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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.