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.

imp. p. p. of Go.

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.

p. p. of Go.

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.

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

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.

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.

A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser.

Same as gooseflesh.

Same as gooseflesh.

Same as gooseflesh.

A low-growing perennial (Potentilla anserina) having leaves silvery beneath; foundin Northern U. S., Europe, and Asia.

Having the tail set low and buttocks that fall away sharply from the croup; -- said of certain horses.

Same as goose-grass.

Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated.

See Angler.

A peculiar roughness of the skin produced by cold or fear, in which the hair follicles become erect and form bumps on the skin; -- called also goose skin, goose pimples, goose bumps.

A genus of herbs (Chenopodium) mostly annual weeds; pigweed.

A place for keeping geese.

One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.

Having a /goosewing./ Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.

Like a goose; foolish.

Ghost; spirit.

A goat.

The Republican Party, the younger of the two major political parties in the U. S.

One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyid/; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.

A genus comprising the gopher tortoises, North AMerican burrowing toroises.

A small handsome round-headed deciduous tree (Cladrastis lutea) having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye; also called yellowwood.

Bog-bellied.

A prominent belly; a big-bellied person.

A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in hookahs in Western India.

An Indian goat antelope (Nemorhedus goral), resembling the chamois.

Same as Gourami.

A pool of water to keep fish in; a wear.

The moor cock, or red grouse. See Grouse.

The carrion crow; -- called also gercrow.

An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.

A division of nematoid worms, including the hairworms or hair eels (Gordius and Mermis). See Gordius, and Illustration in Appendix.

One of the Gordiacea.

A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in which they deposit their eggs; -- called also hair eel, hairworm, and hair snake, from the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs.

To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.

The garfish.

A dung fly.

To eat greedily and to satiety.

Having a gorge or throat.