Name Report For First Name GAD:
GAD
First name GAD's origin is Native American. GAD means "juniper tree (navajo)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with GAD below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of gad.(Brown names are of the same origin (Native American) with GAD and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with GAD - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming GAD
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES GAD AS A WHOLE:
gadwa gadara gadhra gadarine gadi gadiel gaderianNAMES RHYMING WITH GAD (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ad) - Names That Ends with ad:
shahrazad widad mairearad mildread asad boulad raad sayad abdul-samad ahmad amjad awad ayyad fouad hadad imad jawad jihad maudad mu'ayyad mus'ad rashad saad ziyad artaxiad cathbad ferdiad konrad arpad glad angharad brimlad mairead natividad sinead soledad verdad amad ashaad bhraghad birkhead brad chad clustfeinad conrad garrad hammad jarrad jerad jerrad kiarad koenraad lad mohamad mohammad muhammad muhunnad niichaad rashaad read shad tad zarad vlad rad mead halstead ead riyad fahad scead mairghread mad su'ad souad aswad haddad meinrad galahad arvad elradNAMES RHYMING WITH GAD (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ga) - Names That Begins with ga:
gaagii gaarwine gabal gabbar gabe gabhan gabi gabino gabirel gabor gabra gabreilla gabrian gabriel gabriela gabriele gabriell gabriella gabrielle gabrielo gabrio gabryella gaby gace gae gaea gael gaelbhan gaelle gaelyn gaetan gaetana gaetane gaffney gage gahariet gaheris gahiji gahmuret gaho gaia gaige gail gaila gaile gair gaira gairbhith gairbith gais gaizka gal gala galahalt galahault galal galan galantyne galatea galatee galatyn galawya galchobhar gale galea galeel galen galena galenia galenka galeno galeron galeun gali galia galiana galice galiena galiene galila galilah galilahi galileo galina galinthias galit gall galla gallagher gallehant gallia galloway galm galochka galt galtero galton galvarium galvin galvynNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH GAD:
First Names which starts with 'g' and ends with 'd':
garabed garafeld garberend gard gared garfield gariland garland garmond garmund garrard garred garwood gaspard gearald gearoid gehard gerald gerard gerd gerhard gerold gerrald gerrard gerred gertrud gifford gifuhard gilford gillecriosd girard glewlwyd goddard godfried gofried gold gorsedd gottfried gotthard govind grantland grimbold griswald griswold guifford gwenddyddEnglish Words Rhyming GAD
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES GAD AS A WHOLE:
braggadocio | noun (n.) A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. |
noun (n.) Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension. |
brigade | noun (n.) A body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general. |
noun (n.) Any body of persons organized for acting or marching together under authority; as, a fire brigade. | |
verb (v. t.) To form into a brigade, or into brigades. |
brigading | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brigade |
demibrigade | noun (n.) A half brigade. |
fougade | noun (n.) Alt. of Fougasse |
gad | noun (n.) The point of a spear, or an arrowhead. |
noun (n.) A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc. | |
noun (n.) A sharp-pointed rod; a goad. | |
noun (n.) A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling. | |
noun (n.) A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel. | |
noun (n.) A rod or stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with. | |
noun (n.) To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled. |
gadding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gad |
noun (a. & n.) Going about much, needlessly or without purpose. |
gadabout | noun (n.) A gadder |
gadbee | noun (n.) The gadfly. |
gadder | noun (n.) One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip. |
gaddish | adjective (a.) Disposed to gad. |
gade | noun (n.) A small British fish (Motella argenteola) of the Cod family. |
noun (n.) A pike, so called at Moray Firth; -- called also gead. |
gadfly | noun (n.) Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies. |
gadhelic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to that division of the Celtic languages, which includes the Irish, Gaelic, and Manx. |
adjective (a.) Of, belonging to, or designating, that division of the Celtic languages which includes the Irish, Gaelic, and Manx. |
gadic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the cod (Gadus); -- applied to an acid obtained from cod-liver oil, viz., gadic acid. |
gaditanian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Cadiz. |
adjective (a.) Of or relating to Cadiz, in Spain. |
gadling | noun (n.) See Gad, n., 4. |
noun (n.) A roving vagabond. | |
verb (v. i.) Gadding about. |
gadman | noun (n.) A gadsman. |
gadoid | noun (n.) One of the Gadidae. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the family of fishes (Gadidae) which includes the cod, haddock, and hake. |
gadolinia | noun (n.) A rare earth, regarded by some as an oxide of the supposed element gadolinium, by others as only a mixture of the oxides of yttrium, erbium, ytterbium, etc. |
noun (n.) A rare earth associated with yttria and regarded as the oxide (Gd2O3) of a metallic element, Gad`o*lin"i*um (/), with an assigned atomic weight of 153.3. |
gadolinic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to or containing gadolinium. |
gadolinite | noun (n.) A mineral of a nearly black color and vitreous luster, and consisting principally of the silicates of yttrium, cerium, and iron. |
gadolinium | noun (n.) A supposed rare metallic element, with a characteristic spectrum, found associated with yttrium and other rare metals. Its individuality and properties have not yet been determined. |
gadsman | noun (n.) One who uses a gad or goad in driving. |
gaduin | noun (n.) A yellow or brown amorphous substance, of indifferent nature, found in cod-liver oil. |
gadwall | noun (n.) A large duck (Anas strepera), valued as a game bird, found in the northern parts of Europe and America; -- called also gray duck. |
haggada | noun (n.) A story, anecdote, or legend in the Talmud, to explain or illustrate the text of the Old Testament. |
megaderm | noun (n.) Any one of several species of Old World blood-sucking bats of the genus Megaderma. |
megadyne | noun (n.) One of the larger measures of force, amounting to one million dynes. |
pegador | noun (n.) A species of remora (Echeneis naucrates). See Remora. |
renegade | noun (n.) One faithless to principle or party. |
noun (n.) An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith. | |
noun (n.) One who deserts from a military or naval post; a deserter. | |
noun (n.) A common vagabond; a worthless or wicked fellow. |
renegado | noun (n.) See Renegade. |
rigadoon | noun (n.) A gay, lively dance for one couple, -- said to have been borrowed from Provence in France. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH GAD (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ad) - English Words That Ends with ad:
adrad | adjective (p. a.) Put in dread; afraid. |
aoudad | noun (n.) An African sheeplike quadruped (the Ammotragus tragelaphus) having a long mane on the breast and fore legs. It is, perhaps, the chamois of the Old Testament. |
arrowhead | noun (n.) The head of an arrow. |
noun (n.) An aquatic plant of the genus Sagittaria, esp. S. sagittifolia, -- named from the shape of the leaves. |
artiad | adjective (a.) Even; not odd; -- said of elementary substances and of radicals the valence of which is divisible by two without a remainder. |
asclepiad | noun (n.) A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus. |
baldhead | noun (n.) A person whose head is bald. |
noun (n.) A white-headed variety of pigeon. |
ballad | noun (n.) A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas. |
verb (v. i.) To make or sing ballads. | |
verb (v. t.) To make mention of in ballads. |
bayad | noun (n.) Alt. of Bayatte |
bead | noun (n.) A prayer. |
noun (n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer. | |
noun (n.) Any small globular body | |
noun (n.) A bubble in spirits. | |
noun (n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid. | |
noun (n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim). | |
noun (n.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments. | |
noun (n.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading. | |
verb (v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles. |
beakhead | noun (n.) An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak. |
noun (n.) A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew. | |
noun (n.) Same as Beak, 3. |
beastlihead | noun (n.) Beastliness. |
bedspread | noun (n.) A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet. |
bedstead | noun (n.) A framework for supporting a bed. |
beebread | noun (n.) A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young. |
beetlehead | noun (n.) A stupid fellow; a blockhead. |
noun (n.) The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Squatarola helvetica). See Plover. |
billethead | noun (n.) A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off. |
billhead | noun (n.) A printed form, used by merchants in making out bills or rendering accounts. |
blackhead | noun (n.) The scaup duck. |
blockhead | noun (n.) A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. |
blunderhead | noun (n.) A stupid, blundering fellow. |
bolthead | noun (n.) A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver. |
noun (n.) The head of a bolt. |
boroughhead | noun (n.) See Headborough. |
bottlehead | noun (n.) A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale. |
bountihead | noun (n.) Alt. of Bountyhood |
bowhead | noun (n.) The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balaena mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale. |
brad | noun (n.) A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head. |
bread | noun (n.) An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking. |
noun (n.) Food; sustenance; support of life, in general. | |
adjective (a.) To spread. | |
verb (v. t.) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets. |
bridgehead | noun (n.) A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tete-de-pont. |
broad | noun (n.) The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar. |
noun (n.) The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen. | |
noun (n.) A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. | |
superlative (superl.) Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad. | |
superlative (superl.) Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean. | |
superlative (superl.) Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full. | |
superlative (superl.) Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive. | |
superlative (superl.) Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged. | |
superlative (superl.) Plain; evident; as, a broad hint. | |
superlative (superl.) Free; unrestrained; unconfined. | |
superlative (superl.) Characterized by breadth. See Breadth. | |
superlative (superl.) Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor. | |
superlative (superl.) Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent. |
broadspread | adjective (a.) Widespread. |
bufferhead | noun (n.) The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages. |
bufflehead | noun (n.) One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow. |
noun (n.) The buffel duck. See Buffel duck. |
bulkhead | noun (n.) A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck. |
noun (n.) A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front. |
bullhead | noun (n.) A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's thumb. |
noun (n.) In America, several species of Amiurus; -- called also catfish, horned pout, and bullpout. | |
noun (n.) A marine fish of the genus Cottus; the sculpin. | |
noun (n.) The black-bellied plover (Squatarola helvetica); -- called also beetlehead. | |
noun (n.) The golden plover. | |
noun (n.) A stupid fellow; a lubber. | |
noun (n.) A small black water insect. |
byroad | noun (n.) A private or obscure road. |
barad | noun (n.) The pressure of one dyne per square centimeter; -- used as a unit of pressure. |
cad | noun (n.) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards. |
noun (n.) A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow. |
cathead | noun (n.) A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured. |
centrolinead | noun (n.) An instrument for drawing lines through a point, or lines converging to a center. |
chad | noun (n.) See Shad. |
chiliad | noun (n.) A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years. |
chucklehead | noun (n.) A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce. |
clapbread | noun (n.) Alt. of Clapcake |
cockhead | noun (n.) The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced. |
cockshead | noun (n.) A leguminous herb (Onobrychis Caput-galli), having small spiny-crested pods. |
columbiad | noun (n.) A form of seacoast cannon; a long, chambered gun designed for throwing shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at high angles of elevation. |
copperhead | noun (n.) A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper. |
noun (n.) A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War. |
crosshead | noun (n.) A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead. |
crossroad | noun (n.) A road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road. |
curvilinead | noun (n.) An instrument for drawing curved lines. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH GAD (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (ga) - Words That Begins with ga:
gab | noun (n.) The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric. |
verb (v. i.) The mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness. | |
verb (v. i.) To deceive; to lie. | |
verb (v. i.) To talk idly; to prate; to chatter. |
gabarage | noun (n.) A kind of coarse cloth for packing goods. |
gabardine | noun (n.) Alt. of Gaberdine |
gaberdine | noun (n.) A coarse frock or loose upper garment formerly worn by Jews; a mean dress. |
noun (n.) See Gabardine. |
gabber | noun (n.) A liar; a deceiver. |
noun (n.) One addicted to idle talk. |
gabbling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gabble |
gabble | noun (n.) Loud or rapid talk without meaning. |
noun (n.) Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls. | |
verb (v. i.) To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber. | |
verb (v. i.) To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls. |
gabbier | noun (n.) One who gabbles; a prater. |
gabbro | noun (n.) A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro). |
gabel | noun (n.) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise. |
gabeler | noun (n.) A collector of gabels or taxes. |
gabelle | noun (n.) A tax, especially on salt. |
gabelleman | noun (n.) A gabeler. |
gabert | noun (n.) A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation. |
gabion | noun (n.) A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire. |
noun (n.) An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement. |
gabionade | noun (n.) A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire. |
noun (n.) A structure of gabions sunk in lines, as a core for a sand bar in harbor improvements. |
gabionage | noun (n.) The part of a fortification built of gabions. |
gabioned | adjective (p. a.) Furnished with gabions. |
gabionnade | noun (n.) See Gabionade. |
gable | noun (n.) A cable. |
noun (n.) The vertical triangular portion of the end of a building, from the level of the cornice or eaves to the ridge of the roof. Also, a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and the like. | |
noun (n.) The end wall of a building, as distinguished from the front or rear side. | |
noun (n.) A decorative member having the shape of a triangular gable, such as that above a Gothic arch in a doorway. |
gablet | noun (n.) A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc. |
gablock | noun (n.) A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock. |
gaby | noun (n.) A simpleton; a dunce; a lout. |
gael | noun (n.sing. & pl.) A Celt or the Celts of the Scotch Highlands or of Ireland; now esp., a Scotch Highlander of Celtic origin. |
gaelic | noun (n.) The language of the Gaels, esp. of the Highlanders of Scotland. It is a branch of the Celtic. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Gael, esp. to the Celtic Highlanders of Scotland; as, the Gaelic language. |
gaff | noun (n.) A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish. |
noun (n.) The spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is extended. | |
noun (n.) Same as Gaffle, 1. | |
verb (v. t.) To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon. |
gaffing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gaff |
gaffer | noun (n.) An old fellow; an aged rustic. |
noun (n.) A foreman or overseer of a gang of laborers. |
gaffle | noun (n.) An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks. |
noun (n.) A lever to bend crossbows. |
gagging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gag |
gag | noun (n.) Something thrust into the mouth or throat to hinder speaking. |
noun (n.) A mouthful that makes one retch; a choking bit; as, a gag of mutton fat. | |
noun (n.) A speech or phrase interpolated offhand by an actor on the stage in his part as written, usually consisting of some seasonable or local allusion. | |
verb (v. t.) To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of speech to. | |
verb (v. t.) To pry or hold open by means of a gag. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to heave with nausea. | |
verb (v. i.) To heave with nausea; to retch. | |
verb (v. i.) To introduce gags or interpolations. See Gag, n., 3. |
gagate | noun (n.) Agate. |
gage | noun (n.) A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security. |
noun (n.) A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance. | |
noun (n.) A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage. | |
noun (n.) To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge. | |
noun (n.) To bind by pledge, or security; to engage. | |
noun (n.) A measure or standard. See Gauge, n. | |
verb (v. t.) To measure. See Gauge, v. t. | |
() A wedge with a graduated edge, to measure the width of a space into which it is thrust. |
gaging | noun (p. pr & vb. n.) of Gage |
gager | noun (n.) A measurer. See Gauger. |
gagger | noun (n.) One who gags. |
noun (n.) A piece of iron imbedded in the sand of a mold to keep the sand in place. |
gaggling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gaggle |
gagtooth | noun (n.) A projecting tooth. |
gahnite | noun (n.) Zinc spinel; automolite. |
gaidic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to hypogeic acid; -- applied to an acid obtained from hypogeic acid. |
gaiety | noun (n.) Same as Gayety. |
gailer | noun (n.) A jailer. |
gaillard | adjective (a.) Gay; brisk; merry; galliard. |
gailliarde | noun (n.) A lively French and Italian dance. |
gain | noun (n.) A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam. |
noun (n.) To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living. | |
noun (n.) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize. | |
noun (n.) To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate. | |
noun (n.) To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor. | |
noun (n.) To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage. | |
adjective (a.) Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable. | |
verb (v. t.) That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss. | |
verb (v. t.) The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation. | |
verb (v. i.) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily. |
gaining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gain |
gainer | noun (n.) One who gains. |
gainful | adjective (a.) Profitable; advantageous; lucrative. |
gaingiving | noun (n.) A misgiving. |
gainless | adjective (a.) Not producing gain; unprofitable. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH GAD:
English Words which starts with 'g' and ends with 'd':
gaited | adjective (a.) Having (such) a gait; -- used in composition; as, slow-gaited; heavy-gaited. |
galeated | adjective (a.) Wearing a helmet; protected by a helmet; covered, as with a helmet. |
adjective (a.) Helmeted; having a helmetlike part, as a crest, a flower, etc.; helmet-shaped. |
galliard | noun (n.) A brisk, gay man. |
adjective (a.) Gay; brisk; active. | |
adjective (a.) A gay, lively dance. Cf. Gailliarde. |
gallied | adjective (p. p. & a.) Worried; flurried; frightened. |
gallooned | adjective (a.) Furnished or adorned with galloon. |
gangliated | adjective (a.) Furnished with ganglia; as, the gangliated cords of the sympathetic nervous system. |
ganoid | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Ganoidei. -- n. One of the Ganoidei. |
gapeseed | noun (n.) Any strange sight. |
noun (n.) A person who looks or stares gapingly. |
garbed | adjective (a.) Dressed; habited; clad. |
garboard | noun (n.) One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake. |
gard | noun (n.) Garden. |
noun (v. & n.) See Guard. |
garland | noun (n.) The crown of a king. |
noun (n.) A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath. | |
noun (n.) The top; the thing most prized. | |
noun (n.) A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology. | |
noun (n.) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in. | |
noun (n.) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling. | |
verb (v. t.) To deck with a garland. |
garmented | adjective (p. a.) Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment. |
garreted | adjective (a.) Protected by turrets. |
gasteropod | noun (n.) Same as Gastropod. |
gastropod | noun (n.) One of the Gastropoda. |
gated | adjective (a.) Having gates. |
gaud | noun (n.) Trick; jest; sport. |
noun (n.) Deceit; fraud; artifice; device. | |
noun (n.) An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. | |
noun (n.) To sport or keep festival. | |
verb (v. t.) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint. |
gauged | adjective (p. a.) Tested or measured by, or conformed to, a gauge. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Gauge |
gauntletted | adjective (a.) Wearing a gauntlet. |
gavelkind | noun (n.) A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent. |
gazehound | noun (n.) A hound that pursues by the sight rather than by the scent. |
ged | noun (n.) Alt. of Gedd |
gedd | noun (n.) The European pike. |
geld | noun (n.) Money; tribute; compensation; ransom. |
verb (v. t.) To castrate; to emasculate. | |
verb (v. t.) To deprive of anything essential. | |
verb (v. t.) To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate. |
gelid | adjective (a.) Cold; very cold; frozen. |
gemmated | adjective (a.) Having buds; adorned with gems or jewels. |
generalized | adjective (a.) Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Generalize |
geniculated | adjective (a.) Same as Geniculate. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Geniculate |
geniohyoid | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the chin and hyoid bone; as, the geniohyoid muscle. |
gentlemanhood | noun (n.) The qualities or condition of a gentleman. |
geometrid | noun (n.) One of numerous genera and species of moths, of the family Geometridae; -- so called because their larvae (called loopers, measuring worms, spanworms, and inchworms) creep in a looping manner, as if measuring. Many of the species are injurious to agriculture, as the cankerworms. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining or belonging to the Geometridae. |
gephyreoid | noun (a. & n.) Gephyrean. |
gepound | noun (n.) See Gipoun. |
gerland | noun (n.) Alt. of Gerlond |
gerlond | noun (n.) A garland. |
gerlind | noun (n.) A salmon returning from the sea the second time. |
gerund | noun (n.) A kind of verbal noun, having only the four oblique cases of the singular number, and governing cases like a participle. |
noun (n.) A verbal noun ending in -e, preceded by to and usually denoting purpose or end; -- called also the dative infinitive; as, "Ic haebbe mete to etanne" (I have meat to eat.) In Modern English the name has been applied to verbal or participal nouns in -ing denoting a transitive action; e. g., by throwing a stone. |
gid | adjective (a.) A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the C/nurus, a larval tapeworm, in the brain. See C/nurus. |
gilthead | noun (n.) A marine fish. |
noun (n.) The Pagrus, / Chrysophrys, auratus, a valuable food fish common in the Mediterranean (so named from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll. | |
noun (n.) The Crenilabrus melops, of the British coasts; -- called also golden maid, conner, sea partridge. |
gingerbread | noun (n.) A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. |
ginglymoid | adjective (a.) Alt. of Ginglymoidal |
gird | noun (n.) A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang. |
noun (n.) A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer. | |
verb (v.) To strike; to smite. | |
verb (v.) To sneer at; to mock; to gibe. | |
verb (v. i.) To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms. | |
verb (v. t.) To encircle or bind with any flexible band. | |
verb (v. t.) To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To surround; to encircle, or encompass. | |
verb (v. t.) To clothe; to swathe; to invest. | |
verb (v. t.) To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest. |
girdlestead | noun (n.) That part of the body where the girdle is worn. |
noun (n.) The lap. |
girlhood | noun (n.) State or time of being a girl. |
girlond | noun (n.) A garland; a prize. |
gizzard | noun (n.) The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium. |
noun (n.) A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate animals. | |
noun (n.) A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks. |
gland | noun (n.) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth. |
noun (n.) An organ or part which resembles a secreting, or true, gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and pituitary glands, the functions of which are very imperfectly known. | |
noun (n.) A special organ of plants, usually minute and globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product. | |
noun (n.) Any very small prominence. | |
noun (n.) The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing. | |
noun (n.) The crosspiece of a bayonet clutch. |
glandered | adjective (a.) Affected with glanders; as, a glandered horse. |
glead | noun (n.) A live coal. See Gleed. |
glenoid | adjective (a.) Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates. |
glitterand | adjective (a.) Glittering. |
globard | noun (n.) A glowworm. |
globated | adjective (a.) Having the form of a globe; spherical. |
gloried | adjective (a.) Illustrious; honorable; noble. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Glory |
glowbard | noun (n.) The glowworm. |
gnarled | adjective (a.) Knotty; full of knots or gnarls; twisted; crossgrained. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Gnarl |
gnathopod | noun (n.) A gnathopodite or maxilliped. See Maxilliped. |
gneissoid | adjective (a.) 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. |
goatherd | noun (n.) One who tends goats. |
gobioid | noun (n.) A gobioid fish. |
adjective (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the goby, or the genus Gobius. |
god | noun (a. & n.) Good. |
noun (n.) A being conceived of as possessing supernatural power, and to be propitiated by sacrifice, worship, etc.; a divinity; a deity; an object of worship; an idol. | |
noun (n.) The Supreme Being; the eternal and infinite Spirit, the Creator, and the Sovereign of the universe; Jehovah. | |
noun (n.) A person or thing deified and honored as the chief good; an object of supreme regard. | |
noun (n.) Figuratively applied to one who wields great or despotic power. | |
verb (v. t.) To treat as a god; to idolize. |
godchild | noun (n.) One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather. |
godhead | noun (n.) Godship; deity; divinity; divine nature or essence; godhood. |
noun (n.) The Deity; God; the Supreme Being. | |
noun (n.) A god or goddess; a divinity. |
godhood | noun (n.) Divine nature or essence; deity; godhead. |
godlyhead | noun (n.) Goodness. |
godsend | noun (n.) Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune. |
godspeed | noun (n.) Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, "God speed you." |
goeland | noun (n.) A white tropical tern (Cygis candida). |
goggled | adjective (a.) Prominent; staring, as the eye. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Goggle |
goitered | adjective (a.) Alt. of Goitred |
goitred | adjective (a.) Affected with goiter. |
gold | noun (n.) Alt. of Goolde |
verb (v. t.) 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. | |
verb (v. t.) Money; riches; wealth. | |
verb (v. t.) A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold. | |
verb (v. t.) Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold. |
goldseed | noun (n.) Dog's-tail grass. |
goliard | noun (n.) A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs. |
gonad | noun (n.) One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland. |
gonoblastid | noun (n.) A reproductive bud of a hydroid; a simple gonophore. |
gonozooid | noun (n.) A sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a gonophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian. |
good | noun (n.) That which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.; -- opposed to evil. |
noun (n.) Advancement of interest or happiness; welfare; prosperity; advantage; benefit; -- opposed to harm, etc. | |
noun (n.) Wares; commodities; chattels; -- formerly used in the singular in a collective sense. In law, a comprehensive name for almost all personal property as distinguished from land or real property. | |
superlative (superl.) Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; admirable; commendable; not bad, corrupt, evil, noxious, offensive, or troublesome, etc. | |
superlative (superl.) Possessing moral excellence or virtue; virtuous; pious; religious; -- said of persons or actions. | |
superlative (superl.) Kind; benevolent; humane; merciful; gracious; polite; propitious; friendly; well-disposed; -- often followed by to or toward, also formerly by unto. | |
superlative (superl.) Serviceable; suited; adapted; suitable; of use; to be relied upon; -- followed especially by for. | |
superlative (superl.) Clever; skillful; dexterous; ready; handy; -- followed especially by at. | |
superlative (superl.) Adequate; sufficient; competent; sound; not fallacious; valid; in a commercial sense, to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; having pecuniary ability; of unimpaired credit. | |
superlative (superl.) Real; actual; serious; as in the phrases in good earnest; in good sooth. | |
superlative (superl.) Not small, insignificant, or of no account; considerable; esp., in the phrases a good deal, a good way, a good degree, a good share or part, etc. | |
superlative (superl.) Not lacking or deficient; full; complete. | |
superlative (superl.) Not blemished or impeached; fair; honorable; unsullied; as in the phrases a good name, a good report, good repute, etc. | |
adverb (adv.) Well, -- especially in the phrase as good, with a following as expressed or implied; equally well with as much advantage or as little harm as possible. | |
verb (v. t.) To make good; to turn to good. | |
verb (v. t.) To manure; to improve. |
goodlyhead | noun (n.) Alt. of Goodlyhood |
goodlyhood | noun (n.) Goodness; grace; goodliness. |
goosewinged | adjective (a.) Having a "goosewing." |
adjective (a.) Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing. |
gord | noun (n.) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice. |
gorged | adjective (a.) Having a gorge or throat. |
adjective (a.) Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck. | |
adjective (a.) Glutted; fed to the full. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Gorge |
gormand | noun (n.) A greedy or ravenous eater; a luxurious feeder; a gourmand. |
adjective (a.) Gluttonous; voracious. |
gosherd | noun (n.) One who takes care of geese. |
goud | noun (n.) Woad. |
gouland | noun (n.) See Golding. |
gourd | noun (n.) A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order Cucurbitaceae; and especially the bottle gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris) which occurs in a great variety of forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes. |
noun (n.) A dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd; hence, a drinking vessel; a bottle. | |
noun (n.) A false die. See Gord. | |
noun (n.) Alt. of Gourde |
gourmand | noun (n.) A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand. |
goutweed | noun (n.) Alt. of Goutwort |
gowd | noun (n.) Gold; wealth. |
gowned | adjective (p. a.) Dressed in a gown; clad. |
gozzard | noun (n.) See Gosherd. |
graced | adjective (a.) Endowed with grace; beautiful; full of graces; honorable. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Grace |
graduated | adjective (a.) Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades. |
adjective (a.) Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Graduate |
grained | adjective (a.) Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. |
adjective (a.) Dyed in grain; ingrained. | |
adjective (a.) Painted or stained in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc. | |
adjective (a.) Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Grain |
grainfield | noun (n.) A field where grain is grown. |
grandchild | noun (n.) A son's or daughter's child; a child in the second degree of descent. |
granitoid | adjective (a.) Resembling granite in granular appearance; as, granitoid gneiss; a granitoid pavement. |