Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 33

Goodlich (a.) Goodly.

Goodliness (n.) Beauty of form; grace; elegance; comeliness.

Good-looking (a.) Handsome.

Goodly (adv.) Excellently.

Goodly (superl.) Pleasant; agreeable; desirable.

Goodly (superl.) Of pleasing appearance or character; comely; graceful; as, a goodly person; goodly raiment, houses.

Goodly (superl.) Large; considerable; portly; as, a goodly number.

Goodlyhead (n.) Alt. of Goodlyhood

Goodlyhood (n.) Goodness; grace; goodliness.

Goodman (n.) A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to "My friend", "Good sir", "Mister;" -- sometimes used ironically.

Goodman (n.) A husband; the master of a house or family; -- often used in speaking familiarly.

Good-natured (a.) Naturally mild in temper; not easily provoked.

Good-naturedly (adv.) With maldness of temper.

Goodness (n.) The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of disposition, of conduct, etc.

Good now () An exclamation of wonder, surprise, or entreaty.

Goods (n. pl.) See Good, n., 3.

Goodship (n.) Favor; grace.

Good-tempered (a.) Having a good temper; not easily vexed. See Good-natured.

Goodwife (n.) The mistress of a house.

Goodies (pl. ) of Goody

Goody (n.) A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl.

Goody (n.) An American fish; the lafayette or spot.

Goodies (pl. ) of Goody

Goody (n.) Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.

Gode-year (n.) The venereal disease; -- often used as a mild oath.

Goody-goody (a.) Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness.

Goodyship (n.) The state or quality of a goody or goodwife

Gooroo (n.) Alt. of Guru

Guru (n.) A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor amoung the Hindoos.

Goosander (n.) A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser.

Geese (pl. ) of Goose

Goose (n.) Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.

Goose (n.) Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.

Goose (n.) A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.

Goose (n.) A silly creature; a simpleton.

Goose (n.) A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.

Gooseberries (pl. ) of Gooseberry

Gooseberry (a.) Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated.

Gooseberry (a.) A silly person; a goose cap.

Goosefish (n.) See Angler.

Goosefoot (n.) A genus of herbs (Chenopodium) mostly annual weeds; pigweed.

Gooseries (pl. ) of Goosery

Goosery (n.) A place for keeping geese.

Goosery (n.) The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness.

Goosewing (n.) One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.

Goosewinged (a.) Having a "goosewing."

Goosewinged (a.) Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.

Goosish (a.) Like a goose; foolish.

Goost (n.) Ghost; spirit.

Goot (n.) A goat.

Go-out (n.) A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out.

Gopher (n.) One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidae; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.

Gopher (n.) One of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridae; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile.

Gopher (n.) A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows.

Gopher (n.) A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States.

Gopher wood () A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark.

Goracco (n.) A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in hookahs in Western India.

Goral (n.) An Indian goat antelope (Nemorhedus goral), resembling the chamois.

Goramy (n.) Same as Gourami.

Gor-bellied (a.) Bog-bellied.

Gor-belly (n.) A prominent belly; a big-bellied person.

Gorce (n.) A pool of water to keep fish in; a wear.

Gorcock (n.) The moor cock, or red grouse. See Grouse.

Gorcrow (n.) The carrion crow; -- called also gercrow.

Gord (n.) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.

Gordiacea (n. pl.) A division of nematoid worms, including the hairworms or hair eels (Gordius and Mermis). See Gordius, and Illustration in Appendix.

Gordian (a.) Pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia, or to a knot tied by him; hence, intricate; complicated; inextricable.

Gordian (a.) Pertaining to the Gordiacea.

Gordian (n.) One of the Gordiacea.

Gordius (n.) A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in which they deposit their eggs; -- called also hair eel, hairworm, and hair snake, from the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs.

Gore (n.) Dirt; mud.

Gore (n.) Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted.

Gore (v.) A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.

Gore (v.) A small traingular piece of land.

Gore (v.) One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.

Gored (imp. & p. p.) of Gore

Goring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gore

Gore (v. t.) To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab.

Gore (v. t.) To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.

Gorebill (n.) The garfish.

Gorflies (pl. ) of Gorfly

Gorfly (n.) A dung fly.

Gorge (n.) The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

Gorge (n.) A narrow passage or entrance

Gorge (n.) A defile between mountains.

Gorge (n.) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.

Gorge (n.) That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.

Gorge (n.) A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.

Gorge (n.) A concave molding; a cavetto.

Gorge (n.) The groove of a pulley.

Gorged (imp. & p. p.) of Gorge

Gorging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gorge

Gorge (n.) To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

Gorge (n.) To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.

Gorge (v. i.) To eat greedily and to satiety.

Gorged (a.) Having a gorge or throat.

Gorged (a.) Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck.

Gorged (a.) Glutted; fed to the full.

Gorgelet (n.) A small gorget, as of a humming bird.

Gorgeous (n.) Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent.

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