| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| going | present participle & vb. noun | of Go, The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad., Departure., Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing., Course of life; behavior; doings; ways. |
| goafs | plural | of Goaf |
| gobet | noun | See Gobbet. |
| go-by | noun | A passing without notice; intentional neglect; thrusting away; a shifting off; adieu; as, to give a proposal the go-by. |
| godly | noun | Pious; reverencing God, and his character and laws; obedient to the commands of God from love for, and reverence of, his character; conformed to God’s law; devout; righteous; as, a godly life., Piously; devoutly; righteously. |
| goety | noun | Invocation of evil spirits; witchcraft. |
| golde | noun | Alt. of Goolde |
| golet | noun | The gullet., A California trout. See Malma. |
| goman | noun | A husband; a master of a family. |
| gombo | noun | See Gumbo. |
| gomer | noun | A Hebrew measure. See Homer., A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars; — named after the inventor. |
| gonad | noun | One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland. |
| gonys | noun | The keel or lower outline of a bird’s bill, so far as the mandibular rami are united. |
| goods | noun pl. | See Good, n., 3. |
| goody | noun | A bonbon, cake, or the like; — usually in the pl., An American fish; the lafayette or spot., Goodwife; — a low term of civility or sport. |
| goose | noun | Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres., Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose., A tailor’s smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose., A silly creature; a simpleton., A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted. |
| goost | noun | Ghost; spirit. |
| goral | noun | An Indian goat antelope (Nemorhedus goral), resembling the chamois. |
| gorce | noun | A pool of water to keep fish in; a wear. |
| gored | imp. & past participle | of Gore |
| gorge | noun | The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach., A narrow passage or entrance, A defile between mountains., The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; — usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion., That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl., A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river., A concave molding; a cavetto., The groove of a pulley., To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities., To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate., To eat greedily and to satiety. |
| gorma | noun | The European cormorant. |
| gorse | noun | Furze. See Furze. |
| goter | noun | a gutter. |
| gouge | noun | A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood., A bookbinder’s tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve., An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc., Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein., The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge., Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person. |
| goura | noun | 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 beat known species. |
| gourd | noun | A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order Cucurbitaceae; and especially the bottle gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris) which occurs in a great variety of forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes., A dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd; hence, a drinking vessel; a bottle., A false die. See Gord., Alt. of Gourde |
| gouty | adjective | Diseased with, or subject to, the gout; as, a gouty person; a gouty joint., Pertaining to the gout., Swollen, as if from gout., Boggy; as, gouty land. |
| gowan | noun | The daisy, or mountain daisy., Decomposed granite. |