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  • English Word Gnomonology Definition A treatise on gnomonics.
  • English Word Gnoscopine Definition An alkaloid existing in small quantities in opium.
  • English Word Gnosis Definition The deeper wisdom; knowledge of spiritual truth, such as was claimed by the Gnostics.
  • English Word Gnostic Definition Knowing; wise; shrewd.
  • English Word Gnostic Definition Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the Gnostic heresy.
  • English Word Gnostic Definition 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.
  • English Word Gnosticism Definition The system of philosophy taught by the Gnostics.
  • English Word Gnow Definition Gnawed.
  • English Word Gnu Definition 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.
  • English Word Go Definition Gone.
  • English Word Go Definition To pass from one place to another; to be in motion; to be in a state not motionless or at rest; to proceed; to advance; to make progress; -- used, in various applications, of the movement of both animate and inanimate beings, by whatever means, and also of the movements of the mind; also figuratively applied.
  • English Word Go Definition To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also, to walk step by step, or leisurely.
  • English Word Go Definition To be passed on fron one to another; to pass; to circulate; hence, with for, to have currency; to be taken, accepted, or regarded.
  • English Word Go Definition To proceed or happen in a given manner; to fare; to move on or be carried on; to have course; to come to an issue or result; to succeed; to turn out.
  • English Word Go Definition To proceed or tend toward a result, consequence, or product; to tend; to conduce; to be an ingredient; to avail; to apply; to contribute; -- often with the infinitive; as, this goes to show.
  • English Word Go Definition To apply one's self; to set one's self; to undertake.
  • English Word Go Definition To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over or through.
  • English Word Go Definition To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate.
  • English Word Go Definition To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to depart; -- in opposition to stay and come.
  • English Word Go Definition To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline; to decease; to die.
  • English Word Go Definition To reach; to extend; to lead; as, a line goes across the street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New York.
  • English Word Go Definition To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law.
  • English Word Go Definition To take, as a share in an enterprise; to undertake or become responsible for; to bear a part in.
  • English Word Go Definition To bet or wager; as, I'll go you a shilling.
  • English Word Go Definition Act; working; operation.
  • English Word Go Definition A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
  • English Word Go Definition The fashion or mode; as, quite the go.
  • English Word Go Definition Noisy merriment; as, a high go.
  • English Word Go Definition A glass of spirits.
  • English Word Go Definition Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance; push; as, there is no go in him.