In a grumbling manner.
A thick, viscid fluid; a clot, as of blood.
In a grum manner.
Clustered in grains at intervals; grumous.
Resembling or containing grume; thick; concreted; clotted; as, grumous blood.
The state of being grumous.
In a surly manner; sullenly.
Surly; dissatisfied; grouty.
A groundling (fish).
Groundsel.
Narrow and unintelligent conventionalism.
thickily covered with ingrained dirt or soot; as, a grungy kitchen.
A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.
One who, or that which, grunts; specifically, a hog.
In a grunting manner.
To grunt; to grunt repeatedly.
A young hog.
A constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere between Indus and Piscis Austrinus.
See Grudge.
A measure equal to one tenth of a line.
To gride. See Gride.
See Griffin.
A genus of insects including the common crickets.
A vulture; the griffin.
A genus of cretaceous fossil shells allied to the oyster.
A shell of the genus Gryphea.
The griffin vulture.
A small South African antelope (Neotragus melanotis). It is speckled with gray and chestnut, above; the under parts are reddish fawn.
A nocturnal bird of South America and Trinidad (Steatornis Caripensis, or S. steatornis); -- called also oilbird.
One of the mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian) inhabitants of the pampas of South America; a mestizo.
A plant (Aristolochia anguicida) of Carthagena, used as an antidote to serpent bites. The Mikania Guaco, of Brazil, used for the same purpose.
a mountainous island; the largest of the Solomon Islands in the independent state that is a member of the British Commonwealth.
Pertaining to, or resembling, guaiacum. Guaiacum.
A colorless liquid, C7H8O2, with a peculiar odor. It is the methyl ether of pyrocatechin, and is obtained by distilling guaiacum from wood-tar creosote, and in other ways. It has been used in the past for treating pulmonary tuberculosis.
A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America.
a great waterfall on the Brazil-Paraguay border.
A tropical tree of Central America and the West Indies and Puerto Rico (Inga laurina) having spikes of white flowers; it is used as shade for coffee plantations.
Any one of many species of large gallinaceous birds of Central and South America, belonging to Penelope, Pipile, Ortalis, and allied genera. Several of the species are often domesticated.
See Iguana.
A South American mammal (Auchenia huanaco), allied to the llama, but of larger size and more graceful form, inhabiting the southern Andes and Patagonia. It is supposed by some to be the llama in a wild state.
A strongly alkaline base, NH2.CNH.NH2, formed by the oxidation of guanin, and also obtained combined with methyl in the decomposition of creatin. Boiled with dilute sulphuric acid, it yields urea and ammonia.
Yielding guano.
A crystalline substance (C5H5N5O) contained in guano. It is also a constituent of the liver, pancreas, and other glands in mammals.
A substance found in great abundance on some coasts or islands frequented by sea fowls, and composed chiefly of their excrement. It is rich in phosphates and ammonia, and is used as a powerful fertilizer.
The scarlet ibis. See Ibis. A large-maned wild dog of South America (Canis jubatus) -- named from its cry.
A preparation from the seeds of Paullinia sorbilis, a woody climber of Brazil, used in making an astringent drink, and also in the cure of headache.
An alkaloid extracted from guarana. Same as Caffeine.
In law and common usage: to undertake or engage for the payment of (a debt) or the performance of (a duty) by another person; to undertake to secure (a possession, right, claim, etc.) to another against a specified contingency, or in all events; to give a guarantee concerning; to engage, assure, or secure as a thing that may be depended on; to warrant; as, to guarantee the execution of a treaty.
secured by written agreement.
One who makes or gives a guaranty; a warrantor; a surety. One who engages to secure another in any right or possession.
In law and common usage: To undertake or engage that another person shall perform (what he has stipulated); to undertake to be answerable for (the debt or default of another); to engage to answer for the performance of (some promise or duty by another) in case of a failure by the latter to perform; to undertake to secure (something) to another, as in the case of a contingency. See Guarantee, v. t.
To watch by way of caution or defense; to be cautious; to be in a state or position of defense or safety; as, careful persons guard against mistakes.
Capable of being guarded or protected.
Wardship
A guardian.
Cautious; wary; circumspect; as, he was guarded in his expressions; framed or uttered with caution; as, his expressions were guarded.
Guardianship.
One who guards.
The garfish.
Cautious; wary; watchful.
A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.
Performing, or appropriate to, the office of a protector; as, a guardian care.
Guardianship.
Guardianship.
A female guardian.
Without a guardian.
The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
Without a guard or defense; unguarded.
a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety.
The room occupied by the guard during its term of duty; also, a room where prisoners are confined.
A body of picked troops; as, /The Household Guards./
Care; protection.
One who guards; a guard.
To heal.
a native or inhabitant of Guatemala.
A tropical tree, or its fruit, of the genus Psidium. Two varieties are well known, the P. pyriferum, or white guava, and P. pomiferum, or red guava. The fruit or berry is shaped like a pomegranate, but is much smaller. It is somewhat astringent, but makes a delicious jelly.
Government.
To govern.
The act of governing; government
Governing.
Pertaining to a governor, or to government.
any thick messy substance.
To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon.
A sharper; a rogue.
Same as Gheber.
A cultivated variety of a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), bearing large bunches of white flowers; -- called also snowball tree.
One of a faction in Germany and Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which supported the House of Guelph and the pope, and opposed the Ghibellines, or faction of the German emperors.
Of or pertaining to the family or the faction of the Guelphs.
Any of several long-tailed arboreal African monkeys, of the genera Cercopithecus and Erythrocebus (formerly classified as Cercocebus), such as as the green monkey (Cercopithecus callitrichus) and grivet (Cercopithecus griseo-viridis).
The cheetah.
To give guerdon to; to reward; to be a recompense for.
Worthy of reward.
Without reward or guerdon.
A beautiful Abyssinian monkey (Colobus guereza), having the body black, with a fringe of long, silky, white hair along the sides, and a tuft of the same at the end of the tail. The frontal band, cheeks, and chin are white.
a small round table.
See Guerrilla.
A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.
Pertaining to, or engaged in, warfare carried on irregularly and by independent bands; as, a guerrilla party; guerrilla warfare.
An opinion as to anything, formed without sufficient or decisive evidence or grounds; an attempt to hit upon the truth by a random judgment; a conjecture; a surmise.
Capable of being guessed.
One who guesses; one who forms or gives an opinion without means of knowing.
By way of conjecture.
Conjectural.
an estimate based on little information, being little better than a guess.
Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.
To be, or act the part of, a guest.
In the manner of a guest.
One of several very small species and varieties of African antelopes, of the genus Cephalophus, as the Cape guevi or kleeneboc (Cephalophus pygm/a); -- called also pygmy antelope.
A genus having only one species: the Chilean nut.
A ludicrously false statment.
A loud burst of laughter; a horse laugh.
The eelpout; guffer eel.
See Gurgle.
A loose, earthy deposit from water, found in the cavities or clefts of rocks, mostly white, but sometimes red or yellow, from a mixture of clay or ocher.
Same as Guaiac.
A colorless liquid, C6H4.OCH3.OH, resembling the phenols, found as a constituent of woodtar creosote, and produced by the dry distillation of guaiac resin.
Same as Guaiacum.
A West African antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), curiously marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground, and hence called harnessed antelope; -- called also guiba.
[Mahratta g/ekw/r, prop., a cowherd.] The title of the sovereign of Guzerat, in Western India; -- generally called the Guicowar of Baroda, which is the capital of the country.
Capable of being guided; willing to be guided or counseled.
The reward given to a guide for services.