| G: | G is the seventh letter of the English alphabet and a vocal consonant It has two sounds one simple as in gave go gull the other compound like that of j as in gem gin dingy See Guide to Pronunciation sectsect 2316 155 176 178 179 196 211 246 |
| Gab: | The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap See Illust of Eccentric |
| Gab: | The mouth hence idle prate chatter unmeaning talk loquaciousness |
| Gab: | To deceive to lie |
| Gabarage: | A kind of coarse cloth for packing goods |
| Gabardine: | A coarse frock or loose upper garment formerly worn by Jews a mean dress |
| Gabber: | A liar a deceiver |
| Gabble: | To talk fast or to talk without meaning to prate to jabber |
| Gabble: | Loud or rapid talk without meaning |
| Gabbler: | One who gabbles a prater |
| Gabbro: | A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine later to the rock called euphotide and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene diallage and labradorite with sometimes chrysolite olivine gabbro |
| Gabel: | A rent service tribute custom tax impost or duty an excise |
| Gabeler: | A collector of gabels or taxes |
| dGabelle: | A tax especially on salt |
| Gabelleman: | A gabeler |
| Gaberdine: | See Gabardine |
| Gaberlunzie: | A beggar with a wallet a licensed beggar |
| Gabert: | A lighter or vessel for inland navigation |
| Gabion: | 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 enemys fire |
| Gabionade: | A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks protecting them from enfilading fire |
| Gabionage: | The part of a fortification built of gabions |
| Gabioned: | Furnished with gabions |
| dGabionnade: | See Gabionade |
| Gable: | A cable |
| Gable: | 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 |
| gabled: | furnished or constructed with a gable of a house or roof as a gabled roof Opposite of ungabled |
| Gablet: | A small gable or gableshaped canopy formed over a tabernacle niche etc |
| Gablock: | A false spur or gaff fitted on the heel of a gamecock |
| Gabonese: | of or relating to Gabon or its inhabitants as Gabonese hills Gabonese writers |
| Gabonese: | a native or inhabitant of Gabon |
| Gaby: | A simpleton a dunce a lout |
| Gad: | The point of a spear or an arrowhead |
| Gad: | To walk about to rove or go about without purpose hence to run wild to be uncontrolled |
| Gadabout: | A gadder |
| Gadbee: | The gadfly |
| Gadder: | One who roves about idly a rambling gossip |
| Gadding: | Going about much needlessly or without purpose |
| Gaddingly: | In a roving idle manner |
| Gaddish: | Disposed to gad |
| Gade: | A small British fish Motella argenteola of the Cod family |
| Gadere: | To gather |
| Gadfly: | Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus and allied genera of botflies |
| Gadhelic: | Of belonging to or designating that division of the Celtic languages which includes the Irish Gaelic and Manx |
| Gadic: | Pertaining to or derived from the cod Gadus applied to an acid obtained from codliver oil viz gadic acid |
| Gaditanian: | Of or relating to Cadiz in Spain |
| Gadling: | See Gad n 4 |
| Gadling: | Gadding about |
| Gadling: | A roving vagabond |
| Gadman: | A gadsman |
| Gadoid: | Of or pertaining to the family of fishes Gadid which includes the cod haddock and hake |
| Gadolinia: | A rare earth associated with yttria and regarded as the oxide Gd2O3 of a metallic element gadolinium |
| Gadolinic: | Pertaining to or containing gadolinium |
| Gadolinite: | A mineral of a nearly black color and vitreous luster and consisting principally of the silicates of yttrium cerium and iron |
| Gadolinium: | 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 15725 C12011 and a valence of 3 |
| Gadsman: | One who uses a gad or goad in driving |
| Gaduin: | A yellow or brown amorphous substance of indifferent nature found in codliver oil |
| Gadwall: | A large duck Anas strepera valued as a game bird found in the northern parts of Europe and America called also gray duck |
| Gaea: | The goddess of the earth considered as a personification of the earth According to Hesiod she was the firstborn of Chaos and mother of Uranus Pontus Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology |
| Gaekwar: | The title of the ruling Prince of Baroda in Gujarat in Bombay India |
| Gael: | A Celt or the Celts of the Scotch Highlands or of Ireland now esp a Scotch Highlander of Celtic origin |
| Gaelic: | Of or pertaining to the Gael esp to the Celtic Highlanders of Scotland as the Gaelic language |
| Gaelic: | The language of the Gaels esp of the Highlanders of Scotland It is a branch of the Celtic |
| Gaff: | A barbed spear or a hook with a handle used by fishermen in securing heavy fish |
| Gaff: | To strike with a gaff or barbed spear to secure by means of a gaff as to gaff a salmon |
| gaffe: | A socially awkward or tactless act |
| Gaffer: | An old fellow an aged rustic |
| Gaffle: | An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks |
| Gafftopsail: | A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast |
| Gag: | To stop the mouth of by thrusting sometimes in so as to hinder speaking hence to silence by authority or by violence not to allow freedom of speech to |
| Gag: | To heave with nausea to retch |
| Gag: | Something thrust into the mouth or throat to hinder speaking |
| gaga: | mentally or physically infirm with age |
| Gagate: | Agate |
| Gage: | A pledge or pawn something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it and forfeited by nonperformance security |
| Gage: | 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 |
| Gage: | To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act to wage or wager to pawn or pledge |
| Gage: | A measure or standard See Gauge n |
| Gage: | To measure See Gauge v t |
| Gager: | A measurer See Gauger |
| Gagger: | One who gags |
| Gaggle: | To make a noise like a goose to cackle |
| Gaggle: | A flock of wild geese especially when on the ground |
| Gaglaw: | A law or ruling prohibiting proper or free debate as in closure |
| gagtooth: | A projecting tooth |
| gagtoothed: | Having gagteeth |
| gahnite: | Zinc spinel automolite |
| Gaia: | Goddess of the earth same as Gaea |
| gaidic: | Pertaining to hypogeic acid applied to an acid obtained from hypogeic acid |
| gaiety: | Same as Gayety |
| Gailer: | A jailer |
| dGaillard: | Gay brisk merry galliard |
| dGailliarde: | A lively French and Italian dance |
| Gaily: | Merrily showily See gaily |
| Gain: | A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder binding joist or other timber which supports a floor beam so as to receive the end of the floor beam |
| Gain: | Convenient suitable direct near handy dexterous easy profitable cheap respectable |
| Gain: | That which is gained obtained or acquired as increase profit advantage or benefit opposed to loss |
| Gain: | To have or receive advantage or profit to acquire gain to grow rich to advance in interest health or happiness to make progress as the sick man gains daily |
| Gainable: | Capable of being obtained or reached |
| Gainage: | The horses oxen plows wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage |
| Gainer: | One who gains |
| Gainful: | Profitable advantageous lucrative |
| Gaingiving: | A misgiving |
| Gainless: | Not producing gain unprofitable |
| Gainly: | Handily readily dexterously advantageously |
| Gainpain: | Breadgainer a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier |
| Gainsay: | To contradict to deny to controvert to dispute to forbid |
| Gainsayer: | One who gainsays contradicts or denies |
| Gainsboroughhat: | A womans broadbrimmed hat of a form thought to resemble those shown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough the English artist 172788 |
| Gainsome: | Gainful |
| gainst: | A contraction of Against |
| Gainstand: | To withstand to resist |
| Gainstrive: | To strive or struggle against to withstand |
| Gairfowl: | See Garefowl |
| Gairish: | Same as Garish Garishly Garishness |
| Gait: | A going a walk a march a way |
| Gaited: | Having such a gait used in composition as slowgaited heavygaited |
| Gaiter: | A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep or for the whole leg from the knee to the instep fitting down upon the shoe |
| Gaiter: | To dress with gaiters |
| Gaitre: | The dogwood tree |
| Gala: | Pomp show or festivity |
| Galactagogue: | An agent exciting secretion of milk |
| Galactic: | Of or pertaining to milk got from milk as galactic acid |
| Galactin: | An amorphous gelatinous substance containing nitrogen found in milk and other animal fluids It resembles peptone and is variously regarded as a coagulating or emulsifying agent |
| Galactodensimeter: | Same as Galactometer |
| Galactometer: | An instrument for ascertaining the quality of milk ie its richness in cream by determining its specific gravity a lactometer |
| Galactophagist: | One who eats or subsists on milk |
| Galactophagous: | Feeding on milk |
| Galactophorous: | Milkcarrying lactiferous applied to the ducts of mammary glands |
| Galactopoietic: | Increasing the flow of milk milkproducing |
| Galactose: | A white crystalline sugar C6H12O6 isomeric with dextrose obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar and also from certain gums When oxidized it forms mucic acid Called also lactose though it is not lactose proper |
| Galage: | See Galoche |
| Galago: | A genus of African lemurs including numerous species |
| Galanga: | The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia Alpinia Galanga and Alpinia officinarum and of the Kmpferia Galanga all of the Ginger family |
| Galatea: | A kind of striped cotton fabric usually of superior quality and striped with blue or red on white |
| Galantine: | A dish of veal chickens or other white meat freed from bones tied up boiled and served cold |
| Galapeetree: | The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei a tree with very large digitate leaves |
| Galatian: | 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 |
| Galban: | 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 |
| dGalbe: | The general outward form of any solid object as of a column or a vase |
| Galbulidae: | A natural family of tropical American birds comprising the jacamars |
| Gale: | A strong current of air a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane The most violent gales are called tempests |
| Gale: | To sale or sail fast |
| Gale: | A song or story |
| Gale: | To sing |
| Gale: | A plant of the genus Myrica growing in wet places and strongly resembling the bayberry The sweet gale Myrica Gale is found both in Europe and in America |
| Gale: | The payment of a rent or annuity |
| dGalea: | The upper lip or helmetshaped part of a labiate flower |
| Galeas: | See Galleass |
| Galeate: | Wearing a helmet protected by a helmet covered as with a helmet |
| dGalei: | That division of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sharks |
| Galenic: | Pertaining to or containing galena |
| Galenic: | Relating to Galen or to his principles and method of treating diseases |
| Galenism: | The doctrines of Galen |
| Galenist: | A follower of Galen |
| Galenite: | Galena lead ore |
| dGaleopithecus: | A genus of flying Insectivora formerly called flying lemurs See Colugo |
| galere: | A group of people with some common characteristic especially a coterie of undesirable people |
| Galericulate: | Covered as with a hat or cap |
| Galerite: | A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus Galerites |
| Galician: | Of or pertaining to Galicia in Spain or to Galicia the kingdom of Austrian Poland |
| Galilean: | Of or pertaining to Galileo as the Galilean telescope See Telescope |
| Galilean: | Of or relating to Galilee |
| Galilean: | A native or inhabitant of Galilee the northern province of Palestine under the Romans |
| Galilee: | A porch or waiting room usually at the west end of an abbey church where the monks collected on returning from processions where bodies were laid previous to interment and where women were allowed to see the monks to whom they were related or to hear divine service Also frequently applied to the porch of a church as at Ely and Durham cathedrals |
| Galimatias: | Nonsense gibberish confused and unmeaning talk confused mixture |
| Galingale: | A plant of the Sedge family Cyperus longus having aromatic roots also any plant of the same genus |
| Galiot: | A small galley formerly used in the Mediterranean built mainly for speed It was moved both by sails and oars having one mast and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers |
| Galipot: | An impure resin of turpentine hardened on the outside of pine trees by the spontaneous evaporation of its essential oil When purified it is called yellow pitch white pitch or Burgundy pitch |
| Gall: | The bitter alkaline viscid fluid found in the gall bladder beneath the liver It consists of the secretion of the liver or bile mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder |
| Gall: | An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds The larvae live within the galls Some galls are due to aphids mites etc See Gallnut |
| Gall: | To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts |
| Gall: | To fret and wear away by friction to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing to chafe to injure the surface of by attrition as a saddle galls the back of a horse to gall a mast or a cable |
| Gall: | To scoff to jeer |
| Gall: | A wound in the skin made by rubbing |
| Gallant: | Polite and attentive to ladies courteous to women chivalrous |
| Gallant: | A man of mettle or spirit a gay fashionable man a young blood |
| Gallant: | To attend or wait on as a lady as to gallant ladies to the play |
| Gallantly: | In a polite or courtly manner like a gallant or wooer |
| Gallantly: | In a gallant manner |
| Gallantness: | The quality of being gallant |
| Gallantry: | Splendor of appearance ostentatious finery |
| Gallate: | A salt of gallic acid |
| Gallature: | The tread treadle or chalasa of an egg |
| Galleass: | A large galley having some features of the galleon as broadside guns esp such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries See Galleon and Galley |
| Gallegan: | A native or inhabitant of Galicia in Spain a Galician |
| Gallebn: | A red crystalline dyestuff obtained by heating together pyrogallic and phthalic acids |
| Galleon: | A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries often having three or four decks and used for war or commerce The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel |
| Galleot: | See Galiot |
| Gallery: | A long and narrow corridor or place for walking a connecting passageway as between one room and another also a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal |
| Galletyle: | A little tile of glazed earthenware |
| Galley: | A vessel propelled by oars whether having masts and sails or not |
| Galleybird: | The European green woodpecker called also the yaffle also the spotted woodpecker |
| Galleyworm: | A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus and allied genera having numerous short legs along the sides a milliped or bdthousand legsb8 See Chilognatha |
| Gallfly: | 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 |
| Galliambic: | Consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic the last of which lacks the final syllable said of a kind of verse |
| Gallian: | Gallic French |
| Galliard: | Gay brisk active |
| Galliard: | A brisk gay man |
| Galliard: | A gay lively dance Cf Gailliarde |
| Galliardise: | Excessive gayety merriment |
| Galliardness: | Gayety |
| Galliass: | Same as Galleass |
| Gallic: | Pertaining to or containing gallium |
| Gallic: | Pertaining to or derived from galls nutgalls and the like |
| Gallic: | Pertaining to Gaul or France Gallican |
| Gallican: | Of or pertaining to Gaul or France Gallic French as the Gallican church or clergy |
| Gallican: | An adherent to and supporter of Gallicanism |
| Gallicanism: | The principles tendencies or action of those within the Roman Catholic Church in France who esp in 1682 sought to restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church |
| Gallicism: | A mode of speech peculiar to the French a French idiom also in general a French mode or custom |
| Gallicize: | To conform to the French mode or idiom |
| Gallied: | Worried flurried frightened |
| Galliform: | Like the Gallinae or Galliformes in structure |
| Galligaskins: | Loose hose or breeches leather leg quards The word is used loosely and often in a jocose sense |
| dGallimatia: | Senseless talk Obs or R See Galimatias |
| Gallimaufry: | A hash of various kinds of meats a ragout |
| Gallin: | A substance obtained by the reduction of galle8bn |
| dGallinaceae: | Same as Gallinae |
| Gallinacean: | One of the Gallinae or gallinaceous birds |
| Gallinaceous: | Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants of or pertaining to the Gallinae |
| dGallinae: | An order of birds including the common domestic fowls pheasants grouse quails and allied forms sometimes called Rasores |
| Gallinago: | A genus of birds consisting of certain of the snipes |
| Galling: | Fitted to gall or chafe vexing harassing irritating |
| Gallinipper: | A large mosquito |
| Gallinule: | One of several wading birds having long webless toes and a frontal shield belonging to the family Rallidae They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio The common European gallinule Gallinula chloropus is also called moor hen water hen water rail moor coot night bird and erroneously dabchick Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule Gallinula galeata |
| Galliot: | See Galiot |
| Gallipolioil: | An inferior kind of olive oil brought from Gallipoli in Italy |
| Gallipot: | A glazed earthen pot or vessel used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines etc |
| Gallium: | 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 86f8 F 30f8 C Symbol Ga at wt 699 Gallium is chiefly trivalent resembling aluminium and indium It was predicted with most of its properties under the name ekaaluminium 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 |
| Gallivant: | To play the beau to wait upon the ladies also to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan |
| Gallivat: | A small armed vessel with sails and oars used on the Malabar coast |
| Galliwasp: | A West Indian lizard Celestus occiduus about a foot long imagined by the natives to be venomous |
| Gallize: | In wine making to add water and sugar to unfermented grape juice so as to increase the quantity of wine produced |
| Gallnut: | A round gall produced on the leaves and shoots of various species of the oak tree See Gall and Nutgall |
| galloftheearth: | 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 lions foot in shape sometimes placed in the genus Prenanthes |
| Gallomania: | An excessive admiration of what is French |
| Gallon: | A measure of capacity containing four quarts used for the most part in liquid measure but sometimes in dry measure |
| Galloon: | A narrow tapelike fabric used for binding hats shoes etc sometimes made ornamental |
| Gallooned: | Furnished or adorned with galloon |
| Gallop: | To move or run in the mode called a gallop as a horse to go at a gallop to run or move with speed |
| Gallop: | To cause to gallop |
| Gallop: | A mode of running by a quadruped particularly by a horse by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet in successive leaps or bounds |
| Gallopade: | I horsemanship a sidelong or curveting kind of gallop |
| Gallopade: | To gallop as on horseback |
| Galloper: | One who or that which gallops |
| Gallopin: | An under servant for the kitchen a scullion a cooks errand boy |
| Galloping: | Going at a gallop progressing rapidly as a galloping horse |
| Gallotannic: | Pertaining to the tannin or nutgalls |
| Gallow: | To fright or terrify See Gally v t |
| Galloway: | A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway Scotland called also garran and garron |
| Gallowglass: | A heavyarmed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward |
| Gallows: | 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 |
| gallowstree: | same as gallows |
| Gallstone: | A concretion or calculus formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages See Calculus n 1 |
| Gally: | To frighten to worry |
| Gally: | Like gall bitter as gall |
| Gally: | See Galley n 4 |
| Gallygaskins: | See Galligaskins |
| Galoche: | A clog or patten |
| Galoot: | A noisy swaggering or worthless fellow a rowdy |
| Galop: | A kind of lively dance in 24 time also the music to the dance |
| Galore: | Plenty abundance in abundance |
| Galosh: | Same as Galoche Galoshe |
| Galoshe: | Same as Galoche |
| Galpe: | To gape to yawn |
| Galsome: | Angry malignant |
| Galt: | Same as Gault |
| Galvanic: | Of or pertaining to or exhibiting the phenomena of galvanism employing or producing electrical currents |
| Galvanism: | Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals dynamical electricity |
| Galvanist: | One versed in galvanism |
| Galvanization: | The act of process of galvanizing |
| Galvanize: | To affect with galvanism to subject to the action of electrical currents |
| Galvanizer: | One who or that which galvanize |
| Galvanocaustic: | Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic especially in medicine |
| Galvanocautery: | Cautery effected by a knife or needle heated by the passage of a galvanic current |
| Galvanoglyphy: | Same as Glyphography |
| Galvanograph: | A copperplate produced by the method of galvanography also a picture printed from such a plate |
| Galvanographic: | Of or pertaining to galvanography |
| Galvanography: | The art or process of depositing metals by electricity electrotypy |
| Galvanologist: | One who describes the phenomena of galvanism a writer on galvanism |
| Galvanology: | A treatise on galvanism or a description of its phenomena |
| Galvanometer: | An instrument or apparatus for measuring the intensity of an electric current usually by the deflection of a magnetic needle |
| Galvanometric: | Of pertaining to or measured by a galvanometer |
| Galvanometry: | The art or process of measuring the force of electric currents |
| Galvanoplastic: | Of or pertaining to the art or process of electrotyping employing or produced by the process of electolytic deposition as a galvanoplastic copy of a medal or the like |
| Galvanoplasty: | The art or process of electrotypy |
| Galvanopuncture: | Same as Electropuncture |
| Galvanoscope: | An instrument or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents especially such as are of feeble intensity |
| Galvanoscopic: | Of or pertaining to a galvanoscope |
| Galvanoscopy: | The use of galvanism in physiological experiments |
| dGalvanotonus: | Same as Electrotonus |
| Galvanotropism: | The tendency of a root to place its axis in the line of a galvanic current |
| Galwes: | Gallows |
| Gam: | A herd or school of whales |
| Gam: | a leg |
| Gam: | To gather in a gam said of whales |
| Gam: | To have a gam with to pay a visit to esp among whalers at sea |
| Gamagrass: | A species of grass Tripsacum dactyloides tall stout and exceedingly productive cultivated in the West Indies Mexico and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass called also sesame grass |
| Gamashes: | High boots or buskins in Scotland short spatterdashes or riding trousers worn over the other clothing |
| dGamba: | A viola da gamba |
| Gambadoes: | Same as Gamashes |
| Gambeer: | To gaff as mackerel |
| Gambeson: | Same as Gambison |
| Gambet: | Any bird of the genuis Totanus See Tattler |
| Gambier: | The inspissated juice of a plant Uncaria Gambir growing in Malacca It is a powerful astringent and under the name of Terra Japonica is used for chewing with the Areca nut and is exported for tanning and dyeing |
| Gambison: | A defensive garment formerly in use for the body made of cloth stuffed and quilted |
| Gambist: | A performer upon the viola di gamba See under Viola |
| Gambit: | A mode of opening the game in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position |
| Gamble: | To play or game for money or other stake |
| Gamble: | To lose or squander by gaming usually with away |
| Gamble: | An act of gambling a transaction or proceeding involving gambling hence anything involving similar risk or uncertainty |
| Gambler: | One who gambles |
| gambling: | 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 |
| Gamboge: | 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 |
| Gambogian: | Pertaining to resembling or containing gamboge |
| Gambol: | A skipping or leaping about in frolic a hop a sportive prank |
| Gambol: | To dance and skip about in sport to frisk to skip to play in frolic like boys or lambs |
| Gambrel: | The hind leg of a horse |
| Gambrel: | To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel |
| Gambroon: | A kind of twilled linen cloth for lining |
| Gambusia: | A genus of fish including some of the mosquitofish |
| Game: | Crooked lame as a game leg |
| Game: | Sport of any kind jest frolic |
| Game: | Having a resolute unyielding spirit like the gamecock ready to fight to the last plucky |
| Game: | To rejoice to be pleased often used in Old English impersonally with dative |
| gamebag: | a canvas or leather bag for carrying game especially birds killed by a hunter |
| Gamecock: | The male game fowl |
| Gamefowl: | A handsome breed of the common fowl remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males |
| Gameful: | Full of game or games |
| Gamekeeper: | One who has the care of game especially in a park or preserve |
| Gameless: | Destitute of game |
| gamelicense: | a license authorizing the bearer to kill a certain type of animal during a specified period of time |
| Gamely: | In a plucky manner spiritedly |
| Gameness: | Endurance pluck |
| gameofchance: | a game that involves gambling |
| gameplan: | A plan for achieving an objective especially in some sport |
| gameroom: | a recreation room for noisy activities parties or childrens play etc or for table games |
| gameshow: | 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 |
| Gamesome: | Gay sportive playful frolicsome merry |
| Gamester: | A merry frolicsome person |
| gametangium: | A cell or organ in which gametes develop |
| Gamete: | 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 o94spore In Zo94l gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa though also extended to the germ cells of higher forms |
| gametheory: | A branch of mathematics that deals with strategies for maximizing gains or minimizing losses in competitive situations having defined constraints and involving random factors |
| gametocyte: | An immature animal or plant cell that develops into a gamete by meiosis |
| gametophore: | A modified branch bearing gametangia as in the thalloid liverworts |
| Gametophyte: | In the alternation of generations in plants that generation or phase which bears sex organs and produces gametes In the lower plants as the alg the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body in mosses it is the socalled moss plant in ferns it is reduced to a small early perishing body and in seed plants it is usually microscopic or rudimentary |
| gamewarden: | a public official who is responsible for the enforcement of laws regarding the hunting of animals |
| gamey: | suggestive of sexual impropriety as he skips asterisks and gives you the gamey details |
| Gamic: | Pertaining to or resulting from sexual connection formed by the union of the male and female elements |
| dGamin: | A neglected and untrained city boy a young street Arab |
| gaminess: | behavior or language bordering on indelicacy |
| gaming: | The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers gambling |
| gamma: | The third letter G of the Greek alphabet |
| Gammadion: | A cross formed of four capital gammas formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments etc See Fylfot |
| Gammaray: | 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 Xrays i e shorter than 01 nanometer and are correspondingly more penetrating than Xrays 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 earths atmosphere Gammaray 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 |
| Gammer: | An old wife an old woman correlative of gaffer an old man |
| Gammon: | The buttock or thigh of a hog salted and smoked or dried the lower end of a flitch |
| Gammon: | To make bacon of to salt and dry in smoke |
| Gammon: | Backgammon |
| Gammon: | To beat in the game of backgammon before an antagonist has been able to get his bdmenb8 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 |
| Gammon: | To fasten a bowsprit to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain or by a band of iron |
| Gammoning: | 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: | The act of imposing upon or hoaxing a person |
| dGamogenesis: | The production of offspring by the union of parents of different sexes sexual reproduction the opposite of agamogenesis |
| Gamogenetic: | Relating to gamogenesis |
| Gamomorphism: | That stage of growth or development in an organism in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species |
| Gamopetalous: | Having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup monopetalous |
| Gamophyllous: | Composed of leaves united by their edges coalescent |
| Gamosepalous: | Formed of united sepals monosepalous |
| Gamp: | A large umbrella said to allude to Mrs Gamps umbrella in Dickenss bdMartin Chuzzlewitb8 |
| Gamut: | The scale |
| gamy: | Having the flavor of game esp of game kept uncooked till near the condition of tainting highflavored |
| Gan: | Began commenced |
| Ganancial: | 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 |
| Ganch: | To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks as the Turks dropped malefactors by way of punishment |
| Gander: | The male of any species of goose |
| Gandhi: | Mohandas Gandhi a Hindu nationalist and religious leader who preached nonviolent resistance to oppression |
| Gandhian: | of or pertaining to Mohandas Gandhi |
| Gane: | To yawn to gape |
| Ganesa: | The Hindu god of wisdom prudence and prophesy the remover of obstacles |
| Gang: | To go to walk |
| Gang: | A going a course |
| gangboard: | a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside |
| gangdom: | criminal organizations collectively |
| Gange: | To protect the part of a line next a fishhook or the hook itself by winding it with wire |
| Ganger: | One who oversees a gang of workmen |
| Gangetic: | Pertaining to or inhabiting the Ganges River as the Gangetic shark |
| Gangflower: | The common English milkwort Polygala vulgaris so called from blossoming in gang week |
| Gangion: | A short line attached to a trawl See Trawl n |
| Gangliac: | Relating to a ganglion ganglionic |
| Gangliate: | Furnished with ganglia as the gangliated cords of the sympathetic nervous system |
| Gangliform: | Having the form of a ganglion |
| Ganglion: | A mass or knot of nervous matter including nerve cells usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve |
| Ganglionary: | Ganglionic |
| Ganglionic: | Pertaining to containing or consisting of ganglia or ganglion cells as a ganglionic artery the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord |
| Gangrel: | Wandering vagrant |
| Gangrenate: | To gangrene |
| Gangrene: | 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 |
| Gangrene: | To produce gangrene in to be affected with gangrene |
| Gangrenescent: | Tending to mortification or gangrene |
| Gangrenous: | Affected by or produced by gangrene of the nature of gangrene |
| Gangue: | The mineral or earthy substance associated with metallic ore |
| Gangway: | A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place esp a temporary way of access formed of planks |
| Ganil: | A kind of brittle limestone |
| Ganister: | A refractory material consisting of crushed or ground siliceous stone mixed with fire clay used for lining Bessemer converters also used for macadamizing roads |
| Ganja: | The dried hemp plant used in India for smoking It is extremely narcotic and intoxicating |
| Gannet: | One of several species of sea birds of the genus Sula allied to the pelicans |
| dGanocephala: | A group of fossil amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts having the head defended by bony sculptured plates as in some ganoid fishes |
| Ganocephalous: | Of or pertaining to the Ganocephala |
| Ganoid: | Of or pertaining to Ganoidei n One of the Ganoidei |
| Ganoidal: | Ganoid |
| dGanoidei: | One of the subclasses of fishes They have an arterial cone and bulb spiral intestinal valve and the optic nerves united by a chiasma Many of the species are covered with bony plates or with ganoid scales others have cycloid scales |
| Ganoidian: | Ganoid |
| Ganoine: | A peculiar bony tissue beneath the enamel of a ganoid scale |
| Gansa: | Same as Ganza |
| Gantlet: | A military punishment formerly in use wherein the offender was made to run between two files of men facing one another who struck him as he passed |
| Gantlet: | A glove See Gauntlet |
| Gantline: | A line rigged to a mast used in hoisting rigging a girtline |
| Gantlope: | See Gantlet |
| Gantry: | See Gauntree |
| Ganza: | A kind of wild goose by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world |
| Ganzsystem: | 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 |
| Gaol: | A place of confinement especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment a jail |
| gaolbird: | a person serving a prison sentence a jail bird |
| gaolbreak: | an escape from jail same as jailbreak |
| Gaoler: | The keeper of a jail Same as Jailer |
| Gap: | An opening in anything made by breaking or parting as a gap in a fence an opening for a passage or entrance an opening which implies a breach or defect a vacant space or time a hiatus a mountain pass |
| Gap: | To notch as a sword or knife |
| Gape: | To open the mouth wide |
| Gape: | The act of gaping a yawn |
| Gaper: | One who gapes |
| gapes: | See as the gapes under gape n |
| Gapeseed: | Any strange sight |
| Gapesing: | Act of gazing about sightseeing |
| Gapeworm: | The parasitic worm that causes the gapes in birds See Illustration in Appendix |
| Gapingstock: | One who is an object of openmouthed wonder |
| Gaptoothed: | Having conspicuous interstices between the teeth as his gaptoothed grin |
| Gar: | Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus See Garfish |
| Gar: | To cause to make |
| Garage: | an enclosed structure for housing or parking motor vehicles especially automobiles |
| Garage: | To keep in a garage |
| garambulla: | An arborescent cactus of Western Mexico Myrtillocactus geometrizans bearing a small oblong edible berrylike fruit |
| garand: | A semiautomatic rifle also called the M1 used by soldiers of the U S army in World War II and Korea It was the standard weapon issued to infantrymen |
| Garancin: | An extract of madder by sulphuric acid It consists essentially of alizarin |
| Garb: | Clothing in general |
| Garb: | A sheaf of grain wheat unless otherwise specified |
| Garb: | To clothe array deck |
| Garbage: | Offal as the bowels of an animal or fish refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen hence anything worthless disgusting or loathsome |
| Garbage: | To strip of the bowels to clean |
| Garbed: | Dressed habited clad |
| Garbel: | Same as Garboard |
| Garbel: | Anything sifted or from which the coarse parts have been taken |
| Garble: | To sift or bolt to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts or from dros or dirt as to garble spices |
| Garble: | Refuse rubbish |
| Garbler: | One who garbles |
| Garboard: | One of the planks next the keel on the outside which form a garboard strake |
| Garboil: | Tumult disturbance disorder |
| dGarcinia: | 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 |
| dGaron: | A boy fellow esp a serving boy or man a waiter in Eng chiefly applied to French waiters |
| Gard: | Garden |
| Gard: | See Guard |
| Gardant: | Turning the head towards the spectator but not the body said of a lion or other beast |
| dGardecivique: | See Army organization above |
| Garden: | A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs fruits flowers or vegetables |
| Garden: | To lay out or cultivate a garden to labor in a garden to practice horticulture |
| Garden: | To cultivate as a garden |
| Gardener: | One who makes and tends a garden a horticulturist |
| dGardenia: | A genus of plants some species of which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers Cape jasmine so called in honor of Dr Alexander Garden |
| Gardening: | The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens horticulture |
| Gardenless: | Destitute of a garden |
| Gardenly: | Like a garden |
| Gardenship: | Horticulture |
| Gardon: | A European cyprinoid fish the id |
| Gardyloo: | An old cry in throwing water slops etc from the windows in Edingburgh |
| Gare: | Coarse wool on the legs of sheep |
| Garefowl: | The great auk also the razorbill See Auk |
| Garfish: | A European marine fish Belone vulgaris called also gar gerrick greenback greenbone gorebill hornfish longnose mackerel guide sea needle and sea pike |
| Gargalize: | To gargle to rinse |
| Garganey: | A small European duck Anas querquedula called also cricket teal and summer teal |
| Gargantuan: | Characteristic of Gargantua a gigantic wonderful personage enormous prodigious inordinate |
| Gargarism: | A gargle |
| Gargarize: | To gargle to rinse or wash as the mouth and throat |
| Garget: | The throat |
| Gargil: | A distemper in geese affecting the head |
| Gargle: | See Gargoyle |
| Gargle: | To wash or rinse as the mouth or throat particular the latter agitating the liquid water or a medicinal preparation by an expulsion of air from the lungs |
| Gargle: | A liquid as water or some medicated preparation used to cleanse the mouth and throat especially for a medical effect |
| Gargol: | A distemper in swine garget |
| dGargoulette: | A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout a gurglet |
| Gargoyle: | A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building often carved grotesquely |
| Gargyle: | See Gargoyle |
| Garibaldi: | A jacket worn by women so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi |
| Garish: | Showy dazzling ostentatious attracting or exciting attention |
| garishness: | tasteless showiness |
| Garland: | To deck with a garland |
| Garlandless: | Destitute of a garland |
| Garlic: | A plant of the genus Allium A sativum is the cultivated variety having a bulbous root a very strong smell and an acrid pungent taste Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs called cloves of garlic inclosed in a common membranous coat and easily separable |
| Garlicky: | Like or containing garlic |
| Garment: | Any article of clothing as a coat a gown etc |
| Garmented: | Having on a garment attired enveloped as with a garment |
| Garmenture: | Clothing dress |
| Garner: | A granary a building or place where grain is stored for preservation |
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