Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 31
Godling (n.) A diminutive god. -- Dryden.
Godly (n.) Pious; reverencing God, and his character and laws; obedient to the commands of God from love for, and reverence of, his character; conformed to God's law; devout; righteous; as, a godly life.
For godly sorrow worketh repentance. -- 2 Cor. vii. 10.
Godly (adv.) Piously; devoutly; righteously.
All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. -- 2. Tim. iii. 12.
Godly (a.) Showing great reverence for god; "a godly man"; "leading a godly life" [syn: godly, reverent, worshipful].
Godly (a.) Emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black or white...satanic or godly"-Saturday Review [syn: divine, godly].
Godlyhead (n.) Goodness. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Godmother (n.) A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See Godfather
Godmother (n.) Any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism
Godown (n.) A warehouse. [East Indies]
Godroon (n.) (Arch.) An ornament produced by notching or carving a rounded molding.
Godsend (n.) Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune.
Godsend (n.) A sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line" [syn: boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce].
Godship (n.) The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god or goddess.
O'er hills and dales their godships came. -- Prior.
Godsib (n.) A gossip. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Godson (n.) A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather.
Godson (n.) A male godchild.
Godspeed (n.) Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, "God speed you." [Written also as two separate words.]
Receive him not into house, neither bid him God speed. -- 2 John 10.
Godspeed (n.) A successful journey; "they wished him Godspeed".
Godward (adv.) Toward God. -- 2 Cor. iii. 4.
Godwit (n.) (Zool.) One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringid[ae]. The European black-tailed godwit ({Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit ({Limosa fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit ({Limosa h[ae]mastica), and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin.
Godwit (n.) Large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned bill.
Goel (a.) Yellow. [Obs.] -- Tusser.
Goel, () In Hebrew the participle of the verb _gaal_, "to redeem." It is rendered in the Authorized Version "kinsman," Num. 5:8; Ruth 3:12; 4:1,6,8; "redeemer," Job 19:25; "avenger," Num. 35:12; Deut. 19:6, etc. The Jewish law gave the right of redeeming and repurchasing, as well as of avenging blood, to the next relative, who was accordingly called by this name. (See REDEEMER.)
Goeland (n.) (Zool.) A white tropical tern ({Cygis candida).
Goemin (n.) A complex mixture of several substances extracted from Irish moss.
Goen () p. p. of Go. [Obs.]
Goer (n.) One who, or that which, goes; a runner or walker; as:
Goer (n.) A foot. [Obs.] -- Chapman.
Goer (n.) A horse, considered in reference to his gait; as, a good goer; a safe goer.
This antechamber has been filled with comers and goers. -- Macaulay.
Goer (n.) Someone who leaves [syn: departer, leaver, goer].
Goety (n.) Invocation of evil spirits; witchcraft. [Obs.] -- Hallywell.
Compare: Gove
Gove (n.) [Also goaf, goof, goff.] A mow; a rick for hay. [Obs.] -- Tusser.
Goff (n.) A silly clown. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Goff (n.) A game. See Golf. [Scot.] -- Halliwell.
Goff, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 181
Housing Units (2000): 72
Land area (2000): 0.211596 sq. miles (0.548032 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.211596 sq. miles (0.548032 sq. km)
FIPS code: 26775
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.665867 N, 95.931546 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 66428
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Goff, KS
Goff
Goffered (imp. & p. p.) of Goffer.
Goffering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Goffer.
Goffer (v. t.) To plait, flute, or crimp. See Gauffer. -- Clarke.
Goffer (n.) A zealously energetic person (especially a salesman) [syn: goffer, gopher].
Goffer (n.) An iron used to press pleats and ridges [syn: goffer, gauffer, goffering iron, gauffering iron].
Goffer (n.) An ornamental frill made by pressing pleats [syn: goffer, gauffer].
Goffer (v.) Make wavy with a heated goffering iron; "goffer the trim of the dress" [syn: gauffer, goffer].
Gog (n.) Haste; ardent desire to go.
Goggled (imp. & p. p.) of Goggle.
Goggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Goggle.
Goggle (v. i.) To roll the eyes; to stare.
And wink and goggle like an owl. -- Hudibras.
Goggle (a.) Full and rolling, or staring; -- said of the eyes.
The long, sallow vissage, the goggle eyes. -- Sir W. Scott.
Goggle (n.) A strained or affected rolling of the eye.
Goggle (n.) pl. A kind of spectacles with short, projecting eye tubes, in the front end of which are fixed plain glasses for protecting the eyes from cold, dust, etc.
Goggle (n.) pl. Colored glasses for relief from intense light.
Goggle (n.) pl. A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting.
Goggle (n.) pl. Any screen or cover for the eyes, with or without a slit for seeing through.
Goggle (v.) Look with amazement; look stupidly [syn: goggle, gape, gawp, gawk].
Goggled (a.) Prominent; staring, as the eye.
Goggle-eye (n.) One of two or more species of American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrarchidae, esp. Chaenobryttus antistius, of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters, and Ambloplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; -- so called from their prominent eyes.
Goggle-eye (n.) The goggler.
Goggle-eyed (a.) Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes.
Goggler (n.) A carangoid oceanic fish (Trachurops crumenophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also goggle-eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra.
Goglet (n.) See Gurglet.
Going (n.) The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad.
Going (n.) Departure.
Going (n.) Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing.
Going (n.) Course of life; behavior; doings; ways.
Goiter (n.) Alt. of Goitre.
Goitre (n.) An enlargement of the thyroid gland, on the anterior part of the neck; bronchocele. It is frequently associated with cretinism, and is most common in mountainous regions, especially in certain parts of Switzerland.
Goitered (a.) Alt. of Goitred.
Goitred (a.) Affected with goiter.
Goitrous (a.) Pertaining to the goiter; affected with the goiter; of the nature of goiter or bronchocele.
Gold (n.) Alt. of Goolde.
Golde (n.) Alt. of Goolde.
Goolde (n.) (Bot.) An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold ({Calendula), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole.
Gold (n.) (Chem.) A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au ({Aurum). Atomic weight 196.7.
Note: Native gold contains usually eight to ten per cent of silver, but often much more. As the amount of silver increases, the color becomes whiter and the specific gravity lower. Gold is very widely disseminated, as in the sands of many rivers, but in very small quantity.
It
usually occurs in quartz veins (gold quartz), in slate and metamorphic rocks, or
in sand and alluvial soil, resulting from the disintegration of
such rocks.
It also occurs associated with other metallic
substances, as in auriferous pyrites, and is combined with tellurium in the
minerals petzite, calaverite, sylvanite, etc. Pure gold is too soft for
ordinary use, and is hardened by alloying with silver and copper, the latter
giving a characteristic reddish tinge. [See Carat.] Gold also finds use in gold
foil, in the pigment purple of Cassius, and in the chloride, which is used as a
toning agent in photography.
Gold (n.) Money; riches;
wealth.
For me, the gold of France did not seduce. -- Shak.
Gold (n.) A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold.
Gold (n.) Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold. -- Shak.
Age of gold. See Golden age, under Golden.
Dutch gold, Fool's gold, Gold dust, etc. See under Dutch, Dust, etc.
Gold amalgam, A mineral, found in Columbia and California, composed of gold and mercury.
Gold beater, One whose occupation is to beat gold into gold leaf.
Gold beater's skin, The prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used for separating the leaves of metal during the process of gold-beating.
Gold beetle (Zool.), Any small gold-colored beetle of the family Chrysomelid[ae]; -- called also golden beetle.
Gold blocking, Printing with gold leaf, as upon a book cover, by means of an engraved block. -- Knight.
Gold cloth. See Cloth of gold, under Cloth.
Gold Coast, A part of the coast of Guinea, in West Africa.
Gold cradle. (Mining) See Cradle, n., 7.
Gold diggings, The places, or region, where gold is found by digging in sand and gravel from which it is separated by washing.
Gold end, A fragment of broken gold or jewelry.
Gold-end man. (a) A buyer of old gold or jewelry.
Gold-end man. (b) A goldsmith's apprentice.
Gold-end man. (c) An itinerant jeweler. "I know him not: he looks like a gold-end man." -- B. Jonson.
Gold fever, A popular mania for gold hunting.
Gold field, A region in which are deposits of gold.
Gold finder. (a) One who finds gold.
Gold finder. (b) One who empties privies. [Obs. & Low] -- Swift.
Gold flower, A composite plant with dry and persistent yellow radiating involucral scales, the Helichrysum St[oe]chas of Southern Europe. There are many South African species of the same genus.
Gold foil, Thin sheets of gold, as used by dentists and others. See Gold leaf.
Gold knobs or Gold knoppes (Bot.), Buttercups.
Gold lace, A kind of lace, made of gold thread.
Gold latten, A thin plate of gold or gilded metal.
Gold leaf, Gold beaten into a film of extreme thinness, and used for gilding, etc. It is much thinner than gold foil.
Gold lode (Mining), A gold vein.
Gold mine, A place where gold is obtained by mining operations, as distinguished from diggings, where it is extracted by washing. Cf. Gold diggings (above).
Gold nugget, A lump of gold as found in gold mining or digging; -- called also a pepito.
Gold
paint. See Gold
shell.
Gold pheasant, or Golden pheasant.
(Zool.) See under Pheasant.
Gold plate, A general name for vessels, dishes, cups, spoons, etc., made of gold.
Mosaic gold. See under Mosaic.
Gold-beaten (a.) Gilded. [Obs.]
Gold-beating (n.) The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer. -- Ure.
Gold-bound (a.) Encompassed with gold.
Goldcrest (n.) The European golden-crested kinglet (Regulus cristatus, or R. regulus); -- called also golden-crested wren, and golden wren. The name is also sometimes applied to the American golden-crested kinglet. See Kinglet.
Goldcrest From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The goldcrest (Regulus regulus) (n.) 戴菊 Is a very small passerine bird in the kinglet family. Its colourful golden crest feathers gives rise to its English and scientific names, and possibly to it being called the "king of the birds" in European folklore. Several subspecies are recognised across the very large distribution range that includes much of Eurasia and the islands of Macaronesia. Birds from the north and east of its breeding range migrate to winter further south.
This kinglet has greenish upper-parts, whitish under-parts, and has two white wingbars. It has a plain face contrasting black irises and a bright head crest, orange and yellow in the male and yellow in the female, which is displayed during breeding. It superficially resembles the firecrest, which largely shares its European range, but the latter's bronze shoulders and strong face pattern are distinctive. The song is a repetition of high thin notes, slightly higher-pitched than those of its relative. Birds on the Canary Islands are now separated into two subspecies of the goldcrest, but were formerly considered to be a subspecies of the common firecrest or a separate species, Regulus teneriffae.
The goldcrest breeds in coniferous woodland and gardens, building its compact, three-layered nest on a tree branch. Ten to twelve eggs are incubated by the female alone, and the chicks are fed by both parents; second broods are common. This kinglet is constantly on the move as it searches for insects to eat, and in winter it is often found with flocks of tits. It may be killed by birds of prey or carry parasites, but its large range and population mean that it is not considered to present any significant conservation concerns.
Goldcup (n.) The cuckoobud.
Golden (a.) Made of gold; consisting of gold.
Golden (a.) Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain.
Golden (a.) Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions.
Golden-eye (n.) (Zool.) A duck ({Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common.
Godlenly (adv.) In golden terms or a golden manner; splendidly; delightfully. [Obs.] -- Shak. goldenrod
Golden-rod (n.) A tall herb (Solidago Virga-aurea), bearing yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago.
Goldfinch (n.) A beautiful bright-colored European finch (Carduelis elegans). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings. The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William.
Goldfinch (n.) The yellow-hammer.
Goldfinch (n.) A small American finch (Spinus tristis); the thistle bird.
Goldfinny (n.) One of two or more species of European labroid fishes (Crenilabrus melops, and Ctenolabrus rupestris); -- called also goldsinny, and goldney.
Goldfish (n.) A small domesticated cyprinoid fish (Carassius auratus); -- so named from its color. It is native of China, and is said to have been introduced into Europe in 1691. It is often kept as an ornament, in small ponds or glass globes. Many varieties are known. Called also golden fish, and golden carp. See Telescope fish, under Telescope.
Goldfish (n.) A California marine fish of an orange or red color; the garibaldi.
Gold-hammer (n.) The yellow-hammer.
Goldie (n.) The European goldfinch.
Goldie (n.) The yellow-hammer.
Goldilocks (n.) Same as Goldylocks.
Goldin (n.) Alt. of Golding.
Golding (n.) A conspicuous yellow flower, commonly the corn marigold (Chrysanthemum segetum).
Goldless (a.) Destitute of gold.
Goldney (n.) See Gilthead.
Goldseed (n.) Dog's-tail grass.
Goldsinny (n.) See Goldfinny.
Goldsmith (n.) An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments, etc., of gold.
Goldsmith (n.) A banker.
Goldtit (n.) See Verdin.
Goldylocks (n.) A plant of several species of the genus Chrysocoma; -- so called from the tufts of yellow flowers which terminate the stems; also, the Ranunculus auricomus, a kind of buttercup.
Golem (n.) An artificial human being in Hebrew folklore endowed with life.
Golem (n.) Something or someone resembling a golem: as a : Automaton b : Blockhead.
Golet (n.) The gullet.
Golet (n.) A California trout. See Malma.
Golf (n.) A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.
Golfer (n.) One who plays golf.
Golgotha (n.) Calvary. See the Note under Calvary.
Goliard (n.) A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs.
Goliardery (n.) The satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards.
Goliath beetle () Any species of Goliathus, a genus of very large and handsome African beetles.
Goll (n.) A hand, paw, or claw.
Goloe-shoe (n.) A galoche.