Studies projecting or predicting the future based on current trends.

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.

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

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.

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

To fly off in minute particles.

To make drunk; to intoxicate; to fuddle.

Not firmly woven; that ravels.

A word which expresses blame, dislike, disapprobation, abhorrence, or contempt. See Fie.

A long bag net distended by hoops, into which fish can pass easily, without being able to return; -- called also fyke net.

A rebated cross, formerly used as a secret emblem, and a common ornament. It is also called gammadion, and swastika.

The military force of the whole nation, consisting of all men able to bear arms.

See Fit a song.

A Chinese and Japanese medical treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body.

A special law-enforcement agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

A small spot on the front wall of the vagina in women, reported to be exceptionally able to produce high sexual excitement or orgasm when stimulated. Its existence is not universally accepted.

a patch of cloth attached to and supported by string-like cords, worn over the hips, and serving to cover only the pubic area; -- often worn by stripteasers.

A suit worn by aviators and astronauts, designed to counteract the effects of high accelerations experienced in aerial maneuvers, in particular to avoid unconsciousness; called also anti-g suit. It exerts force on the abdomen and legs to prevent blackouts by counteracting the tendency of blood to accumulate below the heart, thus reducing the supply to the brain, when the forces due to acceleration are directed from head to toe.

To deceive; to lie.

A kind of coarse cloth for packing goods.

A liar; a deceiver.

Loud or rapid talk without meaning.

One who gabbles; a prater.

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).

A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.

A collector of gabels or taxes.

A tax, especially on salt.

A gabeler.

A beggar with a wallet; a licensed beggar.

See Gabardine.

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

A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation.

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.

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

The part of a fortification built of gabions.

Furnished with gabions.

See Gabionade.

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. The end wall of a building, as distinguished from the front or rear side. A decorative member having the shape of a triangular gable, such as that above a Gothic arch in a doorway.

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

A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.

A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock.

a native or inhabitant of Gabon.

A simpleton; a dunce; a lout.

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

A gadder

The gadfly.

One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.

Going about much, needlessly or without purpose.

In a roving, idle manner.

Disposed to gad.

A small British fish (Motella argenteola) of the Cod family. A pike, so called at Moray Firth; -- called also gead.

Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.

Of, belonging to, or designating, that division of the Celtic languages which includes the Irish, Gaelic, and Manx.

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

Of or relating to Cadiz, in Spain. A native or inhabitant of Cadiz.

A roving vagabond.

A gadsman.

Of or pertaining to the family of fishes (Gadid/) which includes the cod, haddock, and hake. One of the Gadid/.

A rare earth associated with yttria and regarded as the oxide (Gd2O3) of a metallic element, gadolinium.

Pertaining to or containing 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 157.25 (C=12.011), and a valence of +3.

To gather.

One who uses a gad or goad in driving.

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

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

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.

The title of the ruling Prince of Baroda, in Gujarat, in Bombay, India.

A Celt or the Celts of the Scotch Highlands or of Ireland; now esp., a Scotch Highlander of Celtic origin.

The language of the Gaels, esp. of the Highlanders of Scotland. It is a branch of the Celtic.

To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon.

A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast.

A socially awkward or tactless act.

An old fellow; an aged rustic.

An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks.

Something thrust into the mouth or throat to hinder speaking.

Having gagteeth.

mentally or physically infirm with age.

Agate.

To measure. See Gauge, v. t.

A measurer. See Gauger.

One who gags.

A flock of wild geese, especially when on the ground.

A projecting tooth.

Zinc spinel; automolite.

Goddess of the earth; same as Gaea.

Pertaining to hypogeic acid; -- applied to an acid obtained from hypogeic acid.

Same as Gayety.

A jailer.

Gay; brisk; merry; galliard.

A lively French and Italian dance.

Merrily; showily. See gaily.

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.

Capable of being obtained or reached.

The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage. The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself.

One who gains.

Profitable; advantageous; lucrative.

A misgiving.

Not producing gain; unprofitable.

Handily; readily; dexterously; advantageously.

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

To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.

One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies.

Gainful.

To withstand; to resist.

To strive or struggle against; to withstand.

See Garefowl.

Same as Garish, Garishly, Garishness.

A going; a walk; a march; a way.

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

To dress with gaiters.

Pomp, show, or festivity.

An agent exciting secretion of milk.

Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid.

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. A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree (Galactodendron). An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate resembling gelose, found in the seeds of leguminous plants, and yielding on decomposition several sugars, including galactose.

Same as Galactometer.

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

One who eats, or subsists on, milk.

Feeding on milk.

Milk-carrying; lactiferous; -- applied to the ducts of mammary glands.

Increasing the flow of milk; milk-producing. A galactopoietic substance.