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.

Destitute of ornament.

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.

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.

The dogwood tree.

any plant of the genus Gazania valued for their showy daisy flowers.

A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.

A summerhouse so situated as to command an extensive prospect.

Gazing.

A hound that pursues by the sight rather than by the scent.

See Gazelle.

One of several small, swift, elegantly formed species of antelope, of the genus Gazella, esp. G. dorcas; -- called also algazel, corinne, korin, and kevel. The gazelles are celebrated for the luster and soft expression of their eyes.

View.

One who gazes.

A Venetian coin, worth about three English farthings, or one and a half cents.

To announce or publish in a gazette; to announce officially, as an appointment, or a case of bankruptcy.

A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority.

A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt.

A portable apparatus for making soda water or a/rated liquids on a small scale.

One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.

goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology. See Gaea.

To congeal.

A species of cherry tree common in Europe (Prunus avium); also, the fruit, which is usually small and dark in color.

An upward bend or flexure of a considerable portion of the earth's crust, resulting in the formation of a class of mountain elevations called anticlinoria; -- opposed to geosynclinal.

To be in, or come into, gear.

To prepare (for an event or activity); as, to gear up for the election campaign.

the metal casing in which a train of gears is sealed.

Harness.

a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.

Rare; wonderful.

The type genus of the Geastraceae, consisting of fungi whose outer peridium when dry splits into starlike segments.

The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting.