Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 11
Gavelock (n.) A spear or dart. [R. & Obs.]
Gavelock (n.) An iron crow or lever. [Scot. & North of Eng.]
Gaverick (n.) (Zool.) The European red gurnard ({Trigla cuculus). [Prov. Eng.]
Gaviae (n. pl.) (Zool.) The division of birds which includes the gulls and terns.
Gavial (n.) (Zool.) A large Asiatic crocodilian ({Gavialis Gangeticus); -- called also nako, and Gangetic crocodile.
Note: The gavial has a long, slender muzzle, teeth of nearly uniform size, and feet completely webbed. It inhabits the Ganges and other rivers of India. The name is also applied to several allied fossil species. Gavot
Gavial (n.) Large fish-eating Indian crocodilian with a long slender snout [syn: gavial, Gavialis gangeticus].
Gavot, Gavotte (n.) (Mus.) A kind of difficult, old formal French dance in quadruple time.
Gavot, Gavotte (n.) Music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte, having a dance tune which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over.
Gawby (n.) A baby; a dunce. [Prov. Eng.]
Gawk (v. i.) To act like a gawky.
Gawk (v. i.) To stare with empty-minded fascination; to stare stupidly; to gape; -- usually used with at.
Gawk (n.) A cuckoo. -- Johnson.
Gawk (n.) A simpleton; a booby; a gawky. -- Carlyle.
Gawk (n.) An awkward stupid person [syn: {lout}, {clod}, {stumblebum}, {goon}, {oaf}, {lubber}, {lummox}, {lump}, {gawk}].
Gawk (v.) Look with amazement; look stupidly [syn: {goggle}, {gape}, {gawp}, {gawk}].
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Gawky (a.) Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.
Gawky (a.) Lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair" [syn: {gawky}, {clumsy}, {clunky}, {ungainly}, {unwieldy}].
Gawn (n.) A small tub or lading vessel. [Prov. Eng.] -- Johnson.
Gawntree (n.) See Gauntree.
Gay (n.) An ornament. [Obs.] -- L’Estrange.
Gay (a.) Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry.
Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay. -- Pope.
Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed. -- Gray.
Gay (a.) Brilliant in colors; splendid; fine; richly dressed.
Why is my neighbor's wife so gay? -- Chaucer.
A bevy of fair women, richly gay In gems and wanton dress! -- Milton.
Gay (a.) Loose; dissipated; lewd. [Colloq.]
Syn: Merry; gleeful; blithe; airy; lively; sprightly, sportive; light-hearted; frolicsome; jolly; jovial; joyous; joyful; glad; showy; splendid; vivacious.
Gay (a.) Bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile" [syn: {cheery}, {gay}, {sunny}].
Gay (a.) Full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [syn: {gay}, {jocund}, {jolly}, {jovial}, {merry}, {mirthful}].
Gay (a.) Given to social pleasures often including dissipation; "led a gay Bohemian life"; "a gay old rogue with an eye for the ladies".
Gay (a.) Brightly colored and showy; "girls decked out in brave new dresses"; "brave banners flying"; "`braw' is a Scottish word"; "a dress a bit too gay for her years"; "birds with gay plumage" [syn: {brave}, {braw}, {gay}].
Gay (a.) Offering fun and gaiety; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening" [syn: {gay}, {festal}, {festive}, {merry}].
Gay (a.) Homosexual or arousing homosexual desires [syn: {gay}, {queer}, {homophile(a)}].
Gay (n.) Someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex [syn: {homosexual}, {homophile}, {homo}, {gay}].
Gay, GA -- U.S. town in Georgia
Population (2000): 149
Housing Units (2000): 69
Land area (2000): 0.860788 sq. miles (2.229431 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.860788 sq. miles (2.229431 sq. km)
FIPS code: 32384
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 33.093797 N, 84.573924 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Gay, GA
Gay
Gayal (n.) (Zool.) A Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle ({Bibos frontalis).
Gayal (n.) Ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur [syn: gayal, mithan, Bibos frontalis].
Gaydiang (n.) (Naut.) A vessel of Anam, with two or three masts, lofty triangular sails, and in construction somewhat resembling a Chinese junk.
Gayeties (n. pl. ) of Gayety.
Gayety (a.) The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season.
Gayety (a.) Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress.
Syn: Liveliness; mirth; animation; vivacity; glee; blithesomeness; sprightliness; jollity. See Liveliness.
Gaylussite (n.) (Min.) A yellowish white, translucent mineral, consisting of the carbonates of lime and soda, with water.
Gayly (adv.) With mirth and frolic; merrily; blithely; gleefully.
Gayly (adv.) Finely; splendidly; showily; as, ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming. -- Pope.
Gayly (adv.) In a joyous manner; "they shouted happily" [syn: happily, merrily, mirthfully, gayly, blithely, jubilantly] [ant: unhappily].
Gayne (v. i.) To avail. [Obs.]
Gayness (n.) Gayety; finery. [R.]
Gayness (n.) A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex [syn: homosexuality, homosexualism, homoeroticism, queerness, gayness].
Gaysome (a.) Full of gayety. -- Mir. for Mag.
Gaytre (n.) The dogwood tree. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Gazed (imp. & p. p.) of Gaze.
Gazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gaze.
Gaze (v. i.) To fix the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.
Why stand ye gazing up into heaven? -- Acts i. 11.
Syn: To gape; stare; look.
Usage: To Gaze, Gape, Stare. To gaze is to look with fixed and prolonged attention, awakened by excited interest or elevated emotion; to gape is to look fixedly, with open mouth and feelings of ignorant wonder; to stare is to look with the fixedness of insolence or of idiocy. The lover of nature gazes with delight on the beauties of the landscape; the rustic gapes with wonder at the strange sights of a large city; the idiot stares on those around with a vacant look.
Gaze (v. t.) To view with attention; to gaze on . [R.]
And gazed a while the ample sky. -- Milton.
Gaze (n.) A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
With secret gaze Or open admiration him behold. -- Milton.
Gaze (n.) The object gazed on.
Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze. -- Milton.
At gaze (a) (Her.) With the face turned directly to the front; -- said of the figures of the stag, hart, buck, or hind, when borne, in this position, upon an escutcheon.
At gaze (b) In a position expressing sudden fear or surprise; -- a term used in stag hunting to describe the manner of a stag when he first hears the hounds and gazes round in apprehension of some hidden danger; hence, standing agape; idly or stupidly gazing.
I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon! -- Tennyson.
Gaze (n.) A long fixed look; "he fixed his paternal gaze on me" [syn: gaze, regard].
Gaze (v.) Look at with fixed eyes; "The students stared at the teacher with amazement" [syn: gaze, stare].
Gazeebo (n.) A summerhouse so situated as to command an extensive prospect. [Colloq.]
Gazeful (a.) Gazing. [R.] -- Spenser.
Gazehound (n.) A hound that pursues by the sight rather than by the scent. -- Sir W. Scott.
Gazel (n.) The black currant; also, the wild plum. [Prov. Eng.]
Gazel (n.) (Zool.) See Gazelle.
Gazelle (n.) (Zool.) One of several small, swift, elegantly formed species of antelope, of the genus Gazella, esp. G. dorcas; -- called also algazel, corinne, korin, and kevel. The gazelles are celebrated for the luster and soft expression of their eyes. [Written also gazel.]
Note: The common species of Northern Africa ({Gazella dorcas); the Arabian gazelle, or ariel ({G. Arabica}); the mohr of West Africa ({G. mohr); the Indian ({G. Bennetti); the ahu or Persian ({G. subgutturosa}); and the springbok or tsebe ({G. euchore) of South Africa, are the best known.
Gazement (n.) View. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Gazer (n.) One who gazes.
Gazer, A dividing; a sentence.
Gazet (n.) A Venetian coin, worth about three English farthings, or one and a half cents. [Obs.]
Gazette (n.) （常用作報刊名）……報；【英】公報 A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices.
Gazetted (imp. & p. p.) of Gazette.
Gazetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gazette.
Gazette (v. t.) （常用被動態）刊載 To announce or publish in a gazette; to announce officially, as an appointment, or a case of bankruptcy.
Gazette (n.) A newspaper or official journal.
Gazette (v.) Publish in a gazette.
Gazetteer (n.) 地名辭典；公報作者；【古】新聞記者 A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority. -- Johnson.
Gazetteer (n.) A newspaper; a gazette. [Obs.] -- Burke.
Gazetteer (n.) A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places.
Gazetteer (n.) An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.
Gazetteer (n.) A journalist who writes for a gazette.
Gazetteer (n.) A geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas).
Gazingstock (n.) A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt. -- Bp. Hall.
Gazogene (n.) A portable apparatus for making soda water or aerated liquids on a small scale. -- Knight.
Compare: Siphon
Siphon (v. t.) (Chem.) To convey, or draw off, by means of a siphon, as a liquid from one vessel to another at a lower level.
Siphon (n.) A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe immersed in it, while the continued excess of weight of the liquid in the longer branch (when once filled) causes a continuous flow. The flow takes place only when the discharging extremity of the pipe ia lower than the higher liquid surface, and when no part of the pipe is higher above the surface than the same liquid will rise by atmospheric pressure; that is, about 33 feet for water, and 30 inches for mercury, near the sea level.
Siphon (n.) (Zool.) (a) One of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. Under Mya, and Lamellibranchiata.
Siphon (n.) (Zool.) (b) The anterior prolongation of the margin of any gastropod shell for the protection of the soft siphon.
Siphon (n.) (Zool.) (c) The tubular organ through which water is ejected from the gill cavity of a cephaloid. It serves as a locomotive organ, by guiding and confining the jet of water. Called also siphuncle. See Illust. Under Loligo, and Dibranchiata.
Siphon (n.) (Zool.) (d) The siphuncle of a cephalopod shell.
Siphon (n.) (Zool.) (e) The sucking proboscis of certain parasitic insects and crustaceans.
Siphon (n.) (Zool.) (f) A sproutlike prolongation in front of the mouth of many gephyreans.
Siphon (n.) (Zool.) (g) A tubular organ connected both with the esophagus and the intestine of certain sea urchins and annelids.
Siphon (n.) A siphon bottle.
Inverted siphon, A tube bent like a siphon, but having the branches turned upward; specifically (Hydraulic Engineering), a pipe for conducting water beneath a depressed place, as from one hill to another across an intervening valley, following the depression of the ground.
Siphon barometer. See under Barometer.
Siphon bottle, A bottle for holding aerated water, which is driven out through a bent tube in the neck by the gas within the bottle when a valve in the tube is opened; -- called also gazogene, and siphoid.
Siphon condenser, A condenser for a steam engine, in which the vacuum is maintained by the downward flow of water through a vertical pipe of great height.
Siphon cup, A cup with a siphon attached for carrying off any liquid in it; specifically (Mach.), an oil cup in which oil is carried over the edge of a tube in a cotton wick, and so reaches the surface to be lubricated.
Siphon gauge. See under Gauge.
Siphon pump, A jet pump. See under Jet, n.
Gazon (n.) (Fort.) One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.
Ge (n.) The chemical symbol for germanium, a metalloid element of atomic number 32. See germanium.
Syn: germanium.
Ge (n.) (Mythol.) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology. See Gaea.
Syn: Gaea, Gaia.
Ge- () An Anglo-Saxon prefix. See Y-.
GE, () General Electric (manufacturer, GE)
GE, () GigaBIT Ethernet (ethernet, BIT)
Geal (v. i.) To congeal. [Obs. or Scot.]
Gean (n.) (Bot.) A species of cherry tree common in Europe ({Prunus avium); also, the fruit, which is usually small and dark in color.
Gean (n.) Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting [syn: gean, mazzard, mazzard cherry].
Geanticlinal (n.) (Geol.) An upward bend or flexure of a considerable portion of the earth's crust, resulting in the formation of a class of mountain elevations called anticlinoria; -- opposed to geosynclinal.
Gear (n.) Clothing; garments; ornaments.
Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. -- Spenser.
Gear (n.) Goods; property; household stuff. -- Chaucer.
Homely gear and common ware. -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
Gear (n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.
Clad in a vesture of unknown gear. -- Spenser.
Gear (n.) The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
Gear (n.) Warlike accouterments. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Gear (n.) Manner; custom; behavior. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Gear (n.) Business matters; affairs; concern. [Obs.]
Thus go they both together to their gear. -- Spenser.
Gear (n.) (Mech.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.
Gear (n.) (Mech.) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.
Gear (n.) (Mech.) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.
Gear (n.) pl. (Naut.) See 1st Jeer (b).
Gear (n.) Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Wright.
That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man. -- Latimer.
Bever gear. See Bevel gear.
Core gear, A mortise gear, or its skeleton. See Mortise wheel, under Mortise.
Expansion gear (Steam Engine), The arrangement of parts for cutting off steam at a certain part of the stroke, so as to leave it to act upon the piston expansively; the cut-off. See under Expansion.
Feed gear. See Feed motion, under Feed, n.
Gear cutter, A machine or tool for forming the teeth of gear wheels by cutting.
Gear wheel, Any cogwheel.
Running gear. See under Running.
To throw in gear or To throw out of gear (Mach.), To connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or out of, working relation.
Geared (imp. & p. p.) of Gear.
Gearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gear.
Gear (v. t.) To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
Gear (v. t.) (Mach.) To provide with gearing.
Gear (v. t.) To adapt toward some specific purpose; as, they geared their advertising for maximum effect among teenagers.
Double geared, Driven through twofold compound gearing, to increase the force or speed; -- said of a machine.
Gear (v. i.) (Mach.) To be in, or come into, gear.
Gear (n.) A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion [syn: gear, gear wheel, geared wheel, cogwheel].
Gear (n.) Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed; "the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain" [syn: gearing, gear, geartrain, power train, train].
Gear (n.) A mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle) [syn: gear, gear mechanism].
Gear (n.) Equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. [syn: gear, paraphernalia, appurtenance].
Gear (v.) Set the level or character of; "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience" [syn: gear, pitch].
Gearing (n.) Harness.
Gearing (n.) (Mach.) The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery.
Frictional gearing. See under Frictional.
Gearing chain, An endless chain transmitting motion from one sprocket wheel to another. See Illust. of Chain wheel.
Spur gearing, Gearing in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc.
Gearing (n.) Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed; "the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain" [syn: gearing, gear, geartrain, power train, train].
Geason (a.) Rare; wonderful. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Gate (n.) A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.
Gate (n.) An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.
Knowest thou the way to Dover?
Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath. -- Shak.
Opening a gate for a long war. -- Knolles.
Gate (n.) A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
Gate (n.) (Script.) The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
The gates of hell shall not prevail against it. -- Matt. xvi. 18.
Gate (n.) In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
Gate (n.) (Founding) (a) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.
Gate (n.) (Founding) (b) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. [Written also geat and git.]
Gate chamber, A recess in the side wall of a canal lock, which receives the opened gate.
Gate channel. See Gate, 5.
Gate hook, The hook-formed piece of a gate hinge.
Gate money, Entrance money for admission to an inclosure.
Gate tender, One in charge of a gate, as at a railroad crossing.
Gate valva, A stop valve for a pipe, having a sliding gate which affords a straight passageway when open.
Gate vein (Anat.), The portal vein.
To break gates (Eng. Univ.), To enter a college inclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted.
To stand in the gate or To stand in the gates, To occupy places or advantage, power, or defense.
Geat (n.) (Founding) The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting. [Written also git, gate.]
Gecarcinian (n.) (Zool.) A land crab of the genus Gecarcinus, or of allied genera.
Geck (n.) Scorn, derision, or contempt. [Prov. Eng.]
Geck (n.) An object of scorn; a dupe; a gull. [Obs.]
To become the geck and scorn O'the other's villainy. -- Shak.
Geck (v. t.) To deride; to scorn; to mock. [Prov. Eng.]
Geck (v. t.) To cheat; trick, or gull. [Obs.] -- Johnson.
Geck (v. i.) To jeer; to show contempt. -- Sir W. Scott.
Geckoes (n. pl. ) of Gecko.
Gecko (n.) (Zool.) Any lizard of the family Geckonidae. The geckoes are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and vertical, elliptical pupils. Their toes are generally expanded, and furnished with adhesive disks, by which they can run over walls and ceilings. They are numerous in warm countries, and a few species are found in Europe and the United States. See Wall gecko, Fanfoot.
Gecko (n.) Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless
Geckotian (n.) (Zool.) A gecko. Ged
Ged (n.) Alt. of Gedd
Gedd (n.) The European pike.
Geed (imp. & p. p.) of Gee.
Geeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gee.
Gee (v. i.) To agree; to harmonize. [Colloq. or Prov. Eng.] -- Forby.
Gee (v. i.) To turn to the off side, or from the driver (i.e., in the United States, to the right side); -- said of cattle, or a team; used most frequently in the imperative, often with off, by drivers of oxen, in directing their teams, and opposed to haw, or hoi. [Written also jee.]
Note: In England, the teamster walks on the right-hand side of the cattle; in the United States, on the left-hand side. In all cases, however, gee means to turn from the driver, and haw to turn toward him.
Gee ho, or Gee whoa. Same as Gee.
Gee (v. t.) To cause (a team) to turn to the off side, or from the driver. [Written also jee.] Geer
Gee (n.) A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated [syn: g, gee, g-force].
Gee (v.) Turn to the right side; "the horse geed."
Gee (v.) Give a command to a horse to turn to the right side.
Geer () Alt. of Geering
Geering () [Obs.] See Gear, Gearing.
Geese (n.) pl. of Goose.
Geest (n.) Alluvial matter on the surface of land, not of recent origin. -- R. Jameson.