GEAR
First name GEAR's origin is Other. GEAR means "short; small one". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with GEAR below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of gear.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with GEAR and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming GEAR
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES GEAR AS A WHOLE:
gearald gearoid ruhdugeard gearyNAMES RHYMING WITH GEAR (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ear) - Names That Ends with ear:
aurear ear lear spear eibhearRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ar) - Names That Ends with ar:
fembar anbar izdihar kawthar dagmar devamatar anwar babukar dalmar al-ahmar antar ashquar bazar dahwar dammar dawar dinar ektibar ferar gabbar geedar nahar abdul-jabbar abdul-qahhar azhar jafar sayyar umar yasar zafar mar magar conchobar ferchar huarwar bednar kovar mlynar pekar rybar tesar caesar ejnar hjalmar holgar kolinkar pedar abubakar ausar kontar osahar war gaspar iomar peadar elazar oszkar cesar cezar ingemar adar ashar auriar bethiar ciar dagomar hildemar hildimar izar manaar pilar star tamar taylar adalgar ahmar algar anouar athdar athemar balthazar blar bonnar briar caffar car conchobhar cougar edgar eimar eliazar fearchar ferehar finbar finnbarNAMES RHYMING WITH GEAR (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (gea) - Names That Begins with gea:
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ge) - Names That Begins with ge:
geb gebre gechina gedaliah gedaly gedalya gedalyahu gedeon geela geffrey gehard gelasia gelasius gelban geldersman gelsomina geltruda gemma genara genaya gene generosa generosb genesis genessa geneva geneve genevie genevieve genevra genevre genevyeve genisa genisia genisis genivee genna genny geno genoveva genowefa gentza 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 gerriNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH GEAR:
First Names which starts with 'g' and ends with 'r':
gabor gair galchobhar gallagher gar gardiner gardner garner garr gassur gaukroger gauthier gautier gayner gaynor gilmar gilmer ginger giomar giselmaer glor gottfr granger greagoir gregor grioghar griorgair grosvenor grover guilber gunnar gunther gvenour gwenyver gwyrEnglish Words Rhyming GEAR
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES GEAR AS A WHOLE:
drawgear | noun (n.) A harness for draught horses. |
noun (n.) The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn. |
gear | noun (n.) Clothing; garments; ornaments. |
noun (n.) Goods; property; household stuff. | |
noun (n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material. | |
noun (n.) The harness of horses or cattle; trapping. | |
noun (n.) Warlike accouterments. | |
noun (n.) Manner; custom; behavior. | |
noun (n.) Business matters; affairs; concern. | |
noun (n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively. | |
noun (n.) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe. | |
noun (n.) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear. | |
noun (n.) See 1st Jeer (b). | |
noun (n.) Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. | |
verb (v. t.) To dress; to put gear on; to harness. | |
verb (v. t.) To provide with gearing. | |
verb (v. i.) To be in, or come into, gear. |
gearing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gear |
noun (n.) Harness. | |
noun (n.) The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery. |
head gear | noun (n.) Alt. of Headgear |
headgear | noun (n.) Headdress. |
noun (n.) Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep well. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH GEAR (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ear) - English Words That Ends with ear:
appear | noun (n.) Appearance. |
verb (v. i.) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible. | |
verb (v. i.) To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time. | |
verb (v. i.) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried. | |
verb (v. i.) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest. | |
verb (v. i.) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look. |
arrear | noun (n.) That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes. |
adverb (adv.) To or in the rear; behind; backwards. |
asmear | adjective (a.) Smeared over. |
bear | noun (n.) A bier. |
noun (n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects. | |
noun (n.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear. | |
noun (n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. | |
noun (n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person. | |
noun (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market. | |
noun (n.) A portable punching machine. | |
noun (n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck. | |
noun (n.) Alt. of Bere | |
verb (v. t.) To support or sustain; to hold up. | |
verb (v. t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey. | |
verb (v. t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons. | |
verb (v. t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise. | |
verb (v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription. | |
verb (v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name. | |
verb (v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor | |
verb (v. t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer. | |
verb (v. t.) To gain or win. | |
verb (v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To render or give; to bring forward. | |
verb (v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have. | |
verb (v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change. | |
verb (v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct. | |
verb (v. t.) To behave; to conduct. | |
verb (v. t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest. | |
verb (v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. | |
verb (v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden. | |
verb (v. i.) To endure with patience; to be patient. | |
verb (v. i.) To press; -- with on or upon, or against. | |
verb (v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear. | |
verb (v. i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question? | |
verb (v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect. | |
verb (v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E. | |
verb (v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market. |
bilinear | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear coordinates. |
binuclear | adjective (a.) Alt. of Binucleate |
bugbear | noun (n.) Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc. |
noun (n.) Same as Bugaboo. | |
adjective (a.) Causing needless fright. | |
verb (v. t.) To alarm with idle phantoms. |
chear | noun (n. & v.) See Cheer. |
clear | noun (n.) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear. |
superlative (superl.) Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded. | |
superlative (superl.) Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable. | |
superlative (superl.) Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head. | |
superlative (superl.) Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful. | |
superlative (superl.) Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous. | |
superlative (superl.) Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand. | |
superlative (superl.) Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber. | |
superlative (superl.) Free from guilt or stain; unblemished. | |
superlative (superl.) Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit. | |
superlative (superl.) Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt. | |
superlative (superl.) Free from embarrassment; detention, etc. | |
adverb (adv.) In a clear manner; plainly. | |
adverb (adv.) Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off. | |
verb (v. t.) To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds. | |
verb (v. t.) To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse. | |
verb (v. t.) To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous. | |
verb (v. t.) To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious. | |
verb (v. t.) To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out. | |
verb (v. t.) To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed. | |
verb (v. t.) To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef. | |
verb (v. t.) To gain without deduction; to net. | |
verb (v. i.) To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often followed by up, off, or away. | |
verb (v. i.) To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free. | |
verb (v. i.) To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house. | |
verb (v. i.) To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for Liverpool to-day. |
cochlear | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the cochlea. |
cudbear | noun (n.) A powder of a violet red color, difficult to moisten with water, used for making violet or purple dye. It is prepared from certain species of lichen, especially Lecanora tartarea. |
noun (n.) A lichen (Lecanora tartarea), from which the powder is obtained. |
curvilinear | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a curvilinear figure. |
dear | noun (n.) A dear one; lover; sweetheart. |
superlative (superl.) Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive. | |
superlative (superl.) Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year. | |
superlative (superl.) Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious. | |
superlative (superl.) Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention. | |
superlative (superl.) Of agreeable things and interests. | |
superlative (superl.) Of disagreeable things and antipathies. | |
adverb (adv.) Dearly; at a high price. | |
verb (v. t.) To endear. |
drear | noun (n.) Sadness; dismalness. |
adjective (a.) Dismal; gloomy with solitude. |
ear | noun (n.) The organ of hearing; the external ear. |
noun (n.) The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in the singular only. | |
noun (n.) That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; any prominence or projection on an object, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of Bell. | |
noun (n.) Same as Acroterium. | |
noun (n.) Same as Crossette. | |
noun (n.) Privilege of being kindly heard; favor; attention. | |
noun (n.) The spike or head of any cereal (as, wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels. | |
verb (v. t.) To take in with the ears; to hear. | |
verb (v. i.) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain; as, this corn ears well. | |
verb (v. t.) To plow or till; to cultivate. |
eelspear | noun (n.) A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels. |
epitrochlear | adjective (a.) Relating to the epitrochlea. |
fear | noun (n.) A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion. |
noun (n.) A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread. | |
noun (n.) Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng. | |
noun (n.) Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth. | |
noun (n.) That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness. | |
noun (n.) To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude. | |
noun (n.) To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of. | |
noun (n.) To be anxious or solicitous for. | |
noun (n.) To suspect; to doubt. | |
noun (n.) To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear. | |
verb (v. i.) To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil. |
flear | noun (n.) A word or look of derision or mockery. |
noun (n.) A grin of civility; a leer. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) See Fleer. |
forbear | noun (n.) An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural. |
verb (v. i.) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay. | |
verb (v. i.) To refuse; to decline; to give no heed. | |
verb (v. i.) To control one's self when provoked. | |
verb (v. t.) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety. | |
verb (v. t.) To treat with consideration or indulgence. | |
verb (v. t.) To cease from bearing. |
forebear | noun (n.) An ancestor. See Forbear. |
heartdear | adjective (a.) Sincerely beloved. |
infratrochlear | adjective (a.) Below a trochlea, or pulley; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve. |
interlinear | adjective (a.) Contained between lines; written or inserted between lines already written or printed; containing interlineations; as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc. |
intranuclear | adjective (a.) Within the nucleus of a cell; as. the intranuclear network of fibrils, seen in the first stages of karyokinesis. |
laquear | noun (n.) A lacunar. |
lear | noun (n.) Lore; lesson. |
noun (n.) An annealing oven. See Leer, n. | |
adjective (a.) See Leer, a. | |
verb (v. t.) To learn. See Lere, to learn. |
linear | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction; lineal. |
adjective (a.) Like a line; narrow; of the same breadth throughout, except at the extremities; as, a linear leaf. |
mear | noun (n.) A boundary. See Mere. |
mixtilinear | adjective (a.) Containing, or consisting of, lines of different kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve. |
multinuclear | adjective (a.) Containing many nuclei; as, multinuclear cells. |
neckwear | noun (n.) A collective term for cravats, collars, etc. |
nuclear | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a nucleus; as, the nuclear spindle (see Illust. of Karyokinesis) or the nuclear fibrils of a cell; the nuclear part of a comet, etc. |
outlinear | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an outline; being in, or forming, an outline. |
overwear | noun (n.) Clothing worn over the ordinary indoor closing, as overcoats, wraps, etc. |
verb (v. t.) To wear too much; to wear out. |
pear | noun (n.) The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below. |
perinuclear | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm. |
polynuclear | adjective (a.) Containing many nuclei. |
rear | noun (n.) The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front. |
noun (n.) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest. | |
adjective (a.) Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company. | |
adverb (adv.) Early; soon. | |
verb (v. t.) To place in the rear; to secure the rear of. | |
verb (v. t.) To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith. | |
verb (v. t.) To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another. | |
verb (v. t.) To lift and take up. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring. | |
verb (v. t.) To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle. | |
verb (v. t.) To rouse; to stir up. | |
verb (v. i.) To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect. |
rectilinear | adjective (a.) Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course. |
sear | noun (n.) The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked. |
adjective (a.) Alt. of Sere | |
adjective (a.) To wither; to dry up. | |
adjective (a.) To burn (the surface of) to dryness and hardness; to cauterize; to expose to a degree of heat such as changes the color or the hardness and texture of the surface; to scorch; to make callous; as, to sear the skin or flesh. Also used figuratively. |
smear | noun (n.) To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil. |
noun (n.) To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy. | |
noun (n.) A fat, oily substance; oinment. | |
noun (n.) Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain. |
spear | noun (n.) A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance. |
noun (n.) Fig.: A spearman. | |
noun (n.) A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals. | |
noun (n.) A shoot, as of grass; a spire. | |
noun (n.) The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4. | |
noun (n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod. | |
verb (v. t.) To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish. | |
verb (v. i.) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire. |
supratrochlear | adjective (a.) Situated over or above a trochlea or trochlear surface; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve. |
tear | noun (n.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids. |
noun (n.) Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins. | |
noun (n.) That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge. | |
noun (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure. | |
noun (n.) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass. | |
verb (v. t.) To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh. | |
verb (v. t.) Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions. | |
verb (v. t.) To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home. | |
verb (v. t.) To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair. | |
verb (v. t.) To move violently; to agitate. | |
verb (v. i.) To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily. | |
verb (v. i.) To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave. |
trilinear | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or included by, three lines; as, trilinear coordinates. |
trochlear | noun (n.) Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; as, a trochlear articular surface; the trochlear muscle of the eye. |
underwear | noun (n.) That which is worn under the outside clothing; underclothes. |
vertilinear | adjective (a.) Straight; rectilinear. |
year | noun (n.) The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile). |
noun (n.) The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn. | |
noun (n.) Age, or old age; as, a man in years. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH GEAR (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (gea) - Words That Begins with gea:
gean | noun (n.) A species of cherry tree common in Europe (Prunus avium); also, the fruit, which is usually small and dark in color. |
geanticlinal | noun (n.) An upward bend or flexure of a considerable portion of the earth's crust, resulting in the formation of a class of mountain elevations called anticlinoria; -- opposed to geosynclinal. |
geason | adjective (a.) Rare; wonderful. |
geat | noun (n.) The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH GEAR:
English Words which starts with 'g' and ends with 'r':
gabber | noun (n.) A liar; a deceiver. |
noun (n.) One addicted to idle talk. |
gabbier | noun (n.) One who gabbles; a prater. |
gabeler | noun (n.) A collector of gabels or taxes. |
gadder | noun (n.) One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip. |
gaffer | noun (n.) An old fellow; an aged rustic. |
noun (n.) A foreman or overseer of a gang of laborers. |
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. |
gailer | noun (n.) A jailer. |
gainer | noun (n.) One who gains. |
gainsayer | noun (n.) One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. |
gaiter | noun (n.) A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep, or for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe. |
noun (n.) A kind of shoe, consisting of cloth, and covering the ankle. | |
verb (v. t.) To dress with gaiters. |
galactodensimeter | noun (n.) Same as Galactometer. |
galactometer | noun (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the quality of milk (i.e., its richness in cream) by determining its specific gravity; a lactometer. |
gallinipper | noun (n.) A large mosquito. |
galloper | noun (n.) One who, or that which, gallops. |
noun (n.) A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber. |
galvanizer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, galvanize. |
galvanometer | noun (n.) An instrument or apparatus for measuring the intensity of an electric current, usually by the deflection of a magnetic needle. |
gambier | noun (n.) The inspissated juice of a plant (Uncaria Gambir) growing in Malacca. It is a powerful astringent, and, under the name of Terra Japonica, is used for chewing with the Areca nut, and is exported for tanning and dyeing. |
noun (n.) Catechu. |
gambler | noun (n.) One who gambles. |
gamekeeper | noun (n.) One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve. |
gamester | noun (n.) A merry, frolicsome person. |
noun (n.) A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games. | |
noun (n.) A prostitute; a strumpet. |
gammer | noun (n.) An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man. |
gander | noun (n.) The male of any species of goose. |
ganger | noun (n.) One who oversees a gang of workmen. |
ganister | noun (n.) Alt. of Gannister |
gannister | noun (n.) A refractory material consisting of crushed or ground siliceous stone, mixed with fire clay; -- used for lining Bessemer converters; also used for macadamizing roads. |
gaoler | noun (n.) The keeper of a jail. See Jailer. |
gaper | noun (n.) One who gapes. |
noun (n.) A European fish. See 4th Comber. | |
noun (n.) A large edible clam (Schizothaerus Nuttalli), of the Pacific coast; -- called also gaper clam. | |
noun (n.) An East Indian bird of the genus Cymbirhynchus, related to the broadbills. |
gar | noun (n.) To cause; to make. |
verb (v.) Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish. | |
verb (v.) The gar pike. See Alligator gar (under Alligator), and Gar pike. |
garbler | noun (n.) One who garbles. |
gardener | noun (n.) One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist. |
garner | noun (n.) A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation. |
verb (v. t.) To gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure. |
garnisher | noun (n.) One who, or that which, garnishes. |
garreteer | noun (n.) One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack. |
garroter | noun (n.) One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him. |
garter | noun (n.) A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg. |
noun (n.) The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself. | |
noun (n.) Same as Bendlet. | |
verb (v. t.) To bind with a garter. | |
verb (v. t.) To invest with the Order of the Garter. |
gasalier | noun (n.) A chandelier arranged to burn gas. |
gasconader | noun (n.) A great boaster; a blusterer. |
gasolier | noun (n.) Same as Gasalier. |
gasometer | noun (n.) An apparatus for holding and measuring of gas; in gas works, a huge iron cylinder closed at one end and having the other end immersed in water, in which it is made to rise or fall, according to the volume of gas it contains, or the pressure required. |
gastronomer | noun (n.) One fond of good living; an epicure. |
gastrovascular | adjective (a.) Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of c/lenterates. |
gather | noun (n.) A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker. |
noun (n.) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward. | |
noun (n.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate. | |
verb (v. t.) To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck. | |
verb (v. t.) To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle. | |
verb (v. t.) To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude. | |
verb (v. t.) To gain; to win. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like. | |
verb (v. t.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope. | |
verb (v. i.) To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate. | |
verb (v. i.) To grow larger by accretion; to increase. | |
verb (v. i.) To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered. | |
verb (v. i.) To collect or bring things together. |
gatherer | noun (n.) One who gathers or collects. |
noun (n.) An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. |
gauger | noun (n.) One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks. |
gaur | noun (n.) An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bibos gauris), of large size and an untamable disposition. |
gazer | noun (n.) One who gazes. |
gazetteer | noun (n.) A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority. |
noun (n.) A newspaper; a gazette. | |
noun (n.) A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places. | |
noun (n.) An alphabetical descriptive list of anything. |
gelder | noun (n.) One who gelds or castrates. |
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. |
generalizer | noun (n.) One who takes general or comprehensive views. |
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. |
genitor | noun (n.) One who begets; a generator; an originator. |
noun (n.) The genitals. |
geographer | noun (n.) One versed in geography. |
geologer | noun (n.) Alt. of Geologian |
geomancer | noun (n.) One who practices, or is versed in, geomancy. |
geometer | noun (n.) One skilled in geometry; a geometrician; a mathematician. |
noun (n.) Any species of geometrid moth; a geometrid. |
geothermometer | noun (n.) A thermometer specially constructed for measuring temperetures at a depth below the surface of the ground. |
germander | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Teucrium (esp. Teucrium Chamaedrys or wall germander), mintlike herbs and low shrubs. |
gerner | noun (n.) A garner. |
gesticulator | noun (n.) One who gesticulates. |
gestour | noun (n.) A reciter of gests or legendary tales; a story-teller. |
getter | noun (n.) One who gets, gains, obtains, acquires, begets, or procreates. |
geyser | noun (n.) A boiling spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud, etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam. |
giaour | noun (n.) An infidel; -- a term applied by Turks to disbelievers in the Mohammedan religion, especially Christrians. |
gibber | noun (n.) A balky horse. |
verb (v. i.) To speak rapidly and inarticulately. |
gibbier | noun (n.) Wild fowl; game. |
giber | noun (n.) One who utters gibes. |
giggler | noun (n.) One who giggles or titters. |
gilder | noun (n.) One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold. |
noun (n.) A Dutch coin. See Guilder. |
gillyflower | noun (n.) A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white. |
noun (n.) A kind of apple, of a roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core. |
gilour | noun (n.) A guiler; deceiver. |
gimmer | noun (n.) Alt. of Gimmor |
gimmor | noun (n.) A piece of mechanism; mechanical device or contrivance; a gimcrack. |
ginger | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Z. officinale. |
noun (n.) The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine. |
gipser | noun (n.) Alt. of Gipsire |
girder | noun (n.) One who girds; a satirist. |
noun (n.) One who, or that which, girds. | |
noun (n.) A main beam; a stright, horizontal beam to span an opening or carry weight, such as ends of floor beams, etc.; hence, a framed or built-up member discharging the same office, technically called a compound girder. See Illusts. of Frame, and Doubleframed floor, under Double. |
girdler | noun (n.) One who girdles. |
noun (n.) A maker of girdles. | |
noun (n.) An American longicorn beetle (Oncideres cingulatus) which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvae. |
giver | noun (n.) One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes. |
glacier | noun (n.) An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland. |
gladder | noun (n.) One who makes glad. |
gladiator | noun (n.) Originally, a swordplayer; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena, for public amusement. |
noun (n.) One who engages in any fierce combat or controversy. |
glair | adjective (a.) The white of egg. It is used as a size or a glaze in bookbinding, for pastry, etc. |
adjective (a.) Any viscous, transparent substance, resembling the white of an egg. | |
adjective (a.) A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd. | |
verb (v. t.) To smear with the white of an egg. |
glamour | noun (n.) A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are. |
noun (n.) Witchcraft; magic; a spell. | |
noun (n.) A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are. | |
noun (n.) Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified. |
glandular | adjective (a.) Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands. |
glass maker | noun (n.) Alt. of Glassmaker |
glassmaker | noun (n.) One who makes, or manufactures, glass. |
glaucometer | noun (n.) See Gleucometer. |
glaverer | noun (n.) A flatterer. |
glazer | noun (n.) One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like. |
noun (n.) A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung cutlers and lapidaries, a wooden wheel covered with emery, or having a band of lead and tin alloy, for polishing cutlery, etc. |
glazier | noun (n.) One whose business is to set glass. |
gleaner | noun (n.) One who gathers after reapers. |
noun (n.) One who gathers slowly with labor. |
gleucometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the specific gravity and ascertaining the quantity of sugar contained in must. |
glidder | adjective (a.) Alt. of Gliddery |
glider | noun (n.) One who, or that which, glides. |
glimmer | noun (n.) A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam. |
noun (n.) Mica. See Mica. | |
verb (v. i.) To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp. |
glister | noun (n.) Glitter; luster. |
verb (v. i.) To be bright; to sparkle; to be brilliant; to shine; to glisten; to glitter. |
glitter | noun (n.) A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage. |
verb (v. i.) To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword. | |
verb (v. i.) To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive; as, the glittering scenes of a court. |
globeflower | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Trollius (T. Europaeus), found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. |
noun (n.) The American plant Trollius laxus. |
globular | adjective (a.) Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms. |