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word: Fulsome
definition:
Fulsome

Ful"some
(?)
a.
[Full, a. + -some.]
1.
Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled.
[Obs.]

His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh.
Golding.

2.
Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery.

And lest the fulsome artifice should fail
Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil.
Cowper.

3.
Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Fulvous
definition:
Fulvous

Ful"vous
(?)
a.
[L. fulvus.]
Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown.
Lindley.


word: Fumacious
definition:
Fumacious

Fu*ma"cious
(?)
a.
[From Fume.]
Smoky; hence, fond of smoking; addicted to smoking tobacco.


word: Fumado
definition:
Fumado

Fumade

Fu*made" (?), Fu*ma"do (_;)
n.
pl. Fumades (#), Fumadoes (#).
[Sp. fumodo smoked, p. p. of fumar to smoke, fr. L. fumare. See Fume, v. i.]
A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard.


word: Fumage
definition:
Fumage

Fu"mage
(?)
n.
[OF. fumage, fumaige, fr. L. fumus smoke.]
Hearth money.

Fumage, or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings.
Blackstone.


word: Fumaric
definition:
Fumaric

Fu*mar"ic
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or derived from, fumitory (Fumaria officinalis).

Fumaric acid (Chem.), a widely occurring organic acid, extracted from fumitory as a white crystallline substance, C2H2(CO2H)2, and produced artificially in many ways, as by the distillation of malic acid; boletic acid. It is found also in the lichen, Iceland moss, and hence was also called lichenic acid.


word: Fumarine
definition:
Fumarine

Fu"ma*rine
(?)
n.
[L. fumus smoke, fume.]
(Chem.)
An alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance.


word: Fumarole
definition:
Fumarole

Fu"ma*role
(?)
n.
[It. fumaruola, fr. fumo smoke, L. fumus: cf. F. fumerolle, fumarolle.]
A hole or spot in a volcanic or other region, from which fumes issue.


word: Fumatorium
definition:
Fumatorium

Fu`ma*to"ri*um
(?)
n.
L. pl. -ria (#)
[NL., fr. L. fumare, fumatum, to smoke.]
An air-tight compartment in which vapor may be generated to destroy germs or insects; esp., the apparatus used to destroy San José scale on nursery stock, with hydrocyanic acid vapor.


word: Fumatory
definition:
Fumatory

Fu"ma*to*ry
(?)
a.
[See Fumatorium.]
Pert. to, or concerned with, smoking.
n.; pl. -ries (_;). A place for subjecting things to smoke or vapor.


word: Fumble
definition:
Fumble

Fum"ble
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Fumbled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fumbling (?).]
[Akin to D. fommelen to crumple, fumble, Sw. fumla to fusuble, famla to grope, Dan. famle to grope, fumble, Icel. falme, AS. folm palm of the hand. See Feel, and cf. Fanble, Palm.]
1.
To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.

Adams now began to fumble in his pockets.
Fielding.

2.
To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse.
Dryden.

My understanding flutters and my memory fumbles.
Chesterfield.

Alas! how he fumbles about the domains.
Wordsworth.

3.
To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.

I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers.
Shak.


word: Fume
definition:
Fume

Fume
(fūm)
n.
[L. fumus; akin to Skr. dhūma smoke, dhū to shake, fan a flame, cf. Gr. qy`ein to sacrifice, storm, rage, qy`mon, qy`mos, thyme, and perh. to E. dust: cf. OF. fum smoke, F. fumée.  Cf. Dust, n., Femerell, Thyme.]
1.
Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.

The fumes of new shorn hay.
T. Warton.

The fumes of undigested wine.
Dryden.

2.
Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion.
South.

3.
Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.

A show of fumes and fancies.
Bacon.

4.
The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.

To smother him with fumes and eulogies.
Burton.

5.
(Metal.)
Solid material deposited by condensation of fumes; as, lead fume (a grayish powder chiefly lead sulphate).

In a fume, in ill temper, esp. from impatience.


word: Fume₂
definition:
Fume

Fume
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Fumed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fuming.]
[Cf. F. fumer, L. fumare to smoke. See Fume, n.]
1.
To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.

Where the golden altar fumed.
Milton.

Silenus lay,
Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain.
Roscommon.

2.
To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.

Keep his brain fuming.
Shak.

3.
To pass off in fumes or vapors.

Their parts are kept from fuming away by their fixity.
Cheyne.

4.
To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.

He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
Dryden.

While her mother did fret, and her father did fume.
Sir W. Scott.

To fume away, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes.


word: Fume₃
definition:
Fume

Fume
v. t.
1.
To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room.

She fumed the temple with an odorous flame.
Dryden.

2.
To praise inordinately; to flatter.

They demi-deify and fume him so.
Cowper.

3.
To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.

The heat will fume away most of the scent.
Montimer.

How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain!
Young.


word: Fumed oak
definition:
Fumed oak

Fumed oak
(?)
(Cabinetwork)
Oak given a weathered appearance by exposure in an air-tight compartment to fumes of ammonia from uncorked cans, being first given a coat of filler.


word: Fumer
definition:
Fumer

Fum"er
(?)
n.
1.
One that fumes.

2.
One who makes or uses perfumes.
[Obs.]

Embroiderers, feather makers, fumers.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Fumet
definition:
Fumet

Fu"met
(fū"mĕt)
n.
[Cf. F. fumier dung, OF. femier, fr. L. fimus dung.]
The dung of deer.
B. Jonson.
[Sometimes spelled fewmet.]


word: Fumette
definition:
Fumette

Fumet

{ Fu"met (?) &VerbarFu*mette" (?), }
n.
[F. fumet odor, fume of wine or meat, fr. L. fumus smoke. See Fume, n.]
The stench or high flavor of game or other meat when kept long.
Swift.


word: Fumet₂
definition:
Fumet

Fu`met"
(?)
n.
[F.]
A high-flavored substance, such as extract of game, for flavoring dishes of food; less properly, a ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine.


word: Fumifugist
definition:
Fumifugist

Fu*mif"u*gist
(?)
n.
[L. fumus smoke + fugare to put to flight, fugere to flee.]
One who, or that which, drives away smoke or fumes.


word: Fumigate
definition:
Fumigate

Fu"mi*gate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fumigated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fumigating (?).]
[L. fumigate, p. p. of fumigare to fumigate, fr. fumus smoke. See Fume, n.]
1.
To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.

2.
To smoke; to perfume.
Dryden.


word: Fumigation
definition:
Fumigation

Fum`iga"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. fumigation.]

1.
The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.

2.
Vapor raised in the process of fumigating.


word: Fumigatory
definition:
Fumigatory

Fu"mi*ga*to*ry
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. fumigatoire.]
Having the quality of purifying by smoke.
[R.]


word: Fuming
definition:
Fuming

Fum"ing
a.
Producing fumes, or vapors.

Cadet's fuming liquid (Chem.), alkarsin. -- Fuming liquor of Libavius (Old Chem.), stannic chloride; the chloride of tin, SnCl4, forming a colorless, mobile liquid which fumes in the air. Mixed with water it solidifies to the so-called butter of tin. -- Fuming sulphuric acid. (Chem.) Same as Disulphuric acid, uder Disulphuric.


word: Fumitory
definition:
Fumitory

Fu"mi*to*ry
(?)
n.
[OE. fumetere, F. fumeterre, prop., smoke of the ground, fr. L. fumus smoke + terra earth. See Fume, and Terrace.]
(Bot.)
The common uame of several species of the genus Fumaria, annual herbs of the Old World, with finely dissected leaves and small flowers in dense racemes or spikes. F. officinalis is a common species, and was formerly used as an antiscorbutic.

Climbing fumitory (Bot.), the Alleghany vine (Adlumia cirrhosa); a biennial climbing plant with elegant feathery leaves and large clusters of pretty white or pinkish flowers looking like grains of rice.


word: Fumous
definition:
Fumous

Fum"ous
(?)
a.
[L. fumosus, fr. fumus smoke: cf. F. fumeux.]
1.
Producing smoke; smoky.

2.
Producing fumes; full of fumes.

Garlic, onions, mustard, and such-like fumous things.
Barough (1625).


word: Fun
definition:
Fun

Fun
(fŭn)
n.
[Perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. fonn pleasure.]
Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement.
fun
Goldsmith.

To make fun of, to hold up to, or turn into, ridicule.

in fun
jokingly; not seriously; for amusement.

like fun
definitely not; -- used adverbially, mostly to contradict a prior assertion; A: “He says he won't do it again.” -- B: “Like fun he won't.”.


word: fun
definition:
fun

fun
(fŭn)
adj.
[Compar. funner (fŭn"nẽr) (colloquial or jocular); superl. funnest (fŭn"nĕst) (colloquial or jocular).]
Of or pertaining to fun; causing pleasure or amusement; as, a fun thing to do.
[informal]


word: Funambulatory
definition:
Funambulatory

Fu*nam"bu*la`to*ry
(?)
a.
1.
Performing like a ropedancer.
Chambers.

2.
Narrow, like the walk of a ropedancer.

This funambulatory track.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Funambulus
definition:
Funambulus

Funambulo

{ &VerbarFu*nam"bu*lo (?), &VerbarFu*nam"bu*lus (?) }
n.
[Sp. funambulo, or It. funambolo, fr. L. funambulus; funis rope (perh. akin to E. bind) + ambulare to walk. See Amble, and cf. Funambulist.]
A ropewalker or ropedancer.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Function
definition:
Function

Func"tion
(?)
n.
[L. functio, fr. fungi to perform, execute, akin to Skr. bhuj to enjoy, have the use of: cf. F. fonction.  Cf. Defunct.]
1.
The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; performance.
function
Swift.

2.
(Physiol.)
The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.

3.
The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind.

As the mind opens, and its functions spread.
Pope.

4.
The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.

Tradesmen . . . going about their functions.
Shak.

The malady which made him incapable of performing his
regal functions.
Macaulay.

5.
(Math.)
A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x.

6.
(Eccl.)
A religious ceremony, esp. one particularly impressive and elaborate.
Every solemn ‘function' performed with the requirements of the liturgy.
Card. Wiseman.

7.
A public or social ceremony or gathering; a festivity or entertainment, esp. one somewhat formal.
This function, which is our chief social event.
W. D. Howells.

Algebraic function, a quantity whose connection with the variable is expressed by an equation that involves only the algebraic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, raising to a given power, and extracting a given root; -- opposed to transcendental function. -- Arbitrary function. See under Arbitrary. -- Calculus of functions. See under Calculus. -- Carnot's function (Thermo-dynamics), a relation between the amount of heat given off by a source of heat, and the work which can be done by it. It is approximately equal to the mechanical equivalent of the thermal unit divided by the number expressing the temperature in degrees of the air thermometer, reckoned from its zero of expansion. -- Circular functions. See Inverse trigonometrical functions (below). -- Continuous function, a quantity that has no interruption in the continuity of its real values, as the variable changes between any specified limits. -- Discontinuous function. See under Discontinuous. -- Elliptic functions, a large and important class of functions, so called because one of the forms expresses the relation of the arc of an ellipse to the straight lines connected therewith. -- Explicit function, a quantity directly expressed in terms of the independently varying quantity; thus, in the equations y = 6x2, y = 10 -x3, the quantity y is an explicit function of x. -- Implicit function, a quantity whose relation to the variable is expressed indirectly by an equation; thus, y in the equation x2 + y2 = 100 is an implicit function of x. -- Inverse trigonometrical functions, or Circular functions, the lengths of arcs relative to the sines, tangents, etc. Thus, AB is the arc whose sine is BD, and (if the length of BD is x) is written sin -1x, and so of the other lines. See Trigonometrical function (below). Other transcendental functions are the exponential functions, the elliptic functions, the gamma functions, the theta functions, etc. -- One-valued function, a quantity that has one, and only one, value for each value of the variable. -- Transcendental functions, a quantity whose connection with the variable cannot be expressed by algebraic operations; thus, y in the equation y = 10x is a transcendental function of x. See Algebraic function (above). -- Trigonometrical function, a quantity whose relation to the variable is the same as that of a certain straight line drawn in a circle whose radius is unity, to the length of a corresponding are of the circle. Let AB be an arc in a circle, whose radius OA is unity let AC be a quadrant, and let OC, DB, and AF be drawnpependicular to OA, and EB and CG parallel to OA, and let OB be produced to G and F. E Then BD is the sine of the arc AB; OD or EB is the cosine, AF is the tangent, CG is the cotangent, OF is the secant OG is the cosecant, AD is the versed sine, and CE is the coversed sine of the are AB. If the length of AB be represented by x (OA being unity) then the lengths of Functions. these lines (OA being unity) are the trigonometrical functions of x, and are written sin x, cos x, tan x (or tang x), cot x, sec x, cosec x, versin x, coversin x. These quantities are also considered as functions of the angle BOA.


word: Functionate
definition:
Functionate

Function

{ Func"tion (fŭ&nsmacr_;k"shŭn), Func"tion*ate (?), }
v. i.
To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.


word: Functional
definition:
Functional

Func"tion*al
(fŭ&nsmacr_;k"shŭn*al)
a.
1.
Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.

2.
(Pathology, Physiol.)
Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general; involving or affecting function rather than physiology; as, functional deafness; a functional disease.  See functional disease, below.
[wns=2]

3.
Designed for or capable of a particular function or use; as, a style of writing in which every word is functional; functional architecture.
[wns=1]

4.
Fit or ready for use or service; useable; in working order; as, the toaster was still functional even after being dropped; the lawnmower is a bit rusty but still functional.  Antonym of out of order and nonfunctional.
[wns=4 & 6]

Syn. -- usable, useable, in working order(predicate), operable, operational, running(prenominal), operative.

5.
Designed to emphasize practical utility rather than artistic or aesthetic purposes; as, functional education selects knowledge that is concrete and usable rather than abstract and theoretical; functional architecture; an amateurish device, crude but functional.

Functional disease (Med.), a disease of which the symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; the derangement of an organ arising from a cause, often unknown, external to itself opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected.


word: functionalism
definition:
functionalism

functionalism
n.
1.
a psychology based on the assumption that all mental process are useful to an organism in adapting to the environment.

2.
any doctrine that stresses utility or purpose.


word: Functionally
definition:
Functionally

Func"tion*al*ly
adv.
In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity.

The organ is said to be functionally disordered.
Lawrence.


word: Functionary
definition:
Functionary

Func"tion*a*ry
(?)
n.
pl. Functionaries (#).
[Cf. F. fonctionnaire.]
One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.


word: Fund
definition:
Fund

Fund
(?)
n.
[OF. font, fond, nom. fonz, bottom, ground, F. fond bottom, foundation, fonds fund, fr. L. fundus bottom, ground, foundation, piece of land. See Found to establish.]
1.
An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.

2.
A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.

3.
pl.
The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds.

4.
An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object.

5.
A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense.

An inexhaustible fund of stories.
Macaulay.

Sinking fund, the aggregate of sums of money set apart and invested, usually at fixed intervals, for the extinguishment of the debt of a government, or of a corporation, by the accumulation of interest.


word: Fund₂
definition:
Fund

Fund
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Funded; p. pr. & vb. n. Funding.]
1.
To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes.

2.
To place in a fund, as money.

3.
To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.


word: Fundable
definition:
Fundable

Fund"a*ble
(?)
a.
Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds.


word: Fundament
definition:
Fundament

Fun"da*ment
(?)
n.
[OE. fundament, fundement, fondement, OF. fundement, fondement, F. fondement, fr. L. fundamentum foundation, fr. fundare to lay the bottom, to found, fr. fundus bottom. See Fund.]
1.
Foundation.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
The part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks; specifically (Anat.), the anus.
Hume.


word: Fundamental
definition:
Fundamental

Fun`da*men"tal
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. fondamental.]
Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation.
Hence:
Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom.

The fundamental reasons of this war.
Shak.

Some fundamental antithesis in nature.
Whewell.

Fundamental bass (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of the chords. -- Fundamental chord (Mus.), a chord, the lowest tone of which is its root. -- Fundamental colors, red, green, and violet-blue. See Primary colors, under Color.


word: Fundamental₂
definition:
Fundamental

Fun"da*men`tal
n.
A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith.


word: fundamentalism
definition:
fundamentalism

fundamentalism
n.
1.
A system of beliefs based on the interpretation of every word in the Bible, both old and new testaments, as literal truth.  It is primarily held by a branch of American Protestants.

2.
The beliefs or practises based on a rigid adherence to some traditional doctrine; extreme conservatism; as, Moslem fundamentalism; the political fundamentalism of the Christian right.


word: fundamentalistic
definition:
fundamentalistic

fundamentalist

fundamentalist fundamentalistic
adj.
1.
of or pertaining to fundamentalists or fundamentalism.

2.
characteristic of a fundamentalist; -- especially, resembling the behavior of a fundamentalist; as, a fundamentalist dislike of new ideas.


word: Fundamentally
definition:
Fundamentally

Fun`da*men"tal*ly
adv.
Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents.
Fundamentally
Burke.


word: Funded
definition:
Funded

Fund"ed
(?)
a.
1.
Existing in the form of bonds bearing regular interest; as, funded debt.

2.
Invested in public funds; as, funded money.


word: Funding
definition:
Funding

Fund"ing
a.
1.
Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt.

2.
Investing in the public funds.

Funding system, a system or scheme of finance or revenue by which provision is made for paying the interest or principal of a public debt.


word: Fundus
definition:
Fundus

Fun"dus
(fŭn"dŭs)
n.
[L., bottom.]
(Anat.)
The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye; the fundus of the uterus.


word: Funebrial
definition:
Funebrial

Fu*ne"bri*al
(f&uuptack_;*nē"brĭ*al)
a.
[L. funebris belonging to a funeral, fr. funus funeral.]
Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal.
[Obs.]
[Written also funebral.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Funeral
definition:
Funeral

Fu"ner*al
(fū"nẽr*al)
n.
[LL. funeralia, prop. neut. pl. of funeralis of a funeral, fr. L. funus, funeris, funeral: cf. F. funérailles.]
1.
The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural.

King James his funerals were performed very solemnly in the collegiate church at Westminster.
Euller.

2.
The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.
funerals
Pope.

3.
A funeral sermon; -- usually in the plural.
[Obs.]

Mr. Giles Lawrence preached his funerals.
South.


word: Funeral₂
definition:
Funeral

Fu"ner*al
a.
[LL. funeralis. See Funeral, n.]
Pertaining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies.
Shak.

Funeral pile or Funeral pyre, a structure of combustible material, upon which a dead body is placed to be reduced to ashes, as part of a funeral rite; a pyre.


word: funeral home
definition:
funeral home

fu"ner*al home`
n.
An establishment, usually commercial, where the bodies of dead persons are prepared for viewing before burial or cremation; called also funeral parlor, mortuary, funeral chapel and informally, undertaker's.  The body may or may not be preserved by embalming before viewing or burial, and in some cases the body is not exposed for viewing, though present in a casket.  Often, some form of memorial service is held for the deceased at the funeral home, where friends and relatives may come to pay their respects to the dead, and express condolence to the family.  The work of preparation of the body and many other arrangements related to the funeral and burial are carried out by an undertaker or mortician who manages the funeral home.


word: funerary
definition:
funerary

fu"ner*ar`y
(fū"nȧ*rẽr`&ybreve_;)
adj.
of or pertaining to a funeral or to burial of human remains; as, funerary urn.


word: Funerate
definition:
Funerate

Fu"ner*ate
(?)
v. t.
[L. funeratus, p. p. of funerare to funerate, fr. funus. See Funeral.]
To bury with funeral rites.
[Obs.]
Cockeram.


word: Funeration
definition:
Funeration

Fu`ner*a"tion
(?)
n.
[L. funeratio.]
The act of burying with funeral rites.
[Obs.]
Knatchbull.


word: Funereal
definition:
Funereal

Fu*ne"re*al
(?)
a.
[L. funereus, fr. fentus a funeral.]
Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn; as, at a funereal pace.
Hence:
Dark; dismal; mournful.
Jer. Taylor.

What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.
Longfellow.


word: Funest
definition:
Funest

Fu*nest"
(?)
a.
[L. funestus, fr. funus a funeral, destruction: cf. F. funeste.]
Lamentable; doleful.
[R.]
Funest
Coleridge.

A forerunner of something very funest.
Evelyn.


word: Fungate
definition:
Fungate

Fun"gate
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. fongate.]
(Chem.)
A salt of fungic acid.
[Formerly written also fungiate.]


word: Fungi
definition:
Fungi

Fun"gi
(fŭn"jī)
n. pl.
sing. fungus.
(Biol.)
A group of thallophytic plant-like organisms of low organization, destitute of chlorophyll, in which reproduction is mainly accomplished by means of asexual spores, which are produced in a great variety of ways, though sexual reproduction is known to occur in certain Phycomycetes, or so-called algal fungi. They include the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each.  In the two-kingdom classification system they were classed with the plants, but in the modern five-kingdom classification, they are not classed as plants, but are classed in their own separate kingdom fungi, which includes the phyla Zygomycota (including simple fungi such as bread molds), Ascomycota (including the yeasts), Basidiomycota (including the mushrooms, smuts, and rusts), and Deuteromycota (the fungi imperfecti).  Some of the forms, such as the yeasts, appear as single-celled microorganisms, but all of the fungi are are eukaryotic, thus distinguishing them from the prokaryotic microorganisms of the kingdon Monera.

&hand_; The Fungi appear to have originated by degeneration from various algæ, losing their chlorophyll on assuming a parasitic or saprophytic life. In an earlier classification they were divided into the subclasses Phycomycetes, the lower or algal fungi; the Mesomycetes, or intermediate fungi; and the Mycomycetes, or the higher fungi; by others into the Phycomycetes; the Ascomycetes, or sac-spore fungi; and the Basidiomycetes, or basidial-spore fungi.


word: Fungia
definition:
Fungia

Fun"gi*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. L. fungus mushroom: cf. F. fongie.]
(Zool.)
A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.


word: Fungian
definition:
Fungian

Fun"gi*an
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the Fungidæ, a family of stony corals.
n. One of the Fungidæ.


word: Fungibles
definition:
Fungibles

Fun"gi*bles
(?)
n. pl.
[LL. (res) fungibiles, probably fr. L. fungi to discharge. “A barbarous term, supposed to have originated in the use of the words functionem recipere in the Digeste.” Bouvier. “Called fungibiles, quia una alterius vice fungitur.” John Taylor (1755).  Cf. Function.]
1.
(Civ. Law)
Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things.
Burrill.

2.
(Scots Law)
Movable goods which may be valued by weight or measure, in contradistinction from those which must be judged of individually.
Jamieson.


word: Fungic
definition:
Fungic

Fun"gic
(?)
a.
[L. fungus mushroom: cf. F. fungique, fongique.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or obtained from, mushrooms; as, fungic acid.


word: Fungicide
definition:
Fungicide

Fun"gi*cide`
(?)
n.
[Fungi + -cide, fr. L. caedere to kill.]
Anything that kills fungi.
Fun`gi*ci"dal (#), n.


word: Fungiform
definition:
Fungiform

Fun"gi*form
(?)
a.
[Eungus + -form: cf. F. fongiforme.]
Shaped like a fungus or mushroom.

Fungiform papillæ (Anat.), numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue.


word: Fungi Imperfecti
definition:
Fungi Imperfecti

Fun"gi Im`per*fec"ti
(?)
pl.
[L. imperfecti imperfect.]
(Bot.)
A heterogenous phylum of fungi which lack a sexual phase, or of which the sexual phase is not known. Some undoubtedly represent the conidium stages of various Ascomycetes. It is not considered a natural phylum, and is also called the Deuteromycota.  The group is divided into the orders Sphæropsidales, Melanconiales, and Moniliales.  It includes the genera Penicillium and Aspergillus, which reproduce asexually by means of conidia.


word: Fungin
definition:
Fungin

Fun"gin
(?)
n.
[L. fungus mushroom: cf. F, fongine, fungine.]
(Chem.)
A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms.


word: Fungite
definition:
Fungite

Fun"gite
(?)
n.
[L. fungus mushroom: cf. F. pongite.]
(Paleon.)
A fossil coral resembling Fungia.


word: Fungivorous
definition:
Fungivorous

Fun*giv"o*rous
(?)
a.
[L. fungus + vorare to eat greedily: cf. F. fongivore.]
(Zool.)
Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.


word: Fungoid
definition:
Fungoid

Fun"goid
(?)
a.
[Fungus + -oil: cf. F. fongoïde.]
Like a fungus; fungous; spongy.

Syn. -- funguslike.


word: Fungosity
definition:
Fungosity

Fun*gos"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. fungosité, fongosité.]
The quality of that which is fungous; fungous excrescence.
Dunglison.


word: Fungous
definition:
Fungous

Fun"gous
(?)
a.
[L. fungosus: cf. F. fungueux.]
1.
Of the nature of fungi; spongy.

2.
Growing suddenly, but not substantial or durable.


word: Fungus
definition:
Fungus

Fun"gus
(?)
n.
pl. L. Fungi (#), E. Funguses (#).
[L., a mushroom; perh. akin to a doubtful Gr. _; sponge, for _;; if so, cf. E. sponge.]
1.
(Bot.)
Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, -- the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each.  See fungi.

&hand_; The fungi are all destitute of chorophyll, and, therefore, to be supplied with elaborated nourishment, must live as saprophytes or parasites. They range in size from single microscopic cells to systems of entangled threads many feet in extent, which develop reproductive bodies as large as a man's head. The vegetative system consists of septate or rarely unseptate filaments called hyphæ; the aggregation of hyphæ into structures of more or less definite form is known as the mycelium. See Fungi, in the Supplement.

2.
(Med.)
A spongy, morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies, as the proud flesh of wounds.
Hoblyn.


word: Funicle
definition:
Funicle

Fu"ni*cle
(?)
n.
[L. funiculus, dim. of funis cord, rope: cf. F. funicule funicle (in sense 2).  Cf. Funambulo.]
(Bot.)
1.
A small cord, ligature, or fiber.

2.
(Bot.)
The little stalk that attaches a seed to the placenta.


word: Funicular
definition:
Funicular

Fu*nic"u*lar
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. funiculaire.]

1.
Consisting of a small cord or fiber.

2.
Dependent on the tension of a cord.

3.
(Anat.)
Pertaining to a funiculus; made up of, or resembling, a funiculus, or funiculi; as, a funicular ligament.

Funicular action (Mech.), the force or action exerted by a rope in drawing together the supports to which its ends are Fastened, when acted upon by forces applied in a direction transverse to the rope, as in the archer's bow. -- Funicular curve. Same as Catenary. -- Funicular machine (Mech.), an apparatus for illustrating certain principles in statics, consisting of a cord or chain attached at one end to a fixed point, and having the other passed over a pulley and sustaining a weight, while one or more other weights are suspended from the cord at points between the fixed support and the pulley. -- Funicular polygon (Mech.), the polygonal figure assumed by a cord fastened at its extremities, and sustaining weights at different points.


word: Funiculus
definition:
Funiculus

Fu*nic"u*lus
(?)
n.
pl. Funiculi (#).
[L., a little cord. See Funicle.]
1.
(Anat.)
A cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are made up; applied also to different bands of white matter in the brain and spinal cord.

2.
(Zool.)
(a)
A short cord which connects the embryo of some myriapods with the amnion.
(b)
In Bryozoa, an organ extending back from the stomach. See Bryozoa, and Phylactolema.


word: Funiliform
definition:
Funiliform

Fu*nil"i*form
(?)
a.
[L. funis rope + -form.]
(Bot.)
Resembling a cord in toughness and flexibility, as the roots of some endogenous trees.


word: Funk
definition:
Funk

Funk
(fŭ&nsmacr_;k)
n.
[OE. funke a little fire; akin to Prov. E. funk touchwood, G. funke spark, and perh. to Goth. f&omacrn fire.]
1.
An offensive smell; a stench.
[Low]

2.
One who funks; a shirk; a coward.
[Colloq.]

3.
a state of fear.

4.
a mildly depressed state of mind; -- often used in the phrase blue funk.


word: Funk₂
definition:
Funk

Funk
(fŭ&nsmacr_;k)
n.
an earthy, seemingly unsophisticated style of jazz music having elements of black American blues and gospel.


word: Funk₃
definition:
Funk

Funk
v. t.
1.
To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
[Obs.]
King.

2.
To funk at; to flinch at; to shrink from (a thing or person); as, to funk a task.
[Colloq.]

3.
To frighten; to cause to flinch.
[Colloq.]


word: Funk₄
definition:
Funk

Funk
v. i.
1.
To emit an offensive smell; to stink.

2.
To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice.
[Colloq.]
C. Kingsley.

To funk out, to back out in a cowardly fashion. [Colloq.]

To funk right out o' political strife.
Lowell (Biglow Papers).


word: Funka
definition:
Funka

Funka
n.
A genus of robust East Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers: plantain lilies; sometimes placed in the family Hostaceae.

Syn. -- Hosta, genus Hosta, genus Funka.


word: Funkaceae
definition:
Funkaceae

Funkaceae
n.
one of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae, but not widely accepted; it includes the genus Hosta.

Syn. -- Hostaceae, family Hostaceae, family Funkaceae.


word: Funky
definition:
Funky

Funk"y
(fŭ&nsmacr_;k"&ybreve_;)
a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking; having great fear.
[Colloq. Eng.]


word: Funky₂
definition:
Funky

Funk"y
(fŭ&nsmacr_;k"&ybreve_;)
n.
having an earthy, unsophisticated style or feeling;
in
(Music)
earthy and seemingly unsophisticated, having elements of black American blues and gospel.  See 2nd funk, n.


word: Funnel
definition:
Funnel

Fun"nel
(?)
n.
[OE. funel, fonel, prob. through OF. fr, L. fundibulum, infundibulum, funnel, fr. infundere to pour in; in in + fundere to pour; cf. Armor. founil funnel, W. ffynel air hole, chimney. See Fuse, v. t.]
1.
A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids or pourable solids into a vessel with a narrow opening; a tunnel.

2.
A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the iron chimney of a steamship or the like.

Funnel box (Mining), an apparatus for collecting finely crushed ore from water. Knight. -- Funnel stay (Naut.), one of the ropes or rods steadying a steamer's funnel.


word: Funnelform
definition:
Funnelform

Fun"nel*form`
(?)
a.
(Bot.)
Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform.


word: funnies
definition:
funnies

fun"nies
(fŭn"ēz)
n. pl.
The section of a newspaper containing comic strips; called also funny papers and comics.  Rarely encountered in the singular.


word: funniness
definition:
funniness

funniness
n.
a comic incident or series of incidents.

Syn. -- drollery, clowning, comedy.


word: Funny
definition:
Funny

Fun"ny
(?)
a.
[Compar. Funnier (?); superl. Funniest.]
[From Fun.]
Droll; comical; amusing; laughable; inciting laughter.

Funny bone. See crazy bone, under Crazy.


word: Fur
definition:
Fur

Fur
(fûr)
n.
[OE. furre, OF.  forre, fuerre, sheath, case, of German origin; cf. OHG. fuotar lining, case, G. futter; akin to Icel. f&omacrðr lining, Goth. f&omacrdr, scabbard; cf. Skr. pātra vessel, dish. The German and Icel. words also have the sense, fodder, but this was probably a different word originally.  Cf. Fodder food, Fother, v. t., Forel, n.]

1.
The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.

2.
The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs.

3.
Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.

4.
pl.
Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.).

Wrapped up in my furs.
Lady M. W. Montagu.

5.
Any coating considered as resembling fur
(a)
A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.
(b)
The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
(c)
The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.

6.
(Her.)
One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six.
See Tincture.


word: Fur₂
definition:
Fur

Fur
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur; as, a fur cap; the fur trade.

Fur seal (Zool.) one of several species of seals of the genera Callorhinus and Arclocephalus, inhabiting the North Pacific and the Antarctic oceans. They have a coat of fine and soft fur which is highly prized. The northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) breeds in vast numbers on the Prybilov Islands, off the coast of Alaska; -- called also sea bear.


word: Fur₃
definition:
Fur

Fur
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Furred (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Furring.]
1.
To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes.
fur
Shak.

2.
To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.

3.
(Arch.)
To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp.
Gwill.


word: Furacious
definition:
Furacious

Fu*ra"cious
(?)
a.
[L. furax, -racis thievish, from fur thief.]
Given to theft; thievish.
[Obs.]


word: Furbelow
definition:
Furbelow

Fur"be*low
(?)
n.
[Prov. F. farbala, equiv. to F. falbala, It. falbalà.]
A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment.


word: Furbelow₂
definition:
Furbelow

Fur"be*low
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Furbelowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Furbelowing.]
To put a furbelow on; to ornament.


word: Furbish
definition:
Furbish

Fur"bish
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Furbished (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Furbishing.]
[OE. forbischen, OF. forbir, furbir, fourbir, F. fourbir, fr. OHG. furban to clean. See -ish.]
To rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear.
Shak.

Furbish new the name of John a Gaunt.
Shak.


word: Furbisher
definition:
Furbisher

Fur"bish*er
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. fourbisseur.]
One who furbishes; esp., a sword cutler, who finishes sword blades and similar weapons.


word: Furcated
definition:
Furcated

Furcate

{ Fur"cate (?), Fur"ca*ted (?), }
a.
[L. furca fork. See Fork.]
Forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs.


word: Furciferous
definition:
Furciferous

Fur*cif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[L. furcifer yoke bearer, scoundrel; furca fork, yoke, fork-shaped instrument of punishment + ferre to bear.]
Rascally; scandalous.
[R.]
Furciferous
De Quincey.


word: Furcula
definition:
Furcula

Fur"cu*la
(?)
n.
[L., a forked prop, dim. of furca a fork.]
(Anat.)
A forked process; the wishbone or furculum.


word: Furculum
definition:
Furculum

Fur"cu*lum
(?)
n.
[NL., dim. of L. furca a fork.]
(Anat.)
The wishbone or merrythought of birds, formed by the united clavicles.


word: Furfuran
definition:
Furfuran

Fur"fu*ran
(?)
n.
[L. furfur bran.]
(Chem.)
A colorless, oily substance, C4H4O, obtained by distilling certain organic substances, as pine wood, salts of pyromucic acid, etc.; -- called also tetraphenol.


word: Furfuration
definition:
Furfuration

Fur"fu*ra"tion
(?)
n.
[L. furfur bran, scurf.]
Falling of scurf from the head; desquamation.


word: Furfurine
definition:
Furfurine

Fur"fu*rine
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A white, crystalline base, obtained indirectly from furfurol.


word: Furfurol
definition:
Furfurol

Fur"fu*rol
(?)
n.
[L. furfur bran + oleum oil.]
(Chem.)
A colorless oily liquid, C4H3O.CHO, of a pleasant odor, obtained by the distillation of bran, sugar, etc., and regarded as an aldehyde derivative of furfuran; -- called also furfural.


word: Furial
definition:
Furial

Fu"ri*al
(?)
a.
[L. furialis: cf. OF. furial.]
Furious; raging; tormenting.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Furibundal
definition:
Furibundal

Fu`ri*bun"dal
(?)
a.
[L. furibundus, fr. furere to rage.]
Full of rage.
[Obs.]
G. Harvey.


word: Furile
definition:
Furile

Fu"rile
(?)
n.
[Furfurol + benzile.]
(Chem.)
A yellow, crystalline substance, (C4H3O)2.C2O2, obtained by the oxidation of furoin.
[Written also furil.]


word: Furious
definition:
Furious

Fu"ri*ous
(?)
a.
[L. furiosus, fr. furia rage, fury: cf. F. furieux. See Fury.]
1.
Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal.

2.
Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm.


word: furiousness
definition:
furiousness

fu"ri*ous*ness
n.
The quality of being furious.

Syn. -- ferocity, fierceness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness, strength.


word: Furl
definition:
Furl

Furl
(fûrl)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Furled (fûrld); p. pr. & vb. n. Furling.]
[Contr. fr. furdle, fr. fardel bundle: cf. F. ferler to furl, OF. fardeler to pack. See Furdle, Fardel, and cf. Farl.]
To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line.
Totten.


word: furled
definition:
furled

furled
(fûrld)
adj.
[p. p. of furl.]
rolled up and secured; as, furled sails bound securely to the spar; a furled flag.

Syn. -- rolled.


word: Furlong
definition:
Furlong

Fur"long
(?)
n.
[OE. furlong, furlang, AS. furlang, furlung, prop., the length of a furrow; furh furrow + lang long. See Furrow, and Long, a.]
A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.


word: Furlough
definition:
Furlough

Fur"lough
(?)
n.
[Prob. fr. D. verlof, fr. a prefix akin to E. for + the root of E. lief, and akin to Dan. forlov, Sw. förlof, G. verlaub permission. See Life, a.]
(Mil.)
Leave of absence; especially, leave given to an officer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence.


word: Furlough₂
definition:
Furlough

Fur"lough
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Furloughed (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Furloughing.]
(Mil.)
To furnish with a furlough; to grant leave of absence to, as to an officer or soldier.


word: Furnace
definition:
Furnace

Fur"nace
(?)
n.
[OE. fornais, forneis, OF. fornaise, F. fournaise, from L. fornax; akin to furnus oven, and prob. to E. forceps.]
1.
An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.

&hand_; Furnaces are classified as wind or air. furnaces when the fire is urged only by the natural draught; as blast furnaces, when the fire is urged by the injection artificially of a forcible current of air; and as reverberatory furnaces, when the flame, in passing to the chimney, is thrown down by a low arched roof upon the materials operated upon.

2.
A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
Deut. iv. 20.

Bustamente furnace, a shaft furnace for roasting quicksilver ores. -- Furnace bridge, Same as Bridge wall. See Bridge, n., 5. -- Furnace cadmiam or Furnace cadmia, the oxide of zinc which accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting zinciferous ores. Raymond. -- Furnace hoist (Iron Manuf.), a lift for raising ore, coal, etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace.


word: Furnace₂
definition:
Furnace

Fur"nace
n.
1.
To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace.
[Obs. or R.]

He furnaces
The thick sighs from him.
Shak.


word: Furnarius
definition:
Furnarius

Furnarius
n.
The type genus of the Furnariidae, comprising the South American ovenbirds.

Syn. -- genus Furnarius.


word: Furnish
definition:
Furnish

Fur"nish
(fûr"nĭsh)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Furnished (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Furnishing.]
[OF. furnir, fornir, to furnish, finish, F. fournir; akin to Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and -ish.]
1.
To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house.

That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished
unto all good works.
2 Tim. iii. 17,

2.
To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense.

Ye are they . . . that furnish the drink offering unto that number.
Is. lxv. 11.

His writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense.
Macaulay.


word: furnished
definition:
furnished

furnished
adj.
provided with necessary furnishings; -- used especially of rented apartments having furniture included in the rental price; as, a furnished apartment.  Opposite of unfurnished.
stocked, stocked with 
appointed
well-appointed, well-found 
fitted out, outfitted 

Syn. -- equipped.


word: furnishings
definition:
furnishings

fur"nish*ings
n.
1.
the furniture and appliances and other movable accessories (including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other building) livable.

2.
accessory wearing apparel.

Syn. -- trappings.


word: Furnishment
definition:
Furnishment

Fur"nish*ment
(?)
n.
The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture.
[Obs.]
Daniel.


word: Furniture
definition:
Furniture

Fur"ni*ture
(?)
n.
[F. fourniture. See Furnish, v. t.]
1.
That with which anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment.

The form and all the furniture of the earth.
Tillotson.

The thoughts which make the furniture of their minds.
M. Arnold.

2.
Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.

3.
The necessary appendages to anything, as to a machine, a carriage, a ship, etc.
(a)
(Naut.)
The masts and rigging of a ship.
(b)
(Mil.)
The mountings of a gun.
(c)
Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings.
(d)
(Print)
Pieces of wood or metal of a lesser height than the type, placed around the pages or other matter in a form, and, with the quoins, serving to secure the form in its place in the chase.

4.
(Mus.)
A mixed or compound stop in an organ; -- sometimes called mixture.


word: Furoin
definition:
Furoin

Fu"ro*in
(?)
n.
[See Furfurol.]
(Chem.)
A colorless, crystalline substance, C10H8O4, from furfurol.


word: furor
definition:
furor

furor
n.
an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; a fad.

Syn. -- fad, craze, furore, cult, rage.

2.
a sudden outburst (as of protest).

Syn. -- uproar, furore.


word: Furriery
definition:
Furriery

Fur"ri*er*y
(?)
n.
1.
Furs, in general.
Tooke.

2.
The business of a furrier; trade in furs.


word: Furring
definition:
Furring

Fur"ring
(?)
n.
1.
(Carp.)
(a)
The leveling of a surface, or the preparing of an air space, by means of strips of board or of larger pieces. See Fur, v. t., 3.
(b)
The strips thus laid on.

2.
(Shipbuilding)
Double planking of a ship's side.

3.
A deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler; also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit.


word: Furrow
definition:
Furrow

Fur"row
(?)
n.
[OE. forow, forgh, furgh, AS. furh; akin to D. voor, OHG. furuh, G. furche, Dan. fure, Sw. f_;ra, Icel. for drain, L. porca ridge between two furrows.]
1.
A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.

2.
Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age.

Farrow weed a weed which grows on plowed land. Shak. -- To draw a straight furrow, to live correctly; not to deviate from the right line of duty. Lowell.


word: Furrow₂
definition:
Furrow

Fur"row
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Furrowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Furrowing.]
[From Furrow, n.; cf. AS. fyrian.]
1.
To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea.
Shak.

2.
To mark with channels or with wrinkles.

Thou canst help time to furrow me with age.
Shak.

Fair cheeks were furrowed with hot tears.
Byron.


word: Furry
definition:
Furry

Fur"ry
(?)
a.
[From Fur.]
1.
Covered with fur; dressed in fur.
Furry
Thomson.

2.
Consisting of fur; as, furry spoils.
Dryden.

3.
Resembling fur.


word: Further
definition:
Further

Fur"ther
(?)
adv.
[A comparative of forth; OE. further, forther, AS. fur_;or, far_;ur; akin to G. fürder. See Forth, adv.]
To a greater distance; in addition; moreover. See Farther.

Carries us, I know not how much further, into familiar company.
M. Arnold.

They sdvanced us far as Eleusis and Thria; but no further.
Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Further off, not so near; apart by a greater distance.


word: Further₂
definition:
Further

Fur"ther
a. compar.
[Positive wanting; superl. Furthest.]
1.
More remote; at a greater distance; more in advance; farther; as, the further end of the field. See Farther.

2.
Beyond; additional; as, a further reason for this opinion; nothing further to suggest.

&hand_; The forms further and farther are in general not differentiated by writers, but further is preferred by many when application to quantity or degree is implied.


word: Further₃
definition:
Further

Fur"ther"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Furthered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Furthering.]
[OE. furthren, forthren, AS. fyrðran, fyrðrian. See Further, adv.]
To help forward; to promote; to advance; to forward; to help or assist.

This binds thee, then, to further my design.
Dryden.

I should nothing further the weal public.
Robynsom (More's Utopia).


word: Furtherance
definition:
Furtherance

Fur"ther*ance
(?)
n.
The act of furthering or helping forward; promotion; advancement; progress.

I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your
furthersnce and joy of faith.
Phil. i. 25.

Built of furtherance and pursuing, Not of spent deeds, but of doing.
Emerson.


word: Furthermore
definition:
Furthermore

Fur"ther*more"
(?)
adv.
or conj. Moreover; besides; in addition to what has been said.


word: Furthersome
definition:
Furthersome

Fur"ther*some
(?)
a.
Tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous.
[R.]

You will not find it furthersome.
Carlyle.


word: Furtive
definition:
Furtive

Fur"tive
(?)
a.
[L. furtivus, fr. furtum theft, fr. fur thief, akin to ferre to bear: cf. F. furtif. See Fertile.]
Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look.
Prior.

A hasty and furtive ceremony.
Hallam.


word: Furuncle
definition:
Furuncle

Fu"run*cle
(?)
n.
[L. furunculus a petty thief, a boil, dim. of fur thief: cf. F. furoncle.]
(Med.)
A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil.


word: Furuncular
definition:
Furuncular

Fu*run"cu*lar
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to a furuncle; marked by the presence of furuncles.


word: Fury
definition:
Fury

Fu"ry
(?)
n.
[L. fur.]
A thief.
[Obs.]

Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies.
J. Fleteher.


word: Fury₂
definition:
Fury

Fu"ry
n.
pl. Furies (#).
[L. furia, fr. furere to rage: cf. F. furie.  Cf. Furor.]
1.
Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.

Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired.
Sir P. Sidney.

2.
Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
Fury
Shak.

I do oppose my patience to his fury.
Shak.

3.
pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra; the Erinyes or Eumenides.

The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him.
Emerson.

4.
One of the Parcæ, or Fates, esp. Atropos.
[R.]

Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.
Milton.

5.
A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.


word: Furze
definition:
Furze

Furze
(?)
n.
[OE. firs, As. fyrs.]
(Bot.)
A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europæus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.


word: Furzeling
definition:
Furzeling

Furze"ling
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler.


word: Fusain
definition:
Fusain

Fu"sain"
(?)
n.
[F., the spindle tree; also, charcoal made from it.]
(Fine Arts)
(a)
Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement.
(b)
A drawing made with it. See Charcoal, n. 2, and Charcoal drawing, under Charcoal.


word: Fusarole
definition:
Fusarole

Fu"sa*role
(?)
n.
[F. fusarolle, fr. It. fusaruolo, fr. fuso spindle, shaft of a column. See Fusee a conical wheel.]
(Arch.)
A molding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture.


word: Fuscation
definition:
Fuscation

Fus*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[L. fuscare, fuscatum, to make dark, fr. fuscus dark.]
A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation.
[R.]
Blount.


word: Fuscin
definition:
Fuscin

Fus"cin
(?)
n.
[L. fuscus dark-colored, tawny.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin.


word: Fuscine
definition:
Fuscine

Fus"cine
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A dark-colored substance obtained from empyreumatic animal oil.
[R.]


word: Fuscous
definition:
Fuscous

Fus"cous
(?)
a.
[L. fuscus.]
Brown or grayish black; darkish.

Sad and fuscous colors, as black or brown, or deep purple
and the like.
Burke.


word: Fuse
definition:
Fuse

Fuse
(fūz)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fused (fūzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Fusing.]
[L. fusus, p. p. of fundere to pour, melt, cast. See Foundo to cast, and cf. Futile.]
1.
To liquefy by heat; to render fluid; to dissolve; to melt.

2.
To unite or blend, as if melted together.

Whose fancy fuses old and new.
Tennyson.


word: Fuse₂
definition:
Fuse

Fuse
v. i.
1.
To be reduced from a solid to a fluid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.

2.
To be blended, as if melted together.

Fusing point, the degree of temperature at which a substance melts; the point of fusion; the melting point.


word: Fuse₃
definition:
Fuse

Fuse
n.
[For fusee, fusil. See 2d Fusil.]
(Gunnery, Mining, etc.)
1.
A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. See Fuze.

Fuse hole, the hole in a shell prepared for the reception of the fuse. Farrow.

2.
(Mil.)
a mechanism in a bomb, torpedo, rocket, or artillery shell, usually having an easily detonated explosive charge and activated by the shock of impact, which detonates the main explosive charge.  Some fuses may have timing mechanisms, delaying the explosion for a short time, or up to several days after impact.  Fuses activated by other mechanisms more sophisticated than impact, such as proximity or heat, are used in modern weapons such as antiaircraft or antimissile missiles.


word: Fuze
definition:
Fuze

Fuse

{ Fuse, or Fuze }
n.
(Elec.)
A wire, bar, or strip of fusible metal inserted for safety in an electric circuit.  When the current increases beyond a certain safe strength, the metal melts, interrupting the circuit and thereby preventing possibility of damage.  It serves the same function as a circuit breaker.


word: fused
definition:
fused

fused
adj.
joined together into a whole.

Syn. -- amalgamate, amalgamated, coalesced, consolidated.


word: Fusee
definition:
Fusee

Fu*see"
(?)
n.
[See 2d Fusil, and cf. Fuse, n.]
1.
A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil.
[Obs.]

2.
A fuse. See Fuse, n.

3.
(a)
A friction match for smokers' use having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
(b)
A kind of match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.

4.
A signal device, usually cylindrical, consisting of a tube filled with a composition which burns with a bright colored light for a definite time.  It is used principally for the protection of trains or road vehicles, indicating an obstruction or accident ahead.  Also called a flare or railroad flare.


word: Fusee₃
definition:
Fusee

Fu*see"
n.
[F. fusée a spindleful, fusee, LL. fusata, fr. fusare to use a spindle, L. fusus spindle.]
(a)
The cone or conical wheel of a watch or clock, designed to equalize the power of the mainspring by having the chain from the barrel which contains the spring wind in a spiral groove on the surface of the cone in such a manner that the diameter of the cone at the point where the chain acts may correspond with the degree of tension of the spring.
(b)
A similar wheel used in other machinery.


word: Fusel oil
definition:
Fusel oil

Fusel

Fu"sel (?), n., Fu"sel oil
[G. fusel bad liquor.]
(Chem.)
A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers, but mostly of amyl alcohol;
hence,
amyl alcohol or a mixture of amyl alcohols.


word: fuselage
definition:
fuselage

fu"se*lage
n.
[F. fusel spindle-shaped + -age; fr. L. fusus spindle.]
(Aëronautics)
The central, approximately cylindrical portion of an airplane which carries the passengers, crew, and cargo.  It usually forms the main structural portion of an airplane, and to it are typically attached the wings, tail, and sometimes the engines.  In single-propeller airplanes, the propeller is typically fixed at the front of the fuselage, although variants have been produced with the propeller at the rear.  Some airplanes have no fuselage, properly so called.

Syn. -- body.


word: Fuze plug
definition:
Fuze plug

Fuse plug

{ Fuse plug, or Fuze plug  }
1.
(Ordnance)
A plug fitted to the fuse hole of a shell to hold the fuse.

2.
A fusible plug that screws into a receptacle, used as a fuse in electric wiring.


word: Fusible
definition:
Fusible

Fu"si*ble
(?)
a.
[F. fusible. See Fuse, v. t.]
CapabIe of being melted or liquefied.

Fusible metal, any alloy of different metals capable of being easily fused, especially an alloy of five parts of bismuth, three of lead, and two of tin, which melts at a temperature below that of boiling water. Ure. -- Fusible plug (Steam Boiler), a piece of easily fusible alloy, placed in one of the sheets and intended to melt and blow off the steam in case of low water.


word: Fusiform
definition:
Fusiform

Fu"si*form
(?)
a.
[L. fusus spindle + -form: cf. F. fusiforme.]
Shaped like a spindle; shaped like a cylinder that tapers at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.

Syn. -- cigar-shaped.


word: Fusil
definition:
Fusil

Fu"sil
(?)
a.
[L. fusilis molten, fluid, fr. fundere, fusum, to pour, cast. See Fuse, v. t.]
1.
Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible.
[R.]
fusil
Woodward.

2.
Running or flowing, as a liquid.
[R.]
fusil
J. Philips.

3.
Formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded.
[Obs.]
Milton.


word: Fusil₂
definition:
Fusil

Fu"sil
(?)
n.
[F. fusil, LL. fosile a steel for kindling fire, from L. focus hearth, fireplace, in LL. fire. See Focus, and cf. Fusee a firelock.]
A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.


word: Fusil₃
definition:
Fusil

Fu"sil
n.
[See 3d Fusee.]
(Her.)
A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.

&hand_; It differs from a lozenge in being longer in proportion to its width.


word: Fusilier
definition:
Fusilier

Fusileer

{ Fu"sil*eer", Fu"sil*ier"  }
(?)
n.
[F. fusilier, fr. fusil.]
(Mil.)
(a)
Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural:
(b)
A title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, “The Royal Fusiliers,” etc.


word: Fusillade
definition:
Fusillade

Fu"sil*lade"
(?)
n.
[F. fusillade, cf. It. fucilata. See Fusil a firelock.]
(Mil.)
A simultaneous discharge of firearms.


word: Fusillade₂
definition:
Fusillade

Fu"sil*lade"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fusillader; p. pr. & vb. n. Fusillading.]
To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.


word: Fusion
definition:
Fusion

Fu"sion
(?)
n.
[L. fusio, fr. fundere, fusum to pour, melt: cf. F. fusion. See Fuse, v. t., aud cf, Foison.]
1.
The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.

2.
The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion.

3.
The union or blending together of things, as, melted together.

The universal fusion of races, languages, and customs . . . 
had produced a corresponding fusion of creeds.
C. Kingsley.

Watery fusion (Chem.) the melting of certain crystals by heat in their own water of crystallization.

4.
(Biol.)
The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues.


word: Fusome
definition:
Fusome

Fu"some
(?)
a.
[AS. f_;san to hasten, fr. f_;s ready, prompt, quick; akin to OS. f_;s, OHG. funs, Icel. fuss willing; prob. from the root of E. find.]
Handy; reat; handsome; notable.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Fuss
definition:
Fuss

Fuss
(fŭs)
n.
[Cf. Fusome.]
1.
A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.
Byron.

Zealously, assiduously, and with a minimum of fuss or noise
Carlyle.

2.
One who is unduly anxious about trifles; a fussbudget.
[R.]

I am a fuss and I don't deny it.
W. D. Howell.


word: Fuss₂
definition:
Fuss

Fuss
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Fussed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fussing.]
To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado.
Sir W. Scott.


word: fussbudget
definition:
fussbudget

fuss"budg*et
n.
a person who thinks excessively about unfortunate things that might happen; one who is excessively concerned about matters of trifling importance.

Syn. -- worrier, fusspot, worrywart.


word: Fussy
definition:
Fussy

Fuss"y
(?)
a.
[Compar. Fussier (?); superl. Fussiest.]
Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety.

Not at all fussy about his personal appearance.
R. G. White.


word: Fust
definition:
Fust

Fust
(fŭst)
n.
[OF. fust, F. fût, fr. L. fustis stick staff.]
(Arch.)
The shaft of a column, or trunk of a pilaster.
Gwilt.


word: Fust₂
definition:
Fust

Fust
n.
[OF. fust cask, F. fût cask, taste or smell of the cask, fustiness, cf. sentir le fût to taste of the cask. See 1st Fust.]
A strong, musty smell; mustiness.


word: Fustet
definition:
Fustet

Fus"tet
(fŭs"tĕt)
n.
[F. fustet (cf. Sp. & Pg. fustete), LL. fustetus, fr. L. fustis stick, in LL., tree, See 1st Fust, and cf. Fustic.]
The wood of the Rhus Cotinus or Venice sumach, a shrub of Southern Europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is not durable without a mordant.
Ure.


word: Fustian
definition:
Fustian

Fus"tian
(fŭs"chan; 106)
n.
[OE. fustan, fustian, OF. fustaine, F. futaine, It. fustagno, fr. LL. fustaneum, fustanum; cf. Pr. fustani, Sp. fustan. So called from Fustāt, i. e., Cairo, where it was made.]
1.
A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.

2.
An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used, above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast.

Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretched fustian.
Addison.


word: Fustian₂
definition:
Fustian

Fus"tian
a.
1.
Made of fustian.

2.
Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history.
Walpole.


word: Fustic
definition:
Fustic

Fus"tic
(?)
n.
[F. fustoc, Sp. fustoc.  Cf. Fustet.]
The wood of the Maclura tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, used in dyeing yellow; -- called also old fustic.
[Written also fustoc.]

&hand_; Other kinds of yellow wood are often called fustic; as that of species of Xanthoxylum, and especially the Rhus Cotinus, which is sometimes called young fustic to distinguish it from the Maclura. See Fustet.


word: Fustigate
definition:
Fustigate

Fus"ti*gate
(?)
v. t.
[L. fustigare, fr. fustis stick. See 1st Fust.]
To cudgel.
[R.]
Bailey.


word: Fustigation
definition:
Fustigation

Fus"ti*ga"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. fustigation.]
A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling.

This satire, composed of actual fustigation.
Motley.


word: Fustilarian
definition:
Fustilarian

Fus"ti*la"ri*an
(?)
n.
[From Fusty.]
A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Fustilugs
definition:
Fustilugs

Fustilug

{ Fus"ti*lug` (_;), Fus"ti*lugs` (?) }
n.
[Fusty + lug something heavy, to be drawn or carried.]
A gross, fat, unwieldy person.
[Obs.]
F. Junius.


word: Fustiness
definition:
Fustiness

Fust"i*ness
(?)
n.
A fusty state or quality; moldiness; mustiness; an ill smell from moldiness.


word: Fusty
definition:
Fusty

Fusty
(?)
a.
[Compar. Fustier (#); superl. Fustiest.]
[See 2d Fust.]
1.
Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank.
fusty
Fusty
Shak.

2.
Moping.
[Archaic]

A melancholy, fusty humor.
Pepys.


word: Fusure
definition:
Fusure

Fu"sure
(?)
n.
[L. fusura, fr. fundere, fusum. See Fuse, v. t.]
Act of fusing; fusion.
[R.]


word: Futchel
definition:
Futchel

Futch"el
(?)
n.
The jaws between which the hinder end of a carriage tongue is inserted.
Knight.


word: futharc
definition:
futharc

futhorc

futhork

fu"tharc, fu"thorc,  fu"thork
n.
1.
[From the sounds of the first five letters.]
The Runic alphabet; -- so called from the first six letters f, u, þ (th), o (or a), r, c (=k).  See rune.
[Also spelled futhark]

&hand_; The spelling futharc represents most accurately the original values of these six Runic letters.

&hand_;The name is derived from the sounds of the first five letters of the runic alphabet, f, u, th, o, r, and c.  The vowel sound of the fourth letter corresponded more closely to a in the earlier versions used in Scandinavian countries, and the earlier alphabet is therefore referred to as the futharc or futhark.  The fifth rune had a sound like that of k, and in the Danish futhark the fifth character is that transliterated as k.  Thus the runic alphabet is also called the futhork or futhark.  The third rune had a sound and form resembling that of the Anglo-Saxon thorn, which represented the th sound at the beginning of the word thorn.  The origins of the runic alphabet are obscure, but the earliest forms may have been invented around the second century A.D. in eastern Europe.  The forms of some of the letters show a relation to the Latin or Greek alphabets, and the futhorc was presumably in part an adaptation of those alphabets to the sound of the Germanic tongues.  An inscription of the futhark itself, an ordered list of the runes, was found on an object dated as early as the fifth century A.D.  The Scandinavian futharc had 16 runes, but the futhorc used in Anglo-Saxon England had 31. The futhark was mostly used for writing on wood, for which reason the runes were comprised of only vertical and diagonal strokes. The degree of widespread use of the futharc is not known but it was probably used mostly for short messages or inscriptions on objects.  Fewer than 10,000 runic inscriptions, both on wood and stone, have been found.  The number and forms of some of the runes varied over time and locality.
R. I. Page, “Runes”.

The letters are called Runes and the alphabet bears the name Futhorc from the first six letters.
I. Taylor.


word: Futile
definition:
Futile

Fu"tile
(?; 277)
a.
[L. futilis that easily pours out, that easily lets loose, vain, worthless, from the root of fundere to pour out: cf. F. futile. See Fuse, v. t.]
1.
Talkative; loquacious; tattling.
[Obs.]

Talkers and futile persons.
Bacon.

2.
Of no importance; having no useful purpose; useless; vain; worthless; pointless.
Futile
I. Taylor.

His reasoning . . . was singularly futile.
Macaulay.


word: Futility
definition:
Futility

Fu"til`i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. futilitas: cf. F. futilité.]
1.
The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity.
[Obs.]

2.
The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness.

The futility of this mode of philosophizing.
Whewell.


word: Futtock
definition:
Futtock

Fu"ttock
(?)
n.
[Prob. corrupted fr. foothook.]
(Naut.)
One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked transverse timbers passing across and over the keel.

Futtock plates (Naut.), plates of iron to which the dead-eyes of the topmast rigging are secured. -- Futtock shrouds, short iron shrouds leading from the upper part of the lower mast or of the main shrouds to the edge of the top, or through it, and connecting the topmast rigging with the lower mast. Totten.


word: Futurable
definition:
Futurable

Fu"tur*a*ble
(?; 135)
a.
Capable of being future; possible to occur.
[R.]

Not only to things future, but futurable.
Fuller.


word: Future
definition:
Future

Fu"ture
(?; 135)
a.
[F. futur, L.  futurus, used as fut. p. of esse to be, but from the same root as E. be. See Be, v. i.]
That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present.

Future tense (Gram.), the tense or modification of a verb which expresses a future act or event.


word: Future₂
definition:
Future

Fu"ture
(?)
n.
[Cf. F.  futur. See Future, a.]

1.
Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the future shall be as the present); collectively, events that are to happen in time to come.
future
Shak.

2.
The possibilities of the future; -- used especially of prospective success or advancement; as, he had great future before him.

3.
(Gram.)
A future tense.

To deal in futures, to speculate on the future values of merchandise or stocks. [Brokers' cant]


word: Futurism
definition:
Futurism

Fu"tur*ism
(?)
n.
(Painting)
1.
A movement or phase of post-impressionism (which see, below).

2.
A point of view that finds meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present.  The philosophy of a futurist.
MW10


word: Futurist
definition:
Futurist

Fu"tur*ist
n.
1.
One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant.

2.
(Theol.)
One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future.


word: Futuritial
definition:
Futuritial

Fu`tu*ri"tial
(?; 135)
a.
Relating to what is to come; pertaining to futurity; future.
[R.]


word: Futurition
definition:
Futurition

Fu`tu*ri"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. futurition.]
The state of being future; futurity.
[R.]

Nothing . . . can have this imagined futurition, but as it is decreed.
Coleridge.


word: Futurity
definition:
Futurity

Fu*tu"ri*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Futurities (_;).

1.
State of being that is yet to come; future state.

2.
Future time; time to come; the future.

3.
Event to come; a future event.

All futurities are naked before the All-seeing Eye.
South.


word: futurology
definition:
futurology

fu`tur*ol"o*gy
(?)
n.
Studies projecting or predicting the future based on current trends.
fu`tur*o*log"i*cal, a. -- fu`tur*ol"o*gist, n.


word: futz
definition:
futz

futz
v. i.
To fool around; to act without plan or purpose; -- usually used with around; as, don't futz around with a device without understanding its operation.
[Slang.]


word: Fuze₂
definition:
Fuze

Fuze
(?)
n.
A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See Fuse, n.

Chemical fuze, a fuze in which substances separated until required for action are then brought into contact, and uniting chemically, produce explosion. -- Concussion fuze, a fuze ignited by the striking of the projectile. -- Electric fuze, a fuze which is ignited by heat or a spark produced by an electric current. -- Friction fuze, a fuze which is ignited by the heat evolved by friction.  See fuzee{1}. -- Percussion fuze, a fuze in which the ignition is produced by a blow on some fulminating compound. -- Time fuze, a fuze adapted, either by its length or by the character of its composition, to burn a certain time before producing an explosion.


word: fuzee
definition:
fuzee

fuzee
n.
1.
a friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind.

Syn. -- fusee.

2.
any device by which an explosive charge is ignited.

Syn. -- fuse, fuze, fusee, primer.


word: Fuzz₂
definition:
Fuzz

Fuzz
n.
[Cf. Prov. E. fuzzy that ravels (of silk or cotton), D. voos spongy, fungous, G. faser filament. E. feaze to untwist.]
Fine, light particles or fibers; loose, volatile matter.

Fuzz ball, a kind of fungus or mushroom, which, when pressed, bursts and scatters a fine dust; a puffball.


word: Fuzzle
definition:
Fuzzle

Fuz"zle
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. LG. fuseln to drink common liquor, fr. fusel bad liquor.]
To make drunk; to intoxicate; to fuddle.
[Obs.]
Burton.


word: Fuzzy
definition:
Fuzzy

Fuzz"y
(?)
a.
[See Fuzz, n.]
1.
Not firmly woven; that ravels.
[Written also fozy.]
[Prov. Eng.]

2.
Furnished with fuzz; having fuzz; like fuzz; as, the fuzzy skin of a peach.


word: -fy
definition:
-fy

-fy
(?)
[Through French verbs in -fier, L. -ficare, akin to facere to do, make. See Fact.]
A suffix signifying to make, to form into, etc.; as, acetify, amplify, dandify, Frenchify, etc.


word: Fy
definition:
Fy

Fy
(?)
interj.
[See Fie, interj.]
A word which expresses blame, dislike, disapprobation, abhorrence, or contempt. See Fie.


word: Fyke
definition:
Fyke

Fyke
(?)
n.
[D. fuik a bow net.]
A long bag net distended by hoops, into which fish can pass easily, without being able to return; -- called also fyke net.
Cozzens.


word: Fyllot
definition:
Fyllot

Fyl"lot
(?)
n.
[Prov. fr. AS. fy_;erf_;te, fierf_;te, feówerf_;te. See Four, and Foot, n.]
A rebated cross, formerly used as a secret emblem, and a common ornament. It is also called gammadion, and swastika.


word: Fyrdung
definition:
Fyrdung

Fyrd

Fyrd (?), Fyr"dung (_;)
n.
[AS.; akin to E. fare, v. i.]
(Old. Eng. Hist.)
The military force of the whole nation, consisting of all men able to bear arms.

The national fyrd or militia.
J. R. Green.


word: G
definition:
G

G
(jē)
1.
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.

The form of G is from the Latin, in the alphabet which it first appeared as a modified form of C. The name is also from the Latin, and probably comes to us through the French. Etymologically it is most closely related to a c hard, k y, and w; as in corn, grain, kernel; kin L. genus, Gr. _;; E. garden, yard; drag, draw; also to ch and h; as in get, prehensile; guest, host (an army); gall, choler; gust, choose. See C.

2.
(Mus.)
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&sharp (G sharp) is a tone intermediate between G and A.


word: Gab
definition:
Gab

Gab
(găb)
n.
[Cf. Gaff.]
(Steam Engine)
The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric.


word: Gab₂
definition:
Gab

Gab
n.
[OE. gabbe gabble, mocking, fr. Icel. gabb mocking, mockery, or OF. gab, gabe; perh. akin to E. gape, or gob.  Cf. Gab, v. i., Gibber.]
The mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness.
[Colloq.]

Gift of gab, facility of expression. [Colloq.]


word: Gab₃
definition:
Gab

Gab
v. i.
[OE. gabben to jest, lie, mock, deceive, fr. Icel. gabba to mock, or OF. gaber. See 2d Gab, and cf. Gabble.]
1.
To deceive; to lie.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
To talk idly; to prate; to chatter.
Holinshed.


word: Gaberdine
definition:
Gaberdine

Gabardine

Gab`ar*dine", Gab`er*dine" (_;)
n.
[Sp. gabardina; cf. It.  gavardina, OF. galvardine, calvardine, gavardine, galeverdine; perh. akin to Sp. & OF. gaban a sort of cloak or coat for rainy weather, F. caban great coat with a hood and sleeves, It. gabbano and perh. to E. cabin.]
A coarse frock or loose upper garment formerly worn by Jews; a mean dress.
Shak.


word: Gabble
definition:
Gabble

Gab"ble
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Gabbled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gabbling (?).]
[Freq. of gab. See Gab, v. i.]
1.
To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.
Shak.

2.
To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; -- used of fowls as well as people; as, gabbling geese.


word: Gabble₂
definition:
Gabble

Gab"ble
n.
1.
Loud or rapid talk without meaning.

Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud
Among the builders.
Milton.

2.
Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.


word: Gabbro
definition:
Gabbro

Gab"bro
(?)
n.
[It.]
(Geol.)
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).


word: Gabel
definition:
Gabel

Ga"bel
(?)
n.
[F. gabelle, LL. gabella, gabulum, gablum; of uncertain origin.  Cf.Gavel tribute.]
(O. Eng. Law)
A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
Burrill.

He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Gaber-lunzie
definition:
Gaber-lunzie

Gab"er-lun`zie
(?)
n.
[Gael. gabair talker + lunndair idler.]
A beggar with a wallet; a licensed beggar.
[Scot.]
Sir W. Scott.


word: Gabert
definition:
Gabert

Gab"ert
(?)
n.
[Cf.F.gabare, Arm. kobar, gobar.]
A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation.
[Scot.]
Jamieson.


word: Gabion
definition:
Gabion

Ga"bi*on
(?)
n.
[F., from It. gabbione a large cage, gabion, from gabbia cage, L. cavea. See Cage.]
1.
(Fort.)
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.

2.
(Hydraul. Engin.)
An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement.


word: Gabionade
definition:
Gabionade

Ga`bi*on*ade"
(?)
n.
[F. gabionnade.]
1.
(Fort.)
A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire.

2.
A structure of gabions sunk in lines, as a core for a sand bar in harbor improvements.


word: Gabionage
definition:
Gabionage

Ga"bi*on*age
(?)
n.
[F. gabionnage.]
(Mil.)
The part of a fortification built of gabions.


word: Gable₂
definition:
Gable

Ga"ble
n.
[OE. gable, gabil, F. gable, fr. LL. gabalum front of a building, prob. of German or Scand. origin; cf. OHG. gibil, G. giebel gable, Icel. gafl, Goth. gibla pinnacle; perh. akin to Gr. _; head, and E. cephalic, or to G. gabel fork, AS. geafl, E. gaffle, L. gabalus a kind of gallows.]
(Arch.)
(a)
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.
(b)
The end wall of a building, as distinguished from the front or rear side.
(c)
A decorative member having the shape of a triangular gable, such as that above a Gothic arch in a doorway.

Bell gable. See under Bell. -- Gable roof, a double sloping roof which forms a gable at each end. -- Gable wall. Same as Gable (b). -- Gable window, a window in a gable.


word: gabled
definition:
gabled

gabled
adj.
furnished or constructed with a gable; -- of a house or roof; as, a gabled roof.  Opposite of ungabled.


word: Gablet
definition:
Gablet

Ga"blet
(?)
n.
(Arch.)
A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.


word: Gablock
definition:
Gablock

Gab"lock
(?)
n.
[See Gavelock.]
A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock.
Wright.


word: Gabonese
definition:
Gabonese

Gabonese
adj.
of or relating to Gabon or its inhabitants; as, Gabonese hills; Gabonese writers.


word: Gaby
definition:
Gaby

Ga"by
(?)
n.
[Icel. gapi a rash, reckless man.  Cf. Gafe.]
A simpleton; a dunce; a lout.
[Colloq.]


word: Gad
definition:
Gad

Gad
(?)
n.
[OE. gad, Icel. gaddr goad, sting; akin to Sw. gadd sting, Goth. gazds, G. gerte switch. See Yard a measure.]
1.
The point of a spear, or an arrowhead.

2.
A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc.

I will go get a leaf of brass,
And with a gad of steel will write these words.
Shak.

3.
A sharp-pointed rod; a goad.

4.
A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
Fairholt.

5.
A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel.
[Obs.]

Flemish steel . . . some in bars and some in gads.
Moxon.

6.
A rod or stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with.
[Prov. Eng. Local, U.S.]
Halliwell. Bartlett.

Upon the gad, upon the spur of the moment; hastily. [Obs.] “All this done upon the gad!”  Shak.


word: Gad₂
definition:
Gad

Gad
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Gadded; p. pr. & vb. n. Gadding.]
[Prob. fr. gad, n., and orig. meaning to drive about.]
To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled.
gadding
Milton.

Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?
Jer. ii. 36.


word: Gadding
definition:
Gadding

Gad"ding
a. & n.
Going about much, needlessly or without purpose.

Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets.
Bacon.

The good nuns would check her gadding tongue.
Tennyson.

Gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.


word: Gaddish
definition:
Gaddish

Gad"dish
(?)
a.
Disposed to gad.
Gad"dish*nes, n. “Gaddishness and folly.”  Abp. Leighton.


word: Gade
definition:
Gade

Gade
(?)
n.
[Cf. Cod the fish.]
(Zool.)
(a)
A small British fish (Motella argenteola) of the Cod family.
(b)
A pike, so called at Moray Firth; -- called also gead.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Gadfly
definition:
Gadfly

Gad"fly`
(găd"flī`)
n.
pl. Gadflies (#).
[Gad + fly.]
(Zool.)
Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.

&hand_; The sheep gadfly (Oestrus ovis) deposits its young in the nostrils of sheep, and the larvæ develop in the frontal sinuses. The common species which infests cattle (Hypoderma bovis) deposits its eggs upon or in the skin where the larvæ or bots live and produce sores called wormels. The gadflies of the horse produce the intestinal parasites called bots. See Botfly, and Bots. The true horseflies are often erroneously called gadflies, and the true gadflies are sometimes incorrectly called breeze flies.

Gadfly petrel (Zool.), one of several small petrels of the genus Oestrelata.


word: Gadhelic
definition:
Gadhelic

Ga*dhel"ic
(gȧ*dĕl"ĭk; găd"el*ĭk)
a.
[See Gael.]
Of, belonging to, or designating, that division of the Celtic languages which includes the Irish, Gaelic, and Manx.


word: Gadic
definition:
Gadic

Gad"ic
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or derived from, the cod (Gadus); -- applied to an acid obtained from cod-liver oil, viz., gadic acid.


word: Gaditanian
definition:
Gaditanian

Gad`i*ta`ni*an
(?)
a.
[L. Gaditanus, fr. Gades Cadiz.]
Of or relating to Cadiz, in Spain.
n. A native or inhabitant of Cadiz.


word: Gadoid
definition:
Gadoid

Ga"doid
(?; 277)
a.
[NL. gadus cod + -oid: cf. F. gadoïde gadoid, Gr. _; a sort of fish, F. gade.]
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the family of fishes (Gadidæ) which includes the cod, haddock, and hake.
n. One of the Gadidæ.
[Written also gadid.]


word: Gadolinia
definition:
Gadolinia

Gad`o*lin"i*a
(?)
n.
[NL. See Gadolinite.]
(Chem.)
A rare earth associated with yttria and regarded as the oxide (Gd2O3) of a metallic element, gadolinium.


word: Gadolinite
definition:
Gadolinite

Gad"o*lin*ite
(?)
n.
[Named after Gadolin, a Russian chemist.]
(Min.)
A mineral of a nearly black color and vitreous luster, and consisting principally of the silicates of yttrium, cerium, and iron.


word: Gadolinium
definition:
Gadolinium

Gad`o*lin"i*um
(?)
n.
[NL. See Gadolinite.]
(Chem.)
A rare earth metallic element of the Lanthanide series, with a characteristic spectrum, found associated with yttrium and other rare earth elements.  Symbol, Gd; it has an atomic number of 64, an atomic weight of 157.25 (C=12.011), and a valence of +3.


word: Gaduin
definition:
Gaduin

Gad"u*in
(?)
n.
[NL. gadus codfish.]
(Chem.)
A yellow or brown amorphous substance, of indifferent nature, found in cod-liver oil.


word: Gadwall
definition:
Gadwall

Gad"wall
(?)
n.
[Gad to walk about + well.]
(Zool.)
A large duck (Anas strepera), valued as a game bird, found in the northern parts of Europe and America; -- called also gray duck.
[Written also gaddwell.]


word: Gaea
definition:
Gaea

Gaea
(jē"ȧ)
prop. n.
[Gr. Gai^a, Gh^]
(Mythol.)
The goddess of the earth, considered as a personification of the earth.  According  to Hesiod she was the first-born of Chaos, and mother of Uranus, Pontus, Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
[Also spelled Gaia.]

Syn. -- Gaia, Ge.


word: Gaekwar
definition:
Gaekwar

Gaek"war
(?)
n.
[Also Gaikwar, Guicowar.]
[Marathi gāekwār, prop., a cowherd.]
The title of the ruling Prince of Baroda, in Gujarat, in Bombay, India.


word: Gael
definition:
Gael

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


word: Gaelic
definition:
Gaelic

Gael"ic
(?; 277)
a.
[Gael. Gàidhealach, Gaelach, from Gàidheal, Gael, a Scotch Highlander.]
(Ethnol.)
Of or pertaining to the Gael, esp. to the Celtic Highlanders of Scotland; as, the Gaelic language.


word: Gaelic₂
definition:
Gaelic

Gael"ic
(?)
n.
[Gael. Gaelig, Gàilig.]
The language of the Gaels, esp. of the Highlanders of Scotland. It is a branch of the Celtic.


word: Gaff
definition:
Gaff

Gaff
(găf)
n.
[OE. gaffe, F. gaffe an iron hook with which seamen pull great fishes into their ships; cf. Ir. gaf, gafa hook; perh. akin to G. gabel fork, Skr. gabhasti.  Cf. Gaffle, Gable.]
1.
A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish.

2.
(Naut.)
The spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is extended.

3.
Same as Gaffle, 1.
Wright.


word: Gaff₂
definition:
Gaff

Gaff
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gaffed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gaffing.]
To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon.


word: gaffe
definition:
gaffe

gaffe
(găf)
n.
A socially awkward or tactless act.

Syn. -- faux-pas, solecism, slip, gaucherie.


word: Gaffer
definition:
Gaffer

Gaf"fer
(găf"fẽr)
n.
[Possibly contr. fr. godfather; but prob. fr. gramfer for grandfather.  Cf. Gammer.]
1.
An old fellow; an aged rustic.

Go to each gaffer and each goody.
Fawkes.

&hand_; Gaffer was originally a respectful title, now degenerated into a term of familiarity or contempt when addressed to an aged man in humble life.

2.
A foreman or overseer of a gang of laborers.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Gaffle
definition:
Gaffle

Gaf"fle
(?)
n.
[Cf. AS. geafl fork, LG., D., Sw., & Dan. gaffel, G. gabel, W. gafl, Ir. & Gael. gabhal.  Cf. Gaff.]
1.
An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks.

2.
A lever to bend crossbows.


word: Gaff-topsail
definition:
Gaff-topsail

Gaff`-top"sail
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast.


word: Gag
definition:
Gag

Gag
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gagged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gagging (?).]
[Prob. fr. W. cegio to choke or strangle, fr. ceg mouth, opening, entrance.]
1.
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.
Marvell.

The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hood winked.
Maccaulay.

2.
To pry or hold open by means of a gag.

Mouths gagged to such a wideness.
Fortescue (Transl.).

3.
To cause to heave with nausea.


word: Gag₂
definition:
Gag

Gag
v. i.
1.
To heave with nausea; to retch.

2.
To introduce gags or interpolations. See Gag, n., 3.
[Slang]
Cornill Mag.


word: Gag₃
definition:
Gag

Gag
n.
1.
Something thrust into the mouth or throat to hinder speaking.

2.
A mouthful that makes one retch; a choking bit; as, a gag of mutton fat.
Lamb.

3.
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.
[Slang]

Gag rein (Harness), a rein for drawing the bit upward in the horse's mouth. -- Gag runner (Harness), a loop on the throat latch guiding the gag rein.


word: gaga
definition:
gaga

gaga
adj.
1.
mentally or physically infirm with age.

Syn. -- doddering, senile.

2.
marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; as, gaga over his girlfriend.

Syn. -- crazy about, dotty, enamored, infatuated, in love, smitten, soft on(predicate), taken with(predicate).


word: Gage
definition:
Gage

Gage
(gāj)
n.
[F. gage, LL. gadium, wadium; of German origin; cf. Goth. wadi, OHG. wetti, weti, akin to E. wed. See Wed, and cf. Wage, n.]
1.
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.

Nor without gages to the needy lend.
Sandys.

2.
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
Shak.


word: Gage₂
definition:
Gage

Gage
(gāj)
n.
[So called because an English family named Gage imported the greengage from France, in the last century.]
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.


word: Gage₃
definition:
Gage

Gage
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gaged (gājd); p. pr & vb. n. Gaging (gā"jĭng).]
[Cf. F. gager. See Gage, n., a pledge.]
1.
To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.
[Obs.]

A moiety competent
Was gaged by our king.
Shak.

2.
To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.

Great debts
Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal,
Hath left me gaged.
Shak.


word: Gagger
definition:
Gagger

Gag"ger
(găg"gẽr)
n.
1.
One who gags.

2.
(Founding)
A piece of iron imbedded in the sand of a mold to keep the sand in place.


word: Gaggle
definition:
Gaggle

Gag"gle
(găg"g'l)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Gaggled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gaggling (?).]
[Of imitative origin; cf. D. gaggelen, gagelen, G. gackeln, gackern, MHG. gāgen, E. giggle, cackle.]
To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.
Bacon.


word: Gaggle₂
definition:
Gaggle

Gag"gle
n.
[Cf. Gaggle v. i.]
1.
(Zool.)
A flock of wild geese, especially when on the ground.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

2.
Hence:
A gathering of people, especially a noisy one.

3.
Hence:
Any clustered group of related objects.


word: Gag law
definition:
Gag law

Gag law
(Parliamentary Law)
A law or ruling prohibiting proper or free debate, as in closure.
[Colloq. or Cant]


word: gahnite
definition:
gahnite

gahn"ite
(gän"īt)
n.
[Named after Gahn, a Swedish chemist.]
(Min.)
Zinc spinel; automolite.


word: gaidic
definition:
gaidic

ga*id"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. gai^a earth.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to hypogeic acid; -- applied to an acid obtained from hypogeic acid.


word: Gain
definition:
Gain

Gain
(?)
n.
[Cf. W. gan a mortise.]
(Arch.)
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.


word: Gain₂
definition:
Gain

Gain
a.
[OE. gein, gain, good, near, quick; cf. Icel. gegn ready, serviceable, and gegn, adv., against, opposite.  Cf. Again.]
Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]


word: Gain₃
definition:
Gain

Gain
(gān)
n.
[OE. gain, gein, ga&yogh_;hen, gain, advantage, Icel. gagn; akin to Sw. gagn, Dan. gavn, cf. Goth. gageigan to gain. The word was prob. influenced by F. gain gain, OF. gaain.  Cf. Gain, v. t.]
1.
That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss.

But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Phil. iii. 7.

Godliness with contentment is great gain.
1 Tim. vi. 6.

Every one shall share in the gains.
Shak.

2.
The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation.
gain
Tennyson.


word: Gain₄
definition:
Gain

Gain
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gained (gānd); p. pr. & vb. n. Gaining.]
[From gain, n. but. prob. influenced by F. gagner to earn, gain, OF. gaaignier to cultivate, OHG. weidin&omacrn, weidinen to pasture, hunt, fr. weida pasturage, G. weide, akin to Icel. veiðr hunting, AS. wāðu, cf. L. venari to hunt, E. venison. See Gain, n., profit.]

1.
To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Matt. xvi. 26.

To gain dominion, or to keep it gained.
Milton.

For fame with toil we gain, but lose with ease.
Pope.

2.
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.

3.
To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.

If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
Matt. xviii. 15.

To gratify the queen, and gained the court.
Dryden.

4.
To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor.

Forded Usk and gained the wood.
Tennyson.

5.
To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage.
[Obs. or Ironical]

Ye should . . . not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.
Acts xxvii. 21.

Gained day, the calendar day gained in sailing eastward around the earth. -- To gain ground, to make progress; to advance in any undertaking; to prevail; to acquire strength or extent. -- To gain over, to draw to one's party or interest; to win over. -- To gain the wind (Naut.), to reach the windward side of another ship.


word: Gain₅
definition:
Gain

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.

Thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion.
Ezek. xxii. 12.

Gaining twist, in rifled firearms, a twist of the grooves, which increases regularly from the breech to the muzzle. To gain on or To gain upon. (a) To encroach on; as, the ocean gains on the land. (b) To obtain influence with. (c) To win ground upon; to move faster than, as in a race or contest. (d) To get the better of; to have the advantage of.
[1913 Webster]
The English have not only gained upon the Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice itself. Addison.


My good behavior had so far gained on the emperor, that I began to conceive hopes of liberty.
Swift.


word: Gainable
definition:
Gainable

Gain"a*ble
(?)
a.
[CF. F. gagnable. See Gain, v. t.]
Capable of being obtained or reached.
Sherwood.


word: Gainage
definition:
Gainage

Gain"age
(?, 48)
n.
[OF. gaignage pasturage, crop, F. gaignage pasturage. See Gain, v. t.]
(O. Eng. Law)
(a)
The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.
(b)
The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself.
Bouvier.


word: Gainful
definition:
Gainful

Gain"ful
(?)
a.
Profitable; advantageous; lucrative.
gainful
Macaulay.
Gain"ful*ly, adv. -- Gain"ful*ness, n.


word: Gainly
definition:
Gainly

Gain"ly
adv.
[See Gain, a.]
Handily; readily; dexterously; advantageously.
[Obs.]
Dr. H. More.


word: Gainpain
definition:
Gainpain

Gain"pain`
(?)
n.
[F. gagner to gain + pain bread.]
Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.


word: Gainsay
definition:
Gainsay

Gain`say"
(? or ?; 277)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gainsaid (? or ?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gainsaying.]
[OE. geinseien, ageinseien. See Again, and Say to utter.]
To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.

I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Luke xxi. 15.

The just gods gainsay
That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother,
My sacred aunt, should by my mortal sword
Be drained.
Shak.


word: Gainsborough hat
definition:
Gainsborough hat

Gains"borough hat
(?)
A woman's broad-brimmed hat of a form thought to resemble those shown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, the English artist (1727-88).


word: Gainstand
definition:
Gainstand

Gain"stand`
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gainstood; p. pr. & vb. n. gainstanding.]
[See Again, and Stand.]
To withstand; to resist.
[Obs.]

Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires.
Sir P. Sidney.


word: Gainstrive
definition:
Gainstrive

Gain"strive`
(?)
v. t. & i.
[See Again, and Strive.]
To strive or struggle against; to withstand.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Gairish/ness
definition:
Gairish/ness

Gairishly

Gairish

Gair"ish (?), a., Gair"ish*ly, adv., Gair"ish/ness, n.
Same as Garish, Garishly, Garishness.


word: Gait
definition:
Gait

Gait
(?)
n.
[See Gate a way.]
1.
A going; a walk; a march; a way.

Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor folks pass.
Shak.

2.
Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.

'T is Cinna; I do know him by his gait.
Shak.


word: Gaited
definition:
Gaited

Gait"ed
(?)
a.
Having (such) a gait; -- used in composition; as, slow-gaited; heavy-gaited.


word: Gaiter
definition:
Gaiter

Gait"er
(?)
n.
[F. guêtre, cf. Armor. gweltren; or perh. of German origin, and akin to E. wear, v.]
1.
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.

2.
A kind of shoe, consisting of cloth, and covering the ankle.


word: Gaytre
definition:
Gaytre

Gaitre

Gai"tre, Gay"tre (gā"tẽr)
n.
[OE.  Cf. Gatten tree.]
The dogwood tree.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Gala
definition:
Gala

Ga"la
(?)
n.
[F. gala show, pomp, fr. It. gala finery, gala; of German origin. See Gallant.]
Pomp, show, or festivity.
Macaulay.

Gala day, a day of mirth and festivity; a holiday.


word: Galacta-gogue
definition:
Galacta-gogue

Ga*lac"ta-gogue
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, milk + _; to lead.]
(Med.)
An agent exciting secretion of milk.


word: Galactic
definition:
Galactic

Ga*lac"tic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; milky, fr. _;, _;, milk. See Galaxy, and cf. Lactic.]
1.
Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid.

2.
Of or pertaining to the galaxy or Milky Way.

Galactic circle (Astron.), the great circle of the heavens, to which the course of the galaxy most nearly conforms. Herschel. -- Galactic poles, the poles of the galactic circle.


word: Galactin
definition:
Galactin

Ga*lac"tin
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, milk.  Cf. Lactin.]
(Chem.)
(a)
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.
(b)
A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree (Galactodendron).
(c)
An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate resembling gelose, found in the seeds of leguminous plants, and yielding on decomposition several sugars, including galactose.


word: Galactodensimeter
definition:
Galactodensimeter

Ga*lac`to*den*sim"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _; + E. densimeter.]
Same as Galactometer.


word: Galactometer
definition:
Galactometer

Gal`ac*tom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, milk + -meter: cf. F. galactomètre.  Cf. Lactometer.]
An instrument for ascertaining the quality of milk (i.e., its richness in cream) by determining its specific gravity; a lactometer.


word: Galactophagist
definition:
Galactophagist

Gal`ac*toph"a*gist
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, milk + _; to eat: cf. _; to live on milk.]
One who eats, or subsists on, milk.


word: Galactophorous
definition:
Galactophorous

Gal`ac*toph"o*rous
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;; _;, _;, milk + fe`rein to bear: cf. F. galactophore.  Cf. Lactiferous.]
(Anat.)
Milk-carrying; lactiferous; -- applied to the ducts of mammary glands.


word: Galactopoietic
definition:
Galactopoietic

Ga*lac`to*poi*et"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;, _;, milk + _; capable of making; fr. _; to make.]
(Med.)
Increasing the flow of milk; milk-producing.
n. A galactopoietic substance.


word: Galactose
definition:
Galactose

Ga*lac"tose
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
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).


word: Galago
definition:
Galago

Ga*la"go
(?)
n.
pl. Galagos (#).
[Native name.]
(Zool.)
A genus of African lemurs, including numerous species.

&hand_; The grand galago (Galago crassicaudata) is about the size of a cat; the mouse galago (G. murinus)is about the size of a mouse.


word: Galangal
definition:
Galangal

Galanga

{ Ga*lan"ga (?), Ga*lan"gal (?) }
n.
[OE. galingale, OF. galingal, garingal, F. galanga (cf. Sp. galanga), prob. fr. Ar. khalanjān. ]
The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (Alpinia Galanga and Alpinia officinarum) and of the Kæmpferia Galanga), -- all of the Ginger family.


word: Galatea
definition:
Galatea

Gal`a*te"a
(?)
n.
[After Galatea, a British man-of-war, the material being used for children's sailor suits.]
A kind of striped cotton fabric, usually of superior quality and striped with blue or red on white.


word: Galantine
definition:
Galantine

Gal"an*tine
(? or ?)
n.
[F. galantine.]
A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold.
Smart.


word: Galapee tree
definition:
Galapee tree

Gal"a*pee` tree"
(?)
(Bot.)
The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves.


word: Galatian
definition:
Galatian

Ga*la"tian
(?)
prop. 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.


word: Galaxy
definition:
Galaxy

Gal"ax*y
(?)
n.
pl. Galaxies (#).
[F. galaxie, L. galaxias, fr. Gr. _; (sc. _; circle), fr. _;, _;, milk; akin to L. lac.  Cf. Lacteal.]

1.
(Astron.)
1.
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.
Nichol.

2.
A very large collection of stars comparable in size to the Milky Way system, held together by gravitational force and separated from other such star systems by large distances of mostly empty space.  Galaxies vary widely in shape and size, the most common nearby galaxies being over 70,000 light years in diameter and separated from each other by even larger distances.  The number of stars in one galaxy varies, and may extend into the hundreds of billions.

3.
A splendid or impressive assemblage of persons or things; as, a galaxy of movie stars.


word: Galbanum
definition:
Galbanum

Galban

{ Gal"ban, Gal"ba*num (?), }
n.
[L. galbanum, Gr. _;, prob. from Heb. klekb'n_;h: cf. F. galbanum.]
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.


word: Galbe
definition:
Galbe

Galbe
(?)
n.
[F.; OF. garbe, fr. It. garbo grace, gracefulness. See Garb dress.]
(Art)
The general outward form of any solid object, as of a column or a vase.


word: Galbulidae
definition:
Galbulidae

Galbulidae
n.
A natural family of tropical American birds comprising the jacamars.

Syn. -- family Galbulidae.


word: Gale
definition:
Gale

Gale
(gāl)
n.
[Prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. gal furious, Icel. galinn, cf. Icel. gala to sing, AS. galan to sing, Icel. galdr song, witchcraft, AS. galdor charm, sorcery, E. nightingale; also, Icel. gj&omacrla gust of wind, gola breeze.  Cf. Yell.]
1.
A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.

&hand_; Gales have a velocity of from about eighteen (“moderate”) to about eighty (“very heavy”) miles an our.
Sir. W. S. Harris.

2.
A moderate current of air; a breeze.

A little gale will soon disperse that cloud.
Shak.

And winds of gentlest gale Arabian odors fanned
From their soft wings.
Milton.

3.
A state of excitement, passion, or hilarity.

The ladies, laughing heartily, were fast getting into what, in New England, is sometimes called a gale.
Brooke (Eastford).

Topgallant gale (Naut.), one in which a ship may carry her topgallant sails.


word: Gale₅
definition:
Gale

Gale
n.
[AS. gagel, akin to D. gagel.]
(Bot.)
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.


word: Gale₆
definition:
Gale

Gale
n.
[Cf. Gabel.]
The payment of a rent or annuity.
[Eng.]
Mozley & W.

Gale day, the day on which rent or interest is due.


word: Galea
definition:
Galea

Ga"le*a
(?)
n.
[L., a helmet.]
1.
(Bot.)
The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.

2.
(Surg.)
A kind of bandage for the head.

3.
(Pathol.)
Headache extending all over the head.

4.
(Paleon.)
A genus of fossil echini, having a vaulted, helmet-shaped shell.

5.
(Zool.)
The anterior, outer process of the second joint of the maxillae in certain insects.


word: Galeated
definition:
Galeated

Galeate

{ Ga"le*ate (?), Ga"le*a`ted (?), }
a.
[L. galeatus, p. p. of galeare helmet.]
1.
Wearing a helmet; protected by a helmet; covered, as with a helmet.

2.
(Biol.)
Helmeted; having a helmetlike part, as a crest, a flower, etc.; helmet-shaped.


word: Galei
definition:
Galei

Ga"le*i
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Galeus, name of one genus, fr. Gr. _; a kind of shark.]
(Zool.)
That division of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sharks.


word: Galena
definition:
Galena

Ga*le"na
(?)
n.
[L. galena lead ore, dross that remains after melting lead: cf. F. galène sulphide of lead ore, antidote to poison, stillness of the sea, calm, tranquility.]

1.
(Med.)
A remedy or antidote for poison; theriaca.
[Obs.]
Parr.

2.
(Min.)
Lead sulphide; the principal ore of lead. It is of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, and is cubic in crystallization and cleavage.

False galena. See Blende.


word: Galenical₂
definition:
Galenical

Galenic

Ga*len"ic, Ga*len"ic*al
a.
[From Galen, the physician.]
Relating to Galen or to his principles and method of treating diseases.
Dunglison.

Galenic pharmacy, that branch of pharmacy which relates to the preparation of medicines by infusion, decoction, etc., as distinguished from those which are chemically prepared.


word: Galeopithecus
definition:
Galeopithecus

Ga`le*o*pi*the"cus
(gā`le̝*o̝*pĭ*thē"kŭs)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. gale`h a weasel + pi`qhkos an ape.]
(Zool.)
A genus of flying Insectivora, formerly called flying lemurs. See Colugo.


word: galere
definition:
galere

galere

galere, galère
(gȧ*lẽr)
n.
[F. gallery.]
A group of people with some common characteristic, especially a coterie of undesirable people.

Syn. -- rogue's gallery.


word: Galericulate
definition:
Galericulate

Gal`er*ic"u*late
(?)
a.
[L. galericulum, dim. of galerum a hat or cap, fr. galea helmet.]
Covered as with a hat or cap.
Smart.


word: Galerite
definition:
Galerite

Gal"er*ite
(?)
n.
[L. galerum a hat, cap: cf. F. galérite.]
(Paleon.)
A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus Galerites.


word: Galician
definition:
Galician

Ga*li"cian
(?)
a.
[Cf. Sp. Galiciano, Gallego, fr. L. Gallaecus, Gallaicus, fr. Gallaeci a people in Western Spain.]
Of or pertaining to Galicia, in Spain, or to Galicia, the kingdom of Austrian Poland.
n. A native of Galicia in Spain; -- called also Gallegan.


word: Galilean
definition:
Galilean

Gal`i*le"an
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to Galileo; as, the Galilean telescope. See Telescope.


word: Galilean₂
definition:
Galilean

Gal`i*le"an
(?)
a.
[L. Galilaeus, fr. Galilaea Galilee, Gr. _;: cf. F. galiléen.]
Of or relating to Galilee.


word: Galilean₃
definition:
Galilean

Gal`i*le"an
n.
1.
A native or inhabitant of Galilee, the northern province of Palestine under the Romans.

2.
(Jewish Hist.)
One of the party among the Jews, who opposed the payment of tribute to the Romans; -- called also Gaulonite.

3.
A Christian in general; -- used as a term of reproach by Muslims and Pagans.
Byron.


word: Galilee
definition:
Galilee

Gal"i*lee
(?)
n.
[Supposed to have been so termed in allusion to the scriptural “Galilee of the Gentiles.” cf. OF. galilée.]
(Arch.)
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.
Gwilt.


word: Galimatias
definition:
Galimatias

Gal`i*ma"tias
(?)
n.
[F.]
Nonsense; gibberish; confused and unmeaning talk; confused mixture.

Her dress, like her talk, is a galimatias of several countries.
Walpole.


word: Galingale
definition:
Galingale

Gal"in*gale
(?)
n.
[See Galangal.]
(Bot.)
A plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus longus) having aromatic roots; also, any plant of the same genus.
Chaucer.

Meadow, set with slender galingale.
Tennyson.


word: Galiot
definition:
Galiot

Gal"i*ot
(?)
n.
[OE. galiote, F. galiote. See Galley.]
(Naut.)
(a)
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.
(b)
A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail.


word: Galipot
definition:
Galipot

Gal"i*pot
(?)
n.
[F. galipot; cf. OF. garipot the wild pine or pitch tree.]
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.


word: Gall
definition:
Gall

Gall
(g&asuml_;l)
n.
[OE. galle, gal, AS. gealla; akin to D.  gal, OS. & OHG. galla, Icel. gall, SW. galla, Dan. galde, L. fel, Gr. _;, and prob. to E. yellow. √49.  See Yellow, and cf.  Choler]
1.
(Physiol.)
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.

2.
The gall bladder.

3.
Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.

He hath . . . compassed me with gall and travail.
Lam. iii. 5.

Comedy diverted without gall.
Dryden.

4.
Impudence; brazen assurance.
[Slang]

Gall bladder (Anat.), the membranous sac, in which the bile, or gall, is stored up, as secreted by the liver; the cholecystis. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus. -- Gall duct, a duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct, or the hepatic duct. -- Gall sickness, a remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands. Dunglison. -- Gall of the earth (Bot.), an herbaceous composite plant with variously lobed and cleft leaves, usually the Prenanthes serpentaria.


word: Gall₂
definition:
Gall

Gall
(g&asuml_;l)
n.
[F. galle, noix de galle, fr. L. galla.]
(Zool.)
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.

&hand_; The galls, or gallnuts, of commerce are produced by insects of the genus Cynips, chiefly on an oak (Quercus infectoria syn. Quercus Lusitanica) of Western Asia and Southern Europe. They contain much tannin, and are used in the manufacture of that article and for making ink and a black dye, as well as in medicine.

Gall insect (Zool.), any insect that produces galls. -- Gall midge (Zool.), any small dipterous insect that produces galls. -- Gall oak, the oak (Quercus infectoria) which yields the galls of commerce. -- Gall of glass, the neutral salt skimmed off from the surface of melted crown glass;- called also glass gall and sandiver. Ure.-- Gall wasp. (Zool.) See Gallfly.


word: Gall₄
definition:
Gall

Gall
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Galled (g&asuml_;ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Galling.]
[OE. gallen; cf. F. galer to scratch, rub, gale scurf, scab, G. galle a disease in horses' feet, an excrescence under the tongue of horses; of uncertain origin.  Cf. Gall gallnut.]
1.
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.

I am loth to gall a new-healed wound.
Shak.

2.
To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.

They that are most galled with my folly,
They most must laugh.
Shak.

3.
To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.

In our wars against the French of old, we used to gall them with our longbows, at a greater distance than they could shoot their arrows.
Addison.


word: Gallant
definition:
Gallant

Gal"lant
(găl"lant)
a.
[F. gallant, prop. p. pr. of OF. galer to rejoice, akin to OF. gale amusement, It. gala ornament; of German origin; cf. OHG. geil merry, luxuriant, wanton, G. geil lascivious, akin to AS. gāl wanton, wicked, OS. gēl merry, Goth. gailjan to make to rejoice, or perh. akin to E. weal. See Gala, Galloon.]

1.
Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.

The town is built in a very gallant place.
Evelyn.

Our royal, good and gallant ship.
Shak.

2.
Noble in bearing or spirit; brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant officer.

That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds.
Shak.

The gay, the wise, the gallant, and the grave.
Waller.


word: Gallant₃
definition:
Gallant

Gal*lant"
(?; 277)
n.
1.
A man of mettle or spirit; a gay, fashionable man; a young blood.
Shak.

2.
One fond of paying attention to ladies.

3.
One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer.
Addison.

&hand_; In the first sense it is by some orthoëpists (as in Shakespeare) accented on the first syllable.


word: Gallant₄
definition:
Gallant

Gal*lant"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gallanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Gallanting.]
1.
To attend or wait on, as a lady; as, to gallant ladies to the play.

2.
To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan.
[Obs.]
Addison.


word: Gallantry
definition:
Gallantry

Gal"lant*ry
(?)
n.
pl. Gallantries (#).
[F. galanterie.]
1.
Splendor of appearance; ostentatious finery.
[Archaic]

Guess the gallantry of our church by this . . . when the desk whereon the priest read was inlaid with plates of silver.
Fuller.

2.
Bravery; intrepidity; as, the troops behaved with great gallantry.

3.
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.

4.
Gallant persons, collectively.
[R.]

Helenus, Antenor, and all the gallantry of Troy.
Shak.


word: Gallature
definition:
Gallature

Gal"la*ture
(?; 135)
n.
[From L. gallus a cock.]
(Zool.)
The tread, treadle, or chalasa of an egg.


word: Galleass
definition:
Galleass

Gal"le*ass
(?; 135)
n.
[F. galéasse, galéace; cf. It. galeazza, Sp. galeaza; LL. galea a galley. See Galley.]
(Naut.)
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.
[Written variously galeas, gallias, etc.]

&hand_; “The galleasses . . . were a third larger than the ordinary galley, and rowed each by three hundred galley slaves. They consisted of an enormous towering structure at the stern, a castellated structure almost equally massive in front, with seats for the rowers amidships.”
Motley.


word: Gallego
definition:
Gallego

Gallegan

{ Gal*le"gan (găl*lē"gan), Gal*le"go (găl*lē"go̝ or gȧ*lyā"go̝), }
n.
[Sp. Gallego.]
A native or inhabitant of Galicia, in Spain; a Galician.


word: Gallein
definition:
Gallein

Gal"le*ïn
(?)
n.
[Pyrogallol + phthaleïn.]
(Chem.)
A red crystalline dyestuff, obtained by heating together pyrogallic and phthalic acids.


word: Galleon
definition:
Galleon

Gal"le*on
(?)
n.
[Sp. galeon, cf. F. galion; fr. LL. galeo, galio. See Galley.]
(Naut.)
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.

The galleons . . . were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem and stern, like castles.
Motley.


word: Gallery
definition:
Gallery

Gal"ler*y
(?)
n.
pl. Galleries (#).
[F. galerie, It. galleria, fr. LL. galeria gallery, perh. orig., a festal hall, banquetting hall; cf. OF. galerie a rejoicing, fr. galer to rejoice.  Cf. Gallant, a.]
1.
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.

2.
A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.

3.
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.

4.
(Naut.)
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.

5.
(Fort.)
Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.

6.
(Mining)
A working drift or level.

Whispering gallery. See under Whispering.


word: Galletyle
definition:
Galletyle

Gal"le*tyle
(?)
n.
[OE. gallytile.  Cf. Gallipot.]
A little tile of glazed earthenware.
[Obs.]
galletyle
Bacon.


word: Galley
definition:
Galley

Gal"ley
(?)
n.
pl. Galleys (#).
[OE. gale, galeie (cf. OF. galie, galée, LL. galea, LGr. _;; of unknown origin.]
1.
(Naut.)
A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not
(a)
A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century.
(b)
A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels propelled by oars.
(c)
A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
(d)
One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.

&hand_; The typical galley of the Mediterranean was from one hundred to two hundred feet long, often having twenty oars on each side. It had two or three masts rigged with lateen sails, carried guns at prow and stern, and a complement of one thousand to twelve hundred men, and was very efficient in mediaeval warfare. Galleons, galliots, galleasses, half galleys, and quarter galleys were all modifications of this type.

2.
The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.

3.
(Chem.)
An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.

4.
[F. galée; the same word as E. galley a vessel.]
(Print.)
(a)
An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.
(b)
A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.

Galley slave, a person condemned, often as a punishment for crime, to work at the oar on board a galley. “To toil like a galley slave.” Macaulay.-- Galley slice (Print.), a sliding false bottom to a large galley. Knight.


word: Galley-bird
definition:
Galley-bird

Gal"ley-bird`
(?)
n.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
(Zool.)
The European green woodpecker, called also the yaffle; also, the spotted woodpecker.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Galley-worm
definition:
Galley-worm

Gal"ley-worm`
(?)
n.
[Prob. so called because the numerous legs along the sides move rhythmically like the oars of a galley.]
(Zool.)
A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along the sides; a milliped or “thousand legs.”  See Chilognatha.


word: Gallfly
definition:
Gallfly

Gall"fly`
(?)
n.
pl. Gallflies (_;).
(Zool.)
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.


word: Galliambic
definition:
Galliambic

Gal`li*am"bic
(?)
a.
[L. galliambus a song used by the priests of Cybele; Gallus (a name applied to these priests) + iambus]
(Pros.)
Consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse.


word: Galliard
definition:
Galliard

Gal"liard
(?)
a.
[OE., fr. F. gaillard, perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. galach valiant, or AS. gagol, geagl, wanton, lascivious.]
Gay; brisk; active.
[Obs.]


word: Galliard₃
definition:
Galliard

Gal"liard
n.
[F. gaillarde, cf. Sp. gallarda. See Galliard, a.]
A gay, lively dance.  Cf. Gailliarde.

Never a hall such a galliard did grace.
Sir. W. Scott.


word: Galliardise
definition:
Galliardise

Gal`liard*ise
(?)
n.
[F. gaillardise. See Galliard, a.]
Excessive gayety; merriment.
[Obs.]

The mirth and galliardise of company.
Sir. T. Browne.


word: Gallic₂
definition:
Gallic

Gal"lic
(277)
a.
[From Gall the excrescence.]
Pertaining to, or derived from, galls, nutgalls, and the like.

Gallic acid (Chem.), an organic acid, very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, being found in the free state in galls, tea, etc., and produced artificially. It is a white, crystalline substance, C6H2(HO)3.CO2H, with an astringent taste, and is a strong reducing agent, as employed in photography. It is usually prepared from tannin, and both give a dark color with iron salts, forming tannate and gallate of iron, which are the essential ingredients of common black ink.


word: Gallic₃
definition:
Gallic

Gal"lic
(?)
a.
[L. Gallicus belonging to the Gauls, fr. Galli the Gauls, Gallia Gaul, now France: cf. F. gallique.]
Pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallican.


word: Gallican
definition:
Gallican

Gal"li*can
(?)
a.
[L. Gallicanus: cf. F. gallican.]
Of or pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallic; French; as, the Gallican church or clergy.


word: Gallicanism
definition:
Gallicanism

Gal"li*can*ism
(?)
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.
Schaff-Herzog Encyc.


word: Gallicism
definition:
Gallicism

Gal"li*cism
(?)
n.
[F. gallicisme.]
A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom.


word: Gallicize
definition:
Gallicize

Gal"li*cize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gallicized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gallicizing (?).]
To conform to the French mode or idiom.


word: Galligaskins
definition:
Galligaskins

Gal`li*gas"kins
(?)
n. pl.
[Prob. corrupted fr. It. Grechesco Grecian, a name which seems to have been given in Venice, and to have been afterwards confused with Gascony, as if they came from Gascony.]
Loose hose or breeches; leather leg quards. The word is used loosely and often in a jocose sense.


word: Gallimaufry
definition:
Gallimaufry

Gal`li*mau"fry
(?)
n.
pl. Gallimaufries (#).
[F. galimafrée a sort of ragout or mixed hash of different meats.]
1.
A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout.

Delighting in hodge-podge, gallimaufries, forced meat.
King.

2.
Any absurd medley; a hotchpotch.

So in this installment I'd like to serve up a gallimaufry of tasty URLs that didn't quite fit anywhere else.
James Patrick Kelly, (2003) in 'On the Net Gallimaufry' (http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0403/onthenet.shtml)


word: Gallinaceous
definition:
Gallinaceous

Gal`li*na"ceous
(?)
a.
[L. gallinaceus, fr. gallina hen, fr. gallus cock.]
(Zool.)
Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae.


word: Gallinae
definition:
Gallinae

Gal*li"nae
(?)
n.
pl.
[NL., fr. L. gallina a hen, gallus a cock.]
(Zool.)
An order of birds, including the common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, quails, and allied forms; -- sometimes called Rasores.


word: Gallinago
definition:
Gallinago

Gallinago
n.
A genus of birds consisting of certain of the snipes.

Syn. -- genus Gallinago, Capella, genus Capella.


word: Gallinule
definition:
Gallinule

Gal"li*nule
(?)
n.
[L. gallinula chicken, dim. of gallina hen: cf. F. gallinule.]
(Zool.)
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).

&hand_; The purple gallinule of Southern Europe and Asia was formerly believed to be able to detect and report adultery, and for that reason, chiefly, it was commonly domesticated by the ancients.


word: Gallipoli oil
definition:
Gallipoli oil

Gal*lip"o*li oil`
(?)
An inferior kind of olive oil, brought from Gallipoli, in Italy.


word: Gallipot
definition:
Gallipot

Gal"li*pot
(?)
n.
[Prob. fr. OD. gleypot, the first part of which is possibly akin to E. glad. See Glad, and Pot.]
A glazed earthen pot or vessel, used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines, etc.


word: Gallium
definition:
Gallium

Gal"li*um
(?)
n.
[NL.; perh. fr. L. Gallia France.]
(Chem.)
A rare metallic element, found combined in certain zinc ores. It is white, hard, and malleable, resembling aluminium, and remarkable for its low melting point (86° F., 30° C.). Symbol, Ga; at. wt., 69.9. Gallium is chiefly trivalent, resembling aluminium and indium. It was predicted with most of its properties, under the name eka-aluminium, by the Russian chemist Mendelyeev on the basis of the periodic law.  This prediction was verified in its discovery (in 1875) by the French chemist Lecoq de Boisbaudran by its characteristic spectrum (two violet lines), in an examination of a zinc blende from the Pyrenees.


word: Gallivant
definition:
Gallivant

Gal"li*vant
(?)
v. i.
[From Gallant.]
To play the beau; to wait upon the ladies; also, to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.
[Slang]
Dickens.


word: Gallivat
definition:
Gallivat

Gal"li*vat
(?)
n.
[Prob. fr. Pg. galeota; cf. E. galiot, galley.]
(Naut.)
A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, -- used on the Malabar coast.
A. Chalmers.


word: Galliwasp
definition:
Galliwasp

Gal"li*wasp`
(?)
n.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
(Zool.)
A West Indian lizard (Celestus occiduus), about a foot long, imagined by the natives to be venomous.


word: Gallize
definition:
Gallize

Gal"lize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gallized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gallizing (?).]
[After Dr. L. Gall, a French chemist, who invented the process.]
In wine making, to add water and sugar to (unfermented grape juice) so as to increase the quantity of wine produced.
Gal`li*za"tion (#), n.


word: Gallnut
definition:
Gallnut

Gall"nut`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A round gall produced on the leaves and shoots of various species of the oak tree. See Gall, and Nutgall.


word: gall-of-the-earth
definition:
gall-of-the-earth

gall-of-the-earth
n.
A common perennial herb (Nabalus serpentarius) widely distributed in southern and eastern U. S., having drooping clusters of pinkish flowers and thick basal leaves suggesting a lion's foot in shape; sometimes placed in the genus Prenanthes.

Syn. -- lion's foot, gall of the earth, Nabalus serpentarius, Prenanthes serpentaria.


word: Gallomania
definition:
Gallomania

Gal`lo*ma"ni*a
(?)
n.
[L. Galli Gauls + mania madness.]
An excessive admiration of what is French.
Gal`lo*ma"ni*ac (#), n.


word: Gallon
definition:
Gallon

Gal"lon
(?)
n.
[OF galon, jalon, LL. galo, galona, fr. galum a liquid measure; cf. F. jale large bowl.  Cf. Gill a measure.]
A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.

&hand_; The standart gallon of the Unites States contains 231 cubic inches, or 8.3389 pounds avoirdupois of distilled water at its maximum density, and with the barometer at 30 inches. This is almost exactly equivalent to a cylinder of seven inches in diameter and six inches in height, and is the same as the old English wine gallon. The beer gallon, now little used in the United States, contains 282 cubic inches. The English imperial gallon contains 10 pounds avoirdupois of distilled water at 62_; of Fahrenheit, and barometer at 30 inches, equal to 277.274 cubic inches.


word: Galloon
definition:
Galloon

Gal*loon"
(?)
n.
[From F. or Sp. galon. See Gala. ]
1.
A narrow tapelike fabric used for binding hats, shoes, etc., -- sometimes made ornamental.

2.
A similar bordering or binding of rich material, such as gold lace.

Silver and gold galloons, with the like glittering gewgaws.
Addison.


word: Gallop
definition:
Gallop

Gal"lop
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Galloped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Galloping.]
[OE. galopen, F. galoper, of German origin; cf. assumed Goth. ga-hlaupan to run, OHG. giloufen, AS. gehleápan to leap, dance, fr. root of E. leap, and a prefix; or cf. OFlem. walop a gallop. See Leap, and cf. 1st Wallop.]
1.
To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.

But gallop lively down the western hill.
Donne.

2.
To ride a horse at a gallop.

3.
Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.

Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it.
Locke.


word: Gallop₃
definition:
Gallop

Gal"lop
n.
[Cf. F. galop. See Gallop, v. i., and cf. Galop.]
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.

Hand gallop, a slow or gentle gallop.


word: Gallopade
definition:
Gallopade

Gal"lo*pade`
(?)
n.
[F. galopade. See Gallop, n.]
1.
I horsemanship, a sidelong or curveting kind of gallop.

2.
A kind of dance; also, music to the dance; a galop.


word: Gallopade₂
definition:
Gallopade

Gal`lo*pade"
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Gallopaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Gallopading.]
1.
To gallop, as on horseback.

2.
To perform the dance called gallopade.


word: Galloper
definition:
Galloper

Gal"lop*er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, gallops.

2.
(Mil.)
A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber.
Farrow.

Galloper gun, a light gun, supported on a galloper, -- formerly attached to British infantry regiments.


word: Gallopin
definition:
Gallopin

Gal"lo*pin
(?)
n.
[F. galopin. See Gallop, v. i.]
An under servant for the kitchen; a scullion; a cook's errand boy.
[Obs.]
Halliwell.


word: Gallotannic
definition:
Gallotannic

Gal`lo*tan"nic
(?)
a.
[Gall nutgall + tannic.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to the tannin or nutgalls.

Gallotannic acid. See Tannic acid, under Tannic.


word: Gallow
definition:
Gallow

Gal"low
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. AS. āgelwan to stupefy.]
To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Galloway
definition:
Galloway

Gal"lo*way
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; -- called also garran, and garron.


word: Gallowglass
definition:
Gallowglass

Gal"low*glass`
(?)
n.
[Ir. galloglach.  Cf. Gillie.]
A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward _;
Shak.


word: Gallows
definition:
Gallows

Gal"lows
(?)
n. sing.
pl. Gallowses (#) or Gallows.
[OE. galwes, pl., AS. galga, gealga, gallows, cross; akin to D. galg gallows, OS. & OHG. galgo, G. galgen, Icel. gālgi, Sw. & Dan. galge, Goth. galga a cross. Etymologically and historically considered, gallows is a noun in the plural number, but it is used as a singular, and hence is preceded by a; as, a gallows.]
1.
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.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows.
Esther vii. 10.

If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows.
Shak.

O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses!
Shak.

2.
A wretch who deserves the gallows.
[R.]
Shak.

3.
(Print.)
The rest for the tympan when raised.

4.
pl.
A pair of suspenders or braces.
[Colloq.]

Gallows bird, a person who deserves the gallows. [Colloq.] -- Gallows bitts (Naut.), one of two or more frames amidships on deck for supporting spare spars; -- called also gallows, gallows top, gallows frame, etc. -- Gallows frame. (a) The frame supporting the beam of an engine. (b) (Naut.) Gallows bitts. -- Gallows tree, or Gallow tree, the gallows.

 At length him nailéd on a gallow tree.
Spenser.


word: Gallstone
definition:
Gallstone

Gall"stone`
(?)
n.
A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.


word: Galoshe
definition:
Galoshe

Galoche

Ga*loche", Ga*loshe" (_;)
[OE. galoche, galache, galage, shoe, F. galoche galoche, perh. altered fr. L. gallica a Gallic shoe, or fr. LL. calopedia wooden shoe, or shoe with a wooden sole, Gr. _;, dim. of _;, _;, a shoemaker's last; _; wood + _; foot.]
1.
A clog or patten.
[Obs.]

Nor were worthy [to] unbuckle his galoche.
Chaucer.

2.
Hence:
An overshoe worn in wet weather, especially a waterproof rubber overshoe extending over the ankle, worn over one's regular shoes; now usually written galosh.  It is used mostly in the plural; as, it's raining, so put your galoshes on.

3.
A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.


word: Galop
definition:
Galop

Gal"op
(?)
n.
[F.]
(Mus.)
A kind of lively dance, in 2-4 time; also, the music to the dance.


word: Galore
definition:
Galore

Ga*lore"
(?)
n. & a.
[Scot. gelore, gilore, galore, fr. Gael. gu leòr, enough; gu- to, also an adverbial prefix + leòr, leòir, enough; or fr. Ir. goleor, the same word.]
Plenty; abundance; in abundance.


word: Galosh
definition:
Galosh

Ga*losh"
(?)
n.
1.
Same as Galoche, Galoshe.

2.
A strip of material, as leather, running around a shoe at and above the sole, as for protection or ornament.


word: Galvanic
definition:
Galvanic

Gal*van"ic
(?)
a.
[From Galvani, a professor of physiology at Bologna, on account of his connection (about 1780) with the discovery of dynamical or current electricity: cf. F. galvanique.]
Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.

Galvanic battery (Elec.), an apparatus for generating electrical currents by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; -- now usually called voltaic battery. See Battery. -- Galvanic circuit or Galvanic circle. (Elec.) See under Circuit. -- Galvanic pile (Elec.), the voltaic pile. See under Voltaic.


word: Galvanism
definition:
Galvanism

Gal"va*nism
(?)
n.
[From Galvani: cf. F. galvanisme. See Galvanic.]
(Physics)
(a)
Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity.
(b)
The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents.

&hand_; The words galvanism and galvanic, formerly in very general use, are now rarely employed. For the latter, voltaic, from the name of Volta, is commonly used.


word: Galvanize
definition:
Galvanize

Gal"va*nize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Galvanized (?); p pr. & vb. n. Galvanizing (?).]
[Cf. F. galvaniser.]
1.
To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.

2.
To plate, as with gold, silver, etc., by means of electricity.

3.
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.

4.
To coat, as iron, with zinc. See Galvanized iron.

Galvanized iron, formerly, iron coated with zink by electrical deposition; now more commonly, iron coated with zink by plunging into a bath of melted zink, after its surface has been cleaned by friction with the aid of dilute acid.


word: Galvanocaustic
definition:
Galvanocaustic

Gal*van`o*caus"tic
(?)
a.
[Galvanic + caustic.]
Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine.


word: Galvanocautery
definition:
Galvanocautery

Gal*van`o*cau"ter*y
(?)
n.
(Med.)
Cautery effected by a knife or needle heated by the passage of a galvanic current.


word: Galvanograph
definition:
Galvanograph

Gal*van"o*graph
(?)
n.
[Galvanic + -graph.]
(Engraving)
A copperplate produced by the method of galvanography; also, a picture printed from such a plate.


word: Galvanography
definition:
Galvanography

Gal`va*nog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Galvanic + -graphy.]
1.
The art or process of depositing metals by electricity; electrotypy.

2.
A method of producing by means of electrotyping process (without etching) copperplates which can be printed from in the same manner as engraved plates.


word: Galvanologist
definition:
Galvanologist

Gal`va*nol"o*gist
(?)
n.
One who describes the phenomena of galvanism; a writer on galvanism.


word: Galvanology
definition:
Galvanology

Gal`va*nol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Galvanic + -logy.]
A treatise on galvanism, or a description of its phenomena.


word: Galvanometer
definition:
Galvanometer

Gal`va*nom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Galvanic + -meter: cf. F. galvanomètre.]
(Elec.)
An instrument or apparatus for measuring the intensity of an electric current, usually by the deflection of a magnetic needle.

Differential galvanometer. See under Differental, a. -- Sine galvanometer, Cosine galvanometer, Tangent galvanometer (Elec.), a galvanometer in which the sine, cosine, or tangent respectively, of the angle through which the needle is deflected, is proportional to the strength of the current passed through the instrument.


word: Galvanometry
definition:
Galvanometry

Gal`va*nom"e*try
(?)
n.
The art or process of measuring the force of electric currents.


word: Galvanoplastic
definition:
Galvanoplastic

Gal*van`o*plas"tic
(?)
a.
[Galvanic + -plastic.]
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.


word: Galvanoscope
definition:
Galvanoscope

Gal*van`o*scope
(?)
n.
[Galvanic + -scope: cf. F. galvanoscope.]
(Elec.)
An instrument or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents, especially such as are of feeble intensity.


word: Galvanoscopy
definition:
Galvanoscopy

Gal`va*nos"co*py
(?)
n.
(Physiol.)
The use of galvanism in physiological experiments.


word: Galvanotonus
definition:
Galvanotonus

Gal`va*not"o*nus
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. E. galvanic + Gr. _; to tone.]
(Physiol.)
Same as Electrotonus.


word: Galvanotropism
definition:
Galvanotropism

Gal`va*not"ro*pism
(?)
n.
[Galvanic + Gr. _; to turn.]
(Bot.)
The tendency of a root to place its axis in the line of a galvanic current.


word: Gam
definition:
Gam

Gam
(găm)
n.
[Orig. uncert., perh. from gammon, talk.]
1.
(Naut.)
A herd, or school, of whales.

2.
A visit between whalers at sea; a holding of social intercourse between those on different vessels at sea, or (Local U. S.) between persons ashore.

3.
A visit between whalers at sea; a holding of social intercourse between those on different vessels at sea, or (Local U. S.) between persons ashore.


word: Gam₃
definition:
Gam

Gam
(găm)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Gammed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gam"ming.]
(Naut.)
(a)
To gather in a gam; -- said of whales.
(b)
To engage in a gam, or (Local, U. S.) in social intercourse anywhere.


word: Gama grass
definition:
Gama grass

Ga"ma grass`
(?)
[From Gama, a cluster of the Maldive Islands.]
(Bot.)
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.


word: Gamashes
definition:
Gamashes

Ga*mash"es
(?)
n. pl.
[F. gamaches.]
High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.


word: Gambadoes
definition:
Gambadoes

Gam*ba"does
(?)
n. pl.
[I. or Sp. gamba leg. See Gambol, n.]
Same as Gamashes.

His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes fastened at the side with rusty clasps.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Gambet
definition:
Gambet

Gam"bet
(?)
n.
[Fr. gambette, or It. gambetta.]
(Zool.)
Any bird of the genuis Totanus. See Tattler.


word: Gambier
definition:
Gambier

Gam"bier
(?)
n.
[Malayan.]
(a)
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.
(b)
Catechu.
[Written also gambeer and gambir.]


word: Gambison
definition:
Gambison

Gam"bi*son
(?)
n.
[OF. gambeson, gambaison, fr. gambais, wambais, of German origin: cf. MHG. wambeis, G. wams doublet, fr. OHG. wamba, stomach. See Womb.]
A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted.


word: Gambist
definition:
Gambist

Gam"bist
(?)
n.
[It. gamba leg.]
(Mus.)
A performer upon the viola di gamba. See under Viola.


word: Gambit
definition:
Gambit

Gam"bit
(?)
n.
[F. gambit, cf. It. gambitto gambit, a tripping up. See Gambol, n.]
(Chess Playing)
A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.


word: Gamble
definition:
Gamble

Gam"ble
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Gambled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gambling (?).]
[Dim. of game. See 2d Game.]
To play or game for money or other stake.


word: Gamble₃
definition:
Gamble

Gam"ble
(?)
n.
An act of gambling; a transaction or proceeding involving gambling; hence, anything involving similar risk or uncertainty.
[Colloq.]


word: gambling
definition:
gambling

gambling
n.
[p. pr. of gamble.]
the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize); as, his gambling cost him a fortune.

Syn. -- gaming, play.


word: Gamboge
definition:
Gamboge

Gam*boge"
(?)
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. Taken internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic.
[Written also camboge.]

&hand_; There are several kinds of gamboge, but all are derived from species of Garcinia, a genus of trees of the order Guttiferæ. The best Siam gamboge is thought to come from Garcinia Hanburii. Ceylon gamboge is from G. Morella.  G. pictoria, of Western India, yields gamboge, and also a kind of oil called gamboge butter.


word: Gambogic
definition:
Gambogic

Gambogian

{ Gam*bo"gi*an (?), Gambogic (?), }
a.
Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, gamboge.


word: Gambol
definition:
Gambol

Gam"bol
(?)
n.
[OE. gambolde, gambaulde, F. gambade, gambol, fr. It. gambata kick, fr. L. gamba leg, akin to F. jambe, OF. also, gambe, fr. L. gamba, hoof or perh. joint: cf. Gr. _; a binding, winding, W., Ir. & Gael. cam crooked; perhaps akin to E. chamber: cf.F. gambiller to kick about.  Cf. Jamb, n., Gammon ham, Gambadoes.]
A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.
Dryden.


word: Gambol₂
definition:
Gambol

Gam"bol
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Gamboled (?), or Gambolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Gamboling or Gambolling.]
To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs.


word: Gambrel
definition:
Gambrel

Gam"brel
(?)
n.
[OF. gambe, jambe leg, F. jambe.  Cf. Cambrel, Chambrel, and see Gambol. n.]
1.
The hind leg of a horse.

2.
A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.

Gambrel roof (Arch.), a curb roof having the same section in all parts, with a lower steeper slope and an upper and flatter one, so that each gable is pentagonal in form.


word: Game₂
definition:
Game

Game
n.
[OE. game, gamen, AS. gamen, gomen, play, sport; akin to OS., OHG., & Icel. gaman, Dan. gammen mirth, merriment, OSw. gamman joy.  Cf. Gammon a game, Backgammon, Gamble v. i.]
1.
Sport of any kind; jest, frolic.

We have had pastimes here, and pleasant game.
Shak.

2.
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.

But war's a game, which, were their subject wise,
Kings would not play at.
Cowper.

&hand_; Among the ancients, especially the Greeks and Romans, there were regularly recurring public exhibitions of strength, agility, and skill under the patronage of the government, usually accompanied with religious ceremonies. Such were the Olympic, the Pythian, the Nemean, and the Isthmian games.

3.
The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.

Talk the game o'er between the deal.
Lloyd.

4.
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.

5.
(Card Playing)
In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.

6.
A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project.

Your murderous game is nearly up.
Blackw. Mag.

It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack.
Saintsbury.

7.
Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table.

Those species of animals . . . distinguished from the rest by the well-known appellation of game.
Blackstone.

Confidence game. See under Confidence. -- To make game of, to make sport of; to mock. Milton.


word: Game₃
definition:
Game

Game
a.
1.
Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky.

I was game . . . .I felt that I could have fought even to the death.
W. Irving.

2.
Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting.

Game bag, a sportsman's bag for carrying small game captured; also, the whole quantity of game taken. -- Game bird, any bird commonly shot for food, esp. grouse, partridges, quails, pheasants, wild turkeys, and the shore or wading birds, such as plovers, snipe, woodcock, curlew, and sandpipers. The term is sometimes arbitrarily restricted to birds hunted by sportsmen, with dogs and guns. -- Game egg, an egg producing a gamecock. -- Game laws, laws regulating the seasons and manner of taking game for food or for sport. -- Game preserver, a land owner who regulates the killing of game on his estate with a view to its increase. [Eng.] -- To be game. (a) To show a brave, unyielding spirit. (b) To be victor in a game. [Colloq.] -- To die game, to maintain a bold, unyielding spirit to the last; to die fighting.


word: Game₄
definition:
Game

Game
(gām)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Gamed (gāmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Gaming.]
[OE. gamen, game_;en, to rejoice, AS. gamenian to play. See Game, n.]
1.
To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative.
[Obs.]

God loved he best with all his whole hearte
At alle times, though him gamed or smarte.
Chaucer.

2.
To play at any sport or diversion.

3.
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 some other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.


word: game bag
definition:
game bag

gamebag

gamebag, game bag
n.
a canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter.


word: Game fowl
definition:
Game fowl

Game" fowl`
(gām"foul`)
(Zool.)
A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males.


word: Gamekeeper
definition:
Gamekeeper

Game"keep`er
(gām"kēp`ẽr)
n.
One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve.
Blackstone.


word: game license
definition:
game license

game license
n.
a license authorizing the bearer to kill a certain type of animal during a specified period of time.
Syn. -- hunting license, game license.


word: game of chance
definition:
game of chance

game of chance
n.
a game that involves gambling.

Syn. -- game of chance, gambling game.


word: game room
definition:
game room

game" room`
(gām"rōm`)
n.
a recreation room for noisy activities (parties or children's play etc) or for table games.

Syn. -- rumpus room, playroom, game room.


word: game show
definition:
game show

game" show`
(gām"sh&omacr`)
n.
a television program in which contestants compete for awards.  The contestants are members of the public selected to participate on the show, and not employed by the producer of the show.


word: Gamesome
definition:
Gamesome

Game"some
(gām"sŭm)
a.
Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry.
Shak.

Gladness of the gamesome crowd.
Byron.


word: Gamester
definition:
Gamester

Game"ster
(gām"stẽr)
n.
[Game + -ster.]
1.
A merry, frolicsome person.
[Obs.]
Shak.

2.
A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games.

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner.
Shak.

3.
A prostitute; a strumpet.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Gamete
definition:
Gamete

Gam"ete
(găm"ēt; gȧ*mēt"; the latter usually in compounds)
n.
[Gr. gameth` wife, or game`ths husband, fr. gamei^n to marry.]
(Biol.)
A sexual cell or germ cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes; a conjugating cell which unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual.  In Bot., gamete designates esp. the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation, forming a zygospore.  The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, sperm (male) and egg (female); their union is called fertilization, and the resulting zygote an oospore.  In Zool., gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa, though also extended to the germ cells of higher forms.


word: game theory
definition:
game theory

game theory
n.
A branch of mathematics that deals with strategies for maximizing gains or minimizing losses in competitive situations having defined constraints and involving random factors.
Game theory is used for modelling and analysis of various decision-making situations such as military strategy or business policy.  The theoretical models study the interactions among opposing entities called "players," where different kinds of situation can arise, for which the probabilities of occurence are known.  Also known is the set of decisions each player can take.  When a player takes a decision he makes a gain or incurs a loss.  Based on the available knowledge each player tries to adopt a "strategy" so as to maximize his gains.  The entire procedure constitutes a game.

Syn. -- theory of games.


word: gametocyte
definition:
gametocyte

gametocyte
n.
(Biol.)
An immature animal or plant cell that develops into a gamete by meiosis.


word: gametophore
definition:
gametophore

gametophore
n.
(Biol.)
A modified branch bearing gametangia as in the thalloid liverworts.


word: Gametophyte
definition:
Gametophyte

Ga*me"to*phyte
(?)
n.
[Gamete + Gr. fyto`n plant.]
(Bot.)
In the alternation of generations in plants, that generation or phase which bears sex organs and produces gametes. In the lower plants, as the algæ, the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body; in mosses it is the so-called moss plant; in ferns it is reduced to a small, early perishing body; and in seed plants it is usually microscopic or rudimentary.


word: game warden
definition:
game warden

game warden
n.
a public official who is responsible for the enforcement of laws regarding the hunting of animals.
Syn. -- gamekeeper, game warden.


word: gamey
definition:
gamey

gamey
adj.
1.
suggestive of sexual impropriety; as, he skips asterisks and gives you the gamey details.

Syn. -- blue, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy, sexy.

2.
foul-smelling; -- used of the smell of game beginning to taint.

Syn. -- gamy, high.

3.
spirited and resolute.

Syn. -- game, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky.

4.
willing to proceed or act.

Syn. -- game.


word: Gamic
definition:
Gamic

Gam"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; marriage.]
(Biol.)
Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.


word: Gamin
definition:
Gamin

Gam"in
(?)
n.
[F.]
A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab.

In Japan, the gamins run after you, and say, 'Look at the Chinaman.'
L. Oliphant.


word: gaminess
definition:
gaminess

gaminess
n.
behavior or language bordering on indelicacy.

Syn. -- raciness, ribaldry, spiciness.


word: Gammadion
definition:
Gammadion

Gam*ma"di*on
(?)
n.
A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot.


word: Gamma ray
definition:
Gamma ray

Gam"ma ray
n.
(Physics)
A very penetrating electromagnetic ray not appreciably deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances.  Gamma rays are photons of electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength shorter than that of X-rays, (i. e. shorter than 0.1 nanometer) and are correspondingly more penetrating than X-rays.  In addition to being given off in certain types of radioactive decay, they may be found in cosmic radiation, though they are largely absorbed by the earth's atmosphere.  Gamma-ray detectors orbited above the atmosphere have found bursts of gamma radiation, in some cases associated with visually observed supernova explosions, but in most cases from unidentified sources.


word: Gammer
definition:
Gammer

Gam"mer
(găm"mẽr)
n.
[Possibly contr. fr. godmother; but prob. fr. grammer for grandmother.  Cf. Gaffer.]
An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man.


word: Gammon
definition:
Gammon

Gam"mon
(găm"mŭn)
n.
[OF. gambon, F. jambon, fr. OF. gambe leg, F. jambe. See Gambol, n., and cf. Ham.]
The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
Goldsmith.


word: Gammon₂
definition:
Gammon

Gam"mon
(găm"mŭn)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gammoned (găm"mŭnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Gammoning.]
To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.


word: Gammon₃
definition:
Gammon

Gam"mon
(găm"mŭn)
n.
[See 2d Game.]
1.
Backgammon.

2.
A victory in the game of backgammon in which one player gammons another, i. e., the winner bears off all of his pieces before his opponent bears off any pieces; as, he won the match with three gammons in a row.

3.
An imposition or hoax; humbug.
[Colloq.]


word: Gammon₄
definition:
Gammon

Gam"mon
v. t.
1.
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.  In certain variants of the game one who gammons an opponent scores twice the normal value of the game.

2.
To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.
[Colloq.]
Hood.


word: Gammon₅
definition:
Gammon

Gam"mon
v. t.
[Etymol. unknown.]
(Naut.)
To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
Totten.


word: Gammoning
definition:
Gammoning

Gam"mon*ing
n.
[From 5th Gammon.]
(Naut.)
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 fashion, in the style of gammoning lashing, that is, having the turns of rope crossed. -- Gammoning hole (Naut.), a hole cut through the knee of the head of a vessel for the purpose of gammoning the bowsprit.


word: Gammoning₂
definition:
Gammoning

Gam"mon*ing
n.
[From 4th Gammon.]
The act of imposing upon or hoaxing a person.
[Colloq.]


word: Gamogenesis
definition:
Gamogenesis

Gam`o*gen"e*sis
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; marriage + E. genesis.]
(Biol.)
The production of offspring by the union of parents of different sexes; sexual reproduction; -- the opposite of agamogenesis.


word: Gamomorphism
definition:
Gamomorphism

Gam`o*mor"phism
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; marriage + morfh` form, shape.]
(Biol.)
That stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species.


word: Gamopetalous
definition:
Gamopetalous

Gam`o*pet"al*ous
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; marriage + E. petalous: cf. F. gamopétale.]
(Bot.)
Having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup; monopetalous.


word: Gamophyllous
definition:
Gamophyllous

Ga*moph"yl*lous
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; marriage + _; leaf.]
(Bot.)
Composed of leaves united by their edges (coalescent).
Gray.


word: Gamosepalous
definition:
Gamosepalous

Gam`o*sep"al*ous
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; marriage + E. sepal.]
(Bot.)
Formed of united sepals; monosepalous.


word: Gamp
definition:
Gamp

Gamp
(gămp)
n.
A large umbrella; -- said to allude to Mrs. Gamp's umbrella, in Dickens's “Martin Chuzzlewit.”


word: Gamut
definition:
Gamut

Gam"ut
(?)
n.
[F. gamme + ut the name of a musical note. F. gamme is fr. the name of the Greek letter _;, which was used by Guido d'Arezzo to represent the first note of his model scale. See Gamma, and Ut.]
(Mus.)
The scale.


word: gamy
definition:
gamy

gam"y
(?)
a.
1.
(Cookery)
Having the flavor of game, esp. of game kept uncooked till near the condition of tainting; high-flavored.

2.
(Sporting)
Showing an unyielding spirit to the last; plucky; furnishing sport; as, a gamy trout.

3.
Same as gamey.


word: Gan
definition:
Gan

Gan
(?)
imp.
of Gin.
[See Gin, v.]
Began; commenced.

&hand_; Gan was formerly used with the infinitive to form compound imperfects, as did is now employed. Gan regularly denotes the singular; the plural is usually denoted by gunne or gonne.

This man gan fall (i.e., fell) in great suspicion.
Chaucer.

The little coines to their play gunne hie (i. e., hied).
Chaucer.

Later writers use gan both for singular and plural.
[1913 Webster]
Yet at her speech their rages gan relent. Spenser.


word: Ganancial
definition:
Ganancial

Ga*nan"cial
(?)
a.
[Sp., pertaining to gain, held in common, fr. ganancia gain.]
(Law)
Designating, pertaining to, or held under, the Spanish system of law (called ganancial system) which controls the title and disposition of the property acquired during marriage by the husband or wife.


word: Ganch
definition:
Ganch

Ganch
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. F. ganche, n., also Sp. & Pg. gancho hook, It. gancio.]
To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment.

Ganching, which is to let fall from on high upon hooks, and there to hang until they die.
Sandys.


word: Gander
definition:
Gander

Gan"der
(?)
n.
[AS. gandra, ganra, akin to Prov. G. gander, ganter, and E. goose, gannet. See Goose.]
The male of any species of goose.


word: Gandhi
definition:
Gandhi

Gandhi
adj.
Mohandas Gandhi, a Hindu nationalist and religious leader, who preached non-violent resistance to oppression.


word: Ganesha
definition:
Ganesha

Ganesh

Ganesa

Ga*ne"sa, Ganesh, Ganesha
(?)
prop. n.
(Hindu Myth.)
The Hindu god of wisdom, prudence and prophesy; the remover of obstacles.

Syn. -- Ganapati.

&hand_; He is represented as a short, fat, red-colored man, with a large belly and the head of an elephant.
Balfour.


word: Gang
definition:
Gang

Gang
(găng)
v. i.
[AS. gangan, akin to OS. & OHG. gangan, Icel. ganga, Goth. gaggan; cf. Lith. żengti to walk, Skr. ja&ndot_;gha leg. √48.  Cf. Go.]
To go; to walk.

&hand_; Obsolete in English literature, but still used in the North of England, and also in Scotland.


word: Gang₂
definition:
Gang

Gang
n.
[Icel. gangr a going, gang, akin to AS., D., G., & Dan. gang a going, Goth. gaggs street, way. See Gang, v. i.]
1.
A going; a course.
[Obs.]

2.
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.

3.
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.

4.
(Naut.)
A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays.

5.
[Cf. Gangue.]
(Mining)
The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.

6.
A group of teenagers or young adults forming a more or less formalized group associating for social purposes, in some cases requiring initiation rites to join; as, a teen gang; a youth gang; a street gang.
Youth gangs often associate with particular areas in a city, and may turn violent when they feel their territory is encroached upon.  In Los Angeles the Crips and the Bloods are large gangs antagonistic to each other.

7.
A group of persons organized for criminal purposes; a criminal organization; as, the Parker gang.

Gang board, or Gang plank. (Naut.) (a) A board or plank, with cleats for steps, forming a bridge by which to enter or leave a vessel. (b) A plank within or without the bulwarks of a vessel's waist, for the sentinel to walk on. -- Gang cask, a small cask in which to bring water aboard ships or in which it is kept on deck. -- Gang cultivator, Gang plow, a cultivator or plow in which several shares are attached to one frame, so as to make two or more furrows at the same time. -- Gang days, Rogation days; the time of perambulating parishes. See Gang week (below). -- Gang drill, a drilling machine having a number of drills driven from a common shaft. -- Gang master, a master or employer of a gang of workmen. -- Gang plank. See Gang board (above). -- Gang plow. See Gang cultivator (above). -- Gang press, a press for operating upon a pile or row of objects separated by intervening plates. -- Gang saw, a saw fitted to be one of a combination or gang of saws hung together in a frame or sash, and set at fixed distances apart. -- Gang tide. See Gang week (below). -- Gang tooth, a projecting tooth. [Obs.] Halliwell. -- Gang week, Rogation week, when formerly processions were made to survey the bounds of parishes. Halliwell. -- Live gang, or Round gang, the Western and the Eastern names, respectively, for a gang of saws for cutting the round log into boards at one operation. Knight. -- Slabbing gang, an arrangement of saws which cuts slabs from two sides of a log, leaving the middle part as a thick beam.


word: gang board
definition:
gang board

gangboard

gangboard, gang board
n.
a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside.

Syn. -- gangplank, gang plank, gangway.


word: Gange
definition:
Gange

Gange
(gănj)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Ganged (gănjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Ganging (găn"jĭng).]
[Of uncertain origin.]
1.
To protect (the part of a line next a fishhook, or the hook itself) by winding it with wire.

2.
To attach (a fishhook) to a line or snell, as by knotting the line around the shank of the hook.


word: Gangetic
definition:
Gangetic

Gan*get"ic
(?)
a.
Pertaining to, or inhabiting, the Ganges River; as, the Gangetic shark.


word: Gang-flower
definition:
Gang-flower

Gang"-flow`er
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week.
Dr. Prior.


word: Ganglial
definition:
Ganglial

Gangliac

{ Gan"gli*ac (?), Gan"gli*al (?), }
a.
(Anat.)
Relating to a ganglion; ganglionic.


word: Gangliated
definition:
Gangliated

Gangliate

{ Gan"gli*ate (?), Gan"gli*a`ted (?), }
a.
(Anat.)
Furnished with ganglia; as, the gangliated cords of the sympathetic nervous system.


word: Ganglioform
definition:
Ganglioform

Gangliform

{ Gan"gli*form` (?), Gan"gli*o*form` (?), }
a.
[Ganglion + -form.]
(Anat.)
Having the form of a ganglion.


word: Ganglion
definition:
Ganglion

Gan"gli*on
(?)
n.
pl. L. Ganglia (#), E. Ganglions (#).
[L. ganglion a sort of swelling or excrescence, a tumor under the skin, Gr. _;: cf. F. ganglion.]
1.
(Anat.)
(a)
A mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve.
(b)
A node, or gland in the lymphatic system; as, a lymphatic ganglion.

2.
(Med.)
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.

Ganglion cell, a nerve cell. See Illust. under Bipolar.


word: Ganglionic
definition:
Ganglionic

Gan`gli*on"ic
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. ganglionique.]
(Anat.)
Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, ganglia or ganglion cells; as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord.


word: Gangrene
definition:
Gangrene

Gan"grene
(?)
n.
[F. gangrène, L. gangraena, fr. Gr. _;, fr. _; to gnaw, eat; cf. Skr. gras, gar, to devour, and E. voracious, also canker, n., in sense 3.]
(Med.)
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.


word: Gangrene₂
definition:
Gangrene

Gan"grene
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Gangrened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gangrening.]
[Cf. F. gangréner.]
To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene.


word: Gangrenous
definition:
Gangrenous

Gan"gre*nous
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. gangréneux.]
Affected by, or produced by, gangrene; of the nature of gangrene.


word: Gangue
definition:
Gangue

Gangue
(?)
n.
[F. gangue, fr. G. gang a metallic vein, a passage. See Gang, n.]
(Mining)
The mineral or earthy substance associated with metallic ore.


word: Gangway
definition:
Gangway

Gang"way`
(?)
n.
[See Gang, v. i.]
1.
A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp., a temporary way of access formed of planks.

2.
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.

3.
(Naut.)
The opening through the bulwarks of a vessel by which persons enter or leave it.

4.
(Naut.)
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.
Totten.

Gangway ladder, a ladder rigged on the side of a vessel at the gangway. -- To bring to the gangway, to punish (a seaman) by flogging him at the gangway.


word: Gannister
definition:
Gannister

Ganister

Gan"is*ter (?), Gan"nis*ter
n.
(Mech.)
A refractory material consisting of crushed or ground siliceous stone, mixed with fire clay; -- used for lining Bessemer converters; also used for macadamizing roads.


word: Ganja
definition:
Ganja

Gan"ja
(?)
n.
[Hind. gānjhā.]
The dried hemp plant, used in India for smoking. It is extremely narcotic and intoxicating.


word: Gannet
definition:
Gannet

Gan"net
(?)
n.
[OE. gant, AS. ganet, ganot, a sea fowl, a fen duck; akin to D. gent gander, OHG. ganazzo. See Gander, Goose.]
(Zool.)
One of several species of sea birds of the genus Sula, allied to the pelicans.

&hand_; The common gannet of Europe and America (Sula bassana), is also called solan goose, chandel goose, and gentleman. In Florida the wood ibis is commonly called gannet.

Booby gannet. See Sula.


word: Ganocephala
definition:
Ganocephala

Gan`o*ceph"a*la
(?)
prop. n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; brightness + _; head.]
(Paleon.)
A group of fossil amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fishes.


word: Ganoid
definition:
Ganoid

Ga"noid
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; brightness + -oid.]
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to Ganoidei. -- n. One of the Ganoidei.

Ganoid scale (Zool.), one kind of scales of the ganoid fishes, composed of an inner layer of bone, and an outer layer of shining enamel. They are often so arranged as to form a coat of mail.


word: Ganoidei
definition:
Ganoidei

Ga*noi"de*i
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Ganoid.]
(Zool.)
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.

&hand_; They were numerous, and some of them of large size, in early geological periods; but they are represented by comparatively few living species, most of which inhabit fresh waters, as the bowfin, gar pike, bichir, Ceratodus, paddle fish, and sturgeon.


word: Gantlet
definition:
Gantlet

Gant"let
(?)
n.
[Gantlet is corrupted fr. gantlope; gantlope is for gatelope, Sw. gatlopp, orig., a running down a lane; gata street, lane + lopp course, career, akin to löpa to run.  See Gate a way, and Leap.]
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.

To run the gantlet, to suffer the punishment of the gantlet; hence, to go through the ordeal of severe criticism or controversy, or ill-treatment at many hands.

Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights.
Palfrey.

&hand_; Written also, but less properly, gauntlet.


word: Ganza
definition:
Ganza

Gan"za
(?)
n.
[Sp. gansa, ganso, goose; of Gothic origin. See Gannet, Goose.]
A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world.
[Also gansa.]
Johnson.


word: Ganz system
definition:
Ganz system

Ganz system
(?)
A haulage system for canal boats, in which an electric locomotive running on a monorail has its adhesion materially increased by the pull of the tow rope on a series of inclined gripping wheels.


word: Gaol
definition:
Gaol

Gaol
(jāl)
n.
[See Jail.]
A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.
[Preferably, and in the United States usually, written jail.]

Commission of general gaol delivery, an authority conferred upon judges and others included in it, for trying and delivering every prisoner in jail when the judges, upon their circuit, arrive at the place for holding court, and for discharging any whom the grand jury fail to indict. [Eng.] -- Gaol delivery. (Law) See Jail delivery, under Jail.


word: gaolbird
definition:
gaolbird

gaolbird
n.
a person serving a prison sentence; a jail bird.
[Chiefly Brit.]

Syn. -- convict, inmate, jailbird, jail bird.


word: gaolbreak
definition:
gaolbreak

gaolbreak
n.
an escape from jail; same as jailbreak.
[Chiefly Brit.]

Syn. -- break, breakout, jailbreak, prisonbreak, prison-breaking.


word: Gap
definition:
Gap

Gap
(găp)
n.
[OE. gap; cf. Icel. gap an empty space, Sw. gap mouth, breach, abyss, Dan. gab mouth, opening, AS. geap expanse; as adj., wide, spacious. See Gape.]
1.
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.

Miseries ensued by the opening of that gap.
Knolles.

It would make a great gap in your own honor.
Shak.

2.
(Aëronautics)
The vertical distance between two superposed surfaces, esp. in a biplane.

Gap lathe (Mach.), a turning lathe with a deep notch in the bed to admit of turning a short object of large diameter. -- To stand in the gap, to expose one's self for the protection of something; to make defense against any assailing danger; to take the place of a fallen defender or supporter. -- To stop a gap, to secure a weak point; to repair a defect.


word: Gap₂
definition:
Gap

Gap
v. t.
1.
To notch, as a sword or knife.

2.
To make an opening in; to breach.

Their masses are gapp'd with our grape.
Tennyson.


word: Gape
definition:
Gape

Gape
(gäp; in Eng, commonly gāp; 277)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Gaped (gäpt or gāpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Gaping]
[OE. gapen, AS.  geapan to open; akin to D. gapen to gape, G. gaffen, Icel. & Sw. gapa, Dan. gabe; cf. Skr. jabh to snap at, open the mouth.  Cf. Gaby, Gap.]
1.
To open the mouth wide
as:
(a)
Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape.
Dryden.
(b)
Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn.

She stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes,
And asks if it be time to rise.
Swift.

With gaping wonderment had stared aghast.
Byron.
They have gaped upon me with their mouth.
Job xvi. 10.

2.
To open or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus.

May that ground gape and swallow me alive!
Shak.

3.
To long, wait eagerly, or cry aloud for something; -- with for, after, or at.

The hungry grave for her due tribute gapes.
Denham.


word: Gape₂
definition:
Gape

Gape
n.
1.
The act of gaping; a yawn.
Addison.

2.
(Zool.)
The width of the mouth when opened, as of birds, fishes, etc.

The gapes. (a) A fit of yawning. (b) 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.


word: Gaper
definition:
Gaper

Gap"er
(gāp"ẽr)
n.
1.
One who gapes.

2.
(Zool.)
(a)
A European fish. See 4th Comber.
(b)
A large edible clam (Schizothærus Nuttalli), of the Pacific coast; -- called also gaper clam.
(c)
An East Indian bird of the genus Cymbirhynchus, related to the broadbills.


word: Gapeseed
definition:
Gapeseed

Gape"seed`
(gāp"sēd)
n.
1.
Any strange sight.
Wright.

2.
A person who looks or stares gapingly.

To buy gapeseed, or To sow gapeseed, to stare idly or in idle wonderment, instead of attending to business.


word: Gapeworm
definition:
Gapeworm

Gape"worm`
(? or ?)
n.
(Zool.)
The parasitic worm that causes the gapes in birds. See Illustration in Appendix.


word: Gapingstock
definition:
Gapingstock

Gap"ing*stock`
(? or ?)
n.
One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder.

I was to be a gapingstock and a scorn to the young volunteers.
Godwin.


word: Gap-toothed
definition:
Gap-toothed

Gap"-toothed`
(găp"tōtht`)
a.
Having conspicuous interstices between the teeth; as, his gap-toothed grin.
Dryden.


word: Gar
definition:
Gar

Gar
(?)
n.
[Prob. AS. gār dart, spear, lance. The name is applied to the fish on account of its long and slender body and pointed head.  Cf. Goad, Gore, v.]
(Zool.)
(a)
Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish.
(b)
The gar pike. See Alligator gar (under Alligator), and Gar pike.

Gar pike, or Garpike (Zool.), a large, elongated ganoid fish of the genus Lepidosteus, of several species, inhabiting the lakes and rivers of temperate and tropical America.


word: Garage
definition:
Garage

Ga`rage"
(gȧ`räzh" or gȧ`räj" or  (Brit.) gȧr"a̝j)
n.
[F.]
1.
an enclosed structure for housing or parking motor vehicles, especially automobiles.

2.
(Aëronautics)
A shed for housing an airship or flying machine; a hangar.

3.
A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.

4.
a commercial establishment that repairs or services automobiles.


word: Garage₂
definition:
Garage

Ga`rage"
(gȧ`räzh" or gȧ`räj" or  (Brit.) gȧr"a̝j)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Garaged (gȧ`räzhd", gȧ`räjd" or gȧr"a̝jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Garaging (gȧ"räzh"ĭng, gȧ"räj"ĭng or gȧr"a̝*jĭng).]
To keep in a garage.
[Colloq.]


word: garambulla
definition:
garambulla

garambulla
n.
1.
An arborescent cactus of Western Mexico (Myrtillocactus geometrizans) bearing a small oblong edible berrylike fruit.

Syn. -- garambulla cactus, Myrtillocactus geometrizans.

2.
The small berrylike fruit of the Myrtillocactus geometrizans.


word: garand
definition:
garand

garand
n.
[From the inventor, John C. Garand.]
A semiautomatic rifle, also called the M-1, used by soldiers of the U. S. army in World War II and Korea.  It was the standard weapon issued to infantrymen.

Syn. -- Garand rifle, M-1, M-1 rifle.


word: Garancin
definition:
Garancin

Gar"an*cin
(?; 104)
n.
[F. garance madder, LL. garantia.]
(Chem.)
An extract of madder by sulphuric acid. It consists essentially of alizarin.


word: Garb
definition:
Garb

Garb
(gärb)
n.
[OF. garbe looks, countenance, grace, ornament, fr. OHG. garawī, garwī, ornament, dress. akin to E. gear. See Gear, n.]
1.
(a)
Clothing in general.
(b)
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.
(c)
Costume; fashion; as, the garb of a gentleman in the 16th century.

2.
External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech.

You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.
Shak.


word: Garb₂
definition:
Garb

Garb
(gärb)
n.
[F. gerbe, OF. also garbe, OHG. garba, G. garbe; cf. Skr. g&rsdot_;bh to seize, E. grab.]
(Her.)
A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified).


word: Garbage
definition:
Garbage

Gar"bage
(?; 48)
n.
[OE. also garbash, perh. orig., that which is purged or cleansed away; cf. OF. garber to make fine, neat, OHG.  garawan to make ready, prepare, akin to E. garb dress; or perh. for garbleage, fr. garble; or cf. OF. garbage tax on sheaves, E. garb sheaf.]
Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome.
Grainger.


word: Garbel₂
definition:
Garbel

Gar"bel
n.
[Cf. Garble, v. t.]
Anything sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been taken.
[Obs.]


word: Garble
definition:
Garble

Gar"ble
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Garbled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Garbling.]
[Formerly, to pick out, sort, OF. grabeler, for garbeler to examine precisely, garble spices, fr. LL. garbellare to sift; cf. Sp. garbillar to sift, garbillo a coarse sieve, L. cribellum, dim. of cribrum sieve, akin to cernere to separate, sift (cf. E. Discern); or perh. rather from Ar. gharbāl, gharbil, sieve.]
1.
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.
[Obs.]

2.
To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.


word: Garble₂
definition:
Garble

Gar"ble
n.
1.
Refuse; rubbish.
[Obs.]
Wolcott.

2.
pl.
Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; -- also called garblings.


word: Garboard
definition:
Garboard

Gar"board
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake.

Garboard strake or Garboard streak, the first range or strake of planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel. Totten.


word: Garboil
definition:
Garboil

Gar"boil
(?)
n.
[OF. garbouil; cf. Sp. garbullo, It. garbuglio; of uncertain origin; the last part is perh. fr. L. bullire to boil, E. boil.]
Tumult; disturbance; disorder.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Garcinia
definition:
Garcinia

Gar*cin"i*a
(?)
n.
[NL.]
(Bot.)
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.


word: Garcon
definition:
Garcon

Gar`çon"
(?)
n.
[F.]
1.
A boy; a young unmarried man.

2.
A serving boy or man; a waiter; -- used in direct address; as, garcon, please bring a glass of water -- in Eng. chiefly applied to French waiters.


word: Gardant
definition:
Gardant

Gar"dant
(?)
a.
[F. See Guardant.]
(Her.)
Turning the head towards the spectator, but not the body; -- said of a lion or other beast.


word: Garden
definition:
Garden

Gar"den
(gär"d'n; 277)
n.
[OE. gardin, OF. gardin, jardin, F. jardin, of German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G. garten; akin to AS. geard. See Yard an inclosure.]
1.
A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.

2.
A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.

I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy,
The pleasant garden of great Italy.
Shak.

&hand_; Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse.

Garden balsam, an ornamental plant (Impatiens Balsamina). -- Garden engine, a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens. -- Garden glass. (a) A bell glass for covering plants. (b) A globe of dark-colored glass, mounted on a pedestal, to reflect surrounding objects; -- much used as an ornament in gardens in Germany. -- Garden house (a) A summer house. Beau. & Fl. (b) A privy. [Southern U.S.] -- Garden husbandry, the raising on a small scale of seeds, fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale. -- Garden mold or Garden mould, rich, mellow earth which is fit for a garden. Mortimer. -- Garden nail, a cast nail, used for fastening vines to brick walls. Knight. -- Garden net, a net for covering fruits trees, vines, etc., to protect them from birds. -- Garden party, a social party held out of doors, within the grounds or garden attached to a private residence. -- Garden plot, a plot appropriated to a garden. Garden pot, a watering pot. -- Garden pump, a garden engine; a barrow pump. -- Garden shears, large shears, for clipping trees and hedges, pruning, etc. -- Garden spider, (Zool.), the diadem spider (Epeira diadema), common in gardens, both in Europe and America. It spins a geometrical web. See Geometric spider, and Spider web. -- Garden stand, a stand for flower pots. -- Garden stuff, vegetables raised in a garden. [Colloq.] -- Garden syringe, a syringe for watering plants, sprinkling them with solutions for destroying insects, etc. -- Garden truck, vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.] -- Garden ware, garden truck. [Obs.] Mortimer. --   Bear garden, Botanic garden, etc. See under Bear, etc. -- Hanging garden. See under Hanging. -- Kitchen garden, a garden where vegetables are cultivated for household use. -- Market garden, a piece of ground where vegetable are cultivated to be sold in the markets for table use.


word: Garden₂
definition:
Garden

Gar"den
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Gardened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gardening.]
To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.


word: Gardenia
definition:
Gardenia

Garde"ni*a
(?)
n.
[NL.]
(Bot.)
A genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; -- so called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden.


word: Gardening
definition:
Gardening

Gar"den*ing
(?)
n.
The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture.


word: Gardyloo
definition:
Gardyloo

Gar`dy*loo"
(?)
n.
[F. gare l'eau beware of the water.]
An old cry in throwing water, slops, etc., from the windows in Edingburgh.
Sir. W. Scott.


word: Garefowl
definition:
Garefowl

Gare"fowl`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The great auk; also, the razorbill. See Auk.
[Written also gairfowl, and gurfel.]


word: Garfish
definition:
Garfish

Gar"fish`
(?)
n.
[See Gar, n.]
(Zool.)
(a)
A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike.
(b)
One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T. Caribbæus, 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.


word: Garganey
definition:
Garganey

Gar"ga*ney
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A small European duck (Anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal.


word: Gargantuan
definition:
Gargantuan

Gar*gan"tu*an
(?; 135)
a.
[From Gargantua, an allegorical hero of Rabelais.]
Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.


word: Gargarize
definition:
Gargarize

Gar"ga*rize
(?)
v. t.
[F. gargarizare, fr. Gr. _;.]
To gargle; to rinse or wash, as the mouth and throat.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Garget
definition:
Garget

Garget
(?)
n.
[OE. garget, gargate, throat, OF. gargate.  Cf. Gorge. The etymol. of senses 2, 3, & 4 is not certain.]
1.
The throat.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
A diseased condition of the udders of cows, etc., arising from an inflammation of the mammary glands.

3.
A distemper in hogs, indicated by staggering and loss of appetite.
Youatt.

4.
(Bot.)
See Poke.


word: Gargle₂
definition:
Gargle

Gar"gle
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Garggled (?), p. pr. & vb. n. Gargling (_;).]
[F. gargouiller to dabble, paddle, gargle.  Cf. Gargoyle, Gurgle.]
1.
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.

2.
To warble; to sing as if gargling
[Obs.]
Waller.


word: Gargle₃
definition:
Gargle

Gar"gle
n.
A liquid, as water or some medicated preparation, used to cleanse the mouth and throat, especially for a medical effect.


word: Gargoulette
definition:
Gargoulette

Gar`gou*lette"
(?)
n.
[F.]
A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet.
Mollett.


word: Gargoyle
definition:
Gargoyle

Gar"goyle
(?)
n.
[OE. garguilie, gargouille, cf. Sp. gárgola, prob. fr. the same source as F. gorge throat, influenced by L. gargarizare to gargle. See Gorge and cf. Gargle, Gargarize.]
(Arch.)
A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely.
[Written also gargle, gargyle, and gurgoyle.]


word: Garibaldi
definition:
Garibaldi

Ga`ri*bal"di
(?)
n.
1.
A jacket worn by women; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi.

2.
(Zool.)
A California market fish (Pomancentrus rubicundus) of a deep scarlet color.


word: Garish
definition:
Garish

Gar"ish
(gâr"ĭsh)
a.
[Cf. OE. gauren to stare; of uncertain origin.  Cf. gairish.]
1.
Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention.
garish
garish
Shak.
In
garish
Asham.
The garish
J. H. Newman.

Garish like the laughters of drunkenness.
Jer. Taylor.

2.
Gay to extravagance; flighty.

It makes the mind loose and garish.
South.


word: garishness
definition:
garishness

gar"ish*ness
n.
1.
tasteless showiness.

Syn. -- flashiness, gaudiness, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness, glitz.

2.
strident color or excessive ornamentation.

Syn. -- gaudiness.


word: Garland
definition:
Garland

Gar"land
(?)
n.
[OE. garland, gerlond, OF. garlande, F. guirlande; of uncertain origin; cf. OHG. wiara, wiera, crown, pure gold, MHG. wieren to adorn.]

1.
The crown of a king.
[Obs.]
Graffon.

2.
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.
Pope.

3.
The top; the thing most prized.
Shak.

4.
A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.

They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands.
Percy.

5.
(Naut.)
(a)
A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in.
(b)
A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.


word: Garland₂
definition:
Garland

Gar"land
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Garlanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Garlanding.]
To deck with a garland.
B. Jonson.


word: Garlic
definition:
Garlic

Gar"lic
(?)
n.
[OE. garlek, AS. gārleác; gar spear, lance + leác leek. See Gar, n., and Leek.]
1.
(Bot.)
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.

2.
A kind of jig or farce.
[Obs.]
Taylor (1630).

Garlic mustard, a European plant of the Mustard family (Alliaria officinalis) which has a strong smell of garlic. -- Garlic pear tree, a tree in Jamaica (Cratæva gynandra), bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic, and a burning taste.


word: Garment
definition:
Garment

Gar"ment
(?)
n.
[OE. garnement, OF. garnement, garniment, fr. garnir to garnish. See Garnish.]
Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc.

No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment.
Matt. ix. 16.


word: Garmented
definition:
Garmented

Gar"ment*ed
p. a.
Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment.
[Poetic]

A lovely lady garmented in light
From her own beauty.
Shelley.


word: Garner
definition:
Garner

Gar"ner
(?)
n.
[OE. garner, gerner, greiner, OF. gernier, grenier, F. grenier, fr. L. granarium, fr. granum. See 1st Grain, and cf. Granary.]
A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.


word: Garner₂
definition:
Garner

Gar"ner
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Garnered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Garnering.]
To gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure.
Shak.


word: Garnet
definition:
Garnet

Gar"net
(?)
n.
[OE. gernet, grenat, OF. grenet,grenat, F. grenat, LL. granatus, fr. L. granatum pomegranate, granatus having many grains or seeds, fr. granum grain, seed. So called from its resemblance in color and shape to the grains or seeds of the pomegranate. See Grain, and cf. Grenade, Pomegranate.]
(Min.)
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.

&hand_; There are also white, green, yellow, brown, and black varieties. The garnet is a silicate, the bases being aluminia lime (grossularite, essonite, or cinnamon stone), or aluminia magnesia (pyrope), or aluminia iron (almandine), or aluminia manganese (spessartite), or iron lime (common garnet, melanite, allochroite), or chromium lime (ouvarovite, color emerald green). The transparent red varieties are used as gems. The garnet was, in part, the carbuncle of the ancients. Garnet is a very common mineral in gneiss and mica slate.

Garnet berry (Bot.), the red currant; -- so called from its transparent red color. -- Garnet brown (Chem.), an artificial dyestuff, produced as an explosive brown crystalline substance with a green or golden luster. It consists of the potassium salt of a complex cyanogen derivative of picric acid.


word: Garnet₂
definition:
Garnet

Gar"net
n.
[Etymol. unknown.]
(Naut.)
A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.

Clew garnet. See under Clew.


word: Garnierite
definition:
Garnierite

Gar"ni*er*ite
(?)
n.
[Named after the French geologist Garnier.]
(Min.)
An amorphous mineral of apple-green color; a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesia. It is an important ore of nickel.


word: Garnish
definition:
Garnish

Gar"nish
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Garnished (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Garnishing.]
[OE. garnischen, garnissen, OF. garnir to provide, strengthen, prepare, garnish, warn, F. garnir to provide, furnish, garnish, -- of German origin; cf. OHG. warn&omacrn to provide, equip; akin to G. wahren to watch, E. aware, ware, wary, and cf. also E. warn. See Wary, -ish, and cf. Garment, Garrison.]
1.
To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.

All within with flowers was garnished.
Spenser.

2.
(Cookery)
To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.

3.
To furnish; to supply.

4.
To fit with fetters.
[Cant]
Johnson.

5.
(Law)
To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See Garnishee, v. t.
Cowell.


word: Garnish₂
definition:
Garnish

Gar"nish
n.
1.
Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.

So are you, sweet,
Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.
Shak.

Matter and figure they produce;
For garnish this, and that for use.
Prior.

2.
(Cookery)
Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment, such as parsley. See Garnish, v. t., 2.
Smart.

3.
Fetters.
[Cant]

4.
A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer.
[Cant]
Fielding.

Garnish bolt (Carp.), a bolt with a chamfered or faceted head. Knight.


word: Garnishee
definition:
Garnishee

Gar`nish*ee"
(?)
n.
(Law)
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.

&hand_; The order by which warning is made is called a garnishee order.


word: Garnishee₂
definition:
Garnishee

Gar`nish*ee"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Garnisheed (-ēd); p. pr. & vb. n. Garnisheeing.]
(Law)
(a)
To make (a person) a garnishee; to warn by garnishment; to garnish.
(b)
To attach (the fund or property sought to be secured by garnishment); to trustee.


word: Garnishment
definition:
Garnishment

Gar"nish*ment
(?)
n.
[Cf. OF. garnissement protection, guarantee, warning.]
1.
Ornament; embellishment; decoration.
Sir H. Wotton.

2.
(Law)
(a)
Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter.
(b)
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.

3.
A fee. See Garnish, n., 4.


word: Garniture
definition:
Garniture

Gar"ni*ture
(?)
n.
[F. garniture. See Garnish, v. t.]
That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress.

The pomp of groves and garniture of fields.
Beattie.


word: Garran
definition:
Garran

Gar"ran
(?)
n.
[Gael. garrán, gearrán, gelding, work horse, hack.]
(Zool.)
See Galloway.
[Scot. garron or gerron. Jamieson.]


word: Garret
definition:
Garret

Gar"ret
(?)
n.
[OE. garite, garette, watchtower, place of lookout, OF. garite, also meaning, a place of refuge, F. guérite a place of refuge, donjon, sentinel box, fr. OF. garir to preserve, save, defend, F. guérir to cure; of German origin; cf. OHG. werian to protect, defend, hinder, G. wehren, akin to Goth. warjan to hinder, and akin to E. weir, or perhaps to wary. See Weir, and cf. Guerite.]
1.
A turret; a watchtower.
[Obs.]

He saw men go up and down on the garrets of the gates and walls.
Ld. Berners.

2.
That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic.

The tottering garrets which overhung the streets of Rome.
Macaulay.


word: Garreteer
definition:
Garreteer

Gar`ret*eer"
(?)
n.
One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack.
Macaulay.


word: Garreting
definition:
Garreting

Gar"ret*ing
(?)
n.
Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.
Weale.


word: Garrison
definition:
Garrison

Gar"ri*son
(?)
n.
[OE. garnisoun, F. garnison garrison, in OF. & OE. also, provision, munitions, from garnir to garnish. See Garnish.]
(Mil.)
(a)
A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town.
(b)
A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security.

In garrison, in the condition of a garrison; doing duty in a fort or as one of a garrison.


word: Garrison₂
definition:
Garrison

Gar"ri*son
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Garrisoned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Garrisoning.]
(Mil.)
(a)
To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town.
(b)
To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory.


word: Garrot
definition:
Garrot

Gar"rot
(?)
n.
[F.  Cf. Garrote.]
(Surg.)
A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.


word: Garrote
definition:
Garrote

Gar*rote"
(?)
n.
[Sp. garrote, from garra claw, talon, of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. & W. gar leg, ham, shank.  Cf. Garrot stick, Garter.]
A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct.

2.
The instrument by means of which the garrote{1} is inflicted.

Syn. -- garrote, garotte, iron collar.

3.
Hence:
A short length of rope or other instrument used to strangle a person.


word: Garrote₂
definition:
Garrote

Gar*rote"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Garroted; p. pr. & vb. n. Garroting.]
To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.


word: garroter
definition:
garroter

gar*rot"er
(?)
n.
One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.


word: Garrulinae
definition:
Garrulinae

Garrulinae
prop. n.
A subfamily of the crow family, including the jays.

Syn. -- subfamily Garrulinae.


word: Garrulous
definition:
Garrulous

Gar"ru*lous
(?)
a.
[L. garrulus, fr. garrire to chatter, talk; cf. Gr. _; voice, _; to speak, sing.  Cf. Call.]
1.
Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious.

The most garrulous people on earth.
De Quincey.

2.
(Zool.)
Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds; as, the garrulous roller.


word: Garrulus
definition:
Garrulus

Garrulus
prop. n.
The type genus of the Garrulinae, conmprising the Old World jays.

Syn. -- genus Garrulus.


word: Garrupa
definition:
Garrupa

Gar*ru"pa
(?)
n.
[Prob. fr. Pg. garupa crupper.  Cf. Grouper the fish.]
(Zool.)
One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See Rockfish.


word: Garter
definition:
Garter

Gar"ter
(?)
n.
[OE. gartier, F. jarretière, fr. OF. garet bend of the knee, F. jarret; akin to Sp. garra claw, Prov. garra leg. See Garrote.]
1.
A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.

2.
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.

3.
(Her.)
Same as Bendlet.

Garter fish (Zool.), a fish of the genus Lepidopus, having a long, flat body, like the blade of a sword; the scabbard fish. -- Garter king-at-arms, the chief of the official heralds of England, king-at-arms to the Order of the Garter; -- often abbreviated to Garter. -- Garter snake (Zool.), one of several harmless American snakes of the genus Eutænia, of several species (esp. E. saurita and E. sirtalis); one of the striped snakes; -- so called from its conspicuous stripes of color.


word: Garter₂
definition:
Garter

Gar"ter
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gartered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gartering.]
1.
To bind with a garter.

He . . . could not see to garter his hose.
Shak.

2.
To invest with the Order of the Garter.
T. Warton.


word: Garth
definition:
Garth

Garth
(gärth)
n.
[Icel. garðr yard. See Yard.]
1.
A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth.

A clapper clapping in a garth
To scare the fowl from fruit.
Tennyson.

2.
A dam or weir for catching fish.


word: Garuda
definition:
Garuda

Garuda
prop. n.
(Hinduism)
 supernatural half-man and half-bird vehicle or bearer of Vishnu.


word: Garum
definition:
Garum

Ga"rum
(gā"rŭm)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. ga`ros.]
A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.


word: Garvie
definition:
Garvie

Gar"vie
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The sprat; -- called also garvie herring, and garvock.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]


word: Gas
definition:
Gas

Gas
(găs)
n.
pl. Gases (găs"ĕz).
[Invented by the chemist Van Helmont of Brussels, who died in 1644.]
1.
An aëriform 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 aëriform state.

2.
(Popular Usage)
(a)
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.
(b)
Laughing gas.
(c)
Any irrespirable aëriform fluid.

3.
same as gasoline; -- a shortened form.  Also, the accelerator pedal of a motor vehicle; used in the term “ step on the gas”.

4.
the accelerator pedal of a motor vehicle; used in the term “ step on the gas”.

5.
Same as natural gas.

6.
an exceptionally enjoyable event; a good time; as, The concert was a gas.
[slang]

&hand_; Gas is often used adjectively or in combination; as, gas fitter or gasfitter; gas meter or gas-meter, etc.

Air gas (Chem.), a kind of gas made by forcing air through some volatile hydrocarbon, as the lighter petroleums. The air is so saturated with combustible vapor as to be a convenient illuminating and heating agent. -- Gas battery (Elec.), a form of voltaic battery, in which gases, especially hydrogen and oxygen, are the active agents. -- Gas carbon, Gas coke, etc. See under Carbon, Coke, etc. -- Gas coal, a bituminous or hydrogenous coal yielding a high percentage of volatile matters, and therefore available for the manufacture of illuminating gas. R. W. Raymond. -- Gas engine, an engine in which the motion of the piston is produced by the combustion or sudden production or expansion of gas; -- especially, an engine in which an explosive mixture of gas and air is forced into the working cylinder and ignited there by a gas flame or an electric spark. -- Gas fitter, one who lays pipes and puts up fixtures for gas. -- Gas fitting. (a) The occupation of a gas fitter. (b) pl. The appliances needed for the introduction of gas into a building, as meters, pipes, burners, etc. -- Gas fixture, a device for conveying illuminating or combustible gas from the pipe to the gas-burner, consisting of an appendage of cast, wrought, or drawn metal, with tubes upon which the burners, keys, etc., are adjusted. -- Gas generator, an apparatus in which gas is evolved; as: (a) a retort in which volatile hydrocarbons are evolved by heat; (b) a machine in which air is saturated with the vapor of liquid hydrocarbon; a carburetor; (c) a machine for the production of carbonic acid gas, for aërating water, bread, etc. Knight. -- Gas jet, a flame of illuminating gas. -- Gas machine, an apparatus for carbureting air for use as illuminating gas. -- Gas meter, an instrument for recording the quantity of gas consumed in a given time, at a particular place. -- Gas retort, a retort which contains the coal and other materials, and in which the gas is generated, in the manufacture of gas. -- Gas stove, a stove for cooking or other purposes, heated by gas. -- Gas tar, coal tar. -- Gas trap, a drain trap; a sewer trap. See 4th Trap, 5. -- Gas washer (Gas Works), an apparatus within which gas from the condenser is brought in contact with a falling stream of water, to precipitate the tar remaining in it. Knight. -- Gas water, water through which gas has been passed for purification; -- called also gas liquor and ammoniacal water, and used for the manufacture of sal ammoniac, carbonate of ammonia, and Prussian blue. Tomlinson. -- Gas well, a deep boring, from which natural gas is discharged. Raymond. -- Gas works, a manufactory of gas, with all the machinery and appurtenances; a place where gas is generated for lighting cities. -- Laughing gas. See under Laughing. -- Marsh gas (Chem.), a light, combustible, gaseous hydrocarbon, CH4, produced artificially by the dry distillation of many organic substances, and occurring as a natural product of decomposition in stagnant pools, whence its name. It is an abundant ingredient of ordinary illuminating gas, and is the first member of the paraffin series. Called also methane, and in coal mines, fire damp. -- Natural gas, gas obtained from wells, etc., in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and elsewhere, and largely used for fuel and illuminating purposes. It is chiefly derived from the Coal Measures. -- Olefiant gas (Chem.). See Ethylene. -- Water gas (Chem.), a kind of gas made by forcing steam over glowing coals, whereby there results a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. This gives a gas of intense heating power, but destitute of light-giving properties, and which is charged by passing through some volatile hydrocarbon, as gasoline.


word: Gas₂
definition:
Gas

Gas
(găs)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gassed (găst); p. pr. & vb. n. Gassing.]
1.
(Textiles)
To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers; as, to gas thread.

2.
To impregnate with gas; as, to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder.

3.
to expose to a poisonous or noxious gas
gassed


word: Gasalier
definition:
Gasalier

Gas`a*lier"
(?)
n.
[Formed from gas, in imitation of chandelier.]
A chandelier arranged to burn gas.

Syn. -- gaselier.


word: gasbag
definition:
gasbag

gasbag
n.
1.
a person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.

Syn. -- windbag.

2.
the bag containing the gas in a balloon.

Syn. -- envelope.


word: Gas-burner
definition:
Gas-burner

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


word: Gascon
definition:
Gascon

Gas"con
(?; F. ?)
a.
[F.]
Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering.
n. A native of Gascony; a boaster; a bully. See Gasconade.


word: Gasconade
definition:
Gasconade

Gas`con*ade"
(?)
n.
[F. gasconnade, from Gascon an inhabitant of Gascony, the people of which were noted for boasting.]
A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio.
Swift.


word: Gasconade₂
definition:
Gasconade

Gas`con*ade"
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Gasconaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Gasconading.]
To boast; to brag; to bluster.


word: Gaselier
definition:
Gaselier

Gas`e*lier"
(?)
n.
[Formed from gas, in imitation of chandelier.]
A chandelier arranged to burn gas.

Syn. -- gasalier.


word: Gas engine
definition:
Gas engine

Gas engine
(Mach.)
A kind of internal-combustion engine (which see) using fixed gas; also, broadly, any internal-combustion engine.


word: Gaseous
definition:
Gaseous

Gas"e*ous
(? or ?; 277)
a.
[From Gas.  Cf. F. gazeux.]
1.
In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aëriform fluid.

2.
Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous.
gaseous
Sir J. Stephen.


word: Gash
definition:
Gash

Gash
(găsh)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gashed (găsht); p. pr. & vb. n. Gashing.]
[For older garth or garse, OF. garser to scarify, F. gercer to chap, perh. from an assumed LL. carptiare, fr. L. carpere, carptum, to pluck, separate into parts; cf. LL. carptare to wound.  Cf. Carpet.]
To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.

Grievously gashed or gored to death.
Hayward.


word: Gash₂
definition:
Gash

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


word: Gasify
definition:
Gasify

Gas"i*fy
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gasified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gasifying.]
[Gas + -fy.]
To convert into a gas, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.


word: Gasify₂
definition:
Gasify

Gas"i*fy
(?)
v. i.
To become gas; to pass from a liquid to a gaseous state.
Scientific American.


word: Gasket
definition:
Gasket

Gas"ket
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. garcette, It. gaschetta, Sp. cajeta caburn, garceta reef point.]
1.
(Naut.)
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.

2.
(Mech.)
(a)
The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps.
(b)
Any ring or washer of made of a compressible material, used to make joints impermeable to fluids.


word: Gaskins
definition:
Gaskins

Gas"kins
(?)
n. pl.
[Cf. Galligaskins.]
1.
Loose hose or breeches; galligaskins.
[Obs.]
Shak.

2.
Packing of hemp.
Simmonds.

3.
A horse's thighs.
[Prov. Eng.]
Wright.


word: gasmask
definition:
gasmask

gasmask
n.
a mask with a filter which protects the face and lungs against poisonous gases.  It is used in warfare, and also by police to allow them to effectively use tear gas or other disabling gas to disperse a crowd or force fugitives to leave a building.

Syn. -- respirator, gas helmet.


word: Gaslight
definition:
Gaslight

Gas"light`
(?)
n.
1.
The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.

2.
A gas jet or burner.


word: Gasogen
definition:
Gasogen

Gas"o*gen
(?)
n.
[Gas + -gen.]
1.
An apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid.

2.
A volatile hydrocarbon, used as an illuminant, or for charging illuminating gas.


word: Gasolene₂
definition:
Gasolene

Gasoline

Gas"o*line, Gas"o*lene
(? or ?; 104)
n.
A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained mostly from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used as a fuel for most automobiles and for many other vehicles with internal combustion engines.  The gasoline of commerce is typically blended with additives to improve its performance in internal combustion engines.  Gasoline was also used in the early 1900's in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. See Carburetor.

Syn. -- petrol[Brit].


word: Gasolene engine
definition:
Gasolene engine

Gasoline engine

{ Gas"o*line en"gine, or Gas"o*lene en"gine  }
(Mach.)
A kind of internal-combustion engine; -- in British countries called usually petrol engine.


word: Gasometer
definition:
Gasometer

Gas*om"e*ter
(? or ?)
n.
[Gas + -meter.  Cf. F. gazomètre.]
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.


word: Gasometrical
definition:
Gasometrical

Gasometric

{ Gas`o*met"ric (? or ?), Gas`o*met"ric*al (?), }
a.
Of or pertaining to the measurement of gases; as, gasometric analysis.


word: Gasometry
definition:
Gasometry

Gas*om"e*try
(? or ?)
n.
The art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids.
Coxe.


word: Gasoscope
definition:
Gasoscope

Gas"o*scope
(?)
n.
[Gas + -scope.]
An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.


word: Gasp
definition:
Gasp

Gasp
(gȧsp)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Gasped (gȧspt); p. pr. & vb. n. Gasping.]
[OE. gaspen, gaispen, to yawn, gasp, Icel. geispa to yawn; akin to Sw. gäspa, Dan. gispe to gasp.]
1.
To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently.

She gasps and struggles hard for life.
Lloyd.

2.
To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.

Quenching the gasping furrows' thirst with rain.
Spenser.


word: Gasp₂
definition:
Gasp

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

And with short sobs he gasps away his breath.
Dryden.


word: Gasp₃
definition:
Gasp

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

At the last gasp, at the point of death. Addison.


word: Gasserian
definition:
Gasserian

Gas*se"ri*an
(?)
a.
Relating to Casserio (L. Gasserius), the discover of the Gasserian ganglion.

Gasserian ganglion (Anat.), a large ganglion, at the root of the trigeminal, or fifth cranial, nerve.


word: Gassing
definition:
Gassing

Gas"sing
(?)
n.
1.
(Manuf.)
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.

2.
Boasting; insincere or empty talk.
[Slang]


word: Gassy
definition:
Gassy

Gas"sy
(?)
a.
1.
Full of gas; like gas.
Hence:
[Colloq.]
Inflated; full of boastful or insincere talk.

2.
passing intestinal gas excessively; flatulent.


word: Gast
definition:
Gast

Gast
(gȧst)
v. t.
[OE. gasten, g&aemacr_;sten to frighten, akin to Goth. usgaisjan. See Aghast, Ghastly, and cf. Gaze.]
To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See Aghast.
[Obs.]
Chaucer. Shak.


word: Gasteromycetes
definition:
Gasteromycetes

Gas`te*ro*my*ce"tes
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., from Gr. _; stomach + _; a mushroom.]
(Bot.)
An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.


word: Gasterophilus
definition:
Gasterophilus

Gasterophilus
n.
The type genus of the Gasterophilidae, comprising the horse botflies.

Syn. -- genus Gasterophilus.


word: Gastornis
definition:
Gastornis

Gas*tor"nis
(?)
n.
[NL., from Gaston M. Plante, the discover + Gr. _; bird.]
(Paleon.)
A genus of large eocene birds from the Paris basin.


word: Gastraea
definition:
Gastraea

Gas*træ"a
(?)
n.
[NL., from Gr. _;, _;, the stomach.]
(Biol.)
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 Gastræa theory of Haeckel. See Gastrula.


word: Gastralgia
definition:
Gastralgia

Gas*tral"gi*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, _;, stomach + _; pain.]
(Med.)
Pain in the stomach or epigastrium, as in gastric disorders.


word: Gastric
definition:
Gastric

Gas"tric
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;, _;, stomach: cf. F. gastrique.]
Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the gastric artery.

Gastric digestion (Physiol.), the conversion of the albuminous portion of food in the stomach into soluble and diffusible products by the solvent action of gastric juice. -- Gastric fever (Med.), a fever attended with prominent gastric symptoms; -- a name applied to certain forms of typhoid fever; also, to catarrhal inflammation of the stomach attended with fever. -- Gastric juice (Physiol.), a thin, watery fluid, with an acid reaction, secreted by a peculiar set of glands contained in the mucous membrane of the stomach. It consists mainly of dilute hydrochloric acid and the ferment pepsin. It is the most important digestive fluid in the body, but acts only on proteid foods. -- Gastric remittent fever (Med.), a form of remittent fever with pronounced stomach symptoms.


word: Gastriloquist
definition:
Gastriloquist

Gas*tril"o*quist
(?)
n.
[Gr. gasth`r, gastro`s, stomach + L. loqui to speak.]
One who appears to speak from his stomach; a ventriloquist.


word: Gastriloquy
definition:
Gastriloquy

Gas*tril"o*quy
(?)
n.
A voice or utterance which appears to proceed from the stomach; ventriloquy.


word: Gastritis
definition:
Gastritis

Gas*tri"tis
(?)
n.
[NL., from. Gr. _;, _;, stomach + -itis.]
(Med.)
Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane.


word: Gastro-
definition:
Gastro-

Gas"tro-
(?)
A combining form from the Gr. _;, _;, the stomach, or belly; as in gastrocolic, gastrocele, gastrotomy.


word: Gastrocnemius
definition:
Gastrocnemius

Gas`troc*ne"mi*us
(?)
n.
[NL., from Gr. _; the calf of the leg.]
(Anat.)
The muscle which makes the greater part of the calf of the leg.


word: Gastrocolic
definition:
Gastrocolic

Gas`tro*col"ic
(?)
a.
[Gastro- + colic.]
(Anat.)
Pertaining to both the stomach and the colon; as, the gastrocolic, or great, omentum.


word: Gastrodisc
definition:
Gastrodisc

Gas`tro*disc
(?)
n.
[Gastro- + disc.]
(Biol.)
That part of blastoderm where the hypoblast appears like a small disk on the inner face of the epibladst.


word: Gastroduodenal
definition:
Gastroduodenal

Gas`tro*du"o*de"nal
(?)
a.
[Gastro- + -duodenal.]
(Anat.)
Pertaining to the stomach and duodenum; as, the gastroduodenal artery.


word: Gastroduodenitis
definition:
Gastroduodenitis

Gas`tro*du`o*de*ni"tis
(?)
n.
[NL. See Gastroduodenal, and -itis.]
(Med.)
Inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. It is one of the most frequent causes of jaundice.


word: Gastroelytrotomy
definition:
Gastroelytrotomy

Gas`tro*el`y*trot"o*my
(?)
n.
[Gastro- + Gr _; sheath + _; a cutting]
(Surg.)
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 Cæsarean operation, and less dangerous.


word: Gastroenteritis
definition:
Gastroenteritis

Gas`tro*en`te*ri"tis
(?)
n.
[NL. See Gastroenrteric, and -itis.]
(Med.)
Inflammation of the lining membrane of the stomach and the intestines.


word: Gastroepiploic
definition:
Gastroepiploic

Gas`tro*ep`i*plo"ic
(?)
a.
[Gastro- + -epiploic.]
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the stomach and omentum.


word: Gastrohepatic
definition:
Gastrohepatic

Gas`tro*he*pat"ic
(?)
a.
[Gastro- + -hepatic.]
(Med.)
Pertaining to the stomach and liver; hepatogastric; as, the gastrohepatic, or lesser, omentum.


word: Gastrohysterotomy
definition:
Gastrohysterotomy

Gas`tro*hys`ter*ot"o*my
(?)
n.
[Gastro- + Gr. _; womb + _; to cut.]
(Surg.)
Cæsarean section. See under Cæsarean.


word: Gastrointestinal
definition:
Gastrointestinal

Gas`tro*in*tes"ti*nal
(?)
a.
[Gastro- + -intestinal.]
(Anat. & Med.)
Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric.


word: Gastrology
definition:
Gastrology

Gas*trol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr _;; _;, _;, stomach + _; discourse: cf. F. gastrologie.]
The science which treats of the structure and functions of the stomach; a treatise of the stomach.


word: Gastromalacia
definition:
Gastromalacia

Gas`tro*ma*la"ci*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, _;, stomach + _; softness, fr. _; soft.]
(Med.)
A softening of the coats of the stomach; -- usually a post-morten change.


word: Gastromancy
definition:
Gastromancy

Gas`tro*man"cy
(?)
n.
[Gastro- + -mancy: cf. F. gastromancy.]
(Antiq.)
(a)
A kind of divination, by means of words seemingly uttered from the stomach.
(b)
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.


word: Gastromyces
definition:
Gastromyces

Gas`tro*my"ces
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, _;, stomach + _;, _;, a fungus.]
(Biol.)
The fungoid growths sometimes found in the stomach; such as Torula, etc.


word: Gastromyth
definition:
Gastromyth

Gas"tro*myth
(?)
n.
[Gastro- + Gr. _; to say, speak.]
One whose voice appears to proceed from the stomach; a ventriloquist.
[Obs.]


word: Gastronomer
definition:
Gastronomer

Gastronome

{ Gas"tro*nome (?), Gas*tron"o*mer (?), }
n.
[F. gastronome, fr. Gr. _;, _;, stomach + _; law, _; to distribute.]
One fond of good living; an epicure.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Gastronomical
definition:
Gastronomical

Gastronomic

Gas`tro*nom"ic (?), Gas`tro*nom"ic*al (_;)
a.
[Cf. F. gastronomique.]
Pertaining to gastromony.


word: Gastronomy
definition:
Gastronomy

Gas*tron"o*my
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;: cf. F. gastronomie.]
The art or science of good eating; epicurism; the art of good cheer.


word: Gastrophrenic
definition:
Gastrophrenic

Gas`tro*phren"ic
(?)
a.
[Gastro- + -phrenic.]
(Anat.)
Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm; as, the gastrophrenic ligament.


word: Gastropneumatic
definition:
Gastropneumatic

Gas`tro*pneu*mat"ic
(?)
a.
[Gastro- + pneumatic.]
(Anat.)
Pertaining to the alimentary canal and air passages, and to the cavities connected with them; as, the gastropneumatic mucuos membranes.


word: Gastropoda
definition:
Gastropoda

Gas*trop"o*da
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, _;, stomach + -poda.]
(Zool.)
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.
[Written also Gasteropoda.]

&hand_; The Gastropoda are divided into three subclasses; viz.: (a) The Streptoneura or Dioecia, including the Pectinibranchiata, Rhipidoglossa, Docoglossa, and Heteropoda. (b) The Euthyneura, including the Pulmonata and Opisthobranchia. (c) The Amphineura, including the Polyplacophora and Aplacophora.


word: Gastroraphy
definition:
Gastroraphy

Gas*tror"a*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr._;; _;, _;, stomach + _; a sewing, fr. _; to sew: cf. F. gastrorrhaphie.]
(Surg.)
The operation of sewing up wounds of the abdomen.
Quincy.


word: Gastroscope
definition:
Gastroscope

Gas"tro*scope
(?)
n.
[Gastro- + -scope.]
(Med.)
An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach.


word: Gastroscopy
definition:
Gastroscopy

Gas*tros"co*py
(?)
n.
(Med.)
Examination of the abdomen or stomach, as with the gastroscope.


word: Gastrosplenic
definition:
Gastrosplenic

Gas`tro*splen"ic
(?)
n.
[Gastro- + splenic.]
(Anat.)
Pertaining to the stomach and spleen; as, the gastrosplenic ligament.


word: Gastrostege
definition:
Gastrostege

Gas*tros"tege
(?)
n.
[Gastro- + Gr. _; roof.]
(Zool.)
One of the large scales on the belly of a serpent.


word: Gastrostomy
definition:
Gastrostomy

Gas*tros"to*my
(?)
n.
[Gastro- + Gr. _; mouth.]
(Surg.)
The operation of making a permanent opening into the stomach, for the introduction of food.


word: Gastrotomy
definition:
Gastrotomy

Gas*trot"o*my
(?)
n.
[Gastro + Gr. _; to cut: cf. F. gastrotomie.]
(Surg.)
A cutting into, or opening of, the abdomen or the stomach.


word: Gastrotricha
definition:
Gastrotricha

Gas*trot"ri*cha
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; belly + _;, _;, hair.]
(Zool.)
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.


word: Gastrotrocha
definition:
Gastrotrocha

Gas*trot"ro*cha
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, _;, stomach + _; a wheel.]
(Zool.)
A form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral side.


word: Gastrovascular
definition:
Gastrovascular

Gas`tro*vas"cu*lar
(?)
a.
[Gastro- + -vascular.]
(Zool.)
Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of cœlenterates.


word: Gastrula
definition:
Gastrula

Gas"tru*la
(?)
n.
pl.
Gastrulæ
(#)
[NL., dim. fr. Gr. _; the stomach.]
(Biol.)
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 Gastræa.
a. Of or pertaining to a gastrula.


word: Gastrulation
definition:
Gastrulation

Gas`tru*la"tion
(găs`tr&usdot_;*lā"shŭn)
n.
(Biol.)
The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.


word: Gastrura
definition:
Gastrura

Gas*tru"ra
(găs*tr&usuml_;"rȧ)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. gasth`r belly + o'yra` tail.]
(Zool.)
See Stomatopoda.


word: Gatch
definition:
Gatch

Gatch
(găch)
n.
[Per. gach mortar.]
Plaster as used in Persian architecture and decorative art.
Gatch decoration, decoration in plaster often producing design of great beauty. -- Gatch work, work in which gatch is employed; also, articles of gatch ornamentation collectively.


word: Gate
definition:
Gate

Gate
(gāt)
n.
[OE. &yogh_;et, &yogh_;eat, giat, gate, door, AS. geat, gat, gate, door; akin to OS., D., & Icel. gat opening, hole, and perh. to E. gate a way, gait, and get, v.  Cf. Gate a way, 3d Get.]
1.
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.

2.
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.

Knowest thou the way to Dover?
Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath.
Shak.

Opening a gate for a long war.
Knolles.

3.
A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.

4.
(Script.)
The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.

The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Matt. xvi. 18.

5.
In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

6.
(Founding)
(a)
The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.
(b)
The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.
[Written also geat and git.]

Gate chamber, a recess in the side wall of a canal lock, which receives the opened gate. -- Gate channel. See Gate, 5. -- Gate hook, the hook-formed piece of a gate hinge. -- Gate money, entrance money for admission to an inclosure. -- Gate tender, one in charge of a gate, as at a railroad crossing. -- Gate valva, a stop valve for a pipe, having a sliding gate which affords a straight passageway when open. -- Gate vein (Anat.), the portal vein. -- To break gates (Eng. Univ.), to enter a college inclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted. -- To stand in the gate or To stand in the gates, to occupy places or advantage, power, or defense.


word: Gate₂
definition:
Gate

Gate
v. t.
1.
To supply with a gate.

2.
(Eng. Univ.)
To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.


word: Gate₃
definition:
Gate

Gate
n.
[Icel. gata; akin to SW. gata street, lane, Dan. gade, Goth. gatwö, G. gasse.  Cf. Gate a door, Gait.]
1.
A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).
[O. Eng. & Scot.]

I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
Manner; gait.
[O. Eng. & Scot.]


word: gateau
definition:
gateau

ga*teau", gâ*teau"
(gȧ*t&omacr")
n.
[F. cake.]
(Cookery)
Any of various rich and elaborate cakes, particularly a light sponge cake having a rich filling or rich icing, such as gateau foret noire (Black Forest Cake).


word: gatecrash
definition:
gatecrash

gate"crash`
v. t.
To enter uninvited into a party or other social event.

Syn. -- intrude, barge in, crash, gate-crash, irrupt.


word: gatecrasher
definition:
gatecrasher

gate"crash`er
v. t.
A person who enters into a party or other social event without an invitation, or into a theater or other public performance without a ticket.


word: gate-crashing
definition:
gate-crashing

gate-crashing
adj.
entering a gathering uninvited; as, gate-crashing guests disrupted the party.


word: Gatepost
definition:
Gatepost

Gate"post`
(gāt"p&omacrst`)
n.
1.
A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging post or hinging post.

2.
A post against which a gate closes; -- called also shutting post.


word: Gateway
definition:
Gateway

Gate"way`
(gāt"wā`)
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.


word: Gatewise
definition:
Gatewise

Gate"wise`
(gāt"wīz`)
adv.
In the manner of a gate.

Three circles of stones set up gatewise.
Fuller.


word: Gather
definition:
Gather

Gath"er
(gă&thlig_;"ẽr)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gathered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gathering.]
[OE. gaderen, AS. gaderian, gadrian, fr. gador, geador, together, fr. gæd fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband, MHG. gate, also companion, Goth. gadiliggs a sister's son. √29. See Good, and cf. Together.]

1.
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.

And Belgium's capital had gathered them
Her beauty and her chivalry.
Byron.

When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together.
Matt. ii. 4.

2.
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.

A rose just gathered from the stalk.
Dryden.

Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Matt. vii. 16.

Gather us from among the heathen.
Ps. cvi. 47.

3.
To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.

He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Prov. xxviii. 8.

To pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by degrees.
Locke.

4.
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.

Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand
In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand.
Pope.

5.
To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.

Let me say no more!
Gather the sequel by that went before.
Shak.

6.
To gain; to win.
[Obs.]

He gathers ground upon her in the chase.
Dryden.

7.
(Arch.)
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.

8.
(Naut.)
To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.

To be gathered to one's people or To be gathered to one's fathers to die. Gen. xxv. 8. -- To gather breath, to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get one's breath; to rest. Spenser. -- To gather one's self together, to collect and dispose one's powers for a great effort, as a beast crouches preparatory to a leap. -- To gather way (Naut.), to begin to move; to move with increasing speed.


word: Gather₂
definition:
Gather

Gath"er
(?)
v. i.
1.
To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.

When small humors gather to a gout.
Pope.

Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes.
Tennyson.

2.
To grow larger by accretion; to increase.

Their snowball did not gather as it went.
Bacon.

3.
To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.

4.
To collect or bring things together.

Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed.
Matt. xxv. 26.


word: Gather₃
definition:
Gather

Gath"er
n.
1.
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.

2.
(Carriage Making)
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.

3.
(Arch.)
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.


word: Gatherable
definition:
Gatherable

Gath"er*a*ble
(?)
a.
Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises.
[R.]
Godwin.


word: Gatherer
definition:
Gatherer

Gath"er*er
(?)
n.
1.
One who gathers or collects.

2.
(Sewing Machine)
An attachment for making gathers in the cloth.


word: Gathering
definition:
Gathering

Gath"er*ing
n.
1.
The act of collecting or bringing together.

2.
That which is gathered, collected, or brought together
(a)
A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.
(b)
A charitable contribution; a collection.
(c)
A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.


word: Gathering₂
definition:
Gathering

Gath"er*ing
a.
Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.

Gathering board (Bookbinding), a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book. Knight. -- Gathering coal, a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning. -- Gathering hoop, a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them. -- Gathering peat. (a) A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire. (b) In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the Highlanders.


word: Gatling gun
definition:
Gatling gun

Gat"ling gun`
(_;)
[From the inventor, R.J. Gatling.]
An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired.

&hand_; The improved Gatling gun can be fired at the rate of 1,200 shots per minute.
Farrow.


word: GATT
definition:
GATT

GATT
prop. n.
[General Agreement on Tarriffs and Trade.]
a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
[acronym]

Syn. -- General Agreement on Tarriffs and Trade.


word: Gatten tree
definition:
Gatten tree

Gat"ten tree`
(?)
[Cf. Prov. E. gatter bush.]
(Bot.)
A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europæus).


word: Gat-toothed
definition:
Gat-toothed

Gat"-toothed`
(?)
a.
[OE. gat goat + tooth. See Goat the animal.]
Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton.
[Obs.]


word: Gauche
definition:
Gauche

Gauche
(g&omacrsh)
n.
[F.]
1.
Left handed;
hence,
awkward; clumsy.

2.
(Geom.)
Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.

3.
Lacking grace and perceptivity in social situations; crude; tactless; socially inept.

Syn. -- graceless; unsophisticated.

4.
(Chem.)
Not planar; -- of molecules or molecular conformations.


word: gaucheness
definition:
gaucheness

gauche"ness
n.
an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement.

Syn. -- crudeness, crudity.


word: Gaucho
definition:
Gaucho

Gau"cho
(gou"cho̝)
n.
pl. Gauchos (gou"cho̝z)
[Sp.]
One of the native inhabitants of the South American pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle.  Hence, a South American cowboy, especially on the pampas.

2.
A member of an Indian population, somewhat affected by Spanish blood, in the archipelagoes off the Chilean coast.


word: Gaud
definition:
Gaud

Gaud
(?)
n.
[OE. gaude jest, trick, gaudi bead of a rosary, fr. L. gaudium joy, gladness. See Joy.]
1.
Trick; jest; sport.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
Deceit; fraud; artifice; device.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

3.
An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket.
gaud
Shak.


word: Gaud₂
definition:
Gaud

Gaud
v. i.
[Cf. F. se gaudir to rejoice, fr. L. gaudere. See Gaud, n.]
To sport or keep festival.
[Obs.]
Gauding
[Obs.]
Sir T. North.


word: Gaud₃
definition:
Gaud

Gaud
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gauded; p. pr. & vb. n. Gauding.]
To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint.
[Obs.]
gauded
Shak.


word: Gaudeamus
definition:
Gaudeamus

Gaudeamus Igitur

Gaudeamus, Gaudeamus igitur
(gou`dā*ȧ"mŏs`)
pr. n.
[L.]
The name of a Latin song originating in the thirteenth century, celebrating the joy of youth as students in a university, and suggesting that they take advantage of youth before they succomb to inevitable old age and death.  It is still sung by students, often with verses altered to include themes pertinent to particular schools.


Gaudeamus Igitur


word: Gaudy
definition:
Gaudy

Gaud"y
(?)
a.
[Compar. Gaudier (?); superl. Gauidiest.]
1.
Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy.
Shak.

2.
Gay; merry; festal.
Tennyson.

Let's have one other gaudy night.
Shak.


word: Gaudy₂
definition:
Gaudy

Gaud"y
n.
pl. Gaudies (#)
[See Gaud, n.]
One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
[Obs.]
Gower.


word: Gaudy₃
definition:
Gaudy

Gaud"y
n.
A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.
[Oxford Univ.]
Conybeare.


word: Gauffer
definition:
Gauffer

Gauf"fer
(?)
v. t.
[F. gaufrer to figure cloth, velvet, and other stuffs, fr. gaufre honeycomb, waffle; of German origin. See Waffle, Wafer, and cf. Goffer, Gopher an animal.]
To plait, crimp, or flute; to goffer, as lace. See Goffer.


word: Gauffering
definition:
Gauffering

Gauf"fer*ing
(?)
n.
A mode of plaiting or fluting.

Gauffering iron, a kind of fluting iron for fabrics. -- Gauffering press (Flower Manuf.), a press for crimping the leaves and petals into shape.


word: Gauge
definition:
Gauge

Gauge
(gāj)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gauged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gauging (?)]
[OF. gaugier, F. jauger, cf. OF. gauge gauge, measuring rod, F. jauge; of uncertain origin; perh. fr. an assumed L. qualificare to determine the qualities of a thing (see Qualify); but cf. also F. jalon a measuring stake in surveying, and E. gallon.]
[Written also gage.]

1.
To measure or determine with a gauge.

2.
To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg.

3.
(Mech.)
To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock.

The vanes nicely gauged on each side.
Derham.

4.
To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment.

5.
To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of.

You shall not gauge me
By what we do to-night.
Shak.


word: Gauge₂
definition:
Gauge

Gauge
n.
[Written also gage.]
1.
A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.

This plate must be a gauge to file your worm and groove to equal breadth by.
Moxon.

There is not in our hands any fixed gauge of minds.
I. Taylor.

2.
Measure; dimensions; estimate.

The gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt.
Burke.

3.
(Mach. & Manuf.)
Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.

4.
(Physics)
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.

5.
(Naut.)
(a)
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.
(b)
The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
Totten.

6.
The distance between the rails of a railway.

&hand_; The standard gauge of railroads in most countries is four feet, eight and one half inches. Wide, or broad, gauge, in the United States, is six feet; in England, seven feet, and generally any gauge exceeding standard gauge. Any gauge less than standard gauge is now called narrow gauge. It varies from two feet to three feet six inches.

7.
(Plastering)
The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.

8.
(Building)
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.

Gauge of a carriage, car, etc., the distance between the wheels; -- ordinarily called the track. -- Gauge cock, a stop cock used as a try cock for ascertaining the height of the water level in a steam boiler. -- Gauge concussion (Railroads), the jar caused by a car-wheel flange striking the edge of the rail. -- Gauge glass, a glass tube for a water gauge. -- Gauge lathe, an automatic lathe for turning a round object having an irregular profile, as a baluster or chair round, to a templet or gauge. -- Gauge point, the diameter of a cylinder whose altitude is one inch, and contents equal to that of a unit of a given measure; -- a term used in gauging casks, etc. -- Gauge rod, a graduated rod, for measuring the capacity of barrels, casks, etc. -- Gauge saw, a handsaw, with a gauge to regulate the depth of cut. Knight. -- Gauge stuff, a stiff and compact plaster, used in making cornices, moldings, etc., by means of a templet. -- Gauge wheel, a wheel at the forward end of a plow beam, to determine the depth of the furrow. -- Joiner's gauge, an instrument used to strike a line parallel to the straight side of a board, etc. -- Printer's gauge, an instrument to regulate the length of the page. -- Rain gauge, an instrument for measuring the quantity of rain at any given place. -- Salt gauge, or Brine gauge, an instrument or contrivance for indicating the degree of saltness of water from its specific gravity, as in the boilers of ocean steamers. -- Sea gauge, an instrument for finding the depth of the sea. -- Siphon gauge, a glass siphon tube, partly filled with mercury, -- used to indicate pressure, as of steam, or the degree of rarefaction produced in the receiver of an air pump or other vacuum; a manometer. -- Sliding gauge. (Mach.) (a) A templet or pattern for gauging the commonly accepted dimensions or shape of certain parts in general use, as screws, railway-car axles, etc. (b) A gauge used only for testing other similar gauges, and preserved as a reference, to detect wear of the working gauges. (c) (Railroads) See Note under Gauge, n., 5. -- Star gauge (Ordnance), an instrument for measuring the diameter of the bore of a cannon at any point of its length. -- Steam gauge, an instrument for measuring the pressure of steam, as in a boiler. -- Tide gauge, an instrument for determining the height of the tides. -- Vacuum gauge, a species of barometer for determining the relative elasticities of the vapor in the condenser of a steam engine and the air. -- Water gauge. (a) A contrivance for indicating the height of a water surface, as in a steam boiler; as by a gauge cock or glass. (b) The height of the water in the boiler. -- Wind gauge, an instrument for measuring the force of the wind on any given surface; an anemometer. -- Wire gauge, a gauge for determining the diameter of wire or the thickness of sheet metal; also, a standard of size. See under Wire.


word: Gauged
definition:
Gauged

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

Gauged brick, brick molded, rubbed, or cut to an exact size and shape, for arches or ornamental work. -- Gauged mortar. See Gauge stuff, under Gauge, n.


word: Gauger
definition:
Gauger

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


word: Gaul
definition:
Gaul

Gaul
(?)
n.
[F. Gaule, fr. L. Gallia, fr. Gallus a Gaul.]
1.
The Anglicized form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul).

2.
A native or inhabitant of Gaul.


word: Gault
definition:
Gault

Gault
(?)
n.
[Cf. Norw. gald hard ground, Icel. gald hard snow.]
(Geol.)
A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period.


word: Gaultheria
definition:
Gaultheria

Gaul*the"ri*a
(?)
n.
[NL.]
(Bot.)
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).


word: Gaunt
definition:
Gaunt

Gaunt
(?)
a.
[Cf. Norw. gand a thin pointed stick, a tall and thin man, and W. gwan weak.]
Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
gaunt
Pope.

A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and fleshless across our land.
Nichols.


word: Gauntlet₂
definition:
Gauntlet

Gaunt"let
(?)
n.
[F. gantelet, dim. of gant glove, LL. wantus, of Teutonic origin; cf. D. want, Sw. & Dan. vante, Icel. vöttr, for vantr.]
1.
A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds.

&hand_; The gauntlet of the Middle Ages was sometimes of chain mail, sometimes of leather partly covered with plates, scales, etc., of metal sewed to it, and, in the 14th century, became a glove of small steel plates, carefully articulated and covering the whole hand except the palm and the inside of the fingers.

2.
A long glove, covering the wrist.

3.
(Naut.)
A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.

To take up the gauntlet, to accept a challenge. -- To throw down the gauntlet, to offer or send a challenge. The gauntlet or glove was thrown down by the knight challenging, and was taken up by the one who accepted the challenge; -- hence the phrases.


word: Gauntry
definition:
Gauntry

Gauntree

{ Gaun"tree (?), Gaun"try (?), }
n.
[F. chantier, LL. cantarium, fr. L. canterius trellis, sort of frame.]
1.
A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
(Engin.)
A scaffolding or frame carrying a crane or other structure.
Knight.


word: Gaur
definition:
Gaur

Gaur
(g&asuml_;r or gour)
n.
[Native name.]
(Zool.)
An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bibos gauris), of large size and an untamable disposition.
[Spelt also gour.]


word: Gauss
definition:
Gauss

Gauss
(gous)
n.
[So named after Karl F. Gauss, a German mathematician.]
1.
(Elec.)
The C.G.S. unit of density of magnetic field, equal to a field of one line of force per square centimeter, being thus adopted as an international unit at Paris in 1900; sometimes used as a unit of intensity of magnetic field. It was previously suggested as a unit of magnetomotive force.

2.
Karl F. Gauss, a German mathematician.


word: Gaussage
definition:
Gaussage

Gauss"age
(?)
n.
(Elec.)
The intensity of a magnetic field expressed in C.G.S. units, or gausses.


word: gaussmeter
definition:
gaussmeter

gauss"me*ter
n.
an instrument to compare strengths of magnetic fields.

Syn. -- magnetometer.


word: Gautama
definition:
Gautama

Gau"ta*ma
(gou"tȧ*mȧ)
prop. n.
The family name of Buddha, the founder of Buddhism; born ca. 563 b.c., died ca. 483 b.c.  In  He is worshipped by Buddhists as a god.  See Buddha.
[Also spelled Gotama.]

Syn. -- Buddha, the Buddha, Siddhartha, Gotama, Gautama Buddha.


word: Gauze
definition:
Gauze

Gauze
(g&asuml_;z)
n.
[F. gaze; so called because it was first introduced from Gaza, a city of Palestine.]
A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.

Gauze dresser, one employed in stiffening gauze.


word: Gavage
definition:
Gavage

Ga`vage"
(gȧ`vȧzh")
n.
[F., fr. gaver to gorge.]
Forced feeding (as of poultry or infants) by means of a tube passed through the mouth down to the stomach.


word: Gavel₂
definition:
Gavel

Gav"el
n.
[OF. gavelle, F. javelle, prob. dim. from L. capulus handle, fr. capere to lay hold of, seize; or cf. W. gafael hold, grasp.  Cf. Heave.]
A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
Wright.


word: Gavel₃
definition:
Gavel

Gav"el
n.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
1.
The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc.

2.
A mason's setting maul.
Knight.


word: Gavel₄
definition:
Gavel

Gav"el
n.
[OF. gavel, AS. gafol, prob. fr. gifan to give. See Give, and cf. Gabel tribute.]
(Law)
Tribute; toll; custom. [Obs.] See Gabel.
Cowell.


word: Gavelet
definition:
Gavelet

Gav"el*et
(?)
n.
[From Gavel tribute.]
(O. Eng. Law)
An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent.
[Obs.]


word: Gavelkind
definition:
Gavelkind

Gav"el*kind`
(?)
n.
[OE. gavelkynde, gavelkende. See Gavel tribute, and Kind, n.]
(O. Eng. Law)
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.
Cowell.


word: Gavelock
definition:
Gavelock

Gav"e*lock
(?)
n.
[OE. gaveloc a dart, AS. gafeluc; cf. Icel. gaflok, MHG. gabil_;t, OF. gavelot, glavelot, F. javelot, Ir. gabhla spear, W. gaflach fork, dart, E. glave, gaff]
1.
A spear or dart.
[R. & Obs.]

2.
An iron crow or lever.
[Scot. & North of Eng.]


word: Gaviiformes
definition:
Gaviiformes

Gaviiformes
prop. n.
An order of large aquatic birds, including loons and some extinct forms.

Syn. -- order Gaviiformes.


word: Gaviae
definition:
Gaviae

Ga"viæ
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. gavia a sea mew.]
(Zool.)
The division of birds which includes the gulls and terns.


word: Gavial
definition:
Gavial

Ga"vi*al
(gā"vĭ*al)
n.
[Hind. gha&rsdot_;iyāl: cf. F. gavial.]
(Zool.)
A large Asiatic crocodilian (Gavialis Gangeticus); -- called also nako, and Gangetic crocodile.

&hand_; The gavial has a long, slender muzzle, teeth of nearly uniform size, and feet completely webbed. It inhabits the Ganges and other rivers of India. The name is also applied to several allied fossil species.


word: Gavotte
definition:
Gavotte

Gavot

Gav"ot, Gav"otte
(? or ?; 277)
n.
[F. gavotte, fr. Gavots, a people inhabiting a mountainous district in France, called Gap.]
(Mus.)
A kind of difficult, old formal French dance in quadruple time.
[wns=1]

2.
Music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte, having a dance tune which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over.
[wns=2]


word: Gawk
definition:
Gawk

Gawk
(g&asuml_;k)
n.
[OE. gok, gowk, cuckoo, fool, Icel. gaukr cuckoo; akin to OHG. gouh, G. gauch cuckoo, fool, AS. géac cuckoo, Sw. gök, Dan. giög]
1.
A cuckoo.
Johnson.

2.
A simpleton; a booby; a gawky.
Carlyle.


word: Gawk₂
definition:
Gawk

Gawk
v. i.
1.
To act like a gawky.

2.
To stare with empty-minded fascination; to stare stupidly; to gape; -- usually used with at.


word: Gawky
definition:
Gawky

Gawk"y
(g&asuml_;k"&ybreve_;)
a.
[Compar. Gawkier (g&asuml_;k"ĭ*ẽr); superl. Gawkiest.]
Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.


word: Gawn
definition:
Gawn

Gawn
(g&asuml_;n)
n.
[Corrupted fr. gallon.]
A small tub or lading vessel.
[Prov. Eng.]
Johnson.


word: Gay
definition:
Gay

Gay
(gā)
a.
[Compar. Gayer (?); superl. Gayest.]
[F. gai, perhaps fr. OHG. g_;hi swift, rapid, G. gäh, jäh, steep, hasty; or cf. OHG. w_;hi beatiful, good.  Cf. Jay.]

1.
Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry.

Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.
Pope.

Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed.
Gray.

2.
Brilliant in colors; splendid; fine; richly dressed.

Why is my neighbor's wife so gay?
Chaucer.

A bevy of fair women, richly gay
In gems and wanton dress!
Milton.

3.
Loose; dissipated; lewd.
[Colloq.]


word: Gayal
definition:
Gayal

Gay"al
(?)
n.
[Native name.]
(Zool.)
A Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle (Bibos frontalis).


word: Gaydiang
definition:
Gaydiang

Gay"di*ang
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
A vessel of Anam, with two or three masts, lofty triangular sails, and in construction somewhat resembling a Chinese junk.


word: Gayety
definition:
Gayety

Gay"e*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Gayeties (_;).
[Written also gaiety.]
[F. gaieté. See Gay, a.]
1.
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.

2.
Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress.


word: Gayley process
definition:
Gayley process

Gay"ley proc"ess
(Med.)
The process of removing moisture from the blast of an iron blast furnace by reducing its temperature so far that it will not remain suspended as vapor in the blast current, but will be deposited as snow in the cooling apparatus. The resultant uniformly dehydrated blast effects great economy in fuel consumption, and promotes regularity of furnace operation, and certainty of furnace control.


word: Gaylussite
definition:
Gaylussite

Gay"lus*site`
(?)
n.
[Named after Gay-Lussac, the French chemist.]
(Min.)
A yellowish white, translucent mineral, consisting of the carbonates of lime and soda, with water.


word: Gayly
definition:
Gayly

Gay"ly
(?)
adv.
[Also spelled gaily.]
1.
With mirth and frolic; merrily; blithely; gleefully.

2.
Finely; splendidly; showily; as, ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming.
Pope.


word: gay-wings
definition:
gay-wings

gay-wings
n.
A common trailing perennial milkwort (Polygala paucifolia) of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals.

Syn. -- flowering wintergreen, gaywings, bird-on-the-wing, fringed polygala, Polygala paucifolia.


word: Gaze
definition:
Gaze

Gaze
(gāz)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Gazed (gāzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Gazing.]
[OE. gasen, akin to dial. Sw. gasa, cf. Goth. us-gaisjan to terrify, us-geisnan to be terrified.  Cf. Aghast, Ghastly, Ghost, Hesitate.]
To fix the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.

Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
Acts i. 11.


word: Gaze₂
definition:
Gaze

Gaze
v. t.
To view with attention; to gaze on .
[R.]

And gazed a while the ample sky.
Milton.


word: Gaze₃
definition:
Gaze

Gaze
n.
1.
A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.

With secret gaze
Or open admiration him behold.
Milton.

2.
The object gazed on.

Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze.
Milton.

At gaze (a) (Her.) With the face turned directly to the front; -- said of the figures of the stag, hart, buck, or hind, when borne, in this position, upon an escutcheon. (b) In a position expressing sudden fear or surprise; -- a term used in stag hunting to describe the manner of a stag when he first hears the hounds and gazes round in apprehension of some hidden danger; hence, standing agape; idly or stupidly gazing.

I that rather held it better men should perish one by one,
Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon!
Tennyson.


word: Gazeebo
definition:
Gazeebo

Ga*zee"bo
(?)
n.
[Humorously formed from gaze.]
A summerhouse so situated as to command an extensive prospect.
[Colloq.]


word: Gazehound
definition:
Gazehound

Gaze"hound`
(?)
n.
A hound that pursues by the sight rather than by the scent.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Gazelle
definition:
Gazelle

Ga*zelle"
(?)
n.
[F. gazelle, OF. also, gazel; cf. Sp. gacela, Pr. gazella, It. gazella; all fr. Ar. ghaz_;l a wild goat.]
(Zool.)
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.
[Written also gazel.]
&hand_; The common species of Northern Africa (Gazella dorcas); the Arabian gazelle, or ariel (G. Arabica); the mohr of West Africa (G. mohr); the Indian (G. Bennetti); the ahu or Persian (G. subgutturosa); and the springbok or tsebe (G. euchore) of South Africa, are the best known.


word: Gazet
definition:
Gazet

Ga*zet
(?)
n.
[It. gazeta, gazzetta, prob. dim. of L. gaza royal treasure.]
A Venetian coin, worth about three English farthings, or one and a half cents.
[Obs.]


word: Gazette
definition:
Gazette

Ga*zette"
(?)
n.
[F. gazette, It. gazzetta, perh. from gazetta a Venetian coin (see Gazet), said to have been the price of the first newspaper published at Venice; or perh. dim. of gazza magpie, a name perh. applied to the first newspaper; cf. OHG. agalstra magpie, G. elster.]
A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices.


word: Gazette₂
definition:
Gazette

Ga*zette"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gazetted; p. pr. & vb. n. Gazetting.]
To announce or publish in a gazette; to announce officially, as an appointment, or a case of bankruptcy.


word: Gazetteer
definition:
Gazetteer

Gaz`et*teer"
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. gazetier.]
1.
A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority.
Johnson.

2.
A newspaper; a gazette.
[Obs.]
Burke.

3.
A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places.

4.
An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.


word: Gazingstock
definition:
Gazingstock

Gaz"ing*stock`
(?)
n.
A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt.
Bp. Hall.


word: Gazogene
definition:
Gazogene

Gaz"o*gene
(?)
n.
[F. gazogène; gaz gas + -gène, E. -gen.]
A portable apparatus for making soda water or aërated liquids on a small scale.
Knight.


word: Gazon
definition:
Gazon

Ga*zon"
(?)
n.
[F. gazon turf, fr. OHG. waso, G. wasen.]
(Fort.)
One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.


word: Ge
definition:
Ge

Ge
n.
The chemical symbol for germanium, a metalloid element of atomic number 32.  See germanium.
[wns=1]

Syn. -- germanium.


word: Ge₂
definition:
Ge

Ge
n.
(Mythol.)
goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.  See Gaea.
[wns=2]

Syn. -- Gaea, Gaia.


word: Gean
definition:
Gean

Gean
(?)
n.
[F. guigne the fruit of the gean; cf. OHG. wīhsila, G. weichsel.]
(Bot.)
A species of cherry tree common in Europe (Prunus avium); also, the fruit, which is usually small and dark in color.


word: Geanticlinal
definition:
Geanticlinal

Ge`an*ti*cli"nal
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; the earth + E. anticlinal.]
(Geol.)
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.


word: Gear
definition:
Gear

Gear
(gēr)
n.
[OE. gere, ger, AS. gearwe clothing, adornment, armor, fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG. garawī, garwī ornament, dress. See Yare, and cf. Garb dress.]
1.
Clothing; garments; ornaments.

Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear.
Spenser.

2.
Goods; property; household stuff.
Chaucer.

Homely gear and common ware.
Robynson (More's Utopia).

3.
Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.

Clad in a vesture of unknown gear.
Spenser.

4.
The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.

5.
Warlike accouterments.
[Scot.]
Jamieson.

6.
Manner; custom; behavior.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

7.
Business matters; affairs; concern.
[Obs.]

Thus go they both together to their gear.
Spenser.

8.
(Mech.)
(a)
A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.
(b)
An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.
(c)
Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.

9.
pl.
(Naut.)
See 1st Jeer (b).

10.
Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Wright.

That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man.
Latimer.

Bever gear. See Bevel gear. -- Core gear, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See Mortise wheel, under Mortise. -- Expansion gear (Steam Engine), the arrangement of parts for cutting off steam at a certain part of the stroke, so as to leave it to act upon the piston expansively; the cut-off. See under Expansion. -- Feed gear. See Feed motion, under Feed, n. -- Gear cutter, a machine or tool for forming the teeth of gear wheels by cutting. -- Gear wheel, any cogwheel. -- Running gear. See under Running. -- To throw in gear or To throw out of gear (Mach.), to connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or out of, working relation.


word: Gear₂
definition:
Gear

Gear
(gēr)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Geared (gērd); p. pr. & vb. n. Gearing.]
1.
To dress; to put gear on; to harness.

2.
(Mach.)
To provide with gearing.

3.
To adapt toward some specific purpose; as, they geared their advertising for maximum effect among teenagers.

Double geared, driven through twofold compound gearing, to increase the force or speed; -- said of a machine.


word: Gearing
definition:
Gearing

Gear"ing
n.
1.
Harness.

2.
(Mach.)
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 a locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery.

Frictional gearing. See under Frictional. -- Gearing chain, an endless chain transmitting motion from one sprocket wheel to another. See Illust. of Chain wheel. -- Spur gearing, gearing in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc.


word: geartrain
definition:
geartrain

gear"train`
n.
a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.

Syn. -- gearing, gears, power train, train.


word: gear up
definition:
gear up

gear` up"
n.
To prepare (for an event or activity); as, to gear up for the election campaign.


word: Geason
definition:
Geason

Gea"son
(?)
a.
[OE. gesen, geson, rare, scanty, AS. g_;sne barren, wanting.  Cf. Geest.]
Rare; wonderful.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Geastrum
definition:
Geastrum

Geastrum
prop. n.
The type genus of the Geastraceae, consisting of fungi whose outer peridium when dry splits into starlike segments.

Syn. -- genus Geastrum.


word: Geat
definition:
Geat

Geat
(gēt)
n.
[See Gate a door.]
(Founding)
The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting.
[Written also git, gate.]


word: Gecarcinian
definition:
Gecarcinian

Ge`car*cin"i*an
(jē`kär*sĭn"ĭ*an)
n.
[Gr. gh^ earth + karki`nos crab.]
(Zool.)
A land crab of the genus Gecarcinus, or of allied genera.


word: Geck
definition:
Geck

Geck
(?)
n.
[D. gek fool, fop; akin to G. geck; cf. Icel. gikkr a pert, rude person.]
1.
Scorn, derision, or contempt.
[Prov. Eng.]

2.
An object of scorn; a dupe; a gull.
[Obs.]

To become the geck and scorn
O'the other's villainy.
Shak.


word: Geck₂
definition:
Geck

Geck
v. t.
[Cf. OD. ghecken, G. gecken. See Geck, n.]

1.
To deride; to scorn; to mock.
[Prov. Eng.]

2.
To cheat; trick, or gull.
[Obs.]
Johnson.


word: Gecko
definition:
Gecko

Geck"o
(gĕk"o̝)
n.
pl. Geckoes (gĕk"&omacrz).
[Cf. F. & G. gecko; -- so called from the sound which the animal utters.]
(Zool.)
Any lizard of the family Geckonidæ.  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.


word: Gee
definition:
Gee

Gee
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Geed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Geeing.]
1.
To agree; to harmonize.
[Colloq. or Prov. Eng.]
Forby.

2.
[Cf. G. jü, interj., used in calling to a horse, It. giò, F. dia, used to turn a horse to the left.]
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.
[Written also jee.]

&hand_; In England, the teamster walks on the right-hand side of the cattle; in the United States, on the left-hand side. In all cases, however, gee means to turn from the driver, and haw to turn toward him.

Gee ho, or Gee whoa. Same as Gee.


word: geek
definition:
geek

geek
(gēk)
n.
1.
A performer in a carnival, often presented as a wild man, who performs grotesquely disgusting acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken or snake.

2.
Hence:
Any eccentric or strange person; an oddball; an eccentric.
[wns=1]

3.
Hence:
A student who is socially inept and a misfit in his class, especially one who is an intellectual; a nerd; a dork.
[Informal]

4.
Hence:
An intellectually inclined person, especially one who is interested in scientific or technical subjects; as, a group of geeks wearing pocket protectors; -- originally a deprecatory and contemptuous term, but in the 1990's, with the increase in popularity of computers and the frequency of accumulation of great wealth by computer entrepreneurs, it has come to be used with noticeable frequency by technically competent people to refer to themselves, ironically and sometimes proudly.
[Informal]


word: Gee₂
definition:
Gee

Gee
v. t.
[See Gee to turn.]
To cause (a team) to turn to the off side, or from the driver.
[Written also jee.]


word: Geest
definition:
Geest

Geest
(?)
n.
[Cf. LG. geest, geestland, sandy, dry and, OFries. gēst, gāst, gēstlond, gāstlond, fr. Fries. gāst barren.  Cf. Geason.]
Alluvial matter on the surface of land, not of recent origin.
R. Jameson.


word: Geez
definition:
Geez

Geez
(?)
n.
The original native name for the ancient Ethiopic language or people.  See Ethiopic.


word: geezer
definition:
geezer

gee"zer
(?)
n.
[Dial. corrupt. of Guiser a mummer.]
A queer old fellow; an old chap; sometimes, an old woman.
[Contemptuous, Slang.]

Syn. -- bloke.


word: gegenschein
definition:
gegenschein

ge"gen*schein`
(gā"gĭn*shīn`)
n.
[German: counterglow.]
A faint patch of light in the night sky that appears opposite the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space.

Syn. -- counterglow.


word: Gehenna
definition:
Gehenna

Ge*hen"na
(ge̝*hĕn"nȧ)
prop. n.
[L. Gehenna, Gr. Ge`enna, Heb. Gē Hinn&omacrm.]
(Jewish Hist.)
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.

The pleasant valley of Hinnom.  Tophet thence
And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell.
Milton.


word: geic
definition:
geic

ge"ic
(jē"ĭk)
a.
[Gr. gh^ earth.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or derived from, earthy or vegetable mold.

geic acid. (Chem.) See Humin.


word: geisha
definition:
geisha

gei"sha
(gā"shȧ)
n.
pl. geisha (gā"shȧ), Geishas (gā"shȧz)
[Jap., art person.]
A Japanese singing and dancing girl, trained to provide entertainment and company for a man or group of men.


word: Geissler tube
definition:
Geissler tube

Geis"sler tube`
(?)
(Elec.)
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 Plücker tube, from the German physicist who devised it.


word: Geitonogamy
definition:
Geitonogamy

Gei"to*nog"a*my
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; neighbor + _; marriage.]
(Bot.)
Fertilization of flowers by pollen from other flowers on the same plant.


word: Gelable
definition:
Gelable

Gel"a*ble
(?)
a.
[L. gelare to congeal: cf. F. gelable. See Geal.]
Capable of being congealed; capable of being converted into jelly.


word: Gelada
definition:
Gelada

Gel"a*da
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A baboon (Gelada Ruppelli) of Abyssinia, remarkable for the length of the hair on the neck and shoulders of the adult male.


word: Gelastic
definition:
Gelastic

Ge*las"tic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; inclined to laugh, from _; to laugh.]
Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing.
Gelastic
Sir T. Browne.


word: Gelatification
definition:
Gelatification

Ge*lat"i*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[Gelatin + L. -ficare. (in comp.) to make. See -fy.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
The formation of gelatin.


word: Gelatigenous
definition:
Gelatigenous

Gel`a*tig"e*nous
(?)
n.
[Gelatin + -genous.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
Producing, or yielding, gelatin; gelatiniferous; as, the gelatigeneous tissues.


word: Gelatine
definition:
Gelatine

Gelatin

Gel"a*tin, Gel"a*tine (_;)
n.
[F. gélatine, fr. L. gelare to congeal. See Geal.]
(Chem.)
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.

&hand_; Both spellings, gelatin and gelatine, are in good use, but the tendency of writers on physiological chemistry favors the form in -in, as in the United States Dispensatory, the United States Pharmacopœia, Fownes' Watts' Chemistry, Brande & Cox's Dictionary.

Blasting gelatin, an explosive, containing about ninety-five parts of nitroglycerin and five of collodion. -- Gelatin process, a name applied to a number of processes in the arts, involving the use of gelatin. Especially: (a) (Photog.) A dry-plate process in which gelatin is used as a substitute for collodion as the sensitized material. This is the dry-plate process in general use, and plates of extreme sensitiveness are produced by it. (b) (Print.) A method of producing photographic copies of drawings, engravings, printed pages, etc., and also of photographic pictures, which can be printed from in a press with ink, or (in some applications of the process) which can be used as the molds of stereotype or electrotype plates. (c) (Print. or Copying) A method of producing facsimile copies of an original, written or drawn in aniline ink upon paper, thence transferred to a cake of gelatin softened with glycerin, from which impressions are taken upon ordinary paper. -- Vegetable gelatin. See Gliadin.


word: Gelatinate
definition:
Gelatinate

Ge*lat"i*nate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gelatinated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gelatinating.]
To convert into gelatin, or into a substance resembling jelly.


word: Gelatinate₂
definition:
Gelatinate

Ge*lat"i*nate
v. i.
To be converted into gelatin, or into a substance like jelly.

Lapis lazuli, if calcined, does not effervesce, but gelatinates with the mineral acids.
Kirwan.


word: Gelatination
definition:
Gelatination

Ge*lat`i*na"tion
(?)
n.
The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly.


word: Gelatiniferous
definition:
Gelatiniferous

Gel`a*tin*if"er*ous
(?)
a.
[Gelatin + -ferous.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
Yielding gelatin on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.


word: Gelatinize
definition:
Gelatinize

Ge*lat"i*nize
(?)
v. t.
1.
To convert into gelatin or jelly. Same as Gelatinate, v. t.

2.
(Photog.)
To coat, or otherwise treat, with gelatin.


word: Gelatinous
definition:
Gelatinous

Ge*lat"i*nous
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. gélatineux.]
Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.


word: Gelation
definition:
Gelation

Ge*la"tion
(?)
n.
[L. gelatio a freezing, fr. gelare to freeze.]
(Astron.)
The process of becoming solid by cooling; a cooling and solidifying.


word: Geld
definition:
Geld

Geld
(?)
n.
[AS. gild, gield, geld, tribute, payment, fr. gieldan to pay, render. See Yield.]
Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.
[Obs.]

&hand_; This word occurs in old law books in composition, as in danegeld, or danegelt, a tax imposed by the Danes; weregeld, compensation for the life of a man, etc.


word: Geld₂
definition:
Geld

Geld
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gelded or Gelt (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Gelding.]
[Icel. gelda to castrate; akin to Dan. gilde, Sw. gälla, and cf. AS. gilte a young sow, OHG. galt dry, not giving milk, G. gelt, Goth. gilpa siclke.]
1.
To castrate; to emasculate.

2.
To deprive of anything essential.

Bereft and gelded of his patrimony.
Shak.

3.
To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate.
[Obs.]
Dryden.


word: Gelding
definition:
Gelding

Geld"ing
(?)
n.
[Icel. gelding a gelding, akin to geldingr wether, eunuch, Sw. gälling gelding, Dan. gilding eunuch. See Geld, v. t.]
A castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male.

They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him.
Wyclif (Acts viii. 38).


word: Gelechia
definition:
Gelechia

Gelechia
n.
The type genus of the Gelechiidae, including pink bollworms.

Syn. -- genus Gelechia.


word: gelechiid
definition:
gelechiid

gelechiid
n.
a small slender-winged moth whose larvae are agricultural pests.

Syn. -- gelechiid moth.


word: Gelechiidae
definition:
Gelechiidae

Gelechiidae
n.
A family of moths which include important economic pests, feeding on the seeds of the cotton boll.

Syn. -- family Gelechiidae.


word: Gelid
definition:
Gelid

Gel"id
(jĕl"ĭd)
a.
[L. gelidus, fr. gelu frost, cold. See Cold, and cf. Congeal, Gelatin, Jelly.]
Cold; very cold; frozen.
Gelid
Thompson.


word: Gelose
definition:
Gelose

Ge*lose"
(?)
n.
[See Gelatin.]
(Chem.)
An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate, found in Gelidium, agar-agar, and other seaweeds.


word: Gelsemine
definition:
Gelsemine

Gel"se*mine
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
An alkaloid obtained from the yellow jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens), as a bitter white semicrystalline substance; -- called also gelsemia.


word: Gelseminic
definition:
Gelseminic

Gel`se*min"ic
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or derived from, the yellow jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens); as, gelseminic acid, a white crystalline substance resembling esculin.


word: Gelsemium
definition:
Gelsemium

Gel*se"mium
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. It. gelsomino jasmine.]
1.
(Bot.)
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.

2.
(Med.)
The root of the yellow jasmine, used in malarial fevers, etc.


word: Gelt
definition:
Gelt

Gelt
(?)
n.
[See 1st Geld.]
Trubute, tax.
[Obs.]

All these the king granted unto them . . . free from all gelts and payments, in a most full and ample manner.
Fuller.


word: Gem
definition:
Gem

Gem
(?)
n.
[OE. gemme precious stone, F. gemme, fr. L. gemma a precious stone, bud.]
1.
(Bot.)
A bud.

From the joints of thy prolific stem
A swelling knot is raised called a gem.
Denham.

2.
A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, emerald, topaz, sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and polished for ornament; a jewel.
Milton.

3.
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.

Artificial gem, an imitation of a gem, made of glass colored with metallic oxide.  Cf. Paste, and Strass.


word: Gem₂
definition:
Gem

Gem
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gemmed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gemming]
1.
To put forth in the form of buds.
Gemmed
[R.]
Milton.

2.
To adorn with gems or precious stones.

3.
To embellish or adorn, as with gems; as, a foliage gemmed with dewdrops.

England is . . . gemmed with castles and palaces.
W. Irving.


word: Gemara
definition:
Gemara

Ge*ma"ra
(?)
n.
[Heb.]
(Jewish Law)
The second part of the Talmud, or the commentary on the Mishna (which forms the first part or text).


word: Gemel
definition:
Gemel

Gem"el
(?)
a.
[OF. gemel twin, F. jumeau, L. gemellus twin, doubled, dim. of geminus. See Gemini, and cf. Gimmal.]
(Her.)
Coupled; paired.

Bars gemel (Her.), two barrulets placed near and parallel to each other.


word: Gemel₂
definition:
Gemel

Gem"el
(?)
n.
1.
One of the twins.
[Obs.]
Wyclif.

2.
(Heb.)
One of the barrulets placed parallel and closed to each other.  Cf. Bars gemel, under Gemel, a.

Two gemels silver between two griffins passant.
Strype.

Gemel hinge (Locksmithing), a hinge consisting of an eye or loop and a hook. -- Gemel ring, a ring with two or more links; a gimbal. See Gimbal. -- Gemel window, a window with two bays.


word: Gemellipa-rous
definition:
Gemellipa-rous

Gem`el*lip"a-rous
(?)
a.
[L. gemellipara, fem., gemellus twin + parere to bear, produce.]
Producing twins.
[R.]
Bailey.


word: Geminate
definition:
Geminate

Gem"i*nate
(?)
a.
[L. geminatus, p. p. of genimare to double. See Gemini.]
(Bot.)
In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers.
Gray.


word: Gemini
definition:
Gemini

Gem"i*ni
(?)
n. pl.
[L., twins, pl. of geminus; cf. Skr. j_;mi related as brother or sister.]
(Astron.)
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.


word: Geminiflorous
definition:
Geminiflorous

Gem`i*ni*flo"rous
(?)
a.
[L. geminus twin + flos, floris, flower.]
(Bot.)
Having the flowers arranged in pairs.


word: Gemitores
definition:
Gemitores

Gem`i*to"res
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. gemere, gemitum, to sign, moan.]
(Zool.)
A division of birds including the true pigeons.


word: Gemma
definition:
Gemma

Gem"ma
(?)
n.
pl. Gemmæ (#).
[L., a bud.]
1.
(Bot.)
A leaf bud, as distinguished from a flower bud.

2.
(Biol.)
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.


word: Gemmaceous
definition:
Gemmaceous

Gem*ma"ceous
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to gems or to gemmæ; of the nature of, or resembling, gems or gemmæ.


word: Gemmary₂
definition:
Gemmary

Gem"ma*ry
(?)
n.
A receptacle for jewels or gems; a jewel house; jewels or gems, collectively.


word: Gemmate
definition:
Gemmate

Gem"mate
(?)
a.
[L. gemmatus, p. p. of gemmare to put forth buds, fr. gemma bud.]
(Bot.)
Having buds; reproducing by buds.


word: Gemmation
definition:
Gemmation

Gem*ma"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. gemmation.]

1.
(Biol.)
The formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. See Budding.

2.
(Bot.)
The arrangement of buds on the stalk; also, of leaves in the bud.


word: Gemmeous
definition:
Gemmeous

Gem"me*ous
(?)
a.
[L. gemmeus. See Gem.]
Pertaining to gems; of the nature of gems; resembling gems.
Pennant.


word: Gemmiferous
definition:
Gemmiferous

Gem*mif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[L. gemma bud + -ferous: cf. F. gemmifère.]
Producing gems or buds
(Biol.)
multiplying by buds.


word: Gemmification
definition:
Gemmification

Gem`mi*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[L. gemma bud + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy.]
(Biol.)
The production of a bud or gem.


word: Gemmiflorate
definition:
Gemmiflorate

Gem`mi*flo"rate
(?)
a.
[L. gemma bud + flos, floris, flower.]
(Bot.)
Having flowers like buds.


word: Gemmipares
definition:
Gemmipares

Gemmipara

{ &VerbarGem*mip"a*ra (?) &VerbarGem*mip"a*res (?) }
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. gemma bud + parere to produce.]
(Zool.)
Animals which increase by budding, as hydroids.


word: Gemmiparous
definition:
Gemmiparous

Gem*mip"a*rous
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. gemmipare.]
(Biol.)
Producing buds; reproducing by buds. See Gemmation, 1.


word: Gemmosity
definition:
Gemmosity

Gem*mos"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. gemmosus set with jewels. See Gem.]
The quality or characteristics of a gem or jewel.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: Gemmule
definition:
Gemmule

Gem"mule
(?)
n.
[L. gemmula, dim. of gemma: cf. F. gemmule. See Gem.]
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons.
(b)
One of the buds of mosses.
(c)
One of the reproductive spores of algæ.
(d)
An ovule.

2.
(Biol.)
(a)
A bud produced in generation by gemmation.
(b)
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.


word: Gemmuliferous
definition:
Gemmuliferous

Gem`mu*lif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[Gemmule + -ferous.]
Bearing or producing gemmules or buds.


word: Gemmy
definition:
Gemmy

Gem"my
(?)
a.
[From Gem, n.]

1.
Full of gems; bright; glittering like a gem.

The gemmy bridle glittered free.
Tennyson.

2.
Spruce; smart.
[Colloq. Eng.]


word: Gemote
definition:
Gemote

Ge*mote"
(?)
n.
[As. gem_;t an assembly. See Meet, v. t.]
(AS. Hist.)
A meeting; -- used in combination, as, Witenagemote, an assembly of the wise men.


word: Gemsbok
definition:
Gemsbok

Gems"bok
(?)
n.
[D.; akin to G. gemsbock the male or buck of the chamois; gemse chamois, goat of the Alps + bock buck.]
(Zool.)
A South African antelope (Oryx Capensis), having long, sharp, nearly straight horns.


word: Gems-horn
definition:
Gems-horn

Gems"-horn`
(?)
n.
[G., prop., chamois horn.]
(Mus.)
An organ stop with conical tin pipes.


word: Gemul
definition:
Gemul

Ge*mul"
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A small South American deer (Furcifer Chilensis), with simple forked horns.
[Written also guemul.]


word: -gen
definition:
-gen

-gen
(?)
[(1) From Gr. -gen-, from the same root as ge`nos race, stock (see Genus). (2) From Gr. suffix -genh`s born.  Cf. F. -gène.]
1.
A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing, generating: as, amphigen, amidogen, halogen.

2.
A suffix meaning produced, generated; as, exogen.


word: Gena
definition:
Gena

Ge"na
(?)
[L., the cheek.]
(Zool.)
(a)
The cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a bird.
(b)
The part of the head to which the jaws of an insect are attached.


word: Genappe
definition:
Genappe

Ge*nappe"
(?)
n.
[From Genappe, in Belgium.]
A worsted yarn or cord of peculiar smoothness, used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, etc.
Simmonds.


word: Gendarme
definition:
Gendarme

Gen`darme"
(?)
n.
pl. Gendarmes (#), or Gens d'armes.
[F.]
1.
(Mil.)
One of a body of heavy cavalry.
[Obs.]
[France]

2.
An armed policeman in France.
Thackeray.


word: gendarmerie
definition:
gendarmerie

gen*darm"er*ie
n.
[F. gendarmerie.]
The French police force; the body of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively.
[Also spelled gendarmery.]

Syn. -- gendarmery.


word: Gender
definition:
Gender

Gen"der
(jĕn"dẽr)
n.
[OF. genre, gendre (with excrescent d.), F.genre, fr. L. genus, generis, birth, descent, race, kind, gender, fr. the root of genere, gignere, to beget, in pass., to be born, akin to E. kin. See Kin, and cf. Generate, Genre, Gentle, Genus.]

1.
Kind; sort.
[Obs.]
gender
Shak.

2.
Sex, male or female.

&hand_; The use of the term gender to refer to the sex of an animal, especially a person, was once common, then fell into disuse as the term became used primarily for the distinction of grammatical declension forms in inflected words.  In the late 1900's, the term again became used to refer to the sex of people, as a euphemism for the term sex, especially in discussions of laws and policies on equal treatment of sexes.  Objections by prescriptivists that the term should be used only in a grammatical context ignored the earlier uses.

3.
(Gram.)
A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.

Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living objects.
R. Morris.

&hand_; Adjectives and pronouns are said to vary in gender when the form is varied according to the gender of the words to which they refer.


word: Gender₂
definition:
Gender

Gen"der
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gendered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gendering.]
[OF. gendrer, fr. L. generare. See Gender, n.]
To beget; to engender.


word: Geneagenesis
definition:
Geneagenesis

Gen`e*a*gen"e*sis
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; race + E. genesis.]
(Biol.)
Alternate generation. See under Generation.


word: Genealogical
definition:
Genealogical

Gen`e*a*log"ic*al
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. généalogique.]
Of or pertaining to genealogy; as, a genealogical table; genealogical order.
Gen`e*a*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

Genealogical tree, a family lineage or genealogy drawn out under the form of a tree and its branches.


word: Genealogist
definition:
Genealogist

Gen`e*al"o*gist
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. généalogiste.]
One who traces genealogies or the descent of persons or families.


word: Genealogy
definition:
Genealogy

Gen`e*al"o*gy
(?)
n.
pl. Genealogies (#).
[OE. genealogi, genelogie, OF. genelogie, F. généalogie, L. genealogia, fr. Gr. _;; _; birth, race, descent (akin to L. genus) + _; discourse.]

1.
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.

2.
Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage.


word: General
definition:
General

Gen"er*al
(?)
a.
[F. général, fr. L. generalis. See Genus.]
1.
Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy.

2.
Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion.

3.
Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression.

4.
Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom.

This general applause and cheerful shout
Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard.
Shak.

5.
Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire.
Milton.

6.
As a whole; in gross; for the most part.

His general behavior vain, ridiculous.
Shak.

7.
Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method.

&hand_; The word general, annexed to a name of office, usually denotes chief or superior; as, attorney-general; adjutant general; commissary general; quartermaster general; vicar-general, etc.

General agent (Law), an agent whom a principal employs to transact all his business of a particular kind, or to act in his affairs generally. -- General assembly. See the Note under Assembly. -- General average, General Court. See under Average, Court. -- General court-martial (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal. -- General dealer (Com.), a shopkeeper who deals in all articles in common use. -- General demurrer (Law), a demurrer which objects to a pleading in general terms, as insufficient, without specifying the defects. Abbott. -- General epistle, a canonical epistle. -- General guides (Mil.), two sergeants (called the right, and the left, general guide) posted opposite the right and left flanks of an infantry battalion, to preserve accuracy in marching. Farrow. -- General hospitals (Mil.), hospitals established to receive sick and wounded sent from the field hospitals. Farrow. General issue (Law), an issue made by a general plea, which traverses the whole declaration or indictment at once, without offering any special matter to evade it. Bouvier. Burrill. -- General lien (Law), a right to detain a chattel, etc., until payment is made of any balance due on a general account. -- General officer (Mil.), any officer having a rank above that of colonel. -- General orders (Mil.), orders from headquarters published to the whole command. -- General practitioner, in the United States, one who practices medicine in all its branches without confining himself to any specialty; in England, one who practices both as physician and as surgeon. -- General ship, a ship not chartered or let to particular parties. -- General term (Logic), a term which is the sign of a general conception or notion. -- General verdict (Law), the ordinary comprehensive verdict in civil actions, “for the plaintiff” or “for the defendant”. Burrill. -- General warrant (Law), a warrant, now illegal, to apprehend suspected persons, without naming individuals.


word: General₂
definition:
General

Gen"er*al
(?)
n.
[F. général. See General., a.]

1.
The whole; the total; that which comprehends or relates to all, or the chief part; -- opposed to particular.

In particulars our knowledge begins, and so spreads itself by degrees to generals.
Locke.

2.
(Mil.)
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.

&hand_; In the United States the office of General of the Army has been created by temporary laws, and has been held only by Generals U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, and P. H. Sheridan. Popularly, the title General is given to various general officers, as General, Lieutenant general, Major general, Brigadier general, Commissary general, etc. See Brigadier general, Lieutenant general, Major general, in the Vocabulary.

3.
(Mil.)
The roll of the drum which calls the troops together; as, to beat the general.

4.
(Eccl.)
The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule.

5.
The public; the people; the vulgar.
[Obs.]
Shak.

In general, in the main; for the most part.


word: Generalia
definition:
Generalia

Gen`e*ra"li*a
(?)
n. pl.
[Neut. pl., fr. L. generalis.]
Generalities; general terms.
J. S. Mill.


word: Generalissimo
definition:
Generalissimo

Gen`er*al*is"si*mo
(?)
n.
[It., superl. of generale general. See General, 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.


word: Generality
definition:
Generality

Gen`er*al"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Generalities (#).
[L. generalitas: cf. F. généralité.  Cf. Generalty.]

1.
The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.
Hooker.

2.
That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase.

Let us descend from generalities to particulars.
Landor.

The glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
R. Choate.

3.
The main body; the bulk; the greatest part; as, the generality of a nation, or of mankind.


word: Generalizable
definition:
Generalizable

Gen"er*al*i`za*ble
(?)
a.
Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule.

Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable.
Coleridge


word: Generalization
definition:
Generalization

Gen`er*al*i*za"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. généralisation.]

1.
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 is only the apprehension of the one in the many.
Sir W. Hamilton.

2.
A general inference.


word: generalize
definition:
generalize

gen"er*al*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Generalized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Generalizing (?).]
[Cf. F. généraliser.]
[Also spelled generalise.]

1.
To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.

Copernicus generalized the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air.
W. Nicholson.

2.
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.

When a fact is generalized, our discontent is quited, and we consider the generality itself as tantamount to an explanation.
Sir W. Hamilton.

3.
To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars.
[wns=2]

Syn. -- generalize, extrapolate, infer.

A mere conclusion generalized from a great multitude of facts.
Coleridge.

4.
To speak in generalities; to talk in abstract terms.
[wns=1]

Syn. -- generalise, speak generally.


word: Generalize
definition:
Generalize

Gen"er*al*ize
v. i.
To form into a genus; to view objects in their relations to a genus or class; to take general or comprehensive views.


word: Generalized
definition:
Generalized

Gen"er*al*ized
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.


word: Generally
definition:
Generally

Gen"er*al*ly
adv.
1.
In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.

2.
In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively.

Generally speaking, they live very quietly.
Addison.

3.
Collectively; as a whole; without omissions.
[Obs.]

I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee.
2 Sam. xvii. ll.


word: Generalness
definition:
Generalness

Gen"er*al*ness
n.
The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness.
Sir P. Sidney.


word: General semantics
definition:
General semantics

Gen"er*al sem*an"tics
n.
(1933)
a doctrine and philosophical approach to language and its relationship to thought and behavior, developed by Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950), which holds that the capacity to express ideas and thereby improve one's interaction with others and one's environment is enhanced by training in the more critical use of words and other symbols; -- sometimes also called semantics.
More information can be found on the web site of the Institute of General Semantics.

General Semantics is the study of the relations between language, “thought”, and behavior: between how we talk, therefore how we think, therefore how we act.
George Doris


word: Generalship
definition:
Generalship

Gen"er*al*ship
n.
1.
The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general.

Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene.
Goldsmith.

2.
Military skill in a general officer or commander.

3.
Fig.: Leadership; management.

An artful stroke of generalship in Trim to raise a dust.
Sterne.


word: Generant
definition:
Generant

Gen"er*ant
(?)
a.
[L. generans, p. pr. of generare.]
Generative; producing
(Geom.)
acting as a generant.


word: Generate
definition:
Generate

Gen"er*ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Generated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Generating.]
[L. generatus, p. p. of generare to generate, fr. genus. See Genus, Gender.]

1.
To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

2.
To cause to be; to bring into life.
Milton.

3.
To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause.

Whatever generates a quantity of good chyle must likewise generate milk.
Arbuthnot.

4.
(Math.)
To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.


word: Generation
definition:
Generation

Gen`er*a"tion
(?)
n.
[OE. generacioun, F. génération, fr.L. generatio.]
1.
The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

2.
Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.

3.
That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.

4.
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.

This is the book of the generations of Adam.
Gen. v. 1.

Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations.
Baruch vi. 3.

All generations and ages of the Christian church.
Hooker.

5.
Race; kind; family; breed; stock.

Thy mother's of my generation; what's she, if I be a dog?
Shak.

6.
(Geom.)
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.

7.
(Biol.)
The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.

&hand_; There are four modes of generation in the animal kingdom: scissiparity or by fissiparous generation, gemmiparity or by budding, germiparity or by germs, and oviparity or by ova.

Alternate generation (Biol.), alternation of sexual with asexual generation, in which the products of one process differ from those of the other, -- a form of reproduction common both to animal and vegetable organisms. In the simplest form, the organism arising from sexual generation produces offspiring unlike itself, agamogenetically. These, however, in time acquire reproductive organs, and from their impregnated germs the original parent form is reproduced. In more complicated cases, the first series of organisms produced agamogenetically may give rise to others by a like process, and these in turn to still other generations. Ultimately, however, a generation is formed which develops sexual organs, and the original form is reproduced. -- Spontaneous generation (Biol.), the fancied production of living organisms without previously existing parents from inorganic matter, or from decomposing organic matter, a notion which at one time had many supporters; abiogenesis.


word: Generative
definition:
Generative

Gen"er*a*tive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. génératif.]
Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
generative
Bentley.


word: Generator
definition:
Generator

Gen"er*a`tor
(?)
n.
[L.]
1.
One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.

2.
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.

3.
(Mus.)
The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- called also generating tone.

4.
(Elec.)
Any machine that transforms mechanical into electrical energy; a dynamo.

5.
(Math.)
a mathematical entity which, when subjected to an operation, yields another mathematical entity; also, a generatrix.  


word: Generatrix
definition:
Generatrix

Gen`er*a"trix
(?)
n.
pl. L. Generatrices (#), E. Generatrixes (#).
[L.]
(Geom.)
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.


word: Generical
definition:
Generical

Generic

{ Ge*ner"ic (?), Ge*ner"ic*al (?), }
a.
[L. genus, generis, race, kind: cf. F. générique. See Gender.]

1.
(Biol.)
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.
[wns=1]

2.
Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or their characteristics; -- opposed to specific.
[wns=3]

3.
(Commerce)
Not protected by trademark; -- used especially of the names of medications; as, a generic drug; the generic name of Rogaine is minoxidil.
[wns=2]

&hand_;  Since patented medications cannot be sold except under license from the patentee, medication which is still under patent is not typically sold as a generic drug, i.e., sold under its generic name, though it can be referred to by its generic name.


word: Generically
definition:
Generically

Ge*ner"ic*al*ly
adv.
With regard to a genus, or an extensive class; as, an animal generically distinct from another, or two animals or plants generically allied.


word: generic drug
definition:
generic drug

ge*ner"ic drug`
n.
A medication sold under its generic name; -- usually legal only after the patent has expired, or if no patent was issued for the substance.  Generic drugs are usually less expensive than proprietary medications.


word: generic name
definition:
generic name

ge*ner"ic name`
n.
The name for a medication, as used in the pharmacopoeia; it cannot be a trademark.  The name is typically given by the inventor or discoverer of the drug, but must be approved by a national or international naming authority.


word: Generification
definition:
Generification

Ge*ner`i*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[L. genus kind, class + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy.]
The act or process of generalizing.

Out of this the universal is elaborated by generification.
Sir W. Hamilton.


word: Generosity
definition:
Generosity

Gen`er*os"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. generositas: cf. F. générosité.]
1.
Noble birth.
[Obs.]
Harris (Voyages).

2.
The quality of being noble; noble-mindedness.

Generosity is in nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.
Barrow.

3.
Liberality in giving; munificence.


word: Generous
definition:
Generous

Gen"er*ous
(?)
a.
[F. généreux, fr. L. generous of noble birth, noble, excellent, magnanimous, fr. genus birth, race: cf. It. generoso. See 2d Gender.]

1.
Of honorable birth or origin; highborn.
[Obs.]

The generous and gravest citizens.
Shak.

2.
Exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth; noble; honorable; magnanimous; spirited; courageous.
generous
Pope.
generous
Pope.
generous
Addison.

3.
Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father.

4.
Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table.
Swift.

5.
Full of spirit or strength; stimulating; exalting; as, generous wine.


word: Genesee epoch
definition:
Genesee epoch

Gen`e*see" ep"och
(?)
(Geol.)
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.


word: Genesis
definition:
Genesis

Gen"e*sis
(?)
n.
[L., from Gr. ge`nesis, fr. the root of gi`gnesqai to beget, be born; akin to L. genus birth, race. See Gender.]

1.
The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination.

The origin and genesis of poor Sterling's club.
Carlyle.

2.
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.

3.
(Geom.)
Same as Generation.


word: Genette
definition:
Genette

Genet

Gen"et (jĕn"ĕt or je̝*nĕt"), Ge*nette" (je̝*nĕt")
n.
[F. genette, Sp. gineta, fr. Ar. jarnei&tsdot_;.]
1.
(Zool.)
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.

&hand_; The common genet (Genetta vulgaris) of Southern Europe, Asia Minor, and North Africa, is dark gray, spotted with black. The long tail is banded with black and white. The Cape genet (Genetta felina), and the berbe (Genetta pardina), are related African species.

2.
The fur of the common genet (Genetta vulgaris); also, any skin dressed in imitation of this fur.


word: Genet
definition:
Genet

Gen"et
(?)
n.
[See Jennet.]
A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet.
Shak.


word: Genethliac
definition:
Genethliac

Ge*neth"li*ac
(?)
a.
[L. genethliacus, Gr. _;, fr. _; belonging to one's birth, gene`qlh birth, fr. gi`gnesqai to be born.]
Pertaining to nativities; calculated by astrologers; showing position of stars at one's birth.
Howell.


word: Genethliacs
definition:
Genethliacs

Ge*neth"li*acs
(?)
n.
The science of calculating nativities, or predicting the future events of life from the stars which preside at birth.
Johnson.


word: Genethlialogy
definition:
Genethlialogy

Ge*neth`li*al"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. geneqlhalogi`a astrology; gene`qlh birth + lo`gos discourse.]
Divination as to the destinies of one newly born; the act or art of casting nativities; astrology.


word: Genetic
definition:
Genetic

Ge*net"ic
(je̝*nĕt"ĭk)
a.
1.
Same as Genetical.

2.
Of or pertaining to genes or genetics; as, the genetic code.


word: Genetical
definition:
Genetical

Ge*net"ic*al
(je̝*nĕt"ĭ*kal)
a.
[See Genesis.]
Pertaining to, concerned with, or determined by, the genesis of anything, or its natural mode of production or development.

This historical, genetical method of viewing prior systems of philosophy.
Hare.


word: Geneva
definition:
Geneva

Ge*ne"va
(?)
prop. n.
The chief city of Switzerland.

Geneva Bible, a translation of the Bible into English, made and published by English refugees in Geneva (Geneva, 1560; London, 1576). It was the first English Bible printed in Roman type instead of the ancient black letter, the first which recognized the division into verses, and the first which omitted the Apocrypha. In form it was a small quarto, and soon superseded the large folio of Cranmer's translation. Called also Genevan Bible. -- Geneva convention (Mil.), an agreement made by representatives of the great continental powers at Geneva and signed in 1864, establishing new and more humane regulation regarding the treatment of the sick and wounded and the status of those who minister to them in war. Ambulances and military hospitals are made neutral, and this condition affects physicians, chaplains, nurses, and the ambulance corps. Great Britain signed the convention in 1865. -- Geneva cross (Mil.), a red Greek cross on a white ground; -- the flag and badge adopted in the Geneva convention.


word: Geneva₂
definition:
Geneva

Ge*ne"va
(?)
n.
[F. genièvre juniper, juniper berry, gin, OF. geneivre juniper, fr. L. juniperus the juniper tree: cf. D. jenever, fr. F. genièvre. See Juniper, and cf. Gin a liquor.]
A strongly alcoholic liquor, flavored with juniper berries; -- made in Holland; Holland gin; Hollands.


word: Genevanism
definition:
Genevanism

Ge*ne"van*ism
(?)
n.
[From Geneva, where Calvin resided.]
Strict Calvinism.
Bp. Montagu.


word: Genevese
definition:
Genevese

Gen`e*vese"
(?)
a.
[Cf. L. Genevensis, F. génevois.]
Of or pertaining to Geneva, in Switzerland; Genevan.
n. sing. & pl. A native or inhabitant of Geneva; collectively, the inhabitants of Geneva; people of Geneva.


word: Genial₂
definition:
Genial

Gen"ial
(?)
a.
[L. genialis: cf. OF. genial. See Genius.]
1.
Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive.
genial
Milton.

Creator Venus, genial power of love.
Dryden.

2.
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.

So much I feel my genial spirits droop.
Milton.

3.
Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn.
[Obs.]

Natural incapacity and genial indisposition.
Sir T. Browne.

4.
Denoting or marked with genius; belonging to the higher nature.
[R.]

Men of genius have often attached the highest value to their less genial works.
Hare.

Genial gods (Pagan Mythol.), the powers supposed to preside over marriage and generation.


word: Geniality
definition:
Geniality

Ge`ni*al"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. genialitas.]
The quality of being genial; sympathetic cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.


word: Genially
definition:
Genially

Gen"ial*ly
(?)
adv.
1.
By genius or nature; naturally.
[Obs.]

Some men are genially disposed to some opinions.
Glanvill.

2.
Gayly; cheerfully.
Johnson.


word: Genian
definition:
Genian

Ge*ni"an
(?)
a.
[Gr. ge`neion chin; akin to _; under jaw.  Cf. Chin.]
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the chin; mental; as, the genian prominence.


word: Geniculate
definition:
Geniculate

Ge*nic"u*late
(?)
a.
[L. geniculatus, fr. geniculum little knee, knot or joint, dim. of genu knee. See Knee.]
Bent abruptly at an angle, like the knee when bent; as, a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal.


word: Geniculate₂
definition:
Geniculate

Ge*nic"u*late
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Geniculated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Geniculating.]
To form joints or knots on.
[R.]
Cockeram.


word: Geniculation
definition:
Geniculation

Ge*nic`u*la"tion
(?)
n.
[L. geniculatio a kneeling.]

1.
The act of kneeling.
[R.]
Bp. Hall.

2.
The state of being bent abruptly at an angle.


word: genie
definition:
genie

ge"nie, &Verbargé`nie
(jē"nē)
n.
[F.]
1.
Same as Genius{1}.

2.
(Islamic mythology)
Same as jinnee.

3.
(Fairy tales)
A fabulous spirit having special powers, often appearing in human form, which, when summoned by a person, is required to perform the commands of the summoner.  It is based on the mythological jinnee; the prototype is the genie residing in an oil lamp, summoned by Aladdin.


word: geniohyoid
definition:
geniohyoid

ge`ni*o*hy"oid
(jē`nĭ*o̝*hī"oid)
a.
[Gr. ge`neion the chin + E. hyoid.]
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the chin and hyoid bone; as, the geniohyoid muscle.


word: Genip tree
definition:
Genip tree

Genip

Gen"ip (?), n., or Genip tree
1.
Any tree or shrub of the genus Genipa.

2.
The West Indian sapindaceous tree Melicocca bijuga, which yields the honeyberry; also, the related trees Exothea paniculata and E. trifoliata; called also ginep.

Syn. -- Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree, honey berry, mamoncillo, Melicocca bijuga, Melicocca bijugatus.


word: Genipap
definition:
Genipap

Gen"i*pap
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
The edible fruit of a West Indian tree (Genipa Americana) of the order Rubiaceæ.  It is oval in shape, as a large as a small orange, of a pale greenish color, and with dark purple juice.


word: Genista
definition:
Genista

Ge*nis"ta
(?)
prop. n.
[L., broom.]
(Bot.)
A genus of plants including the common broom of Western Europe.


word: Genital
definition:
Genital

Gen"i*tal
(?)
a.
[L. genitalis, fr. genere, gignere, to beget: cf. F. génital. See Gender.]
Pertaining to generation, or to the generative organs; as, genital herpes.

Genital cord (Anat.), a cord developed in the fetus by the union of portions of the Wolffian and Müllerian ducts and giving rise to parts of the urogenital passages in both sexes.


word: genitalia
definition:
genitalia

genitalia
n.
The sex organs, especially the external sex organs, called the external genitalia; the genitals.

Syn. -- genital, genitals, private parts, privates, crotch.


word: Genitals
definition:
Genitals

Gen"i*tals
(?)
n. pl.
[From Genital, a.: cf. L. genitalia.]
The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts.


word: Genitival
definition:
Genitival

Gen`i*ti"val
(?)
a.
Possessing genitive from; pertaining to, or derived from, the genitive case; as, a genitival adverb.
Gen`i*ti"val*ly, adv.


word: Genitive
definition:
Genitive

Gen"i*tive
(?)
a.
[L. genitivus, fr. gignere, genitum, to beget: cf. F. génitif. See Gender.]
(Gram.)
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.


word: Genitive₂
definition:
Genitive

Gen"i*tive
n.
(Gram.)
The genitive case.

Genitive absolute, a construction in Greek similar to the ablative absolute in Latin. See Ablative absolute.


word: Genitocrural
definition:
Genitocrural

Gen`i*to*cru"ral
(?)
a.
[Genital + crural.]
(Anat.)
Pertaining to the genital organs and the thigh; -- applied especially to one of the lumbar nerves.


word: Genitor
definition:
Genitor

Gen"i*tor
(?)
n.
[L.]
1.
One who begets; a generator; an originator.
Sheldon.

2.
pl.
The genitals.
[Obs.]
Holland.


word: Geniture
definition:
Geniture

Gen"i*ture
(?)
n.
[L. genitura: cf. F. géniture.]
Generation; procreation; birth.
Dryden.


word: Genius
definition:
Genius

Gen"ius
(?)
n.
pl. E. Geniuses (#); in sense 1, L. Genii (#).
[L. genius, prop., the superior or divine nature which is innate in everything, the spirit, the tutelar deity or genius of a person or place, taste, talent, genius, from genere, gignere, to beget, bring forth. See Gender, and cf. Engine.]
1.
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.

Syn. -- genie.

The unseen genius of the wood.
Milton.

We talk of genius still, but with thought how changed! The genius of Augustus was a tutelary demon, to be sworn by and to receive offerings on an altar as a deity.
Tylor.

2.
The peculiar structure of mind with which 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.

3.
Peculiar character; animating spirit, as of a nation, a religion, a language.

4.
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 of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
Coleridge.

5.
A man endowed with uncommon vigor of mind; a man of superior intellectual faculties and creativity; as, Shakespeare was a rare genius.
Genius loci (_;) [L.], the genius or presiding divinity of a place; hence, the pervading spirit of a place or institution, as of a college, etc.


word: Genoa cake
definition:
Genoa cake

Gen"o*a cake
(?)
(Cookery)
A rich glazed cake, with almonds, pistachios, filberts, or other nuts; also, a rich currant cake with almonds on the top.


word: genocidal
definition:
genocidal

gen`o*cid"al
a.
Of or pertaining to genocide; as, the genocidal policies of the Serbs in Bosnia.


word: genocide
definition:
genocide

gen"o*cide
n.
The systematic killing of a racial or cultural group; as, the Nazi genocide of Jews left few in Germany or Poland after World War II.

Syn. -- race murder, racial extermination.


word: Genoese
definition:
Genoese

Gen`o*ese"
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to Genoa, a city of Italy; as, the Genoese sailor we call Columbus.
n. sing. & pl. A native or inhabitant of Genoa; collectively, the people of Genoa.

Syn. -- Genovese.


word: genotype
definition:
genotype

gen"o*type
n.
(Genetics)
A group of organisms sharing a specific genetic constitution.
[wns=1]

2.
(Genetics)
The genetic constitution of an organism, specifying the particular alleles at defined loci in the genome; -- used with respect to one gene, a specific group of genes, or the entire set of genes within the organism.  Contrasted with phenotype.

Syn. -- genetic constitution.


word: genotypical
definition:
genotypical

genotypic

genotypic genotypical
adj.
of or pertaining to genotypes (definition 2); as, genotypical pattern.


word: Genouillere
definition:
Genouillere

Ge*nouil`lère"
(?)
n.
[F.]
1.
(Anc. Armor)
A metal plate covering the knee.

2.
(Fort.)
That part of a parapet which lies between the gun platform and the bottom of an embrasure.


word: -genous
definition:
-genous

-ge*nous
[-gen + -ous.]
A suffix signifying producing, yielding; as, alkaligenous; endogenous.


word: Genre
definition:
Genre

Gen"re
(zhäN"r')
n.
[F. See Gender.]
1.
Kind; genus; class; form; style, esp. in literature.
French drama was lisping or still inarticulate; the great French genre of the fabliau was hardly born.
Saintsbury.
A particular demand . . . that we shall pay special attention to the matter of genres -- that is, to the different forms or categories of literature.
W. P. Trent.

2.
(Fine Arts)
A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.


word: Gens
definition:
Gens

Gens
(jĕnz)
n.
pl. Gentes (jĕn"tēz).
[L. See Gentle, a.]
(Rom. Hist.)
1.
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.

2.
(Ethnol.)
A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.


word: Gent
definition:
Gent

Gent
(?)
a.
[OF. gent, fr. L. genitus born, or (less prob.) fr. gentilis. See Genteel.]

1.
Gentle; noble; of gentle birth.
[Obs.]

All of a knight [who] was fair and gent.
Chaucer.

2.
Neat; pretty; fine; elegant.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Her body gent and small.
Chaucer.


word: Genteel
definition:
Genteel

Gen*teel"
(?)
a.
[F. gentil noble, pretty, graceful. See Gentle.]
1.
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.

2.
Graceful in mien or form; elegant in appearance, dress, or manner; as, the lady has a genteel person. Law.

3.
Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live in a genteel allowance.


word: Gentrie
definition:
Gentrie

Genterie

Gen"ter*ie (?), Gen"trie (_;)
n.
[OE. See Gentry.]
Nobility of birth or of character; gentility.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Gentian
definition:
Gentian

Gen"tian
(jĕn"shan or jĕn"shĭ*an)
n.
[OE. genciane, F. gentiane, L. gentiana, fr. Gentius, an Illyrian king, said to have discovered its properties.]
(Bot.)
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.

&hand_; Many species are found on the highest mountains of Europe, Asia, and America, and some are prized for their beauty, as the Alpine (Gentiana verna, Gentiana Bavarica, and Gentiana excisa), and the American fringed gentians (Gentiana crinita and Gentiana detonsa). Several are used as tonics, especially the bitter roots of Gentiana lutea, the officinal gentian of the pharmacopoeias.

Horse gentian, fever root. -- Yellow gentian (Bot.), the officinal gentian (Gentiana lutea). See Bitterwort.


word: Gentiana
definition:
Gentiana

Gentiana
prop. n.
The type genus of the Gentianaceae; it is a genus of herbs nearly cosmopolitan in cool temperate regions; in some classifications it includes the genera Gentianopsis and Gentianella.

Syn. -- genus Gentiana.


word: Gentianaceae
definition:
Gentianaceae

Gentianaceae
prop. n.
A natural family of chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals.

Syn. -- family Gentianaceae, gentian family.


word: Gentianales
definition:
Gentianales

Gentianales
prop. n.
An order of plants including the Gentianaceae; Apocyanaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; and Salvadoraceae.

Syn. -- order Gentianales.


word: Gentianaceous
definition:
Gentianaceous

Gen`tian*a"ceous
(?)
a.
(Bot.)
Of or pertaining to a natural family of plants (Gentianaceæ) of which the gentian is the type.


word: Gentianose
definition:
Gentianose

Gen"tian*ose`
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A crystallizable, sugarlike substance, with a slightly sweetish taste, obtained from the gentian.


word: Gentile
definition:
Gentile

Gen"tile
(jĕn"tīl)
n.
[L. gentilis belonging to the same clan, stock, race, people, or nation; in opposition to Roman, a foreigner; in opposition to Jew or Christian, a heathen: cf. F. gentil. See Gentle, a.]
1.
One neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen.

2.
A person who is not Jewish; -- used in this sense by Jews.

Syn. -- goy[male], shiksa[female].

&hand_; The Hebrews included in the term g&omacryim, or nations, all the tribes of men who had not received the true faith, and were not circumcised. The Christians translated g&omacryim by the L. gentes, and imitated the Jews in giving the name gentiles to all nations who were neither Jews nor Christians. In civil affairs, the denomination was given to all nations who were not Romans.  As used by Mormons, the term gentile designates any person who is not a Mormon.


word: Gentile₂
definition:
Gentile

Gen"tile
a.
1.
Belonging to the nations at large, as distinguished from the Jews; ethnic; of pagan or heathen people.

2.
(Gram.)
Denoting a race or country; as, a gentile noun or adjective.


word: Gentilesse
definition:
Gentilesse

Gen`ti*lesse"
(?)
n.
[OF. gentilesse, gentelise, F. gentillesse. See Gentle. a.]
Gentleness; courtesy; kindness; nobility.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Gentilism
definition:
Gentilism

Gen"til*ism
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. gentilisme.]

1.
Hethenism; paganism; the worship of false gods.

2.
Tribal feeling; devotion to one's gens.


word: Gentilitious
definition:
Gentilitious

Gentilitial

{ Gen`ti*li"tial (?), Gen`ti*li"tious (?), }
a.
[L. gentilitius. See Gentile.]
[Obs.]

1.
Peculiar to a people; national.
Sir T. Browne.

2.
Hereditary; entailed on a family.
Arbuthnot.


word: Gentility
definition:
Gentility

Gen*til"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. gentilitas the relationship of those who belong to the same clan, also, heathenism: cf. F. gentilité heathenism. See Gentile.]

1.
Good extraction; dignity of birth.
Macaulay.

He . . . mines my gentility with my education.
Shak.

2.
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.

3.
The class in society who are, or are expected to be, genteel; the gentry.
[R.]
Sir J. Davies.

4.
Paganism; heathenism.
[Obs.]
Hooker.


word: Gentilize
definition:
Gentilize

Gen"til*ize
(?)
v. i.
[See Gentile.]

1.
To live like a gentile or heathen.
[Obs.]
Milton.

2.
To act the gentleman; -- with it (see It, 5).
[Obs.]


word: Gentilize₂
definition:
Gentilize

Gen"til*ize
v. i.
To render gentile or gentlemanly; as, to gentilize your unworthy sones.
[R.]
Sylvester.


word: Gentilly
definition:
Gentilly

Gen"til*ly
(?)
adv.
[From Gentil, a.]
In a gentle or hoble manner; frankly.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Gentiopikrin
definition:
Gentiopikrin

Gen`ti*o*pi"krin
(?)
n.
[Gentian + Gr. _; bitter.]
(Chem.)
A bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and obtained from the gentian.


word: Gentisin
definition:
Gentisin

Gen"ti*sin
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A tasteless, yellow, crystalline substance, obtained from the gentian; -- called also gentianin.


word: Gentle
definition:
Gentle

Gen"tle
(?)
a.
[Compar. Gentler (?); superl. Gentlest (?).]
[OE. gentil, F. gentil noble, pretty, graceful, fr. L. gentilis of the same clan or race, fr. gens, gentis, tribe, clan, race, orig. that which belongs together by birth, fr. the root of genere, gignere, to beget; hence gentle, properly, of birth or family, that is, of good or noble birth. See Gender, and cf. Genteel, Gentil, Gentile, Gentoo, Jaunty.]
1.
Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.

British society is divided into nobility, gentry, and yeomanry, and families are either noble, gentle, or simple.
Johnson's Cyc.

The studies wherein our noble and gentle youth ought to bestow their time.
Milton.

2.
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.

3.
A compellative of respect, consideration, or conciliation; as, gentle reader.
Gentle
Gentle
Gentle
Shak.

4.
Not wild, turbulent, or refractory; quiet and docile; tame; peaceable; as, a gentle horse.

5.
Soft; not violent or rough; not strong, loud, or disturbing; easy; soothing; pacific; as, a gentle touch; a gentle gallop .
Gentle
Sir J. Davies.

O sleep! it is a gentle thing.
Coleridge.

The gentle craft, the art or trade of shoemaking.


word: Gentle₂
definition:
Gentle

Gen"tle
n.
1.
One well born; a gentleman.
[Obs.]

Gentles, methinks you frown.
Shak.

2.
A trained falcon. See Falcon-gentil.

3.
(Zool.)
A dipterous larva used as fish bait.


word: Gentle₃
definition:
Gentle

Gent"le
v. t.
1.
To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar; to ennoble.
[Obs.]
Shak.

2.
To make smooth, cozy, or agreeable.
[R. or Poet.]

To gentle life's descent,
We shut our eyes, and think it is a plain.
Young.

3.
To make kind and docile, as a horse.
[Colloq.]


word: Gentlefolks
definition:
Gentlefolks

Gentlefolk

Gen"tle*folk` (?), Gen"tle*folks` (_;)
n. pl.
Persons of gentle or good family and breeding.
[Generally in the United States in the plural form.]
Shak.


word: Gentle-hearted
definition:
Gentle-hearted

Gen"tle-heart`ed
(?)
a.
Having a kind or gentle disposition.
Shak.
Gen"tle-heart`ed*ness, n.


word: Gentleman
definition:
Gentleman

Gen"tle*man
(?)
n.
pl. Gentlemen (#).
[OE. gentilman nobleman; gentil noble + man man; cf. F. gentilhomme.]

1.
A man well born; one of good family; one above the condition of a yeoman.

2.
One of gentle or refined manners; a well-bred man.

3.
(Her.)
One who bears arms, but has no title.

4.
The servant of a man of rank.

The count's gentleman, one Cesario.
Shak.

5.
A man, irrespective of condition; -- used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc.

&hand_; In Great Britain, the term gentleman is applied in a limited sense to those having coats of arms, but who are without a title, and, in this sense, gentlemen hold a middle rank between the nobility and yeomanry. In a more extended sense, it includes every man above the rank of yeoman, comprehending the nobility. In the United States, the term is applied to men of education and good breeding of every occupation.

Gentleman commoner, one of the highest class of commoners at the University of Oxford. -- Gentleman usher, one who ushers visitors into the presence of a sovereign, etc. -- Gentleman usher of the black rod, an usher belonging to the Order of the Garter, whose chief duty is to serve as official messenger of the House of Lords. -- Gentlemen-at-arms, a band of forty gentlemen who attend the sovereign on state occasions; formerly called gentlemen pensioners. [Eng.]


word: Gentlemanly
definition:
Gentlemanly

Gentlemanlike

{ Gen"tle*man*like` (?), Gen"tle*man*ly (?), }
a.
Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; befitting a man of good breeding; well-behaved; courteous; polite; as, gentlemanly behavior.


word: Gentlemanliness
definition:
Gentlemanliness

Gen"tle*man*li*ness
(?)
n.
The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners.


word: Gentlemen's agreement
definition:
Gentlemen's agreement

Gen"tle*men's a*gree"ment
(?)
An agreement binding only as a matter of honor; often, specif., such an agreement among the heads of industrial or merchantile enterprises, the terms of which could not be included and enforced in a legal contract.


word: Gentleness
definition:
Gentleness

Gen"tle*ness
n.
The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.


word: Gentlewoman
definition:
Gentlewoman

Gen"tle*wom`an
(?)
n.
pl. Gentlewomen (_;).

1.
A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.
Bacon.

2.
A woman who attends a lady of high rank.
Shak.


word: Gentoo
definition:
Gentoo

Gen*too"
(jĕn*tō")
n.
pl. Gentoos (jĕn*tōz").
[Pg. gentio gentile, heathen. See Gentile.]
A native of Hindostan; a Hindoo.
[Archaic]


word: Gentoo₂
definition:
Gentoo

Gen*too"
(jĕn*tō")
n.
pl. Gentoos (jĕn*tōz")
A penguin (Pygosceles tæniata).
[Falkland  Is.]


word: Gentry
definition:
Gentry

Gen"try
(?)
n.
[OE. genterie, gentrie, noble birth, nobility, cf. gentrise, and OF. gentelise, genterise, E. gentilesse, also OE. genteleri high-mindedness. See Gent, a., Gentle, a.]
1.
Birth; condition; rank by birth.
[Obs.]
gentrie
Chaucer.

She conquers him by high almighty Jove,
By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath.
Shak.

2.
People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry.
Macaulay.

3.
Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
[Obs.]

To show us so much gentry and good will.
Shak.


word: Genu
definition:
Genu

Ge"nu
(?)
n.
pl. Genua (#).
[L., the knee.]
(Anat.)
(a)
The knee.
(b)
The kneelike bend, in the anterior part of the callosum of the brain.


word: Genuflect
definition:
Genuflect

Gen`u*flect"
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Genuflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Genuflecting.]
[See Genuflection.]
To bend the knee, as in worship.


word: genuflexion
definition:
genuflexion

genuflection

gen`u*flec"tion, gen`u*flex"ion
(?)
n.
[F. génuflexion, fr. LL. genuflexio, fr. L. genu knee + flexio a bending, fr. flectere, flexum, to bend. See Knee, Flexible.]
The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship or reverence.
Bp. Stillingfleet.


word: genuine
definition:
genuine

gen"u*ine
(?)
a.
[L. genuinus, fr. genere, gignere, to beget, in pass., to be born: cf. F. génuine. See Gender.]
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.
genuine
Dryden.
The evidence, both internal and external, against the genuineness of these letters, is overwhelming.
Macaulay.


word: Genus
definition:
Genus

Ge"nus
(jē"nŭs)
n.
pl. Genera (#).
[L., birth, race, kind, sort; akin to Gr. _;. See Gender, and cf. Benign.]

1.
(Logic)
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.

2.
(Biol.)
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.

&hand_; Thus in the animal kingdom the lion, leopard, tiger, cat, and panther are species of the Cat kind or genus, while in the vegetable kingdom all the species of oak form a single genus. Some genera are represented by a multitude of species, as Solanum (Nightshade) and Carex (Sedge), others by few, and some by only one known species.

Subaltern genus (Logic), a genus which may be a species of a higher genus, as the genus denoted by quadruped, which is also a species of mammal. -- Summum genus [L.] (Logic), the highest genus; a genus which can not be classed as a species, as being.


word: Geocentrical
definition:
Geocentrical

Geocentric

{ Ge`o*cen"tric (?), Ge`o*cen"tric*al (?), }
a.
[Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + ke`ntron center: cf. F. géocentrique.]
(Astron.)
(a)
Having, considering, or based on, the earth as center; as, the geocentric theory of the universe; 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.

Geocentric latitude (of place) the angle included between the radius of the earth through the place and the plane of the equator, in distinction from geographic latitude. It is a little less than the geographic latitude.


word: geochemistry
definition:
geochemistry

ge`o*chem"is*try
(jē`o̝*kĕm"ĭs*tr&ybreve_;)
n.
[Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + chemistry.]
The study of the chemical composition of, and of actual or possible chemical changes in, the crust of the earth.
Ge`o*chem"ic*al (#), a. -- Ge`o*chem"ist (#), n.


word: Geocronite
definition:
Geocronite

Ge*oc"ro*nite
(?)
n.
[Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + Kro`nos Saturn, the alchemistic name of lead: cf. G. geokronit.]
(Min.)
A lead-gray or grayish blue mineral with a metallic luster, consisting of sulphur, antimony, and lead, with a small proportion of arsenic.


word: Geocyclic
definition:
Geocyclic

Ge`o*cyc"lic
(?)
a.
[Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + ky`klos circle.]
1.
Of, pertaining to, or illustrating, the revolutions of the earth; as, a geocyclic machine.

2.
Circling the earth periodically.


word: Geode
definition:
Geode

Ge"ode
(jē"&omacrd)
n.
[F. géode, L. geodes, fr. Gr. _; earthlike; ge`a, gh^, the earth + e'i^dos form.]
(Min.)
(a)
A nodule of stone, containing a cavity, lined with crystals or mineral matter.
(b)
The cavity in such a nodule.


word: Geodephagous
definition:
Geodephagous

Ge`o*deph"a*gous
(jē`o̝*dĕf"ȧ*gŭs)
a.
[Gr. ge`a, gh^, earth + 'adhfa`gos eating one's fill; gluttonous.]
(Zool.)
Living in the earth; -- applied to the ground beetles.


word: Geodesical
definition:
Geodesical

Geodesic

{ Ge`o*des"ic (jē`o̝*dĕs"ĭk), Ge`o*des"ic*al (-ĭ*kal), }
a.
[Cf. F. géodésique.]
1.
(Math.)
Of or pertaining to geodesy; geodetic.

2.
(Architecture)
Made of lightweight structural supporting elements connected in a manner to provide great rigidity; -- of structures; as, The geodesic dome was invented by R. Buckminster Fuller.


word: geodesic dome
definition:
geodesic dome

ge`o*des"ic dome
n.
A domelike structure invented by R. Buckminster Fuller, in which straight structural parts are connected to form interlocking polygons, affording great strength and rigidity combined with light weight.  The typical form has the outlines of the top half of an icosahedron, with the triangular spaces filled with structural members forming triangles, hexagons, and squares.


word: Geodesy
definition:
Geodesy

Ge*od"e*sy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; ge`a, gh^, the earth + _; to divide: cf. F. géodésie.]
(Math.)
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.


word: Geodetical
definition:
Geodetical

Geodetic

{ Ge`o*det"ic (?), Ge`o*det"ic*al (?), }
a.
Of or pertaining to geodesy; obtained or determined by the operations of geodesy; engaged in geodesy; geodesic; as, geodetic surveying; geodetic observers.

Geodetic line or Geodetic curve, the shortest line that can be drawn between two points on the elipsoidal surface of the earth; a curve drawn on any given surface so that the osculating plane of the curve at every point shall contain the normal to the surface; the minimum line that can be drawn on any surface between any two points.


word: Geoduck
definition:
Geoduck

Ge"o*duck
(?)
n.
[American Indian name.]
(Zool.)
A gigantic clam (Glycimeris generosa) of the Pacific coast of North America, highly valued as an article of food.


word: Geognostical
definition:
Geognostical

Geognostic

{ Ge`og*nos"tic (?), Ge`og*nos"tic*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. géognostique.]
Of or pertaining to geognosy, or to a knowledge of the structure of the earth; geological.
[R.]


word: Geognosy
definition:
Geognosy

Ge*og"no*sy
(?)
n.
[Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + gnw^sis knowing, knowledge, fr. gignw`skein to know: cf. F. géognosie.]
That part of geology which treats of the materials of the earth's structure, and its general exterior and interior constitution.


word: Geogonical
definition:
Geogonical

Geogonic

{ Ge`o*gon"ic (?), Ge`o*gon"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. géogonique.]
Of or pertaining to geogony, or to the formation of the earth.


word: Geogony
definition:
Geogony

Ge*og"o*ny
(?)
n.
[Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + _; generation, birth, fr. the root of gi`gnesqai to be born: cf. F. géogonie.]
The branch of science which treats of the formation of the earth.


word: Geographical
definition:
Geographical

Geographic

{ Ge`o*graph"ic (?), Ge`o*graph"ic*al (?), }
a.
[L. geographicus, Gr. _;: cf. F. géographique.]
Of or pertaining to geography.

Geographical distribution. See under Distribution. -- Geographic latitude (of a place), the angle included between a line perpendicular or normal to the level surface of water at rest at the place, and the plane of the equator; differing slightly from the geocentric latitude by reason of the difference between the earth's figure and a true sphere. -- Geographical mile. See under Mile. -- Geographical variation, any variation of a species which is dependent on climate or other geographical conditions.


word: Geographically
definition:
Geographically

Ge`o*graph"ic*al*ly
adv.
In a geographical manner or method; according to geography.


word: geography
definition:
geography

ge*og"ra*phy
(?)
n.
pl. Geographies (#).
[F. géographie, l. geographia, fr. Gr. _;; ge`a, gh^, the earth + _; description, fr. _; to write, describe. See Graphic.]
1.
The science which treats of the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, features, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited.  It also includes the responses and adaptations of people to topography, climate, soil and vegetation

2.
A treatise on this science.

Astronomical, or Mathematical, geography treats of the earth as a planet, of its shape, its size, its lines of latitude and longitude, its zones, and the phenomena due to to the earth's diurnal and annual motions. -- Physical geography treats of the conformation of the earth's surface, of the distribution of land and water, of minerals, plants, animals, etc., and applies the principles of physics to the explanation of the diversities of climate, productions, etc. -- Political geography treats of the different countries into which earth is divided with regard to political and social and institutions and conditions.


word: Geolatry
definition:
Geolatry

Ge*ol"a*try
(?)
n.
[Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + _; worship.]
The worship of the earth.
G. W. Cox.
The Geological Series.
&hand_; The science of geology, as treating of the history of the globe, involves a description of the different strata which compose its crust, their order of succession, characteristic forms of animal and vegetable life, etc. The principal subdivisions of geological time, and the most important strata, with their relative positions, are indicated in the following diagram.


word: Geological
definition:
Geological

Geologic

{ Ge`o*log"ic (?), Ge`o*log"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. géologique.]
Of or pertaining to geology, or the science of the earth.


word: Geologize
definition:
Geologize

Ge*ol"o*gize
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Geologized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Geologizing (?).]
To study geology or make geological investigations in the field; to discourse as a geologist.

During midsummer geologized a little in Shropshire.
Darwin.


word: Geology
definition:
Geology

Ge*ol"o*gy
(?)
n.
pl. Geologies (#).
[Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + -logy: cf. F. géologie.]

1.
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.

2.
A treatise on the science.


word: Geomalism
definition:
Geomalism

Ge*om"a*lism
(?)
n.
[Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + "omalismo`s a leveling.]
(Biol.)
The tendency of an organism to respond, during its growth, to the force of gravitation.


word: Geomancy
definition:
Geomancy

Ge"o*man`cy
(?)
n.
[OE. geomance, geomancie, F. géomance, géomancie, LL. geomantia, fr. Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + mantei`a divination.]
A kind of divination by means of figures or lines, formed by little dots or points, originally on the earth, and latterly on paper.


word: Geomantical
definition:
Geomantical

Geomantic

{ Ge`o*man"tic (?), Ge`o*man"tic*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. géomantique.]
Pertaining or belonging to geomancy.


word: Geometer
definition:
Geometer

Ge*om"e*ter
(?)
n.
[F. géomètre, L. geometres, geometra, fr. Gr. gewme`trhs, fr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + me`tron measure. See Meter measure.]
1.
One skilled in geometry; a geometrician; a mathematician.
I. Watts.

2.
(Zool.)
Any species of geometrid moth; a geometrid.


word: Geometrical
definition:
Geometrical

Geometric

{ Ge`o*met"ric (?), Ge`o*met"ric*al (?), }
a.
[L. geometricus; Gr. _;: cf. F. géométrique.]
1.
Pertaining to, or according to the rules or principles of, geometry; determined by geometry; as, a geometrical solution of a problem.

2.
(Art)
characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration; as, a buffalo hide painted with red and black geometrical designs.

Syn. -- geometric.

&hand_; Geometric is often used, as opposed to algebraic, to include processes or solutions in which the propositions or principles of geometry are made use of rather than those of algebra.

&hand_; Geometrical is often used in a limited or strictly technical sense, as opposed to mechanical; thus, a construction or solution is geometrical which can be made by ruler and compasses, i. e., by means of right lines and circles. Every construction or solution which requires any other curve, or such motion of a line or circle as would generate any other curve, is not geometrical, but mechanical. By another distinction, a geometrical solution is one obtained by the rules of geometry, or processes of analysis, and hence is exact; while a mechanical solution is one obtained by trial, by actual measurements, with instruments, etc., and is only approximate and empirical.

Geometrical curve. Same as Algebraic curve; -- so called because their different points may be constructed by the operations of elementary geometry. -- Geometric lathe, an instrument for engraving bank notes, etc., with complicated patterns of interlacing lines; -- called also cycloidal engine. -- Geometrical pace, a measure of five feet. -- Geometric pen, an instrument for drawing geometric curves, in which the movements of a pen or pencil attached to a revolving arm of adjustable length may be indefinitely varied by changing the toothed wheels which give motion to the arm. -- Geometrical plane (Persp.), the same as Ground plane . -- Geometrical progression, proportion, ratio. See under Progression, Proportion and Ratio. -- Geometrical radius, in gearing, the radius of the pitch circle of a cogwheel. Knight. -- Geometric spider (Zool.), one of many species of spiders, which spin a geometrical web. They mostly belong to Epeira and allied genera, as the garden spider. See Garden spider. -- Geometric square, a portable instrument in the form of a square frame for ascertaining distances and heights by measuring angles. -- Geometrical staircase, one in which the stairs are supported by the wall at one end only. -- Geometrical tracery, in architecture and decoration, tracery arranged in geometrical figures.


word: Geometrid₂
definition:
Geometrid

Ge*om"e*trid
n.
(Zool.)
One of numerous genera and species of moths, of the family Geometridæ; -- so called because their larvæ (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.


word: Geometridae
definition:
Geometridae

Geometridae
prop. n.
A natural family of moths whose larvae are called measuring worms.

Syn. -- family Geometridae.


word: Geometrize
definition:
Geometrize

Ge*om"e*trize
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Geometrized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Geometrizing (?).]
To investigate or apprehend geometrical quantities or laws; to make geometrical constructions; to proceed in accordance with the principles of geometry.

Nature geometrizeth, and observeth order in all things.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Geometry
definition:
Geometry

Ge*om"e*try
(?)
n.
pl.
Geometries
(#)
[F. géométrie, L. geometria, fr. Gr. _;, fr. _; to measure land; ge`a, gh^, the earth + _; to measure. So called because one of its earliest and most important applications was to the measurement of the earth's surface. See Geometer.]
1.
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.

2.
A treatise on this science.

Analytical geometry,  or Coördinate geometry, that branch of mathematical analysis which has for its object the analytical investigation of the relations and properties of geometrical magnitudes. -- Descriptive geometry, that part of geometry which treats of the graphic solution of all problems involving three dimensions. -- Elementary geometry, that part of geometry which treats of the simple properties of straight lines, circles, plane surface, solids bounded by plane surfaces, the sphere, the cylinder, and the right cone. -- Higher geometry, that pert of geometry which treats of those properties of straight lines, circles, etc., which are less simple in their relations, and of curves and surfaces of the second and higher degrees.


word: Geophagism
definition:
Geophagism

Ge*oph"a*gism
(?)
n.
[Gr. ge`a, gh^, earth + _; to eat.]
The act or habit of eating earth. See Dirt eating, under Dirt.
Dunglison.


word: Geophila
definition:
Geophila

Ge*oph"i*la
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., from Gr. ge`a, gh^, earth + _; to love.]
(Zool.)
The division of Mollusca which includes the land snails and slugs.


word: Geophilidae
definition:
Geophilidae

Geophilidae
n.
A natural family of small extremely elongate earth-living centipedes.

Syn. -- family Geophilidae.


word: Geophilomorpha
definition:
Geophilomorpha

Geophilomorpha
n.
an order of myriopod arthropods containing elongated centipedes living in soil and under stones and having more than 30 pairs of legs.

Syn. -- order Geophilomorpha.


word: Geophilus
definition:
Geophilus

Geophilus
n.
The type type genus of the Geophilidae, a cosmopolitan genus of centipedes sometimes called earwigs.

Syn. -- genus Geophilus.


word: geophysics
definition:
geophysics

geophysics
n.
A branch of geology that uses physical principles to study the properties of the earth.

Syn. -- geophysical science.


word: geophyte
definition:
geophyte

geophyte
n.
a perennial plant propagated by overwintering buds on underground bulbs or tubers or corms.


word: geopolitics
definition:
geopolitics

geopolitics
n.
the study of the effects of economic geography on the powers of the state.


word: Geoponical
definition:
Geoponical

Geoponic

{ Ge`o*pon"ic (?), Ge`o*pon"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Gr. _;; ge`a, gh^, earth + _; toilsome, fr. _; labor: cf. F. géoponique.]
Pertaining to tillage of the earth, or agriculture.


word: Geoponics
definition:
Geoponics

Ge`o*pon"ics
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;: cf. F. géoponique.]
The art or science of cultivating the earth; agriculture.
Evelin.


word: Georama
definition:
Georama

Ge`o*ra"ma
(?)
n.
[Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + _; sight, view, _; to see, view: cf. F. géorama.]
A hollow globe on the inner surface of which a map of the world is depicted, to be examined by one standing inside.


word: George
definition:
George

George
(jôrj)
prop. n.
[F. George, or Georges, a proper name, fr. Gr. gewrgo`s husbandman, laborer; ge`a, gh^, the earth + 'e`rgein to work; akin to E. work. See Work.]

1.
A figure of St. George (the patron saint of England) on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter.

2.
A kind of brown loaf.
[Obs.]
Dryden.

3.
Any coin having an image of Saint George.
[Brit. slang]


word: George noble
definition:
George noble

George" no`ble
(?)
[So called from the image of St. George on it.]
A gold noble of the time of Henry VIII.  See Noble, n.


word: Georgian
definition:
Georgian

Geor"gi*an
(?)
a.
1.
Of or pertaining to Georgia, a former Soviet republic, now an independent country in the Causcuses in Asia, or to Georgia, one of the United States.

2.
Of or relating to the reigns of the four Georges, kings of Great Britan; as, the Georgian era.


word: Georgian architecture
definition:
Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture
British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800.


word: Georgic
definition:
Georgic

Geor"gic
(jôr"jĭk)
n.
[L. georgicum (sc. carmen), and georgica, pl., Gr. bi`blion gewrgiko`n, and ta~ gewrgika`: cf. F. géorgiques, pl. See Georgic, a.]
A rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating lands, etc.; as, the Georgics of Virgil.


word: Georgical
definition:
Georgical

Georgic

{ Geor"gic (jôr"jĭk), Geor"gic*al (jôr"jĭ*kal), }
a.
[L. georgicus, Gr. gewrgiko`s, fr. gewrgi`a tillage, agriculture: cf. F. géorgique. See George.]
Relating to agriculture and rural affairs.


word: Georgium Sidus
definition:
Georgium Sidus

Geor"gi*um Si`dus
(?)
[NL., the star of George (III. of England).]
(Astron.)
The planet Uranus, so named by its discoverer, Sir W. Herschel.


word: Geoscopy
definition:
Geoscopy

Ge*os"co*py
(?)
n.
[Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + -scopy: cf. F. géoscopie.]
Knowledge of the earth, ground, or soil, obtained by inspection.
Chambers.


word: Geoselenic
definition:
Geoselenic

Ge`o*se*len"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + _; moon.]
Pertaining to the earth and moon; belonging to the joint action or mutual relations of the earth and moon; as, geoselenic phenomena.


word: Geostatic
definition:
Geostatic

Ge`o*stat"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. ge`a, gh^, earth + E. static.]
(Civil Engin.)
Relating to the pressure exerted by earth or similar substance.

Geostatic arch, an arch having a form adapted to sustain pressure similar to that exerted by earth. Rankine.


word: Geosynclinal
definition:
Geosynclinal

Ge`o*syn*cli"nal
(?)
n.
[Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + E. synclinal.]
(Geol.)
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.


word: Geothermometer
definition:
Geothermometer

Ge`o*ther*mom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + E. thermometer.]
(Physics)
A thermometer specially constructed for measuring temperetures at a depth below the surface of the ground.


word: Geotic
definition:
Geotic

Ge*ot"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth.]
Belonging to earth; terrestrial.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: Geotropism
definition:
Geotropism

Ge*ot"ro*pism
(?)
n.
[Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + _; to turn.]
(Biol.)
A disposition to turn or incline towards the earth; the influence of gravity in determining the direction of growth of an organ.

&hand_; In plants, organs which grow towards the center of the earth are said to be positively geotropic, and those growing in the opposite direction negatively geotropic. In animals, geotropism is supposed by some to have an influence either direct or indirect on the plane of division of the ovum.


word: Gephyrea
definition:
Gephyrea

Ge*phyr"e*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; a dam, a bridge.]
(Zool.)
An order of marine Annelida, in which the body is imperfectly, or not at all, annulated externally, and is mostly without setæ.


word: Gerah
definition:
Gerah

Ge"rah
(?)
n.
[Heb. g_;rah, lit., a bean.]
(Jewish Antiq.)
A small coin and weight; 1-20th of a shekel.

&hand_; The silver gerah is supposed to have been worth about three cents; the gold about fifty-four cents; the weight equivalent to about thirteen grains.


word: Geraniaceous
definition:
Geraniaceous

Ge*ra`ni*a"ceous
(?)
a.
(Bot.)
Of or pertaining to a natural order of pants (Geraniaceæ) which includes the genera Geranium, Pelargonium, and many others.


word: Geranine
definition:
Geranine

Geraniine

{ Ge*ra"ni*ine (?), Ger"a*nine (?), }
n.
[See Geranium.]

1.
(Med.)
A valuable astringent obtained from the root of the Geranium maculatum or crane's-bill.

2.
(Chem.)
A liquid terpene, obtained from the crane's-bill (Geranium maculatum), and having a peculiar mulberry odor.
[Written also geraniin.]


word: geraniol
definition:
geraniol

ge*ra"ni*ol
(?)
n.
[See Geranium.]
(Chem.)
A terpene alcohol (C10H18O) which constitutes the principal part of the oil of palmarosa and the oil of rose.  Chemically it is 3,7-Dimethyl-2,6-octadien-1-ol.  It has a sweet rose odor.
MI11


word: Geranium
definition:
Geranium

Ge*ra"ni*um
(je̝*rā"nĭ*ŭm)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. gera`nion, from ge`ranos crane: cf. F. géranium. See Crane, n.]

1.
(Bot.)
A genus of plants having a beaklike torus or receptacle, around which the seed capsules are arranged, and membranous projections, or stipules, at the joints. Most of the species have showy flowers and a pungent odor. Called sometimes crane's-bill.

2.
(Floriculture)
A cultivated pelargonium.

&hand_; Many plants referred to the genus Geranium by the earlier botanists are now separated from it under the name of Pelargonium, which includes all the commonly cultivated “geraniums”, mostly natives of South Africa.


word: Gerant
definition:
Gerant

Ge"rant
(?)
n.
[F. gérant.]
The manager or acting partner of a company, joint-stock association, etc.


word: Gerbera
definition:
Gerbera

Gerbera
prop. n.
A genus of South African or Asiatic herbs having showy daisy-like flowers; it includes some of the African daisies.

Syn. -- genus Gerbera.


word: Gerbille
definition:
Gerbille

Gerbil

{ Ger"bil (jẽr"bĭl), &VerbarGer`bille" (zha̝r`be̝l"), }
n.
[F. gerbille.  Cf. Jerboa.]
1.
(Zool.)
One of several species of small, jumping, murine burrowing rodents, of the genus Gerbillus and related genera of the subfamily Gerbillinae. They have long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping.  In their leaping powers they resemble the jerboa. They inhabit Africa, India, and Southern Europe.

2.
(Zool.)
A rodent (Meriones unguiculatus) of the subfamily Gerbillinae that is commonly kept as a pet; it is also called the tamarisk gerbil, sand rat and jird.  Its natural habitats are the dry regions of Northern Africa and Asia.


word: Gerbillinae
definition:
Gerbillinae

Gerbillinae
n.
(Zool.)
A natural family of rodents including the gerbils.

Syn. -- subfamily Gerbillinae.


word: Gerbillus
definition:
Gerbillus

Gerbillus
n.
The type genus of the Gerbillinae, comprising the typical gerbils{1}.

Syn. -- genus Gerbillus.


word: Gerent
definition:
Gerent

Ge"rent
(?)
a.
[L. gerens, p. pr. of gerere to bear, manage.]
Bearing; carrying.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: gerenuk
definition:
gerenuk

ger"e*nuk
(gĕr"e̝*nŏk)
n.
A slender East African antelope (Litocranius walleri) with a long slim neck and backward-curving horns; called also Waller's gazelle, and in German Giraffengazelle.  It feeds on the foliage of bushes and trees, and often stands erect on its hind legs, leaning against the bush, to browse on the higher branches; in this habit it is distinctive and easy to recognize.

Syn. -- Litocranius walleri.


word: Germ
definition:
Germ

Germ
(jẽrm)
n.
[F. germe, fr. L. germen, germinis, sprout, but, germ.  Cf. Germen, Germane.]
1.
(Biol.)
That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism appears.

In the entire process in which a new being originates . . . two distinct classes of action participate; namely, the act of generation by which the germ is produced; and the act of development, by which that germ is evolved into the complete organism.
Carpenter.

2.
That from which anything springs; origin; first principle; as, the germ of civil liberty.

3.
(Biol.)
The germ cells, collectively, as distinguished from the somatic cells, or soma. Germ is often used in place of germinal to form phrases; as, germ area, germ disc, germ membrane, germ nucleus, germ sac, etc.

4.
A microorganism, especially a disease-causing bacterium or virus; -- used informally, as, the don't eat food that falls on the floor, it may have germs on it.

Disease germ (Biol.), a name applied to certain tiny bacterial organisms or their spores, such as Anthrax bacillus and the Micrococcus of fowl cholera, which have been demonstrated to be the cause of certain diseases; same as germ{4}. See Germ theory (below). -- Germ cell (Biol.), the germ, egg, spore, or cell from which the plant or animal arises. At one time a part of the body of the parent, it finally becomes detached, and by a process of multiplication and growth gives rise to a mass of cells, which ultimately form a new individual like the parent. See Ovum. -- Germ gland. (Anat.) See Gonad. -- Germ stock (Zool.), a special process on which buds are developed in certain animals. See Doliolum. -- Germ theory (Biol.), the theory that living organisms can be produced only by the evolution or development of living germs or seeds. See Biogenesis, and Abiogenesis. As applied to the origin of disease, the theory claims that the zymotic diseases are due to the rapid development and multiplication of various bacteria, the germs or spores of which are either contained in the organism itself, or transferred through the air or water. See Fermentation theory.


word: German
definition:
German

Ger"man
(?)
a.
[OE. german, germain, F. germain, fr. L. germanus full, own (said of brothers and sisters who have the same parents); akin to germen germ.  Cf. Germ, Germane.]
Nearly related; closely akin.

Wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to the lion.
Shak.

Brother german. See Brother german. -- Cousins german. See the Note under Cousin.


word: German₂
definition:
German

Ger"man
n.
pl.
Germans
(#)
[L. Germanus, prob. of Celtis origin.]
1.
A native or one of the people of Germany.

2.
The German language.

3.
(a)
A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures.
(b)
A social party at which the german is danced.

High German, the Teutonic dialect of Upper or Southern Germany, -- comprising Old High German, used from the 8th to the 11th century; Middle H. G., from the 12th to the 15th century; and Modern or New H. G., the language of Luther's Bible version and of modern German literature. The dialects of Central Germany, the basis of the modern literary language, are often called Middle German, and the Southern German dialects Upper German; but High German is also used to cover both groups. -- Low German, the language of Northern Germany and the Netherlands, -- including Friesic; Anglo-Saxon or Saxon; Old Saxon; Dutch or Low Dutch, with its dialect, Flemish; and Plattdeutsch (called also Low German), spoken in many dialects.


word: German₃
definition:
German

Ger"man
a.
[L. Germanus. See German, n.]
Of or pertaining to Germany.

German Baptists. See Dunker. -- German bit, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical pod and a scew point. -- German carp (Zool.), the crucian carp. -- German millet (Bot.), a kind of millet (Setaria Italica, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. -- German paste, a prepared food for caged birds. -- German process (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary. Raymond. -- German sarsaparilla, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. -- German sausage, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked. -- German silver (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy packfong. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. -- German steel (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. -- German text (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words,
[1913 Webster]
&hand_; This line is German Text.

-- German tinder. See Amadou.


word: Germander
definition:
Germander

Ger*man"der
(?)
n.
[OE. germaunder, F. germandrée, It. calamandrea, L. chamaedrys, fr. Gr._;; _; on the earth or ground + _; tree. See Humble, and Tree.]
(Bot.)
A plant of the genus Teucrium (esp. Teucrium Chamædrys or wall germander), mintlike herbs and low shrubs.

American germander, Teucrium Canadense. -- Germander chickweed, Veronica agrestis. -- Water germander, Teucrium Scordium. -- Wood germander, Teucrium Scorodonia.


word: Germane
definition:
Germane

Ger*mane"
(?)
a.
[See German akin, nearly related.]
Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant.

The phrase would be more germane to the matter.
Shak.

[An amendment] must be germane.
Barclay (Digest).


word: Germanic₂
definition:
Germanic

Ger*man"ic
a.
[L. Germanicus: cf. F. germanique. See German, n.]
1.
Of or pertaining to Germany; as, the Germanic confederacy.

2.
Teutonic.
[A loose sense]


word: Germanism
definition:
Germanism

Ger"man*ism
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. germanisme.]
1.
An idiom of the German language.

2.
A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism.
J. W. Alexander.


word: Germanium
definition:
Germanium

Ger*ma"ni*um
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. L. Germania Germany.]
(Chem.)
A rare element, discovered in 1885 in a silver ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge. Atomic number 32.  Atomic weight 72.59.  It has excellent semiconductor properties, and is used in transistors and diodes.


word: Germanize
definition:
Germanize

Ger"man*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Germanized (?); p. pr.  & vb. n. Germanizing (?).]
To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society.


word: Germarium
definition:
Germarium

Ger*ma"ri*um
(?)
n.
[NL. See Germ.]
(Zool.)
An organ in which the ova are developed in certain Turbellaria.


word: Germ cell
definition:
Germ cell

Germ cell
(Biol.)
A cell, of either sex, directly concerned in the production of a new organism.


word: germicidal
definition:
germicidal

ger"mi*ci`dal
(jẽr"mĭ*sī`dal)
a.
[Germ + L. caedere to kill + -al.]
(Biol.)
Destructive to germs; -- applied to any agent which has a killing action upon living microorganisms, particularly bacteria or viruses, which are the cause of many infectious diseases.

Syn. -- antiseptic.


word: Germinal
definition:
Germinal

Ger"mi*nal
(?)
a.
[See Germ.]
1.
Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle.

2.
(Biol.)
Of or pertaining to the germ, or germ cells, as distinguished from the somatic cells.

Germinal layers (Biol.), the two layers of cells, the ectoblast and entoblast, which form respectively the outer covering and inner wall of the gastrula. A third layer of cells, the mesoblast, which is formed later and lies between these two, is sometimes included. -- Germinal membrane. (Biol.) Same as Blastoderm. -- Germinal spot (Biol.), the nucleolus of the ovum. -- Germinal vesicle, (Biol.) , the nucleus of the ovum of animals.


word: Germinal₂
definition:
Germinal

Ger`mi*nal"
(?)
n.
[F. See Germ .]
The seventh month of the French republican calendar [1792 -- 1806]. It began March 21 and ended April 19. See Vendémiaire.


word: Germinate
definition:
Germinate

Ger"mi*nate
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Germinated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Germinating.]
[L. germinatus, p. p. of germinare to sprout, fr. germen. See Germ.]
To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.
Bacon.


word: Germination
definition:
Germination

Ger`mi*na"tion
(?)
n.
[L. germinatio: cf. F. germination.]
The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.

Germination apparatus, an apparatus for malting grain.


word: Germinative
definition:
Germinative

Ger"mi*na*tive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. germinatif.]
Pertaining to germination; having power to bud or develop.

Germinative spot, Germinative vesicle. (Biol.) Same as Germinal spot, Germinal vesicle, under Germinal.


word: Germiparity
definition:
Germiparity

Ger`mi*par"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Germ + L. parere to produce.]
(Biol.)
Reproduction by means of germs.


word: Germogen
definition:
Germogen

Ger"mo*gen
(?)
n.
[Germ + -gen.]
(Biol.)
(a)
A polynuclear mass of protoplasm, not divided into separate cells, from which certain ova are developed.
Balfour.
(b)
The primitive cell in certain embryonic forms.
Balfour.


word: Germ theory
definition:
Germ theory

Germ theory
1.
(Biol.)
The theory that living organisms can be produced only by the development of living germs. Cf. Biogenesis, Abiogenesis.

2.
(Med.)
The theory which attributes contagious and infectious diseases, suppurative lesions, etc., to the agency of germs, i.e. pathogenic microorganisms. The science of bacteriology was developed after this theory had been established.


word: Gerocomy
definition:
Gerocomy

Ge*roc"o*my
(?)
n.
[F. gérocomie, fr. Gr. _; an old man + _; to take care of.]
That part of medicine which treats of regimen for old people.


word: Gerontes
definition:
Gerontes

Ge*ron"tes
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;, _;.]
(Gr. Antiq.)
Magistrates in Sparta, who with the ephori and kings, constituted the supreme civil authority.


word: Gerontocracy
definition:
Gerontocracy

Ger`on*toc"ra*cy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, an old man + _; to rule.]
Government by old men.
[R.]
Gladstone.


word: Geropigia
definition:
Geropigia

Ger`o*pig"i*a
(?)
n.
[Pg. geropiga.]
A mixture composed of unfermented grape juice, brandy, sugar, etc., for adulteration of wines.
[Written also jerupigia.]


word: -gerous
definition:
-gerous

-ger*ous
(?)
[L. -ger, fr. gerere to bear, carry. See Jest.]
A suffix signifying bearing, producing; as, calcigerous; dentigerous.


word: Gerrymander
definition:
Gerrymander

Ger`ry*man"der
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gerrymandered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gerrymandering.]
To divide (a State) into districts for the choice of representatives, in an unnatural and unfair way, with a view to give a political party an advantage over its opponent.
[Political Cant, U. S.]

&hand_; This was done in Massachusetts at a time when Elbridge Gerry was governor, and was attributed to his influence, hence the name; though it is now known that he was opposed to the measure.
Bartlett.


word: Gerund
definition:
Gerund

Ger"und
(?)
n.
[L. gerundium, fr. gerere to bear, carry, perform. See Gest a deed, Jest.]
(Lat. Gram.)

1.
A kind of verbal noun, having only the four oblique cases of the singular number, and governing cases like a participle.

2.
In Modern English, the -ing form of a verb, when functioning as a noun; as, running is good for the heart.

3.
(AS. Gram.)
A verbal noun ending in -e, preceded by to and usually denoting purpose or end; -- called also the dative infinitive; as, “Ic hæbbe mete tô etanne” (I have meat to eat.).


word: Gerundive
definition:
Gerundive

Ge*run"dive
(?)
a.
[L. gerundivus.]
Pertaining to, or partaking of, the nature of the gerund; gerundial.
n. (Lat. Gram.) The future passive participle; as, amandus, i. e., to be loved.


word: Gesso
definition:
Gesso

Ges"so
(?)
n.
[It., chalk, plaster.]
1.
Plaster of Paris, or gypsum, esp. as prepared for use in painting, or in making bas-reliefs and the like; by extension, a plasterlike or pasty material spread upon a surface to fit it for painting or gilding, or a surface so prepared.

2.
A work of art done in gesso.
[Obs.]


word: Gesso duro
definition:
Gesso duro

Ges"so du"ro
(?)
[It., hard plaster.]
A variety of gesso which when dried becomes hard and durable, often used in making bas-relief casts, which are colored and mounted in elaborate frames.


word: Gest₂
definition:
Gest

Gest
(?)
n.
[OF. geste exploit. See Jest.]

1.
Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
[Obs.]
Mede.

3.
A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story.
[Obs.]
Chaucer. Spenser.

4.
Gesture; bearing; deportment.
[Archaic]

Through his heroic grace and honorable gest.
Spenser.


word: Gest₃
definition:
Gest

Gest
(?)
n.
[Cf. Gist a resting place.]

1.
A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest.
[Obs.]
Kersey.

2.
A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's office.
[Obs.]
Hanmer.


word: Gestant
definition:
Gestant

Ges"tant
(?)
a.
[L. gestans, p. pr. of gestare.]
Bearing within; laden; burdened; pregnant.
[R.]
gestant
Mrs. Browning.


word: Gestation
definition:
Gestation

Ges*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. gestatio a bearing, carrying, fr. gestare to bear, carry, intens. fr. gerere, gestum, to bear: cf. F. gestation. See Gest deed, Jest.]

1.
The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).
[Obs.]

2.
The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.

3.
Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise.
Dunglison.


word: Gestatory
definition:
Gestatory

Ges"ta*to*ry
(?)
a.
[L. gestatorius that serves for carrying: cf. F. gestatoire.]

1.
Pertaining to gestation or pregnancy.

2.
Capable of being carried or worn.
[Obs. or R.]


word: Gestic
definition:
Gestic

Ges"tic
(?)
a.
[See Gest a deed, Gesture.]

1.
Pertaining to deeds or feats of arms; legendary.

And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore.
Goldsmith.

2.
Relating to bodily motion; consisting of gestures; -- said especially with reference to dancing.

Carried away by the enthusiasm of the gestic art.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Gesticulate
definition:
Gesticulate

Ges*tic"u*late
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Gesticulated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gesticulating.]
[L. gesticulatus, p. p. of gesticulari to gesticulate, fr. gesticulus a mimic gesture, gesticulation, dim. of gestus gesture, fr. gerere, gestum, to bear, carry, peform. See Gestic.]
To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.
Sir T. Herbert.


word: Gesticulation
definition:
Gesticulation

Ges*tic`u*la"tion
(?)
n.
[L. gesticulatio: cf. F. gesticulation.]
1.
The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to express passion or enforce sentiments.

2.
A gesture; a motion of the body or limbs in speaking, or in representing action or passion, and enforcing arguments and sentiments.
Macaulay.

3.
Antic tricks or motions.
B. Jonson.


word: Gestour
definition:
Gestour

Ges"tour
(?)
n.
[See Gest a deed.]
A reciter of gests or legendary tales; a story-teller.
[Obs.]

Minstrels and gestours for to tell tales.
Chaucer.


word: Gesture
definition:
Gesture

Ges"ture
(?)
n.
[LL. gestura mode of action, fr. L. gerere, gestum, to bear, behave, perform, act. See Gest a deed.]
1.
Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.
[Obs.]

Accubation, or lying down at meals, was a gesture used by many nations.
Sir T. Browne.

2.
A motion of the body or limbs expressive of sentiment or passion; any action or posture intended to express an idea or a passion, or to enforce or emphasize an argument, assertion, or opinion.

Humble and reverent gestures.
Hooker.

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,
In every gesture dignity and love.
Milton.


word: Gesture₂
definition:
Gesture

Ges"ture
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gestured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gesturing.]
To accompany or illustrate with gesture or action; to gesticulate.

It is not orderly read, nor gestured as beseemeth.
Hooker.


word: Gesture₃
definition:
Gesture

Ges"ture
v. i.
To make gestures; to gesticulate.

The players . . . gestured not undecently withal.
Holland.


word: Get₂
definition:
Get

Get
(gĕt)
n.
[OF. get.]
1.
Fashion; manner; custom.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
Artifice; contrivance.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Get₃
definition:
Get

Get
(gĕt)
v. t.
[imp. Got (g&obreve_;t) (Obs. Gat (găt)); p. p. Got (Obsolescent Gotten (g&obreve_;t"t'n)); p. pr. & vb. n. Getting.]
[OE. geten, AS. gitan, gietan (in comp.); akin to Icel. geta, Goth. bigitan to find, L. prehendere to seize, take, Gr. chanda`nein to hold, contain.  Cf. Comprehend, Enterprise, Forget, Impregnable, Prehensile.]
1.
To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire; to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by purchase, etc.

2.
Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have.
Johnson.

Thou hast got the face of man.
Herbert.

3.
To beget; to procreate; to generate.

I had rather to adopt a child than get it.
Shak.

4.
To obtain mental possession of; to learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out; as, to get out one's Greek lesson.

It being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty.
Bp. Fell.

5.
To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.

Get him to say his prayers.
Shak.

6.
To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle.

Those things I bid you do; get them dispatched.
Shak.

7.
To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.

Get thee out from this land.
Gen. xxxi. 13.

He . . . got himself . . . to the strong town of Mega.
Knolles.

&hand_; Get, as a transitive verb, is combined with adverbs implying motion, to express the causing to, or the effecting in, the object of the verb, of the kind of motion indicated by the preposition; thus, to get in, to cause to enter, to bring under shelter; as, to get in the hay; to get out, to make come forth, to extract; to get off, to take off, to remove; to get together, to cause to come together, to collect.

To get by heart, to commit to memory. -- To get the better of, To get the best of, to obtain an advantage over; to surpass; to subdue. -- To get up, to cause to be established or to exit; to prepare; to arrange; to construct; to invent; as, to get up a celebration, a machine, a book, an agitation.


word: Get₄
definition:
Get

Get
(gĕt)
v. i.
1.
To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased.

We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get.
Shak.

2.
To arrive at, or bring one's self into, a state, condition, or position; to come to be; to become; -- with a following adjective or past participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected.

To get rid of fools and scoundrels.
Pope.

His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
Coleridge.

&hand_; It [get] gives to the English language a middle voice, or a power of verbal expression which is neither active nor passive. Thus we say to get acquitted, beaten, confused, dressed.
Earle.

&hand_; Get, as an intransitive verb, is used with a following preposition, or adverb of motion, to indicate, on the part of the subject of the act, movement or action of the kind signified by the preposition or adverb; or, in the general sense, to move, to stir, to make one's way, to advance, to arrive, etc.; as, to get away, to leave, to escape; to disengage one's self from; to get down, to descend, esp. with effort, as from a literal or figurative elevation; to get along, to make progress; hence, to prosper, succeed, or fare; to get in, to enter; to get out, to extricate one's self, to escape; to get through, to traverse; also, to finish, to be done; to get to, to arrive at, to reach; to get off, to alight, to descend from, to dismount; also, to escape, to come off clear; to get together, to assemble, to convene.

To get ahead, to advance; to prosper. -- To get along, to proceed; to advance; to prosper. -- To get a mile (or other distance), to pass over it in traveling. -- To get among, to go or come into the company of; to become one of a number. -- To get asleep, to fall asleep. -- To get astray, to wander out of the right way. -- To get at, to reach; to make way to. To get away with, to carry off; to capture; hence, to get the better of; to defeat. -- To get back, to arrive at the place from which one departed; to return. -- To get before, to arrive in front, or more forward. -- To get behind, to fall in the rear; to lag. -- To get between, to arrive between. -- To get beyond, to pass or go further than; to exceed; to surpass. “Three score and ten is the age of man, a few get beyond it.” Thackeray. -- To get clear, to disengage one's self; to be released, as from confinement, obligation, or burden; also, to be freed from danger or embarrassment. -- To get drunk, to become intoxicated. -- To get forward, to proceed; to advance; also, to prosper; to advance in wealth. -- To get home, to arrive at one's dwelling, goal, or aim. -- To get into. (a) To enter, as, “she prepared to get into the coach.” Dickens. (b) To pass into, or reach; as,  “ a language has got into the inflated state.” Keary. -- To get loose or To get free, to disengage one's self; to be released from confinement. -- To get near, to approach within a small distance. -- To get on, to proceed; to advance; to prosper. -- To get over. (a) To pass over, surmount, or overcome, as an obstacle or difficulty. (b) To recover from, as an injury, a calamity. -- To get through. (a) To pass through something. (b) To finish what one was doing. -- To get up. (a) To rise; to arise, as from a bed, chair, etc. (b) To ascend; to climb, as a hill, a tree, a flight of stairs, etc.


word: get
definition:
get

get
(gĕt)
n.
pl. gittin or gitim.
A divorce granted by a Rabbi in accordance with Jewish law; also, the document attesting to the divorce.
RHUD


word: geta
definition:
geta

get"a
n.
[Jap.]
A type of Japanese footwear usually with wooden soles, held to the foot by a thong that passes between the first two toes.

Syn. -- clog, patten, sabot.


word: getatable
definition:
getatable

get*at"a*ble
adj.
Aapable of being reached or attained; as, a very getatable man; both oil and coal are there but not in getatable locations.

Syn. -- come-at-able, get-at-able.


word: getaway
definition:
getaway

get"a*way`
n.
rapid acceleration.
[wns=1]

Syn. -- pickup.

2.
a rapid escape (as by criminals); as, the thieves made a clean getaway; they made their getaway in a stolen car.
[wns=2]

Syn. -- lam.


word: Get-penny
definition:
Get-penny

Get"-pen`ny
(?)
n.
Something which gets or gains money; a successful affair.
[Colloq.]
Chapman.


word: Getterup
definition:
Getterup

Get"ter*up`
n.
One who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc.
[Colloq.]

A diligent getter-up of miscellaneous works.
W. Irving.


word: Getting
definition:
Getting

Get"ting
(?)
n.
1.
The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.

With all thy getting, get understanding.
Prov. iv. 7.

2.
That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.


word: Gettysburg
definition:
Gettysburg

Gettysburg
prop. n.
The name of a battle of the American Civil War fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylavania, in 1863.  At this battle, the defeat of General Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate army was a major victory for the Union, and is considered by many a turning point in the war, after which victory by the Confederacy was no longer thought possible; as, many thousands died at Gettysburg.  See also Gettysburg Address.

Syn. -- battle of Gettysburg.


word: Gettysburg Address
definition:
Gettysburg Address

Gettysburg Address
prop. n.
The popular name of a speech given by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA, as part of a ceremony to dedicate a portion of that battlefield as a cemetary for soldiers who died fighting there.  See note below.

&hand_; Lincoln's Gettysburg Address,

Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation:  conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.  We are met on a great battlefield of that war.  We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.  It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we cannot hallow -- this ground.  The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.  The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.  It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.  It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from this earth.


word: get-up
definition:
get-up

getup

get"up, get"-up
(?)
n.
1.
General composition or structure; manner in which the parts of a thing are combined; arrangement; format; make-up; style of dress, etc.
[Colloq.]
H. Kingsley.

2.
Specifically:
A set of clothing (with accessories); as, what are you doing in that getup?; -- often used with implied disapproval or scorn.
[informal]
[wns=1]

Syn. -- outfit, rig.


word: get-up-and-go
definition:
get-up-and-go

get-up-and-go
n.
a character trait manifested in a readiness and ability to initiate action; an enterprising and energetic spirit; a go-getting attitude.

Syn. -- energy; drive; enterprise; initiative.


word: Geum
definition:
Geum

Geum
n.
(Bot.)
A genus of plants of the rose family comprising the avens.

Syn. -- genus Geum.


word: Geusdism
definition:
Geusdism

Geusd"ism
(gĕd"ĭz'm)
prop. n.
The Marxian socialism and programme of reform through revolution as advocated by the French political leader Jules Basile Guesde (pron. gĕd) (1845- ).
Guesd"ist (#), n. & a.


word: Gewgaw
definition:
Gewgaw

Gew"gaw
(?)
n.
[OE. gigawe, gugawe, gewgaude, prob. the same word as OE. givegove gewgaw, apparently a reduplicated form fr. AS. gifan to give; cf. also F. joujou plaything, and E. gaud, n. See Give, and cf. Giffgaff.]
A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble.

Syn. -- knicknack; bauble; tschotschke.

A heavy gewgaw called a crown.
Dryden.


word: Geyser
definition:
Geyser

Gey"ser
(?)
n.
[Icel. geysir, fr. geysa to rush furiously, fr. gj&omacrsa to gush.  Cf. Gush.]
A boiling spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud, etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam.

&hand_; Geysers were first known in Iceland, and later in New Zealand. In the Yellowstone region in the United States they are numerous, and some of them very powerful, throwing jets of boiling water and steam to a height of 200 feet. They are grouped in several areas called geyser basins. The mineral matter, or geyserite, with which geyser water is charged, forms geyser cones about the orifice, often of great size and beauty.


word: Geyserite
definition:
Geyserite

Gey"ser*ite
(gī"zẽr*īt or  gī"sẽr*īt; 277)
n.
[From Geyser.]
(Min.)
A loose hydrated form of silica, a variety of opal, deposited in concretionary cauliflowerlike masses, around some hot springs and geysers.


word: Ghana
definition:
Ghana

Gha"na
(gä"nȧ)
prop. n.
A country in Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Cote d'Ivoire and Togo, with Burkina Faso bordering on the north, with a population of 17,698,271 (July 1996 est), and a total area of 238,540 sq km.  The government is a constitutional democracy, and the capital city is Accra.

   It has a tropical climate, being warm and comparatively dry along the southeast coast, hot and humid in southwest and hot and dry in the north.  Its terrain is mostly low plains with a dissected plateau in the south-central area.
    The official language is English, and several African languages are spoken, including Akan, Moshi-Dagomba, Ewe, and Ga.  The population is comprised 99.8% of black Africans and 0.2% European and other nationalities.  The major tribes are:  Akan 44%, Moshi-Dagomba 16%, Ewe 13%, and Ga 8%.   The religious composition is 38% indigenous beliefs, 30% Muslim, 24% Christian and 8% others.
   The unit of currency is the new cedi; 1 new cedi (C) = 100 pesewas.  The exchange rates for the cedi were: new cedis per US$1 - 1,246.11 (September 1995), 956.71 (1994), 649.06 (1993), 437.09 (1992), 367.83 (1991).
   Navigable waterways include the Volta, Ankobra, and Tano Rivers, providing 168 km of perennial navigation for launches and lighters.
CIA Factbook 1996


word: Ghanaian
definition:
Ghanaian

Ghanaian
adj.
1.
of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Ghana; as, Ghanaian writers.


Syn. -- Ghanian, Ghanese.

2.
of or pertaining to Ghana.
Ghanaian cocoa production

Syn. -- Ghanese, Ghanian.


word: Ghast
definition:
Ghast

Ghast
(?)
v. t.
[OE. gasten. See Ghastly, a.]
To strike aghast; to affright.
[Obs.]

Ghasted by the noise I made.
Full suddenly he fled.
Shak.


word: Ghastful
definition:
Ghastful

Ghast"ful
(?)
a.
[See Ghastly, a.]
Fit to make one aghast; dismal.
[Obs.]
Ghast"ful*ly, adv.


word: Ghastly
definition:
Ghastly

Ghast"ly
(?)
a.
[Compar. Ghastlier (?); superl. Ghastliest.]
[OE. gastlich, gastli, fearful, causing fear, fr. gasten to terrify, AS. gæstan.  Cf. Aghast, Gast, Gaze, Ghostly.]
1.
Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal.

Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.
Coleridge.

His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized.
Macaulay.

2.
Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.

Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.
Milton.


word: Ghastly₂
definition:
Ghastly

Ghast"ly
adv.
In a ghastly manner; hideously.

Staring full ghastly like a strangled man.
Shak.


word: Ghaut
definition:
Ghaut

Ghat

{ &VerbarGhat Ghaut }
(?)
n.
[Hind. ghāt.]

1.
A pass through a mountain.
[India]
J. D. Hooker.

2.
A range of mountains.
Balfour (Cyc. of Ind. ).

3.
Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf.
[India]
Malcom.


word: Ghawazi
definition:
Ghawazi

Gha*wa"zi
(?)
n. pl.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
Egyptian dancing girls, of a lower sort than the almeh.


word: Ghazel
definition:
Ghazel

Ghazal

{ &VerbarGhaz"al (?), &VerbarGhaz"el (?) }
n.
[Ar. ghazal.]
A kind of Oriental lyric, and usually erotic, poetry, written in recurring rhymes.


word: Ghazi
definition:
Ghazi

Gha"zi
(?)
n.
[Ar. ghāzī.]
Among Muslims, a warrior champion or veteran, esp. in the destruction of infidels.


word: Ghebre
definition:
Ghebre

Gheber

{ Ghe"ber, Ghe"bre }
(?)
n.
[Pers. ghebr: cf. F. Guèbre.  Cf. Giaour.]
A worshiper of fire; a Zoroastrian; a Parsee.


word: Ghee
definition:
Ghee

Ghee
(gē)
n.
[Hind. ghī clarified butter, Skr. gh&rsdot_;ta.]
Butter clarified by boiling, and thus converted into a kind of oil.
[India]
Malcom.


word: Gherkin
definition:
Gherkin

Gher"kin
(gẽr"kĭn)
n.
[D. agurkje, a dim. akin to G. gurke, Dan. agurke; cf. Pol. ogórek, Bohem. okurka, LGr. 'aggoy`rion watermelon, Ar. al-khiyār, Per. khiyār.]

1.
(Bot.)
A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles.

2.
(Zool.)
See Sea gherkin.


word: Ghetto
definition:
Ghetto

Ghet"to
(?)
n.
[It.]
A quarter of a city where Jews live in greatest numbers.

I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell.
Evelyn.

2.
By extension:
Any section of a town inhabited predominantly by members of a specific ethnic, national or racial group, such segregation usually arising from social or economic pressure.  The term is commonly applied to areas in cities having a high concentration of low-income African-Americans.

3.
[fig.]
Any isolated group of people.

4.
[fig.]
Any group isolated by external pressures, with an implication of inferiority.


word: ghetto blaster
definition:
ghetto blaster

ghetto blaster
n.
[from their popularity with negro inner-city (ghetto) youth]
A portable casette or compact disk player, usually having an integrated radio receiver.  It typically has two (stereophonic) speakers, and can be adjusted to play at a high sound intensity, from which the name comes.

Syn. -- boom box.


word: Ghettoize
definition:
Ghettoize

Ghet"to*ize
(?)
v. t.
to form into a ghetto; to isolate (people) as though into a ghetto.


word: Ghibelline
definition:
Ghibelline

Ghib"el*line
(?)
n.
[It. Ghibellino; of German origin.]
(It. Hist.)
One of a faction in Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses.
Brande & C.


word: Ghost
definition:
Ghost

Ghost
(g&omacrst)
n.
[OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. gāst breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. gēst spirit, soul, D. geest, G. geist, and prob. to E. gaze, ghastly.]

1.
The spirit; the soul of man.
[Obs.]

Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.
Spenser.

2.
The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose.
Shak.

I thought that I had died in sleep,
And was a blessed ghost.
Coleridge.

3.
Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.

Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Poe.

4.
A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

Ghost moth (Zool.), a large European moth (Hepialus humuli); so called from the white color of the male, and the peculiar hovering flight; -- called also great swift. -- Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; (Theol.) the third person in the Trinity. -- To give up the ghost or To yield up the ghost, to die; to expire.

And he gave up the ghost full softly.
Chaucer.

Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people
Gen. xlix. 33.


word: Ghost dance
definition:
Ghost dance

Ghost dance
A religious dance of the North American Indians, participated in by both sexes, and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is, through trance and vision, to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends. The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost-dance, or Messiah, religion, which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka, the Indian Messiah, who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race, the dead with the living, should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth. The religion inculcates peace, righteousness, and work, and holds that in good time, without warlike intervention, the oppressive white rule will be removed by the higher powers. The religion spread through a majority of the western tribes of the United States, only in the case of the Sioux, owing to local causes, leading to an outbreak.


word: Ghostly
definition:
Ghostly

Ghost"ly
a.
[OE. gastlich, gostlich, AS. gāstlic. See Ghost.]
1.
Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor.

Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies.
Book of Common Prayer [Ch. of Eng. ]

One of the gostly children of St. Jerome.
Jer. Taylor.

2.
Of or pertaining to apparitions.
Akenside.


word: Ghostology
definition:
Ghostology

Ghost*ol"o*gy
(?)
n.
Ghost lore.
[R.]

It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft.
Hawthorne.


word: ghost-write
definition:
ghost-write

ghostwrite

ghost"write`, ghost"-write`
v. t.
To write (a book, article, speech, etc.) for someone else; -- the written material appears under the name of the person for whom it was written.

Syn. -- ghost.


word: ghost-writer
definition:
ghost-writer

ghostwriter

ghost"writ`er, ghost"-writ`er
n.
One who ghost-writes (a book, article, etc.) for someone else.


word: Ghoul
definition:
Ghoul

Ghoul
(gōl)
n.
[Per. gh&omacrl an imaginary sylvan demon, supposed to devour men and animals: cf. Ar. ghūl, F. goule.]
An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies.
[Written also ghole .]
Moore.


word: Giallolino
definition:
Giallolino

Gial`lo*li"no
(?)
n.
[It., from giallo yellow, prob. fr. OHG. gelo, G. gelb; akin to E. yellow.]
A term variously employed by early writers on art, though commonly designating the yellow oxide of lead, or massicot.
Fairholt.


word: Giambeux
definition:
Giambeux

Giam"beux
(zhȧm"b&usdot_;)
n. pl.
[See Jambeux.]
Greaves; armor for the legs.
[Obs.]
Spenser.


word: Giant
definition:
Giant

Gi"ant
(?)
n.
[OE. giant, geant, geaunt, OF. jaiant, geant, F. géant, L. gigas, fr. Gr. _;, _;, from the root of E. gender, genesis. See Gender, and cf. Gigantic.]

1.
A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.

Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise.
Milton.

2.
A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

3.
Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.

Giant's Causeway, a vast collection of basaltic pillars, in the county of Antrim on the northern coast of Ireland.


word: Giant₂
definition:
Giant

Gi"ant
a.
Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.

Giant cell. (Anat.) See Myeloplax. -- Giant clam (Zool.), a bivalve shell of the genus Tridacna, esp. T. gigas, which sometimes weighs 500 pounds. The shells are sometimes used in churches to contain holy water. -- Giant heron (Zool.), a very large African heron (Ardeomega goliath). It is the largest heron known. -- Giant kettle, a pothole of very large dimensions, as found in Norway in connection with glaciers. See Pothole. -- Giant powder. See Nitroglycerin. -- Giant puffball (Bot.), a fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum), edible when young, and when dried used for stanching wounds. -- Giant salamander (Zool.), a very large aquatic salamander (Megalobatrachus maximus), found in Japan. It is the largest of living Amphibia, becoming a yard long. -- Giant squid (Zool.), one of several species of very large squids, belonging to Architeuthis and allied genera. Some are over forty feet long.


word: Giantship
definition:
Giantship

Gi"ant*ship
n.
The state, personality, or character, of a giant; -- a compellation for a giant.

His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen
Milton.


word: Giaour
definition:
Giaour

Giaour
(?)
n.
[Turk. giaur an infidel, Per. gawr, another form of ghebr fire worshiper.  Cf. Kaffir, Gheber .]
An infidel; -- a term applied by Turks to disbelievers in the Muslim religion, especially Christians.
Byron.


word: Gib
definition:
Gib

Gib
(?)
n.
[Abbreviated fr. Gilbert, the name of the cat in the old story of “Reynard the Fox”, in the “Romaunt of the Rose”, etc.]
A male cat; a tomcat.
[Obs.]


word: Gib₃
definition:
Gib

Gib
(?)
n.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
A piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them together, or to afford a bearing surface; -- usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw.

Gib and key, or Gib and cotter (Steam Engine), the fixed wedge or gib, and the driving wedge,key, or cotter, used for tightening the strap which holds the brasses at the end of a connecting rod.


word: Gib₄
definition:
Gib

Gib
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gibbed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gibbing.]
To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs.

Gibbed lathe, an engine lathe in which the tool carriage is held down to the bed by a gib instead of by a weight.


word: Gibaro
definition:
Gibaro

Gi"ba*ro
(?)
n.
pl. Gibaros (#)
[Amer. Sp. jíbaro wild.]
(Ethnol.)
The offspring of a Spaniard and an Indian; a Spanish-Indian mestizo.
[Sp. Amer.]


word: Gibbartas
definition:
Gibbartas

Gib*bar"tas
(?)
n.
[Cf. Ar. jebbār giant; or L. gibber humpbacked: cf. F. gibbar.]
(Zool.)
One of several finback whales of the North Atlantic; -- called also Jupiter whale.
[Written also jubartas, gubertas, dubertus.]


word: gibber
definition:
gibber

gib"ber
(gĭb"bẽr)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. gibbered (gĭb"bẽrd); p. pr. & vb. n. gibbering.]
[Akin to jabber, and gabble.]
To speak rapidly and inarticulately.
Shak.

Syn. -- jabber.


word: gibberellic acid
definition:
gibberellic acid

gibberellic acid
n.
(Chem.)
A plant growth hormone of the gibberellin series (C19H22O6), also called gibberellin A3.  It was first isolated from the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi.  It is used to promote the growth of seedlings.  See also gibberellin.
MI11


word: gibberellin
definition:
gibberellin

gibberellin
n.
(Chem.)
Any of a number plant growth hormones, the first of which was isolated in 1938 from the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi; more than 60 related gibberelins are known.  The most important is gibberellin A3, also called gibberellic acid.  They are used in agriculture for promoting plant growth.


word: gibberish
definition:
gibberish

gib"ber*ish
(jĭb"bẽr*ĭsh or  gĭb"bẽr*ĭsh)
n.
[From Gibber, v. i.]
1.
Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words.

He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go;
All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to know.
Drayton.

Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with.
Hawthorne.

2.
Incomprehensible, obscure, or pretentious technical talk or writing; excessively obscure jargon.


word: Gibbet
definition:
Gibbet

Gib"bet
(?)
n.
[OE. gibet, F. gibet, in OF. also club, fr. LL. gibetum;; cf. OF. gibe sort of sickle or hook, It. giubbetto gibbet, and giubbetta, dim. of giubba mane, also, an under waistcoat, doublet, Prov. It. gibba (cf. Jupon); so that it perhaps originally signified a halter, a rope round the neck of malefactors; or it is, perhaps, derived fr. L. gibbus hunched, humped, E. gibbous; or cf. E. jib a sail.]

1.
A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain as a warning.

2.
The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.


word: Gibbet₂
definition:
Gibbet

Gib"bet
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Gibbeted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gibbeting.]

1.
To hang and expose on a gibbet.

2.
To expose to infamy; to blacken.

I'll gibbet up his name.
Oldham.


word: Gibbon
definition:
Gibbon

Gib"bon
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. gibbon.]
(Zool.)
Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing.
&hand_; The white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar), the crowned (H. pilatus), the wou-wou or singing gibbon (H. agilis), the siamang, and the hoolock. are the most common species.


word: Gibbose
definition:
Gibbose

Gib*bose"
(?)
a.
[L. gibbosus, fr. gibbus, gibba, hunch, hump.  Cf. Gibbous.]
Humped; protuberant; -- said of a surface which presents one or more large elevations.
Brande & C.


word: Gibbostity
definition:
Gibbostity

Gib*bost"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. gibbosité.]
The state of being gibbous or gibbose; gibbousness.


word: Gibbous
definition:
Gibbous

Gib"bous
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. gibbeux. See Gibbose.]

1.
Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon.

The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member.
Wiseman.

2.
Hunched; hump-backed.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


