Name Report For First Name GENE:
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First name GENE's origin is English. GENE means "abbreviation of eugene wellborn". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with GENE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of gene.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with GENE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with GENE - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming GENE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES GENE AS A WHOLE:
genevra tegene eugene generosa genesis genessa geneva genevre generosb genevyeve sigenert genevieve geneve genevieNAMES RHYMING WITH GENE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ene) - Names That Ends with ene:
helene alcmene arene clymene cyrene eirene ismene melpomene sebastene arsene adalene adene adilene adriene aerlene aldene alene allene alycene aquene arcene ardene arleene arlene audene aurkene byrdene carlene celene charlene christene colene collene coreene corlene cwene dalene darelene darlene darylene deiene dene earlene eileene eilene ellene emelene erlene evalene francene gaylene ilene irene islene jaylene jenene jillene jolene jollene justeene justene kaelene karlene kathlene laurene levene loreene lorene lurlene madalene maddalene madelene magdalene marlene myleene nareene noelene nolene orlene rozene selene shalene sharlene starlene verene zene bardene beldene bradene camdene drygedene heathdene keene ricadene salhdene skene tiladene ohene sebastiene eleneNAMES RHYMING WITH GENE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (gen) - Names That Begins with gen:
genara genaya genisa genisia genisis genivee genna genny geno genoveva genowefa gentzaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ge) - Names That Begins with ge:
gear gearald gearoid geary geb gebre gechina gedaliah gedaly gedalya gedalyahu gedeon geedar geela geffrey gehard gelasia gelasius gelban geldersman gelsomina geltruda gemma geoff geoffrey geol geomar geor georg george georges georgeta georgetta georgette georgia georgiana georgine georgitte ger geraghty geraint gerald geraldina geraldine geraldo geralt geralyn geralynn geranium gerard gerardo gerd gerda gerde gerdie gere geremia gergo gerhard gerhardina gerhardine geri gerica gericka gerika gerlach germai germain germaine german germana germano germian gerold geron geronimo gerrald gerrard gerred gerrell gerri gerrilyn gerrit gerry gersham gershom gertru gertrudNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH GENE:
First Names which starts with 'g' and ends with 'e':
gaarwine gabe gabriele gabrielle gace gadarine gae gaelle gaetane gage gaige gaile galantyne galatee gale galice galiene gamble ganice gannie ganymede gaothaire garabine garbine gare garsone garve gayane gayle 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 gustave guthrieEnglish Words Rhyming GENE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES GENE AS A WHOLE:
abiogenesis | noun (n.) The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. |
abiogenetic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to abiogenesis. |
agamogenesis | noun (n.) Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction. |
agamogenetic | noun (n.) Reproducing or produced without sexual union. |
agenesic | adjective (a.) Characterized by sterility; infecund. |
agenesis | noun (n.) Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization. |
aggeneration | noun (n.) The act of producing in addition. |
allogeneous | adjective (a.) Different in nature or kind. |
alpigene | adjective (a.) Growing in Alpine regions. |
amphigene | noun (n.) Leucite. |
amphigenesis | noun (n.) Sexual generation; amphigony. |
autogeneal | adjective (a.) Self-produced; autogenous. |
autogenesis | noun (n.) Spontaneous generation. |
autogenetic | adjective (a.) Relating to autogenesis; self-generated. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to, controlled by, or designating, a system of self-determined drainage. |
amylogenesis | noun (n.) The formation of starch. |
analgene | noun (n.) A crystalline compound used as an antipyretic and analgesic, employed chiefly in rheumatism and neuralgia. It is a complex derivative of quinoline. |
biogenesis | noun (n.) Alt. of Biogeny |
biogenetic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to biogenesis. |
blastogenesis | noun (n.) Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding. |
budgeness | noun (n.) Sternness; severity. |
chondrogenesis | noun (n.) The development of cartilage. |
congener | noun (n.) A thing of the same genus, species, or kind; a thing allied in nature, character, or action. |
congeneracy | noun (n.) Similarity of origin; affinity. |
congeneric | adjective (a.) Alt. of Congenerical |
congenerical | adjective (a.) Belonging to the same genus; allied in origin, nature, or action. |
congenerous | adjective (a.) Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases. |
cymogene | noun (n.) A highly volatile liquid, condensed by cold and pressure from the first products of the distillation of petroleum; -- used for producing low temperatures. |
cytogenesis | noun (n.) Development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. See Gemmation, Budding, Karyokinesis; also Cell development, under Cell. |
cytogenetic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development. |
degeneracy | adjective (a.) The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse. |
adjective (a.) The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness. |
degenerate | adjective (a.) Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low. |
verb (v. i.) To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate. | |
verb (v. i.) To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type. |
degenerating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Degenerate |
degenerateness | noun (n.) Degeneracy. |
degeneration | noun (n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. |
noun (n.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver. | |
noun (n.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type. | |
noun (n.) The thing degenerated. |
degenerationist | noun (n.) A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state. |
degenerative | adjective (a.) Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate. |
degenerous | adjective (a.) Degenerate; base. |
digenea | noun (n. pl.) A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents. |
digenesis | noun (n.) The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis. |
diogenes | noun (n.) A Greek Cynic philosopher (412?-323 B. C.) who lived much in Athens and was distinguished for contempt of the common aims and conditions of life, and for sharp, caustic sayings. |
dysgenesic | adjective (a.) Not procreating or breeding freely; as, one race may be dysgenesic with respect to another. |
dysgenesis | noun (n.) A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race. |
electrogenesis | noun (n.) Same as Electrogeny. |
elengeness | noun (n.) Loneliness; misery. |
endogenesis | noun (n.) Endogeny. |
endogenetic | adjective (a.) Endogenous. |
epigene | adjective (a.) Foreign; unnatural; unusual; -- said of forms of crystals not natural to the substances in which they are found. |
adjective (a.) Formed originating on the surface of the earth; -- opposed to hypogene; as, epigene rocks. |
epigenesis | noun (n.) The theory of generation which holds that the germ is created entirely new, not merely expanded, by the procreative power of the parents. It is opposed to the theory of evolution, also to syngenesis. |
epigenesist | noun (n.) One who believes in, or advocates the theory of, epigenesis. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH GENE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ene) - English Words That Ends with ene:
abietene | noun (n.) A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California. |
acetylene | noun (n.) A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant. |
achene | noun (n.) Alt. of Achenium |
akene | noun (n.) Same as Achene. |
allylene | noun (n.) A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H4, homologous with acetylene; propine. |
amylene | noun (n.) One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group. |
antenicene | adjective (a.) Of or in the Christian church or era, anterior to the first council of Nice, held a. d. 325; as, antenicene faith. |
anthracene | noun (n.) A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. |
arrasene | noun (n.) A material of wool or silk used for working the figures in embroidery. |
azobenzene | noun (n.) A substance (C6H5.N2.C6H5) derived from nitrobenzene, forming orange red crystals which are easily fusible. |
bene | noun (n.) See Benne. |
noun (n.) A prayer; boon. | |
noun (n.) Alt. of Ben |
benzene | noun (n.) A volatile, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from which it is separated by fractional distillation. The name is sometimes applied also to the impure commercial product or benzole, and also, but rarely, to a similar mixed product of petroleum. |
butylene | noun (n.) Any one of three metameric hydrocarbons, C4H8, of the ethylene series. They are gaseous or easily liquefiable. |
cacoxene | noun (n.) Alt. of Cacoxenite |
cadene | noun (n.) A species of inferior carpet imported from the Levant. |
cajuputene | noun (n.) A colorless or greenish oil extracted from cajuput. |
calymene | noun (n.) A genus of trilobites characteristic of the Silurian age. |
camphene | noun (n.) One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes. |
cannabene | noun (n.) A colorless oil obtained from hemp by distillation, and possessing its intoxicating properties. |
carene | noun (n.) A fast of forty days on bread and water. |
carvene | noun (n.) An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway. |
cedrene | noun (n.) A rich aromatic oil, C15H24, extracted from oil of red cedar, and regarded as a polymeric terpene; also any one of a class of similar substances, as the essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper, etc., of which cedrene proper is the type. |
cerotene | noun (n.) A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin. |
cetene | noun (n.) An oily hydrocarbon, C16H32, of the ethylene series, obtained from spermaceti. |
chrysene | noun (n.) One of the higher aromatic hydrocarbons of coal tar, allied to naphthalene and anthracene. It is a white crystalline substance, C18H12, of strong blue fluorescence, but generally colored yellow by impurities. |
cinnamene | noun (n.) Styrene (which was formerly called cinnamene because obtained from cinnamic acid). See Styrene. |
colophene | noun (n.) A colorless, oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called also diterebene. |
conimene | noun (n.) Same as Olibene. |
conylene | noun (n.) An oily substance, C8H14, obtained from several derivatives of conine. |
coryphene | noun (n.) A fish of the genus Coryphaena. See Dolphin. (2) |
cottolene | noun (n.) A product from cotton-seed, used as lard. |
crotonylene | noun (n.) A colorless, volatile, pungent liquid, C4H6, produced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series, and analogous to crotonic acid. |
cumene | noun (n.) A colorless oily hydrocarbon, C6H5.C3H7, obtained by the distillation of cuminic acid; -- called also cumol. |
cymene | noun (n.) A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon, CH3.C6H4.C3H7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; -- called also paracymene, and formerly camphogen. |
damascene | noun (n.) A kind of plume, now called damson. See Damson. |
adjective (a.) Of or relating to Damascus. | |
verb (v. t.) Same as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t. |
decene | noun (n.) One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H20, of the ethylene series. |
diamylene | noun (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H20, of the ethylene series, regarded as a polymeric form of amylene. |
disthene | noun (n.) Cyanite or kyanite; -- so called in allusion to its unequal hardness in two different directions. See Cyanite. |
diterebene | noun (n.) See Colophene. |
durene | noun (n.) A colorless, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C6H2(CH3)4, off artificial production, with an odor like camphor. |
eikosylene | noun (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C20H38, of the acetylene series, obtained from brown coal. |
elaeoptene | noun (n.) The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts. |
elaoptene | noun (n.) See Elaeoptene. |
eocene | noun (n.) The Eocene formation. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to the first in time of the three subdivisions into which the Tertiary formation is divided by geologists, and alluding to the approximation in its life to that of the present era; as, Eocene deposits. |
epicene | noun (a. & n.) Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites. |
noun (a. & n.) Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other. |
epicoene | adjective (a.) Epicene. |
essene | noun (n.) One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence. |
ethene | noun (n.) Ethylene; olefiant gas. |
ethidene | noun (n.) Ethylidene. |
ethylene | noun (n.) A colorless, gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H4, forming an important ingredient of illuminating gas, and also obtained by the action of concentrated sulphuric acid in alcohol. It is an unsaturated compound and combines directly with chlorine and bromine to form oily liquids (Dutch liquid), -- hence called olefiant gas. Called also ethene, elayl, and formerly, bicarbureted hydrogen. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH GENE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (gen) - Words That Begins with gen:
genappe | noun (n.) A worsted yarn or cord of peculiar smoothness, used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, etc. |
gendarme | noun (n.) One of a body of heavy cavalry. |
noun (n.) An armed policeman in France. |
gendarmery | noun (n.) The body of gendarmes. |
gender | noun (n.) Kind; sort. |
noun (n.) Sex, male or female. | |
noun (n.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. | |
noun (n.) To beget; to engender. | |
verb (v. i.) To copulate; to breed. |
gendering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gender |
genderless | adjective (a.) Having no gender. |
geneagenesis | noun (n.) Alternate generation. See under Generation. |
genealogic | adjective (a.) Genealogical. |
genealogical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to genealogy; as, a genealogical table; genealogical order. |
genealogist | noun (n.) One who traces genealogies or the descent of persons or families. |
genealogy | noun (n.) An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree. |
noun (n.) Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage. |
genearch | noun (n.) The chief of a family or tribe. |
genera | noun (n. pl.) See Genus. |
(pl. ) of Genus |
generability | noun (n.) Capability of being generated. |
generable | adjective (a.) Capable of being generated or produced. |
general | adjective (a.) Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy. |
adjective (a.) Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion. | |
adjective (a.) Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression. | |
adjective (a.) Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. | |
adjective (a.) Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. | |
adjective (a.) As a whole; in gross; for the most part. | |
adjective (a.) Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method. | |
adjective (a.) The whole; the total; that which comprehends or relates to all, or the chief part; -- opposed to particular. | |
adjective (a.) One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal. | |
adjective (a.) The roll of the drum which calls the troops together; as, to beat the general. | |
adjective (a.) The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule. | |
adjective (a.) The public; the people; the vulgar. |
generalia | noun (n. pl.) Generalities; general terms. |
generalissimo | adjective (a.) The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries. |
generality | noun (n.) The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. |
noun (n.) That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase. | |
noun (n.) The main body; the bulk; the greatest part; as, the generality of a nation, or of mankind. |
generalizable | adjective (a.) Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. |
generalization | noun (n.) The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars. |
noun (n.) A general inference. |
generalizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Generalize |
generalized | adjective (a.) Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Generalize |
generalizer | noun (n.) One who takes general or comprehensive views. |
generalness | noun (n.) The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness. |
generalship | noun (n.) The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general. |
noun (n.) Military skill in a general officer or commander. | |
noun (n.) Fig.: Leadership; management. |
generalty | noun (n.) Generality. |
generant | noun (n.) That which generates. |
noun (n.) A generatrix. | |
adjective (a.) Generative; producing | |
adjective (a.) acting as a generant. |
generating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Generate |
generation | noun (n.) The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals. |
noun (n.) Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc. | |
noun (n.) That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring. | |
noun (n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age. | |
noun (n.) Race; kind; family; breed; stock. | |
noun (n.) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc. | |
noun (n.) The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction. |
generative | adjective (a.) Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing. |
generator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces. |
noun (n.) An apparatus in which vapor or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort, or vessel for generating carbonic acid gas, etc. | |
noun (n.) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- called also generating tone. | |
noun (n.) Any machine that transforms mechanical into electrical energy; a dynamo. |
generatrix | noun (n.) That which generates; the point, or the mathematical magnitude, which, by its motion, generates another magnitude, as a line, surface, or solid; -- called also describent. |
generic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Generical |
generical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a genus or kind; relating to a genus, as distinct from a species, or from another genus; as, a generic description; a generic difference; a generic name. |
adjective (a.) Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or their characteristics; -- opposed to specific. |
genericalness | noun (n.) The quality of being generic. |
generification | noun (n.) The act or process of generalizing. |
generosity | noun (n.) Noble birth. |
noun (n.) The quality of being noble; noble-mindedness. | |
noun (n.) Liberality in giving; munificence. |
generous | adjective (a.) Of honorable birth or origin; highborn. |
adjective (a.) Exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth; noble; honorable; magnanimous; spirited; courageous. | |
adjective (a.) Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father. | |
adjective (a.) Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table. | |
adjective (a.) Full of spirit or strength; stimulating; exalting; as, generous wine. |
genesial | adjective (a.) Of or relating to generation. |
genesiolgy | noun (n.) The doctrine or science of generation. |
genesis | noun (n.) The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination. |
noun (n.) The first book of the Old Testament; -- so called by the Greek translators, from its containing the history of the creation of the world and of the human race. | |
noun (n.) Same as Generation. |
genet | noun (n.) Alt. of Genette |
noun (n.) A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet. |
genette | noun (n.) One of several species of small Carnivora of the genus Genetta, allied to the civets, but having the scent glands less developed, and without a pouch. |
noun (n.) The fur of the common genet (Genetta vulgaris); also, any skin dressed in imitation of this fur. |
genethliac | noun (n.) A birthday poem. |
noun (n.) One skilled in genethliacs. | |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to nativities; calculated by astrologers; showing position of stars at one's birth. |
genethliacal | adjective (a.) Genethliac. |
genethliacs | noun (n.) The science of calculating nativities, or predicting the future events of life from the stars which preside at birth. |
genethlialogy | noun (n.) Divination as to the destinies of one newly born; the act or art of casting nativities; astrology. |
genethliatic | noun (n.) One who calculates nativities. |
genetic | adjective (a.) Same as Genetical. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH GENE:
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. |
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. |
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. |