The mineral or earthy substance associated with metallic ore.
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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.
One who gapes.
See as the gapes, under gape, n..
Any strange sight.
Act of gazing about; sightseeing.
The parasitic worm that causes the gapes in birds. See Illustration in Appendix.
One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder.
To cause; to make.
To keep in a garage.
An arborescent cactus of Western Mexico (Myrtillocactus geometrizans) bearing a small oblong edible berrylike fruit.
An extract of madder by sulphuric acid. It consists essentially of alizarin.
A semiautomatic rifle, also called the M-1, used by soldiers of the U. S. army in World War II and Korea. It was the standard weapon issued to infantrymen.
To clothe; array; deck.
To strip of the bowels; to clean.
Dressed; habited; clad.
Anything sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been taken.
Refuse; rubbish.
One who garbles.
One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake.
Tumult; disturbance; disorder.
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.
A boy; a young unmarried man.
See Guard.
Turning the head towards the spectator, but not the body; -- said of a lion or other beast.
To cultivate as a garden.
One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.
A genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; -- so called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden.
The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture.
Destitute of a garden.
Like a garden.
Horticulture.
A European cyprinoid fish; the id.
An old cry in throwing water, slops, etc., from the windows in Edingburgh.
Coarse wool on the legs of sheep.
The great auk; also, the razorbill. See Auk.
A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike. One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T. Caribb/us, a very large species, and T. crassus, are more southern; -- called also needlefish. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species.
To gargle; to rinse.
A small European duck (Anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal.
Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.
A gargle.
To gargle; to rinse or wash, as the mouth and throat.
The throat.
A distemper in geese, affecting the head.
A liquid, as water or some medicated preparation, used to cleanse the mouth and throat, especially for a medical effect.
A distemper in swine; garget.
A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet.
A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely.
See Gargoyle.
A jacket worn by women; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi.
Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention.
tasteless showiness.
To deck with a garland.
Destitute of a garland.
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.
Like or containing garlic.
Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc.
Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment.
Clothing; dress.
To gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure.
A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.
Containing garnets.
An amorphous mineral of apple-green color; a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesia. It is an important ore of nickel.
Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.
To make (a person) a garnishee; to warn by garnishment; to garnish. To attach (the fund or property sought to be secured by garnishment); to trustee.
One who, or that which, garnishes.
Ornament; embellishment; decoration.
That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress.
A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.
Pertaining to, or resembling, garum.
See Galloway.
A turret; a watchtower.
Protected by turrets.
One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack.
Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.
To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town. To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory.
Same as Garran.
The European golden-eye.
To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.
One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.
A subfamily of the crow family, including the jays.
Talkativeness; loquacity.
Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious.
The type genus of the Garrulinae, conmprising the Old World jays.
One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See Rockfish.
To bind with a garter.
A hoop or band.
supernatural half-man and half-bird vehicle or bearer of Vishnu.
A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.
The sprat; -- called also garvie herring, and garvock.
To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers; as, to gas thread.
The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
A chandelier arranged to burn gas.
a person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
A region of southwestern France; Gascony.
See Gaskins, 1.
Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering. A native of Gascony; a boaster; a bully. See Gasconade.
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