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.

See Gumbo.

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

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

See Dextrin.

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

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.

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.

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A pickpocket or thief.

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.

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

An African timber tree (Acacia Adansonii).

See Gonotheca.

A small gondola.

A man who rows a gondola.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Pertaining to, or determined by means of, a goniometer; trigonometric.

The art of measuring angles; trigonometry.

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

A reproductive bud of a hydroid; a simple gonophore.

A blastostyle.

The bell of a sessile gonozooid.

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.

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

A pickpocket or thief.

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.

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.

Of or pertaining to gonorrhea; as, gonorrheal rheumatism.

The reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively.

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.

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

Pertaining to the gonys of a bird's beak.

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

same as goody-goody, n..

A peanut.

To make good; to turn to good.

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

A form of salutation.

Agreeable companionship; companionableness.

benevolent.

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

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

Same as good-humored.

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

Handsome; fine-looking; as, a good-looking man.

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.

With mildness of temper.

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

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

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

Same as Gudgeon, 5.

Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.

Having no goods.

Goodly.

Beauty of form; grace; elegance; comeliness.

Excellently.

Goodness; grace; goodliness.

The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of disposition, of conduct, etc.

See Good, n., 3.

Favor; grace.

The mistress of a house.

Weakly or sentimentally good; affectedly good; -- often in the reduplicated form goody-goody.

Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness.

A person who is weakly, sentimentally, or affectedly good; a goody-goody person; -- sometimes used to refer to person who acts with good intentions but who bunglingly does more harm than good. The latter may sometimes be deprecatingly referred to as a goo-goo.

The state or quality of a goody or goodwife

to commit a faux pas or fault.

To shirk one's duties; to avoid work by relaxing or performing idle activities.

A person who habitually shirks his duties or avoids work; an idle worthless person.

To design (a device or plan of action) so that it will function properly even if treated badly or executed ineptly; foolproof.

foolish and silly, or appearing silly; as, he wore a goofy hat.

To search for Web pages containing a word or phrase, using the Google web site (www.google.com); as, I googled /ontology/ and found 351,000 references.

a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way.

An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold (Calendula), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole.