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  • English Word Goosish Definition Like a goose; foolish.
  • English Word Goost Definition Ghost; spirit.
  • English Word Goot Definition A goat.
  • English Word Gopher Definition 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.
  • English Word Gopher Definition 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.
  • English Word Gopher Definition A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows.
  • English Word Gopher Definition A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States.
  • English Word Gopher wood Definition A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark.
  • English Word Gor-bellied Definition Bog-bellied.
  • English Word Gor-belly Definition A prominent belly; a big-bellied person.
  • English Word Goracco Definition A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in hookahs in Western India.
  • English Word Goral Definition An Indian goat antelope (Nemorhedus goral), resembling the chamois.
  • English Word Goramy Definition Same as Gourami.
  • English Word Gorce Definition A pool of water to keep fish in; a wear.
  • English Word Gorcock Definition The moor cock, or red grouse. See Grouse.
  • English Word Gorcrow Definition The carrion crow; -- called also gercrow.
  • English Word Gord Definition An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.
  • English Word Gordiacea Definition A division of nematoid worms, including the hairworms or hair eels (Gordius and Mermis). See Gordius, and Illustration in Appendix.
  • English Word Gordian Definition Pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia, or to a knot tied by him; hence, intricate; complicated; inextricable.
  • English Word Gordian Definition Pertaining to the Gordiacea.
  • English Word Gordian Definition One of the Gordiacea.
  • English Word Gordius Definition 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.
  • English Word Gore Definition Dirt; mud.
  • English Word Gore Definition Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted.
  • English Word Gore Definition A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.
  • English Word Gore Definition A small traingular piece of land.
  • English Word Gore Definition One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.
  • English Word Gore Definition To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab.
  • English Word Gore Definition To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.
  • English Word Gorebill Definition The garfish.