foolish and silly, or appearing silly; as, he wore a goofy hat.
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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.
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..
A channel for water.
a port in southwestern Sweden; the second largest city in Sweden.
A gutter.
One of an ancient Teutonic race, who dwelt between the Elbe and the Vistula in the early part of the Christian era, and who overran and took an important part in subverting the Roman empire.
A wiseacre; a person deficient in wisdom; -- so called from Gotham, in Nottinghamshire, England, noted for some pleasant blunders.
A gothamist.
The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See Goth.
A Gothic idiom.
To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism.
Got to; have to; must; as, I gotta leave now.
p. p. of Get.
A method of painting with opaque colors, which have been ground in water and mingled with a preparation of gum; also, a picture thus painted.
Woad.
a small fascine or fagot, steeped in wax, pitch, and glue, used in various ways, as for igniting buildings or works, or to light ditches and ramparts.
See Plum Gouger.
A sharp-edged, tubular, marine shell, of the genus Vermetus; also, the pinna. See Vermetus.
The venereal disease.
See Golding.
A fire worshiper; a Gheber or Gueber.
One of several species of large, crested ground pigeons of the genus Goura, inhabiting New Guinea and adjacent islands. The Queen Victoria pigeon (Goura Victoria) and the crowned pigeon (G. coronata) are among the best known species.
A very largo East Indian freshwater fish (Osphromenus gorami), extensively reared in artificial ponds in tropical countries, and highly valued as a food fish. Many unsuccessful efforts have been made to introduce it into Southern Europe.
A false die. See Gord.
A silver dollar; -- so called in Cuba, Haiti, etc.
The state of being gourdy.
The fluke of sheep. See Fluke.
Swelled in the legs.
A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand.
Same as gormandize.
To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton; to make a pig of oneself.
A connoisseur in eating and drinking; an epicure.
A fish. See Gurnet.
Taste; relish.
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