An instrument or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents, especially such as are of feeble intensity.

Of or pertaining to a galvanoscope.

The use of galvanism in physiological experiments.

Same as Electrotonus.

The tendency of a root to place its axis in the line of a galvanic current.

Gallows.

To have a gam with; to pay a visit to, esp. among whalers at sea.

High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.

A viola da gamba.

Same as Gamashes.

To gaff, as mackerel.

Same as Gambison.

Any bird of the genuis Totanus. See Tattler.

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. Catechu.

A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted.

A performer upon the viola di gamba. See under Viola.

A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.

An act of gambling; a transaction or proceeding involving gambling; hence, anything involving similar risk or uncertainty.

One who gambles.

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.

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.

Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, gamboge.

To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs.

To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel.

A kind of twilled linen cloth for lining.

A genus of fish including some of the mosquitofish.

To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative.

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

a license authorizing the bearer to kill a certain type of animal during a specified period of time.

a game that involves gambling.

A plan for achieving an objective (especially in some sport).

a recreation room for noisy activities (parties or children's play etc) or for table games.

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.

A branch of mathematics that deals with strategies for maximizing gains or minimizing losses in competitive situations having defined constraints and involving random factors.

a public official who is responsible for the enforcement of laws regarding the hunting of animals.

The male game fowl.

Full of game or games.

One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve.

Destitute of game.

In a plucky manner; spiritedly.

Endurance; pluck.

Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry.

A merry, frolicsome person.

A cell or organ in which gametes develop.

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.

An immature animal or plant cell that develops into a gamete by meiosis.

A modified branch bearing gametangia as in the thalloid liverworts.

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 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.

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

Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.

A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab.

behavior or language bordering on indelicacy.

The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.

The third letter (/, / = Eng. G) of the Greek alphabet.

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.

A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot.

An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man.

To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.

The act of imposing upon or hoaxing a person.

The production of offspring by the union of parents of different sexes; sexual reproduction; -- the opposite of agamogenesis.

That stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species.

Having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup; monopetalous.

Composed of leaves united by their edges (coalescent).

Formed of united sepals; monosepalous.

A large umbrella; -- said to allude to Mrs. Gamp's umbrella, in Dickens's /Martin Chuzzlewit./

The scale.

Having the flavor of game, esp. of game kept uncooked till near the condition of tainting; high-flavored.

Began; commenced.

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.

To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment.

The male of any species of goose.

Mohandas Gandhi, a Hindu nationalist and religious leader, who preached non-violent resistance to oppression.

of or pertaining to Mohandas Gandhi.

To yawn; to gape.

The Hindu god of wisdom, prudence and prophesy; the remover of obstacles.

A going; a course.

a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside.

The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week.

criminal organizations, collectively.

To protect (the part of a line next a fishhook, or the hook itself) by winding it with wire.

One who oversees a gang of workmen.

Pertaining to, or inhabiting, the Ganges River; as, the Gangetic shark.

A short line attached to a trawl. See Trawl, n.

Relating to a ganglion; ganglionic.

Furnished with ganglia; as, the gangliated cords of the sympathetic nervous system.

Having the form of a ganglion.

A mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve. A node, or gland in the lymphatic system; as, a lymphatic ganglion.

Ganglionic.

Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, ganglia or ganglion cells; as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord.

Wandering; vagrant.

To gangrene.

To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene.

Tending to mortification or gangrene.

Affected by, or produced by, gangrene; of the nature of gangrene.

The mineral or earthy substance associated with metallic ore.

A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp., a temporary way of access formed of planks.

A kind of brittle limestone.

The dried hemp plant, used in India for smoking. It is extremely narcotic and intoxicating.

One of several species of sea birds of the genus Sula, allied to the pelicans.

A refractory material consisting of crushed or ground siliceous stone, mixed with fire clay; -- used for lining Bessemer converters; also used for macadamizing roads.

A group of fossil amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fishes.

Of or pertaining to the Ganocephala.

Of or pertaining to Ganoidei. -- n. One of the Ganoidei.

Ganoid.

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.

Ganoid.

A peculiar bony tissue beneath the enamel of a ganoid scale.

Same as Ganza.

A glove. See Gauntlet.

A line rigged to a mast; -- used in hoisting rigging; a girtline.

See Gantlet.

See Gauntree.

A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world.

A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.

a person serving a prison sentence; a jail bird.

an escape from jail; same as jailbreak.

The keeper of a jail. Same as Jailer.

To notch, as a sword or knife.

Having conspicuous interstices between the teeth; as, his gap-toothed grin.

The act of gaping; a yawn.