Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 32

Golore (n.) See Galore.

Goloshe (n.) See Galoche.

Goltschut (n.) A small ingot of gold.

Goltschut (n.) A silver ingot, used in Japan as money.

Golyardeys (n.) A buffoon. See Gollard.

Goman (n.) A husband; a master of a family.

Gomarist (n.) Alt. of Gomarite

Gomarite (n.) One of the followers of Francis Gomar or Gomarus, a Dutch disciple of Calvin in the 17th century, who strongly opposed the Arminians.

Gombo (n.) See Gumbo.

Gome (n.) A man.

Gome (n.) The black grease on the axle of a cart or wagon wheel; -- called also gorm. See Gorm.

Gomer (n.) A Hebrew measure. See Homer.

Gomer (n.) A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars; -- named after the inventor.

Gommelin (n.) See Dextrin.

Gomphiasis (n.) A disease of the teeth, which causes them to loosen and fall out of their sockets.

Gomphosis (n.) A form of union or immovable articulation where a hard part is received into the cavity of a bone, as the teeth into the jaws.

Gomuti (n.) A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two kinds of palms, Metroxylon Sagu, and Arenga saccharifera, of the Indian islands. It is used for making cordage. Called also ejoo.

Gon () imp. & p. p. of Go.

Gonads (pl. ) of Gonad

Gonad (n.) One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland.

Gonakie (n.) An African timber tree (Acacia Adansonii).

Gonangia (pl. ) of Gonangium

Gonangiums (pl. ) of Gonangium

Gonangium (n.) See Gonotheca.

Gondola (n.) A long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, used in the canals of Venice. A gondola is usually propelled by one or two oarsmen who stand facing the prow, or by poling. A gondola for passengers has a small open cabin amidships, for their protection against the sun or rain. A sumptuary law of Venice required that gondolas should be painted black, and they are customarily so painted now.

Gondola (n.) A flat-bottomed boat for freight.

Gondola (n.) A long platform car, either having no sides or with very low sides, used on railroads.

Gondolet (n.) A small gondola.

Gondolier (n.) A man who rows a gondola.

Gone () p. p. of Go.

Goneness (n.) A state of exhaustion; faintness, especially as resulting from hunger.

Gonfalon (n.) Alt. of Gonfanon

Gonfanon (n.) The ensign or standard in use by certain princes or states, such as the mediaeval republics of Italy, and in more recent times by the pope.

Gonfanon (n.) A name popularly given to any flag which hangs from a crosspiece or frame instead of from the staff or the mast itself.

Gonfalonier (n.) He who bears the gonfalon; a standard bearer

Gonfalonier (n.) An officer at Rome who bears the standard of the Church.

Gonfalonier (n.) The chief magistrate of any one of several republics in mediaeveal Italy.

Gonfalonier (n.) A Turkish general, and standard keeper.

Gong (n.) A privy or jakes.

Gong (n.) An instrument, first used in the East, made of an alloy of copper and tin, shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise.

Gong (n.) A flat saucerlike bell, rung by striking it with a small hammer which is connected with it by various mechanical devices; a stationary bell, used to sound calls or alarms; -- called also gong bell.

Goniatite (n.) One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the latest, in the Triassic.

Gonidial (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia.

Gonidial (a.) Of or pertaining to the angles of the mouth; as, a gonidial groove of an actinian.

Gonidium (n.) A special groove or furrow at one or both angles of the mouth of many Anthozoa.

Gonidia (pl. ) of Gonidium

Gonidium (n.) A component cell of the yellowish green layer in certain lichens.

Gonimia (n. pl.) Bluish green granules which occur in certain lichens, as Collema, Peltigera, etc., and which replace the more usual gonidia.

Gonimous (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells.

Goniometer (n.) An instrument for measuring angles, especially the angles of crystals, or the inclination of planes.

Goniometric (a.) Alt. of Goniometrical

Goniometrical (a.) Pertaining to, or determined by means of, a goniometer; trigonometric.

Goniometry (n.) The art of measuring angles; trigonometry.

Gonoblastid (n.) A reproductive bud of a hydroid; a simple gonophore.

Gonoblastidia (pl. ) of Gonoblastidium

Gonoblastidium (n.) A blastostyle.

Gonocalyx (n.) The bell of a sessile gonozooid.

Gonochorism (n.) Separation of the sexes in different individuals; -- opposed to hermaphroditism.

Gonochorism (n.) In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs.

Gonochorism (n.) In phylogeny, the evolution of distinct sexes in species previously hermaphrodite or sexless.

Gonococcus (n.) A vegetable microorganism of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea. It is believed by some to constitute the cause of this disease.

Gonoph (n.) A pickpocket or thief.

Gonophore (n.) A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome.

Gonophore (n.) A lengthened receptacle, bearing the stamens and carpels in a conspicuous manner.

Gonorrhea (n.) Alt. of Gonorrhoea

Gonorrhoea (n.) A contagious inflammatory disease of the genitourinary tract, affecting especially the urethra and vagina, and characterized by a mucopurulent discharge, pain in urination, and chordee; clap.

Gonorrheal (a.) Alt. of Gonorrhoeal

Gonorrhoeal (a.) Of or pertaining to gonorrhea; as, gonorrheal rheumatism.

Gonosome (n.) The reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively.

Gonothec/ (pl. ) of Gonotheca

Gonotheca (n.) A capsule developed on certain hydroids (Thecaphora), inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; -- called also gonangium, and teleophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.

Gonozooid (n.) A sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a gonophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.

Gonydial (a.) Pertaining to the gonys of a bird's beak.

Gonys (n.) The keel or lower outline of a bird's bill, so far as the mandibular rami are united.

Goober (n.) A peanut.

Good (superl.) Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; admirable; commendable; not bad, corrupt, evil, noxious, offensive, or troublesome, etc.

Good (superl.) Possessing moral excellence or virtue; virtuous; pious; religious; -- said of persons or actions.

Good (superl.) Kind; benevolent; humane; merciful; gracious; polite; propitious; friendly; well-disposed; -- often followed by to or toward, also formerly by unto.

Good (superl.) Serviceable; suited; adapted; suitable; of use; to be relied upon; -- followed especially by for.

Good (superl.) Clever; skillful; dexterous; ready; handy; -- followed especially by at.

Good (superl.) Adequate; sufficient; competent; sound; not fallacious; valid; in a commercial sense, to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; having pecuniary ability; of unimpaired credit.

Good (superl.) Real; actual; serious; as in the phrases in good earnest; in good sooth.

Good (superl.) Not small, insignificant, or of no account; considerable; esp., in the phrases a good deal, a good way, a good degree, a good share or part, etc.

Good (superl.) Not lacking or deficient; full; complete.

Good (superl.) Not blemished or impeached; fair; honorable; unsullied; as in the phrases a good name, a good report, good repute, etc.

Good (n.) That which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.; -- opposed to evil.

Good (n.) Advancement of interest or happiness; welfare; prosperity; advantage; benefit; -- opposed to harm, etc.

Good (n.) Wares; commodities; chattels; -- formerly used in the singular in a collective sense. In law, a comprehensive name for almost all personal property as distinguished from land or real property.

Good (adv.) Well, -- especially in the phrase as good, with a following as expressed or implied; equally well with as much advantage or as little harm as possible.

Good (v. t.) To make good; to turn to good.

Good (v. t.) To manure; to improve.

Good-by (n. / interj.) Alt. of Good-bye

Good-bye (n. / interj.) Farewell; a form of address used at parting. See the last Note under By, prep.

Good-den (interj.) A form of salutation.

Good-fellowship (n.) Agreeable companionship; companionableness.

Goodgeon (n.) Same as Gudgeon, 5.

Good-humored (a.) Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good-natured.

Good-humoredly (adv.) With a cheerful spirit; in a cheerful or good-tempered manner.

Goodish (a.) Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.

Goodless (a.) Having no goods.

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