A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting.
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To gnarl; to snarl; to growl; -- written also gnarr.
a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
Knotty; full of knots or gnarls; twisted; crossgrained.
Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained.
To grind or strike the teeth together.
With gnashing.
A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See Mosquito.
Of or pertaining to the jaw.
The ramus of the lower jaw of a bird as far as it is naked; -- commonly used in the plural.
Any one of the mouth appendages of the Arthropoda. They are known as mandibles, maxill/, and maxillipeds.
Flattering; deceitful.
A gnathopodite or maxilliped. See Maxilliped.
Any leglike appendage of a crustacean, when modified wholly, or in part, to serve as a jaw, esp. one of the maxillipeds.
One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs.
A comprehensive division of vertebrates, including all that have distinct jaws, in contrast with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them.
The horney covering of the lower mandible of a bird.
A small gnat.
The aquatic larva of a gnat; -- called also, colloquially, wiggler.
To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teeth something hard, unwieldy, or unmanageable.
One who, or that which, gnaws.
A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic gneiss or syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss.
Relating to, or resembling, gneiss; consisting of gneiss.
Resembling gneiss; having some of the characteristics of gneiss; -- applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and gneiss, or mica slate and gneiss.
Having the structure of gneiss.
imp. of Gnaw.
To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces.
Churl; curmudgeon.
An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc.
Gnomonical.
Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic.
In a gnomic, didactic, or sententious manner.
Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a gnomology.
A collection of, or a treatise on, maxims, grave sentences, or reflections.
Of or pertaining to the gnomon, or the art of dialing.
According to the principles of the gnomonic projection.
The art or science of dialing, or of constructing dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon.
One skilled in gnomonics.
A treatise on gnomonics.
An alkaloid existing in small quantities in opium.
The deeper wisdom; knowledge of spiritual truth, such as was claimed by the Gnostics.
One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons.
The system of philosophy taught by the Gnostics.
Gnawed.
One of two species of large South African antelopes of the genus Catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes.
Act; working; operation.
A landing approach that fails and gives way to another attempt.
not bound by rule or law or convention.
A negotiator who acts as a link between parties; an intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- sometimes in a disparaging sense.
A passing without notice; intentional neglect; thrusting away; a shifting off; adieu; as, to give a proposal the go-by.
A framework moving on casters, designed to support children while learning to walk.
A weight which is dropped into a bore, as of an oil well, to explode a cartridge previously lowered. A device, as a loosely fitted plug, which is driven through a pipe by the pressure of the contents behind the plug to clear away obstructions. A rough sled or dray used for dragging logs, hauling stone, etc.
a person disposed to initiate action, rather than take instructions; an enterprising person; a person with a strong drive to accomplish useful goals; especially, one whose career progresses rapidly.
a small low motor vehicle with four wheels and an open framework; -- used for racing.
A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out.
A form of labor protest by workers in which they deliberately slow down in order to cause problems for their employers.
best-looking; -- used of clothing; as, her Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.
A species of antelope (Procapra picticauda), inhabiting Thibet.
To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate.
compelled forcibly by an outside agency; as, mobs goaded by blind hatred.
That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also gob .
The line bounding the end of a playing field, at or directly in front of the goal{3}.
One of two posts supporting a crossbar which forms a goal{3}, especially in American football; also, in football the entire structure consisting of the posts, crossbar, and two uprights. To score a goal by kicking the football, the ball must pass above the crossbar and between the vertical lines formed by the uprights.
having no points scored; -- of games.
The area immediately in front of the goal.
Same as 1st Gore.
Patched; mean.
A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (Capra hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin.
A part of a man's beard on the chin or lower lip which is allowed to grow, and trimmed so as to resemble the beard of a goat.
having a small pointed chin beard.
A fish of the genus Upeneus, inhabiting the Gulf of Mexico. It is allied to the surmullet.
One who tends goats.
Characteristic of a goat; goatlike.
Like a goat; goatish.
A weedy European annual with yellow flowers, of the genus Tragopogon; -- so named from the long silky beard of the seeds. One species is the salsify or oyster plant; it is naturalized in US.
A short-stemmed South African plant (Oxalis caprina) with bluish flowers.
The skin of a goat, or leather made from it. Made of the skin of a goat.
One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europ/us); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk.
Old workings. See Goaf.
Same as sailor.
A Japanese game, played on a checkerboard, in which the object of the game is to be the first in placing five pieces, or men, in a row in any direction.
To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.
In pieces.
The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal. It is called also gob stuff.
A noise made in the throat.
The incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists; as, psychoanalytic gobbledygook.
A turkey cock; a bubbling Jock.
Pertaining to tapestry produced in the so-called Gobelin works, which have been maintained by the French Government since 1667.
Literally, a fly swallower; hence, once who keeps his mouth open; a boor; a silly and credulous person.
See Gobbet.
A natural family of fish comprising the gobies.
A genus of fish comprising the true gudgeons.
Like, or pertaining to, the goby, or the genus Gobius. A gobioid fish.
A kind of cup or drinking vessel having a foot or standard, but without a handle.
An evil or mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome.
One of the ropes or chains serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit; -- called also gobrope and gaubline.
To transform into a goblin.
A stick or device for removing the hook from a fish's gullet.
One of several species of small marine fishes of the genus Gobius and allied genera.
To treat as a god; to idolize.
Having a reverential and loving feeling towards God; devoutly religious.
deserted and unhospitable.
One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
A more intense and vulgar form of darned; -- often taken as profane and offensive.
A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism.
A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex.
Good.
Goodly.
To act as godfather to; to take under one's fostering care.
Godship; deity; divinity; divine nature or essence; godhood.
Divine nature or essence; deity; godhead.
In golden terms or a golden manner; splendidly; delightfully.
Having, or acknowledging, no God; without reverence for God; impious; wicked.
Resembling or befitting a god or God; divine; hence, preeminently good; as, godlike virtue.
Righteously.
Careful observance of, or conformity to, the laws of God; the state or quality of being godly; piety.
A diminutive god.
Piously; devoutly; righteously.
Goodness.
A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See Godfather
A warehouse.
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