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Gog

Haste; ardent desire to go.

Goggle

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

Goggle-eye

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.

Goggle-eyed

Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes.

Goggled

Prominent; staring, as the eye.

Goggler

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

Going

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.

Goitre Goiter

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.

goitrogen

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

Goitrous

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

Gold-beating

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

gold-of-pleasure

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.

goldbeater

An artisan who beats gold into goldleaf.

Goldcrest

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.

golden snitch

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.

Golden-eye

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.

golden-rod goldenrod

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.

goldenseal

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

goldfields

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.

Goldfinch

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.

Goldfinny

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

Goldfish

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.

Goldie

The European goldfinch. The yellow-hammer.

Golding Goldin

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

Goldsmith

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

Goldylocks

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.

Golet

A California trout. See Malma.

Golf

To play at golf.

Golgotha

Calvary. See the Note under Calvary.

Goliard

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

Goliardery

The satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards.

Goll

A hand, paw, or claw.

Goman

A husband; a master of a family.

Gomarite Gomarist

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

Gome

The black grease on the axle of a cart or wagon wheel; -- called also gorm. See Gorm.

Gomer

A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars; -- named after the inventor.

Gomphiasis

A disease of the teeth, which causes them to loosen and fall out of their sockets.

Gomphosis

A form of union or immovable articulation where a hard part is received into the cavity of a bone, as the teeth into the jaws.

Gomuti

A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two kinds of palms, Metroxylon Sagu, and Arenga saccharifera, of the Indian islands. It is used for making cordage. Called also ejoo.

Gon

imp. p. p. of Go.

Gonad

One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland.

gonadotropin

A hormone secreted by the pituitary gland and placenta, which stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity.

Gonakie

An African timber tree (Acacia Adansonii).

Gondwanaland

A hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into India and Australia and Africa and South America and Antarctica. See plate tectonics.

Goneness

A state of exhaustion; faintness, especially as resulting from hunger.

Gonfalonier

He who bears the gonfalon; a standard bearer An officer at Rome who bears the standard of the Church. The chief magistrate of any one of several republics in medi/veal Italy. A Turkish general, and standard keeper.

Gonfanon Gonfalon

The ensign or standard in use by certain princes or states, such as the medi/val republics of Italy, and in more recent times by the pope.

Gong

An instrument, first used in the East, made of an alloy of copper and tin, shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise.

Gongorism

An affected elegance or euphuism of style, for which the Spanish poet Gongora y Argote (1561-1627), among others of his time, was noted.

Goniatite

One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the latest, in the Triassic.

Gonidial

Of or pertaining to the angles of the mouth; as, a gonidial groove of an actinian.

Gonidium

A component cell of the yellowish green layer in certain lichens.

Gonimia

Bluish green granules which occur in certain lichens, as Collema, Peltigera, etc., and which replace the more usual gonidia.

Gonimous

Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells.

Goniometer

An instrument for measuring angles, especially the angles of crystals, or the inclination of planes.

Goniometry

The art of measuring angles; trigonometry.

gonna

Going to; as, who's gonna get the milk?.

Gonoblastid

A reproductive bud of a hydroid; a simple gonophore.

Gonochorism

Separation of the sexes in different individuals; -- opposed to hermaphroditism. In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs. In phylogeny, the evolution of distinct sexes in species previously hermaphrodite or sexless.

Gonococcus

A microorganism (Neisseria gonnorrhoeae) of the genus Neisseria (formerly Micrococcus), found in the secretion in gonorrhea, and constituting the cause of this disease.

Gonophore

A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome.

gonorrhoea gonorrhea

A contagious inflammatory disease of the genitourinary tract, affecting especially the urethra and vagina, and characterized by a mucopurulent discharge, pain in urination, and chordee; clap. It is caused by infection with the bacterium Neiseria gonorrheae, and is commonly transmitted by sexual intercourse.

Gonosome

The reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively.

Gonotheca

A capsule developed on certain hydroids (Thecaphora), inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; -- called also gonangium, and teleophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.

Gonozooid

A sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a gonophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.

Gonydial

Pertaining to the gonys of a bird's beak.

Gonys

The keel or lower outline of a bird's bill, so far as the mandibular rami are united.

Good

To make good; to turn to good.

Good-bye Good-by

Farewell; a form of address used at parting. See the last Note under By, prep.

Good-humored

Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; cheerful; good-tempered. See Good-natured.

Good-humoredly

With a cheerful spirit; in a cheerful or good-tempered manner.

good-king-henry

A European plant (Chenopodium bonus-henricus) naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb.

Good-natured

Naturally mild in temper; not easily provoked; amiable; cheerful; not taking offense easily; as, too good-natured to resent a little criticism; the good-natured policeman on our block; the sounds of good-natured play. Opposite of ill-natured.

Good-tempered

Having a good temper; not easily vexed or irritated. See Good-natured.

good-time

occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company; as, he was a real good-time Charlie.

Good-year

The venereal disease; -- often used as a mild oath.

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