Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 2
Gag (n.) A mouthful that makes one retch; a choking bit; as, a gag of mutton fat. -- Lamb.
Gag (n.) A speech or phrase interpolated offhand by an actor on the stage in his part as written, usually consisting of some seasonable or local allusion. [Slang]
Gag (n.) A humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point" [syn: joke, gag, laugh, jest, jape].
Gag (n.) Restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting [syn: gag, muzzle].
Gag (v.) Prevent from speaking out; "The press was gagged" [syn: gag, muzzle].
Gag (v.) Be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat" [syn: choke, gag, fret].
Gag (v.) Tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them; "The burglars gagged the home owner and tied him to a chair" [syn: gag, muzzle].
Gag (v.) Make jokes or quips; "The students were gagging during dinner" [syn: gag, quip].
Gag (v.) Struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged" [syn: gag, choke, strangle, suffocate].
Gag (v.) Cause to retch or choke [syn: gag, choke].
Gag (v.) Make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit [syn: gag, heave, retch].
Gag, () Equivalent to choke, but connotes more disgust. "Hey, this is Fortran code. No wonder the C compiler gagged." See also barf. [{Jargon File]
Gagate (n.) Agate. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Gage (n.) A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security.
Nor without gages to the needy lend. -- Sandys.
Gage (n.) A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance. "There I throw my gage." -- Shak.
Gage (n.) A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.
Gaged (imp. & p. p.) of Gage
Gaging (p. pr & vb. n.) of Gage
Gage (v. t.) To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge. [Obs.]
A moiety competent Was gaged by our king. -- Shak.
Gage (v. t.) To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
Great debts Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal, Hath left me gaged. -- Shak.
Gage (n.) A measure or standard. See Gauge, n.
Gage (v. t.) To measure. See Gauge, v. t.
You shall not gage me By what we do to-night. -- Shak.
Gage (n.) Street names for marijuana [syn: pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane].
Gage (n.) A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. [syn: gauge, gage].
Gage (v.) Place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse" [syn: bet on, back, gage, stake, game, punt].
GAGE, () contracts. Personal property placed by a debtor in possession of his creditor, as a security for his debt; a pawn. (q. v.) Hence mortgage is a dead pledge.
Gage -- U.S. County in Nebraska
Population (2000): 22993
Housing Units (2000): 10030
Land area (2000): 855.287542 sq. miles (2215.184470 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.649882 sq. miles (12.043138 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 859.937424 sq. miles (2227.227608 sq. km)
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.248785 N, 96.692942 W
Headwords:
Gage
Gage, NE
Gage County
Gage County, NE
Gage, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 429
Housing Units (2000): 223
Land area (2000): 0.415383 sq. miles (1.075837 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.415383 sq. miles (1.075837 sq. km)
FIPS code: 28250
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.318024 N, 99.757206 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73843
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Gage, OK
Gage
Gager (n.) A measurer. See Gauger.
Gagger (n.) One who gags.
Gagger (n.) (Founding) A piece of iron imbedded in the sand of a mold to keep the sand in place.
Gaggled (imp. & p. p.) of Gaggle
Gaggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gaggle
Gaggle (v. i.) To make a noise like a goose; to cackle. -- Bacon.
Gaggle (n.) (Zool.) A flock of wild geese. , especially when on the ground. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Gaggle (n.) Hence: A gathering of people, especially a noisy one.
Gaggle (n.) Hence: Any clustered group of related objects.
Gaggle (n.) A flock of geese.
Gaggle (v.) Make a noise characteristic of a goose; "Cackling geese".
Gagtooth (n.) (pl. Gagteeth) A projecting tooth. [Obs.]
Gag-toothed (a.) Having gagteeth. [Obs.]
Gahnite (n.) (Min.) Zinc spinel; automolite.
Gaidic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to hypogeic acid; -- applied to an acid obtained from hypogeic acid.
Gaiety (n.) Same as Gayety.
Gayety (n.; pl. Gayeties.) [Written also gaiety.] 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 (n.; pl. Gayeties.) Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress.
Syn: Liveliness; mirth; animation; vivacity; glee; blithesomeness; sprightliness; jollity. See Liveliness.
Gaiety (n.) A gay feeling [syn: gaiety, merriment].
Gaiety (n.) A festive merry feeling [syn: gaiety, playfulness].
Gailer (n.) A jailer. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Gaillard (a.) Gay; brisk; merry; galliard. -- Chaucer.
Gailliarde (n.) A lively French and Italian dance.
Gaily (adv.) Merrily; showily. See gaily.
Compare: Gayly
Gayly (adv.) [Also spelled gaily.] With mirth and frolic; merrily; blithely; gleefully.
Gayly (adv.) Finely; splendidly; showily; as, ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming. -- Pope.
Gaily (adv.) In a gay manner; "the scandals were gaily diverting".
Gain (n.) (Arch.) A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
Gain (a.) Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Gain (n.) That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss.
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. -- Phil. iii. 7.
Godliness with contentment is great gain. -- 1 Tim. vi. 6.
Every one shall share in the gains. -- Shak.
Gain (n.) The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation. "The lust of gain." -- Tennyson.
Gained (imp. & p. p.) of Gain
Gaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gain
Gain (v. t.) To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living.
What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? -- Matt. xvi. 26.
To gain dominion, or to keep it gained. -- Milton.
For fame with toil we gain, but lose with ease. -- Pope.
Gain (v. t.) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize.
Gain (v. t.) To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. -- Matt. xviii. 15.
To gratify the queen, and gained the court. -- Dryden.
Gain (v. t.) To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor.
Forded Usk and gained the wood. -- Tennyson.
Gain (v. t.) To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage. [Obs. or Ironical]
Ye should . . . not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. -- Acts xxvii. 21.
Gained day, The calendar day gained in sailing eastward around the earth.
To gain ground, To make progress; to advance in any undertaking; to prevail; to acquire strength or extent.
To gain over, To draw to one's party or interest; to win over.
To gain the wind (Naut.), To reach the windward side of another ship.
Syn: To obtain; acquire; get; procure; win; earn; attain; achieve.
Usage: See Obtain. -- To Gain, Win. Gain implies only that we get something by exertion; win, that we do it in competition with others. A person gains knowledge, or gains a prize, simply by striving for it; he wins a victory, or wins a prize, by taking it in a struggle with others.
Gain (v. i.) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily.
Thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion. -- Ezek. xxii. 12.
Gaining twist, In rifled firearms, a twist of the grooves, which increases regularly from the breech to the muzzle.
To gain on or To gain upon. To encroach on; as, the ocean gains on the land.
To gain on or To gain upon. To obtain influence with.
To gain on or To gain upon. To win ground upon; to move faster than, as in a race or contest.
To gain on or To gain upon. To get the better of; to have the advantage of.
The English have not only gained upon the Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice itself. -- Addison.
My good behavior had so far gained on the emperor, that I began to conceive hopes of liberty. -- Swift.
Gain (n.) A quantity that is added; "there was an addition to property taxes this year"; "they recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a period of weeks" [syn: addition, increase, gain].
Gain (n.) The advantageous quality of being beneficial [syn: profit, gain].
Gain (n.) The amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input [syn: amplification, gain].
Gain (n.) The amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating [ant: loss, red, red ink].
Gain (v.) Obtain; "derive pleasure from one's garden" [syn: derive, gain].
Gain (v.) Win something through one's efforts; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance" [syn: acquire, win, gain] [ant: lose].
Gain (v.) Derive a benefit from; "She profited from his vast experience" [syn: profit, gain, benefit].
Gain (v.) Reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts" [syn: reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain].
Gain (v.) Obtain advantages, such as points, etc.; "The home team was gaining ground"; "After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference" [syn: gain, advance, win, pull ahead, make headway, get ahead, gain ground] [ant: drop off, fall back, fall behind, lose, recede].
Gain (v.) Rise in rate or price; "The stock market gained 24 points today" [syn: advance, gain].
Gain (v.) Increase or develop; "the peace movement gained momentum"; "the car gathers speed" [syn: gain, gather].
Gain (v.) Earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month" [syn: gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in].
Gain (v.) Increase (one's body weight); "She gained 20 pounds when she stopped exercising" [syn: gain, put on] [ant: lose weight, melt off, reduce, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin].
GAIN, () Gator Advertising and Information Network.
GAIN, () German Advanced Integrated Network (IBM)
GAIN. () The word is used as synonymous with profits. (q. v.) See Fruit.
Gainable (a.) Capable of being obtained or reached. -- Sherwood.
Gainage (n.) The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.
Gainage (n.) The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself. -- Bouvier.
Gainage, () old Eng. law. It signifies the draft oxen, horses, wain, plough, and furniture for carrying on the work of tillage by the baser sort of @soke men and villeins, and sometimes the land itself, or the profits raised by cultivating it. Bract. lib. 1, c. 9.
Gainer (n.) One who gains. -- Shak.
Gainer (n.) A person who gains weight [syn: gainer, weight gainer].
Gainer (n.) A person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits); "she was clearly the gainer in that exchange".
Gainer (n.) A dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board [syn: gainer, full gainer].
Gainful (a.) 有利益的，賺錢的；唯利是圖的 Profitable; advantageous; lucrative. "A gainful speculation." -- Macaulay. -- Gain"ful*ly, adv. -- Gain"ful*ness, n.
Gainful (a.) Yielding a fair profit [syn: gainful, paid, paying].
Gaingiving (n.) A misgiving. [Obs.]
Gainless (a.) Not producing gain; unprofitable. -- Hammond. -- Gain"lessness, n.
Gainly (a.) Handily; readily; dexterously; advantageously. [Obs.] -- Dr. H. More.
Gainly (a.) Graceful and pleasing; "gainly conduct"; "a gainly youth with dark hair and eyes".
Gainpain (n.) Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.
Gainsaid (imp. & p. p.) of Gainsay.
Gainsaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gainsay.
Gainsay (v. t.) 否認，否定；反對，反駁 To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.
I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. -- Luke xxi. 15.
The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother, My sacred aunt, should by my mortal sword Be drained. -- Shak.
Gainsay (v.) Take exception to; "She challenged his claims" [syn: {challenge}, {dispute}, {gainsay}].
Gainsayer (n.) One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." -- Tit. i. 9.
Gainsome (a.) Gainful.
Gainsome (a.) Prepossessing; well-favored. [Obs.] -- Massinger.
Gainst (prep.) A contraction of Against.
Gainstood (imp. & p. p.) of Gainstand.
Gainstanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gainstand.
Gainstand (v. t.) To withstand; to resist. [Obs.]
Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Gainstrive (v. t. & i.) To strive or struggle against; to withstand. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Gairfowl (n.) (Zool.) See Garefowl. Gairishly
Compare: Garefowl
Garefowl (n.) (Zool.) The great auk; also, the razorbill. See Auk. [Written also gairfowl, and gurfel.]
Gairish (n.) Alt. of Gairishness.
Gairishly (n.) Alt. of Gairishness.
Gairishness (n.) Same as Garish, Garishly, Garishness.
Gait (n.) A going; a walk; a march; a way.
Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor folks pass. -- Shak.
Gait (n.) Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.
'T is Cinna; I do know him by his gait. -- Shak.
Gait (n.) The rate of moving (especially walking or running) [syn: pace, gait].
Gait (n.) A horse's manner of moving.
Gait (n.) A person's manner of walking
Gaited (a.) Having (such) a gait; -- used in composition; as, slow-gaited; heavy-gaited.
Gaiter (n.) A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep, or for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.
Gaiter (n.) A kind of shoe, consisting of cloth, and covering the ankle.
Gaiter (v. t.) To dress with gaiters. Gaitre
Gaiter (n.) A cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and ankles [syn: spat, gaiter].
Gaiter (n.) A shoe covering the ankle with elastic gores in the sides.
Gaiter (n.) Legging consisting of a cloth or leather covering for the leg from the knee to the ankle.
Gaitre (n.) Alt. of Gaytre.
Gaytre (n.) The dogwood tree. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Gala (n.) Pomp, show, or festivity. -- Macaulay.
Gala day, A day of mirth and festivity; a holiday.
Galacta-gogue (n.) (Med.) An agent exciting secretion of milk.
Galactic (a.) Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid.
Galactic (a.) Of or pertaining to the galaxy or Milky Way.
Galactic circle (Astron.), The great circle of the heavens, to which the course of the galaxy most nearly conforms. -- Herschel.
Galactic poles, The poles of the galactic circle.
Galactic (a.) Of or relating to a galaxy (especially our galaxy the Milky Way); "the galactic plane".
Galactic (a.) Inconceivably large [syn: astronomic, astronomical, galactic].
Galactin (n.) (Chem.) 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.
Galactin (n.) (Chem.) A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree ({Galactodendron).
Galactin (n.) (Chem.) An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate resembling gelose, found in the seeds of leguminous plants, and yielding on decomposition several sugars, including galactose.
Galactodensimeter (n.) Same as Galactometer.
Galactometer (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the quality of milk (i.e., its richness in cream) by determining its specific gravity; a lactometer.
Galactophagist (n.) One who eats, or subsists on, milk.
Galactophagous (a.) Feeding on milk.
Galactophorous (a.) (Anat.) Milk-carrying; lactiferous; -- applied to the ducts of mammary glands.
Galactopoietic (a.) (Med.) Increasing the flow of milk; milk-producing. -- n. A galactopoietic substance.
Galactose (n.) (Chem.) A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).
Galactose (n.) A simple sugar found in lactose [syn: galactose, brain sugar].
Galage (n.) (Obs.) See Galoche. -- Spenser.
Galagos (n. pl. ) of Galago.
Galago (n.) (Zool.) A genus of African lemurs, including numerous species.
Grand+galago+({Galago+crassicaudata">Note: The grand galago ({Galago crassicaudata) is about mouse+galago+({G.+murinus">the size of a cat; the mouse galago ({G. murinus)is about the size of a mouse. Galanga
Compare: Bush baby, bushbaby
Bush baby, bushbaby (n.) Any of several agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemurlike primates of the genus Galago with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears; -- called also galago.
Galago (n.) Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears [syn: galago, bushbaby, bush baby].
Galanga (n.) Alt. of Galangal.
Galangal (n.) The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian Alpinia+({Alpinia+Galanga">or Chinese species of Alpinia ({Alpinia Galanga and Alpinia officinarum) and of the K[ae]mpferia Galanga), -- all of the Ginger family.
Galangal (n.) Southeastern Asian perennial with aromatic roots [syn: galangal, Alpinia galanga].
Galangal (n.) European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots [syn: galingale, galangal, Cyperus longus].
Galantine (n.) A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold. -- Smart.
Galantine (n.) Boned poultry stuffed then cooked and covered with aspic; served cold.
Galapee tree () (Bot.) The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves.
Galatian (a.) Of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants. -- A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who settled in Asia Minor.
Galatian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Galatia in Asia Minor (especially a member of a people believed to have been Gauls who conquered Galatia in the 3rd century BC).
Galaxies (n. pl. ) of Galaxy
Galaxy (n.) (Astron.) The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. -- Nichol.
Galaxy (n.) A very large collection of stars comparable in size to the Milky Way system, held together by gravitational force and separated from other such star systems by large distances of mostly empty space. Galaxies vary widely in shape and size, the most common nearby galaxies being over 70,000 light years in diameter and separated from each other by even larger distances. The number of stars in one galaxy varies, and may extend into the hundreds of billions.
Galaxy (n.) A splendid or impressive assemblage of persons or things; as, a galaxy of movie stars. Galban
Galaxy (n.) A splendid assemblage (especially of famous people).
Galaxy (n.) Tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall [syn: galax,galaxy, wandflower, beetleweed, coltsfoot, Galax urceolata].
Galaxy (n.) (Astronomy) A collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust; "`extragalactic nebula' is a former name for `galaxy'" [syn: galaxy, extragalactic nebula].
Galaxy, () An extensible language in the vein of EL/1 and RCC.
["Introduction to the Galaxy Language", Anne F. Beetem et al, IEEE Software 6(3):55-62].
(1995-12-09)
Galban (n.) Alt. of Galbanum
Galbanum (n.) A gum resin exuding from the stems of certain Asiatic umbelliferous plants, mostly species of Ferula. The Bubon Galbanum of South Africa furnishes an inferior kind of galbanum. It has an acrid, bitter taste, a strong, unpleasant smell, and is used for medical purposes, also in the arts, as in the manufacture of varnish.
Galbanum (n.) A bitter aromatic gum resin that resembles asafetida [syn: galbanum, gum albanum].
Galbanum, () Heb. helbenah, (Ex. 30:34), one of the ingredients in the holy incense. It is a gum, probably from the Galbanum officinale.
Gale (n.) A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.
Note: Gales have a velocity of from about eighteen ("moderate") to about eighty ("very heavy") miles an our. -- Sir. W. S. Harris.