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Gabber
A liar; a deceiver.
Gain
Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable.
Gall
A wound in the skin made by rubbing.
Gallivant
To play the beau; to wait upon the ladies; also, to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.
Galore
Plenty; abundance; in abundance.
Gam
To gather in a gam; -- said of whales.
Gammadion
A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See .
Ganocephala
A group of fossil amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fishes.
Gardon
A European cyprinoid fish; the id.
Garrot
The European golden-eye.
Gateway
A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.
Gaucho
One of the native inhabitants of the South American pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle. Hence, a South American cowboy, especially on the pampas.
Gauger-ship
The office of a gauger.
gaussmeter
an instrument to compare strengths of magnetic fields.
Gaylussite
A yellowish white, translucent mineral, consisting of the carbonates of lime and soda, with water.
Gaze
To fix the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.
Gazel
See .
Gemmuliferous
Bearing or producing gemmules or buds.
Gender
To beget; to engender.
Generator
One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
Genian
Of or pertaining to the chin; mental; .
Gentilize
To render gentile or gentlemanly; .
Gerbillinae
A natural family of rodents including the gerbils.
Germarium
An organ in which the ova are developed in certain Turbellaria.
Gif
If.
Gigantean
Like a giant; mighty; gigantic.
Gimmal
Joined work whose parts move within each other; a pair or series of interlocked rings.
gipsywort
A hairy Eurasian herb () with two-lipped white flowers.
Glide slope
the proper path for an airplane approaching a landing strip; also called .
Gliding angle
The angle, esp. the least angle, at which a gliding machine or aroplane will glide to earth by virtue of gravity without applied power.
Glike
A sneer; a flout.
Glomuliferous
Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.
Glossitis
Inflammation of the tongue.
Glossological
Of or pertaining to glossology.
Glutamic
Of or pertaining to gluten.
Clycerole
Same as .
Glyceryl
A compound radical, , regarded as the essential radical of glycerin. It is metameric with allyl. Called also .
Glycogen
A white, amorphous, tasteless substance resembling starch, soluble in water to an opalescent fluid. It is found abundantly in the liver of most animals, and in small quantity in other organs and tissues, particularly in the embryo. It is quickly changed into sugar when boiled with dilute sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, and also by the action of amylolytic ferments.
Gnaw
To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teeth something hard, unwieldy, or unmanageable.
Gobble
To eat greedily.
Godfather
A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction. Correlative of .
Godward
Toward God.
goldenbush
A plant of the genus .
Golf
To play at golf.
Gondolier
A man who rows a gondola.
good-king-henry
A European plant () naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb.
Goodless
Having no goods.
Gordius
A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in which they deposit their eggs; -- called also , , and , from the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs.
Gorge
To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
Gormander
See ,
Gospeler
One of the four evangelists.
Grandly
In a grand manner.
Grapple
A seizing or seizure; close hug in contest; the wrestler's hold.
Grate
To rub roughly or harshly, as one body against another, causing a harsh sound; ; to produce (a harsh sound) by rubbing.
Grating
A partition, covering, or frame of parallel or cross bars; a latticework resembling a window grate; .
Grecism
An idiom of the Greek language; a Hellenism.
Grecize
To render Grecian; also, to cause (a word or phrase in another language) to take a Greek form; .
Greenback
One of the legal tender notes of the United States; a note of paper currency of the United States; -- first issued in 1862, and having the devices on the back printed with green ink, to prevent alterations and counterfeits.
Grene
Green.
Groat
An old English silver coin, equal to four pence.
grouchy
given to complaining or grumbling; prone to show annoyance at slight provocation; irritable.
Growan
A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.
Grubber
One who, or that which, grubs; especially, a machine or tool of the nature of a grub ax, grub hook, etc.
Grubby
Any species of ; a sculpin.
Guard
To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend; to shelter; to shield from surprise or attack; to protect by attendance; to accompany for protection; to care for.
Guardful
Cautious; wary; watchful.
Guardsman
One who guards; a guard.
Gubernatorial
Pertaining to a governor, or to government.
Guild
An association of men belonging to the same class, or engaged in kindred pursuits, formed for mutual aid and protection; a business fraternity or corporation; . They were originally licensed by the government, and endowed with special privileges and authority.
Guillotine
A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.
Guna
In Sanskrit grammar, a lengthening of the simple vowels , , , by prefixing an element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages.
Gymnonoti
The order of fishes which includes the Gymnotus or electrical eel. The dorsal fin is wanting.