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Found: 3,427 words.
G is the name of the fifth tone of the natural or model scale; -- called also sol by the Italians and French. It was also originally used as the treble clef, and has gradually chan...
Gab
4 defs
The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric.
A kind of coarse cloth for packing goods.
Alt. of Gaberdine
Gabber
2 defs
A liar; a deceiver.
One who gabbles; a prater.
Gabble
4 defs
Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.
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A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of l...
A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
A collector of gabels or taxes.
A tax, especially on salt.
A gabeler.
A beggar with a wallet; a licensed beggar.
Gaberdine
2 defs
A coarse frock or loose upper garment formerly worn by Jews; a mean dress.
A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation.
Gabion
2 defs
A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire...
Gabionade
2 defs
A structure of gabions sunk in lines, as a core for a sand bar in harbor improvements.
The part of a fortification built of gabions.
Furnished with gabions.
See Gabionade.
Gable
4 defs
A cable.
A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.
A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock.
A simpleton; a dunce; a lout.
Gad
7 defs
A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc.
A gadder
The gadfly.
of Gad
One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.
Gadding
2 defs
Going about much, needlessly or without purpose.
In a roving, idle manner.
Disposed to gad.
Gade
2 defs
A pike, so called at Moray Firth; -- called also gead.
Alt. of Gadre
of Gadfly
Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.
Of or pertaining to that division of the Celtic languages, which includes the Irish, Gaelic, and Manx.
Pertaining to, or derived from, the cod (Gadus); -- applied to an acid obtained from cod-liver oil, viz., gadic acid.
Gaditanian
2 defs
A native or inhabitant of Cadiz.
Gadling
3 defs
A roving vagabond.
A gadsman.
Gadoid
2 defs
Of or pertaining to the family of fishes (Gadidae) which includes the cod, haddock, and hake.
A rare earth, regarded by some as an oxide of the supposed element gadolinium, by others as only a mixture of the oxides of yttrium, erbium, ytterbium, etc.
Pertaining to or containing gadolinium.
A mineral of a nearly black color and vitreous luster, and consisting principally of the silicates of yttrium, cerium, and iron.
A supposed rare metallic element, with a characteristic spectrum, found associated with yttrium and other rare metals. Its individuality and properties have not yet been determined...
To gather.
One who uses a gad or goad in driving.