Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G

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Glyn (n.) Alt. of Glynne.

Glynne (n.) A glen. See Glen.

Note: [Obs. singly, but occurring often in locative names in Ireland, as Glen does in Scotland.]

He could not beat out the Irish, yet he did shut them up within those narrow corners and glyns under the mountain's foot. -- Spenser.

Glyoxal (n.) (Chem.) A white, amorphous, deliquescent powder, (CO.H)2, obtained by the partial oxidation of glycol. It is a double aldehyde, between glycol and oxalic acid.

Glyoxalic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an aldehyde acid, intermediate between glycol and oxalic acid. [Written also glyoxylic.]

Glyoxaline (n.) (Chem.) A white, crystalline, organic base, C3H4N2, produced by the action of ammonia on glyoxal, and forming the origin of a large class of derivatives hence, any one of the series of which glyoxaline is a type; -- called also oxaline.

Glyoxaline (n.) An organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor [syn: imidazole, iminazole, glyoxaline].

Glyoxime (n.) (Chem.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, produced by the action of hydroxylamine on glyoxal, and belonging to the class of oximes; also, any one of a group of substances resembling glyoxime proper, and of which it is a type. See Oxime.

Glyph (n.) (Arch.) A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph.

Glyph (n.) (Arch[ae]ol.) A carved figure or character, incised or in relief; a carved pictograph; hence, a pictograph representing a form originally adopted for sculpture, whether carved or painted.

Glyph (n.) Glyptic art in the form of a symbolic figure carved or incised in relief.

Glyph, () An image used in the visual representation of characters; roughly speaking, how a character looks. A font is a set of glyphs.

In the simple case, for a given font (typeface and size), each character corresponds to a single glyph but this is not always the case, especially in a language with a large alphabet where one character may correspond to several glyphs or several characters to one glyph (a character encoding).

Usually used in reference to outline fonts, in particular TrueType.

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Glyphic (a.) (Fine Arts) Of or pertaining to sculpture or carving of any sort, esp. to glyphs.

Glyphograph (n.) A plate made by glyphography, or an impression taken from such a plate.

Glyphographic (a.) Of or pertaining to glyphography.

Glyphography (n.) A process similar to etching, in which, by means of voltaic electricity, a raised copy of a drawing is made, so that it can be used to print from.

Glyptic (a.) Of or pertaining to gem engraving.

Glyptic (a.) (Min.) Figured; marked as with figures.

Glyptics (n.) The art of engraving on precious stones.

Glyptics (n.) The art of engraving on precious stones [syn: glyptics, lithoglyptics].

Glyptodon (n.) (Paleon.) An extinct South American quaternary mammal, allied to the armadillos. It was as large as an ox, was covered with tessellated scales, and had fluted teeth. -- Owen.

Glyptodont (n.) (Paleon.) One of a family ({Glyptodontidae) of extinct South American edentates, of which Glyptodon is the type. About twenty species are known.

Glyptographic (a.) Relating to glyptography, or the art of engraving on precious stones. [R.]

Glyptography (n.) The art or process of engraving on precious stones. [R.]

Glyptography (n.) Carvings or engravings (especially on precious stones) [syn: glyptic art, glyptography].

Glyptography (n.) Carving or engraving (especially on stones).

Glyptotheca (n.) A building or room devoted to works of sculpture.

Glyster (n.) (Med.) Same as Clyster.

Gmelinite (n.) (Min.) A rhombohedral zeolitic mineral, related in form and composition to chabazite.

Gnaphalium (n.) (Bot.) A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting.

Gnaphalium (n.) Large widely distributed genus of coarse hairy herbs with whitish involucres [syn: Gnaphalium, genus Gnaphalium].

Gnar (n.) A knot or gnarl in wood; hence, a tough, thickset man; -- written also gnarr. [Archaic]

He was . . . a thick gnarre. -- Chaucer.

Gnarred (imp. & p. p.) of Gnar.

Gnarring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gnar.

Gnar (v. i.) To gnarl; to snarl; to growl; -- written also gnarr. [Archaic]

At them he gan to rear his bristles strong, And felly gnarre. -- Spenser.

A thousand wants Gnarr at the heels of men. -- Tennison.

Gnarled (imp. & p. p.) of Gnarl.

Gnarling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gnarl.

Gnarl (v. i.) To growl; to snarl.

Gnarl (n.) a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.

Gnarled (a.) Knotty; full of knots or gnarls; twisted; crossgrained.

Gnarly (a.) Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained.

Gnashed (imp. & p. p.) of Gnash.

Gnashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gnash.

Gnash (v. t.) To strike together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth.

Gnash (v. i.) To grind or strike the teeth together.

Gnashingly (adv.) With gnashing.

Gnat (n.) A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See Mosquito.

Gnat (n.) Any fly resembling a Culex in form or habits; esp., in America, a small biting fly of the genus Simulium and allies, as the buffalo gnat, the black fly, etc.

Gnathic (a.) Of or pertaining to the jaw.

Gnathidia (n. pl. ) of Gnathidium.

Gnathidium (n.) The ramus of the lower jaw of a bird as far as it is naked; -- commonly used in the plural.

Gnathite (n.) Any one of the mouth appendages of the Arthropoda. They are known as mandibles, maxillae, and maxillipeds.

Gnathonic (a.) Alt. of Gnathonical.

Gnathonical (a.) Flattering; deceitful.

Gnathopod (n.) A gnathopodite or maxilliped. See Maxilliped.

Gnathopodite (n.) Any leglike appendage of a crustacean, when modified wholly, or in part, to serve as a jaw, esp. one of the maxillipeds.

Gnathastegite (n.) One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs.

Gnathostoma (n. pl.) A comprehensive division of vertebrates, including all that have distinct jaws, in contrast with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them.

GnathothecAe (n. pl. ) of Gnathotheca.

Gnathotheca (n.) The horney covering of the lower mandible of a bird.

Gnatling (n.) A small gnat.

Gnatworm (n.) The aquatic larva of a gnat; -- called also, colloquially, wiggler.

Gnawed (imp. & p. p.) of Gnaw.

Gnawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gnaw.

Gnaw (v. i.) 啃，嚙 [（+at/ into/ on）]；消耗；侵蝕 [（+at/ into）]；煩惱，折磨 [（+at）] To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teethsomething hard, unwiedly, or unmanageable.

I might well, like the spaniel, gnaw upon the chain that ties me. -- Sir P. Sidney.

Gnaw (v. t.) 咬，啃，嚙；咬斷；咬成 [（+off/ away）]；消耗；腐蝕；侵蝕 [（+away）]；使煩惱，折磨 To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily separated or crushed; to bite off little by little, with effort; to wear or eat away by scraping or continuous biting with the teeth; to nibble at.

His bones clean picked; his very bones they gnaw. -- Dryden.

Gnaw (v. t.) To bite in agony or rage.

They gnawed their tongues for pain. -- Rev. xvi. 10.

Gnaw (v. t.) To corrode; to fret away; to waste.

Gnaw (v. t.) To trouble in a constant manner; to plague; to worry; to vex; -- usually used with at; as, his mounting debts gnawed at him.

Gnaw (v.) Bite or chew on with the teeth; "gnaw an old cracker."

Gnaw (v.) Become ground down or deteriorate; "Her confidence eroded" [syn: {erode}, {gnaw}, {gnaw at}, {eat at}, {wear away}].

Gnawer (n.) 咬噬者；囓齒動物 One who, or that which, gnaws.

Gnawer (n.) (Zool.) A rodent.

Gnawer (n.) Relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing [syn: {rodent}, {gnawer}].

Gnawing (a.) 折磨人的；令人苦惱的；使人痛苦的 Continuously uncomfortable, worrying, or painful.

// I've had gnawing doubts about this project for some time.

// After three days, we felt an agonizing, gnawing hunger.

Gneiss (n.) [G.] (Geol.) 【地】片麻岩 A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic gneiss or syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss.

Gneiss (n.) A laminated metamorphic rock similar to granite.

Gneissic (a.) 片麻岩的；似片麻岩的 Relating to, or resembling, gneiss; consisting of gneiss.

Gneissoid (a.) Resembling gneiss; having some of the characteristics of gneiss; -- applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and gneiss, or mica slate and gneiss.

Gneissose (a.) Having the structure of gneiss.

Gnew () imp. of Gnaw.

Gnide (v. t.) To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces.

Gnof (n.) Churl; curmudgeon.

Gnome (n.) An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc.

Gnome (n.) A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.

Gnome (n.) (Zool.) A small owl ({Glaucidium gnoma) of the Western United States.

Gnome (n.) A brief reflection or maxim. -- Peacham. Gnomic

Gnome (n.) A legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure [syn: gnome, dwarf].

Gnome (n.) A short pithy saying expressing a general truth.

GNOME, () GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNU, GNOME, GUI)

GNU Network Object Model Environment

GNOME, ()

(GNOME) A project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. GNOME is part of the GNU project and part of the OpenSource movement. The desktop will consist of small utilities and larger applications which share a consistent look and feel. GNOME uses GTK+ as the GUI toolkit for applications.

GNOME, () Is intended to run on any modern and functional Unix-like system. The current version runs on Linux, FreeBSD, IRIX and Solaris.

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GNOME, (n.) In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior parts of the earth and having special custody of mineral treasures. Bjorsen, who died in 1765, says gnomes were common enough in the southern parts of Sweden in his boyhood, and he frequently saw them scampering on the hills in the evening twilight. Ludwig Binkerhoof saw three as recently as 1792, in the Black Forest, and Sneddeker avers that in 1803 they drove a party of miners out of a Silesian mine. Basing our computations upon data supplied by these statements, we find that the gnomes were probably extinct as early as 1764.

Gnomic (a.) Alt. of Gnomical.

Gnomic (a.) Uttering, containing, or characterized by maxims; wise and pithy. Gnomic derives from Greek gnomikos, from gnome, "intelligence, hence an expressed example of intelligence," from gignoskein, "to know."

Gnomical (a.) Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic.

Gnomical (a.) Gnomonical.

Gnomically (adv.) In a gnomic, didactic, or sententious manner.

Gnomologic (a.) Alt. of Gnomological.

Gnomological (a.) Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a gnomology.

Gnomology (n.) A collection of, or a treatise on, maxims, grave sentences, or reflections.

Gnomon (n.) The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis.

Gnomon (n.) A style or column erected perpendicularly to the horizon, formerly used in astronomocal observations. Its principal use was to find the altitude of the sun by measuring the length of its shadow.

Gnomon (n.) The space included between the boundary lines of two similar parallelograms, the one within the other, with an angle in common; as, the gnomon bcdefg of the parallelograms ac and af. The parallelogram bf is the complement of the parallelogram df.

Gnomon (n.) The index of the hour circle of a globe.

Gnomonic (a.) Alt. of Gnomonical.

Gnomonical (a.) Of or pertaining to the gnomon, or the art of dialing.

Gnomonically (adv.) According to the principles of the gnomonic projection.

Gnomonics (n.) The art or science of dialing, or of constructing dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon.

Gnomonist (n.) One skilled in gnomonics.

Gnomonology (n.) A treatise on gnomonics.

Gnoscopine (n.) An alkaloid existing in small quantities in opium.

Gnosis (n.) The deeper wisdom; knowledge of spiritual truth, such as was claimed by the Gnostics.

Gnostic (a.) Knowing; wise; shrewd.

Gnostic (a.) Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the Gnostic heresy.

Gnostic (n.) One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons.

Gnosticism (n.) The system of philosophy taught by the Gnostics.

Gnow (imp.) Gnawed.

Gnu (n.) (Zool.) One of two species of large South African antelopes of the genus Catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes. [Written also gnoo.]

Note: The common gnu or wildebeest ({Catoblephas gnu) is plain brown; the brindled gnu or blue wildebeest ({C. gorgon) is larger, with transverse stripes of black on the neck and shoulders.

Gnu (n.) Large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail [syn: gnu, wildebeest].

GNU, () GNU's Not Unix (recursive!, Unix, GNU, OS)

GNU, () [acronym: ?GNU?s Not Unix!', see recursive acronym] A Unix-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman. GNU EMACS and the GNU C compiler, two tools designed for this project, have become very popular in hackerdom and elsewhere. The GNU project was designed partly to proselytize for RMS's position that information is community property and all software source should be shared. One of its slogans is ?Help stamp out software hoarding!? Though this remains controversial (because it implicitly denies any right of designers to own, assign, and sell the results of their labors), many hackers who disagree with RMS have nevertheless cooperated to produce large amounts of high-quality software for free redistribution under the Free Software Foundation's imprimatur. The GNU project has a web page at http:// www.gnu.org/. See EMACS, copyleft, General Public Virus, Linux.

GNU, () Noted Unix hacker John Gilmore , founder of Usenet's anarchic alt.* hierarchy.

GNU, () A recursive acronym:

"GNU's Not Unix!". The Free Software Foundation's project to provide a freely distributable replacement for Unix. The GNU Manifesto was published in the March 1985 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal but the GNU project started a year and a half earlier when Richard Stallman was trying to get funding to work on his freely distributable editor, Emacs.

Emacs and the GNU C compiler, gcc, two tools designed

for this project, have become very popular. GNU software is available from many GNU archive sites.