(pl. ) of Gree

(pl. ) of Gree

(pl. ) of Gree

(n.) An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.

(a.) Great.

(v. i.) To weep; to cry; to lament.

(n.) Mourning.

(v. t.) To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token.

(v. t.) To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad.

(v. t.) To accost; to address.

(v. i.) To meet and give salutations.

(n.) Greeting.

(v. t.) Alt. of Gregge

(n.) A short jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant.

(v. i.) See Greet, to weep.

(a.) Green.

(n.) A little pig.

(n.) See Gree, a step.

(e. i.) To cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as, the griding sword.

(n.) A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.

(a.) Pain of mind on account of something in the past; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends, misconduct of one's self or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.

(a.) Cause of sorrow or pain; that which afficts or distresses; trial; grievance.

(a.) Physical pain, or a cause of it; malady.

(v. t.) A gridiron.

(v. t.) That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.

(n.) To broil on a grill or gridiron.

(n.) To torment, as if by broiling.

(n.) Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.

(v. t.) To sully or soil deeply; to dirt.

(superl.) Full of grime; begrimed; dirty; foul.

(v. t.) To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.

(v. t.) To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc.

(v. t.) To oppress by severe exactions; to harass.

(v. t.) To study hard for examination.

(v. i.) To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.

(v. i.) To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well.

(v. i.) To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.

(v. i.) To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.

(v. i.) To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination.

(n.) The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.

(n.) Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study.

(n.) A hard student; a dig.

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Grind, contr. from grindeth.

(n.) A vulture; the griffin.

(v. t.) To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.

(v. t.) To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.

(v. t.) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.

(v. i.) To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.

(v. i.) To suffer griping pains.

(v. i.) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm.

(n.) Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.

(n.) That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword.

(n.) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.

(n.) Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.

(n.) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.

(n.) The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.

(n.) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.

(n.) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging.

(n.) See Grice, a pig.

(n.) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.

(n.) Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces.

(n.) Supply; provision.

(n.) In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.

(n.) Peace; security; agreement.

(v. i.) To give forth a low, moaning sound in breathing; to utter a groan, as in pain, in sorrow, or in derision; to moan.

(v. i.) To strive after earnestly, as with groans.

(v. t.) To affect by groans.

(n.) A low, moaning sound; usually, a deep, mournful sound uttered in pain or great distress; sometimes, an expression of strong disapprobation; as, the remark was received with groans.

(n.) An old English silver coin, equal to four pence.

(n.) Any small sum of money.

(n.) The snout of a swine.

(v. i.) To grunt to growl; to snarl; to murmur.

(n.) The line between the lower part of the abdomen and the thigh, or the region of this line; the inguen.

(n.) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults, growing more obtuse as it approaches the summit.

(n.) The surface formed by two such vaults.

(n.) A frame of woodwork across a beach to accumulate and retain shingle.

(v. t.) To fashion into groins; to build with groins.

() obs. imp. of Grind.

(n.) A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.

(n.) One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department; as, the groom of the chamber; the groom of the stole.

(n.) A man recently married, or about to be married; a bridegroom.

(v. i.) To tend or care for, or to curry or clean, as a, horse.

(n.) A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.

(n.) An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.

(n.) A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.

(n.) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; -- sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.

(n.) To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.

(n.) Coarse meal; ground malt; pl. groats.

(n.) Formerly, a kind of beer or ale.

(n.) Lees; dregs; grounds.

(n.) A thin, coarse mortar, used for pouring into the joints of masonry and brickwork; also, a finer material, used in finishing the best ceilings. Gwilt.

(v. t.) To fill up or finish with grout, as the joints between stones.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a grove; situated in, or frequenting, groves.

(p. p.) of Grow

(v. i.) To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.

(v. t.) To express by growling.

(n.) The deep, threatening sound made by a surly dog; a grumbling sound.

() p. p. of Grow.

(n.) A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge.

(superl.) Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance; sour; surly; severe; harsh.

(n.) A thick, viscid fluid; a clot, as of blood.

(v. t.) To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound.

(n.) A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.

(n.) Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri), and the redmouth grunt (H. aurolineatus), of the Southern United States; -- also applied to allied species of the genera Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken.

(v. i.) To gride. See Gride.

(v. t.) To gripe.

(n.) A vulture; the griffin.

(n.) A plant (Aristolochia anguicida) of Carthagena, used as an antidote to serpent bites.

(n.) The Mikania Guaco, of Brazil, used for the same purpose.

(n.) A substance found in great abundance on some coasts or islands frequented by sea fowls, and composed chiefly of their excrement. It is rich in phosphates and ammonia, and is used as a powerful fertilizer.

(n.) The scarlet ibis. See Ibis.

(n.) A large-maned wild dog of South America (Canis jubatus) -- named from its cry.

(n.) 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.

(n.) To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.

(n.) To protect the edge of, esp. with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.

(n.) To fasten by binding; to gird.

(v. i.) To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety; as, careful persons guard against mistakes.

(v. t.) One who, or that which, guards from injury, danger, exposure, or attack; defense; protection.

(v. t.) A man, or body of men, stationed to protect or control a person or position; a watch; a sentinel.

(v. t.) One who has charge of a mail coach or a railway train; a conductor.

(v. t.) Any fixture or attachment designed to protect or secure against injury, soiling, or defacement, theft or loss

(v. t.) That part of a sword hilt which protects the hand.

(v. t.) Ornamental lace or hem protecting the edge of a garment.

(v. t.) A chain or cord for fastening a watch to one's person or dress.

(v. t.) A fence or rail to prevent falling from the deck of a vessel.

(v. t.) An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull; esp., in side-wheel steam vessels, the framework of strong timbers, which curves out on each side beyond the paddle wheel, and protects it and the shaft against collision.

(v. t.) A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger.

(v. t.) An interleaved strip at the back, as in a scrap book, to guard against its breaking when filled.

(v. t.) A posture of defense in fencing, and in bayonet and saber exercise.

(v. t.) An expression or admission intended to secure against objections or censure.

(v. t.) Watch; heed; care; attention; as, to keep guard.

(v. t.) The fibrous sheath which covers the phragmacone of the Belemnites.

(n.) A tropical tree, or its fruit, of the genus Psidium. Two varieties are well known, the P. pyriferum, or white guava, and P. pomiferum, or red guava. The fruit or berry is shaped like a pomegranate, but is much smaller. It is somewhat astringent, but makes a delicious jelly.

(v. t.) To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

(v. t.) To judge or form an opinion of, from reasons that seem preponderating, but are not decisive.

(v. t.) To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; as, he who guesses the riddle shall have the ring; he has guessed my designs.

(v. t.) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.

(v. t.) To think; to suppose; to believe; to imagine; -- followed by an objective clause.

(v. i.) To make a guess or random judgment; to conjecture; -- with at, about, etc.

(n.) An opinion as to anything, formed without sufficient or decisive evidence or grounds; an attempt to hit upon the truth by a random judgment; a conjecture; a surmise.

(n.) Same as Guaiac.

(n.) Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.

(n.) To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude.

(v. t.) The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right.

(v. t.) Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture.

(pl. ) of Gula

(pl. ) of Gula

(a.) Pertaining to the gula or throat; as, gular plates. See Illust. of Bird, and Bowfin.

(n.) Act of gulching or gulping.

(n.) A glutton.

(n.) A ravine, or part of the deep bed of a torrent when dry; a gully.

(v. t.) To swallow greedily; to gulp down.

(n.) The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for a red color or that which is red.

(a.) Full of whirlpools or gulfs.

(n.) A large knife.

(n.) A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry.

(n.) A grooved iron rail or tram plate.

(v. t.) To wear into a gully or into gullies.

(v. i.) To flow noisily.

(n.) See Gulf.

(n.) A kind of soft tumor, usually of syphilitic origin.

(a.) Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.

() Alt. of Gunny cloth

(n.) A whirlpool.

(v. t.) To swallow up.

(n.) An alvine evacuation; also, refuse matter.

(n.) A small fort.

(n. pl.) Groatts.

(n.) Nice or keen appreciation or enjoyment; relish; taste; fancy.

(n.) A drop.

(n.) One of a series of ornaments, in the form of a frustum of a cone, attached to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order; -- called also campana, and drop.

(a.) Charged or sprinkled with drops.

(imp. & p. p.) of Guy

(imp. & p. p.) of Gybe

(a.) Moving in a circular path or way; whirling; gyratory.

(a.) Pertaining to a gyrus, or convolution.

(n.) A subordinary of triangular form having one of its angles at the fess point and the opposite aide at the edge of the escutcheon. When there is only one gyron on the shield it is bounded by two lines drawn from the fess point, one horizontally to the dexter side, and one to the dexter chief corner.

(n.) A convoluted ridge between grooves; a convolution; as, the gyri of the brain; the gyri of brain coral. See Brain.

(n.) The scale.

(n.) To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment.

(n.) The dried hemp plant, used in India for smoking. It is extremely narcotic and intoxicating.

(n.) Same as Ganza.

(n.) A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gape

(n.) One who gapes.

(n.) A European fish. See 4th Comber.

(n.) A large edible clam (Schizothaerus Nuttalli), of the Pacific coast; -- called also gaper clam.

(n.) An East Indian bird of the genus Cymbirhynchus, related to the broadbills.

(n.) A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.

(pl. ) of Gas

(a.) Full of gas; like gas. Hence: [Colloq.] Inflated; full of boastful or insincere talk.

(superl.) Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.

(superl.) Gay; merry; festal.

(n.) One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.

(n.) A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.

(v. t.) To measure or determine with a gauge.

(v. t.) To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg.

(v. t.) To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock.

(v. t.) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment.

(v. t.) To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of.

(n.) A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.

(n.) Measure; dimensions; estimate.

(n.) Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.

(n.) Any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; -- usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.

(n.) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind; as, a vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.

(n.) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.

(n.) The distance between the rails of a railway.

(n.) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.

(n.) That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.

(v. i.) To gaze; to stare.

(n.) A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.

(a.) Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.

(n.) A gable.

(n.) A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.

(n.) The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc.

(n.) A mason's setting maul.

(n.) Tribute; toll; custom. [Obs.] See Gabel.

(n.) A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over.

(n.) A baby; a dunce.

(superl.) Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.

(n.) A Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle (Bibos frontalis).

(adv.) With mirth and frolic; merrily; blithely; gleefully.

(adv.) Finely; splendidly; showily; as, ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gaze

(n.) The black currant; also, the wild plum.

(n.) See Gazelle.

(n.) One who gazes.

(n.) A Venetian coin, worth about three English farthings, or one and a half cents.

(n.) One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.

(n.) Any lizard of the family Geckonidae. The geckoes are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and vertical, elliptical pupils. Their toes are generally expanded, and furnished with adhesive disks, by which they can run over walls and ceilings. They are numerous in warm countries, and a few species are found in Europe and the United States. See Wall gecko, Fanfoot.

(n.) pl. of Goose.

(n.) Alluvial matter on the surface of land, not of recent origin.

(a.) Cold; very cold; frozen.

(n.) Jelly.

(a.) Coupled; paired.

(n.) One of the twins.

(n.) One of the barrulets placed parallel and closed to each other. Cf. Bars gemel, under Gemel, a.

(n.) Full of gems; bright; glittering like a gem.

(n.) Spruce; smart.

(n.) A small South American deer (Furcifer Chilensis), with simple forked horns.

(n.) A man of a particular turn of mind.

(pl. ) of Genius

(n.) A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.

(a.) Neat; trim.

(pl. ) of Genu

(n.) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.

(n.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus; if its definition can not be made clear, it is more or less an artificial genus.

(n.) See Gonys.

(n.) A nodule of stone, containing a cavity, lined with crystals or mineral matter.

(n.) The cavity in such a nodule.

(n.) A small coin and weight; 1-20th of a shekel.

(n.) A kind of ornamental firework.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gage

(n.) A measurer. See Gauger.

(adv.) Merrily; showily. See gaily.

(n.) The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.

(n.) A kind of bandage for the head.

(n.) Headache extending all over the head.

(n.) A genus of fossil echini, having a vaulted, helmet-shaped shell.

(n.) The anterior, outer process of the second joint of the maxillae in certain insects.

(n.) A kind of lively dance, in 2-4 time; also, the music to the dance.

(n.) A viola da gamba.

(imp. & p. p.) of Game

(a.) Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.

(v. i.) To tell stories or gests.

(a.) To strike aghast; to affright.

(n.) A pass through a mountain.

(n.) A range of mountains.

(n.) Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf.

(v. t. & i.) See Guess.

(n.) See Ghoul.

(n.) The spirit; the soul of man.

(n.) The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

(n.) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.

(n.) A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

(v. i.) To die; to expire.

(v. t.) To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.

(n.) An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies.

(n.) A ravine. See Gill a woody glen.

(n.) A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.

(n.) A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

(n.) Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.

(a.) Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gibe

(n.) A kind of carp (Cyprinus gibelio); -- called also Prussian carp.

(n.) One who utters gibes.

(superl.) Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy.

(superl.) Promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a giddy precipice.

(superl.) Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling.

(superl.) Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless.

(v. i.) To reel; to whirl.

(v. t.) To make dizzy or unsteady.

(n.) Alt. of Giggot

(n.) See Grilse.

(n.) A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.

(n.) The measure round the body, as at the waist or belly; the circumference of anything.

(n.) A small horizontal brace or girder.

(v. t.) To bind as with a girth.

(n.) One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes.

(n.) Fetters.

(n.) An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.

(n.) An everglade.

(n.) An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, smooth ice.

(a.) The white of egg. It is used as a size or a glaze in bookbinding, for pastry, etc.

(a.) Any viscous, transparent substance, resembling the white of an egg.

(a.) A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd.

(v. t.) To smear with the white of an egg.

(n.) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth.

(n.) An organ or part which resembles a secreting, or true, gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and pituitary glands, the functions of which are very imperfectly known.

(n.) A special organ of plants, usually minute and globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product.

(n.) Any very small prominence.

(n.) The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing.

(n.) The crosspiece of a bayonet clutch.

(n.) The vascular body which forms the apex of the penis, and the extremity of the clitoris.

(n.) The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits.

(n.) Goiter.

(n.) A pessary.

(v. i.) To shine with a bright, dazzling light.

(v. i.) To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.

(v. i.) To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.

(v. t.) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.

(n.) A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.

(n.) A fierce, piercing look or stare.

(n.) A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.

(n.) A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice.

(n.) Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice.

(a.) Of a dazzling luster; glaring; bright; shining; smooth.

(v. i.) To grope with the hands, as in the dark.

(n.) See Glaive.

(v. i.) To become glazed of glassy.

(n.) The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3.

(v. t.) Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.

(v. t.) A glazing oven. See Glost oven.

(a.) Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.

(n.) A live coal. See Gleed.

(v. i.) To disgorge filth, as a hawk.

(n.) A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.

(n.) Brightness; splendor.

(v. t.) To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east.

(v. t.) To shine; to cast light; to glitter.

(v. t.) To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.).

(v. t.) To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.

(v. t.) To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.

(v. t.) To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.

(v. i.) To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.

(v. i.) To pick up or gather anything by degrees.

(n.) A collection made by gleaning.

(n.) Cleaning; afterbirth.

(n.) A lump; a clod.

(n.) Turf; soil; ground; sod.

(n.) The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.

(a.) Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful.

(v. i.) The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard.

(n.) A live coal.

(v. i.) A live or glowing coal; a glede.

(n.) A jest or scoff; a trick or deception.

(n.) An enticing look or glance.

(v. i.) To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly.

(n.) A game at cards, once popular, played by three persons.

(n.) Three of the same cards held in the same hand; -- hence, three of anything.

(v. i.) To glisten; to gleam.

(n.) A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea.

(v. i.) To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet.

(v. i.) To flow slowly, as water.

(n. & v.) See Glint.

(n.) The glede or kite.

(v. i.) To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise, violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily, or with a smooth, silent motion, as a river in its channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice.

(v. i.) To pass with a glide, as the voice.

(n.) The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.

(n.) A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element) or the brief initial element, in a class of diphthongal vowels, or the brief final or initial part of some consonants (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 18, 97, 191).

(n.) A transient glance; an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear.

(n.) A moment: as, for a gliff.

(n.) A sneer; a flout.

(n.) A glimpse, glance, or gleam.

(v. i.) To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.

(v. t.) To glance; to turn; as, to glint the eye.

(n.) Glimmer; mica.

(v. i.) To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.

(v. i.) To be sullen or morose.

(n.) The twilight; gloaming.

(v. i.) To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; -- usually in a bad sense, to gaze with malignant satisfaction, passionate desire, lust, or avarice.

(a.) Resembling, or pertaining to, a globe; round; orbicular.

(v. i.) To gloom; to look gloomy, morose, or sullen.

(n.) Gloom.

(n.) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of the horse's foot.

(n.) Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.

(n.) A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.

(n.) Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.

(n.) In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.

(v. i.) To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

(v. i.) To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.

(v. t.) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.

(v. t.) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.

(v. i.) To glare; to glower.

(v. i.) To pout; to look sullen.

(v. t.) To view attentively; to gloat on; to stare at.

(n.) A cover for the hand, or for the hand and wrist, with a separate sheath for each finger. The latter characteristic distinguishes the glove from the mitten.

(n.) A boxing glove.

(v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a glove.

(v. i.) To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly.

(v. i.) To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret.

(v. t.) To smooth over; to palliate.

(n.) Flattery; adulation; smooth speech.

(n.) Specious show; gloss.

(imp. & p. p.) of Glue

(n.) One who cements with glue.

(a.) Viscous; glutinous; of the nature of, or like, glue.

(n.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt.

(v. i.) To manifest sullenness; to sulk.

(n.) A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph.

(v. i.) To growl; to snarl.

(n.) a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.

(v. t.) To strike together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth.

(v. i.) To grind or strike the teeth together.

(v. t.) To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces.

(n.) An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc.

(n.) A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.

(n.) A small owl (Glaucidium gnoma) of the Western United States.

(n.) A brief reflection or maxim.

(n.) See Gobbet.

(n.) A passing without notice; intentional neglect; thrusting away; a shifting off; adieu; as, to give a proposal the go-by.

(n.) Pious; reverencing God, and his character and laws; obedient to the commands of God from love for, and reverence of, his character; conformed to God's law; devout; righteous; as, a godly life.

(adv.) Piously; devoutly; righteously.

(n.) Invocation of evil spirits; witchcraft.

(n.) The gullet.

(n.) A California trout. See Malma.

(n.) See Gumbo.

(n.) Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss.

(n.) A specious appearance; superficial quality or show.

(v. t.) To give a superficial luster or gloss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth.

(n.) A foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word requiring explanation.

(n.) An interpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running commentary.

(n.) A false or specious explanation.

(v. t.) To render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate; to explain; to annotate.

(v. t.) To give a specious appearance to; to render specious and plausible; to palliate by specious explanation.

(v. i.) To make comments; to comment; to explain.

(v. i.) To make sly remarks, or insinuations.

(n.) One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland.

(n.) The keel or lower outline of a bird's bill, so far as the mandibular rami are united.

(n. pl.) See Good, n., 3.

(pl. ) of Goose

(n.) Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.

(n.) Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.

(n.) A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.

(n.) A silly creature; a simpleton.

(n.) A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.

(n.) An Indian goat antelope (Nemorhedus goral), resembling the chamois.

(n.) A pool of water to keep fish in; a wear.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gore

(n.) The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

(n.) A narrow passage or entrance

(n.) A defile between mountains.

(n.) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.

(n.) That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.

(n.) A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.

(n.) A concave molding; a cavetto.

(n.) The groove of a pulley.

(n.) To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

(n.) To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.

(v. i.) To eat greedily and to satiety.

(n.) Furze. See Furze.

(n.) a gutter.

(n.) A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.

(n.) A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.

(n.) An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.

(n.) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.

(n.) The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.

(n.) Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.

(n.) A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order Cucurbitaceae; and especially the bottle gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris) which occurs in a great variety of forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes.

(n.) A dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd; hence, a drinking vessel; a bottle.

(n.) A false die. See Gord.

(n.) Alt. of Gourde

(a.) Diseased with, or subject to, the gout; as, a gouty person; a gouty joint.

(a.) Pertaining to the gout.

(a.) Swollen, as if from gout.

(a.) Boggy; as, gouty land.

(n.) The daisy, or mountain daisy.

(n.) Decomposed granite.

(n.) See Grail., a dish.

(n.) A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour.

(n.) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264.

(n.) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient.

(n.) The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade.

(v. t.) To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.

(v. t.) To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.

(v. t.) To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.

(n.) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.

(n.) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.

(n.) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.

(n.) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.

(n.) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.

(v. i.) To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.

(v. & n.) See Groan.

(n.) A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food.

(n.) The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively.

(n.) Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.; hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc.

(n.) The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram.

(n.) A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.

(n.) The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain.

(n.) The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc.

(n.) The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material.

(n.) The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.

(n.) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.

(n.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4.

(a.) Temper; natural disposition; inclination.

(a.) A sort of spice, the grain of paradise.

(v. t.) To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.

(v. t.) To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains.

(v. t.) To take the hair off (skins); to soften and raise the grain of (leather, etc.).

(n.) To yield fruit.

(n.) To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.

(n.) A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.

(n.) A tine, prong, or fork.

(n.) One the branches of a valley or of a river.

(n.) An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points.

(n.) A blade of a sword, knife, etc.

(n.) A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core.

(n.) A dungfork.

(a.) Anger; wrath; scorn.

(a.) Sorrow; grief; misery.

(n.) A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins.

(n.) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.

(n.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.

(n.) Grapeshot.

(a.) Composed of, or resembling, grapes.

(v. t.) To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.

(v. t.) To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with; to comprehend.

(v. i.) To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive.

(n.) A gripe or seizure of the hand; a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms.

(n.) Reach of the arms; hence, the power of seizing and holding; as, it was beyond his grasp.

(n.) Forcible possession; hold.

(n.) Wide-reaching power of intellect to comprehend subjects and hold them under survey.

(n.) The handle of a sword or of an oar.

(a.) Serving to gratify; agreeable.

(n.) A structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters.

(n.) A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.

(v. t.) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars; as, to grate a window.

(v. t.) To rub roughly or harshly, as one body against another, causing a harsh sound; as, to grate the teeth; to produce (a harsh sound) by rubbing.

(v. t.) To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg.

(v. t.) To fret; to irritate; to offend.

(v. i.) To make a harsh sound by friction.

(v. i.) To produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity.

(v. t.) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.

(superl.) Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.

(superl.) Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.

(superl.) Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.

(superl.) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.

(superl.) Slow and solemn in movement.

(n.) To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.

(n.) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.

(n.) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.

(n.) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.

(n.) To entomb; to bury.

(v. i.) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

(n.) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.

(n.) The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.

(n.) Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc.

(v. t.) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.

(v. t.) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.

(v. t.) To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.

(v. t.) To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.

(v. i.) To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.

(v. i.) To yield grass for grazing.

(v. i.) To touch something lightly in passing.

(n.) The act of grazing; the cropping of grass.

(n.) A light touch; a slight scratch.

(n.) One of several swimming birds or divers, of the genus Colymbus (formerly Podiceps), and allied genera, found in the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes.