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- English Word Gnawer Definition One who, or that which, gnaws.
- English Word Gnawer Definition A rodent.
- English Word Gnawing Definition of Gnaw
- English Word Gneiss Definition 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 / syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss.
- English Word Gneissic Definition Relating to, or resembling, gneiss; consisting of gneiss.
- English Word Gneissoid Definition 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.
- English Word Gneissose Definition Having the structure of gneiss.
- English Word Gnew Definition imp. of Gnaw.
- English Word Gnide Definition To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces.
- English Word Gnof Definition Churl; curmudgeon.
- English Word Gnome Definition An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc.
- English Word Gnome Definition A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.
- English Word Gnome Definition A small owl (Glaucidium gnoma) of the Western United States.
- English Word Gnome Definition A brief reflection or maxim.
- English Word Gnomic Definition Alt. of Gnomical
- English Word Gnomical Definition Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic.
- English Word Gnomical Definition Gnomonical.
- English Word Gnomically Definition In a gnomic, didactic, or sententious manner.
- English Word Gnomologic Definition Alt. of Gnomological
- English Word Gnomological Definition Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a gnomology.
- English Word Gnomology Definition A collection of, or a treatise on, maxims, grave sentences, or reflections.
- English Word Gnomon Definition The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis.
- English Word Gnomon Definition 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.
- English Word Gnomon Definition 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.
- English Word Gnomon Definition The index of the hour circle of a globe.
- English Word Gnomonic Definition Alt. of Gnomonical
- English Word Gnomonical Definition Of or pertaining to the gnomon, or the art of dialing.
- English Word Gnomonically Definition According to the principles of the gnomonic projection.
- English Word Gnomonics Definition The art or science of dialing, or of constructing dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon.
- English Word Gnomonist Definition One skilled in gnomonics.