Name Report For First Name GAGE:
GAGE
First name GAGE's origin is French. GAGE means "a pledge, a pawn". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with GAGE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of gage.(Brown names are of the same origin (French) with GAGE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with GAGE - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming GAGE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES GAGE AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH GAGE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (age) - Names That Ends with age:
lalage page tage age daesgesage carthage kaage saveage sageRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ge) - Names That Ends with ge:
madge podarge chege verbrugge luzige trowbridge bainbridge feige ange norge saige bainbrydge banbrigge eldridge gaige george jorge lange paige rydge talmadge trowbrydge trowhridge walbrydge wulfsige walbridge sedge ridge binge solange orlege verge arledge rutledge hedvige teigeNAMES RHYMING WITH GAGE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (gag) - Names That Begins with gag:
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 gad gadara gadarine gaderian gadhra gadi gadiel gadwa gae gaea gael gaelbhan gaelle gaelyn gaetan gaetana gaetane gaffney gahariet gaheris gahiji gahmuret gaho gaia gail gaila gaile gair gaira gairbhith gairbith gais gaizka gal gala galahad 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 galmNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH GAGE:
First Names which starts with 'g' and ends with 'e':
gamble ganice gannie ganymede gaothaire garabine garbine gare garsone garve gayane gayle gaylene gebre gene geneve genevie genevieve genevre genevyeve genivee georgette georgine georgitte geraldine gerde gerdie gere gerhardine germaine gertrude gervase geteye gezane gheorghe ghislaine giancinte gibbesone gifre gilbride gillespie gilmore ginnette ginnie giollabrighde giollabuidhe giolladhe giollamhuire giselle giselmaere gislyne gisselle glaedwine glauce gloriane godalupe godwine goldie goldwine goodwine gorane gordie gore gorre gorrie govanne goveniayle governayle grace gracie graeme grafere graine grainne grangere granuaile granville grayvesone gre greenlee gregoire grenville grete grimme grisandole griselde grishilde grisjahilde griswalde guadalupe guenevere guenloie guilaine guiliaine guillaume guinevere guiseppe guiseppie gurice gustaveEnglish Words Rhyming GAGE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES GAGE AS A WHOLE:
| baggage | noun (n.) The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army. |
| noun (n.) The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage. | |
| noun (n.) Purulent matter. | |
| noun (n.) Trashy talk. | |
| noun (n.) A man of bad character. | |
| noun (n.) A woman of loose morals; a prostitute. | |
| noun (n.) A romping, saucy girl. |
| baggager | noun (n.) One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower. |
| burgage | noun (n.) A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft. |
| countergage | noun (n.) An adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made. |
| disengaged | adjective (a.) Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Disengage |
| disengagement | noun (n.) The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged. |
| noun (n.) Freedom from engrossing occupation; leisure. |
| drengage | noun (n.) The tenure by which a drench held land. |
| degage | adjective (a.) Unconstrained; easy; free. |
| engaged | adjective (a.) Occupied; employed; busy. |
| adjective (a.) Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed. | |
| adjective (a.) Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest. | |
| adjective (a.) Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as, the engaged ships continued the fight. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Engage |
| engagedness | noun (n.) The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal. |
| engagement | noun (n.) The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest. |
| noun (n.) The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife. | |
| noun (n.) That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of any office. | |
| noun (n.) An action; a fight; a battle. | |
| noun (n.) The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part. |
| engager | noun (n.) One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety. |
| fog'gage | noun (n.) See 1st Fog. |
| 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. |
| gager | noun (n.) A measurer. See Gauger. |
| greengage | noun (n.) A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage. |
| herbergage | noun (n.) Harborage; lodging; shelter; harbor. |
| luggage | noun (n.) That which is lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their contents. |
| mortgage | noun (n.) A conveyance of property, upon condition, as security for the payment of a debt or the preformance of a duty, and to become void upon payment or performance according to the stipulated terms; also, the written instrument by which the conveyance is made. |
| noun (n.) State of being pledged; as, lands given in mortgage. | |
| verb (v. t.) To grant or convey, as property, for the security of a debt, or other engagement, upon a condition that if the debt or engagement shall be discharged according to the contract, the conveyance shall be void, otherwise to become absolute, subject, however, to the right of redemption. | |
| verb (v. t.) Hence: To pledge, either literally or figuratively; to make subject to a claim or obligation. |
| mortgagee | noun (n.) The person to whom property is mortgaged, or to whom a mortgage is made or given. |
| mortgageor | noun (n.) Alt. of Mortgagor |
| mortgager | noun (n.) gives a mortgage. |
| preengagement | noun (n.) Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection. |
| reengagement | noun (n.) A renewed or repeated engagement. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH GAGE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (age) - English Words That Ends with age:
| abusage | noun (n.) Abuse. |
| acierage | noun (n.) The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling. |
| acreage | noun (n.) Acres collectively; as, the acreage of a farm or a country. |
| adage | noun (n.) An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb. |
| adjustage | noun (n.) Adjustment. |
| adjutage | noun (n.) Same as Ajutage. |
| advantage | noun (n.) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. |
| noun (n.) Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over. | |
| noun (n.) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution. | |
| noun (n.) Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). | |
| verb (v. t.) To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit. |
| age | noun (n.) The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime. |
| noun (n.) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth? | |
| noun (n.) The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old. | |
| noun (n.) One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age. | |
| noun (n.) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion. | |
| noun (n.) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles. | |
| noun (n.) A great period in the history of the Earth. | |
| noun (n.) A century; the period of one hundred years. | |
| noun (n.) The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation. | |
| noun (n.) A long time. | |
| noun (n.) In poker, the right belonging to the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand. | |
| verb (v. i.) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us. |
| agiotage | noun (n.) Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds. |
| ajutage | noun (n.) A tube through which water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain. |
| alienage | noun (n.) The state or legal condition of being an alien. |
| noun (n.) The state of being alienated or transferred to another. |
| alloyage | noun (n.) The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy. |
| alnage | noun (n.) Measurement (of cloth) by the ell; also, a duty for such measurement. |
| altarage | noun (n.) The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church. |
| noun (n.) The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. |
| ambassage | noun (n.) Same as Embassage. |
| anchorage | noun (n.) The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor. |
| noun (n.) A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor. | |
| noun (n.) The set of anchors belonging to a ship. | |
| noun (n.) Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge. | |
| noun (n.) Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust. | |
| noun (n.) A toll for anchoring; anchorage duties. | |
| noun (n.) Abode of an anchoret. |
| anecdotage | noun (n.) Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes. |
| angelage | noun (n.) Existence or state of angels. |
| apanage | noun (n.) Same as Appanage. |
| appanage | noun (n.) The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons. |
| noun (n.) A dependency; a dependent territory. | |
| noun (n.) That which belongs to one by custom or right; a natural adjunct or accompaniment. |
| appenage | noun (n.) See Appanage. |
| appendage | noun (n.) Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house. |
| noun (n.) A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates. |
| apprenticeage | noun (n.) Apprenticeship. |
| arbitrage | noun (n.) Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination. |
| noun (n.) A traffic in bills of exchange (see Arbitration of Exchange); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing values at the same time in different markets. |
| archimage | noun (n.) Alt. of Archimagus |
| arrearage | noun (n.) That which remains unpaid and overdue, after payment of a part; arrears. |
| assemblage | noun (n.) The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association. |
| noun (n.) A collection of individuals, or of individuals, or of particular things; as, a political assemblage; an assemblage of ideas. |
| aulnage | noun (n.) Alt. of Aulnager |
| avenage | noun (n.) A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent. |
| average | noun (n.) That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc. |
| noun (n.) A tariff or duty on goods, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped. | |
| noun (n.) A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils. | |
| noun (n.) The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested. | |
| noun (n.) A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10. | |
| noun (n.) Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc. | |
| noun (n.) In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp. | |
| adjective (a.) According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution. | |
| verb (v. t.) To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean. | |
| verb (v. t.) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss. | |
| verb (v. t.) To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average. | |
| verb (v. i.) To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length. |
| amperage | noun (n.) The strength of a current of electricity carried by a conductor or generated by a machine, measured in amperes. |
| badinage | noun (n.) Playful raillery; banter. |
| ballastage | noun (n.) A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor. |
| bandage | noun (n.) A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc. |
| noun (n.) Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the eyes. |
| barbacanage | noun (n.) See Barbicanage. |
| noun (n.) Money paid for the support of a barbican. |
| barbicanage | noun (n.) Alt. of Barbacanage |
| baronage | noun (n.) The whole body of barons or peers. |
| noun (n.) The dignity or rank of a baron. | |
| noun (n.) The land which gives title to a baron. |
| baronetage | noun (n.) State or rank of a baronet. |
| noun (n.) The collective body of baronets. |
| barrage | noun (n.) An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile. |
| beaconage | noun (n.) Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively. |
| beguinage | noun (n.) A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines. |
| berthage | noun (n.) A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor. |
| billage | noun (n. / v. t. & i.) Same as Bilge. |
| bird cage | noun (n.) Alt. of Birdcage |
| birdcage | noun (n.) A cage for confining birds. |
| blindage | noun (n.) A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework. |
| blocage | noun (n.) The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry. |
| blockage | noun (n.) The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up. |
| boatage | noun (n.) Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance. |
| bodrage | noun (n.) A raid. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH GAGE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (gag) - Words That Begins with gag:
| 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. |
| gaging | noun (p. pr & vb. n.) of Gage |
| 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. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH GAGE:
English Words which starts with 'g' and ends with 'e':
| 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. |
| 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. |
| gabelle | noun (n.) A tax, especially on salt. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| gadbee | noun (n.) The gadfly. |
| 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. |
| gadolinite | noun (n.) A mineral of a nearly black color and vitreous luster, and consisting principally of the silicates of yttrium, cerium, and iron. |
| gaffle | noun (n.) An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks. |
| noun (n.) A lever to bend crossbows. |
| gahnite | noun (n.) Zinc spinel; automolite. |
| gailliarde | noun (n.) A lively French and Italian dance. |
| gainsome | adjective (a.) Gainful. |
| adjective (a.) Prepossessing; well-favored. |
| gaitre | noun (n.) Alt. of Gaytre |
| gaytre | noun (n.) The dogwood tree. |
| noun (n.) The dogwood tree. |
| galactose | noun (n.) A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper). |
| galage | noun (n.) See Galoche. |
| galantine | noun (n.) A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold. |
| gale | noun (n.) A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests. |
| noun (n.) A moderate current of air; a breeze. | |
| noun (n.) A state of excitement, passion, or hilarity. | |
| noun (n.) A song or story. | |
| noun (n.) A plant of the genus Myrica, growing in wet places, and strongly resembling the bayberry. The sweet gale (Myrica Gale) is found both in Europe and in America. | |
| noun (n.) The payment of a rent or annuity. | |
| verb (v. i.) To sale, or sail fast. | |
| verb (v. i.) To sing. |
| galeate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Galeated |
| galenite | noun (n.) Galena; lead ore. |
| galerite | noun (n.) A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus Galerites. |
| galilee | noun (n.) A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bodies were laid previous to interment, and where women were allowed to see the monks to whom they were related, or to hear divine service. Also, frequently applied to the porch of a church, as at Ely and Durham cathedrals. |
| galingale | noun (n.) A plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus longus) having aromatic roots; also, any plant of the same genus. |
| gallate | noun (n.) A salt of gallic acid. |
| gallature | noun (n.) The tread, treadle, or chalasa of an egg. |
| galletyle | noun (n.) A little tile of glazed earthenware. |
| galliardise | adjective (a.) Excessive gayety; merriment. |
| gallinaceae | noun (n. pl.) Same as Gallinae. |
| gallinae | noun (n.) An order of birds, including the common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, quails, and allied forms; -- sometimes called Rasores. |
| gallinule | noun (n.) One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule (Gallinula galeata). |
| gallopade | noun (n.) I horsemanship, a sidelong or curveting kind of gallop. |
| noun (n.) A kind of dance; also, music to the dance; a galop. | |
| verb (v. i.) To gallop, as on horseback. | |
| verb (v. i.) To perform the dance called gallopade. |
| gallstone | noun (n.) A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1. |
| galore | noun (n. & a.) Plenty; abundance; in abundance. |
| galoshe | noun (n.) Same as Galoche. |
| () A clog or patten. | |
| () Hence: An overshoe worn in wet weather. | |
| () A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg. |
| galsome | adjective (a.) Angry; malignant. |
| galvanopuncture | noun (n.) Same as Electro-puncture. |
| galvanoscope | noun (n.) An instrument or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents, especially such as are of feeble intensity. |
| gamboge | noun (n.) A concrete juice, or gum resin, produced by several species of trees in Siam, Ceylon, and Malabar. It is brought in masses, or cylindrical rolls, from Cambodia, or Cambogia, -- whence its name. The best kind is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beatiful reddish yellow. Taking internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic. |
| game | noun (n.) Crooked; lame; as, a game leg. |
| noun (n.) To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative. | |
| noun (n.) To play at any sport or diversion. | |
| noun (n.) To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble. | |
| adjective (a.) Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting. | |
| verb (v. i.) Sport of any kind; jest, frolic. | |
| verb (v. i.) A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc. | |
| verb (v. i.) The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards. | |
| verb (v. i.) That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game. | |
| verb (v. i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest. | |
| verb (v. i.) A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project. | |
| verb (v. i.) Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table. |
| gamesome | adjective (a.) Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry. |
| gangliate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Gangliated |
| gangrene | noun (n.) A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applied to mortification of the soft parts in any stage. |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene. |
| gangue | noun (n.) The mineral or earthy substance associated with metallic ore. |
| ganoine | noun (n.) A peculiar bony tissue beneath the enamel of a ganoid scale. |
| gantline | noun (n.) A line rigged to a mast; -- used in hoisting rigging; a girtline. |
| gantlope | noun (n.) See Gantlet. |
| gape | noun (n.) The act of gaping; a yawn. |
| noun (n.) The width of the mouth when opened, as of birds, fishes, etc. | |
| verb (v. i.) To open the mouth wide | |
| verb (v. i.) Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape. | |
| verb (v. i.) Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn. | |
| verb (v. i.) To pen or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus. | |
| verb (v. i.) To long, wait eagerly, or cry aloud for something; -- with for, after, or at. |
| garbage | noun (n.) Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome. |
| verb (v. t.) To strip of the bowels; to clean. |
| garble | noun (n.) Refuse; rubbish. |
| noun (n.) Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; -- also called garblings. | |
| verb (v. t.) To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account. |
| gare | noun (n.) Coarse wool on the legs of sheep. |
| gargle | noun (n.) See Gargoyle. |
| noun (n.) A liquid, as water or some medicated preparation, used to cleanse the mouth and throat, especially for a medical effect. | |
| verb (v. t.) To wash or rinse, as the mouth or throat, particular the latter, agitating the liquid (water or a medicinal preparation) by an expulsion of air from the lungs. | |
| verb (v. t.) To warble; to sing as if gargling |
| gargoulette | noun (n.) A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet. |
| gargoyle | noun (n.) A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely. |
| gargyle | noun (n.) See Gargoyle. |
| garmenture | noun (n.) Clothing; dress. |
| garnierite | noun (n.) An amorphous mineral of apple-green color; a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesia. It is an important ore of nickel. |
| garnishee | noun (n.) One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money. |
| verb (v. t.) To make (a person) a garnishee; to warn by garnishment; to garnish. | |
| verb (v. t.) To attach (the fund or property sought to be secured by garnishment); to trustee. |
| garrote | noun (n.) A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the punishment is inflicted. |
| verb (v. t.) To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob. |
| garvie | noun (n.) The sprat; -- called also garvie herring, and garvock. |
| gasconade | noun (n.) A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio. |
| verb (v. i.) To boast; to brag; to bluster. |
| gasolene | noun (n.) See Gasoline. |
| gasoline | noun (n.) A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. See Carburetor. |
| () Alt. of Gasolene, engine |
| gasoscope | noun (n.) An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house. |
| gastronome | noun (n.) Alt. of Gastronomer |
| gastroscope | noun (n.) An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach. |
| gastrostege | noun (n.) One of the large scales on the belly of a serpent. |
| gate | noun (n.) A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed. |
| noun (n.) An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit. | |
| noun (n.) A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might. | |
| noun (n.) In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into. | |
| noun (n.) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate. | |
| noun (n.) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. | |
| noun (n.) A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate). | |
| noun (n.) Manner; gait. | |
| verb (v. t.) To supply with a gate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual. |
| gatehouse | noun (n.) A house connected or associated with a gate. |
| gatherable | adjective (a.) Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. |
| gauche | noun (n.) Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy. |
| noun (n.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces. |
| gaucherie | noun (n.) An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness. |
| gauffre | noun (n.) A gopher, esp. the pocket gopher. |
| gauge | noun (n.) A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard. |
| noun (n.) Measure; dimensions; estimate. | |
| noun (n.) Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge. | |
| noun (n.) Any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; -- usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge. | |
| noun (n.) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind; as, a vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it. | |
| noun (n.) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water. | |
| noun (n.) The distance between the rails of a railway. | |
| noun (n.) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting. | |
| noun (n.) That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles. | |
| verb (v. t.) To measure or determine with a gauge. | |
| verb (v. t.) To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg. | |
| verb (v. t.) To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock. | |
| verb (v. t.) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment. | |
| verb (v. t.) To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of. |
| gaugeable | adjective (a.) Capable of being gauged. |
| gauntree | noun (n.) Alt. of Gauntry |
| gauze | noun (n.) A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze. |
| adjective (a.) Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing. |
| gaveloche | noun (n.) Same as Gavelock. |
| gaviae | noun (n. pl.) The division of birds which includes the gulls and terns. |
| gawntree | noun (n.) See Gauntree. |
| gaylussite | noun (n.) A yellowish white, translucent mineral, consisting of the carbonates of lime and soda, with water. |
| gaysome | adjective (a.) Full of gayety. Mir. for Mag. |
| gaze | noun (n.) A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention. |
| noun (n.) The object gazed on. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fixx the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention. | |
| verb (v. t.) To view with attention; to gaze on . |
| gazelle | noun (n.) One of several small, swift, elegantly formed species of antelope, of the genus Gazella, esp. G. dorcas; -- called also algazel, corinne, korin, and kevel. The gazelles are celebrated for the luster and soft expression of their eyes. |
| gazette | noun (n.) A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices. |
| verb (v. t.) To announce or publish in a gazette; to announce officially, as an appointment, or a case of bankruptcy. |
| gazogene | noun (n.) A portable apparatus for making soda water or aerated liquids on a small scale. |
| geese | noun (n.) pl. of Goose. |
| (pl. ) of Goose |
| gelable | adjective (a.) Capable of being congealed; capable of being converted into jelly. |
| gelatine | noun (n.) Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on the collagen of various kinds of connective tissue (as tendons, bones, ligaments, etc.). Its distinguishing character is that of dissolving in hot water, and forming a jelly on cooling. It is an important ingredient of calf's-foot jelly, isinglass, glue, etc. It is used as food, but its nutritious qualities are of a low order. |
| noun (n.) Same as Gelatin. |
| geldable | adjective (a.) Capable of being gelded. |
| adjective (a.) Liable to taxation. |
| gelose | noun (n.) An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate, found in Gelidium, agar-agar, and other seaweeds. |
| gelsemine | noun (n.) An alkaloid obtained from the yellow jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens), as a bitter white semicrystalline substance; -- called also gelsemia. |
| geminate | adjective (a.) In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers. |
| verb (v. t.) To double. |
| gemmate | adjective (a.) Having buds; reproducing by buds. |
| gemmiflorate | adjective (a.) Having flowers like buds. |
| gemmule | noun (n.) A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons. |
| noun (n.) One of the buds of mosses. | |
| noun (n.) One of the reproductive spores of algae. | |
| noun (n.) An ovule. | |
| noun (n.) A bud produced in generation by gemmation. | |
| noun (n.) One of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are then developed. See Pangenesis. |
| genappe | noun (n.) A worsted yarn or cord of peculiar smoothness, used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, etc. |
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