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Gag
Something thrust into the mouth or throat to hinder speaking.
Galactometer
An instrument for ascertaining the quality of milk (, its richness in cream) by determining its specific gravity; a lactometer.
Gallantly
In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.
Galliambic
Consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse.
Gallic
Pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallican.
Galloping
Going at a gallop; progressing rapidly; .
Gamogenetic
Relating to gamogenesis.
Gamophyllous
Composed of leaves united by their edges (coalescent).
Garbel
Anything sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been taken.
Gardenless
Destitute of a garden.
Gastrotrocha
A form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral side.
gate-crashing
entering a gathering uninvited; .
Gat-toothed
Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton.
Gaudish
Gaudy.
Ge
The chemical symbol for germanium, a metalloid element of atomic number 32. See .
Gearing
Harness.
Gemini
A constellation of the zodiac, containing the two bright stars and ; also, the third sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about May 20th.
Generalizable
Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule.
Genethliacal
Genethliac.
Genitourinary
See .
Geodiferous
Producing geodes; containing geodes.
geography
The science which treats of the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, features, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited. It also includes the responses and adaptations of people to topography, climate, soil and vegetation
Geomancer
One who practices, or is versed in, geomancy.
Georgian
Of or pertaining to Georgia, a former Soviet republic, now an independent country in the Causcuses in Asia, or to Georgia, one of the United States.
Geoselenic
Pertaining to the earth and moon; belonging to the joint action or mutual relations of the earth and moon; .
Giantess
A woman of extraordinary size.
Giglot
Giddi; light; inconstant; wanton.
Gildale
A drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share.
Gill
A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.
Glabrous
Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness.
Glass-gazing
Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical.
Glaze
The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See , , 3.
glazed
Same as .
Gloom
To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
Gloomth
Gloom.
Glossohyal
Pertaining to both the hyoidean arch and the tongue; -- applied to the anterior segment of the hyoidean arch in many fishes. -- The glossohyal bone or cartilage; lingual bone; entoglossal bone.
Gluish
Somewhat gluey.
Gnaphalium
A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting.
Gnathic
Of or pertaining to the jaw.
Godhead
Godship; deity; divinity; divine nature or essence; godhood.
Gold-beaten
Gilded.
goldfield
a district where gold is mined.
Gonoblastid
A reproductive bud of a hydroid; a simple gonophore.
goody-goody
A person who is weakly, sentimentally, or affectedly good; a goody-goody person; -- sometimes used to refer to person who acts with good intentions but who bunglingly does more harm than good. The latter may sometimes be deprecatingly referred to as a .
Gossaniferous
Containing or producing gossan.
Goujere
The venereal disease.
Gour
A fire worshiper; a Gheber or Gueber.
Gracious
Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love, or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; .
Gralloch
Offal of a deer.
Grammar
To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.
Grandfather
A father's or mother's father; an ancestor immediately after the father or mother in lineal ascent.
Grangerize
To collect (illustrations from books) for decoration of other books.
Grapery
A building or inclosure used for the cultivation of grapes.
Graphotype
A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied. The surface is then carefully rubbed or brushed, leaving the lines in relief.
Grating
That grates; making a harsh sound; harsh.
Grazioso
Gracefully; smoothly; elegantly.
Great White shark
a large shark (, class ) usually found in warm seas. When young it is bluish but it becomes white with age. It grows to over 15 feet in length and is feared as a man-eater. Also called and .
Grecian
A native or naturalized inhabitant of Greece; a Greek.
Greek
A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece.
Green
To make green.
Greenhorn
A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon.
Greening
A greenish apple, of several varieties, among which the Rhode Island greening is the best known for its fine-grained acid flesh and its excellent keeping quality.
Greenwood
A forest as it appears in spring and summer.
Grenadian
of or pertaining to Grenada; .
Grilse
A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
Griper
One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner.
Gripper
One who, or that which, grips or seizes.
Griskin
The spine of a hog.
Grope
To search out by feeling in the dark; .
Grotesqueness
Quality of being grotesque.
grounder
A batted ball that hits the ground before it leaves the infield, or the act of hitting a baseball along the ground; also called ; -- contrasted with or .
Groundnut
The fruit of the (native country uncertain); the peanut; the earthnut.
Group
A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; .
Grouse
To seek or shoot grouse.
Guarantee
In law and common usage: to undertake or engage for the payment of (a debt) or the performance of (a duty) by another person; to undertake to secure (a possession, right, claim, etc.) to another against a specified contingency, or in all events; to give a guarantee concerning; to engage, assure, or secure as a thing that may be depended on; to warrant; .
Guggle
See .
Guidebook
A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
gumshoe
A detective; a private eye.
Gusher
One who gushes.
Gutta
A drop.
Gutter
To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.
Guttler
A greedy eater; a glutton.
Guttural
Of or pertaining to the throat; formed in the throat; relating to, or characteristic of, a sound formed in the throat.