Name Report For First Name GERE:
GERE
First name GERE's origin is English. GERE means "form of gerald rules by the spear". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with GERE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of gere.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with GERE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with GERE - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming GERE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES GERE AS A WHOLE:
bellangere briggere bryggere grangere margeret geremiaNAMES RHYMING WITH GERE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ere) - Names That Ends with ere:
ebiere balere magaere zere bedivere andere chere guenevere guinevere gwenevere pipere quinevere richere valere aegelmaere aethelmaere archere backstere baldhere beceere bemeere brewstere burghere cartere coltere cupere felamaere fullere giselmaere grafere hearpere maetthere palmere rapere ridere rovere sawyere skippere spere tannere thackere toukere tuckere tuppere tylere weallere wigmaere wittahere xabiere here dechtere aethelhere baecere seamere wulfhere hweolere hwistlere sigehere devereRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (re) - Names That Ends with re:
deirdre hannelore aure kore pleasure terpsichore amare nyasore alexandre brangore saffire elidure moore gaothaire giollamhuire cesare isidore macaire imre gilmore baldassare petre aedre aefre allaire amalure andsware asthore audre aurore azzure baibre blaire ceire claire clare conchobarre dechtire dedre deidre desireNAMES RHYMING WITH GERE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ger) - Names That Begins with ger:
ger geraghty geraint gerald geraldina geraldine geraldo geralt geralyn geralynn geranium gerard gerardo gerd gerda gerde gerdie 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 gertrud gertruda gertrude gertrudes gertrudis gertrut gervase gervasio gervaso gervin gerwa gerwalt gerwalta geryonRhyming 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 genara genaya gene generosa generosb genesis genessa geneva geneve genevie genevieve genevra genevre genevyeve genisa genisiaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH GERE:
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 garabine garbine gare garsone garve gayane gayle gaylene genivee george georgette georgine georgitte geteye gezane gheorghe ghislaine giancinte gibbesone gifre gilbride gillespie ginnette ginnie giollabrighde giollabuidhe giolladhe giselle gislyne gisselle glaedwine glauce gloriane godalupe godwine goldie goldwine goodwine gorane gordie gore gorre gorrie govanne goveniayle governayle grace gracie graeme graine grainne granuaile granville grayvesone gre greenlee gregoire grenville grete grimme grisandole griselde grishilde grisjahilde griswalde guadalupe guenloie guilaine guiliaine guillaume guiseppe guiseppie gurice gustave guthrie gwe gwenaelle gwenevieveEnglish Words Rhyming GERE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES GERE AS A WHOLE:
| ahungered | adjective (a.) Pinched with hunger; very hungry. |
| anhungered | adjective (a.) Ahungered; longing. |
| avengeress | noun (n.) A female avenger. |
| badgerer | noun (n.) One who badgers. |
| noun (n.) A kind of dog used in badger baiting. |
| belligerence | noun (n.) Alt. of Belligerency |
| belligerency | noun (n.) The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare. |
| belligerent | noun (n.) A nation or state recognized as carrying on war; a person engaged in warfare. |
| (p. pr.) Waging war; carrying on war. | |
| (p. pr.) Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights. |
| bergeret | noun (n.) A pastoral song. |
| cobelligerent | noun (n.) A nation or state that carries on war in connection with another. |
| adjective (a.) Carrying on war in conjunction with another power. |
| doggerel | noun (n.) A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry. |
| adjective (a.) Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes. |
| etagere | noun (n.) A piece of furniture having a number of uninclosed shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use. |
| fingered | adjective (a.) Having fingers. |
| adjective (a.) Having leaflets like fingers; digitate. | |
| adjective (a.) Marked with figures designating which finger should be used for each note. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Finger |
| fingerer | noun (n.) One who fingers; a pilferer. |
| gere | noun (n.) Gear. |
| gerent | adjective (a.) Bearing; carrying. |
| hoggerel | noun (n.) A sheep of the second year. [Written also hogrel.] Ash. |
| hungered | adjective (a.) Hungry; pinched for food. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Hunger |
| hungerer | noun (n.) One who hungers; one who longs. |
| lingerer | noun (n.) One who lingers. |
| malingerer | noun (n.) In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability. |
| puggered | adjective (a.) Puckered. |
| singeress | noun (n.) A songstress. |
| swaggerer | noun (n.) One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow. |
| vicegerency | noun (n.) The office of a vicegerent. |
| vicegerent | noun (n.) An officer who is deputed by a superior, or by proper authority, to exercise the powers of another; a lieutenant; a vicar. |
| adjective (a.) Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another. | |
| adjective (a.) Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another. |
| wagerer | noun (n.) One who wagers, or lays a bet. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH GERE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ere) - English Words That Ends with ere:
| actinomere | noun (n.) One of the radial segments composing the body of one of the Coelenterata. |
| adipocere | noun (n.) A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration. |
| aerosphere | noun (n.) The atmosphere. |
| ampere | noun (n.) Alt. of Ampere |
| noun (n.) The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampere. |
| anoplothere | noun (n.) Alt. of Anoplotherium |
| antimere | noun (n.) One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants. |
| arriere | noun (n.) "That which is behind"; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate. |
| arthromere | noun (n.) One of the body segments of Arthropods. See Arthrostraca. |
| atmosphere | noun (n.) The whole mass of aeriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars. |
| noun (n.) Any gaseous envelope or medium. | |
| noun (n.) A supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies. | |
| noun (n.) The pressure or weight of the air at the sea level, on a unit of surface, or about 14.7 Ibs. to the sq. inch. | |
| noun (n.) Any surrounding or pervading influence or condition. | |
| noun (n.) The portion of air in any locality, or affected by a special physical or sanitary condition; as, the atmosphere of the room; a moist or noxious atmosphere. |
| baenomere | noun (n.) One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods. |
| bayadere | noun (n.) A female dancer in the East Indies. |
| bere | noun (n.) Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare). |
| noun (n.) See Bear, barley. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pierce. |
| beaupere | noun (n.) A father. |
| noun (n.) A companion. |
| bedfere bedphere | noun (n.) A bedfellow. |
| bedphere | noun (n.) See Bedfere. |
| beggestere | noun (n.) A beggar. |
| belvedere | noun (n.) A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect. |
| blastomere | noun (n.) One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. |
| blastosphere | noun (n.) The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. |
| boutonniere | noun (n.) A bouquet worn in a buttonhole. |
| brere | noun (n.) A brier. |
| barysphere | noun (n.) The heavy interior portion of the earth, within the lithosphere. |
| bonbonniere | noun (n.) A small fancy box or dish for bonbons. |
| brassiere | noun (n.) A form of woman's underwaist stiffened with whalebones, or the like, and worn to support the breasts. |
| calorifere | noun (n.) An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes. |
| cantiniere | noun (n.) A woman who carries a canteen for soldiers; a vivandiere. |
| caponiere | noun (n.) A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway. |
| cashmere | noun (n.) A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans. |
| noun (n.) A dress fabric made of fine wool, or of fine wool and cotton, in imitation of the original cashmere. |
| cassimere | noun (n.) A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments. |
| centistere | noun (n.) The hundredth part of a stere, equal to .353 cubic feet. |
| cephalomere | noun (n.) One of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the head of arthropods. |
| cere | noun (n.) The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds. See Beak. |
| verb (v. t.) To wax; to cover or close with wax. |
| chimere | noun (n.) The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached. |
| chromatosphere | noun (n.) A chromosphere. |
| chromosphere | noun (n.) An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame. |
| coccosphere | noun (n.) A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths. |
| cohere | adjective (a.) To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass. |
| adjective (a.) To be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent. | |
| adjective (a.) To suit; to agree; to fit. |
| condottiere | noun (n.) A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest. |
| confrere | noun (n.) Fellow member of a fraternity; intimate associate. |
| cosmosphere | noun (n.) An apparatus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe. |
| cremaillere | noun (n.) An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment. |
| centrosphere | noun (n.) The nucleus or central part of the earth, forming most of its mass; -- disting. from lithosphere, hydrosphere, etc. |
| noun (n.) The central mass of an aster from which the rays extend and within which the centrosome lies when present; the attraction sphere. The name has been used both as excluding and including the centrosome, and also to designate a modified mass of protoplasm about a centrosome whether aster rays are developed or not. |
| decastere | noun (n.) A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic meters. |
| decistere | noun (n.) The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere. |
| dekastere | noun (n.) Same as Decastere. |
| dere | noun (n.) Harm. |
| verb (v. t.) To hurt; to harm; to injure. |
| dinothere | noun (n.) Alt. of Dinotherium |
| doucepere | noun (n.) One of the twelve peers of France, companions of Charlemagne in war. |
| ectomere | noun (n.) The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals. |
| eglatere | noun (n.) Eglantine. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH GERE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ger) - Words That Begins with ger:
| gerah | noun (n.) A small coin and weight; 1-20th of a shekel. |
| geraniaceous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of pants (Geraniaceae) which includes the genera Geranium, Pelargonium, and many others. |
| geraniine | noun (n.) Alt. of Geranine |
| geranine | noun (n.) A valuable astringent obtained from the root of the Geranium maculatum or crane's-bill. |
| noun (n.) A liquid terpene, obtained from the crane's-bill (Geranium maculatum), and having a peculiar mulberry odor. |
| geranium | noun (n.) A genus of plants having a beaklike tours or receptacle, around which the seed capsules are arranged, and membranous projections, or stipules, at the joints. Most of the species have showy flowers and a pungent odor. Called sometimes crane's-bill. |
| noun (n.) A cultivated pelargonium. |
| gerant | noun (n.) The manager or acting partner of a company, joint-stock association, etc. |
| gerbe | noun (n.) A kind of ornamental firework. |
| gerbil | noun (n.) Alt. of Gerbille |
| gerbille | noun (n.) One of several species of small, jumping, murine rodents, of the genus Gerbillus. In their leaping powers they resemble the jerboa. They inhabit Africa, India, and Southern Europe. |
| gerboa | noun (n.) The jerboa. |
| gerfalcon | noun (n.) See Gyrfalcon. |
| gerful | adjective (a.) Changeable; capricious. |
| gerland | noun (n.) Alt. of Gerlond |
| gerlond | noun (n.) A garland. |
| gerlind | noun (n.) A salmon returning from the sea the second time. |
| germ | noun (n.) That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism appears. |
| noun (n.) That from which anything springs; origin; first principle; as, the germ of civil liberty. | |
| noun (n.) The germ cells, collectively, as distinguished from the somatic cells, or soma. Germ is often used in place of germinal to form phrases; as, germ area, germ disc, germ membrane, germ nucleus, germ sac, etc. | |
| verb (v. i.) To germinate. |
| germain | adjective (a.) See Germane. |
| german | noun (n.) A native or one of the people of Germany. |
| noun (n.) The German language. | |
| noun (n.) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures. | |
| noun (n.) A social party at which the german is danced. | |
| noun (n.) Of or pertaining to Germany. | |
| adjective (a.) Nearly related; closely akin. |
| germander | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Teucrium (esp. Teucrium Chamaedrys or wall germander), mintlike herbs and low shrubs. |
| germane | adjective (a.) Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant. |
| germanic | noun (n.) Of or pertaining to Germany; as, the Germanic confederacy. |
| noun (n.) Teutonic. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, germanium. |
| germanism | noun (n.) An idiom of the German language. |
| noun (n.) A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism. |
| germanium | noun (n.) A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge. Atomic weight 72.3. |
| germanization | noun (n.) The act of Germanizing. |
| germanizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Germanize |
| germarium | noun (n.) An organ in which the ova are developed in certain Turbellaria. |
| germen | noun (n.) See Germ. |
| germicidal | adjective (a.) Germicide. |
| germicide | noun (n.) A germicide agent. |
| adjective (a.) Destructive to germs; -- applied to any agent which has a destructive action upon living germs, particularly bacteria, or bacterial germs, which are considered the cause of many infectious diseases. |
| germinal | noun (n.) The seventh month of the French republican calendar [1792 -- 1806]. It began March 21 and ended April 19. See VendEmiaire. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the germ, or germ cells, as distinguished from the somatic cells. |
| germinant | adjective (a.) Sprouting; sending forth germs or buds. |
| germinating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Germinate |
| germination | noun (n.) The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable. |
| germinative | adjective (a.) Pertaining to germination; having power to bud or develop. |
| germiparity | noun (n.) Reproduction by means of germs. |
| germless | adjective (a.) Without germs. |
| germogen | noun (n.) A polynuclear mass of protoplasm, not divided into separate cells, from which certain ova are developed. |
| noun (n.) The primitive cell in certain embryonic forms. |
| germule | noun (n.) A small germ. |
| gerner | noun (n.) A garner. |
| gerocomia | noun (n.) See Gerocomy. |
| gerocomical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to gerocomy. |
| gerocomy | noun (n.) That part of medicine which treats of regimen for old people. |
| gerontes | noun (n. pl.) Magistrates in Sparta, who with the ephori and kings, constituted the supreme civil authority. |
| gerontocracy | noun (n.) Government by old men. |
| geropigia | noun (n.) A mixture composed of unfermented grape juice, brandy, sugar, etc., for adulteration of wines. |
| gerrymandering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gerrymander |
| gerund | noun (n.) A kind of verbal noun, having only the four oblique cases of the singular number, and governing cases like a participle. |
| noun (n.) A verbal noun ending in -e, preceded by to and usually denoting purpose or end; -- called also the dative infinitive; as, "Ic haebbe mete to etanne" (I have meat to eat.) In Modern English the name has been applied to verbal or participal nouns in -ing denoting a transitive action; e. g., by throwing a stone. |
| gerundial | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a gerund; as, a gerundial use. |
| gerundive | noun (n.) The future passive participle; as, amandus, i. e., to be loved. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or partaking of, the nature of the gerund; gerundial. |
| gery | adjective (a.) Changeable; fickle. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH GERE:
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. |
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