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G () G is the seventh letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It has two sounds; one simple, as in gave, go, gull; the other compound (like that of j), as in gem, gin, dingy. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 231-6, 155, 176, 178, 179, 196, 211, 246.

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 (n.) The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric.

Gab (v. i.) The mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness.

Gab (v. i.) To deceive; to lie.

Gab (v. i.) To talk idly; to prate; to chatter.

Gabarage (n.) A kind of coarse cloth for packing goods.

Gabardine (n.) Alt. of Gaberdine

Gaberdine (n.) A coarse frock or loose upper garment formerly worn by Jews; a mean dress.

Gabber (n.) A liar; a deceiver.

Gabber (n.) One addicted to idle talk.

Gabbled (imp. & p. p.) of Gabble

Gabbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gabble

Gabble (v. i.) To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.

Gabble (v. i.) To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls.

Gabble (n.) Loud or rapid talk without meaning.

Gabble (n.) Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.

Gabbier (n.) One who gabbles; a prater.

Gabbro (n.) 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 (n.) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.

Gabeler (n.) A collector of gabels or taxes.

Gabelle (n.) A tax, especially on salt.

Gabelleman (n.) A gabeler.

Gaberdine (n.) See Gabardine.

Gaber-lunzie (n.) A beggar with a wallet; a licensed beggar.

Gabert (n.) A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation.

Gabion (n.) 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.

Gabion (n.) An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement.

Gabionade (n.) A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire.

Gabionade (n.) A structure of gabions sunk in lines, as a core for a sand bar in harbor improvements.

Gabionage (n.) The part of a fortification built of gabions.

Gabioned (p. a.) Furnished with gabions.

Gabionnade (n.) See Gabionade.

Gable (n.) A cable.

Gable (n.) The vertical triangular portion of the end of a building, from the level of the cornice or eaves to the ridge of the roof. Also, a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and the like.

Gable (n.) The end wall of a building, as distinguished from the front or rear side.

Gable (n.) A decorative member having the shape of a triangular gable, such as that above a Gothic arch in a doorway.

Gablet (n.) A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.

Gablock (n.) A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock.

Gaby (n.) A simpleton; a dunce; a lout.

Gad (n.) The point of a spear, or an arrowhead.

Gad (n.) A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc.

Gad (n.) A sharp-pointed rod; a goad.

Gad (n.) A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.

Gad (n.) A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel.

Gad (n.) A rod or stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with.

Gadded (imp. & p. p.) of Gad

Gadding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gad

Gad (n.) To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled.

Gadabout (n.) A gadder

Gadbee (n.) The gadfly.

Gadder (n.) One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.

Gadding (a. & n.) Going about much, needlessly or without purpose.

Gaddingly (adv.) In a roving, idle manner.

Gaddish (a.) Disposed to gad.

Gade (n.) A small British fish (Motella argenteola) of the Cod family.

Gade (n.) A pike, so called at Moray Firth; -- called also gead.

Gadere (v. t. & i.) Alt. of Gadre

Gadre (v. t. & i.) To gather.

Gadflies (pl. ) of Gadfly

Gadfly (n.) Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.

Gadhelic (a.) Of or pertaining to that division of the Celtic languages, which includes the Irish, Gaelic, and Manx.

Gadic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the cod (Gadus); -- applied to an acid obtained from cod-liver oil, viz., gadic acid.

Gaditanian (a.) Of or relating to Cadiz, in Spain.

Gaditanian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Cadiz.

Gadling (n.) See Gad, n., 4.

Gadling (v. i.) Gadding about.

Gadling (n.) A roving vagabond.

Gadman (n.) A gadsman.

Gadoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the family of fishes (Gadidae) which includes the cod, haddock, and hake.

Gadoid (n.) One of the Gadidae.

Gadolinia (n.) 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 (a.) Pertaining to or containing gadolinium.

Gadolinite (n.) A mineral of a nearly black color and vitreous luster, and consisting principally of the silicates of yttrium, cerium, and iron.

Gadolinium (n.) 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 (n.) One who uses a gad or goad in driving.

Gaduin (n.) A yellow or brown amorphous substance, of indifferent nature, found in cod-liver oil.

Gadwall (n.) A large duck (Anas strepera), valued as a game bird, found in the northern parts of Europe and America; -- called also gray duck.

Gael (n.sing. & pl.) A Celt or the Celts of the Scotch Highlands or of Ireland; now esp., a Scotch Highlander of Celtic origin.

Gaelic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Gael, esp. to the Celtic Highlanders of Scotland; as, the Gaelic language.

Gaelic (n.) The language of the Gaels, esp. of the Highlanders of Scotland. It is a branch of the Celtic.

Gaff (n.) A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish.

Gaff (n.) The spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is extended.

Gaff (n.) Same as Gaffle, 1.

Gaffed (imp. & p. p.) of Gaff

Gaffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gaff

Gaff (v. t.) To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon.

Gaffer (n.) An old fellow; an aged rustic.

Gaffer (n.) A foreman or overseer of a gang of laborers.

Gaffle (n.) An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks.

Gaffle (n.) A lever to bend crossbows.

Gaff-topsail (n.) A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast.

Gagged (imp. & p. p.) of Gag

Gagging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gag

Gag (v. t.) 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.

Gag (v. t.) To pry or hold open by means of a gag.

Gag (v. t.) To cause to heave with nausea.

Gag (v. i.) To heave with nausea; to retch.

Gag (v. i.) To introduce gags or interpolations. See Gag, n., 3.

Gag (n.) Something thrust into the mouth or throat to hinder speaking.

Gag (n.) A mouthful that makes one retch; a choking bit; as, a gag of mutton fat.

Gag (n.) A speech or phrase interpolated offhand by an actor on the stage in his part as written, usually consisting of some seasonable or local allusion.

Gagate (n.) Agate.

Gage (n.) 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.

Gage (n.) A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance.

Gage (n.) A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.

Gaged (imp. & p. p.) of Gage

Gaging (p. pr & vb. n.) of Gage

Gage (n.) To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.

Gage (n.) To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.

Gage (n.) A measure or standard. See Gauge, n.

Gage (v. t.) To measure. See Gauge, v. t.

Gager (n.) A measurer. See Gauger.

Gagger (n.) One who gags.

Gagger (n.) A piece of iron imbedded in the sand of a mold to keep the sand in place.

Gaggled (imp. & p. p.) of Gaggle

Gaggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gaggle

Gaggle (v. i.) To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.

Gaggle (v. i.) A flock of wild geese.

Gagtooth (n.) A projecting tooth.

Gag-toothed (a.) Having gagteeth.

Gahnite (n.) Zinc spinel; automolite.

Gaidic (a.) Pertaining to hypogeic acid; -- applied to an acid obtained from hypogeic acid.

Gaiety (n.) Same as Gayety.

Gailer (n.) A jailer.

Gaillard (a.) Gay; brisk; merry; galliard.

Gailliarde (n.) A lively French and Italian dance.

Gaily (adv.) Merrily; showily. See gaily.

Gain (n.) 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.

Gain (a.) Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable.

Gain (v. t.) That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss.

Gain (v. t.) The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation.

Gained (imp. & p. p.) of Gain

Gaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gain

Gain (n.) To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living.

Gain (n.) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize.

Gain (n.) To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.

Gain (n.) To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor.

Gain (n.) To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage.

Gain (v. i.) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily.

Gainable (v. t.) Capable of being obtained or reached.

Gainage (v. t.) The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.

Gainage (v. t.) The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself.

Gainer (n.) One who gains.

Gainful (a.) Profitable; advantageous; lucrative.

Gaingiving (n.) A misgiving.

Gainless (a.) Not producing gain; unprofitable.

Gainly (a.) Handily; readily; dexterously; advantageously.

Gainpain (n.) Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.

Gainsaid (imp. & p. p.) of Gainsay

Gainsaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gainsay

Gainsay (v. t.) To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.

Gainsayer (n.) One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies.

Gainsome (a.) Gainful.

Gainsome (a.) Prepossessing; well-favored.

'Gainst (prep.) A contraction of Against.

Gainstood (imp. & p. p.) of Gainstand

gainstanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gainstand

Gainstand (v. t.) To withstand; to resist.

Gainstrive (v. t. & i.) To strive or struggle against; to withstand.

Gairfowl (n.) See Garefowl.

Gairish (n.) Alt. of Gairish/ness

Gairishly (n.) Alt. of Gairish/ness

Gairish/ness (n.) Same as Garish, Garishly, Garishness.

Gait (n.) A going; a walk; a march; a way.

Gait (n.) Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.

Gaited (a.) Having (such) a gait; -- used in composition; as, slow-gaited; heavy-gaited.

Gaiter (n.) 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.

Gaiter (n.) A kind of shoe, consisting of cloth, and covering the ankle.

Gaiter (v. t.) To dress with gaiters.

Gaitre (n.) Alt. of Gaytre

Gaytre (n.) The dogwood tree.

Gala (n.) Pomp, show, or festivity.

Galacta-gogue (n.) An agent exciting secretion of milk.

Galactic (a.) Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid.

Galactic (a.) Of or pertaining to the galaxy or Milky Way.

Galactin (n.) 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.

Galactin (n.) A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree (Galactodendron).

Galactin (n.) An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate resembling gelose, found in the seeds of leguminous plants, and yielding on decomposition several sugars, including galactose.

Galactodensimeter (n.) Same as Galactometer.

Galactometer (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the quality of milk (i.e., its richness in cream) by determining its specific gravity; a lactometer.

Galactophagist (n.) One who eats, or subsists on, milk.

Galactophagous (a.) Feeding on milk.

Galactophorous (a.) Milk-carrying; lactiferous; -- applied to the ducts of mammary glands.

Galactopoietic (a.) Increasing the flow of milk; milk-producing. -- n. A galactopoietic substance.

Galactose (n.) 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 (n.) See Galoche.

Galagos (pl. ) of Galago

Galago (n.) A genus of African lemurs, including numerous species.

Galanga (n.) Alt. of Galangal

Galangal (n.) 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), -- all of the Ginger family.

Galantine (n.) A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold.

Galapee tree () The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves.

Galatian (a.) 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 (pl. ) of Galaxy

Galaxy (n.) 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.

Galaxy (n.) A splendid assemblage of persons or things.

Galban (n.) Alt. of Galbanum

Galbanum (n.) 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 (n.) A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.

Gale (n.) A moderate current of air; a breeze.

Gale (n.) A state of excitement, passion, or hilarity.

Gale (v. i.) To sale, or sail fast.

Gale (n.) A song or story.

Gale (v. i.) To sing.

Gale (n.) A plant of the genus Myrica, growing in wet places, and strongly resembling the bayberry. The sweet gale (Myrica Gale) is found both in Europe and in America.

Gale (n.) The payment of a rent or annuity.

Galea (n.) The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.

Galea (n.) A kind of bandage for the head.

Galea (n.) Headache extending all over the head.

Galea (n.) A genus of fossil echini, having a vaulted, helmet-shaped shell.

Galea (n.) The anterior, outer process of the second joint of the maxillae in certain insects.

Galeas (n.) See Galleass.

Galeate (a.) Alt. of Galeated

Galeated (a.) Wearing a helmet; protected by a helmet; covered, as with a helmet.

Galeated (a.) Helmeted; having a helmetlike part, as a crest, a flower, etc.; helmet-shaped.

Galei (n. pl.) That division of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sharks.

Galena (n.) A remedy or antidose for poison; theriaca.

Galena (n.) Lead sulphide; the principal ore of lead. It is of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, and is cubic in crystallization and cleavage.

Galenic (a.) Alt. of Galenical

Galenical (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, galena.

Galenic (an.) Alt. of Galenical

Galenical (an.) Relating to Galen or to his principles and method of treating diseases.

Galenism (n.) The doctrines of Galen.

Galenist (n.) A follower of Galen.

Galenite (n.) Galena; lead ore.

Gale-opithecus (n.) A genus of flying Insectivora, formerly called flying lemurs. See Colugo.

Galericu-late (a.) Covered as with a hat or cap.

Galerite (n.) A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus Galerites.

Galician (a.) Of or pertaining to Galicia, in Spain, or to Galicia, the kingdom of Austrian Poland.

Galician (n.) A native of Galicia in Spain; -- called also Gallegan.

Galilean (a.) Of or pertaining to Galileo; as, the Galilean telescope. See Telescope.

Galilean (a.) Of or relating to Galilee.

Galilean (n.) A native or inhabitant of Galilee, the northern province of Palestine under the Romans.

Galilean (n.) One of the party among the Jews, who opposed the payment of tribute to the Romans; -- called also Gaulonite.

Galilean (n.) A Christian in general; -- used as a term of reproach by Mohammedans and Pagans.

Galilee (n.) 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 (n.) Nonsense; gibberish; confused and unmeaning talk; confused mixture.

Galingale (n.) A plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus longus) having aromatic roots; also, any plant of the same genus.

Galiot (n.) 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.

Galiot (n.) A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail.

Galipot (n.) 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 (n.) 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.

Gall (n.) The gall bladder.

Gall (n.) Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.

Gall (n.) Impudence; brazen assurance.

Gall (n.) An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut.

Gall (v. t.) To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.

Galled (imp. & p. p.) of Gall

Galling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gall

Gall (v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable.

Gall (v. t.) To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.

Gall (v. t.) To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.

Gall (v. i.) To scoff; to jeer.

Gall (n.) A wound in the skin made by rubbing.

Gallant (a.) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.

Gallant (a.) Noble in bearing or spirit; brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant officer.

Gallant (a.) Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.

Gallant (n.) A man of mettle or spirit; a gay; fashionable man; a young blood.

Gallant (n.) One fond of paying attention to ladies.

Gallant (n.) One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer.

Gallanted (imp. & p. p.) of Gallant

Gallanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gallant

Gallant (v. t.) To attend or wait on, as a lady; as, to gallant ladies to the play.

Gallant (v. t.) To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan.

Gallantly (adv.) In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.

Gallantly (adv.) In a gallant manner.

Gallantness (n.) The quality of being gallant.

Gallantries (pl. ) of Gallantry

Gallantry (n.) Splendor of appearance; ostentatious finery.

Gallantry (n.) Bravery; intrepidity; as, the troops behaved with great gallantry.

Gallantry (n.) Civility or polite attention to ladies; in a bad sense, attention or courtesy designed to win criminal favors from a female; freedom of principle or practice with respect to female virtue; intrigue.

Gallantry (n.) Gallant persons, collectively.

Gallate (n.) A salt of gallic acid.

Gallature (n.) The tread, treadle, or chalasa of an egg.

Galleass (n.) 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 (n.) Alt. of Gallego

Gallego (n.) A native or inhabitant of Galicia, in Spain; a Galician.

Gallein (n.) A red crystalline dyestuff, obtained by heating together pyrogallic and phthalic acids.

Galleon (n.) 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 (n.) See Galiot.

Galleries (pl. ) of Gallery

Gallery (a.) 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.

Gallery (a.) A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.

Gallery (a.) A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.

Gallery (a.) A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850.

Gallery (a.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.

Gallery (a.) A working drift or level.

Galletyle (n.) A little tile of glazed earthenware.

Galleys (pl. ) of Galley

Galley (n.) A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not

Galley (n.) A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century.

Galley (n.) A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels propelled by oars.

Galley (n.) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.

Galley (n.) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.

Galley (n.) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.

Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.

Galley (n.) An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.

Galley (n.) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.

Galley-bird (n.) The European green woodpecker; also, the spotted woodpecker.

Galley-worm (n.) 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 (pl. ) of Gallfly

Gallfly (n.) 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 (a.) Consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse.

Gallian (a.) Gallic; French.

Galliard (a.) Gay; brisk; active.

Galliard (n.) A brisk, gay man.

Galliard (a.) A gay, lively dance. Cf. Gailliarde.

Galliardise (a.) Excessive gayety; merriment.

Galliardness (n.) Gayety.

Galliass (n.) Same as Galleass.

Gallic (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, gallium.

Gallic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, galls, nutgalls, and the like.

Gallic (a.) Pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallican.

Gallican (a.) Of or pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallic; French; as, the Gallican church or clergy.

Gallican (n.) An adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism.

Gallicanism (n.) 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 (n.) A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom.

Gallicized (imp. & p. p.) of Gallicize

Gallicizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gallicize

Gallicize (v. t.) To conform to the French mode or idiom.

Gallied (p. p. & a.) Worried; flurried; frightened.

Galliform (a.) Like the Gallinae (or Galliformes) in structure.

Galligaskins (n. pl.) Loose hose or breeches; leather leg quards. The word is used loosely and often in a jocose sense.

Gallimatia (n.) Senseless talk. [Obs. or R.] See Galimatias.

Gallimaufries (pl. ) of Gallimaufry

Gallimaufry (n.) A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout.

Gallimaufry (n.) Any absurd medley; a hotchpotch.

Gallin (n.) A substance obtained by the reduction of gallein.

Gallinaceae (n. pl.) Same as Gallinae.

Gallinacean (n.) One of the Gallinae or gallinaceous birds.

Gallinaceous (a.) Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae.

Gallinae (n.) An order of birds, including the common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, quails, and allied forms; -- sometimes called Rasores.

Galling (a.) Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating.

Gallinipper (n.) A large mosquito.

Gallinule (n.) 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 (n.) See Galiot.

Gallipoli oil () An inferior kind of olive oil, brought from Gallipoli, in Italy.

Gallipot (n.) A glazed earthen pot or vessel, used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines, etc.

Gallium (n.) 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 (v. i.) To play the beau; to wait upon the ladies; also, to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.

Gallivat (n.) A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, -- used on the Malabar coast.

Galliwasp (n.) A West Indian lizard (Celestus occiduus), about a foot long, imagined by the natives to be venomous.

Gallnut (n.) A round gall produced on the leaves and shoots of various species of the oak tree. See Gall, and Nutgall.

Gallomania (n.) An excessive admiration of what is French.

Gallon (n.) A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.

Galloon (n.) A narrow tapelike fabric used for binding hats, shoes, etc., -- sometimes made ornamental.

Galloon (n.) A similar bordering or binding of rich material, such as gold lace.

Gallooned (a.) Furnished or adorned with galloon.

Galloped (imp. & p. p.) of Gallop

Galloping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gallop

Gallop (v. i.) To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.

Gallop (v. i.) To ride a horse at a gallop.

Gallop (v. i.) Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.

Gallop (v. t.) To cause to gallop.

Gallop (v. i.) A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds.

Gallopade (n.) I horsemanship, a sidelong or curveting kind of gallop.

Gallopade (n.) A kind of dance; also, music to the dance; a galop.

Gallopaded (imp. & p. p.) of Gallopade

Gallopading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gallopade

Gallopade (v. i.) To gallop, as on horseback.

Gallopade (v. i.) To perform the dance called gallopade.

Galloper (n.) One who, or that which, gallops.

Galloper (n.) A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber.

Gallopin (v. i.) An under servant for the kitchen; a scullion; a cook's errand boy.

Galloping (a.) Going at a gallop; progressing rapidly; as, a galloping horse.

Gallotannic (a.) Pertaining to the tannin or nutgalls.

Gallow (v. t.) To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t.

Galloway (n.) A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; -- called also garran, and garron.

Gallowglass (n.) A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward /

Gallowses (pl. ) of Gallows

Gallows (pl. ) of Gallows

Gallows (n. sing.) A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything.

Gallows (n. sing.) A wretch who deserves the gallows.

Gallows (n. sing.) The rest for the tympan when raised.

Gallows (n. sing.) A pair of suspenders or braces.

Gallstone (n.) A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.

Gally (v. t.) To frighten; to worry.

Gally (a.) Like gall; bitter as gall.

Gally (n.) See Galley, n., 4.

Gallygaskins (n. pl.) See Galligaskins.

Galoche () Alt. of Galoshe

Galoshe () A clog or patten.

Galoshe () Hence: An overshoe worn in wet weather.

Galoshe () A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.

Galoot (n.) A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy.

Galop (n.) A kind of lively dance, in 2-4 time; also, the music to the dance.

Galore (n. & a.) Plenty; abundance; in abundance.

Galoshe (n.) Same as Galoche.

Galpe (v. i.) To gape,; to yawn.

Galsome (a.) Angry; malignant.

Galt (n.) Same as Gault.

Galvanic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.

Galvanism (n.) Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity.

Galvanism (n.) The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents.

Galvanist (n.) One versed in galvanism.

Galvanization (n.) The act of process of galvanizing.

Galvanized (imp. & p. p.) of Galvanize

Galvanizing (p pr. & vb. n.) of Galvanize

Galvanize (v. t.) To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.

Galvanize (v. t.) To plate, as with gold, silver, etc., by means of electricity.

Galvanize (v. t.) To restore to consciousness by galvanic action (as from a state of suspended animation); hence, to stimulate or excite to a factitious animation or activity.

Galvanize (v. t.) To coat, as iron, with zinc. See Galvanized iron.

Galvanizer (n.) One who, or that which, galvanize.

Galvanocaustic (a.) Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine.

Galvanocautery (n.) Cautery effected by a knife or needle heated by the passage of a galvanic current.

Galvanoglyphy (n.) Same as Glyphography.

Galvanograph (n.) A copperplate produced by the method of galvanography; also, a picture printed from such a plate.

Galvanographic (a.) Of or pertaining to galvanography.

Galvanography (n.) The art or process of depositing metals by electricity; electrotypy.

Galvanography (n.) A method of producing by means of electrotyping process (without etching) copperplates which can be printed from in the same manner as engraved plates.

Galvanologist (n.) One who describes the phenomena of galvanism; a writer on galvanism.

Galvanology (n.) A treatise on galvanism, or a description of its phenomena.

Galvanometer (n.) An instrument or apparatus for measuring the intensity of an electric current, usually by the deflection of a magnetic needle.

Galvanometric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or measured by, a galvanometer.

Galvanometry (n.) The art or process of measuring the force of electric currents.

Galvanoplastic (a.) 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 (n.) The art or process of electrotypy.

Galvanopuncture (n.) Same as Electro-puncture.

Galvanoscope (n.) An instrument or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents, especially such as are of feeble intensity.

Galvanoscopic (a.) Of or pertaining to a galvanoscope.

Galvanoscopy (n.) The use of galvanism in physiological experiments.

Galvanotonus (n.) Same as Electrotonus.

Galvanotropism (n.) The tendency of a root to place its axis in the line of a galvanic current.

Galwes (n.) Gallows.

Gama grass () 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 (n. pl.) High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.

Gamba (n.) A viola da gamba.

Gambadoes (n.) Same as Gamashes.

Gambeson (n.) Same as Gambison.

Gambet (n.) Any bird of the genuis Totanus. See Tattler.

Gambier (n.) 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.

Gambier (n.) Catechu.

Gambison (n.) A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted.

Gambist (n.) A performer upon the viola di gamba. See under Viola.

Gambit (n.) A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.

Gambled (imp. & p. p.) of Gamble

Gambling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gamble

Gamble (v. i.) To play or game for money or other stake.

Gamble (v. t.) To lose or squander by gaming; -- usually with away.

Gambler (n.) One who gambles.

Gamboge (n.) 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 (a.) Alt. of Gambogic

Gambogic (a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, gamboge.

Gambol (n.) A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.

Gamboled (imp. & p. p.) of Gambol

Gambolled () of Gambol

Gamboling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gambol

Gambolling () of Gambol

Gambol (v. i.) To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs.

Gambrel (n.) The hind leg of a horse.

Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.

Gambrel (v. t.) To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel.

Gambroon (n.) A kind of twilled linen cloth for lining.

Game (n.) Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

Game (v. i.) Sport of any kind; jest, frolic.

Game (v. i.) A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc.

Game (v. i.) The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.

Game (v. i.) That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game.

Game (v. i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.

Game (v. i.) A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project.

Game (v. i.) Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table.

Game (a.) Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky.

Game (a.) Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting.

Gamed (imp. & p. p.) of Game

Gaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Game

Game (n.) To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative.

Game (n.) To play at any sport or diversion.

Game (n.) To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.

Gamecock (n.) The male game fowl.

Game fowl () A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males.

Gameful (a.) Full of game or games.

Gamekeeper (n.) One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve.

Gameless (a.) Destitute of game.

Gamely (adv.) In a plucky manner; spiritedly.

Gameness (n.) Endurance; pluck.

Gamesome (a.) Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry.

Gamester (n.) A merry, frolicsome person.

Gamester (n.) A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games.

Gamester (n.) A prostitute; a strumpet.

Gamic (a.) Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.

Gamin (n.) A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab.

Gaming (n.) The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.

Gamma (n.) The third letter (/, / = Eng. G) of the Greek alphabet.

Gammadion (n.) A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot.

Gammer (n.) An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man.

Gammon (n.) The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.

Gammoned (imp. & p. p.) of Gammon

Gammoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gammon

Gammon (v. t.) To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.

Gammon (n.) Backgammon.

Gammon (n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug.

Gammon (v. t.) To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person.

Gammon (v. t.) To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.

Gammon (v. t.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.

Gammoning (n.) The lashing or iron band by which the bowsprit of a vessel is secured to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays.

Gammoning (n.) The act of imposing upon or hoaxing a person.

Gamogenesis (n.) The production of offspring by the union of parents of different sexes; sexual reproduction; -- the opposite of agamogenesis.

Gamogenetic (a.) Relating to gamogenesis.

Gamomorphism (n.) 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 (a.) Having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup; monopetalous.

Gamophyllous (a.) Composed of leaves united by their edges (coalescent).

Gamosepalous (a.) Formed of united sepals; monosepalous.

Gamut (n.) The scale.

Gamy (a.) Having the flavor of game, esp. of game kept uncooked till near the condition of tainting; high-flavored.

Gamy (a.) Showing an unyielding spirit to the last; plucky; furnishing sport; as, a gamy trout.

Gan (v.) Began; commenced.

Ganch (n.) To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment.

Gander (n.) The male of any species of goose.

Gane (v. i.) To yawn; to gape.

Ganesa (n.) The Hindoo god of wisdom or prudence.

Gang (v. i.) To go; to walk.

Gang (v. i.) A going; a course.

Gang (v. i.) A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves.

Gang (v. i.) A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows.

Gang (v. i.) A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays.

Gang (v. i.) The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.

Ganger (n.) One who oversees a gang of workmen.

Gangetic (a.) Pertaining to, or inhabiting, the Ganges; as, the Gangetic shark.

Gang-flower (n.) The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week.

Gangion (n.) A short line attached to a trawl. See Trawl, n.

Gangliac (a.) Alt. of Ganglial

Ganglial (a.) Relating to a ganglion; ganglionic.

Gangliate (a.) Alt. of Gangliated

Gangliated (a.) Furnished with ganglia; as, the gangliated cords of the sympathetic nervous system.

Gangliform (a.) Alt. of Ganglioform

Ganglioform (a.) Having the form of a ganglion.

Ganglia (pl. ) of Ganglion

Ganglions (pl. ) of Ganglion

Ganglion (n.) A mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve.

Ganglion (n.) A node, or gland in the lymphatic system; as, a lymphatic ganglion.

Ganglion (n.) A globular, hard, indolent tumor, situated somewhere on a tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it; -- called also weeping sinew.

Ganglionary (a.) Ganglionic.

Ganglionic (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, ganglia or ganglion cells; as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord.

Gangrel (v. i.) Wandering; vagrant.

Gangrenate (v. t.) To gangrene.

Gangrene (n.) 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 (imp. & p. p.) of Gangrene

Gangrening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gangrene

Gangrene (v. t. & i.) To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene.

Gangrenescent (a.) Tending to mortification or gangrene.

Gangrenous (a.) Affected by, or produced by, gangrene; of the nature of gangrene.

Gangue (n.) The mineral or earthy substance associated with metallic ore.

Gangway (v. i.) A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp., a temporary way of access formed of planks.

Gangway (v. i.) In the English House of Commons, a narrow aisle across the house, below which sit those who do not vote steadly either with the government or with the opposition.

Gangway (v. i.) The opening through the bulwarks of a vessel by which persons enter or leave it.

Gangway (v. i.) That part of the spar deck of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the waist.

Ganil (n.) A kind of brittle limestone.

Ganister (n.) Alt. of Gannister

Gannister (n.) 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 (n.) The dried hemp plant, used in India for smoking. It is extremely narcotic and intoxicating.

Gannet (n.) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Sula, allied to the pelicans.

Ganocephala (n. pl.) A group of fossil amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fishes.

Ganocephalous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ganocephala.

Ganoid (a.) Of or pertaining to Ganoidei. -- n. One of the Ganoidei.

Ganoidal (a.) Ganoid.

Ganoidei (n. pl.) 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 (a. & n.) Ganoid.

Ganoine (n.) A peculiar bony tissue beneath the enamel of a ganoid scale.

Gansa (n.) Same as Ganza.

Gantlet (n.) 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.

Gantlet (n.) A glove. See Gauntlet.

Gantline (n.) A line rigged to a mast; -- used in hoisting rigging; a girtline.

Gantlope (n.) See Gantlet.

Gantry (n.) See Gauntree.

Ganza (n.) A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world.

Gaol (n.) A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.

Gaoler (n.) The keeper of a jail. See Jailer.

Gap (n.) 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.

Gap (v. t.) To notch, as a sword or knife.

Gap (v. t.) To make an opening in; to breach.

Gaped (imp. & p. p.) of Gape

Gaping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gape

Gape (v. i.) To open the mouth wide

Gape (v. i.) Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape.

Gape (v. i.) Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn.

Gape (v. i.) To pen or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus.

Gape (v. i.) To long, wait eagerly, or cry aloud for something; -- with for, after, or at.

Gape (n.) The act of gaping; a yawn.

Gape (n.) The width of the mouth when opened, as of birds, fishes, etc.

The gapes () A fit of yawning.

The gapes () A disease of young poultry and other birds, attended with much gaping. It is caused by a parasitic nematode worm (Syngamus trachealis), in the windpipe, which obstructs the breathing. See Gapeworm.

Gaper (n.) One who gapes.

Gaper (n.) A European fish. See 4th Comber.

Gaper (n.) A large edible clam (Schizothaerus Nuttalli), of the Pacific coast; -- called also gaper clam.

Gaper (n.) An East Indian bird of the genus Cymbirhynchus, related to the broadbills.

Gapeseed (n.) Any strange sight.

Gapesing (n.) Act of gazing about; sightseeing.

Gapeworm (n.) The parasitic worm that causes the gapes in birds. See Illustration in Appendix.

Gapingstock (n.) One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder.

Gap-toothed (a.) Having interstices between the teeth.

Gar (v.) Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish.

Gar (v.) The gar pike. See Alligator gar (under Alligator), and Gar pike.

Gar (n.) To cause; to make.

Garancin (n.) An extract of madder by sulphuric acid. It consists essentially of alizarin.

Garb (n.) Clothing in general.

Garb (n.) The whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a clergyman or a judge.

Garb (n.) Costume; fashion; as, the garb of a gentleman in the 16th century.

Garb (n.) External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech.

Garb (n.) A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified).

Garb (v. t.) To clothe; array; deck.

Garbage (n.) Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome.

Garbage (v. t.) To strip of the bowels; to clean.

Garbed (a.) Dressed; habited; clad.

Garbel (n.) Same as Garboard.

Garbel (v. t.) Anything sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been taken.

Garbled (imp. & p. p.) of Garble

Garbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garble

Garble (v. t.) 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.

Garble (v. t.) To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.

Garble (n.) Refuse; rubbish.

Garble (n.) Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; -- also called garblings.

Garbler (n.) One who garbles.

Garboard (n.) One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake.

Garboil (n.) Tumult; disturbance; disorder.

Garcinia (n.) 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 (n.) Garden.

Gard (v. & n.) See Guard.

Gardant (a.) Turning the head towards the spectator, but not the body; -- said of a lion or other beast.

Garden (n.) A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.

Garden (n.) A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.

Gardened (imp. & p. p.) of Garden

Gardening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garden

Garden (v. i.) To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.

Garden (v. t.) To cultivate as a garden.

Gardener (n.) One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.

Gardenia (n.) A genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; -- so called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden.

Gardening (n.) The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture.

Gardenless (a.) Destitute of a garden.

Gardenly (a.) Like a garden.

Gardenship (n.) Horticulture.

Gardon (n.) A European cyprinoid fish; the id.

Gardyloo (n.) An old cry in throwing water, slops, etc., from the windows in Edingburgh.

Gare (n.) Coarse wool on the legs of sheep.

Garefowl (n.) The great auk; also, the razorbill. See Auk.

Garfish (n.) A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike.

Garfish (n.) One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T. Caribbaeus, a very large species, and T. crassus, are more southern; -- called also needlefish. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species.

Gargalize (v. t.) To gargle; to rinse.

Garganey (n.) A small European duck (Anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal.

Gargantuan (a.) Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.

Gargarism (n.) A gargle.

Gargarize (v. t.) To gargle; to rinse or wash, as the mouth and throat.

Garget (n.) The throat.

Garget (n.) A diseased condition of the udders of cows, etc., arising from an inflammation of the mammary glands.

Garget (n.) A distemper in hogs, indicated by staggering and loss of appetite.

Garget (n.) See Poke.

Gargil (n.) A distemper in geese, affecting the head.

Gargle (n.) See Gargoyle.

Garggled (imp. & p. p.) of Gargle

Gargling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gargle

Gargle (v. t.) To wash or rinse, as the mouth or throat, particular the latter, agitating the liquid (water or a medicinal preparation) by an expulsion of air from the lungs.

Gargle (v. t.) To warble; to sing as if gargling

Gargle (n.) A liquid, as water or some medicated preparation, used to cleanse the mouth and throat, especially for a medical effect.

Gargol (n.) A distemper in swine; garget.

Gargoulette (n.) A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet.

Gargoyle (n.) A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely.

Gargyle (n.) See Gargoyle.

Garibaldi (n.) A jacket worn by women; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi.

Garibaldi (n.) A California market fish (Pomancentrus rubicundus) of a deep scarlet color.

Garish (a.) Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention.

Garish (a.) Gay to extravagance; flighty.

Garland (n.) The crown of a king.

Garland (n.) A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath.

Garland (n.) The top; the thing most prized.

Garland (n.) A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.

Garland (n.) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in.

Garland (n.) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.

Garlanded (imp. & p. p.) of Garland

Garlanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garland

Garland (v. t.) To deck with a garland.

Garlandless (a.) Destitute of a garland.

Garlic (n.) 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.

Garlic (n.) A kind of jig or farce.

Garlicky (a.) Like or containing garlic.

Garment (n.) Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc.

Garmented (p. a.) Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment.

Garmenture (n.) Clothing; dress.

Garner (n.) A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

Garnered (imp. & p. p.) of Garner

Garnering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garner

Garner (v. t.) To gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure.

Garnet (n.) 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.

Garnet (n.) A tackle for hoisting cargo in our out.

Garnetiferous (a.) Containing garnets.

Garnierite (n.) An amorphous mineral of apple-green color; a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesia. It is an important ore of nickel.

Garnished (imp. & p. p.) of Garnish

Garnishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garnish

Garnish (v. t.) To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.

Garnish (v. t.) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.

Garnish (v. t.) To furnish; to supply.

Garnish (v. t.) To fit with fetters.

Garnish (v. t.) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See Garnishee, v. t.

Garnish (n.) Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.

Garnish (n.) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. See Garnish, v. t., 2.

Garnish (v. t.) Fetters.

Garnish (v. t.) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer.

Garnishee (n.) 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 (imp. & p. p.) of Garnishee

Garnisheeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garnishee

Garnishee (v. t.) To make (a person) a garnishee; to warn by garnishment; to garnish.

Garnishee (v. t.) To attach (the fund or property sought to be secured by garnishment); to trustee.

Garnisher (n.) One who, or that which, garnishes.

Garnishment (n.) Ornament; embellishment; decoration.

Garnishment (n.) Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter.

Garnishment (n.) Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the money or deliver the goods to the defendant, but to appear in court and give information as garnishee.

Garnishment (n.) A fee. See Garnish, n., 4.

Garniture (v. t.) That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress.

Garookuh (n.) A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.

Garous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, garum.

Gar pike () Alt. of Garpike

Garpike () See under Gar.

Garran (n.) See Galloway.

Garret (n.) A turret; a watchtower.

Garret (n.) That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic.

Garreted (a.) Protected by turrets.

Garreteer (n.) One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack.

Garreting (n.) Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.

Garrison (n.) A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town.

Garrison (n.) A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security.

Garrisoned (imp. & p. p.) of Garrison

Garrisoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garrison

Garrison (v. t.) To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town.

Garrison (v. t.) To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory.

Garron (n.) Same as Garran.

Garrot (n.) A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.

Garrot (n.) The European golden-eye.

Garrote (n.) 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 (imp. & p. p.) of Garrote

Garroting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garrote

Garrote (v. t.) To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.

Garroter (n.) One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.

Garrulity (n.) Talkativeness; loquacity.

Garrulous (a.) Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious.

Garrulous (a.) Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds; as, the garrulous roller.

Garrupa (n.) One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See Rockfish.

Garter (n.) A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.

Garter (n.) The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself.

Garter (n.) Same as Bendlet.

Gartered (imp. & p. p.) of Garter

Gartering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garter

Garter (v. t.) To bind with a garter.

Garter (v. t.) To invest with the Order of the Garter.

Garth (n.) A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth.

Garth (n.) A dam or weir for catching fish.

Garth (n.) A hoop or band.

Garum (n.) A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.

Garvie (n.) The sprat; -- called also garvie herring, and garvock.

Gases (pl. ) of Gas

Gas (n.) 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.

Gas (n.) A complex mixture of gases, of which the most important constituents are marsh gas, olefiant gas, and hydrogen, artificially produced by the destructive distillation of gas coal, or sometimes of peat, wood, oil, resin, etc. It gives a brilliant light when burned, and is the common gas used for illuminating purposes.

Gas (n.) Laughing gas.

Gas (n.) Any irrespirable aeriform fluid.

Gasalier (n.) A chandelier arranged to burn gas.

Gas-burner (n.) The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.

Gascoines (n. pl.) See Gaskins, 1.

Gascon (a.) Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering.

Gascon (n.) A native of Gascony; a boaster; a bully. See Gasconade.

Gasconade (n.) A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio.

Gasconaded (imp. & p. p.) of Gasconade

Gasconading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gasconade

Gasconade (v. i.) To boast; to brag; to bluster.

Gasconader (n.) A great boaster; a blusterer.

Gascoynes (n. pl.) Gaskins.

Gaseity (n.) State of being gaseous.

Gaseous (a.) In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aeriform fluid.

Gaseous (a.) Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous.

Gashed (imp. & p. p.) of Gash

Gashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gash

Gash (v. t.) To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.

Gash (n.) A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.

Gashful (a.) Full of gashes; hideous; frightful.

Gasification (n.) The act or process of converting into gas.

Gasiform (a.) Having a form of gas; gaseous.

Gasified (imp. & p. p.) of Gasify

Gasifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gasify

Gasify (v. t.) To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.

Gasify (v. i.) To become gas; to pass from a liquid to a gaseous state.

Gasket (n.) 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.

Gasket (n.) The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps.

Gasket (n.) Any ring or washer of packing.

Gaskins (n.pl.) Loose hose or breeches; galligaskins.

Gaskins (n.pl.) Packing of hemp.

Gaskins (n.pl.) A horse's thighs.

Gaslight (n.) The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.

Gaslight (n.) A gas jet or burner.

Gasogen (n.) An apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid.

Gasogen (n.) A volatile hydrocarbon, used as an illuminant, or for charging illuminating gas.

Gasolene (n.) See Gasoline.

Gasolier (n.) Same as Gasalier.

Gasoline (n.) 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 (n.) 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 (a.) Alt. of Gasometrical

Gasometrical (a.) Of or pertaining to the measurement of gases; as, gasometric analysis.

Gasometry (n.) The art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids.

Gasoscope (n.) An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.

Gasped (imp. & p. p.) of Gasp

Gasping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gasp

Gasp (v. i.) To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently.

Gasp (v. i.) To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.

Gasp (v. t.) To emit or utter with gasps; -- with forth, out, away, etc.

Gasp (n.) The act of opening the mouth convulsively to catch the breath; a labored respiration; a painful catching of the breath.

Gaspereau (n.) The alewife.

Gasserian (a.) Relating to Casserio (L. Gasserius), the discover of the Gasserian ganglion.

Gassing (n.) 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.

Gassing (n.) Boasting; insincere or empty talk.

Gassy (a.) Full of gas; like gas. Hence: [Colloq.] Inflated; full of boastful or insincere talk.

Gast (v. t.) To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See Aghast.

Gaster (v. t.) To gast.

Gasteromycetes (n. pl.) An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.

Gasteropod (n.) Same as Gastropod.

Gasteropoda (n. pl.) Same as Gastropoda.

Gasteropodous (a.) Same as Gastropodous.

Gastful (a.) Alt. of Gastly

Gastly (a.) See Ghastful, Ghastly.

Gastight (a.) So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.

Gastness (n.) See Ghastness.

Gastornis (n.) A genus of large eocene birds from the Paris basin.

Gastraea (n.) 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 (n.) Pain in the stomach or epigastrium, as in gastric disorders.

Gastric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the gastric artery.

Gastriloquist (n.) One who appears to speak from his stomach; a ventriloquist.

Gastriloquous (a.) Ventriloquous.

Gastriloquy (n.) A voice or utterance which appears to proceed from the stomach; ventriloquy.

Gastritis (n.) Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane.

Gastro- () A combining form from the Gr. /, /, the stomach, or belly; as in gastrocolic, gastrocele, gastrotomy.

Gastrocnemius (n.) The muscle which makes the greater part of the calf of the leg.

Gastrocolic (a.) Pertaining to both the stomach and the colon; as, the gastrocolic, or great, omentum.

Gastrodisc (n.) That part of blastoderm where the hypoblast appears like a small disk on the inner face of the epibladst.

Gastroduodenal (a.) Pertaining to the stomach and duodenum; as, the gastroduodenal artery.

Gastroduodenitis (n.) Inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. It is one of the most frequent causes of jaundice.

Gastroelytrotomy (n.) 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 (a.) Gastrointestinal.

Gastroenteritis (n.) Inflammation of the lining membrane of the stomach and the intestines.

Gastroepiploic (a.) Of or pertaining to the stomach and omentum.

Gastrohepatic (a.) Pertaining to the stomach and liver; hepatogastric; as, the gastrohepatic, or lesser, omentum.

Gastrohysterotomy (n.) Caesarean section. See under Caesarean.

Gastrointestinal (a.) Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric.

Gastrolith (n.) See Crab's eyes, under Crab.

Gastrology (n.) The science which treats of the structure and functions of the stomach; a treatise of the stomach.

Gastromalacia (n.) A softening of the coats of the stomach; -- usually a post-morten change.

Gastromancy (n.) A kind of divination, by means of words seemingly uttered from the stomach.

Gastromancy (n.) A species of divination, by means of glasses or other round, transparent vessels, in the center of which figures are supposed to appear by magic art.

Gastromyces (n.) The fungoid growths sometimes found in the stomach; such as Torula, etc.

Gastromyth (n.) One whose voice appears to proceed from the stomach; a ventriloquist.

Gastronome (n.) Alt. of Gastronomer

Gastronomer (n.) One fond of good living; an epicure.

Gastronomic (a.) Alt. of Gastronomical

Gastronomical (a.) Pertaining to gastromony.

Gastronomist (n.) A gastromomer.

Gastronomy (n.) The art or science of good eating; epicurism; the art of good cheer.

Gastrophrenic (a.) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm; as, the gastrophrenic ligament.

Gastropneumatic (a.) Pertaining to the alimentary canal and air passages, and to the cavities connected with them; as, the gastropneumatic mucuos membranes.

Gastropod (n.) One of the Gastropoda.

Gastropoda (n. pl.) 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 (a.) Of or pertaining to the Gastropoda.

Gastroraphy (n.) The operation of sewing up wounds of the abdomen.

Gastroscope (n.) An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach.

Gastroscopic (a.) Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.

Gastroscopy (n.) Examination of the abdomen or stomach, as with the gastroscope.

Gastrosplenic (n.) Pertaining to the stomach and spleen; as, the gastrosplenic ligament.

Gastrostege (n.) One of the large scales on the belly of a serpent.

Gastrostomy (n.) The operation of making a permanent opening into the stomach, for the introduction of food.

Gastrotomy (n.) A cutting into, or opening of, the abdomen or the stomach.

Gastrotricha (n. pl.) 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 (n.) A form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral side.

Gastrovascular (a.) Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of c/lenterates.

Gastrulae (pl. ) of Gastrula

Gastrula (n.) 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.

Gastrula (a.) Of or pertaining to a gastrula.

Gastrulation (n.) The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.

Gastrura (n. pl.) See Stomatopoda.

Gastrurous (a.) Pertaining to the Gastrura.

Gat () imp. of Get.

Gate (n.) 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.

Gate (n.) An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.

Gate (n.) A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.

Gate (n.) The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.

Gate (n.) In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

Gate (n.) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.

Gate (n.) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.

Gate (v. t.) To supply with a gate.

Gate (v. t.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.

Gate (n.) A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).

Gate (n.) Manner; gait.

Gated (a.) Having gates.

Gatehouse (n.) A house connected or associated with a gate.

Gateless (a.) Having no gate.

Gateman (n.) A gate keeper; a gate tender.

Gatepost (n.) A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging / hinging post.

Gatepost (n.) A post against which a gate closes; -- called also shutting post.

Gateway (n.) 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 (adv.) In the manner of a gate.

Gathered (imp. & p. p.) of Gather

Gathering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gather

Gather (v. t.) 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.

Gather (v. t.) To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck.

Gather (v. t.) To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.

Gather (v. t.) To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle.

Gather (v. t.) To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.

Gather (v. t.) To gain; to win.

Gather (v. t.) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like.

Gather (v. t.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.

Gather (v. i.) To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.

Gather (v. i.) To grow larger by accretion; to increase.

Gather (v. i.) To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.

Gather (v. i.) To collect or bring things together.

Gather (n.) A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.

Gather (n.) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.

Gather (n.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.

Gatherable (a.) Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises.

Gatherer (n.) One who gathers or collects.

Gatherer (n.) An attachment for making gathers in the cloth.

Gathering (n.) The act of collecting or bringing together.

Gathering (n.) That which is gathered, collected, or brought together

Gathering (n.) A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.

Gathering (n.) A charitable contribution; a collection.

Gathering (n.) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.

Gathering (a.) Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.

Gatling gun () An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired.

Gatten tree () A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europaeus).

Gat-toothed (a.) Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton.

Gauche (n.) Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.

Gauche (n.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.

Gaucherie (n.) An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.

Gauchos (pl. ) of Gaucho

Gaucho (n.) One of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle.

Gaud (n.) Trick; jest; sport.

Gaud (n.) Deceit; fraud; artifice; device.

Gaud (n.) An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket.

Gaud (n.) To sport or keep festival.

Gauded (imp. & p. p.) of Gaud

Gauding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gaud

Gaud (v. t.) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint.

Gaud-day (n.) See Gaudy, a feast.

Gaudery (n.) Finery; ornaments; ostentatious display.

Gaudful (a.) Joyful; showy.

Gaudily (adv.) In a gaudy manner.

Gaudiness (n.) The quality of being gaudy.

Gaudish (a.) Gaudy.

Gaudless (a.) Destitute of ornament.

Gaudy (superl.) Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.

Gaudy (superl.) Gay; merry; festal.

Gaudies (pl. ) of Gaudy

Gaudy (n.) One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.

Gaudy (n.) A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.

Gaudygreen (a. / n.) Light green.

Gauffer (v. t.) To plait, crimp, or flute; to goffer, as lace. See Goffer.

Gauffering (n.) A mode of plaiting or fluting.

Gauffre (n.) A gopher, esp. the pocket gopher.

Gauged (imp. & p. p.) of Gauge

Gauging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gauge

Gauge (v. t.) To measure or determine with a gauge.

Gauge (v. t.) To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg.

Gauge (v. t.) To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock.

Gauge (v. t.) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment.

Gauge (v. t.) To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of.

Gauge (n.) A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.

Gauge (n.) Measure; dimensions; estimate.

Gauge (n.) Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.

Gauge (n.) Any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; -- usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.

Gauge (n.) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind; as, a vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.

Gauge (n.) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.

Gauge (n.) The distance between the rails of a railway.

Gauge (n.) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.

Gauge (n.) That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.

Gaugeable (a.) Capable of being gauged.

Gauged (p. a.) Tested or measured by, or conformed to, a gauge.

Gauger (n.) One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.

Gauger-ship (n.) The office of a gauger.

Gauging rod () See Gauge rod, under Gauge, n.

Gaul (n.) The Anglicized form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul).

Gaul (n.) A native or inhabitant of Gaul.

Gaulish (a.) Pertaining to ancient France, or Gaul; Gallic.

Gault (n.) A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period.

Gaultheria (n.) 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 (a.) Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.

Gauntlet (n.) See Gantlet.

Gauntlet (n.) A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds.

Gauntlet (n.) A long glove, covering the wrist.

Gauntlet (n.) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.

Gauntletted (a.) Wearing a gauntlet.

Gauntly (adv.) In a gaunt manner; meagerly.

Gauntree (n.) Alt. of Gauntry

Gauntry (n.) A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere.

Gauntry (n.) A scaffolding or frame carrying a crane or other structure.

Gaur (n.) An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bibos gauris), of large size and an untamable disposition.

Gaure (v. i.) To gaze; to stare.

Gauze (n.) A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.

Gauze (a.) Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing.

Gauziness (n.) The quality of being gauzy; flimsiness.

Gauzy (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.

Gave () imp. of Give.

Gavel (n.) A gable.

Gavel (n.) A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.

Gavel (n.) The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc.

Gavel (n.) A mason's setting maul.

Gavel (n.) Tribute; toll; custom. [Obs.] See Gabel.

Gavelet (n.) An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent.

Gavelkind (n.) 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 (n.) Same as Gavelock.

Gavelock (n.) A spear or dart.

Gavelock (n.) An iron crow or lever.

Gaverick (n.) The European red gurnard (Trigla cuculus).

Gaviae (n. pl.) The division of birds which includes the gulls and terns.

Gavial (n.) A large Asiatic crocodilian (Gavialis Gangeticus); -- called also nako, and Gangetic crocodile.

Gavot (n.) 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 (n.) A baby; a dunce.

Gawk (n.) A cuckoo.

Gawk (n.) A simpleton; a booby; a gawky.

Gawk (v. i.) To act like a gawky.

Gawky (superl.) Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.

Gawn (n.) A small tub or lading vessel.

Gawntree (n.) See Gauntree.

Gay (superl.) Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry.

Gay (superl.) Brilliant in colors; splendid; fine; richly dressed.

Gay (superl.) Loose; dissipated; lewd.

Gay (n.) An ornament

Gayal (n.) A Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle (Bibos frontalis).

Gaydiang (n.) A vessel of Anam, with two or three masts, lofty triangular sails, and in construction somewhat resembling a Chinese junk.

Gayeties (pl. ) of Gayety

Gayety (a.) 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.

Gayety (a.) Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress.

Gaylussite (n.) A yellowish white, translucent mineral, consisting of the carbonates of lime and soda, with water.

Gayly (adv.) With mirth and frolic; merrily; blithely; gleefully.

Gayly (adv.) Finely; splendidly; showily; as, ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming.

Gayne (v. i.) To avail.

Gayness (n.) Gayety; finery.

Gaysome (a.) Full of gayety. Mir. for Mag.

Gaytre (n.) The dogwood tree.

Gazed (imp. & p. p.) of Gaze

Gazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gaze

Gaze (v. i.) To fixx the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.

Gaze (v. t.) To view with attention; to gaze on .

Gaze (n.) A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.

Gaze (n.) The object gazed on.

Gazeebo (n.) A summerhouse so situated as to command an extensive prospect.

Gazeful (a.) Gazing.

Gazehound (n.) A hound that pursues by the sight rather than by the scent.

Gazel (n.) The black currant; also, the wild plum.

Gazel (n.) See Gazelle.

Gazelle (n.) 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 (n.) View.

Gazer (n.) One who gazes.

Gazet (n.) A Venetian coin, worth about three English farthings, or one and a half cents.

Gazette (n.) A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices.

Gazetted (imp. & p. p.) of Gazette

Gazetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gazette

Gazette (v. t.) To announce or publish in a gazette; to announce officially, as an appointment, or a case of bankruptcy.

Gazetteer (n.) A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority.

Gazetteer (n.) A newspaper; a gazette.

Gazetteer (n.) A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places.

Gazetteer (n.) An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.

Gazingstock (n.) A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt.

Gazogene (n.) A portable apparatus for making soda water or aerated liquids on a small scale.

Gazon (n.) One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.

Ge- () An Anglo-Saxon prefix. See Y-.

Geal (v. i.) To congeal.

Gean (n.) A species of cherry tree common in Europe (Prunus avium); also, the fruit, which is usually small and dark in color.

Geanticlinal (n.) 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 (n.) Clothing; garments; ornaments.

Gear (n.) Goods; property; household stuff.

Gear (n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.

Gear (n.) The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.

Gear (n.) Warlike accouterments.

Gear (n.) Manner; custom; behavior.

Gear (n.) Business matters; affairs; concern.

Gear (n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.

Gear (n.) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.

Gear (n.) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.

Gear (n.) See 1st Jeer (b).

Gear (n.) Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.

Geared (imp. & p. p.) of Gear

Gearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gear

Gear (v. t.) To dress; to put gear on; to harness.

Gear (v. t.) To provide with gearing.

Gear (v. i.) To be in, or come into, gear.

Gearing (n.) Harness.

Gearing (n.) The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery.

Geason (a.) Rare; wonderful.

Geat (n.) The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting.

Gecarcinian (n.) A land crab of the genus Gecarcinus, or of allied genera.

Geck (n.) Scorn, derision, or contempt.

Geck (n.) An object of scorn; a dupe; a gull.

Geck (n.) To deride; to scorn; to mock.

Geck (n.) To cheat; trick, or gull.

Geck (v. i.) To jeer; to show contempt.

Geckoes (pl. ) of Gecko

Gecko (n.) 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 (n.) A gecko.

Ged (n.) Alt. of Gedd

Gedd (n.) The European pike.

Geed (imp. & p. p.) of Gee

Geeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gee

Gee (v. i.) To agree; to harmonize.

Gee (v. i.) To turn to the off side, or from the driver (i.e., in the United States, to the right side); -- said of cattle, or a team; used most frequently in the imperative, often with off, by drivers of oxen, in directing their teams, and opposed to haw, or hoi.

Gee (v. t.) To cause (a team) to turn to the off side, or from the driver.

Geer () Alt. of Geering

Geering () See Gear, Gearing.

Geese (n.) pl. of Goose.

Geest (n.) Alluvial matter on the surface of land, not of recent origin.

Geet (n.) Jet.

Geez (n.) The original native name for the ancient Ethiopic language or people. See Ethiopic.

Gehenna (n.) 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 (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, earthy or vegetable mold.

Gein (n.) See Humin.

Geissler tube () 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 (n.) Fertilization of flowers by pollen from other flowers on the same plant.

Gelable (a.) Capable of being congealed; capable of being converted into jelly.

Gelada (n.) A baboon (Gelada Ruppelli) of Abyssinia, remarkable for the length of the hair on the neck and shoulders of the adult male.

Gelastic (a.) Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing.

Gelatification (n.) The formation of gelatin.

Gelatigenous (n.) Producing, or yielding, gelatin; gelatiniferous; as, the gelatigeneous tissues.

Gelatin (n.) Alt. of Gelatine

Gelatine (n.) 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 (imp. & p. p.) of Gelatinate

Gelatinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gelatinate

Gelatinate (v. t.) To convert into gelatin, or into a substance resembling jelly.

Gelatinate (v. i.) To be converted into gelatin, or into a substance like jelly.

Gelatination (n.) The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly.

Gelatine (n.) Same as Gelatin.

Gelatiniferous (a.) Yielding gelatin on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.

Gelatiniform (a.) Having the form of gelatin.

Gelatinization (n.) Same as Gelatination.

Gelatinize (v. t.) To convert into gelatin or jelly. Same as Gelatinate, v. t.

Gelatinize (v. t.) To coat, or otherwise treat, with gelatin.

Gelatinize (v. i.) Same as Gelatinate, v. i.

Gelatinous (a.) Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.

Gelation (n.) The process of becoming solid by cooling; a cooling and solidifying.

Geld (n.) Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.

Gelded (imp. & p. p.) of Geld

Gelding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Geld

Geld (v. t.) To castrate; to emasculate.

Geld (v. t.) To deprive of anything essential.

Geld (v. t.) To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate.

Geldable (a.) Capable of being gelded.

Geldable (a.) Liable to taxation.

Gelder (n.) One who gelds or castrates.

Gelder-rose (n.) Same as Guelder-rose.

Gelding (v. t.) A castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male.

Gelding (p. pr. a. & vb. n.) from Geld, v. t.

Gelid (a.) Cold; very cold; frozen.

Gelidity (n.) The state of being gelid.

Gelidly (adv.) In a gelid manner; coldly.

Gelidness (n.) The state of being gelid; gelidity.

Gelly (n.) Jelly.

Geloscopy (n.) Divination by means of laughter.

Gelose (n.) An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate, found in Gelidium, agar-agar, and other seaweeds.

Gelsemic (a.) Gelseminic.

Gelsemine (n.) An alkaloid obtained from the yellow jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens), as a bitter white semicrystalline substance; -- called also gelsemia.

Gelseminic (n.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the yellow jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens); as, gelseminic acid, a white crystalline substance resembling esculin.

Gelsemium (n.) 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.

Gelsemium (n.) The root of the yellow jasmine, used in malarial fevers, etc.

Gelt (n.) Trubute, tax.

Gelt (v. t.) A gelding.

Gelt (n.) Gilding; tinsel.

Gem (n.) A bud.

Gem (n.) A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, emerald, topaz, sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and polished for ornament; a jewel.

Gem (n.) Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, as a small picture, a verse of poetry, a witty or wise saying.

Gemmed (imp. & p. p.) of Gem

Gemming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gem

Gem (v. t.) To put forth in the form of buds.

Gem (v. t.) To adorn with gems or precious stones.

Gem (v. t.) To embellish or adorn, as with gems; as, a foliage gemmed with dewdrops.

Gemara (n.) The second part of the Talmud, or the commentary on the Mishna (which forms the first part or text).

Gemaric (a.) Pertaining to the Gemara.

Gemarist (n.) One versed in the Gemara, or adhering to its teachings.

Gemel (a.) Coupled; paired.

Gemel (n.) One of the twins.

Gemel (n.) One of the barrulets placed parallel and closed to each other. Cf. Bars gemel, under Gemel, a.

Gemellipa-rous (a.) Producing twins.

Geminal (a.) A pair.

Geminate (a.) In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers.

Geminate (v. t.) To double.

Gemination (n.) A doubling; duplication; repetition.

Gemini (n. pl.) 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 (a.) Having the flowers arranged in pairs.

Geminous (a.) Double; in pairs.

Geminy (n.) Twins; a pair; a couple.

Gemitores (n. pl.) A division of birds including the true pigeons.

Gemmae (pl. ) of Gemma

Gemma (n.) A leaf bud, as distinguished from a flower bud.

Gemma (n.) A bud spore; one of the small spores or buds in the reproduction of certain Protozoa, which separate one at a time from the parent cell.

Gemmaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to gems or to gemmae; of the nature of, or resembling, gems or gemmae.

Gemmary (a.) Of or pertaining to gems.

Gemmary (n.) A receptacle for jewels or gems; a jewel house; jewels or gems, collectively.

Gemmate (a.) Having buds; reproducing by buds.

Gemmated (a.) Having buds; adorned with gems or jewels.

Gemmation (n.) The formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. See Budding.

Gemmation (n.) The arrangement of buds on the stalk; also, of leaves in the bud.

Gemmeous (a.) Pertaining to gems; of the nature of gems; resembling gems.

Gemmiferous (a.) Producing gems or buds

Gemmiferous (a.) multiplying by buds.

Gemmification (n.) The production of a bud or gem.

Gemmiflorate (a.) Having flowers like buds.

Gemminess (n.) The state or quality of being gemmy; spruceness; smartness.

Gemmipara (n. pl.) Alt. of Gemmipares

Gemmipares (n. pl.) Animals which increase by budding, as hydroids.

Gemmiparity (n.) Reproduction by budding; gemmation. See Budding.

Gemmiparous (a.) Producing buds; reproducing by buds. See Gemmation, 1.

Gemmosity (n.) The quality or characteristics of a gem or jewel.

Gemmulation (n.) See Gemmation.

Gemmule (n.) A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons.

Gemmule (n.) One of the buds of mosses.

Gemmule (n.) One of the reproductive spores of algae.

Gemmule (n.) An ovule.

Gemmule (n.) A bud produced in generation by gemmation.

Gemmule (n.) One of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are then developed. See Pangenesis.

Gemmuliferous (a.) Bearing or producing gemmules or buds.

Gemmy (n.) Full of gems; bright; glittering like a gem.

Gemmy (n.) Spruce; smart.

Gemote (v. t.) A meeting; -- used in combination, as, Witenagemote, an assembly of the wise men.

Gems (n.) The chamois.

Gemsbok (n.) A South African antelope (Oryx Capensis), having long, sharp, nearly straight horns.

Gems-horn (n.) An organ stop with conical tin pipes.

Gemul (n.) A small South American deer (Furcifer Chilensis), with simple forked horns.

-gen () A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing, generating: as, amphigen, amidogen, halogen.

-gen () A suffix meaning produced, generated; as, exogen.

Gena () The cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a bird.

Gena () The part of the head to which the jaws of an insect are attached.

Genappe (n.) A worsted yarn or cord of peculiar smoothness, used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, etc.

Gendarmes (pl. ) of Gendarme

Gens d'armes (pl. ) of Gendarme

Gendarme (n.) One of a body of heavy cavalry.

Gendarme (n.) An armed policeman in France.

Gendarmery (n.) The body of gendarmes.

Gender (n.) Kind; sort.

Gender (n.) Sex, male or female.

Gender (n.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.

Gendered (imp. & p. p.) of Gender

Gendering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gender

Gender (n.) To beget; to engender.

Gender (v. i.) To copulate; to breed.

Genderless (a.) Having no gender.

Geneagenesis (n.) Alternate generation. See under Generation.

Genealogic (a.) Genealogical.

Genealogical (a.) Of or pertaining to genealogy; as, a genealogical table; genealogical order.

Genealogist (n.) One who traces genealogies or the descent of persons or families.

Genealogize (v. i.) To investigate, or relate the history of, descents.

Genealogies (pl. ) of Genealogy

Genealogy (n.) 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.

Genealogy (n.) Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage.

Genearch (n.) The chief of a family or tribe.

Genera (n. pl.) See Genus.

Generability (n.) Capability of being generated.

Generable (a.) Capable of being generated or produced.

General (a.) Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy.

General (a.) Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion.

General (a.) Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression.

General (a.) Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom.

General (a.) Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire.

General (a.) As a whole; in gross; for the most part.

General (a.) Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method.

General (a.) The whole; the total; that which comprehends or relates to all, or the chief part; -- opposed to particular.

General (a.) One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal.

General (a.) The roll of the drum which calls the troops together; as, to beat the general.

General (a.) The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule.

General (a.) The public; the people; the vulgar.

Generalia (n. pl.) Generalities; general terms.

Generalissimo (a.) 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 (pl. ) of Generality

Generality (n.) The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.

Generality (n.) That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase.

Generality (n.) The main body; the bulk; the greatest part; as, the generality of a nation, or of mankind.

Generalizable (a.) Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule.

Generalization (n.) 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.

Generalization (n.) A general inference.

Generalized (imp. & p. p.) of Generalize

Generalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Generalize

Generalize (v. t.) To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.

Generalize (v. t.) To apply to other genera or classes; to use with a more extensive application; to extend so as to include all special cases; to make universal in application, as a formula or rule.

Generalize (v. t.) To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars.

Generalize (v. i.) To form into a genus; to view objects in their relations to a genus or class; to take general or comprehensive views.

Generalized (a.) Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.

Generalizer (n.) One who takes general or comprehensive views.

Generally (adv.) In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.

Generally (adv.) In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively.

Generally (adv.) Collectively; as a whole; without omissions.

Generalness (n.) The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness.

Generalship (n.) The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general.

Generalship (n.) Military skill in a general officer or commander.

Generalship (n.) Fig.: Leadership; management.

Generalty (n.) Generality.

Generant (a.) Generative; producing

Generant (a.) acting as a generant.

Generant (n.) That which generates.

Generant (n.) A generatrix.

Generated (imp. & p. p.) of Generate

Generating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Generate

Generate (v. t.) To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

Generate (v. t.) To cause to be; to bring into life.

Generate (v. t.) To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause.

Generate (v. t.) To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.

Generation (n.) The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

Generation (n.) Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.

Generation (n.) That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.

Generation (n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age.

Generation (n.) Race; kind; family; breed; stock.

Generation (n.) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.

Generation (n.) The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.

Generative (a.) Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.

Generator (n.) One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.

Generator (n.) An apparatus in which vapor or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort, or vessel for generating carbonic acid gas, etc.

Generator (n.) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- called also generating tone.

Generatrices (pl. ) of Generatrix

Generatrixes (pl. ) of Generatrix

Generatrix (n.) 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 (a.) Alt. of Generical

Generical (a.) 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.

Generical (a.) Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or their characteristics; -- opposed to specific.

Generically (adv.) With regard to a genus, or an extensive class; as, an animal generically distinct from another, or two animals or plants generically allied.

Genericalness (n.) The quality of being generic.

Generification (n.) The act or process of generalizing.

Generosity (n.) Noble birth.

Generosity (n.) The quality of being noble; noble-mindedness.

Generosity (n.) Liberality in giving; munificence.

Generous (a.) Of honorable birth or origin; highborn.

Generous (a.) Exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth; noble; honorable; magnanimous; spirited; courageous.

Generous (a.) Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father.

Generous (a.) Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table.

Generous (a.) Full of spirit or strength; stimulating; exalting; as, generous wine.

Genesee epoch () 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 (a.) Of or relating to generation.

Genesiolgy (n.) The doctrine or science of generation.

Genesis (n.) The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination.

Genesis (n.) The first book of the Old Testament; -- so called by the Greek translators, from its containing the history of the creation of the world and of the human race.

Genesis (n.) Same as Generation.

Genet (n.) Alt. of Genette

Genette (n.) 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.

Genette (n.) The fur of the common genet (Genetta vulgaris); also, any skin dressed in imitation of this fur.

Genet (n.) A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet.

Genethliac (a.) Pertaining to nativities; calculated by astrologers; showing position of stars at one's birth.

Genethliac (n.) A birthday poem.

Genethliac (n.) One skilled in genethliacs.

Genethliacal (a.) Genethliac.

Genethliacs (n.) The science of calculating nativities, or predicting the future events of life from the stars which preside at birth.

Genethlialogy (n.) Divination as to the destinies of one newly born; the act or art of casting nativities; astrology.

Genethliatic (n.) One who calculates nativities.

Genetic (a.) Same as Genetical.

Genetical (a.) Pertaining to, concerned with, or determined by, the genesis of anything, or its natural mode of production or development.

Genetically (adv.) In a genetical manner.

Geneva (n.) The chief city of Switzerland.

Geneva (n.) A strongly alcoholic liquor, flavored with juniper berries; -- made in Holland; Holland gin; Hollands.

Genevan (a.) Of or pertaining to Geneva, in Switzerland; Genevese.

Genevan (n.) A native or inhabitant of Geneva.

Genevan (n.) A supported of Genevanism.

Genevanism (n.) Strict Calvinism.

Genevese (a.) Of or pertaining to Geneva, in Switzerland; Genevan.

Genevese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Geneva; collectively, the inhabitants of Geneva; people of Geneva.

Genial (a.) Same as Genian.

Genial (a.) Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive.

Genial (a.) Contributing to, and sympathizing with, the enjoyment of life; sympathetically cheerful and cheering; jovial and inspiring joy or happiness; exciting pleasure and sympathy; enlivening; kindly; as, she was of a cheerful and genial disposition.

Genial (a.) Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn.

Genial (a.) Denoting or marked with genius; belonging to the higher nature.

Geniality (n.) The quality of being genial; sympathetic cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.

Genially (adv.) By genius or nature; naturally.

Genially (adv.) Gayly; cheerfully.

Genialness (n.) The quality of being genial.

Genian (a.) Of or pertaining to the chin; mental; as, the genian prominence.

Geniculate (a.) Bent abruptly at an angle, like the knee when bent; as, a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal.

Geniculated (imp. & p. p.) of Geniculate

Geniculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Geniculate

Geniculate (v. t.) To form joints or knots on.

Geniculated (a.) Same as Geniculate.

Geniculation (n.) The act of kneeling.

Geniculation (n.) The state of being bent abruptly at an angle.

Genie (n.) See Genius.

Genio (n.) A man of a particular turn of mind.

Geniohyoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the chin and hyoid bone; as, the geniohyoid muscle.

Genipap (n.) 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 (n.) A genus of plants including the common broom of Western Europe.

Genital (a.) Pertaining to generation, or to the generative organs.

Genitals (a.) The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts.

Geniting (n.) A species of apple that ripens very early.

Genitival (a.) Possessing genitive from; pertaining to, or derived from, the genitive case; as, a genitival adverb.

Genitive (a.) 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.

Genitive (n.) The genitive case.

Genitocrural (a.) Pertaining to the genital organs and the thigh; -- applied especially to one of the lumbar nerves.

Genitor (n.) One who begets; a generator; an originator.

Genitor (n.) The genitals.

Genitourinary (a.) See Urogenital.

Geniture (n.) Generation; procreation; birth.

Geniuses (pl. ) of Genius

Genii (pl. ) of Genius

Genius (n.) 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.

Genius (n.) The peculiar structure of mind with whoch each individual is endowed by nature; that disposition or aptitude of mind which is peculiar to each man, and which qualifies him for certain kinds of action or special success in any pursuit; special taste, inclination, or disposition; as, a genius for history, for poetry, or painting.

Genius (n.) Peculiar character; animating spirit, as of a nation, a religion, a language.

Genius (n.) Distinguished mental superiority; uncommon intellectual power; especially, superior power of invention or origination of any kind, or of forming new combinations; as, a man of genius.

Genius (n.) A man endowed with uncommon vigor of mind; a man of superior intellectual faculties; as, Shakespeare was a rare genius.

Genoese (a.) Of or pertaining to Genoa, a city of Italy.

Genoese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Genoa; collectively, the people of Genoa.

Genouillere (n.) A metal plate covering the knee.

Genouillere (n.) That part of a parapet which lies between the gun platform and the bottom of an embrasure.

-genous () A suffix signifying producing, yielding; as, alkaligenous; endogenous.

Genre (n.) A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.

Gentes (pl. ) of Gens

Gens (a.) 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.

Gens (a.) A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.

Gent (a.) Gentle; noble; of gentle birth.

Gent (a.) Neat; pretty; fine; elegant.

Genteel (a.) 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.

Genteel (a.) Graceful in mien or form; elegant in appearance, dress, or manner; as, the lady has a genteel person. Law.

Genteel (a.) Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live in a genteel allowance.

Genteelish (a.) Somewhat genteel.

Genteelly (adv.) In a genteel manner.

Genteelness (n.) The quality of being genteel.

Genterie (n.) Alt. of Gentrie

Gentrie (n.) Nobility of birth or of character; gentility.

Gentian (n.) 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 (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Gentianaceae) of which the gentian is the type.

Gentianella (n.) A kind of blue color.

Gentianic (a.) Pertaining to or derived from the gentian; as, gentianic acid.

Gentianine (n.) A bitter, crystallizable substance obtained from gentian.

Gentianose (n.) A crystallizable, sugarlike substance, with a slightly sweetish taste, obtained from the gentian.

Gentil (a. & n.) Gentle.

Gentile (a.) One of a non-Jewish nation; one neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen.

Gentile (a.) Belonging to the nations at large, as distinguished from the Jews; ethnic; of pagan or heathen people.

Gentile (a.) Denoting a race or country; as, a gentile noun or adjective.

Gentile-falcon (n.) See Falcon-gentil.

Gentilesse (a.) Gentleness; courtesy; kindness; nobility.

Gentilish (a.) Heathenish; pagan.

Gentilism (n.) Hethenism; paganism; the worship of false gods.

Gentilism (n.) Tribal feeling; devotion to one's gens.

Gentilitial (a.) Alt. of Gentilitious

Gentilitious (a.) Peculiar to a people; national.

Gentilitious (a.) Hereditary; entailed on a family.

Gentility (n.) Good extraction; dignity of birth.

Gentility (n.) The quality or qualities appropriate to those who are well born, as self-respect, dignity, courage, courtesy, politeness of manner, a graceful and easy mien and behavior, etc.; good breeding.

Gentility (n.) The class in society who are, or are expected to be, genteel; the gentry.

Gentility (n.) Paganism; heathenism.

Gentilize (v. i.) To live like a gentile or heathen.

Gentilize (v. i.) To act the gentleman; -- with it (see It, 5).

Gentilize (v. i.) To render gentile or gentlemanly; as, to gentilize your unworthy sones.

Gentilly (a.) In a gentle or hoble manner; frankly.

Gentiopikrin (n.) A bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and obtained from the gentian.

Gentisin (n.) A tasteless, yellow, crystalline substance, obtained from the gentian; -- called also gentianin.

Gentle (superl.) Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.

Gentle (superl.) Quiet and refined in manners; not rough, harsh, or stern; mild; meek; bland; amiable; tender; as, a gentle nature, temper, or disposition; a gentle manner; a gentle address; a gentle voice.

Gentle (superl.) A compellative of respect, consideration, or conciliation; as, gentle reader.

Gentle (superl.) Not wild, turbulent, or refractory; quiet and docile; tame; peaceable; as, a gentle horse.

Gentle (superl.) Soft; not violent or rough; not strong, loud, or disturbing; easy; soothing; pacific; as, a gentle touch; a gentle gallop .

Gentle (n.) One well born; a gentleman.

Gentle (n.) A trained falcon. See Falcon-gentil.

Gentle (n.) A dipterous larva used as fish bait.

Gentle (v. t.) To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar; to ennoble.

Gentle (v. t.) To make smooth, cozy, or agreeable.

Gentle (v. t.) To make kind and docile, as a horse.

Gentlefolk (n. pl.) Alt. of Gentlefolks

Gentlefolks (n. pl.) Persons of gentle or good family and breeding.

Gentle-hearted (a.) Having a kind or gentle disposition.

Gentlemen (pl. ) of Gentleman

Gentleman (n.) A man well born; one of good family; one above the condition of a yeoman.

Gentleman (n.) One of gentle or refined manners; a well-bred man.

Gentleman (n.) One who bears arms, but has no title.

Gentleman (n.) The servant of a man of rank.

Gentleman (n.) A man, irrespective of condition; -- used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc.

Gentlemanhood (n.) The qualities or condition of a gentleman.

Gentlemanlike (a.) Alt. of Gentlemanly

Gentlemanly (a.) Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well-behaved; courteous; polite.

Gentlemanliness (n.) The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners.

Gentlemanship (n.) The carriage or quality of a gentleman.

Gentleness (n.) The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.

Gentleship (n.) The deportment or conduct of a gentleman.

Gentlesse (n.) Gentilesse; gentleness.

Gentlewomen (pl. ) of Gentlewoman

Gentlewoman (n.) A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.

Gentlewoman (n.) A woman who attends a lady of high rank.

Gently (adv.) In a gentle manner.

Gentoos (pl. ) of Gentoo

Gentoo (n.) A native of Hindostan; a Hindoo.

Gentry (a.) Birth; condition; rank by birth.

Gentry (a.) People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry.

Gentry (a.) Courtesy; civility; complaisance.

Genty (a.) Neat; trim.

Genua (pl. ) of Genu

Genu (n.) The knee.

Genu (n.) The kneelike bend, in the anterior part of the callosum of the brain.

Genuflected (imp. & p. p.) of Genuflect

Genuflecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Genuflect

Genuflect (v. i.) To bend the knee, as in worship.

Genuflection (n.) The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship.

Genuine (a.) 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.

Genera (pl. ) of Genus

Genus (n.) 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.

Genus (n.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus; if its definition can not be made clear, it is more or less an artificial genus.

Genys (n.) See Gonys.

Geocentric (a.) Alt. of Geocentrical

Geocentrical (a.) 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.

Geocentrical (a.) Having reference to the center of the earth.

Geocentrically (adv.) In a geocentric manner.

Geocronite (n.) A lead-gray or grayish blue mineral with a metallic luster, consisting of sulphur, antimony, and lead, with a small proportion of arsenic.

Geocyclic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or illustrating, the revolutions of the earth; as, a geocyclic machine.

Geocyclic (a.) Circling the earth periodically.

Geode (n.) A nodule of stone, containing a cavity, lined with crystals or mineral matter.

Geode (n.) The cavity in such a nodule.

Geodephagous (a.) Living in the earth; -- applied to the ground beetles.

Geodesic (a.) Alt. of Geodesical

Geodesical (a.) Of or pertaining to geodesy; geodetic.

Geodesic (n.) A geodetic line or curve.

Geodesist (n.) One versed in geodesy.

Geodesy (n.) 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 (a.) Alt. of Geodetical

Geodetical (a.) Of or pertaining to geodesy; obtained or determined by the operations of geodesy; engaged in geodesy; geodesic; as, geodetic surveying; geodetic observers.

Geodetically (adv.) In a geodetic manner; according to geodesy.

Geodetics (n.) Same as Geodesy.

Geodiferous (a.) Producing geodes; containing geodes.

Geoduck (n.) A gigantic clam (Glycimeris generosa) of the Pacific coast of North America, highly valued as an article of food.

Geognosis (n.) Knowledge of the earth.

Geognost (n.) One versed in geognosy; a geologist.

Geognostic (a.) Alt. of Geognostical

Geognostical (a.) Of or pertaining to geognosy, or to a knowledge of the structure of the earth; geological.

Geognosy (n.) That part of geology which treats of the materials of the earth's structure, and its general exterior and interior constitution.

Geogonic (a.) Alt. of Geogonical

Geogonical (a.) Of or pertaining to geogony, or to the formation of the earth.

Geogony (n.) The branch of science which treats of the formation of the earth.

Geographer (n.) One versed in geography.

Geographic (a.) Alt. of Geographical

Geographical (a.) Of or pertaining to geography.

Geographically (adv.) In a geographical manner or method; according to geography.

Geographies (pl. ) of Geography

Geography (n.) 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.

Geography (n.) A treatise on this science.

Geolatry (n.) The worship of the earth.

Geologer (n.) Alt. of Geologian

Geologian (n.) A geologist.

Geologic (a.) Alt. of Geological

Geological (a.) Of or pertaining to geology, or the science of the earth.

Geologically (adv.) In a geological manner.

Geologist (n.) One versed in the science of geology.

Geologized (imp. & p. p.) of Geologize

Geologizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Geologize

Geologize (v. i.) To study geology or make geological investigations in the field; to discourse as a geologist.

Geologies (pl. ) of Geology

Geology (n.) 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.

Geology (n.) A treatise on the science.

Geomalism (n.) The tendency of an organism to respond, during its growth, to the force of gravitation.

Geomancer (n.) One who practices, or is versed in, geomancy.

Geomancy (n.) 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 (a.) Alt. of Geomantical

Geomantical (a.) Pertaining or belonging to geomancy.

Geometer (n.) One skilled in geometry; a geometrician; a mathematician.

Geometer (n.) Any species of geometrid moth; a geometrid.

Geometral (a.) Pertaining to geometry.

Geometric (a.) Alt. of Geometrical

Geometrical (a.) Pertaining to, or according to the rules or principles of, geometry; determined by geometry; as, a geometrical solution of a problem.

Geometrically (adv.) According to the rules or laws of geometry.

Geometrician (n.) One skilled in geometry; a geometer; a mathematician.

Geometrid (a.) Pertaining or belonging to the Geometridae.

Geometrid (n.) One of numerous genera and species of moths, of the family Geometridae; -- so called because their larvae (called loopers, measuring worms, spanworms, and inchworms) creep in a looping manner, as if measuring. Many of the species are injurious to agriculture, as the cankerworms.

Geometrized (imp. & p. p.) of Geometrize

Geometrizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Geometrize

Geometrize (v. i.) To investigate or apprehend geometrical quantities or laws; to make geometrical constructions; to proceed in accordance with the principles of geometry.

Geometries (pl. ) of Geometry

Geometry (n.) 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.

Geometry (n.) A treatise on this science.

Geophagism (n.) The act or habit of eating earth. See Dirt eating, under Dirt.

Geophagist (n.) One who eats earth, as dirt, clay, chalk, etc.

Geophagous (a.) Earth-eating.

Geophila (n. pl.) The division of Mollusca which includes the land snails and slugs.

Geoponic (a.) Alt. of Geoponical

Geoponical (a.) Pertaining to tillage of the earth, or agriculture.

Geoponics (n.) The art or science of cultivating the earth; agriculture.

Georama (n.) A hollow globe on the inner surface of which a map of the world is depicted, to be examined by one standing inside.

Geordie (n.) A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp.

George (n.) 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 (n.) A kind of brown loaf.

George noble () A gold noble of the time of Henry VIII. See Noble, n.

Georgian (a.) Of or pertaining to Georgia, in Asia, or to Georgia, one of the United States.

Georgian (a.) Of or relating to the reigns of the four Georges, kings of Great Britan; as, the Georgian era.

Georgian (n.) A native of, or dweller in, Georgia.

Georgic (a.) A rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating lands, etc.; as, the Georgics of Virgil.

Georgic (a.) Alt. of Georgical

Georgical (a.) Relating to agriculture and rural affairs.

Georgium Sidus () The planet Uranus, so named by its discoverer, Sir W. Herschel.

Geoscopy (n.) Knowledge of the earth, ground, or soil, obtained by inspection.

Geoselenic (a.) Pertaining to the earth and moon; belonging to the joint action or mutual relations of the earth and moon; as, geoselenic phenomena.

Geostatic (a.) Relating to the pressure exerted by earth or similar substance.

Geosynclinal (n.) 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 (n.) A thermometer specially constructed for measuring temperetures at a depth below the surface of the ground.

Geotic (a.) Belonging to earth; terrestrial.

Geotropic (a.) Relating to, or showing, geotropism.

Geotropism (n.) A disposition to turn or incline towards the earth; the influence of gravity in determining the direction of growth of an organ.

Gephyrea (n. pl.) An order of marine Annelida, in which the body is imperfectly, or not at all, annulated externally, and is mostly without setae.

Gephyrean (a.) Belonging to the Gephyrea. -- n. One of the Gerphyrea.

Gephyreoid (a. & n.) Gephyrean.

Gepound (n.) See Gipoun.

Gerah (n.) A small coin and weight; 1-20th of a shekel.