(adv.) In a greedy manner.

(n.) An African talisman or Gri'gri' charm.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Green

(n.) Green plants; verdure.

(n.) 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.

(a.) Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow.

(n.) l. (Zool.) One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love (V. Philadelphicus); the warbling greenlet (V. gilvus); the yellow-throated greenlet (V. flavifrons) and others. See Vireo.

(n.) Any species of Cyclorhis, a genus of tropical American birds allied to the tits.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Greet

(n.) Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent.

(n.) A registrar or recorder; a notary.

(a.) Alt. of Gruesome

(a.) Ugly; frightful.

(n.) A color mixed of white, and red, or a gray violet.

(n.) A grated iron utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals.

(n.) An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.

(n.) A football field.

(a.) Full of grief or sorrow.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grieve

(a.) Sad; sorrowful; causing grief.

(n.) The act of causing grief; the state of being grieved.

(a.) Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.

(a.) Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin.

(a.) Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grill

(v. t.) The act of grilling; also, that which is grilled.

(n.) A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.

(a.) Distorted; crabbed.

(n.) Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grin

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grind

(n.) Leather workers' materials.

(a. & n.) from Grind.

(a.) Disposed to gripe; extortionate.

(n.) A traveler's handbag.

(a.) Of a light color, or white, mottled with black or brown; grizzled or grizzly.

(n.) A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry.

(p. pr. &, vb. n.) of Grit

(n.) Alt. of Gritstone

(a.) See Gridelin.

(a.) Gray; grayish; sprinkled or mixed with gray; of a mixed white and black.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Groan

(a.) Agonizing; sad.

(n.) A grogshop.

(n.) A shop or room where strong liquors are sold and drunk; a dramshop.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Groin

(n.) A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Groom

(n.) The act of forming a groove or grooves; a groove, or collection of grooves.

(n.) One of various species of finches having a large, stout beak. The common European grosbeak or hawfinch is Coccothraustes vulgaris.

(n.) A small silver coin and money of account of Germany, worth about two cents. It is not included in the new monetary system of the empire.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ground

() p. p. of Grind.

(adv.) Solidly; deeply; thoroughly.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Group

(n.) The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grout

(n.) The process of filling in or finishing with grout; also, the grout thus filled in.

(imp. & p. p.) of Grovel

(n.) One who grovels; an abject wretch.

(a.) Capable of growth.

(p. pr. & vb. e.) of Growl

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grub

(n.) See Grub, n., 1.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grudge

(n. pl.) Coarse meal.

(a.) Same as Grewsome.

(n.) One who grumbles.

(adv.) In a surly manner; sullenly.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grunt

(n.) A shell of the genus Gryphea.

(n.) A nocturnal bird of South America and Trinidad (Steatornis Caripensis, or S. steatornis); -- called also oilbird.

(n.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America.

(n.) The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum offinale or lignum-vitae, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It is much used in medicine.

(pl. ) of Guanaco

(n.) In law and common usage: An undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, of another, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform; a guarantee; a warranty; a security.

(n.) In law and common usage: To undertake or engage that another person shall perform (what he has stipulated); to undertake to be answerable for (the debt or default of another); to engage to answer for the performance of (some promise or duty by another) in case of a failure by the latter to perform; to undertake to secure (something) to another, as in the case of a contingency. See Guarantee, v. t.

(v. t.) Wardship

(v. t.) Acting as guardian.

(v. t.) Same as Gardant.

(n.) A guardian.

(a.) Cautions; wary; watchful.

(v. t.) One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden.

(v. t.) One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs.

(a.) Performing, or appropriate to, the office of a protector; as, a guardian care.

(n.) The cheetah.

(a.) See Guerrilla.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Guess

(a.) Conjectural.

(a.) Capable of being guided; willing to be guided or counseled.

(n.) The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading.

(a.) Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty.

(adv.) In a guilty manner.

(a.) Easily gulled; that may be duped.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gully

(n.) Excessive appetite; greediness; voracity.

(n.) Capacity; shrewdness; common sense.

(n.) The art of preparing colors.

(n.) Megilp.

(n.) See Gynarchy.

(n.) See Gondola.

(n.) A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps.

(n.) The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.

(n.) One whose occupation is to make or repair small firearms; an armorer.

(n.) A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod.

(n. pl.) See Grudgeons.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gurgle

(n.) See Gargoyle.

(v.) Capable of being tasted; tastable.

(v.) Pleasant to the taste; toothsome; savory.

(n.) Anything that can be tasted.

(a.) Tasteless; insipid.

(a.) Besprinkled with drops, or droplike spots.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gutter

(n.) A plant that exudes gum or resin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the throat; formed in the throat; relating to, or characteristic of, a sound formed in the throat.

(n.) A sound formed in the throat; esp., a sound formed by the aid of the back of the tongue, much retracted, and the soft palate; also, a letter representing such a sound.

() A combining form denoting relation to the throat; as, gutturo-nasal, having both a guttural and a nasal character; gutturo-palatal.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Guzzle

(pl. ) of Gymnasium

(a.) Athletic; gymnastic.

(n.) One of a class of plants, so called by Lindley, because the ovules are fertilized by direct contact of the pollen. Same as Gymnosperm.

(n.) A plant having the stamens inserted in the pistil.

(n.) Government by a woman.

(n.) A dilated base or receptacle, supporting a multilocular ovary.

(a.) Resembling or containing gypsum; partaking of the qualities of gypsum.

(n.) The arts and practices or habits of gypsies; deception; cheating; flattery.

(n.) The state of a gypsy.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gyrate

(n.) The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an axis; rotation; revolution.

(n.) One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.

(a.) Moving in a circle, or spirally; revolving; whirling around.

(a.) Spiral in arrangement or action.

(a.) Having the planes arranged spirally, so that they incline all to the right (or left) of a vertical line; -- said of certain hemihedral forms.

(a.) Turning the plane of polarization circularly or spirally to the right or left.

(n.) A modification of the gyroscope, consisting essentially of a fly wheel fixed inside a rigid case to which is attached a thin flange of metal for supporting the instrument. It is used in studying the dynamics of rotating bodies.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gammon

(a.) Alt. of Ganglial

(a.) Relating to a ganglion; ganglionic.

(n.) A mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve.

(n.) A node, or gland in the lymphatic system; as, a lymphatic ganglion.

(n.) A globular, hard, indolent tumor, situated somewhere on a tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it; -- called also weeping sinew.

(n.) A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applied to mortification of the soft parts in any stage.

(v. t. & i.) To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene.

(n.) Alt. of Gannister

(a.) Ganoid.

(n.) A line rigged to a mast; -- used in hoisting rigging; a girtline.

(n.) See Gantlet.

(n.) The parasitic worm that causes the gapes in birds. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) An extract of madder by sulphuric acid. It consists essentially of alizarin.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Garble

(n.) One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake.

(imp. & p. p.) of Garden

(a.) Like a garden.

(n.) An old cry in throwing water, slops, etc., from the windows in Edingburgh.

(n.) The great auk; also, the razorbill. See Auk.

(n.) A small European duck (Anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gargle

(n.) A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely.

(a.) Like or containing garlic.

(imp. & p. p.) of Garner

(n.) A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.

(a.) Protected by turrets.

(imp. & p. p.) of Garrote

(n.) One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.

(imp. & p. p.) of Garter

(n.) A chandelier arranged to burn gas.

(a.) Having a form of gas; gaseous.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gasify

(n.) See Gasoline.

(n.) Same as Gasalier.

(n.) A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. See Carburetor.

(a.) So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.

(n.) See Ghastness.

(n.) A primeval larval form; a double-walled sac from which, according to the hypothesis of Haeckel, man and all other animals, that in the first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two-layered structural stage, or gastrula form, must have descended. This idea constitutes the Gastraea theory of Haeckel. See Gastrula.

(n.) An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). See Illust. under Invagination. In a more general sense, an ideal stage in embryonic development. See Gastraea.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a gastrula.

(a.) Having no gate.

(adv.) In the manner of a gate.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gather

(n.) One who gathers or collects.

(n.) An attachment for making gathers in the cloth.

(a.) Destitute of ornament.

(n.) See Gantlet.

(n.) A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds.

(n.) A long glove, covering the wrist.

(n.) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.

(n.) Alt. of Gauntry

(n.) A spear or dart.

(n.) An iron crow or lever.

(n.) The European red gurnard (Trigla cuculus).

(n.) A vessel of Anam, with two or three masts, lofty triangular sails, and in construction somewhat resembling a Chinese junk.

(pl. ) of Gayety

(n.) View.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gazette

(n.) A portable apparatus for making soda water or aerated liquids on a small scale.

(a.) Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing.

(n.) Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on the collagen of various kinds of connective tissue (as tendons, bones, ligaments, etc.). Its distinguishing character is that of dissolving in hot water, and forming a jelly on cooling. It is an important ingredient of calf's-foot jelly, isinglass, glue, etc. It is used as food, but its nutritious qualities are of a low order.

(n.) Same as Gelatin.

(n.) The process of becoming solid by cooling; a cooling and solidifying.

(a.) Capable of being gelded.

(a.) Liable to taxation.

(n.) The state of being gelid.

(a.) Gelseminic.

(a.) In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers.

(v. t.) To double.

(a.) Double; in pairs.

(a.) Having buds; adorned with gems or jewels.

(a.) Pertaining to gems; of the nature of gems; resembling gems.

(n.) One of a body of heavy cavalry.

(n.) An armed policeman in France.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gender

(n.) The chief of a family or tribe.

(a.) Generative; producing

(a.) acting as a generant.

(n.) That which generates.

(n.) A generatrix.

(v. t.) To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

(v. t.) To cause to be; to bring into life.

(v. t.) To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause.

(v. t.) To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.

(a.) Of honorable birth or origin; highborn.

(a.) Exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth; noble; honorable; magnanimous; spirited; courageous.

(a.) Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father.

(a.) Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table.

(a.) Full of spirit or strength; stimulating; exalting; as, generous wine.

(a.) Of or relating to generation.

(adv.) By genius or nature; naturally.

(adv.) Gayly; cheerfully.

(a.) The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts.

(n.) A species of apple that ripens very early.

(a.) Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses source or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.

(n.) The genitive case.

(n.) Generation; procreation; birth.

(pl. ) of Genius

(n.) A tasteless, yellow, crystalline substance, obtained from the gentian; -- called also gentianin.

(a.) Alt. of Geodesical

(n.) A geodetic line or curve.

(a.) Alt. of Geodetical

(n.) One versed in geognosy; a geologist.

(n.) That part of geology which treats of the materials of the earth's structure, and its general exterior and interior constitution.

(a.) Alt. of Geogonical

(n.) The worship of the earth.

(n.) Alt. of Geologian

(a.) Alt. of Geological

(n.) A kind of divination by means of figures or lines, formed by little dots or points, originally on the earth, and latterly on paper.

(n.) One skilled in geometry; a geometrician; a mathematician.

(n.) Any species of geometrid moth; a geometrid.

(n.) That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space.

(n.) A treatise on this science.

(a.) Alt. of Geoponical

(n.) Knowledge of the earth, ground, or soil, obtained by inspection.

(n.) One of several species of small, jumping, murine rodents, of the genus Gerbillus. In their leaping powers they resemble the jerboa. They inhabit Africa, India, and Southern Europe.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gabble

(p. a.) Furnished with gabions.

(n.) A gadder

(pl. ) of Gadfly

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gaggle

(v. t.) Capable of being obtained or reached.

(a.) Not producing gain; unprofitable.

(n.) Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gainsay

(a.) Gainful.

(a.) Prepossessing; well-favored.

(n.) See Garefowl.

(a.) Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the galaxy or Milky Way.

(n.) An amorphous, gelatinous substance containing nitrogen, found in milk and other animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously regarded as a coagulating or emulsifying agent.

(n.) A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree (Galactodendron).

(n.) An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate resembling gelose, found in the seeds of leguminous plants, and yielding on decomposition several sugars, including galactose.

(n.) The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (A. Galanga and A. officinarum) and of the Kaempferia Galanga), -- all of the Ginger family.

(pl. ) of Galaxy

(n.) A gum resin exuding from the stems of certain Asiatic umbelliferous plants, mostly species of Ferula. The Bubon Galbanum of South Africa furnishes an inferior kind of galbanum. It has an acrid, bitter taste, a strong, unpleasant smell, and is used for medical purposes, also in the arts, as in the manufacture of varnish.

(a.) Wearing a helmet; protected by a helmet; covered, as with a helmet.

(a.) Helmeted; having a helmetlike part, as a crest, a flower, etc.; helmet-shaped.

(n.) Galena; lead ore.

(n.) A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus Galerites.

(n.) A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley.

(a.) Gay; brisk; active.

(n.) A brisk, gay man.

(a.) A gay, lively dance. Cf. Gailliarde.

(n.) Same as Galleass.

(n.) A glazed earthen pot or vessel, used by druggists and apothecaries for containing medicines, etc.

(n.) A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, -- used on the Malabar coast.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gallop

(n.) One who, or that which, gallops.

(n.) A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.

(n. pl.) High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.

(n.) Same as Gambison.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gamble

(a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, gamboge.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gambol

(n.) A kind of twilled linen cloth for lining.

(a.) Destitute of game.

(n.) Endurance; pluck.

(a.) Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry.

(n.) A merry, frolicsome person.

(n.) A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games.

(n.) A prostitute; a strumpet.

(a.) Without germs.

(n.) That part of medicine which treats of regimen for old people.

(n. pl.) Magistrates in Sparta, who with the ephori and kings, constituted the supreme civil authority.

(a.) Relating to gesture.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gesture

(a.) That may be obtained.

(a.) Fit to make one aghast; dismal.

(a.) Characteristic of a ghoul; vampirelike; hyenalike.

(n. pl.) Greaves; armor for the legs.

(n.) A woman of extraordinary size.

(v. i.) To play the giant.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gibber

(imp. & p. p.) of Gibbet

(n.) A hydrate of alumina.

(adv.) In a gibing manner; scornfully.

(n.) A staff to guage water, or to push a boat.

(n.) A staff formerly used in fighting beasts on the stage.

(a.) Of extraordinary size; like a giant.

(a.) Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness.

(n.) The muscular stomach, or gizzard, of birds.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Giggle

(n.) A marine fish.

(n.) The Pagrus, / Chrysophrys, auratus, a valuable food fish common in the Mediterranean (so named from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll.

(n.) The Crenilabrus melops, of the British coasts; -- called also golden maid, conner, sea partridge.

(n.) A yellow-tailed worm or larva.

(n.) A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gimlet

(adv.) Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the gums.

(pl. ) of Ginglymus

(n.) A building where cotton is ginned.

(pl. ) of Ginkgo

(n.) See Gypsyism.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Girdle

(n.) State or time of being a girl.

(n.) The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon.

(pl. ) of Glabellum

(a.) Becoming smooth or glabrous from age.

(a.) Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness.

(v. i.) To turn to ice.

(v. t.) To convert into, or cover with, ice.

(v. t.) To produce glacial effects upon, as in the scoring of rocks, transportation of loose material, etc.

(a.) Pertaining to, consisting of or resembling, ice; icy.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glad

(a.) Sword-shaped; resembling a sword in form, as the leaf of the iris, or of the gladiolus.

(n.) A lilylike plant, of the genus Gladiolus; -- called also corn flag.

(pl. ) of Gladiolus

(n.) State or quality of being glad; pleasure; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness.

(n.) A state of gladness.

(a.) Pleased; joyful; cheerful.

(a.) Causing joy, pleasure, or cheerfulness; having the appearance of gayety; pleasing.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glair

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glance

(a.) Shooting, as light.

(a.) Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot.

(n.) A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.

(n.) A small gland or secreting vessel.

(a.) Glairy.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glass

(n.) A fish of the great lakes; the wall-eyed pike.

(n.) A species of blindness in horses in which the eye is bright and the pupil dilated; a sort of amaurosis.

(n.) The contents of a glass; as much of anything as a glass will hold.

(a.) Glassy; shining like glass.

(adv.) So as to resemble glass.

(a.) Glaucous or glaucescent.

(n.) An alkaloid obtained from the plant Glaucium, as a bitter, white, crystalline substance.

(n.) Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball.

(a.) Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue.

(a.) Covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage leaf.

(n.) A claymore.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gleam

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glean

(n.) The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning.

(a.) Merry; joyous; gleeful.

(n.) The quality of being glib.

(a.) Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery.

(imp. & p. p.) of Glimpse

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glint

(n.) A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps.

(n.) Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening.

(n.) Sullenness; melancholy.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gloat

(a.) Having the form of a globe; spherical.

(a.) Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms.

(n.) A little globule.

(n.) An albuminous body, insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute solutions of salt. It is present in the red blood corpuscles united with haematin to form haemoglobin. It is also found in the crystalline lens of the eye, and in blood serum, and is sometimes called crystallin. In the plural the word is applied to a group of proteid substances such as vitellin, myosin, fibrinogen, etc., all insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute salt solutions.

(n.) Same as Nitroglycerin; -- called also oil of glonoin.

(n.) A dilute solution of nitroglycerin used as a neurotic.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gloom

(adv.) In a gloomy manner.

(n.) Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming.

(n.) An aureole.

(n.) A boaster.

(n.) Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; splendid; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds.

(n.) Eager for glory or distinction; haughty; boastful; ostentatious; vainglorious.

(n.) Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glory

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gloss

(n.) A collection of glosses or explanations of words and passages of a work or author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialect, art, or science, explaining archaic, technical, or other uncommon words.

(adv.) In a glossy manner.

(n.) A writer of comments.

(n.) The glowworm.

(imp. & p. p.) of Glower

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, glucinum; as, glucinic oxide.

(n.) A rare metallic element, of a silver white color, and low specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally in the free state, but is always combined, usually with silica or alumina, or both; as in the minerals phenacite, chrysoberyl, beryl or emerald, euclase, and danalite. It was named from its oxide glucina, which was known long before the element was isolated. Symbol Gl. Atomic weight 9.1. Called also beryllium.

(n.) Alt. of Glumelle

(n.) Moodiness; sullenness.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glut

(a.) Of or pertaining to gluten.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid so called; as, glutaric ethers.

(n.) Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, glycerin.

(n.) Alt. of Glycerine

(n.) Same as Glycerin.

(n.) A compound radical, C3H5, regarded as the essential radical of glycerin. It is metameric with allyl. Called also propenyl.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, glycide; as, glycidic acid.

(n.) Same as Glycocoll.

(n.) 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.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, glycol; as, glycolic ether; glycolic acid.

(n.) A divalent, compound radical, CO.CH2, regarded as the essential radical of glycolic acid, and a large series of related compounds.

(n.) An emulsion of glycerin and the yolk of eggs, used as an ointment, as a vehicle for medicines, etc.

(n.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, produced by the action of hydroxylamine on glyoxal, and belonging to the class of oximes; also, any one of a group of substances resembling glyoxime proper, and of which it is a type. See Oxime.

(n.) The art of engraving on precious stones.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gnar

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gnarl

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gnash

(n.) Any one of the mouth appendages of the Arthropoda. They are known as mandibles, maxillae, and maxillipeds.

(n.) A small gnat.

(n.) The aquatic larva of a gnat; -- called also, colloquially, wiggler.

(a.) Relating to, or resembling, gneiss; consisting of gneiss.

(a.) Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic.

(a.) Gnomonical.

(a.) Alt. of Gnomonical

(n.) A fish of the genus Upeneus, inhabiting the Gulf of Mexico. It is allied to the surmullet.

(a.) Like a goat; goatish.

(n.) The skin of a goat, or leather made from it.

(a.) Made of the skin of a goat.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gobble

(n.) One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.

(a.) Goodly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Goffer

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Goggle

(a.) Alt. of Goitred

(a.) Pertaining to the goiter; affected with the goiter; of the nature of goiter or bronchocele.

(n.) A small domesticated cyprinoid fish (Carassius auratus); -- so named from its color. It is native of China, and is said to have been introduced into Europe in 1691. It is often kept as an ornament, in small ponds or glass globes. Many varieties are known. Called also golden fish, and golden carp. See Telescope fish, under Telescope.

(n.) A California marine fish of an orange or red color; the garibaldi.

(a.) Destitute of gold.

(n.) Dog's-tail grass.

(n.) A projecting tooth.

(n.) The male game fowl.

(n.) Any strange sight.

(n.) The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.

(n.) A gas jet or burner.

(n.) A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging / hinging post.

(n.) A post against which a gate closes; -- called also shutting post.

(n.) Mutial accommodation; mutual giving.

(n.) A gantline.

(n.) A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvae of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments.

(n.) One who tends goats.

(n. / interj.) Farewell; a form of address used at parting. See the last Note under By, prep.

(interj.) A form of salutation.

(n.) See Dextrin.

(pl. ) of Gonangium

(n.) A small gondola.

(n.) A state of exhaustion; faintness, especially as resulting from hunger.

(n.) Alt. of Gonfanon

(n.) The ensign or standard in use by certain princes or states, such as the mediaeval republics of Italy, and in more recent times by the pope.

(n.) A name popularly given to any flag which hangs from a crosspiece or frame instead of from the staff or the mast itself.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the angles of the mouth; as, a gonidial groove of an actinian.

(n.) A special groove or furrow at one or both angles of the mouth of many Anthozoa.

(n.) A component cell of the yellowish green layer in certain lichens.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells.

(n.) The reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively.

(a.) Pertaining to the gonys of a bird's beak.

(a.) Having no goods.

(n.) The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of disposition, of conduct, etc.

(n.) Favor; grace.

(n.) The mistress of a house.

(n.) The garfish.

(n.) A small gorget, as of a humming bird.

(n.) Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent.

(n.) In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column.

(n.) One of the four evangelists.

(n.) A follower of Wyclif, the first English religious reformer; hence, a Puritan.

(n.) A priest or deacon who reads the gospel at the altar during the communion service.

(n.) A fine, filmy substance, like cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm, clear weather, especially in autumn. It is seen in stubble fields and on furze or low bushes, and is formed by small spiders.

(n.) Any very thin gauzelike fabric; also, a thin waterproof stuff.

(n.) An outer garment, made of waterproof gossamer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gossip

(n.) One given to gossip.

(n.) Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy.

(n.) Idle talk; gossip.

(n.) A hydrous oxide of iron, occurring in prismatic crystals, also massive, with a fibrous, reniform, or stalactitic structure. The color varies from yellowish to blackish brown.

(n.) A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand.

(n.) Alt. of Goutwort

(n.) A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Aegopodium Podagraria); -- called also bishop's weed, ashweed, and herb gerard.

(imp. & p. p.) of Govern

(n.) One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania.

(n.) One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.

(n.) A pilot; a steersman.

(n.) A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable.

(n.) The saury pike; -- called also gofnick.

(n.) Alt. of Gownman

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grab

(imp. & p. p.) of Grabble

(a.) Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech.

(a.) Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty.

(a.) Abounding in beauty, loveliness, or amiability; graceful; excellent.

(a.) Produced by divine grace; influenced or controlled by the divine influence; as, gracious affections.

(a.) Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata.

(a.) Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination; as, the gradient line of a railroad.

(a.) Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.

(n.) The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade.

(n.) A part of a road which slopes upward or downward; a portion of a way not level; a grade.

(n.) The rate of increase or decrease of a variable magnitude, or the curve which represents it; as, a thermometric gradient.

(n.) To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.

(n.) To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at Yale College.

(n.) To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven.

(n.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.

(v. i.) To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.

(v. i.) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.

(v. i.) To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.

(n.) One who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning.

(n.) A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.

(n. & v.) Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.

(n.) The scarp of a ditch or moat.

(n. pl.) Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Graft

(n.) The act or method of weaving a cover for a ring, rope end, etc.

(n.) The transplanting of a portion of flesh or skin to a denuded surface; autoplasty.

(n.) A scarfing or endwise attachment of one timber to another.

(n.) Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.

(n.) A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.

(n.) Painting or staining, in imitation of the grain of wood, atone, etc.

(n.) The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.

(n.) A small European fresh-water fish (Leuciscus vulgaris); - called also dobule, and dace.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Grallae.

(n.) Offal of a deer.

(v. t.) To remove the offal from (a deer).

(n.) Necromancy; magic.

(n.) The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action.

(n.) Grandness.

(n.) A son's or daughter's son.

(n.) Small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect.

(a.) Like granite in composition, color, etc.; having the nature of granite; as, granitic texture.

(a.) Consisting of granite; as, granitic mountains.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grant

(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, grains; as, a granular substance.

(n.) The art or the science of drawing; esp. of drawing according to mathematical rules, as in perspective, projection, and the like.

(n.) Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. Often called plumbago or black lead.

(imp. & p. p.) of Grapple

(a.) Pertaining to the genus Grapsus or the family Grapsidae.

(n.) A grapsoid crab.

(a.) Seizing; embracing; catching.

(a.) Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grass

(a.) 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; as, a grateful heart.

(a.) Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying; delicious; as, a grateful present; food grateful to the palate; grateful sleep.

(n.) Something given freely or without recompense; a free gift; a present.

(n.) Something voluntarily given in return for a favor or service, as a recompense or acknowledgment.

(a.) The grievance complained of; the substantial cause of the action; also, in general, the ground or essence of a complaint. Bouvier.

(imp. & p. p.) of Gravel

(n.) The California gray whale.

(n.) The redbreasted sandpiper or knot.

(n.) The dowitcher.

(n.) The body louse.

(n.) The quality of being gray.

(adv.) Gracefully; smoothly; elegantly.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grease

(adv.) In a greasy manner.

(adv.) In a gross or indelicate manner.

(n.) One of several species of small tropical American birds of the family Coerebidae, allied to the creepers; -- called also quit. See Quit.

(n.) The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened.