Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 18
Gestured (imp. & p. p.) of Gesture.
Gesturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gesture.
Gesture (v. t.) To accompany or illustrate with gesture or action; to gesticulate.
It is not orderly read, nor gestured as beseemeth. -- Hooker.
Gesture (v. i.) To make gestures; to gesticulate.
The players . . . gestured not undecently withal. -- Holland.
Gesture (n.) Motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling.
Gesture (n.) The use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals [syn: gesture, motion].
Gesture (n.) Something done as an indication of intention; "a political gesture"; "a gesture of defiance".
Gesture (v.) Show, express or direct through movement; "He gestured his desire to leave" [syn: gesticulate, gesture, motion].
Gesture (n.) [ C ] (Movement) (C1) 手勢；姿勢；示意動作 A movement of the hands, arms, or head, etc. to express an idea or feeling.
// The prisoner raised his fist in a gesture of defiance as he was led out of the courtroom.
// She made a rude gesture at the other driver.
Gesture (n.) [ C ] (Symbolic act) (C1) 姿態；表示 An action that expresses your feelings or intentions, although it might have little practical effect.
// The government donated £500,000 as a gesture of goodwill.
// Eating boiled potatoes instead of chips was his only gesture towards healthy eating.
Gesture (v.) [ I ] (C2) 做手勢；用手勢表示；用動作示意 To use a gesture to express or emphasize something.
// When he asked where the children were, she gestured vaguely in the direction of the beach. He made no answer but walked on, gesturing for me to follow.
Gestureless (a.) Free from gestures.
Gesturement (n.) Act of making gestures; gesturing. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Get (n.) Jet, the mineral. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Get (n.) Fashion; manner; custom. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Get (n.) Artifice; contrivance. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Got (imp.) of Get.
Gat () of Get.
Got (p. p.) of Get.
Gotten () of Get.
Getting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Get.
Get (v. t.) To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire; to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by purchase, etc.
Get (v. t.) Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have. -- Johnson.
Thou hast got the face of man. -- Herbert.
Get (v. t.) To beget; to procreate; to generate.
I had rather to adopt a child than get it. -- Shak.
Get (v. t.) To obtain mental possession of; to learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out; as, to get out one's Greek lesson.
It being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty. -- Bp. Fell.
Get (v. t.) To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.
Get him to say his prayers. -- Shak.
Get (v. t.) To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle.
Those things I bid you do; get them dispatched. -- Shak.
Get (v. t.) To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.
Get thee out from this land. -- Gen. xxxi. 13.
He . . . got himself . . . to the strong town of Mega. -- Knolles.
Note: Get, as a transitive verb, is combined with adverbs implying motion, to express the causing to, or the effecting in, the object of the verb, of the kind of motion indicated by the preposition; thus, to get in, to cause to enter, to bring under shelter; as, to get in the hay; to get out, to make come forth, to extract; to get off, to take off, to remove; to get together, to cause to come together, to collect.
To get by heart, To commit to memory.
To get the better of, To get the best of, To obtain an advantage over; to surpass; to subdue.
To get up, To cause to be established or to exit; to prepare; to arrange; to construct; to invent; as, to get up a celebration, a machine, a book, an agitation.
Syn: To obtain; gain; win; acquire. See Obtain.
Get (v. i.) To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased.
We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get. -- Shak.
Get (v. i.) To arrive at, or bring one's self into, a state, condition, or position; to come to be; to become; -- with a following adjective or past participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected.
To get rid of fools and scoundrels. -- Pope.
His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. -- Coleridge.
Note: It [get] gives to the English language a middle voice, or a power of verbal expression which is neither active nor passive. Thus we say to get acquitted, beaten, confused, dressed. -- Earle.
Note: Get, as an intransitive verb, is used with a following preposition, or adverb of motion, to indicate, on the part of the subject of the act, movement or action of the kind signified by the preposition or adverb; or, in the general sense, to move, to stir, to make one's way, to advance, to arrive, etc.; as, to get away, to leave, to escape; to disengage one's self from; to get down, to descend, esp. with effort, as from a literal or figurative elevation; to get along, to make progress; hence, to prosper, succeed, or fare; to get in, to enter; to get out, to extricate one's self, to escape; to get through, to traverse; also, to finish, to be done; to get to, to arrive at, to reach; to get off, to alight, to descend from, to dismount; also, to escape, to come off clear; to get together, to assemble, to convene.
To get ahead, To advance; to prosper.
To get along, To proceed; to advance; to prosper.
To get a mile (or other distance), To pass over it in traveling.
To get among, To go or come into the company of; to become one of a number.
To get asleep, To fall asleep.
To get astray, To wander out of the right way.
To get at, To reach; to make way to.
To get away with, To carry off; to capture; hence, to get the better of; to defeat.
To get back, To arrive at the place from which one departed; to return.
To get before, To arrive in front, or more forward.
To get behind, To fall in the rear; to lag.
To get between, To arrive between.
To get beyond, To pass or go further than; to exceed; to surpass. "Three score and ten is the age of man, a few get beyond it." --Thackeray.
To get clear, To disengage one's self; to be released, as from confinement, obligation, or burden; also, to be freed from danger or embarrassment.
To get drunk, To become intoxicated.
To get forward, To proceed; to advance; also, to prosper; to advance in wealth.
To get home, To arrive at one's dwelling, goal, or aim.
To get into. (a) To enter, as, "she prepared to get into the coach." -- Dickens.
To get into. (b) To pass into, or reach; as, " a language has got into the inflated state." -- Keary.
To get loose or To get free, To disengage one's self; to be released from confinement.
To get near, To approach within a small distance.
To get on, To proceed; to advance; to prosper.
To get over. (a) To pass over, surmount, or overcome, as an obstacle or difficulty.
To get over. (b) To recover from, as an injury, a calamity.
To get through. (a) To pass through something.
To get through. (b) To finish what one was doing.
To get up. (a) To rise; to arise, as from a bed, chair, etc.
To get up. (b) To ascend; to climb, as a hill, a tree, a flight of stairs, etc.
Get (n.) Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.
Get, (n.; pl. gittin or gitim.) A divorce granted by a Rabbi in accordance with Jewish law; also, the document attesting to the divorce. -- RHUD
Get (n.) A return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent.
Get (v.) Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work" [syn: get acquire].
Get (v.) Enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!" [syn: become, go, get].
Get (v.) Cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition; "He got his squad on the ball"; "This let me in for a big surprise"; "He got a girl into trouble" [syn: get, let, have].
Get (v.) Receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions" [syn: receive, get, find, obtain, incur].
Get (v.) Reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight" [syn: arrive, get, come] [ant: go away, go forth, leave].
Get (v.) Go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat" [syn: bring, get, convey, fetch] [ant: bear away, bear off, carry away, carry off, take away].
Get (v.) Go through (mental or physical states or experiences); "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling" [syn: experience, receive, have, get].
Get (v.) Take vengeance on or get even; "We'll get them!"; "That'll fix him good!"; "This time I got him" [syn: pay back, pay off, get, fix].
Get (v.) Achieve a point or goal; "Nicklaus had a 70"; "The Brazilian team got 4 goals"; "She made 29 points that day" [syn: have, get, make].
Get (v.) Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa" [syn: induce, stimulate, cause, have, get, make].
Get (v.) Succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase; "We finally got the suspect"; "Did you catch the thief ?" [syn: get, catch, capture].
Get (v.) Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts" [syn: grow, develop, produce, get, acquire].
Get (v.) Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill" [syn: contract, take, get].
Get (v.) Communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone; "Bill called this number and he got Mary"; "The operator couldn't get Kobe because of the earthquake".
Get (v.) Give certain properties to something; "get someone mad"; "She made us look silly"; "He made a fool of himself at the meeting"; "Don't make this into a big deal"; "This invention will make you a millionaire"; "Make yourself clear" [syn: make, get].
Get (v.) Move into a desired direction of discourse; "What are you driving at?" [syn: drive, get, aim].
Get (v.) Grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; "did you catch that allusion?"; "We caught something of his theory in the lecture"; "don't catch your meaning"; "did you get it?"; "She didn't get the joke"; "I just don't get him" [syn: catch, get].
Get (v.) Attract and fix; "His look caught her"; "She caught his eye"; "Catch the attention of the waiter" [syn: catch, arrest, get].
Get (v.) Reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot; "the rock caught her in the back of the head"; "The blow got him in the back"; "The punch caught him in the stomach" [syn: get, catch].
Get (v.) Reach by calculation; "What do you get when you add up these numbers?"
Get (v.) Acquire as a result of some effort or action; "You cannot get water out of a stone"; "Where did she get these news?"
Get (v.) Purchase; "What did you get at the toy store?"
Get (v.) Perceive by hearing; "I didn't catch your name"; "She didn't get his name when they met the first time" [syn: catch, get].
Get (v.) Suffer from the receipt of; "She will catch hell for this behavior!" [syn: catch, get].
Get (v.) Receive as a retribution or punishment; "He got 5 years in prison" [syn: get, receive].
Get (v.) Leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form; "Scram!" [syn: scram, buzz off, fuck off, get, bugger off].
Get (v.) Reach and board; "She got the bus just as it was leaving"
Get (v.) Irritate; "Her childish behavior really get to me"; "His lying really gets me" [syn: get, get under one's skin]
Get (v.) Evoke an emotional response; "Brahms's `Requiem' gets me every time".
Get (v.) Apprehend and reproduce accurately; "She really caught the spirit of the place in her drawings"; "She got the mood just right in her photographs" [syn: catch, get].
Get (v.) Earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher; "He drew a base on balls" [syn: draw, get].
Get (v.) Overcome or destroy; "The ice storm got my hibiscus"; "the cat got the goldfish".
Get (v.) Be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me -- I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound].
Get (v.) Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now" [syn: get down, begin, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence] [ant: end, terminate].
Get (v.) Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); "She suffered a fracture in the accident"; "He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars"; "She got a bruise on her leg"; "He got his arm broken in the scuffle" [syn: suffer, sustain, have, get].
Get (v.) Make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them" [syn: beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth].
Geten () p. p. of Get. (Obs.) -- Chaucer.
Geth () The original third pers. sing. pres. of Go. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Get-penny (n.) Something which gets or gains money; a successful affair. [Colloq.] -- Chapman.
Gettable (a.) That may be obtained. [R.]
Gettable (a.) Capable of being obtained; "savings of up to 50 percent are obtainable" [syn: gettable, getable, obtainable, procurable].
Getter (n.) One who gets, gains, obtains, acquires, begets, or procreates.
Getterup (n.) One who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc. [Colloq.]
A diligent getter-up of miscellaneous works. -- W. Irving.
Getting (n.) The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.
With all thy getting, get understanding. -- Prov. iv. 7.
Getting (n.) That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.
Getting (n.) The act of acquiring something; "I envied his talent for acquiring"; "he's much more interested in the getting than in the giving" [syn: acquiring, getting].
Getup, Get-up (n.) General composition or structure; manner in which the parts of a thing are combined; make-up; style of dress, etc. [Colloq.] -- H. Kingsley.
Getup, Get-up (n.) Specifically: A set of clothing (with accessories); as, what are you doing in that getup?; -- often used with implied disapproval or scorn. [informal]
Syn: outfit, rig.
Gewgaw (n.) 便宜貨 A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble.
Syn: knicknack; bauble; tschotschke.
A heavy gewgaw called a crown. -- Dryden.
Gewgaw (a.) 便宜貨的，華而不實的 Showy; unreal; pretentious.
Seeing his gewgaw castle shine. -- Tennyson.
Gewgaw (n.) Cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing [syn: bangle, bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, fallal, trinket].
Geyser (n.) 噴泉；間歇泉；【英】燒水裝置 A boiling spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud, etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam.
Note: Geysers were first known in Iceland, and later in New Zealand. In the Yellowstone region in the United States they are numerous, and some of them very powerful, throwing jets of boiling water and steam to a height of 200 feet. They are grouped in several areas called geyser basins. The mineral matter, or geyserite, with which geyser water is charged, forms geyser cones about the orifice, often of great size and beauty.
Geyser (n.) A spring that discharges hot water and steam.
Geyser (v.) To overflow like a geyser.
Geyserite (n.) (Min.) 間歇泉周圍的沉積物；矽華 A loose hydrated form of silica, a variety of opal, deposited in concretionary cauliflowerlike masses, around some hot springs and geysers.
Compare: Opal
Opal (n.) (Min.) A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity.
Note: The precious opal presents a peculiar play of colors of delicate tints, and is highly esteemed as a gem. One kind, with a varied play of color in a reddish ground, is called the harlequin opal. The fire opal has colors like the red and yellow of flame. Common opal has a milky appearance. Menilite is a brown impure variety, occurring in concretions at Menilmontant, near Paris. Other varieties are cacholong, girasol, hyalite, and geyserite.
Gharry (n.) Any wheeled cart or carriage. [India]
Gharry (n.) A horse-drawn carriage in India.
Ghast (v. t.) To strike aghast; to affright. [Obs.]
Ghasted by the noise I made.
Full suddenly he fled. -- Shak.
Ghastful (a.) Fit to make one aghast; dismal. [Obs.] -- Ghast"ful*ly, adv.
Ghastliness (n.) The state of being ghastly; a deathlike look.
Ghastliness (n.) The quality of being ghastly [syn: ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness, luridness].
Ghastly (a.) 可怕的，恐怖的；死人般的；鬼一樣的；蒼白的 Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal.
Each turned his face with a ghastly pang. -- Coleridge.
His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized. -- Macaulay.
Ghastly (a.) Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.
Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. -- Milton.
Ghastly (adv.) 可怕地，恐怖地；死人般地 In a ghastly manner; hideously.
Staring full ghastly like a strangled man. -- Shak.
Ghastly (a.) Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen" [syn: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick].
Ghastly (a.) Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs" [syn: charnel, ghastly, sepulchral].
Ghastness (n.) Ghastliness. [Obs.] -- Shak. Ghat
Ghat (n.) Alt. of Ghaut
Ghaut (n.) A pass through a mountain. [India] -- J. D. Hooker.
Ghaut (n.) A range of mountains. -- Balfour (Cyc. of Ind. ).
Ghaut (n.) Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf. [India] --Malcom.
Ghat (n.) Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
Ghawazi (n. pl.) [Etymol. uncertain.] Egyptian dancing girls, of a lower sort than the almeh. Ghazal
Gheber, Ghebre (n.) A worshiper of fire; a Zoroastrian; a Parsee.
Ghee (n.) Butter clarified by boiling, and thus converted into a kind of oil. [India] -- Malcom.
Gherkin (n.) (Bot.) A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles.
Gherkin (n.) (Zool.) See Sea gherkin.
Gherkin (n.) Any of various small cucumbers pickled whole.
Gherkin (n.) Small prickly cucumber.
Ghess (v. t. & i.) See Guess. [Obs.]
Ghetto (n.) [It.] A quarter of a city where Jews live in greatest numbers.
I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell. -- Evelyn.
Ghetto (n.) By extension: Any section of a town inhabited predominantly by members of a specific ethnic, national or racial group, such segregation usually arising from social or economic pressure. The term is commonly applied to areas in cities having a high concentration of low-income African-Americans.
Ghetto (n.) [fig.] Any isolated group of people.
Ghetto (n.) [fig.] Any group isolated by external pressures, with an implication of inferiority.
Ghetto (n.) Formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto".
Ghetto (n.) Any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping; "the relative security of the gay ghetto"; "no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool".
Ghetto (n.) A poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions.
Ghetto (n.) The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city.
Ghibelline (n.) (It. Hist.) One of a faction in Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses. -- Brande & C.
Ghole (n.) See Ghoul.
Ghoul (n.) An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies. [Written also ghole .] -- Moore.
Ghost (n.) The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.]
Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. -- Spenser.
Ghost (n.) The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. -- Shak.
I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost. -- Coleridge.
Ghost (n.) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.
Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. -- Poe.
Ghost (n.) A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
Ghost moth (Zool.), A large European moth ({Hepialus humuli); so called from the white color of the male, and the peculiar hovering flight; -- called also great swift.
Holy Ghost, The Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; (Theol.) the third person in the Trinity.
To give up the ghost or To yield up the ghost, To die; to expire.
And he gave up the ghost full softly. -- Chaucer.
Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. -- Gen. xlix. 33.
Ghost (v. i.) To die; to expire. [Obs.] -- Sir P. Sidney.
Ghost (v. t.) To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Ghost (n.) A mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" [syn: ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre].
Ghost (n.) A writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else [syn: ghostwriter, ghost].
Ghost (n.) The visible disembodied soul of a dead person.
Ghost (n.) A suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face" [syn: touch, trace, ghost].
Ghost (v.) Move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard".
Ghost (v.) Haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her" [syn: haunt, obsess, ghost].
Ghost (v.) Write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?" [syn: ghost, ghostwrite].
Ghost () Goal Hierarchy and Objectives Structuring Technique (TUB)
Ghost, () (Or "zombie") The image of a user's session on IRC and similar systems, left when the session has been terminated (properly or, often, improperly) but the server (or the network at large) believes the connection is still active and belongs to a real user.
Compare: Clonebot
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Ghost, () An old Saxon word equivalent to soul or spirit. It is the translation of the Hebrew _nephesh_ and the Greek _pneuma_, both meaning "breath," "life," "spirit," the "living principle" (Job 11:20; Jer. 15:9; Matt. 27:50; John 19:30). The expression "to give up the ghost" means to die (Lam. 1:19; Gen. 25:17; 35:29; 49:33; Job 3:11). (See HOLY GHOST.)
Ghost, (n.) The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
He saw a ghost.
It occupied -- that dismal thing! -- The path that he was following.
Before he'd time to stop and fly, An earthquake trifled with the eye That saw a ghost.
He fell as fall the early good; Unmoved that awful vision stood.
The stars that danced before his ken He wildly brushed away, and then He saw a post.
Jared Macphester Accounting for the uncommon behavior of ghosts, Heine mentions somebody's ingenious theory to the effect that they are as much afraid of us as we of them. Not quite, if I may judge from such tables of comparative speed as I am able to compile from memories of my own experience.
There is one insuperable obstacle to a belief in ghosts. A ghost never comes naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or "in his habit as he lived." To believe in him, then, is to believe that not only have the dead the power to make themselves visible after there is nothing left of them, but that the same power inheres in textile fabrics. Supposing the products of the loom to have this ability, what object would they have in exercising it? And why does not the apparition of a suit of clothes sometimes walk abroad without a ghost in it? These be riddles of significance. They reach away down and get a convulsive grip on the very tap-root of this flourishing faith.
Ghostfish (n.) (Zool.) A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth.
Compare: Wrymouth
Wrymouth (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of large, elongated, marine fishes of the genus Cryptacanthodes, especially Cryptacanthodes maculatus of the American coast. A whitish variety is called ghostfish.
Ghostless (a.) Without life or spirit. [R.]
Ghostlike (a.) Like a ghost; ghastly.
Ghostlike (a.) Resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" [syn: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual].
Ghostliness (n.) The quality of being ghostly.
Ghostliness (n.) Strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear [syn: eeriness, ghostliness].
Ghostly (a.) Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor.
Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. -- Book of Common Prayer [Ch. of Eng. ]
One of the gostly children of St. Jerome. -- Jer. Taylor.
Ghostly (a.) Of or pertaining to apparitions. -- Akenside.
Ghostly (adv.) Spiritually; mystically. -- Chaucer.
Ghostly (a.) Resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" [syn: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual].
Ghostology (n.) Ghost lore. [R.]
It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft. -- Hawthorne. Ghostwrite
Ghoul (n.) An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies. [Written also ghole .] -- Moore.
Ghoul (n.) Someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection [syn: graverobber, ghoul, body snatcher].
Ghoul (n.) An evil spirit or ghost.
Ghoul (n.) A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead. The existence of ghouls has been disputed by that class of controversialists who are more concerned to deprive the world of comforting beliefs than to give it anything good in their place. In 1640 Father Secchi saw one in a cemetery near Florence and frightened it away with the sign of the cross. He describes it as gifted with many heads an an uncommon allowance of limbs, and he saw it in more than one place at a time. The good man was coming away from dinner at the time and explains that if he had not been "heavy with eating" he would have seized the demon at all hazards. Atholston relates that a ghoul was caught by some sturdy peasants in a churchyard at Sudbury and ducked in a horsepond. (He appears to think that so distinguished a criminal should have been ducked in a tank of rosewater.) The water turned at once to blood "and so contynues unto ys daye." The pond has since been bled with a ditch. As late as the beginning of the fourteenth century a ghoul was cornered in the crypt of the cathedral at Amiens and the whole population surrounded the place. Twenty armed men with a priest at their head, bearing a crucifix, entered and captured the ghoul, which, thinking to escape by the stratagem, had transformed itself to the semblance of a well known citizen, but was nevertheless hanged, drawn and quartered in the midst of hideous popular orgies. The citizen whose shape the demon had assumed was so affected by the sinister occurrence that he never again showed himself in Amiens and his fate remains a mystery.
Ghoulish (a.) Characteristic of a ghoul; vampirelike; hyenalike.
Ghoulish (a.) Suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details" [syn: ghoulish, morbid].
Ghyll (n.) A ravine. See Gill a woody glen. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] -- Wordsworth.
Giallolino (n.) A term variously employed by early writers on art, though commonly designating the yellow oxide of lead, or massicot. -- Fairholt.
Giambeux (n. pl.) Greaves; armor for the legs. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Compare: Jambes, Jambeux
Jambes, Jambeux (n. pl.) (Ancient Armor) In the Middle Ages, armor for the legs below the knees, usually having front and back pieces; called also greaves. [Written also giambeux.] -- Chaucer.
Giant (n.) A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.
Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise. -- Milton.
Giant (n.) A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
Giant (n.) Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.
Giant's Causeway, A vast collection of basaltic pillars, in the county of Antrim on the northern coast of Ireland.
Giant (a.) Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.
Giant cell. (Anat.) See Myeloplax.
Giant clam (Zool.), A bivalve shell of the genus Tridacna, esp. T. gigas, which sometimes weighs 500 pounds. The shells are sometimes used in churches to contain holy water.
Giant heron (Zool.), A very large African heron ({Ardeomega goliath). It is the largest heron known.
Giant kettle, A pothole of very large dimensions, as found in Norway in connection with glaciers. See Pothole.
Giant powder. See Nitroglycerin.
Giant+puffball+(Bot.),+A+fungus+({Lycoperdon+giganteum">Giant puffball (Bot.), a fungus ({Lycoperdon giganteum), edible when young, and when dried used for stanching wounds.
Giant salamander (Zool.), A very large aquatic salamander ({Megalobatrachus maximus), found in Japan. It is the largest of living Amphibia, becoming a yard long.
Giant squid (Zool.), One of several species of very large squids, belonging to Architeuthis and allied genera. Some are over forty feet long.
Giant (a.) Of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp" [syn: elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo].
Giant (n.) Any creature of exceptional size.
Giant (n.) A person of exceptional importance and reputation [syn: colossus, behemoth, giant, heavyweight, titan].
Giant (n.) An unusually large enterprise; "Walton built a retail giant".
Giant (n.) A very large person; impressive in size or qualities [syn: giant, hulk, heavyweight, whale].
Giant (n.) Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful [syn: giant, goliath, behemoth, monster, colossus].
Giant (n.) An imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales.
Giant (n.) A very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun) [syn: giant star, giant].
Giantess (n.) A woman of extraordinary size.
Giantess (n.) A female giant.
Giantize (v. i.) To play the giant. [R.] -- Sherwood.
Giantly (a.) Appropriate to a giant. [Obs.] -- Usher.
Giantry (n.) The race of giants. [R.] -- Cotgrave.
Giantship (n.) The state, personality, or character, of a giant; -- a compellation for a giant.
His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen. -- Milton.
Giaour (n.) An infidel; -- a term applied by Turks to disbelievers in the Mohammedan religion, especially Christrians. -- Byron.
Gib (n.) A male cat; a tomcat. [Obs.]
Gib (v. i.) To act like a cat. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Gib (n.) A piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them together, or to afford a bearing surface; -- usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw.
Gib and key, or Gib and cotter (Steam Engine), The fixed wedge or gib, and the driving wedge,key, or cotter, used for tightening the strap which holds the brasses at the end of a connecting rod.
Compare: Shoe
Shoe (n.; pl. Shoes) A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg.
Your hose should be ungartered, . . . yourshoe untied. -- Shak.
Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon. -- Shak.
Shoe (n.; pl. Shoes) Anything resembling a shoe in form, position, or use.
Specifically:
Shoe (n.; pl. Shoes) (a) A plate or rim of iron nailed to the hoof of an animal to defend it from injury.
Shoe (n.; pl. Shoes) (b) A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow.
Shoe (n.; pl. Shoes) (c) A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill.
Shoe (n.; pl. Shoes) (d) The part of an automobile or railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
Shoe (n.; pl. Shoes) (e) (Arch.) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building.
Shoe (n.; pl. Shoes) (f) (Milling.) The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
Shoe (n.; pl. Shoes) (g) An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
Shoe (n.; pl. Shoes) (h) An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.
Shoe (n.; pl. Shoes) (i) An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
Shoe (n.; pl. Shoes) (j) (Mach.) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; -- called also slipper, and gib.
Note: Shoe is often used adjectively, or in composition; as, shoe buckle, or shoe-buckle; shoe latchet, or shoe-latchet; shoe leathet, or shoe-leather; shoe string, shoe-string, or shoestring.
Shoe (n.; pl. Shoes) The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, esp. for an automobile.
Shoe of an anchor. (Naut.) (a) A small block of wood, convex on the back, with a hole to receive the point of the anchor fluke, -- used to prevent the anchor from tearing the planks of the vessel when raised or lowered.
Shoe of an anchor. (Naut.) (b) A broad, triangular piece of plank placed upon the fluke to give it a better hold in soft ground.
Shoe block (Naut.), A block with two sheaves, one above the other, and at right angles to each other.
Shoe bolt, A bolt with a flaring head, for fastening shoes on sleigh runners.
Shoe pac, A kind of moccasin. See Pac.
Shoe stone, A sharpening stone used by shoemakers and other workers in leather.
Compare: Slipper
Slipper (n.) One who, or that which, slips.
Slipper (n.) A kind of light shoe, which may be slipped on with ease, and worn in undress; a slipshoe.
Slipper (n.) A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
Slipper (n.) A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
Slipper (n.) (Mach.) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; -- also called shoe, and gib.
Slipper animalcule (Zool.), A ciliated infusorian of the genus Paramecium.
Slipper flower. (Bot.) Slipperwort.
Slipper limpet, or Slipper shell (Zool.), A boat shell.
GiB (n.) A unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes [syn: gigabyte, gibibyte, G, GB, GiB].
GiB (n.) A castrated tomcat.
Gib (v. i.) To destroy utterly. Like frag, but much more violent and final. ?
There's no trace left. You definitely gibbed that bug?.
Gib (n.) Remnants after total obliteration.
Popilarized by id software in the game Quake, but actually goes back to an earlier game called Rise of the Triad. It's short for giblets (thus pronounced ?jib?), and referred to the bloody remains of slain opponents. Eventually the word was verbed, and leaked into general usage afterward.
Gibbed (imp. & p. p.) of Gib.
Gibbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gib.
Gib (v. t.) To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs.
Gibbed lathe, An engine lathe in which the tool carriage is held down to the bed by a gib instead of by a weight.
Gib (v. i.) To balk. See Jib, v. i. -- Youatt.
Gibbartas (n.) (Zool.) One of several finback whales of the North Atlantic; -- called also Jupiter whale. [Written also jubartas, gubertas, dubertus.]
Gibber (n.) A balky horse. --Youatt.
Gibbered (imp. & p. p.) of Gibber
Gibbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gibber
Gibber (v. i.) To speak rapidly and inarticulately. -- Shak.
Syn: jabber.
Gibber (n.) Unintelligible talking [syn: gibberish, gibber].
Gibber (v.) Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble].
Gibber (v.) Chatter inarticulately; of monkeys
Gibberish (n.) Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words.
He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go; All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to know. -- Drayton.
Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with. -- Hawthorne.
Gibberish (n.) Incomprehensible, obscure, or pretentious technical talk or writing; excessively obscure jargon.