
Gratification Dictionary G - noun The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart.
Glatified Dictionary G - adjective Pleased; indulged according to desire.
Gratifier Dictionary G - noun One who gratifies or pleases.
Gratified Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gratify.
Gratifying Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gratify.
Gratify Dictionary G - verb transitive To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc.
Gratiolin Dictionary G - noun One of the essential principles of the hedge hyssop (Gratiola officinalis).
Gratis Dictionary G - adverb For nothing; without fee or recompense; freely; gratuitously.
Gratitude Dictionary G - adjective The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness.
Gratuitous Dictionary G - adjective Given without an equivalent or recompense; conferred without valuable consideration; granted without pay, or without claim or merit; not required by justice.
Gtratuities Dictionary G - pleural of Gratuity.
Gratuity Dictionary G - noun Something given freely or without recompense; a free gift; a present.
Grqatulated Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gratulate.
Gratulating Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gratulate.
Gratulate Dictionary G - adjective To salute with declaration of joy; to congratulate.
Gratulation Dictionary G - noun The act of gratulating or felicitating; congratulation.
Gratulatory Dictionary G - adjective Expressing gratulation or joy; congratulatory.
Graunt Dictionary G - Verb & noun See Grant.
Grauwacke Dictionary G - noun Graywacke.
Gravamina Dictionary G - pleural of Gravamen.
Gravamens Dictionary G - pleural of Gravamen.
Gravamen Dictionary G - adjective The grievance complained of; the substantial cause of the action; also, in general, the ground or essence of a complaint. Bouvier.
-grave Dictionary G - A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave.
Grave Dictionary G - verb transitive To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; - so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
Graved Dictionary G - imperative of Grave.
Graven Dictionary G - past participle of Grave.
Graving Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grave.
Graveclothes Dictionary G - noun plural The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.
Gravedigger Dictionary G - noun A digger of graves.
Gravel Dictionary G - noun Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
Graveled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gravel.
Gravelled Dictionary G - of Gravel.
Graveling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gravel.
Gravelling Dictionary G - of Gravel.
Graveless Dictionary G - adjective Without a grave; unburied.
Gravelliness Dictionary G - noun State of being gravelly.
Gravelly Dictionary G - adjective Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.
Gravel-stone Dictionary G - noun A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus.
Gravely Dictionary G - adverb In a grave manner.
Graveness Dictionary G - noun The quality of being grave.
Gravenstein Dictionary G - noun A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality.
Graveolence Dictionary G - noun A strong and offensive smell; rancidity.
Graveolent Dictionary G - adjective Having a rank smell.
Graver Dictionary G - noun One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material.
Gravery Dictionary G - noun The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving.
Graves Dictionary G - noun plural The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
Graves' disease Dictionary G - Same as Basedow's disease.
Gravestone Dictionary G - noun A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.
Graveyard Dictionary G - noun A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.
Gravic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or causing, gravitation; as, gravic forces; gravic attraction.
Gravid Dictionary G - adjective Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety.
Gravidated Dictionary G - adjective Made pregnant; big.
Gravidation Dictionary G - noun Gravidity.
Gravidity Dictionary G - noun The state of being gravidated; pregnancy.
Gravigrade Dictionary G - adjective Slow-paced.
Gravimeter Dictionary G - noun An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of bodies.
Gravimetric Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to measurement by weight; measured by weight.
Gravitated Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gravitate.
Gravitating Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gravitate.
Gravitate Dictionary G - intransitive verb To obey the law of gravitation; to exert a force Or pressure, or tend to move, under the influence of gravitation; to tend in any direction or toward any object.
Gravitation Dictionary G - noun The act of gravitating.
Gravitational Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the force of gravity; as, gravitational units.
Gravitative Dictionary G - adjective Causing to gravitate; tending to a center.
Gravities Dictionary G - pleural of Gravity.
Gravity Dictionary G - adjective The state of having weight; beaviness; as, the gravity of lead.
Gravies Dictionary G - pleural of Gravy.
Gravy Dictionary G - noun The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.
Gray Dictionary G - superlative White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.
Grayback Dictionary G - noun The California gray whale.
Graybeard Dictionary G - noun An old man.
Grayfly Dictionary G - noun The trumpet fly.
Grayhound Dictionary G - noun See Greyhound.
Grayish Dictionary G - adjective Somewhat gray.
Graylag Dictionary G - noun The common wild gray goose (Anser anser) of Europe, believed to be the wild form of the domestic goose. See Illust. of Goose.
Grayling Dictionary G - adjective A European fish (Thymallus vulgaris), allied to the trout, but having a very broad dorsal fin; - called also umber. It inhabits cold mountain streams, and is valued as a game fish.
Grayness Dictionary G - noun The quality of being gray.
Gtraystone Dictionary G - noun A grayish or greenish compact rock, composed of feldspar and augite, and allied to basalt.
Graywacke Dictionary G - noun A conglomerate or grit rock, consisting of rounded pebbles sand firmly united together.
Grazed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Graze.
Grazing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Graze.
Graze Dictionary G - verb transitive To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
Grazer Dictionary G - noun One that grazes; a creature which feeds on growing grass or herbage.
Grazier Dictionary G - noun One who pastures cattle, and rears them for market.
Grazioso Dictionary G - adverb Gracefully; smoothly; elegantly.
Gre Dictionary G - noun See Gree, a step.
Grease Dictionary G - noun Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.
Greased Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grease.
Greasing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grease.
Greaser Dictionary G - noun One who, or that which, greases; specifically, a person employed to lubricate the working parts of machinery, engines, carriages, etc.
Greasily Dictionary G - adverb In a greasy manner.
Greasiness Dictionary G - noun The quality or state of being greasy, oiliness; unctuousness; grossness.
Greasy Dictionary G - superlative Composed of, or characterized by, grease; oily; unctuous; as, a greasy dish.
Great Dictionary G - superlative Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; - opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length.
Great-bellied Dictionary G - adjective Having a great belly; bigbellied; pregnant; teeming.
Greatcoat Dictionary G - noun An overcoat.
Greaten Dictionary G - verb transitive To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand.
Great-grandchild Dictionary G - noun The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
Great-granddaughter Dictionary G - noun A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
Great-grandfather Dictionary G - noun The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
Great-grandmother Dictionary G - noun The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
Great-grandson Dictionary G - noun A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
Great-hearted Dictionary G - adjective High-spirited; fearless.
Great-heartedness Dictionary G - noun The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
Greatly Dictionary G - adverb In a great degree; much.
Greatness Dictionary G - noun The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc.
Greave Dictionary G - noun A grove.
Greaved Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Greave.
Greaving Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Greave.
Greaves Dictionary G - noun plural The sediment of melted tallow. It is made into cakes for dogs' food. In Scotland it is called cracklings.
Grebe Dictionary G - noun One of several swimming birds or divers, of the genus Colymbus (formerly Podiceps), and allied genera, found in the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes.
Grecian Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to Greece; Greek.
Grecism Dictionary G - noun An idiom of the Greek language; a Hellenism.
Grecized Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grecize.
Grecizing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grecize.
Grecize Dictionary G - verb transitive To render Grecian; also, to cause (a word or phrase in another language) to take a Greek form; as, the name is Grecized.
Grecianize Dictionary G - intransitive verb To conform to the Greek custom, especially in speech.
Greco-Roman Dictionary G - adjective Having characteristics that are partly Greek and partly Roman; as, Greco-Roman architecture.
Grecque Dictionary G - noun An ornament supposed to be of Greek origin, esp. a fret or meander.
Gree Dictionary G - noun Good will; favor; pleasure; satisfaction; - used esp. in such phrases as: to take in gree; to accept in gree; that is, to take favorably.
Grees Dictionary G - pleural of Gree.
Greece Dictionary G - pleural of Gree.
Grice Dictionary G - pleural of Gree.
Grise Dictionary G - pleural of Gree.
Grize Dictionary G - pleural of Gree.
Greed Dictionary G - noun An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.
Greedily Dictionary G - adverb In a greedy manner.
Greediness Dictionary G - noun The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire.
Greedy Dictionary G - superlative Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; - followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey.
Greedy-gut Dictionary G - noun A glutton.
Greegree Dictionary G - noun An African talisman or Gri'gri' charm.
Greek Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian.
Greekess Dictionary G - noun A female Greek.
Greekish Dictionary G - adjective Peculiar to Greece.
Greekling Dictionary G - noun A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions.
Green Dictionary G - superlative Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.
Greened Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Green.
Greening Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Green.
Greenback Dictionary G - noun One of the legal tender notes of the United States; - first issued in 1862, and having the devices on the back printed with green ink, to prevent alterations and counterfeits.
Greenbacker Dictionary G - noun One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.
Greenbone Dictionary G - noun Any garfish (Belone or Tylosurus).
Green-broom Dictionary G - noun A plant of the genus Genista (G. tinctoria); dyer's weed; - called also greenweed.
Greencloth Dictionary G - noun A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards beyond the gates.
Greenery Dictionary G - noun Green plants; verdure.
Green-eyed Dictionary G - adjective Having green eyes.
Greenfinch Dictionary G - noun A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); - called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.
Greenfish Dictionary G - noun See Bluefish, and Pollock.
Greengage Dictionary G - noun A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
Greengill Dictionary G - noun An oyster which has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood.
Greengrocer Dictionary G - noun A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state.
Greenhead Dictionary G - noun The mallard.
Greenhood Dictionary G - noun A state of greenness; verdancy.
Greenhorn Dictionary G - noun A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon.
Greenhouse Dictionary G - noun A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
Greenish Dictionary G - adjective Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow.
Greenlander Dictionary G - noun A native of Greenland.
Green-leek Dictionary G - noun An Australian parrakeet (Polytelis Barrabandi); - called also the scarlet-breasted parrot.
Greenlet Dictionary G - noun l. (Zool.) One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love (V. Philadelphicus); the warbling greenlet (V. gilvus); the yellow-throated greenlet (V. flavifrons) and others. See Vireo.
Greenly Dictionary G - adverb With a green color; newly; freshly, immaturely.
Greenness Dictionary G - noun The quality of being green; viridity; verdancy; as, the greenness of grass, or of a meadow.
Greenockite Dictionary G - noun Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
Greenroom Dictionary G - noun The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.
Greensand Dictionary G - noun A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime.
Greenshank Dictionary G - noun A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); - called also greater plover.
Green-stall Dictionary G - noun A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
Greenstone Dictionary G - noun A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc.
Greensward Dictionary G - noun Turf green with grass.
Greenth Dictionary G - noun The state or quality of being green; verdure.
Greenweed Dictionary G - noun See Greenbroom.
Greenwood Dictionary G - noun A forest as it appears is spring and summer.
Greet Dictionary G - adjective Great.
Greeted Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Greet.
Greeting Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Greet.
Greeter Dictionary G - noun One who greets or salutes another.
Greeve Dictionary G - noun See Grieve, an overseer.
Greeze Dictionary G - noun A step. See Gree, a step.
Greffier Dictionary G - noun A registrar or recorder; a notary.
Gregal Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or like, a flock.
Gregarian Dictionary G - adjective Gregarious; belonging to the herd or common sort; common.
\d8Gregarin\91 Dictionary G - noun plural An order of Protozoa, allied to the Rhizopoda, and parasitic in other animals, as in the earthworm, lobster, etc. When adult, they have a small, wormlike body inclosing a nucleus, but without external organs; in one of the young stages, they are amoebiform; - called also Gregarinida, and Gregarinaria.
Gregarine Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the Gregarinae.
\d8Gregarinida Dictionary G - Gregarinae.
Gregarious Dictionary G - adjective Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone.
Grege Dictionary G - verb transitive Alt. of Gregge.
Gregge Dictionary G - verb transitive To make heavy; to increase.
Greggoe Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Grego.
Grego Dictionary G - noun A short jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant.
Gregorian Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or originated by, some person named Gregory, especially one of the popes of that name.
Greillade Dictionary G - noun Iron ore in coarse powder, prepared for reduction by the Catalan process.
Greisen Dictionary G - noun A crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of Cornwall and Saxony.
Greit Dictionary G - intransitive verb See Greet, to weep.
Greith Dictionary G - verb transitive To make ready; - often used reflexively.
Gremial Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the lap or bosom.
Grenade Dictionary G - noun A hollow ball or shell of iron filled with powder of other explosive, ignited by means of a fuse, and thrown from the hand among enemies.
Grenadier Dictionary G - noun Originaly, a soldier who carried and threw grenades; afterward, one of a company attached to each regiment or battalion, taking post on the right of the line, and wearing a peculiar uniform. In modern times, a member of a special regiment or corps; as, a grenadier of the guard of Napoleon I. one of the regiment of Grenadier Guards of the British army, etc.
Grenadillo Dictionary G - noun A handsome tropical American wood, much used for making flutes and other wind instruments; - called also Grenada cocos, or cocus, and red ebony.
Grenadine Dictionary G - noun A thin gauzelike fabric of silk or wool, for women's wear.
Grenado Dictionary G - noun Same as Grenade.
Grene Dictionary G - adjective Green.
Gres Dictionary G - noun Grass.
Gressorial Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gressorious.
Gressorious Dictionary G - adjective Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves.
Gret Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Grete.
Grete Dictionary G - adjective Great.
Gretto Dictionary G - imp. of Greet, to salute.
Greve Dictionary G - noun A grove.
Grew Dictionary G - imp. of Grow.
Grewsome Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gruesome.
Gruesome Dictionary G - adjective Ugly; frightful.
Grey Dictionary G - adjective See Gray (the correct orthography).
Greyhound Dictionary G - noun A slender, graceful breed of dogs, remarkable for keen sight and swiftness. It is one of the oldest varieties known, and is figured on the Egyptian monuments.
Greylag Dictionary G - noun See Graylag.
Gribble Dictionary G - noun A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America.
Grid Dictionary G - noun A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.
Griddle Dictionary G - noun An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes.
Griddlecake Dictionary G - noun A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour.
Grided Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gride.
Griding Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gride.
Gride Dictionary G - [[e. intransitive To cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as, the griding sword.
Gridelin Dictionary G - noun A color mixed of white, and red, or a gray violet.
Gridiron Dictionary G - noun A grated iron utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals.
Grief Dictionary G - adjective Pain of mind on account of something in the past; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends, misconduct of one's self or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
Griefful Dictionary G - adjective Full of grief or sorrow.
Griefless Dictionary G - adjective Without grief.
Griego Dictionary G - noun See Greggoe.
Grievable Dictionary G - adjective Lamentable.
Grievance Dictionary G - verb transitive A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.; injury.
Grievancer Dictionary G - noun One who occasions a grievance; one who gives ground for complaint.
Grieve Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Greeve.
Grieved Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grieve.
Grieving Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grieve.
Griever Dictionary G - noun One who, or that which, grieves.
Grievous Dictionary G - adjective Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.
Griff Dictionary G - noun Grasp; reach.
Griffe Dictionary G - noun The offspring of a mulatto woman and a negro; also, a mulatto.
Griffin Dictionary G - noun An Anglo-Indian name for a person just arrived from Europe.
Griffon Dictionary G - noun A fabulous monster, half lion and half eagle. It is often represented in Grecian and Roman works of art.
Grig Dictionary G - noun A cricket or grasshopper.
Gril Dictionary G - adjective Harsh; hard; severe; stern; rough.
Grill Dictionary G - verb transitive A gridiron.
Grilled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grill.
Grilling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grill.
Grillade Dictionary G - verb transitive The act of grilling; also, that which is grilled.
Grillage Dictionary G - noun A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.
Grille Dictionary G - verb transitive A lattice or grating.
Grilly Dictionary G - verb transitive To broil; to grill; hence, To harass.
Grilse Dictionary G - noun A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
Grim Dictionary G - Compartment Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.
Grimace Dictionary G - noun A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face.
Grimaced Dictionary G - adjective Distorted; crabbed.
Grimalkin Dictionary G - noun An old cat, esp. a she-cat.
Grime Dictionary G - noun Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.
Grimily Dictionary G - adverb In a grimy manner.
Griminess Dictionary G - noun The state of being grimy.
Grimly Dictionary G - adjective Grim; hideous; stern.
Grimme Dictionary G - noun A West African antelope (Cephalophus rufilotus) of a deep bay color, with a broad dorsal stripe of black; - called also conquetoon.
Grimness Dictionary G - noun Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.
Grimsir Dictionary G - noun A stern man.
Grimy Dictionary G - superlative Full of grime; begrimed; dirty; foul.
Grin Dictionary G - noun A snare; a gin.
Grinned Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grin.
Grinning Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grin.
Ground Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grind.
Grinding Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grind.
Grind Dictionary G - verb transitive To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.
Grinded Dictionary G - past participle Ground.
Grindelia Dictionary G - noun The dried stems and leaves of tarweed (Grindelia), used as a remedy in asthma and bronchitis.
Grinder Dictionary G - noun One who, or that which, grinds.
Grindery Dictionary G - noun Leather workers' materials.
Grindingly Dictionary G - adverb In a grinding manner.
Grindle Dictionary G - noun The bowfin; - called also Johnny Grindle.
Grindle stone Dictionary G - A grindstone.
Grindlet Dictionary G - noun A small drain.
Grindstone Dictionary G - noun A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects.
Grinner Dictionary G - noun One who grins.
Grinningly Dictionary G - adverb In a grinning manner.
Grint Dictionary G - 3d pers. sing. pres. of Grind, contr. from grindeth.
Grinte Dictionary G - imp. of Grin, v. i., 1.
Grinting Dictionary G - noun Grinding.
Grip Dictionary G - noun The griffin.
Gripe Dictionary G - noun A vulture; the griffin.
Griped Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gripe.
Griping Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gripe.
Gripeful Dictionary G - adjective Disposed to gripe; extortionate.
Griper Dictionary G - adjective One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner.
Gripingly Dictionary G - adverb In a griping or oppressive manner.
Griman Dictionary G - noun The man who manipulates a grip.
Grippe Dictionary G - noun The influenza or epidemic catarrh.
Gripper Dictionary G - noun One who, or that which, grips or seizes.
Gripple Dictionary G - noun A grasp; a gripe.
Grippleness Dictionary G - noun The quality of being gripple.
Gripsack Dictionary G - noun A traveler's handbag.
Gris Dictionary G - adjective Gray.
Grisaille Dictionary G - noun Decorative painting in gray monochrome; - used in English especially for painted glass.
Grisamber Dictionary G - noun Ambergris.
Griseous Dictionary G - adjective Of a light color, or white, mottled with black or brown; grizzled or grizzly.
Grisette Dictionary G - noun A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry.
Griskin Dictionary G - noun The spine of a hog.
Grisled Dictionary G - adjective See Grizzled.
Grisliness Dictionary G - noun The quality or state of being grisly; horrid.
Grisly Dictionary G - adjective Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter.
Grison Dictionary G - noun A South American animal of the family Mustelidae (Galictis vittata). It is about two feet long, exclusive of the tail. Its under parts are black. Also called South American glutton.
Grisons Dictionary G - noun plural Inhabitants of the eastern Swiss Alps.
Grist Dictionary G - noun Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces.
Gristle Dictionary G - noun Cartilage. See Cartilage.
Gristly Dictionary G - adjective Consisting of, or containing, gristle; like gristle; cartilaginous.
Gristmill Dictionary G - noun A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.
Grit Dictionary G - noun Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.
Gritted Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grit.
Gritting Dictionary G - past particle &, verb noun of Grit.
Grith Dictionary G - noun Peace; security; agreement.
Gritrock Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gritstone.
Gritstone Dictionary G - noun See Grit, n., 4.
Grittiness Dictionary G - noun The quality of being gritty.
Gritty Dictionary G - adjective Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.
Grivet Dictionary G - noun A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseo-viridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. It was known to the ancient Egyptians. Called also tota.
Grizelin Dictionary G - adjective See Gridelin.
Grizzle Dictionary G - noun Gray; a gray color; a mixture of white and black.
Grizzled Dictionary G - adjective Gray; grayish; sprinkled or mixed with gray; of a mixed white and black.
Grizzly Dictionary G - adjective Somewhat gray; grizzled.
Grizzlies Dictionary G - pleural of Grizzly.
Groaned Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Groan.
Groaning Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Groan.
Groan Dictionary G - intransitive verb To give forth a low, moaning sound in breathing; to utter a groan, as in pain, in sorrow, or in derision; to moan.
Groanful Dictionary G - adjective Agonizing; sad.
Groat Dictionary G - noun An old English silver coin, equal to four pence.
Groats Dictionary G - noun plural Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits.
Grocer Dictionary G - noun A trader who deals in tea, sugar, spices, coffee, fruits, and various other commodities.
Groceries Dictionary G - pleural of Grocery.
Grocery Dictionary G - noun The commodities sold by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices, etc.; - in the United States almost always in the plural form, in this sense.
Grog Dictionary G - noun A mixture of spirit and water not sweetened; hence, any intoxicating liquor.
Groggeries Dictionary G - pleural of Groggery.
Groggery Dictionary G - noun A grogshop.
Grogginess Dictionary G - noun State of being groggy.
Groggy Dictionary G - adjective Overcome with grog; tipsy; unsteady on the legs.
Grogram Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Grogran.
Grogran Dictionary G - noun A coarse stuff made of silk and mohair, or of coarse silk.
Grogshop Dictionary G - noun A shop or room where strong liquors are sold and drunk; a dramshop.
Groin Dictionary G - noun The snout of a swine.
Groined Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Groin.
Groining Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Groin.
Gromet Dictionary G - noun Same as Grommet.
Gromill Dictionary G - noun See Gromwell.
Grommet Dictionary G - noun A ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope; also, a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag. Sometimes written grummet.
Gromwell Dictionary G - noun A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera.
Grond Dictionary G - obs. imp. of Grind.
Gronte Dictionary G - obs. imp. of Groan.
Groom Dictionary G - noun A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.
Groomed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Groom.
Grooming Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Groom.
Groomer Dictionary G - noun One who, or that which, grooms horses; especially, a brush rotated by a flexible or jointed revolving shaft, for cleaning horses.
Groomsmen Dictionary G - pleural of Groomsman.
Groomsman Dictionary G - noun A male attendant of a bridegroom at his wedding; - the correlative of bridesmaid.
Grooper Dictionary G - noun See Grouper.
Groove Dictionary G - noun A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut.
Grooved Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Groove.
Groving Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Groove.
Groover Dictionary G - noun One who or that which grooves.
Grooving Dictionary G - noun The act of forming a groove or grooves; a groove, or collection of grooves.
Groped Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grope.
Groping Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grope.
Grope Dictionary G - intransitive verb To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
Groper Dictionary G - noun One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling.
Groping-ly Dictionary G - adverb In a groping manner.
Gros Dictionary G - noun A heavy silk with a dull finish; as, gros de Naples; gros de Tours.
Grosbeak Dictionary G - noun One of various species of finches having a large, stout beak. The common European grosbeak or hawfinch is Coccothraustes vulgaris.
Groschen Dictionary G - noun A small silver coin and money of account of Germany, worth about two cents. It is not included in the new monetary system of the empire.
Grosgrain Dictionary G - adjective Of a coarse texture; - applied to silk with a heavy thread running crosswise.
Gross Dictionary G - superlative Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
Grossbeak Dictionary G - noun See Grosbeak.
Gross-headed Dictionary G - adjective Thick-skulled; stupid.
Grossification Dictionary G - noun The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so.
Grossly Dictionary G - adverb In a gross manner; greatly; coarsely; without delicacy; shamefully; disgracefully.
Grossness Dictionary G - noun The state or quality of being gross; thickness; corpulence; coarseness; shamefulness.
Grossular Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining too, or resembling, a gooseberry; as, grossular garnet.
Grossularia Dictionary G - noun Same as Grossular.
Grossulin Dictionary G - noun A vegetable jelly, resembling pectin, found in gooseberries (Ribes Grossularia) and other fruits.
Grot Dictionary G - noun A grotto.
Grote Dictionary G - noun A groat.
Grotesgue Dictionary G - adjective Like the figures found in ancient grottoes; grottolike; wildly or strangely formed; whimsical; extravagant; of irregular forms and proportions; fantastic; ludicrous; antic.
Grotesque Dictionary G - noun A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes.
Grotesquely Dictionary G - adverb In a grotesque manner.
Grotesqueness Dictionary G - noun Quality of being grotesque.
Grottoes Dictionary G - pleural of Grotto.
Grotto Dictionary G - noun A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.
Grotto-work Dictionary G - noun Artificial and ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto.
Grounded Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Ground.
Grounding Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Ground.
Groundage Dictionary G - noun A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port.
Groundedly Dictionary G - adverb In a grounded or firmly established manner.
Grounden Dictionary G - p. p. of Grind.
Groundless Dictionary G - adjective Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion.
Groundling Dictionary G - noun A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach.
Groundly Dictionary G - adverb Solidly; deeply; thoroughly.
Groundnut Dictionary G - noun The fruit of the Arachis hypogaea (native country uncertain); the peanut; the earthnut.
Groundsel Dictionary G - verb An annual composite plant (Senecio vulgaris), one of the most common and widely distributed weeds on the globe.
Groundsill Dictionary G - noun See Ground plate (a), under Ground.
Groundwork Dictionary G - noun That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle.
Group Dictionary G - noun A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.
Grouped Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Group.
Grouping Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Group.
Grouper Dictionary G - noun One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidae, as the red grouper, or brown snapper (E. morio), and the black grouper, or warsaw (E. nigritus), both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
Grouse Dictionary G - noun singular & plural Any of the numerous species of gallinaceous birds of the family Tetraonidae, and subfamily Tetraoninae, inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North America. They have plump bodies, strong, well-feathered legs, and usually mottled plumage. The group includes the ptarmigans (Lagopus), having feathered feet.
Grouser Dictionary G - noun A pointed timber attached to a boat and sliding vertically, to thrust into the ground as a means of anchorage.
Grout Dictionary G - noun Coarse meal; ground malt; pl. groats.
Grouted Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grout.
Grouting Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grout.
Grouthead Dictionary G - noun See Growthead.
Groutnol Dictionary G - noun Same as Growthead.
Grouty Dictionary G - adjective Cross; sulky; sullen.
Grove Dictionary G - verb A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent.
Groveled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grovel.
Grovelled Dictionary G - of Grovel.
Groveling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grovel.
Grovelling Dictionary G - of Grovel.
Grovel Dictionary G - adverb To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl.
Groveler Dictionary G - noun One who grovels; an abject wretch.
Grovy Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, a grove; situated in, or frequenting, groves.
Grown Dictionary G - past participle of Grow.
Growing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grow.
Grow Dictionary G - intransitive verb To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; - said of animals and vegetables and their organs.
Growable Dictionary G - adjective Capable of growth.
Growan Dictionary G - noun A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.
Grower Dictionary G - noun One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.
Growled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Growl.
Growling Dictionary G - past particle & verb of Growl.
Growl Dictionary G - intransitive verb To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
Growler Dictionary G - noun One who growls.
Growlingly Dictionary G - adverb In a growling manner.
Growse Dictionary G - intransitive verb To shiver; to have chills.
Growth Dictionary G - noun The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth.
Growthead Dictionary G - noun A lazy person; a blockhead.
Growthful Dictionary G - adjective Having capacity of growth.
Groyne Dictionary G - noun See Groin.
Grozing iron Dictionary G - A tool with a hardened steel point, formerly used instead of a diamond for cutting glass.
Grubbed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grub.
Grubbing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grub.
Grub Dictionary G - intransitive verb To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.
Grubber Dictionary G - noun One who, or that which, grubs; especially, a machine or tool of the nature of a grub ax, grub hook, etc.
Grubbla Dictionary G - verb transitive & intransitive To feel or grope in the dark.
Grubby Dictionary G - adjective Dirty; unclean.
Grubworm Dictionary G - noun See Grub, n., 1.
Grucche Dictionary G - intransitive verb To murmur; to grumble.
Grudger Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grudge.
Grudging Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grudge.
Grudge Dictionary G - verb transitive To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy (one) the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; - followed by the direct object only, or by both the direct and indirect objects.
Grudgeful Dictionary G - adjective Full of grudge; envious.
Grudgeons Dictionary G - noun plural Alt. of Gurgeons.
Gurgeons Dictionary G - noun plural Coarse meal.
Gruddger Dictionary G - noun One who grudges.
Grudgingly Dictionary G - adverb In a grudging manner.
Grudgingness Dictionary G - noun The state or quality of grudging, or of being full of grudge or unwillingness.
Gruel Dictionary G - noun A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge.
Gruelly Dictionary G - adjective Like gruel; of the consistence of gruel.
Gruf Dictionary G - adverb Forwards; with one's face to the ground.
Gruff Dictionary G - superlative Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance; sour; surly; severe; harsh.
Grugru palm Dictionary G - A West Indian name for several kinds of palm. See Macaw tree, under Macaw.
Grugru worm Dictionary G - The larva or grub of a large South American beetle (Calandra palmarum), which lives in the pith of palm trees and sugar cane. It is eaten by the natives, and esteemed a delicacy.
Grum Dictionary G - adjective Morose; severe of countenance; sour; surly; glum; grim.
Grunbled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grumble.
Grumbling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grumble.
Grumble Dictionary G - intransitive verb To murmur or mutter with discontent; to make ill-natured complaints in a low voice and a surly manner.
Grumbler Dictionary G - noun One who grumbles.
Grumblingly Dictionary G - adverb In a grumbling manner.
Grume Dictionary G - noun A thick, viscid fluid; a clot, as of blood.
Grumbly Dictionary G - adverb In a grum manner.
Grumose Dictionary G - adjective Clustered in grains at intervals; grumous.
Grumous Dictionary G - adjective Resembling or containing grume; thick; concreted; clotted; as, grumous blood.
Grumousness Dictionary G - noun The state of being grumous.
Grumpily Dictionary G - adverb In a surly manner; sullenly.
Grumpy Dictionary G - adjective Surly; dissatisfied; grouty.
Grundel Dictionary G - noun A groundling (fish).
Grundsel Dictionary G - noun Groundsel.
Grunted Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Grunt.
Grunting Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Grunt.
Grunt Dictionary G - verb transitive To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound.
Grunter Dictionary G - noun One who, or that which, grunts; specifically, a hog.
Gruntingly Dictionary G - adverb In a grunting manner.
Gruntle Dictionary G - intransitive verb To grunt; to grunt repeatedly.
Gruntling Dictionary G - noun A young hog.
Grutch Dictionary G - verb See Grudge.
Gruyere cheese Dictionary G - A kind of cheese made at Gruyere, Switzerland. It is a firm cheese containing numerous cells, and is known in the United States as Schweitzerkase.
Gry Dictionary G - noun A measure equal to one tenth of a line.
Gryde Dictionary G - intransitive verb To gride. See Gride.
Gryfon Dictionary G - noun See Griffin.
Gryllus Dictionary G - noun A genus of insects including the common crickets.
Grype Dictionary G - verb transitive To gripe.
Gryphaea Dictionary G - noun A genus of cretaceous fossil shells allied to the oyster.
Gryphite Dictionary G - noun A shell of the genus Gryphea.
Gryphon Dictionary G - noun The griffin vulture.
Grysbok Dictionary G - noun A small South African antelope (Neotragus melanotis). It is speckled with gray and chestnut, above; the under parts are reddish fawn.
Guacharo Dictionary G - noun A nocturnal bird of South America and Trinidad (Steatornis Caripensis, or S. steatornis); - called also oilbird.
Guachos Dictionary G - pleural of Guacho.
Guacho Dictionary G - noun One of the mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian) inhabitants of the pampas of South America; a mestizo.
Guaco Dictionary G - noun A plant (Aristolochia anguicida) of Carthagena, used as an antidote to serpent bites.
Guaiac Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, guaiacum.
Guaiacum Dictionary G - noun A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America.
Guan Dictionary G - noun Any one of many species of large gallinaceous birds of Central and South America, belonging to Penelope, Pipile, Ortalis, and allied genera. Several of the species are often domesticated.
Guana Dictionary G - noun See Iguana.
Guanacos Dictionary G - pleural of Guanaco.
Guanaco Dictionary G - noun A South American mammal (Auchenia huanaco), allied to the llama, but of larger size and more graceful form, inhabiting the southern Andes and Patagonia. It is supposed by some to be the llama in a wild state.
Guanidine Dictionary G - noun A strongly alkaline base, CN3H5, formed by the oxidation of guanin, and also obtained combined with methyl in the decomposition of creatin. Boiled with dilute sulphuric acid, it yields urea and ammonia.
Guaniferous Dictionary G - adjective Yielding guano.
Guanin Dictionary G - noun A crystalline substance (C5H5N5O) contained in guano. It is also a constituent of the liver, pancreas, and other glands in mammals.
Guanos Dictionary G - pleural of Guano.
Guano Dictionary G - noun A substance found in great abundance on some coasts or islands frequented by sea fowls, and composed chiefly of their excrement. It is rich in phosphates and ammonia, and is used as a powerful fertilizer.
Guara Dictionary G - noun The scarlet ibis. See Ibis.
Guarana Dictionary G - noun A preparation from the seeds of Paullinia sorbilis, a woody climber of Brazil, used in making an astringent drink, and also in the cure of headache.
Guaranine Dictionary G - noun An alkaloid extracted from guarana. Same as Caffeine.
Guarantees Dictionary G - pleural of Guarantee.
Guarantee Dictionary G - noun In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person, who is, in the first instance, liable to such payment or performance; an engagement which secures or insures another against a contingency; a warranty; a security. Same as Guaranty.
guaranteed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Guarantee.
Guaranteeing Dictionary G - [[p, pr. & verb noun of Guarantee.
Guarantor Dictionary G - noun One who makes or gives a guaranty; a warrantor; a surety.
Guaranies Dictionary G - pleural of Guaranty.
Guaranty Dictionary G - noun In law and common usage: An undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, of another, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform; a guarantee; a warranty; a security.
Guarantied Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Guaranty.
Guarantying Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Guaranty.
Guarded Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Guard.
Gurding Dictionary G - past particle &, verb noun of Guard.
Guard Dictionary G - noun To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend; to shelter; to shield from surprise or attack; to protect by attendance; to accompany for protection; to care for.
Guardable Dictionary G - verb transitive Capable of being guarded or protected.
Guardage Dictionary G - verb transitive Wardship.
Guardant Dictionary G - verb transitive Acting as guardian.
Guardenage Dictionary G - noun Guardianship.
Guarder Dictionary G - noun One who guards.
Guardfish Dictionary G - noun The garfish.
Guardful Dictionary G - adjective Cautions; wary; watchful.
Guardhouse Dictionary G - noun A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.
Guardian Dictionary G - verb transitive One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden.
Guardianage Dictionary G - noun Guardianship.
Guardiance Dictionary G - noun Guardianship.
Guardianess Dictionary G - noun A female guardian.
Guardianless Dictionary G - adjective Without a guardian.
Guardianship Dictionary G - noun The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
Guardless Dictionary G - adjective Without a guard or defense; unguarded.
Guardroom Dictionary G - noun The room occupied by the guard during its term of duty; also, a room where prisoners are confined.
Guards Dictionary G - noun plural A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards.".
Guardship Dictionary G - noun Care; protection.
Guardsmen Dictionary G - pleural of Guardsman.
Guardsman Dictionary G - noun One who guards; a guard.
Guarish Dictionary G - verb transitive To heal.
Guatemala grass Dictionary G - See Teosinte.
Guava Dictionary G - noun A tropical tree, or its fruit, of the genus Psidium. Two varieties are well known, the P. pyriferum, or white guava, and P. pomiferum, or red guava. The fruit or berry is shaped like a pomegranate, but is much smaller. It is somewhat astringent, but makes a delicious jelly.
Gubernance Dictionary G - noun Government.
Gubernate Dictionary G - verb transitive To govern.
Gubernation Dictionary G - noun The act of governing; government.
Gubernative Dictionary G - adjective Governing.
Gubernatorial Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to a governor, or to government.
Gudgeon Dictionary G - noun A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons.
Gue Dictionary G - noun A sharper; a rogue.
Gueber Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Guebre.
Guebre Dictionary G - noun Same as Gheber.
Guelderrose' Dictionary G - noun A cultivated variety of a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), bearing large bunches of white flowers; - called also snowball tree.
Guelph Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Guelf.
Guelf Dictionary G - noun One of a faction in Germany and Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which supported the House of Guelph and the pope, and opposed the Ghibellines, or faction of the German emperors.
Guelphic Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Guelfic.
Guelfic Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the family or the faction of the Guelphs.
Guenon Dictionary G - noun One of several long-tailed Oriental monkeys, of the genus Cercocebus, as the green monkey and grivet.
Gueparde Dictionary G - noun The cheetah.
Guerdon Dictionary G - noun A reward; requital; recompense; - used in both a good and a bad sense.
Guerdonable Dictionary G - adjective Worthy of reward.
Guerdonless Dictionary G - adjective Without reward or guerdon.
Guereza Dictionary G - noun A beautiful Abyssinian monkey (Colobus guereza), having the body black, with a fringe of long, silky, white hair along the sides, and a tuft of the same at the end of the tail. The frontal band, cheeks, and chin are white.
Guerilla Dictionary G - adjective See Guerrilla.
Guerite Dictionary G - noun A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.
Guernsey lily Dictionary G - A South African plant (Nerine Sarniensis) with handsome lilylike flowers, naturalized on the island of Guernsey.
Guerrilla Dictionary G - noun An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war.
Guessed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Guess.
Guessing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Guess.
Guess Dictionary G - verb transitive To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.
Guessable Dictionary G - adjective Capable of being guessed.
Guesser Dictionary G - noun One who guesses; one who forms or gives an opinion without means of knowing.
Guessingly Dictionary G - adverb By way of conjecture.
Guessive Dictionary G - adjective Conjectural.
Guess rope Dictionary G - A guess warp.
Guess warp Dictionary G - A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; - so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.
Guesswork Dictionary G - noun Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.
Guest Dictionary G - noun A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.
Guest rope Dictionary G - The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom.
Guestwise Dictionary G - adverb In the manner of a guest.
Gue'vi Dictionary G - noun One of several very small species and varieties of African antelopes, of the genus Cephalophus, as the Cape guevi or kleeneboc (Cephalophus pygmaea); - called also pygmy antelope.
Guffaw Dictionary G - noun A loud burst of laughter; a horse laugh.
Guffer Dictionary G - noun The eelpout; guffer eel.
Guggle Dictionary G - intransitive verb See Gurgle.
Guhr Dictionary G - noun A loose, earthy deposit from water, found in the cavities or clefts of rocks, mostly white, but sometimes red or yellow, from a mixture of clay or ocher.
Guiac Dictionary G - noun Same as Guaiac.
Guiacol Dictionary G - noun A colorless liquid, C6H4,OCH3.OH, resembling the phenols, found as a constituent of woodtar creosote, aud produced by the dry distillation of guaiac resin.
Guiacum Dictionary G - noun Same as Guaiacum.
Guib Dictionary G - noun A West African antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), curiously marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground, and hence called harnessed antelope; - called also guiba.
Guicowar Dictionary G - noun Mahratta g/ekw/r, prop., a cowherd. The title of the sovereign of Guzerat, in Western India; - generally called the Guicowar of Baroda, which is the capital of the country.
Guidable Dictionary G - adjective Capable of being guided; willing to be guided or counseled.
Guidage Dictionary G - noun The reward given to a guide for services.
Guidance Dictionary G - noun The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading.
Guided Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Guide.
Guiding Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Guide.
Guideboard Dictionary G - noun A board, as upon a guidepost having upon it directions or information as to the road.
Guidebook Dictionary G - noun A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
Guideless Dictionary G - adjective Without a guide.
Guidepost Dictionary G - noun A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.
Guider Dictionary G - noun A guide; a director.
Guideress Dictionary G - noun A female guide.
Guidguid Dictionary G - noun A South American ant bird of the genus Hylactes; - called also barking bird.
Guidon Dictionary G - verb transitive A small flag or streamer, as that carried by cavalry, which is broad at one end and nearly pointed at the other, or that used to direct the movements of a body of infantry, or to make signals at sea; also, the flag of a guild or fraternity. In the United States service, each company of cavalry has a guidon.
Gulge Dictionary G - noun See Gige.
Guild Dictionary G - verb transitive An association of men belonging to the same class, or engaged in kindred pursuits, formed for mutual aid and protection; a business fraternity or corporation; as, the Stationers' Guild; the Ironmongers' Guild. They were originally licensed by the government, and endowed with special privileges and authority.
Guildable Dictionary G - adjective Liable to a tax.
Guilder Dictionary G - noun A Dutch silver coin worth about forty cents; - called also florin and gulden.
Guildhall Dictionary G - noun The hall where a guild or corporation usually assembles; a townhall.
Guile Dictionary G - noun Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.
Guileful Dictionary G - adjective Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty.
Guileless Dictionary G - adjective Free from guile; artless.
Guilor Dictionary G - noun A deceiver; one who deludes, or uses guile.
Guillemet Dictionary G - noun A quotation mark.
Guillemot Dictionary G - noun One of several northern sea birds, allied to the auks. They have short legs, placed far back, and are expert divers and swimmers.
Guillevat Dictionary G - noun A vat for fermenting liquors.
Guilloche Dictionary G - noun An ornament in the form of two or more bands or strings twisted over each other in a continued series, leaving circular openings which are filled with round ornaments.
Guilloched Dictionary G - adjective Waved or engine-turned.
Guillotine Dictionary G - noun A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.
Guillotined Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Guillotine.
Guillotining Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Guillotine.
Guilt Dictionary G - verb transitive The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right.
Guiltily Dictionary G - adverb In a guilty manner.
Guiltiness Dictionary G - noun The quality or state of being guilty.
Guiltless Dictionary G - adjective Free from guilt; innocent.
Guilt-sick Dictionary G - adjective Made sick by consciousness of guilt.
Guilty Dictionary G - superlative Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; - used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment.
Guiltylike Dictionary G - adverb Guiltily.
Guinea Dictionary G - noun A district on the west coast of Africa (formerly noted for its export of gold and slaves) after which the Guinea fowl, Guinea grass, Guinea peach, etc., are named.
Guipure Dictionary G - noun A term used for lace of different kinds; most properly for a lace of large pattern and heavy material which has no ground or mesh, but has the pattern held together by connecting threads called bars or brides.
Guirland Dictionary G - noun See Garland.
Guise Dictionary G - noun Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; - often used formerly in such phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.
Guiser Dictionary G - noun A person in disguise; a masker; a mummer.
Guitar Dictionary G - noun A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut, - played upon with the fingers.
Guitguit Dictionary G - noun One of several species of small tropical American birds of the family Coerebidae, allied to the creepers; - called also quit. See Quit.
GulAe Dictionary G - pleural of Gula.
Gulas Dictionary G - pleural of Gula.
Gula Dictionary G - noun The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat.
Gular Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to the gula or throat; as, gular plates. See Illust. of Bird, and Bowfin.
Gulaund Dictionary G - noun An arctic sea bird.
Gulch Dictionary G - noun Act of gulching or gulping.
Guid Dictionary G - noun A flower. See Gold.
Gulden Dictionary G - noun See Guilder.
Gule Dictionary G - verb transitive To give the color of gules to.
Gules Dictionary G - noun The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for a red color or that which is red.
Gulf Dictionary G - noun A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin,.
Gulfy Dictionary G - adjective Full of whirlpools or gulfs.
Gulgul Dictionary G - noun A cement made in India from sea shells, pulverized and mixed with oil, and spread over a ship's bottom, to prevent the boring of worms.
Gulist Dictionary G - noun A glutton.
Gulled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gull.
Gulling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gull.
Gull Dictionary G - verb transitive To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud.
Gullage Dictionary G - noun Act of being gulled.
Guller Dictionary G - noun One who gulls; a deceiver.
Gullery Dictionary G - noun An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud.
Gullet Dictionary G - noun The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.
Gulleting Dictionary G - noun A system of excavating by means of gullets or channels.
Gullible Dictionary G - adjective Easily gulled; that may be duped.
Gullish Dictionary G - adjective Foolish; stupid.
Gulles Dictionary G - pleural of Gully.
Gully Dictionary G - noun A large knife.
Gullies Dictionary G - pleural of Gully.
Gullied Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gully.
Gullying Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gully.
Gulosity Dictionary G - noun Excessive appetite; greediness; voracity.
Gulped Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gulp.
Gulping Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gulp.
Gulp Dictionary G - verb transitive To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow.
Gulph Dictionary G - noun See Gulf.
Gult Dictionary G - noun Guilt. See Guilt.
Gulty Dictionary G - adjective Guilty.
Guly Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to gules; red.
Gum Dictionary G - noun The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.
Gummed Dictionary G - imperative &. predicate of Gum.
Gumming Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gum.
Gumbo Dictionary G - noun A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.
Gumboil Dictionary G - noun A small suppurting inflamed spot on the gum.
Gummata Dictionary G - pleural of Gumma.
Gumma Dictionary G - noun A kind of soft tumor, usually of syphilitic origin.
Gummatous Dictionary G - adjective Belonging to, or resembling, gumma.
Gummer Dictionary G - noun A punch-cutting tool, or machine for deepening and enlarging the spaces between the teeth of a worn saw.
Gummiferous Dictionary G - adjective Producing gum; gum-bearing.
Gumminess Dictionary G - noun The state or quality of being gummy; viscousness.
Gummite Dictionary G - noun A yellow amorphous mineral, essentially a hydrated oxide of uranium derived from the alteration of uraninite.
Gummosity Dictionary G - noun Gumminess; a viscous or adhesive quality or nature.
Gummous Dictionary G - adjective Gumlike, or composed of gum; gummy.
Gummy Dictionary G - adjective Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.
Gump Dictionary G - noun A dolt; a dunce.
Gumption Dictionary G - noun Capacity; shrewdness; common sense.
Guna Dictionary G - noun In Sanskrit grammar, a lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, e, by prefixing an a element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages.
Gunarchy Dictionary G - noun See Gynarchy.
Gunboat Dictionary G - noun A vessel of light draught, carrying one or more guns.
Guncotton Dictionary G - See under Gun.
Gundelet Dictionary G - noun See Gondola.
Gunflint Dictionary G - noun A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps.
Gunjah Dictionary G - noun See Ganja.
Gunlock Dictionary G - noun The lock of a gun, for producing the discharge. See Lock.
Gunnage Dictionary G - noun The number of guns carried by a ship of war.
Gunnel Dictionary G - noun A gunwale.
Gunner Dictionary G - noun One who works a gun, whether on land or sea; a cannoneer.
Gunnery Dictionary G - noun That branch of military science which comprehends the theory of projectiles, and the manner of constructing and using ordnance.
Gunnie Dictionary G - noun Space left by the removal of ore.
Gunning Dictionary G - noun The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun.
Gunny Dictionary G - Alt. of Gunny cloth.
Gunny cloth Dictionary G - A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage.
Gunocracy Dictionary G - noun See Gyneocracy.
Gunpowder Dictionary G - noun A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting.
Gunreach Dictionary G - noun The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.
Gunroom Dictionary G - noun An apartment on the after end of the lower gun deck of a ship of war, usually occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers, except the captain; - called wardroom in the United States navy.
Gunshot Dictionary G - noun Act of firing a gun; a shot.
Gunsmith Dictionary G - noun One whose occupation is to make or repair small firearms; an armorer.
Gunsmithery Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gunsmith ing.
Gunsmith ing Dictionary G - noun The art or business of a gunsmith.
Gunstick Dictionary G - noun A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod.
Gunstock Dictionary G - noun The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened.
Gunstome Dictionary G - noun A cannon ball; - so called because originally made of stone.
Gunter rig Dictionary G - A topmast arranged with metal bands so that it will readily slide up and down the lower mast.
Gunter's chain Dictionary G - The chain ordinarily used in measuring land. See Chain, n., 4, and Gunter's scale.
Gunter's line Dictionary G - A logarithmic line on Gunter's scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically by the dividers; - called also line of lines, and line of numbers.
Gunter's quadrant Dictionary G - A thin quadrant, made of brass, wood, etc., showing a stereographic projection on the plane of the equator. By it are found the hour of the day, the sun's azimuth, the altitude of objects in degrees, etc. See Gunter's scale.
Gunter's scale Dictionary G - A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant.
Gunwale Dictionary G - noun The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull.
Gurge Dictionary G - noun A whirlpool.
Gurgled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gurgle.
Gurgling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gurgle.
Gurgle Dictionary G - intransitive verb To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones.
Gurglet Dictionary G - noun A porous earthen jar for cooling water by evaporation.
Gurgling-ly Dictionary G - adverb In a gurgling manner.
Gurgoyle Dictionary G - noun See Gargoyle.
Gurjun Dictionary G - noun A thin balsam or wood oil derived from the Diptcrocarpus laevis, an East Indian tree. It is used in medicine, and as a substitute for linseed oil in the coarser kinds of paint.
Gurl Dictionary G - noun A young person of either sex. Obs. See Girl.
Gurlet Dictionary G - noun A pickax with one sharp point and one cutting edge.
Gurmy Dictionary G - noun A level; a working.
Gurnard Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gurnet.
Gurnet Dictionary G - noun One ofseveral European marine fishes, of the genus Trigla and allied genera, having a large and spiny head, with mailed cheeks. Some of the species are highly esteemed for food. The name is sometimes applied to the American sea robins.
Gurniad Dictionary G - noun See Gwiniad.
Gurry Dictionary G - noun An alvine evacuation; also, refuse matter.
Gurt Dictionary G - noun A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.
Gurts Dictionary G - noun plural Groatts.
Gushed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gush.
Gushing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gush.
Gush Dictionary G - intransitive verb To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.
Gusher Dictionary G - noun One who gushes.
Gushingly Dictionary G - adverb In a gushing manner; copiously.
Gusset Dictionary G - noun A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement.
Gust Dictionary G - noun A sudden squall; a violent blast of wind; a sudden and brief rushing or driving of the wind. Snow, and hail, stormy gust and flaw.
Gustable Dictionary G - verb Capable of being tasted; tastable.
Gustard Dictionary G - noun The great bustard.
Gustation Dictionary G - noun The act of tasting.
Gustatory Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or subservient to, the sense of taste; as, the gustatory nerve which supplies the front of the tongue.
Gustful Dictionary G - adjective Tasteful; well-tasted.
Gustless Dictionary G - adjective Tasteless; insipid.
Gusto Dictionary G - noun Nice or keen appreciation or enjoyment; relish; taste; fancy.
Gustoso Dictionary G - adjective & adverb Tasteful; in a tasteful, agreeable manner.
Gusty Dictionary G - adjective Subject to, or characterized by, gusts or squalls; windy; stormy; tempestuous.
Gut Dictionary G - noun A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.
Gutted Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gut.
Gutting Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gut.
GuttAe Dictionary G - pleural of Gutta.
Gutta Dictionary G - noun A drop.
Gutta-percha Dictionary G - noun A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, / Dichopsis, Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves in oils and ethers, but not in water. In many of its properties it resembles caoutchouc, and it is extensively used for many economical purposes. The Mimusops globosa of Guiana also yields this material.
Guttate Dictionary G - adjective Spotted, as if discolored by drops.
Guttated Dictionary G - adjective Besprinkled with drops, or droplike spots.
Guttatrap Dictionary G - noun The inspissated juice of a tree of the genus Artocarpus (A. incisa, or breadfruit tree), sometimes used in making birdlime, on account of its glutinous quality.
Gutter Dictionary G - noun A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.
Guttered Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gutter.
Guttering Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gutter.
Guttifer Dictionary G - noun A plant that exudes gum or resin.
Guttiferous Dictionary G - adjective Yielding gum or resinous substances.
Guttiform Dictionary G - adjective Drop-shaped, as a spot of color.
Guttle Dictionary G - noun To put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; to gormandize. Obs. L'Estrange.
Guttler Dictionary G - noun A greedy eater; a glutton.
Guttulous Dictionary G - adjective In droplike form.
Guttural Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the throat; formed in the throat; relating to, or characteristic of, a sound formed in the throat.
Gutturalism Dictionary G - noun The quality of being guttural; as, the gutturalism of A in the 16th cent..
Gutturality Dictionary G - noun The quality of being guttural.
Gutturalize Dictionary G - verb transitive To speak gutturally; to give a guttural sound to.
Gutturally Dictionary G - adverb In a guttural manner.
Gutturalness Dictionary G - noun The quality of being guttural.
Gutturine Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to the throat.
Gutturize Dictionary G - verb transitive To make in the throat; to gutturalize.
Gutturo- Dictionary G - A combining form denoting relation to the throat; as, gutturo-nasal, having both a guttural and a nasal character; gutturo-palatal.
Gutty Dictionary G - adjective Charged or sprinkled with drops.
Gutwort Dictionary G - noun A plant, Globularia Alypum, a violent purgative, found in Africa.
Guy Dictionary G - noun A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened.
Guyed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Guy.
Guying Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Guy.
Guyle Dictionary G - verb transitive To guile.
Guze Dictionary G - noun A roundlet of tincture sanguine, which is blazoned without mention of the tincture.
Guzzled Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Guzzle.
Guzzling Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Guzzle.
Guzzle Dictionary G - intransitive verb To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently.
Guzzler Dictionary G - noun An immoderate drinker.
Gwiniad Dictionary G - noun A fish (Coregonus ferus) of North Wales and Northern Europe, allied to the lake whitefish; - called also powan, and schelly.
Gyall Dictionary G - noun See Gayal.
Gyb Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gybe.
Gybe Dictionary G - noun See Jib.
Gybed Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gybe.
Gybing Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gybe.
Gye Dictionary G - verb transitive To guide; to govern.
Gyle Dictionary G - noun Fermented wort used for making vinegar.
Gymnal Dictionary G - adjective & noun Same as Gimmal.
Gymnasiarch Dictionary G - noun An Athenian officer who superintended the gymnasia, and provided the oil and other necessaries at his own expense.
Gymnasiums Dictionary G - pleural of Gymnasium.
Gymnasia Dictionary G - pleural of Gymnasium.
Gymnasium Dictionary G - noun A place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics.
Gymnast Dictionary G - noun One who teaches or practices gymnastic exercises; the manager of a gymnasium; an athlete.
Gymnastic Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gymnastical.
Gymnastical Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to athletic exercises intended for health, defense, or diversion; - said of games or exercises, as running, leaping, wrestling, throwing the discus, the javelin, etc.; also, pertaining to disciplinary exercises for the intellect; athletic; as, gymnastic exercises, contests, etc.
Gymnastically Dictionary G - adverb In a gymnastic manner.
Gymnastics Dictionary G - noun Athletic or disciplinary exercises; the art of performing gymnastic exercises; also, disciplinary exercises for the intellect or character.
Gymnic Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gymnical.
Gymnical Dictionary G - adjective Athletic; gymnastic.
Gymnite Dictionary G - noun A hydrous silicate of magnesia.
Gymnoblastea Dictionary G - noun plural The Athecata; - so called because the medusoid buds are not inclosed in a capsule.
Gymnoblastic Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the Gymnoblastea.
Gymnocarpous Dictionary G - adjective Naked-fruited, the fruit either smooth or not adherent to the perianth.
Gymnochroa Dictionary G - noun plural A division of Hydroidea including the hydra. See Hydra.
Gymnocladus Dictionary G - noun A genus of leguminous plants; the Kentucky coffee tree. The leaves are cathartic, and the seeds a substitute for coffee.
Gymnocopa Dictionary G - noun plural A group of transparent, free-swimming Annelida, having setae only in the cephalic appendages.
Gymnocyte Dictionary G - noun A cytode without a proper cell wall, but with a nucleus.
Gymnocytode Dictionary G - noun A cytode without either a cell wall or a nucleus.
Gymnodont Dictionary G - noun One of a group of plectognath fishes (Gymnodontes), having the teeth and jaws consolidated into one or two bony plates, on each jaw, as the diodonts and tetradonts. See Bur fish, Globefish, Diodon.
Gymnogen Dictionary G - noun One of a class of plants, so called by Lindley, because the ovules are fertilized by direct contact of the pollen. Same as Gymnosperm.
Gymnoglossa Dictionary G - noun plural A division of gastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth.
Gymnolaema Dictionary G - noun plural Alt. of Gymnolaemata.
Gymnolaemata Dictionary G - noun plural An order of Bryozoa, having no epistome.
Gymnonoti Dictionary G - noun plural The order of fishes which includes the Gymnotus or electrical eel. The dorsal fin is wanting.
Gymnopaedic Dictionary G - adjective Having young that are naked when hatched; psilopaedic; - said of certain birds.
Gymnophiona Dictionary G - noun plural An order of Amphibia, having a long, annulated, snakelike body. See Ophiomorpha.
Gymnophthalmata Dictionary G - noun plural A group of acalephs, including the naked-eyed medusae; the hydromedusae. Most of them are known to be the free-swimming progeny (gonophores) of hydroids.
Gymnoplast Dictionary G - noun A cell or mass of protoplasm devoid of an envelope, as a white blood corpuscle.
Gymnorhinal Dictionary G - adjective Having unfeathered nostrils, as certain birds.
Gymnosomata Dictionary G - noun plural One of the orders of Pteropoda. They have no shell.
Gymnosophist Dictionary G - noun One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, renounced bodily pleasures, and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature.
Gymnosophy Dictionary G - noun The doctrines of the Gymnosophists.
Gymnosperm Dictionary G - noun A plant that bears naked seeds (i. e., seeds not inclosed in an ovary), as the common pine and hemlock. Cf. Angiosperm.
Gymnospermous Dictionary G - noun Having naked seeds, or seeds not inclosed in a capsule or other vessel.
Gymnotoka Dictionary G - noun plural The Athecata.
Gymnotus Dictionary G - noun A genus of South American fresh-water fishes, including the Gymnotus electricus, or electric eel. It has a greenish, eel-like body, and is possessed of electric power.
Gyn Dictionary G - intransitive verb To begin Obs. See Gin.
Gynaeceum Dictionary G - noun Alt. of Gynaecium.
Gynaecium Dictionary G - noun The part of a large house, among the ancients, exclusively appropriated to women.
Gynaecian Dictionary G - adjective The same as Gynecian.
Gynaecophore Dictionary G - noun A ventral canal or groove, in which the males of some di/cious trematodes carry the female. See Illust. of Haematozoa.
Gynander Dictionary G - noun A plant having the stamens inserted in the pistil.
Gynandria Dictionary G - noun plural A class of plants in the Linnaean system, whose stamens grow out of, or are united with, the pistil.
Gynandrian Dictionary G - adjective Alt. of Gynandrous.
Gynandrous Dictionary G - adjective Having stamens inserted in the pistil; belonging to the class Gynandria.
Gynandromorph Dictionary G - noun An animal affected with gynandromorphism,.
Gynandromorphism Dictionary G - noun An abnormal condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female.
Gynandromorphous Dictionary G - adjective Affected, with gynandromorphism.
Gynantherous Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils.
Gynarchy Dictionary G - noun Government by a woman.
Gyneceum Dictionary G - noun See Gynaeceum.
Gynecian Dictionary G - adjective Of or relating to women.
Gynecocracy Dictionary G - noun Government by a woman, female power; gyneocracy.
Gynecological Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to gynecology.
Gynecology Dictionary G - noun The science which treats of the structure and diseases of women.
Gyneocracy Dictionary G - noun See Gynecocracy.
Gyneolatry Dictionary G - noun The adoration or worship of woman.
Gynephobia Dictionary G - noun Hatred of women; repugnance to the society of women.
Gynno Dictionary G - intransitive verb To begin. See Gin.
Gynobase Dictionary G - noun A dilated base or receptacle, supporting a multilocular ovary.
Gynobasic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to, or having, a gynobase.
Gynocracy Dictionary G - noun Female government; gynecocracy.
Gynodioecious Dictionary G - adjective Dioecious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers.
Gynoecium Dictionary G - noun The pistils of a flower, taken collectively. See Illust. of Carpophore.
Gynophore Dictionary G - noun The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower.
Gyp Dictionary G - noun A college servant; - so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout.
Gypse Dictionary G - noun See Gypsum.
Gypseous Dictionary G - adjective Resembling or containing gypsum; partaking of the qualities of gypsum.
Gypsey Dictionary G - noun A gypsy. See Gypsy.
Gypsiferous Dictionary G - adjective Containing gypsum.
Gyp'sine Dictionary G - adjective Gypseous.
Gypsography Dictionary G - noun The act or art of engraving on gypsum.
Gypsoplast Dictionary G - noun A cast taken in plaster of Paris, or in white lime.
Gypsum Dictionary G - noun A mineral consisting of the hydrous sulphate of lime (calcium). When calcined, it forms plaster of Paris. Selenite is a transparent, crystalline variety; alabaster, a fine, white, massive variety.
Gypsies Dictionary G - pleural of Gypsy.
Gypsy Dictionary G - noun One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany.
Gypsyism Dictionary G - noun The arts and practices or habits of gypsies; deception; cheating; flattery.
Gypsywort Dictionary G - noun A labiate plant (the Lycopus Europaeus). Gypsies are said to stain their skin with its juice.
Gyracanthus Dictionary G - noun A genus of fossil fishes, found in Devonian and carboniferous strata; - so named from their round, sculptured spines.
Gyral Dictionary G - adjective Moving in a circular path or way; whirling; gyratory.
Gyrant Dictionary G - adjective Gyrating.
Gyrate Dictionary G - adjective Winding or coiled round; curved into a circle; taking a circular course.
Gyrated Dictionary G - imperative & past particle of Gyrate.
Gyrating Dictionary G - past particle & verb noun of Gyrate.
Gyration Dictionary G - noun The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an axis; rotation; revolution.
Gyratory Dictionary G - adjective Moving in a circle, or spirally; revolving; whirling around.
Gyre Dictionary G - noun A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit.
Gyreful Dictionary G - adjective Abounding in gyres.
Gyrencephala Dictionary G - noun plural The higher orders of Mammalia, in which the cerebrum is convoluted.
Gyrfalcon Dictionary G - noun One of several species and varieties of large Arctic falcons, esp. Falco rusticolus and the white species F. Islandicus, both of which are circumpolar. The black and the gray are varieties of the former. See Illust. of Accipiter.
Gyri Dictionary G - noun plural See Gyrus.
Gyrland Dictionary G - verb transitive To garland.
Gyrodus Dictionary G - noun A genus of extinct oolitic fishes, having rounded teeth in several rows adapted for crushing.
Gyrogonite Dictionary G - noun The petrified fruit of the Chara hispida, a species of stonewort. See Stonewort.
Gyroidal Dictionary G - adjective Spiral in arrangement or action.
Gyrolepis Dictionary G - noun A genus of ganoid fishes, found in strata of the new red sandetone, and the lias bone beds.
Gyroma Dictionary G - noun A turning round.
Gyromancy Dictionary G - noun A kind of divination performed by drawing a ring or circle, and walking in or around it.
Gyron Dictionary G - noun A subordinary of triangular form having one of its angles at the fess point and the opposite aide at the edge of the escutcheon. When there is only one gyron on the shield it is bounded by two lines drawn from the fess point, one horizontally to the dexter side, and one to the dexter chief corner.
Gyronny Dictionary G - adjective Covered with gyrons, or divided so as to form several gyrons; - said of an escutcheon.
Gyropigeon Dictionary G - noun A flying object simulating a pigeon in flight, when projected from a spring trap. It is used as a flying target in shooting matches.
Gyroscope Dictionary G - noun A rotating wheel, mounted in a ring or rings, for illustrating the dynamics of rotating bodies, the composition of rotations, etc. It was devised by Professor W. R. Johnson, in 1832, by whom it was called the rotascope.
Gyroscopic Dictionary G - adjective Pertaining to the gyroscope; resembling the motion of the gyroscope.
Gy-rose Dictionary G - adjective Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro.
Gyrostat Dictionary G - noun A modification of the gyroscope, consisting essentially of a fly wheel fixed inside a rigid case to which is attached a thin flange of metal for supporting the instrument. It is used in studying the dynamics of rotating bodies.
Gyrostatic Dictionary G - adjective Of or pertaining to the gyrostat or to gyrostatics.
Gyrostatics Dictionary G - noun The doctrine or theory of the gyrostat, or of the phenomena of rotating bodies.
Gyrus Dictionary G - noun A convoluted ridge between grooves; a convolution; as, the gyri of the brain; the gyri of brain coral. See Brain.
Gyse Dictionary G - noun Guise.
Gyte Dictionary G - adjective Delirious; senselessly extravagant; as, the man is clean gyte.
Gyve Dictionary G - noun A shackle; especially, one to confine the legs; a fetter.

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