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.

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.

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.

A small gorget, as of a humming bird.

Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent.

In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column.

A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century.

Like a Gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as, a Gorgon face.

See Gorgoniacea.

See Gorgonian, 1.

A mask carved in imitation of a Gorgon's head.

A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis.

One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c/nenchyma, in which the polyp cells are situated.

One of the Gorgoniacea.

To have the effect of a Gorgon upon; to turn into stone; to petrify.

A kind of Italian pressed milk cheese; -- so called from a village near Milan.

The female of the gorcock.

A large, arboreal, anthropoid ape of West Africa. It is larger than a man, and is remarkable for its massive skeleton and powerful muscles, which give it enormous strength. In some respects its anatomy, more than that of any other ape, except the chimpanzee, resembles that of man.

A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the foot.

An industrial city in the European part of Soviet Russia.

To daub, as the hands or clothing, with gorm; to daub with anything sticky.

The European cormorant.

Gluttonous; voracious.

See Gormand, n.

Gluttony.

A greedy, voracious eater; a gormand; a glutton.

Furze. See Furze.

A mountain in Tibet, 26,287 feet high.

A small bamboo of Southeastern China (Phyllostachys aurea) having slender culms flexuous when young.

Any large hawk of the genus Astur, of which many species and varieties are known. The European (Astur palumbarius) and the American (A. atricapillus) are the best known species. They are noted for their powerful flight, activity, and courage. The Australian goshawk (A. Nov/-Hollandi/) is pure white.

One who takes care of geese.

One of several species of pygmy geese, of the genus Nettepus. They are about the size of a teal, and inhabit Africa, India, and Australia.

A European weed (Hypochaeris radicata) widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears.

To instruct in the gospel.

One of the four evangelists.

Gorse.

Like gossamer; flimsy.

Decomposed rock, usually reddish or ferruginous (owing to oxidized pyrites), forming the upper part of a metallic vein. Called also iron hat.

Containing or producing gossan.

A small British marine fish (Motella tricirrata); -- called also whistler and three-bearded rockling.

A gossip.

To make merry.

One given to gossip.

The relationship between a person and his sponsors.

Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy.

Full of, or given to, gossip.

A boy; a servant.

A genus of plants which yield the cotton of the arts. The species are much confused. G. herbaceum is the name given to the common cotton plant, while the long-stapled sea-island cotton is produced by G. Barbadense, a shrubby variety. There are several other kinds besides these.

imp. p. p. of Get. See Get.

A situation in which a mistake by one person which is pointed out by another person; see gotcha, phr..