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Gable
The vertical triangular portion of the end of a building, from the level of the cornice or eaves to the ridge of the roof. Also, a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and the like.
Gael
A Celt or the Celts of the Scotch Highlands or of Ireland; now esp., a Scotch Highlander of Celtic origin.
Gain
That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to .
Galactin
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.
Gallery
A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.
Gallopade
To gallop, as on horseback.
Gallopin
An under servant for the kitchen; a scullion; a cook's errand boy.
Game
To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative.
Gameful
Full of game or games.
Gang
To go; to walk.
Ganoidei
One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales.
Gargil
A distemper in geese, affecting the head.
Garrupa
One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus ; -- called also . See .
Gastight
So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.
Gaudery
Finery; ornaments; ostentatious display.
Geese
of .
Gelatinate
To convert into gelatin, or into a substance resembling jelly.
genocidal
Of or pertaining to genocide; .
Gentile-falcon
See .
Gentilish
Heathenish; pagan.
Geordie
A name given by miners to Stephenson's safety lamp.
Gest
A guest.
Get-penny
Something which gets or gains money; a successful affair.
Geusdism
The Marxian socialism and programme of reform through revolution as advocated by the French political leader (1845- ).
Ghastness
Ghastliness.
Gibbon
Any arboreal ape of the genus , of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing.
Gilt
Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.
Gingerbread
A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes.
Gingham
A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints.
Gladiatorship
Conduct, state, or art, of a gladiator.
Glandiform
Having the form of a gland or nut; resembling a gland.
Glare
Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; .
Gleeman
A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician.
Gleucometer
An instrument for measuring the specific gravity and ascertaining the quantity of sugar contained in must.
Glioma
A tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.
glob
a compact mass, especially of a semiliquid or viscous substance; .
Globose
Having a rounded form resembling that of a globe; globular, or nearly so; spherical.
Glossily
In a glossy manner.
Gloze
Flattery; adulation; smooth speech.
Glyceric
Pertaining to, or derived from, glycerin.
Gnat
A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus , undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called . See .
Go-by
A passing without notice; intentional neglect; thrusting away; a shifting off; adieu; .
Godfather
A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction. Correlative of .
Godhead
Godship; deity; divinity; divine nature or essence; godhood.
Goldcrest
The European golden-crested kinglet (, or ); -- called also , and . The name is also sometimes applied to the American golden-crested kinglet. See .
Goosefish
See .
gopherwood
A small handsome round-headed deciduous tree () having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye; also called .
Gordian
One of the Gordiacea.
Gorse
Furze. See .
Governmental
Pertaining to government; made by government; .
Graceful
Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; .
Graduate
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.
Grail
A broad, open dish; a chalice; -- only used of the .
Graip
A dungfork.
Gramarye
Necromancy; magic.
Grandiloquous
Grandiloquent.
Granitical
Granitic.
granulary
Granular.
Granulose
The main constituent of the starch grain or granule, in distinction from the framework of cellulose. Unlike cellulose, it is colored blue by iodine, and is converted into dextrin and sugar by boiling acids and amylolytic ferments.
-graph
A suffix signifying (as in ), ; also, or , such as a spectro; .
Grasp
To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive.
Grasp
A gripe or seizure of the hand; a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms.
Gratulate
To salute with declaration of joy; to congratulate.
Gravitative
Causing to gravitate; tending to a center.
Greening
A greenish apple, of several varieties, among which the Rhode Island greening is the best known for its fine-grained acid flesh and its excellent keeping quality.
Grieving
Sad; sorrowful; causing grief.
Gristly
Consisting of, or containing, gristle; like gristle; cartilaginous.
Groats
Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits.
Grosgrain
Of a coarse texture; -- applied to silk with a heavy thread running crosswise.
Grossbeak
See .
Grotesque
A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes.
Grouse
To seek or shoot grouse.
Grumbler
One who grumbles.
Gruntingly
In a grunting manner.
Guaiac
Pertaining to, or resembling, guaiacum.
Guanin
A crystalline substance () contained in guano. It is also a constituent of the liver, pancreas, and other glands in mammals.
Guevi
One of several very small species and varieties of African antelopes, of the genus , as the Cape or kleeneboc (); -- called also .
Guillotine
To behead with the guillotine.
Gule
To give the color of gules to.
Gum
To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance.
Gumma
A kind of soft tumor, usually of syphilitic origin.
Gustable
Anything that can be tasted.
Gutta
A drop.
Gybe
To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side.