Pertaining to ancient France, or Gaul; Gallic.
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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.
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.
The god of the earth; father of Osiris and Isis.
A land crab of the genus Gecarcinus, or of allied genera.
To jeer; to show contempt.
Any lizard of the family Geckonid/. The geckoes are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and vertical, elliptical pupils. Their toes are generally expanded, and furnished with adhesive disks, by which they can run over walls and ceilings. They are numerous in warm countries, and a few species are found in Europe and the United States. See Wall gecko, Fanfoot.
A gecko.
The European pike.
To cause (a team) to turn to the off side, or from the driver.
A performer in a carnival, often presented as a wild man, who performs grotesquely disgusting acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken or snake.
pl. of Goose.
Alluvial matter on the surface of land, not of recent origin.
Jet.
The original native name for the ancient Ethiopic language or people. See Ethiopic.
A queer old fellow; an old chap; sometimes, an old woman.
A faint patch of light in the night sky that appears opposite the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space.
The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell.
Pertaining to, or derived from, earthy or vegetable mold.
See Humin.
A Japanese singing and dancing girl, trained to provide entertainment and company for a man or group of men.
Fertilization of flowers by pollen from other flowers on the same plant.
Capable of being congealed; capable of being converted into jelly.
A baboon (Gelada Ruppelli) of Abyssinia, remarkable for the length of the hair on the neck and shoulders of the adult male.
Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing.
The formation of gelatin.
Producing, or yielding, gelatin; gelatiniferous; as, the gelatigeneous tissues.
To be converted into gelatin, or into a substance like jelly.
The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly.
Same as Gelatin.
Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on the collagen of various kinds of connective tissue (as tendons, bones, ligaments, etc.). Its distinguishing character is that of dissolving in hot water, and forming a jelly on cooling. It is an important ingredient of calf's-foot jelly, isinglass, glue, etc. It is used as food, but its nutritious qualities are of a low order.
Yielding gelatin on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
Having the form of gelatin.
Same as Gelatination.
Same as Gelatinate, v. i.
Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.
The process of becoming solid by cooling; a cooling and solidifying.
To castrate; to emasculate.
Liable to taxation.
One who gelds or castrates.
Same as Guelder-rose.
from Geld, v. t.
The type genus of the Gelechiidae, including pink bollworms.
a small slender-winged moth whose larvae are agricultural pests.
A family of moths which include important economic pests, feeding on the seeds of the cotton boll.
Cold; very cold; frozen.
The state of being gelid.
In a gelid manner; coldly.
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