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.

In a gouty manner.

The state of being gouty; gout.

A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Aegopodium Podagraria); -- called also bishop's weed, ashweed, and herb gerard.

Diseased with, or subject to, the gout; as, a gouty person; a gouty joint.

A mow; a rick for hay.

To exercise authority; to administer the laws; to have the control.

Governableness.

Capable of being governed, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient.

The quality of being governable; manageableness.

Management; mastery.

Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement.

A governess.

A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes.

Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state.

The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.

A temporary government moved to or formed in a foreign land by exiles who hope to rule when their country is liberated.

Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.

One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania.

The office of a governor.

The daisy, or mountain daisy.

Having, abounding in, or decked with, daisies.

Gold; wealth.

Golden.

See Dragont.

The saury pike; -- called also gofnick.

The European cuckoo; -- called also gawky.

To howl.

A loose, flowing upper garment The ordinary outer dress of a woman, especially one that is full-length/ex>. The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military.

Dressed in a gown; clad.

One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier.

See Gosherd.

Pertaining to, or discovered by, Regnier de Graaf, a Dutch physician.

See Grail, a dish.

A sudden grasp or seizure.

One who seizes or grabs.

To grope; to feel with the hands.

To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.

Endowed with grace; beautiful; full of graces; honorable.

Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech.

Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt.

A natural family of moths, the larvae of which are one type of leaf miner.

State of being gracilent; slenderness.

Same as Gracillariidae.

Slender; thin.

Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love, or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty.

In a gracious manner; courteously; benignantly.

Quality of being gracious.

One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icterid/; as, the rusty grackle (Scolecophagus Carolinus); the boat-tailed grackle (see Boat-tail); the purple grackle (Quiscalus quiscula, or Q. versicolor). See Crow blackbird, under Crow. An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See Myna.

To grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize.

To form with gradations.

By regular steps or gradations; of or pertaining to gradation.

A series of steps from a cloister into a church.

To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.

ordered by some quantitative ranking; as, Reading tests of graded difficulty.

Decent; orderly. Decently; in order.

One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.

The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade.

A toothed chised by sculptors.

Any member like a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like; a set raised over another.

The act or method of arranging in or by grade, or of bringing, as the surface of land or a road, to the desired level or grade.

A step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar. Cf. Superaltar, and Gradin.

An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps. A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.

The state of being gradual; gradualness.

In a gradual manner.

The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness.

Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.

Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades.

State of being a graduate.

One who determines or indicates graduation; as, a graduator of instruments.

A dictionary of prosody, designed as an aid in writing Greek or Latin poetry.

A German title of nobility, equivalent to earl in English, or count in French. See Earl.

See Graft.

The scarp of a ditch or moat.

a notary or scrivener.

Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii.

Production of decorative designs by scratching them through a surface of layer plaster, glazing, etc., revealing a different-colored ground; also, pottery or ware so decorated; -- chiefly used attributively.

To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.

The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation.

One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting.

One who follows the dietetic system of Graham.

One of the small feathers of a hawk.

A halfround single-cut file or fioat, having one curved face and one straight face, -- used by comb makers.

To yield fruit.

Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough.

An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.

A field where grain is grown.

the quality of being composed of relatively large particles.

A small European fresh-water fish (Leuciscus vulgaris); -- called also dobule, and dace.

See 5th Grain, n., 2 (b).

Resembling grains; granular.

A dungfork.

Furniture; apparatus or accouterments for work, traveling, war, etc.

See Grackle.

An order of birds which formerly included all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and allied forms; -- called also Grallatores.

See Grall/.

Of or pertaining to the Grallatores, or waders.

Pertaining to the Grall/.

Of or pertaining to the Grall/.

Offal of a deer. To remove the offal from (a deer).

The East Indian name of the chick-pea (Cicer arietinum) and its seeds; also, other similar seeds there used for food.