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.

An ornament produced by notching or carving a rounded molding.

Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune.

The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god or goddess.

A gossip.

A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather.

Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, /God speed you./

Toward God.

One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringid/. The European black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit (Limosa h/mastica), and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin.

Yellow.

A white tropical tern (Cygis candida).

A complex mixture of several substances extracted from Irish moss.

p. p. of Go.

One who, or that which, goes; a runner or walker A foot. A horse, considered in reference to his gait; as, a good goer; a safe goer.

of or pertaining to Goethe.

an oxide of iron.

A hydrous oxide of iron (HFeO2), occurring in prismatic crystals, also massive, with a fibrous, reniform, or stalactitic structure. The color varies from yellowish to blackish brown.

A myth about the ultimate destruction of the gods in a battle with evil.

Invocation of evil spirits; witchcraft.

To plait, flute, or crimp. See Gauffer.

Haste; ardent desire to go.

Full and rolling, or staring; -- said of the eyes.

One of two or more species of American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrarchid/, esp. Ch/nobryttus antistius, of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters, and Ambloplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; -- so called from their prominent eyes. The goggler.

Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes.

Prominent; staring, as the eye.

A carangoid oceanic fish (Trachurops crumenophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also goggle-eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra.

See Gurglet.

That goes; in existence; available for present use or enjoyment; current; obtainable; also, moving; working; in operation; departing; as, he is of the brightest men going; going prices or rate. Carrying on its ordinary business; conducting business, or carried on, with an indefinite prospect of continuance; -- chiefly used in the phrases a going business, concern, etc. Of or pertaining to a going business or concern; as, the going value of a company.

An enlargement of the thyroid gland, on the anterior part of the neck, usually resulting from iodine deficiency; bronchocele. It is frequently associated with cretinism, and was at one time common in mountainous regions, especially in certain parts of Switzerland. The incidence of goiter has been substantially reduced by addition of iodine to ceratin foods, such as salt.

Affected with goiter.

any substance (like thiouracil or thiourea) that induces the formation of a goiter.

Pertaining to the goiter; affected with the goiter; of the nature of goiter or bronchocele.

Gilded.

The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer.

Encompassed with gold.

The yellow-hammer.

An annual European false flax (Camelina sativa) having small white flowers; cultivated since Neolithic times as a source of fiber and for its oil-rich seeds; widely naturalized in North America.

An artisan who beats gold into goldleaf.

an idle worthless person.

The evasion of work or duty.

The European golden-crested kinglet (Regulus cristatus, or Regulus regulus); -- called also golden-crested wren, and golden wren. The name is also sometimes applied to the American golden-crested kinglet. See Kinglet.

The cuckoobud.

A fictional object shaped like a small golden sphere with wings, described in the series of /Harry Potter/ novels by J.K. Rowling. It is used in a fictional game called Quidditch, in which wizards on broomsticks fly through the air and, among other things, try to catch the golden snitch, which flies quickly and erratically, and is therefore difficult to catch.

A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (Glaucionetta Islandica) is less common.

A tall herb (Solidago Virga-aurea), bearing small yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago.

A plant of the genus Haplopappus.

A perennial herb of Northeastern U. S. (Hydrastis Canadensis) having a thick knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves.

a district where gold is mined.

A small slender woolly annual (Lasthenia chrysostoma) with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; it grows from Southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; -- it is often cultivated.

A beautiful bright-colored European finch (Carduelis elegans). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings. The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William. The yellow-hammer. A small American finch (Spinus tristis); the thistle bird.

One of two or more species of European labroid fishes (Crenilabrus melops, and Ctenolabrus rupestris); -- called also goldsinny, and goldney.

A small domesticated cyprinoid fish (Carassius auratus); -- so named from its color. It is a native of China, and is said to have been introduced into Europe in 1691. It is often kept as an ornament, in small ponds or glass globes. Many varieties are known. Called also golden fish, and golden carp. See Telescope fish, under Telescope. A California marine fish of an orange or red color; the garibaldi.

The European goldfinch. The yellow-hammer.

Same as Goldylocks.

A conspicuous yellow flower, commonly the corn marigold (Chrysanthemum segetum).

Destitute of gold.

See Gilthead.

Dog's-tail grass.

See Goldfinny.

An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments, etc., of gold.

See Verdin.

A plant of several species of the genus Chrysocoma; -- so called from the tufts of yellow flowers which terminate the stems; also, the Ranunculus auricomus, a kind of buttercup.

A California trout. See Malma.

To play at golf.

a motorized cart in which golfers can ride between shots.

an implement used by a golfer to hit a golf ball.

One who plays golf.

The act of playing golf.

Calvary. See the Note under Calvary.

A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs.

The satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards.

A hand, paw, or claw.

A galoche.

See Galore.

See Galoche.

A small ingot of gold.

A buffoon. See Goliard.

A husband; a master of a family.

One of the followers of Francis Gomar or Gomarus, a Dutch disciple of Calvin in the 17th century, who strongly opposed the Arminians.