Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 33
Goodlich (a.) Goodly. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Goodliness (n.) Beauty of form; grace; elegance; comeliness.
Her goodliness was full of harmony to his eyes. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Good-looking (a.) Handsome ; fine-looking; as, a good-looking man.
Syn: fine-looking, better-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured.
Good-looking (a.) Pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion; "a fine-looking woman"; "a good-looking man"; "better-looking than her sister"; "very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome" -- Thackeray; "our southern women are well-favored" -- Lillian Hellman [syn: fine-looking, good-looking, better-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured].
Goodly (adv.) Excellently. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Goodly (a.) Pleasant; agreeable; desirable.
We have many goodly days to see. -- Shak.
Goodly (a.) Of pleasing appearance or character; comely; graceful; as, a goodly person; goodly raiment, houses.
The goodliest man of men since born. -- Milton.
Goodly (a.) Large; considerable; portly; as, a goodly number.
Goodly and great he sails behind his link. -- Dryden. Goodlyhead
Goodly (a.) Large in amount or extent or degree; "it cost a considerable amount"; "a goodly amount"; "received a hefty bonus"; "a respectable sum"; "a tidy sum of money"; "a sizable fortune" [syn: goodly, goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy].
Goodlyhead (n.) Alt. of Goodlyhood
Goodlyhood (n.) Goodness; grace; goodliness. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Goodman (n.) A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to "My friend", "Good sir", "Mister;" -- sometimes used ironically. [Obs.]
With you, goodman boy, an you please. -- Shak.
Goodman (n.) A husband; the master of a house or family; -- often used in speaking familiarly. [Archaic] -- Chaucer.
Say ye to the goodman of the house, . . . Where is the guest-chamber ? -- Mark xiv. 14.
Note: In the early colonial records of New England, the term goodman is frequently used as a title of designation, sometimes in a respectful manner, to denote a person whose first name was not known, or when it was not desired to use that name; in this use it was nearly equivalent to Mr. This use was doubtless brought with the first settlers from England.
Goodman (n.) United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986) [syn: Goodman, Benny Goodman, Benjamin David Goodman, King of Swing].
Goodman, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi
Population (2000): 1252
Housing Units (2000): 303
Land area (2000): 0.821891 sq. miles (2.128689 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.007588 sq. miles (0.019652 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.829479 sq. miles (2.148341 sq. km)
FIPS code: 28220
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 32.968057 N, 89.912625 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 39079
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Goodman, MS
Goodman
Goodman, MO -- U.S. town in Missouri
Population (2000): 1183
Housing Units (2000): 501
Land area (2000): 1.283894 sq. miles (3.325271 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.283894 sq. miles (3.325271 sq. km)
FIPS code: 27874
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 36.741499 N, 94.411054 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 64843
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Goodman, MO
Goodman
Good-natured (a.) Naturally mild in temper; not easily provoked; amiable; cheerful; not taking offense easily; as, too good-natured to resent a little criticism; the good-natured policeman on our block; the sounds of good-natured play. Opposite of ill-natured. [Narrower terms: equable, even-tempered, good-tempered, placid ] Also See: kind, pleasant, agreeable, good-natured, pleasing.
Good-natured (a.) To one's own liking or feelings or nature; pleasing; -- of people. Opposite of disagreeable.
Syn: agreeable, pleasing.
Syn: Good-natured, Good-tempered, Good-humored.
Usage: Good-natured denotes a disposition to please and be
pleased. Good-tempered denotes a habit of mind which is not easily ruffled by
provocations or other disturbing influences. Good-humored is applied to a
spirit full of ease and cheerfulness, as displayed in one's outward deportment
and in social intercourse. A good-natured man recommends himself to all by the
spirit which governs him. A good-humored man recommends himself particularly as
a companion. A good-tempered man is rarely betrayed into anything which can
disturb the serenity of the social circle.
Good-natured (a.) Having an easygoing
and cheerful disposition; "too good-natured to resent a little
criticism"; "the good-natured policeman on our block"; "the
sounds of good-natured play" [ant: ill-natured].
Good-naturedly (adv.) With maldness of temper.
Good-naturedly (adv.) In a good-natured manner.
Goodness (n.) The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of disposition, of conduct, etc.
Goodness (n.) That which is pleasing or valuable or useful; "weigh the good against the bad"; "among the highest goods of all are happiness and self-realization" [syn: good, goodness] [ant: bad, badness]
Goodness (n.) Moral excellence or admirableness; "there is much good to be found in people" [syn: good, goodness] [ant: evil, evilness].
Goodness, () In man is not a mere passive quality, but the deliberate preference of right to wrong, the firm and persistent resistance of all moral evil, and the choosing and following of all moral good.
Good now () An exclamation of wonder, surprise, or entreaty. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Goods (n. pl.) See Good, n., 3.
Goods, () property. For some purposes this term includes money, valuable securities, and other mere personal effects. The term. goods and chattels, includes not only personal property in possession, but also choses in action. 12 Co. 1; 1 Atk. 182. The term chattels is more comprehensive than that of goods, and will include all animate as well as inanimate property, and also a chattel real, as a lease for years of house or land. Co. Litt. 118; 1 Russ. Rep. 376. The word goods simply and without qualification, will pass the whole personal estate when used in a will, including even stocks in the funds. But in general it will be limited by the context of the will. Vide 2 Supp. to Ves. jr. 289; 1 Chit. Pr. 89, 90; 1. Ves. jr. 63; Hamm. on Parties, 182; 3 Ves. 212; 1 Yeates, 101; 2 Dall. 142; Ayl. Pand. 296; Wesk. Ins. 260; 1 Rop. on Leg. 189; 1 Bro. C. C. 128; Sugd. Vend. 493, 497; and the articles Biens; Chattels; Furniture.
Goods, () Goods are said to be of different kinds, as adventitious, such as are given or arise otherwise than by succession; dotal goods, or those which accrue from a dowry, or marriage portion; vacant goods, those which are abandoned or left at large.
Goodship (n.) Favor; grace. [Obs.] -- Gower.
Good-tempered (a.) Having a good temper; not easily vexed. See Good-natured.
Syn: equable, even-tempered, placid.
Good-tempered (a.) Not easily irritated; "an equable temper"; "not everyone shared his placid temperament"; "remained placid despite the repeated delays" [syn: equable, even-tempered, good-tempered, placid].
Goodwife (n.) The mistress of a house. [Archaic] -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
Goodies (n. pl. ) of Goody.
Goody (n.) A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl. [Colloq.]
Goody (n.) (Zool.) An American fish; the lafayette or spot.
Goodies (n. pl. ) of Goody.
Goody (n.) Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.
Goody (a.) Weakly or sentimentally good; affectedly good; -- often in the reduplicated form goody-goody. [Colloq.]
Goody (n.) Something considered choice to eat [syn: dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat].
Gode-year (n.) The venereal disease; -- often used as a mild oath.
Goody-goody (a.) Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness.
Goodyship (n.) The state or quality of a goody or goodwife
Gooroo (n.) Alt. of Guru.
Guru (n.) A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor amoung the Hindoos.
Goosander (n.) (Zool.) A species of merganser ({M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser.
Geese (n. pl. ) of Goose.
Goose (n.) Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.
Note: The common domestic goose is believed to have been derived from the European graylag goose ({Anser anser). The bean goose ({A. segetum}), the American wild or Canada goose ({Branta Canadensis), and the bernicle goose ({Branta leucopsis) are well known species. The American white or snow geese and the blue goose belong to the genus Chen. See Bernicle, Emperor goose, under Emperor, Snow goose, Wild goose, Brant.
Goose (n.) Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.
Note: The Egyptian or fox goose ({Alopochen Aegyptiaca) and the African spur-winged geese ({Plectropterus) belong to the family Plectropterid[ae]. The Australian semipalmated goose ({Anseranas semipalmata) and Cape Barren goose ({Cereopsis Nov[ae]-Hollandi[ae]) are very different from northern geese, and each is made the type of a distinct family. Both are domesticated in Australia.
Goose (n.) A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.
Goose (n.) A silly creature; a simpleton.
Goose (n.) A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.
The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. -- Goldsmith.
A wild goose chase, an attempt to accomplish something impossible or unlikely of attainment.
Fen goose. See under Fen.
Goose barnacle (Zool.), Any pedunculated barnacle of the genus Anatifa or Lepas; -- called also duck barnacle. See Barnacle, and Cirripedia.
Goose cap, A silly person. [Obs.] -- Beau. & .
Goose corn (Bot.), A coarse kind of rush ({Juncus squarrosus).
Goose feast, Michaelmas. [Colloq. Eng.]
Goose grass. (Bot.) Galium+({G.+Aparine">(a) A plant of the genus Galium ({G. Aparine), a favorite food of geese; -- called also catchweed and cleavers.
Goose grass. (Bot.) (b) A species of knotgrass ({Polygonum aviculare).
Goose grass. (Bot.) (c) The annual spear grass ({Poa annua).
Goose neck, Anything, as a rod of iron or a pipe, curved like the neck of a goose; specially (Naut.), an iron hook connecting a spar with a mast.
Goose quill, A large feather or quill of a goose; also, a pen made from it.
Goose skin. See Goose flesh, above.
Goose tongue (Bot.), A composite plant ({Achillea ptarmica), growing wild in the British islands.
Sea goose. (Zool.) See Phalarope.
Solan goose. (Zool.) See Gannet.
Goose (n.) Web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks.
Goose (n.) A man who is a stupid incompetent fool [syn: fathead, goof, goofball, bozo, jackass, goose, cuckoo, twat, zany].
Goose (n.) Flesh of a goose (domestic or wild).
Goose (v.) Pinch in the buttocks; "he goosed the unsuspecting girl".
Goose (v.) Prod into action.
Goose (v.) Give a spurt of fuel to; "goose the car".
Goose, (n.) A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.
Goose (n.) (pl. Geese) (Bird) [ C or U ] A large water bird similar to a duck but larger, or the meat from this bird.
Note: The female bird is called a goose and the male bird is called a gander.
Goose (n.) (Person) [ C ] Old-fashioned informal a silly person.
Goose (v.) [ T ] (Touch) (Informal) To press or take hold of someone's bottom.
Goose (v.) [ T ] (Make active) (US) (Informal) To encourage or cause something or someone to be more active.
Gooseberries (n. pl. ) of Gooseberry
Gooseberry (a.) Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated.
Gooseberry (a.) A silly person; a goose cap.
Goosefish (n.) See Angler.
Goosefoot (n.) A genus of herbs (Chenopodium) mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
Gooseries (n. pl. ) of Goosery.
Goosery (n.) A place for keeping geese.
Goosery (n.) The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness.
Goosewing (n.) One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.
Goosewinged (a.) Having a "goosewing."
Goosewinged (a.) Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.
Goosish (a.) Like a goose; foolish.
Goost (n.) Ghost; spirit.
Goot (n.) A goat.
Go-out (n.) A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out.
Gopher (n.) One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidae; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.
Gopher (n.) One of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridae; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile.
Gopher (n.) A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows.
Gopher (n.) A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States.
Gopher wood () A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark.
Goracco (n.) A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in hookahs in Western India.
Goral (n.) An Indian goat antelope (Nemorhedus goral), resembling the chamois.
Goramy (n.) Same as Gourami.
Gor-bellied (a.) Bog-bellied.
Gor-belly (n.) A prominent belly; a big-bellied person.
Gorce (n.) A pool of water to keep fish in; a wear.
Gorcock (n.) The moor cock, or red grouse. See Grouse.
Gorcrow (n.) The carrion crow; -- called also gercrow.
Gord (n.) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.
Gordiacea (n. pl.) A division of nematoid worms, including the hairworms or hair eels (Gordius and Mermis). See Gordius, and Illustration in Appendix.
Gordian (a.) Pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia, or to a knot tied by him; hence, intricate; complicated; inextricable.
Gordian (a.) Pertaining to the Gordiacea.
Gordian (n.) One of the Gordiacea.
Gordian knot (n.) An intricate problem; especially : a problem insoluble in its own terms; 2. A knot tied by Gordius, king of Phrygia, held to be capable of being untied only by the future ruler of Asia, and cut by Alexander the Great with his sword.
Gordius (n.) A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in which they deposit their eggs; -- called also hair eel, hairworm, and hair snake, from the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs.
Gore (n.) Dirt; mud.
Gore (n.) Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted.
Gore (v.) A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.
Gore (v.) A small traingular piece of land.
Gore (v.) One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.
Gored (imp. & p. p.) of Gore.
Goring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gore.
Gore (v. t.) To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab.
Gore (v. t.) To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.
Gorebill (n.) The garfish.
Gorflies (n. pl. ) of Gorfly.
Gorfly (n.) A dung fly.
Gorge (n.) The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
Gorge (n.) A narrow passage or entrance
Gorge (n.) A defile between mountains.
Gorge (n.) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
Gorge (n.) That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
Gorge (n.) A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
Gorge (n.) A concave molding; a cavetto.
Gorge (n.) The groove of a pulley.
Gorged (imp. & p. p.) of Gorge.
Gorging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gorge.
Gorge (n.) To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
Gorge (n.) To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
Gorge (v. i.) To eat greedily and to satiety.
Gorged (a.) Having a gorge or throat.
Gorged (a.) Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck.
Gorged (a.) Glutted; fed to the full.
Gorgelet (n.) A small gorget, as of a humming bird.
Gorgeous (a.) 燦爛的，華麗的，豪華的；【口】令人十分愉快的，極好的 Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent.
Cloud-land, gorgeous land. -- Coleridge.
Gorgeous as the sun at midsummer. -- Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n.
Gorgeous (a.) Dazzlingly beautiful; "a gorgeous Victorian gown".