| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| gossaries | plural | of Glossary |
| goblinize | verb t. | To transform into a goblin. |
| godfather | noun | A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction., To act as godfather to; to take under one’s fostering care. |
| godliness | noun | Careful observance of, or conformity to, the laws of God; the state or quality of being godly; piety. |
| godlyhead | noun | Goodness. |
| godmother | noun | A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See Godfather |
| goffering | present participle & vb. noun | of Goffer |
| goldcrest | noun | The European golden-crested kinglet (Regulus cristatus, or R. regulus); — called also golden-crested wren, and golden wren. The name is also sometimes applied to the American golden-crested kinglet. See Kinglet. |
| goldfinch | noun | A beautiful bright-colored European finch (Carduelis elegans). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings. The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; — called also goldspink, goldie, fool’s coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William., The yellow-hammer., A small American finch (Spinus tristis); the thistle bird. |
| goldfinny | noun | One of two or more species of European labroid fishes (Crenilabrus melops, and Ctenolabrus rupestris); — called also goldsinny, and goldney. |
| goldsinny | noun | See Goldfinny. |
| goldsmith | noun | An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments, etc., of gold., A banker. |
| goltschut | noun | A small ingot of gold., A silver ingot, used in Japan as money. |
| gomphosis | noun | A form of union or immovable articulation where a hard part is received into the cavity of a bone, as the teeth into the jaws. |
| gonangium | noun | See Gonotheca. |
| gondolier | noun | A man who rows a gondola. |
| goniatite | noun | One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the latest, in the Triassic. |
| gonocalyx | noun | The bell of a sessile gonozooid. |
| gonophore | noun | A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome., A lengthened receptacle, bearing the stamens and carpels in a conspicuous manner. |
| gonorrhea | noun | Alt. of Gonorrhoea |
| gonothec/ | plural | of Gonotheca |
| gonotheca | noun | A capsule developed on certain hydroids (Thecaphora), inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; — called also gonangium, and teleophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian. |
| gonozooid | noun | A sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a gonophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian. |
| gode-year | noun | The venereal disease; — often used as a mild oath. |
| goodyship | noun | The state or quality of a goody or goodwife |
| goosander | noun | A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; — called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser. |
| goosefish | noun | See Angler. |
| goosefoot | noun | A genus of herbs (Chenopodium) mostly annual weeds; pigweed. |
| gooseries | plural | of Goosery |
| goosewing | noun | 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. |
| gor-belly | noun | A prominent belly; a big-bellied person. |
| gordiacea | noun pl. | A division of nematoid worms, including the hairworms or hair eels (Gordius and Mermis). See Gordius, and Illustration in Appendix. |
| gorgonean | adjective | See Gorgonian, 1. |
| gorgoneia | plural | of Gorgoneion |
| gorgonian | adjective | Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific., Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral., One of the Gorgoniacea. |
| gorgonize | verb t. | To have the effect of a Gorgon upon; to turn into stone; to petrify. |
| gormander | noun | See Gormand, n. |
| gospelize | verb t. | To form according to the gospel; as, a command gospelized to us., To instruct in the gospel; to evangelize; as, to gospelize the savages. |
| gossamery | adjective | Like gossamer; flimsy. |
| gossiping | present participle & vb. noun | of Gossip |
| gossypium | noun | 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. |
| gothamist | noun | A wiseacre; a person deficient in wisdom; — so called from Gotham, in Nottinghamshire, England, noted for some pleasant blunders. |
| gothamite | noun | A gothamist., An inhabitant of New York city. |
| gothicism | noun | A Gothic idiom., Conformity to the Gothic style of architecture., Rudeness of manners; barbarousness. |
| gothicize | verb t. | To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism. |
| gourdworm | noun | The fluke of sheep. See Fluke. |
| goutiness | noun | The state of being gouty; gout. |
| governing | present participle & vb. noun | of Govern, Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state., Requiring a particular case. |
| governail | noun | Management; mastery. |
| governess | noun | 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. |