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Gabel
A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
Gadoid
Of or pertaining to the family of fishes () which includes the cod, haddock, and hake.
Galage
See .
Galvanographic
Of or pertaining to galvanography.
Gambol
A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.
game theory
A branch of mathematics that deals with strategies for maximizing gains or minimizing losses in competitive situations having defined constraints and involving random factors.
Gandhi
, a Hindu nationalist and religious leader, who preached non-violent resistance to oppression.
Gang-flower
The common English milkwort (), so called from blossoming in week.
Gangion
A short line attached to a trawl. See ,
Ganja
The dried hemp plant, used in India for smoking. It is extremely narcotic and intoxicating.
Gap
To notch, as a sword or knife.
Gargyle
See .
Garrulus
The type genus of the Garrulinae, conmprising the Old World jays.
Gasification
The act or process of converting into gas.
Gast
To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See .
Gastrohepatic
Pertaining to the stomach and liver; hepatogastric; .
Gastrostege
One of the large scales on the belly of a serpent.
Gat-toothed
Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton.
Gaud
Trick; jest; sport.
Gayal
A Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle ().
Gayne
To avail.
Geck
To jeer; to show contempt.
Genevese
Of or pertaining to Geneva, in Switzerland; Genevan.
Genys
See .
Geoduck
A gigantic clam () of the Pacific coast of North America, highly valued as an article of food.
Geophagous
Earth-eating.
geraniol
A terpene alcohol () which constitutes the principal part of the oil of palmarosa and the oil of rose. Chemically it is . It has a sweet rose odor.
Germless
Without germs.
Gerundial
Pertaining to, or resembling, a gerund; .
Geten
of .
Geyserite
A loose hydrated form of silica, a variety of opal, deposited in concretionary cauliflowerlike masses, around some hot springs and geysers.
Giambeux
Greaves; armor for the legs.
gibberish
Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words.
Gift
To endow with some power or faculty. See {4}.
Gig
A top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play.
Gilbert
, an English dramatist born at London Nov. 18, 1836. He is most famous for his collaborations with on a number of humorous light operas which are known as Gilbert and Sullivan Operas. His first play was Dulcamara (1866). He also wrote The Palace of Truth (1870), Pygmalion and Galatea (1871), Sweethearts (1874), Engaged (1877), The Mountebanks (1891), and in collaboration with Sir A. Sullivan (who wrote the music), he wrote The Sorcerer (1877), H. M. S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), Patience (1881), Iolanthe (1883), The Mikado (1885), Ruddygore (1887), The Yeomen of the Guard (1888), The Gondoliers (1889), and Utopia, limited (1893). The light operas proved very popular and continue to be performed over one hundred years later. He also published other works.
Ginkgo
A large ornamental tree () from China and Japan, belonging to the Yew suborder of . Its leaves are so like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is also called the .
Gird
To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms.
Glandiform
Having the form of a gland or nut; resembling a gland.
Glaucophane
A mineral of a dark bluish color, related to amphibole. It is characteristic of certain crystalline rocks.
Glave
See .
Glean
Cleaning; afterbirth.
Gleeful
Merry; gay; joyous.
globin
a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the protein part of hemoglobin.
Gloom
To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
Glossitis
Inflammation of the tongue.
Glue
A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances.
Glyceryl
A compound radical, , regarded as the essential radical of glycerin. It is metameric with allyl. Called also .
Glycide
A colorless liquid, obtained from certain derivatives of glycerin, and regarded as a partially dehydrated glycerin; -- called also .
Glyptodont
One of a family () of extinct South American edentates, of which Glyptodon is the type. About twenty species are known.
Gnatling
A small gnat.
Gobang
A Japanese game, played on a checkerboard, in which the object of the game is to be the first in placing five pieces, or men, in a row in any direction.
Goff
A silly clown.
goldbeater
An artisan who beats gold into goldleaf.
Gonidial
Of or pertaining to the angles of the mouth; .
good-hearted
benevolent.
Gooseberry
Any thorny shrub of the genus ; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which is the one commonly cultivated.
goose pimples
Same as .
Gord
An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.
Gorgoniacea
One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or cnenchyma, in which the polyp cells are situated.
Gormandism
Gluttony.
Bouge
To scoop out with a gouge.
Gouger
See .
Gouland
See .
Graff
A steward; an overseer.
Graft
A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
Grain
To yield fruit.
Grammatist
A petty grammarian.
Granatite
See .
Grand
Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal;
Grand mercy
See .
grantor
The person by whom a grant or conveyance is made.
graphology
The art of judging of a person's character, disposition, and aptitude from his handwriting; called by its practitioners. Though its practitioners consider it a science, it is widely considered a pseudoscience, as is astrology.
Grateful
Having a due sense of benefits received; kindly disposed toward one from whom a favor has been received; willing to acknowledge and repay, or give thanks for, benefits; .
Grayness
The quality of being gray.
Grazing
The act of one who, or that which, grazes.
Greedily
In a greedy manner.
Green
The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
Grower
One who grows or produces; ; also, that which grows or increases; .
Growler
One who growls.
Grumble
The noise of one that grumbles.
Grumbler
One who grumbles.
Gryfon
See .
Guerrilla
An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war.
Guiltiness
The quality or state of being guilty.
Guitar
A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut, -- played upon with the fingers.
Gum
To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See .
gunsight
A sight{9} attached to a gun, used for aiming it at the target. Same as {9}.
Guttated
Besprinkled with drops, or droplike spots.
guy
A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened.
Guzzler
An immoderate drinker.
Gynecian
Of or relating to women.