A genus of South American fresh-water fishes, including the Gymnotus electricus, or electric eel. It has a greenish, eel-like body, and is possessed of electric power.
Loading earlier words…
To begin. See Gin.
The same as Gynecian.
That part of a large house, among the ancients, exclusively appropriated to women.
The branch of medicine that deals with the diseases and hygiene of women; same as gynecology.
A ventral canal or groove, in which the males of some di/cious trematodes carry the female. See Illust. of H/matozoa.
A plant having the stamens inserted in the pistil.
A class of plants in the Linn/an system, whose stamens grow out of, or are united with, the pistil.
An animal affected with gynandromorphism.
An abnormal condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female.
Affected with gynandromorphism.
Having stamens inserted in the pistil; belonging to the class Gynandria.
Pertaining to an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils.
Government by a woman.
See Gyn/ceum.
Of or relating to women.
Government by a woman, female power; gyneocracy.
Of or pertaining to gynecology.
Of or pertaining to gynecology; same as gynecological.
The science which treats of the structure and diseases of women.
See Gynecocracy.
The adoration or worship of woman.
Hatred of women; repugnance to the society of women.
To begin. See Gin.
A dilated base or receptacle, supporting a multilocular ovary.
Pertaining to, or having, a gynobase.
Female government; gynecocracy.
Di/cious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers.
The pistils of a flower, taken collectively. See Illust. of Carpophore.
The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower.
A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout.
See Gypsum.
Resembling or containing gypsum; partaking of the qualities of gypsum.
A gypsy. See Gypsy.
Containing gypsum.
Gypseous.
The act or art of engraving on gypsum.
A cast taken in plaster of Paris, or in white lime.
A mineral consisting of the hydrous sulphate of lime (calcium). When calcined, it forms plaster of Paris. Selenite is a transparent, crystalline variety; alabaster, a fine, white, massive variety.
To play the gypsy; to picnic in the woods.
The arts and practices or habits of gypsies; deception; cheating; flattery.
A common hairy European perennial (Veronica officinalis) with pale blue or lilac flowers in axillary racemes.
A labiate plant (the Lycopus Europ/us). Gypsies are said to stain their skin with its juice.
A genus of fossil fishes, found in Devonian and carboniferous strata; -- so named from their round, sculptured spines.
Moving in a circular path or way; whirling; gyratory.
Gyrating.
To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado; to revolve.
The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an axis; rotation; revolution.
Moving in a circle, or spirally; revolving; whirling around.
To turn round; to gyrate.
Abounding in gyres.
The higher orders of Mammalia, in which the cerebrum is convoluted.
One of several species and varieties of large Arctic falcons, esp. Falco rusticolus and the white species Falco Islandicus, both of which are circumpolar. The black and the gray are varieties of the former. See Illust. of Accipiter.
See Gyrus.
To garland.
A flying object simulating a pigeon in flight, when projected from a spring trap. It is used as a flying target in shooting matches.
A genus of extinct o/litic fishes, having rounded teeth in several rows adapted for crushing.
The petrified fruit of the Chara hispida, a species of stonewort. See Stonewort.
Spiral in arrangement or action.
A genus of ganoid fishes, found in strata of the new red sandstone, and the lias bone beds.
A turning round.
A kind of divination performed by drawing a ring or circle, and walking in or around it.
A subordinary of triangular form having one of its angles at the fess point and the opposite side at the edge of the escutcheon. When there is only one gyron on the shield it is bounded by two lines drawn from the fess point, one horizontally to the dexter side, and one to the dexter chief corner.
Covered with gyrons, or divided so as to form several gyrons; -- said of an escutcheon.
A rotating wheel, mounted in a ring or rings, for illustrating the dynamics of rotating bodies, the composition of rotations, etc. It was devised by Professor W. R. Johnson, in 1832, by whom it was called the rotascope.
Pertaining to the gyroscope; resembling the motion of the gyroscope.
Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro.
A modification of the gyroscope, consisting essentially of a fly wheel fixed inside a rigid case to which is attached a thin flange of metal for supporting the instrument. It is used in studying the dynamics of rotating bodies.
Of or pertaining to the gyrostat or to gyrostatics.
The doctrine or theory of the gyrostat, or of the phenomena of rotating bodies.
A convoluted ridge between grooves; a convolution; as, the gyri of the brain; the gyri of brain coral. See Brain.
Guise.
Delirious; senselessly extravagant; as, the man is clean gyte.
To fetter; to shackle; to chain.
The hydrogen bomb, a thermonuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of hydrogen nuclei at high temperatures to form helium. The force of its explosion may range from one to hundreds of megatons of TNT equivalent.
A prefix used in the names of British warships, meaning His Majesty's Ship or Her Majesty's Ship; as, H. M. S. Pinafore.
The chemical formula for water.
An exclamation denoting surprise, joy, or grief. Both as uttered and as written, it expresses a great variety of emotions, determined by the tone or the context. When repeated, ha, ha, it is an expression of laughter, satisfaction, or triumph, sometimes of derisive laughter; or sometimes it is equivalent to /Well, it is so./
A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it.
A half-penny.
The deep-sea fishing for cod, ling, and tusk, off the Shetland Isles.
A sea fish. See Hake.
A fog; esp., a fog or mist with a chill wind.
A genus of chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; it includes species formerly placed in the genus Gymnadeniopsis.
That part of a deed which follows the part called the premises, and determines the extent of the interest or estate granted; -- so called because it begins with the word Habendum.
To deal in small wares.
A dealer in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread.
The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.), trifles.
A cod salted and dried.
Properly, a short hauberk, but often used loosely for the hauberk.
Of or pertaining to clothing; wearing clothes.
Fit; qualified; also, apt.
A garment; an article of clothing.
Clothed.
To fit out; to equip; to qualify; to entitle.
Equipment; qualification.
Ability; aptitude.
To inhabit.
Habitableness.
Capable of being inhabited; that may be inhabited or dwelt in; as, the habitable world.
A dwelling place.
Same as Habitant, 2.
Dwelling; abode; residence.
Same as Inhabitancy.
The natural abode, locality or region of an animal or plant.
The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
A dweller; an inhabitant.
Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd.
Formed or acquired by habit or use.
Firmly established by custom; formed by habit; habitual.
The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations.
One who habitually frequents a place; as, an habitu/ of a theater.
Habitude.
Habitude; mode of life; general appearance.
See Habile.
By chance.
A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See Hatching.
A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions.
To be exposed or offered to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
A halter consisting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall, -- used for leading or tieing a pack animal.
Loading more words…