Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
gnarly |
adjective |
Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained. |
gnawed |
imp. & past participle |
of Gnaw |
gnawer |
noun |
One who, or that which, gnaws., A rodent. |
gneiss |
noun |
A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic / syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss. |
gnomic |
adjective |
Alt. of Gnomical |
gnomon |
noun |
The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth’s axis., A style or column erected perpendicularly to the horizon, formerly used in astronomocal observations. Its principal use was to find the altitude of the sun by measuring the length of its shadow., The space included between the boundary lines of two similar parallelograms, the one within the other, with an angle in common; as, the gnomon bcdefg of the parallelograms ac and af. The parallelogram bf is the complement of the parallelogram df., The index of the hour circle of a globe. |
gnosis |
noun |
The deeper wisdom; knowledge of spiritual truth, such as was claimed by the Gnostics. |