A softening of the coats of the stomach; -- usually a post-morten change.

A kind of divination, by means of words seemingly uttered from the stomach. A species of divination, by means of glasses or other round, transparent vessels, in the center of which figures are supposed to appear by magic art.

The fungoid growths sometimes found in the stomach; such as Torula, etc.

One whose voice appears to proceed from the stomach; a ventriloquist.

One fond of good living; an epicure.

Pertaining to gastromony.

A gastromomer.

The art or science of good eating; epicurism; the art of good cheer.

Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm; as, the gastrophrenic ligament.

Pertaining to the alimentary canal and air passages, and to the cavities connected with them; as, the gastropneumatic mucuos membranes.

One of the Gastropoda.

One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca.

Of or pertaining to the Gastropoda.

The operation of sewing up wounds of the abdomen.

An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach.

Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.

Examination of the abdomen or stomach, as with the gastroscope.

Pertaining to the stomach and spleen; as, the gastrosplenic ligament.

One of the large scales on the belly of a serpent.

The operation of making a permanent opening into the stomach, for the introduction of food.

A cutting into, or opening of, the abdomen or the stomach.

A group of small wormlike animals, having cilia on the ventral side. The group is regarded as an ancestral or synthetic one, related to rotifers and annelids.

A form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral side.

Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of c/lenterates.

An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). See Illust. under Invagination. In a more general sense, an ideal stage in embryonic development. See Gastr/a. Of or pertaining to a gastrula.

The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.

See Stomatopoda.

Pertaining to the Gastrura.

imp. of Get.

Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton.

Plaster as used in Persian architecture and decorative art.

A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).

entering a gathering uninvited; as, gate-crashing guests disrupted the party.

Any of various rich and elaborate cakes, particularly a light sponge cake having a rich filling or rich icing, such as gateau foret noire (Black Forest Cake).

To enter uninvited into a party or other social event.

A person who enters into a party or other social event without an invitation, or into a theater or other public performance without a ticket.

Having gates.

A house connected or associated with a gate.

Having no gate.

A gate keeper; a gate tender.

A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging post or hinging post.

A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.

In the manner of a gate.

A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.

Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises.

One who gathers or collects.

Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.

a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.

Left handed; awkward; clumsy.

an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement.

An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.

One of the native inhabitants of the South American pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle. Hence, a South American cowboy, especially on the pampas.

To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint.

See Gaudy, a feast.

The name of a Latin song originating in the thirteenth century, celebrating the joy of youth as students in a university, and suggesting that they take advantage of youth before they succomb to inevitable old age and death. It is still sung by students, often with verses altered to include themes pertinent to particular schools.

Finery; ornaments; ostentatious display.

Joyful; showy.

In a gaudy manner.

The quality of being gaudy.

Gaudy.

A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.

Light green.

To plait, crimp, or flute; to goffer, as lace. See Goffer.

A mode of plaiting or fluting.

A gopher, esp. the pocket gopher.

A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.

Capable of being gauged.

Tested or measured by, or conformed to, a gauge.

One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.

The office of a gauger.

See Gauge rod, under Gauge, n.

The Anglicized form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul).

Pertaining to ancient France, or Gaul; Gallic.

A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period.

A genus of ericaceous shrubs with evergreen foliage, and, often, edible berries. It includes the American winter-green (Gaultheria procumbens), and the larger-fruited salal of Northwestern America (Gaultheria Shallon).

stupid. Oposite of smart.

Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.

A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds.

Wearing a gauntlet.

In a gaunt manner; meagerly.

A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere.

An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bibos gauris), of large size and an untamable disposition.

To gaze; to stare.

The C.G.S. unit of density of magnetic field, equal to a field of one line of force per square centimeter, being thus adopted as an international unit at Paris in 1900; sometimes used as a unit of intensity of magnetic field. It was previously suggested as a unit of magnetomotive force.

The intensity of a magnetic field expressed in C.G.S. units, or gausses.

of or pertaining to Gauss{2}; as, a Gaussian distribution.

an instrument to compare strengths of magnetic fields.

The family name of Buddha, the founder of Buddhism; born ca. 563 b.c., died ca. 483 b.c. In He is worshipped by Buddhists as a god. See Buddha.

Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing.

The quality of being gauzy; flimsiness.

Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.

Forced feeding (as of poultry or infants) by means of a tube passed through the mouth down to the stomach.

imp. of Give.

Tribute; toll; custom. [Obs.] See Gabel.

An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent.

A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent.

Same as Gavelock.

A spear or dart.

The European red gurnard (Trigla cuculus).

The division of birds which includes the gulls and terns.

A large Asiatic crocodilian (Gavialis Gangeticus); -- called also nako, and Gangetic crocodile.

A natural family of birds including the loons.

An order of large aquatic birds, including loons and some extinct forms.

A kind of difficult, old formal French dance in quadruple time.

A baby; a dunce.

To act like a gawky.

Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.

A small tub or lading vessel.

See Gauntree.

An ornament

A common trailing perennial milkwort (Polygala paucifolia) of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals.

A Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle (Bibos frontalis).

A vessel of Anam, with two or three masts, lofty triangular sails, and in construction somewhat resembling a Chinese junk.

The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season.

A yellowish white, translucent mineral, consisting of the carbonates of lime and soda, with water.

With mirth and frolic; merrily; blithely; gleefully.

To avail.

Gayety; finery.

Full of gayety.

The dogwood tree.