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Gab
To deceive; to lie.
Gabbro
A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called , and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro).
Gaddingly
In a roving, idle manner.
Gade
A small British fish () of the Cod family.
gag-toothed
Having gagteeth.
Gainpain
Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.
Galantine
A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold.
Galoot
A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy.
Gamble
To play or game for money or other stake.
Gamut
The scale.
Garb
A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified).
Garbel
Same as .
Garlandless
Destitute of a garland.
Garmented
Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment.
Gaselier
A chandelier arranged to burn gas.
Gasteromycetes
An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.
Gastrodisc
That part of blastoderm where the hypoblast appears like a small disk on the inner face of the epibladst.
Gastromyth
One whose voice appears to proceed from the stomach; a ventriloquist.
gay-wings
A common trailing perennial milkwort () of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals.
Geal
To congeal.
Genderless
Having no gender.
Genealogic
Genealogical.
Gentianella
A kind of blue color.
German
A native or one of the people of Germany.
Giantess
A woman of extraordinary size.
Gig
To fish with a gig.
Giganticide
The act of killing, or one who kills, a giant.
Giggly
Prone to giggling.
Gilding
The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold.
Girrock
A garfish.
Glac
Smoothly coated with icing or crystals of sugar; iced; glazed; -- said of fruits, sweetmeats, cake, etc.
Glassful
Glassy; shining like glass.
Glasswort
A seashore plant of the Spinach family (), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
Glaucescent
Having a somewhat glaucous appearance or nature; becoming glaucous.
Glaymore
A claymore.
Gleam
To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.).
Glissando
A gliding effect; gliding.
Globularness
Sphericity; globosity.
Glome
Gloom.
Gloom
To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
Glum
Moody; silent; sullen.
Glumly
In a glum manner; sullenly; moodily.
Glycerate
A salt of glyceric acid.
Glyph
A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See .
Gnaw
To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teeth something hard, unwieldy, or unmanageable.
Gnosis
The deeper wisdom; knowledge of spiritual truth, such as was claimed by the Gnostics.
Goad
To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate.
Goliath beetle
Any species of , a genus of very large and handsome African beetles.
Goniometer
An instrument for measuring angles, especially the angles of crystals, or the inclination of planes.
Gonozooid
A sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a gonophore. See , and of .
goof
a stupid fool.
goose-grass
A low-growing perennial () having leaves silvery beneath; foundin Northern U. S., Europe, and Asia.
Gorm
Axle grease. See .
Gormand
A greedy or ravenous eater; a ; .
Governability
Governableness.
Gowdie
See .
Grandiloquence
The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense.
Graniform
Formed like of corn.
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.
Gree
A step.
Greedy
Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; .
Greet
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.
grey-haired
showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
greyish
somewhat gray.
Griff
A person of mixed blood.
Grime
Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.
Groan
To give forth a low, moaning sound in breathing; to utter a groan, as in pain, in sorrow, or in derision; to moan.
Groin
The line between the lower part of the abdomen and the thigh, or the region of this line; the inguen.
grosz
a Polish monetary unit, equal to of a zloty.
Grozing iron
A tool with a hardened steel point, formerly used instead of a diamond for cutting glass.
Grubber
One who, or that which, grubs; especially, a machine or tool of the nature of a grub ax, grub hook, etc.
gruesome
Ugly; frightful. Same as .
Grumbler
One who grumbles.
Grype
A vulture; the griffin.
Guestwise
In the manner of a guest.
Guinean
of or pertaining to Guinea{1}; .
Guipure
A term used for lace of different kinds; most properly for a lace of large pattern and heavy material which has no ground or mesh, but has the pattern held together by connecting threads called or .
gum-lac
an inferior lac produced by lac insects in Madagascar.
Gurt
A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.
Gymnochroa
A division of Hydroidea including the hydra. See .
Gypsy
Pertaining to, or suitable for, gypsies.