Name Report For First Name GALM:
GALM
First name GALM's origin is German. GALM means "saga name (father of thorvald)". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with GALM below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of galm.(Brown names are of the same origin (German) with GALM and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with GALM - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming GALM
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES GALM AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH GALM (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (alm) - Names That Ends with alm:
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (lm) - Names That Ends with lm:
vilhelm wilhelm fedelm chisholm colm makolm malcolm eadelm aldhelm kenelmNAMES RHYMING WITH GALM (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (gal) - Names That Begins with gal:
gal gala galahad galahalt galahault galal galan galantyne galatea galatee galatyn galawya galchobhar gale galea galeel galen galena galenia galenka galeno galeron galeun gali galia galiana galice galiena galiene galila galilah galilahi galileo galina galinthias galit gall galla gallagher gallehant gallia galloway galochka galt galtero galton galvarium galvin galvyn galway galya galynRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ga) - Names That Begins with ga:
gaagii gaarwine gabal gabbar gabe gabhan gabi gabino gabirel gabor gabra gabreilla gabrian gabriel gabriela gabriele gabriell gabriella gabrielle gabrielo gabrio gabryella gaby gace gad gadara gadarine gaderian gadhra gadi gadiel gadwa gae gaea gael gaelbhan gaelle gaelyn gaetan gaetana gaetane gaffney gage gahariet gaheris gahiji gahmuret gahoNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH GALM:
First Names which starts with 'g' and ends with 'm':
garm geranium gersham gershom gimm graeghamm graeham graham grahem gram grantham gresham grimm grisham gwynhamEnglish Words Rhyming GALM
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES GALM AS A WHOLE:
| agalmatolite | noun (n.) A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite. |
| stylagalmaic | adjective (a.) Performing the office of columns; as, Atlantes and Caryatides are stylagalmaic figures or images. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH GALM (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (alm) - English Words That Ends with alm:
| balm | noun (n.) An aromatic plant of the genus Melissa. |
| noun (n.) The resinous and aromatic exudation of certain trees or shrubs. | |
| noun (n.) Any fragrant ointment. | |
| noun (n.) Anything that heals or that mitigates pain. | |
| verb (v. i.) To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal. Hence: To soothe; to mitigate. |
| calm | noun (n.) Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity. |
| noun (n.) To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to calm the winds. | |
| noun (n.) To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions. | |
| (super.) Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed. | |
| (super.) Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech. |
| copalm | noun (n.) The yellowish, fragrant balsam yielded by the sweet gum; also, the tree itself. |
| halm | noun (n.) Same as Haulm. |
| malm | noun (n.) Alt. of Malmbrick |
| qualm | noun (n.) Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. |
| noun (n.) A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. | |
| noun (n.) Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. | |
| noun (n.) A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction. | |
| noun (n.) Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. | |
| noun (n.) A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. | |
| noun (n.) Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. | |
| noun (n.) A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction. |
| palm | noun (n.) The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist. |
| noun (n.) A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; -- used in measuring a horse's height. | |
| noun (n.) A metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; -- so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers. | |
| noun (n.) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke. | |
| noun (n.) Any endogenous tree of the order Palmae or Palmaceae; a palm tree. | |
| noun (n.) A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing. | |
| noun (n.) Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph; also, victory; triumph; supremacy. | |
| verb (v. t.) To handle. | |
| verb (v. t.) To manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand; to juggle. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impose by fraud, as by sleight of hand; to put by unfair means; -- usually with off. | |
| verb (v. t.) To "grease the palm" of; to bribe or tip. |
| psalm | noun (n.) A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God. |
| noun (n.) Especially, one of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship. | |
| verb (v. t.) To extol in psalms; to sing; as, psalming his praises. |
| realm | noun (n.) A royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom. |
| noun (n.) Hence, in general, province; region; country; domain; department; division; as, the realm of fancy. |
| salm | noun (n.) Psalm. |
| shalm | noun (n.) See Shawm. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH GALM (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (gal) - Words That Begins with gal:
| gala | noun (n.) Pomp, show, or festivity. |
| galactic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the galaxy or Milky Way. |
| galactin | noun (n.) An amorphous, gelatinous substance containing nitrogen, found in milk and other animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously regarded as a coagulating or emulsifying agent. |
| noun (n.) A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree (Galactodendron). | |
| noun (n.) An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate resembling gelose, found in the seeds of leguminous plants, and yielding on decomposition several sugars, including galactose. |
| 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. |
| galactophagist | noun (n.) One who eats, or subsists on, milk. |
| galactophagous | adjective (a.) Feeding on milk. |
| galactophorous | adjective (a.) Milk-carrying; lactiferous; -- applied to the ducts of mammary glands. |
| galactopoietic | adjective (a.) Increasing the flow of milk; milk-producing. -- n. A galactopoietic substance. |
| 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. |
| galago | noun (n.) A genus of African lemurs, including numerous species. |
| galanga | noun (n.) Alt. of Galangal |
| galangal | noun (n.) The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (A. Galanga and A. officinarum) and of the Kaempferia Galanga), -- all of the Ginger family. |
| galantine | noun (n.) A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold. |
| galatian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants. -- A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who settled in Asia Minor. |
| galaxy | noun (n.) The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used for remote clusters of stars. |
| noun (n.) A splendid assemblage of persons or things. |
| galban | noun (n.) Alt. of Galbanum |
| galbanum | noun (n.) A gum resin exuding from the stems of certain Asiatic umbelliferous plants, mostly species of Ferula. The Bubon Galbanum of South Africa furnishes an inferior kind of galbanum. It has an acrid, bitter taste, a strong, unpleasant smell, and is used for medical purposes, also in the arts, as in the manufacture of varnish. |
| 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. |
| galea | noun (n.) The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower. |
| noun (n.) A kind of bandage for the head. | |
| noun (n.) Headache extending all over the head. | |
| noun (n.) A genus of fossil echini, having a vaulted, helmet-shaped shell. | |
| noun (n.) The anterior, outer process of the second joint of the maxillae in certain insects. |
| galeas | noun (n.) See Galleass. |
| galeate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Galeated |
| galeated | adjective (a.) Wearing a helmet; protected by a helmet; covered, as with a helmet. |
| adjective (a.) Helmeted; having a helmetlike part, as a crest, a flower, etc.; helmet-shaped. |
| galei | noun (n. pl.) That division of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sharks. |
| galena | noun (n.) A remedy or antidose for poison; theriaca. |
| noun (n.) Lead sulphide; the principal ore of lead. It is of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, and is cubic in crystallization and cleavage. |
| galenic | noun (an.) Alt. of Galenical |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Galenical |
| galenical | noun (an.) Relating to Galen or to his principles and method of treating diseases. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, galena. |
| galenism | noun (n.) The doctrines of Galen. |
| galenist | noun (n.) A follower of Galen. |
| galenite | noun (n.) Galena; lead ore. |
| galerite | noun (n.) A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus Galerites. |
| galician | noun (n.) A native of Galicia in Spain; -- called also Gallegan. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Galicia, in Spain, or to Galicia, the kingdom of Austrian Poland. |
| galilean | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Galilee, the northern province of Palestine under the Romans. |
| noun (n.) One of the party among the Jews, who opposed the payment of tribute to the Romans; -- called also Gaulonite. | |
| noun (n.) A Christian in general; -- used as a term of reproach by Mohammedans and Pagans. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Galileo; as, the Galilean telescope. See Telescope. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or relating to Galilee. |
| 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. |
| galimatias | noun (n.) Nonsense; gibberish; confused and unmeaning talk; confused mixture. |
| galingale | noun (n.) A plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus longus) having aromatic roots; also, any plant of the same genus. |
| galiot | noun (n.) A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers. |
| noun (n.) A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail. |
| galipot | noun (n.) An impure resin of turpentine, hardened on the outside of pine trees by the spontaneous evaporation of its essential oil. When purified, it is called yellow pitch, white pitch, or Burgundy pitch. |
| gall | noun (n.) The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder. |
| noun (n.) The gall bladder. | |
| noun (n.) Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor. | |
| noun (n.) Impudence; brazen assurance. | |
| noun (n.) An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut. | |
| noun (n.) A wound in the skin made by rubbing. | |
| verb (v. t.) To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm. | |
| verb (v. t.) To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy. | |
| verb (v. i.) To scoff; to jeer. |
| galling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gall |
| adjective (a.) Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating. |
| gallant | noun (n.) A man of mettle or spirit; a gay; fashionable man; a young blood. |
| noun (n.) One fond of paying attention to ladies. | |
| noun (n.) One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer. | |
| adjective (a.) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed. | |
| adjective (a.) Noble in bearing or spirit; brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant officer. | |
| adjective (a.) Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous. | |
| verb (v. t.) To attend or wait on, as a lady; as, to gallant ladies to the play. | |
| verb (v. t.) To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan. |
| gallanting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gallant |
| gallantness | noun (n.) The quality of being gallant. |
| gallantry | noun (n.) Splendor of appearance; ostentatious finery. |
| noun (n.) Bravery; intrepidity; as, the troops behaved with great gallantry. | |
| noun (n.) Civility or polite attention to ladies; in a bad sense, attention or courtesy designed to win criminal favors from a female; freedom of principle or practice with respect to female virtue; intrigue. | |
| noun (n.) Gallant persons, collectively. |
| gallate | noun (n.) A salt of gallic acid. |
| gallature | noun (n.) The tread, treadle, or chalasa of an egg. |
| galleass | noun (n.) A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley. |
| gallegan | noun (n.) Alt. of Gallego |
| gallego | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Galicia, in Spain; a Galician. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH GALM:
English Words which starts with 'g' and ends with 'm':
| gadolinium | noun (n.) A supposed rare metallic element, with a characteristic spectrum, found associated with yttrium and other rare metals. Its individuality and properties have not yet been determined. |
| gallicanism | noun (n.) The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church. |
| gallicism | noun (n.) A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom. |
| galliform | adjective (a.) Like the Gallinae (or Galliformes) in structure. |
| gallium | noun (n.) A rare metallic element, found in certain zinc ores. It is white, hard, and malleable, resembling aluminium, and remarcable for its low melting point (86/ F., 30/C). Symbol Ga. Atomic weight 69.9. |
| noun (n.) A rare metallic element, found combined in certain zinc ores. It is white, hard, and malleable, resembling aluminium, and remarkable for its low melting point (86¡ F., 30¡ C.). Symbol, Ga; at. wt., 69.9. Gallium is chiefly trivalent, resembling aluminium and indium. It was predicted with most of its properties, under the name eka-aluminium, by Mendelyeev on the basis of the periodic law. This prediction was verified in its discovery (in 1875) by its characteristic spectrum (two violet lines). |
| galvanism | noun (n.) Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity. |
| noun (n.) The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents. |
| galvanotropism | noun (n.) The tendency of a root to place its axis in the line of a galvanic current. |
| gamomorphism | noun (n.) That stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species. |
| gangliform | adjective (a.) Alt. of Ganglioform |
| ganglioform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a ganglion. |
| gapeworm | noun (n.) The parasitic worm that causes the gapes in birds. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| gargarism | noun (n.) A gargle. |
| garum | noun (n.) A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients. |
| gasiform | adjective (a.) Having a form of gas; gaseous. |
| gelatiniform | adjective (a.) Having the form of gelatin. |
| gelsemium | noun (n.) A genus of climbing plants. The yellow (false) jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens) is a native of the Southern United States. It has showy and deliciously fragrant flowers. |
| noun (n.) The root of the yellow jasmine, used in malarial fevers, etc. |
| gem | noun (n.) A bud. |
| noun (n.) A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, emerald, topaz, sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and polished for ornament; a jewel. | |
| noun (n.) Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, as a small picture, a verse of poetry, a witty or wise saying. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put forth in the form of buds. | |
| verb (v. t.) To adorn with gems or precious stones. | |
| verb (v. t.) To embellish or adorn, as with gems; as, a foliage gemmed with dewdrops. |
| genevanism | noun (n.) Strict Calvinism. |
| gentilism | noun (n.) Hethenism; paganism; the worship of false gods. |
| noun (n.) Tribal feeling; devotion to one's gens. |
| geomalism | noun (n.) The tendency of an organism to respond, during its growth, to the force of gravitation. |
| geophagism | noun (n.) The act or habit of eating earth. See Dirt eating, under Dirt. |
| geotropism | noun (n.) A disposition to turn or incline towards the earth; the influence of gravity in determining the direction of growth of an organ. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| germarium | noun (n.) An organ in which the ova are developed in certain Turbellaria. |
| gigerium | noun (n.) The muscular stomach, or gizzard, of birds. |
| gim | adjective (a.) Neat; spruce. |
| gingham | noun (n.) A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints. |
| ginglyform | adjective (a.) Ginglymoid. |
| gipsyism | noun (n.) See Gypsyism. |
| gisarm | noun (n.) A weapon with a scythe-shaped blade, and a separate long sharp point, mounted on a long staff and carried by foot soldiers. |
| glabellum | noun (n.) The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. See Trilobite. |
| gladiatorism | noun (n.) The art or practice of a gladiator. |
| glandiform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a gland or nut; resembling a gland. |
| gleam | noun (n.) A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse. |
| noun (n.) Brightness; splendor. | |
| verb (v. i.) To disgorge filth, as a hawk. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shine; to cast light; to glitter. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.). |
| glim | noun (n.) Brightness; splendor. |
| noun (n.) A light or candle. |
| gloam | noun (n.) The twilight; gloaming. |
| verb (v. i.) To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be sullen or morose. |
| glochidium | noun (n.) The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills. |
| gloom | noun (n.) Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight. |
| noun (n.) A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove. | |
| noun (n.) Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. | |
| noun (n.) In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven. | |
| verb (v. i.) To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight. | |
| verb (v. t.) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen. |
| glowworm | noun (n.) A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvae of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments. |
| glucinum | noun (n.) A rare metallic element, of a silver white color, and low specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally in the free state, but is always combined, usually with silica or alumina, or both; as in the minerals phenacite, chrysoberyl, beryl or emerald, euclase, and danalite. It was named from its oxide glucina, which was known long before the element was isolated. Symbol Gl. Atomic weight 9.1. Called also beryllium. |
| glum | noun (n.) Sullenness. |
| adjective (a.) Moody; silent; sullen. | |
| verb (v. i.) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. |
| gnaphalium | noun (n.) A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting. |
| gnathidium | noun (n.) The ramus of the lower jaw of a bird as far as it is naked; -- commonly used in the plural. |
| gnatworm | noun (n.) The aquatic larva of a gnat; -- called also, colloquially, wiggler. |
| gnosticism | noun (n.) The system of philosophy taught by the Gnostics. |
| gonangium | noun (n.) See Gonotheca. |
| gonidium | noun (n.) A special groove or furrow at one or both angles of the mouth of many Anthozoa. |
| noun (n.) A component cell of the yellowish green layer in certain lichens. |
| gonoblastidium | noun (n.) A blastostyle. |
| gonochorism | noun (n.) Separation of the sexes in different individuals; -- opposed to hermaphroditism. |
| noun (n.) In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs. | |
| noun (n.) In phylogeny, the evolution of distinct sexes in species previously hermaphrodite or sexless. |
| gorm | noun (n.) Axle grease. See Gome. |
| verb (v. t.) To daub, as the hands or clothing, with gorm; to daub with anything sticky. |
| gormandism | noun (n.) Gluttony. |
| gossypium | noun (n.) A genus of plants which yield the cotton of the arts. The species are much confused. G. herbaceum is the name given to the common cotton plant, while the long-stapled sea-island cotton is produced by G. Barbadense, a shrubby variety. There are several other kinds besides these. |
| gothicism | noun (n.) A Gothic idiom. |
| noun (n.) Conformity to the Gothic style of architecture. | |
| noun (n.) Rudeness of manners; barbarousness. |
| gourdworm | noun (n.) The fluke of sheep. See Fluke. |
| gram | noun (n.) The East Indian name of the chick-pea (Cicer arietinum) and its seeds; also, other similar seeds there used for food. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Gramme | |
| adjective (a.) Angry. |
| grammarianism | noun (n.) The principles, practices, or peculiarities of grammarians. |
| grammaticism | noun (n.) A point or principle of grammar. |
| grandam | noun (n.) An old woman; specifically, a grandmother. |
| grangerism | noun (n.) The practice of illustrating a particular book by engravings collected from other books. |
| graniform | adjective (a.) Formed like of corn. |
| granitiform | adjective (a.) Resembling granite in structure or shape. |
| grannam | noun (n.) A grandam. |
| granuliform | adjective (a.) Having a granular structure; granular; as, granuliform limestone. |
| grecism | noun (n.) An idiom of the Greek language; a Hellenism. |
| greenroom | noun (n.) The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater. |
| grogram | noun (n.) Alt. of Grogran |
| groom | noun (n.) A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable. |
| noun (n.) One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department; as, the groom of the chamber; the groom of the stole. | |
| noun (n.) A man recently married, or about to be married; a bridegroom. | |
| verb (v. i.) To tend or care for, or to curry or clean, as a, horse. |
| grubworm | noun (n.) See Grub, n., 1. |
| grum | adjective (a.) Morose; severe of countenance; sour; surly; glum; grim. |
| adjective (a.) Low; deep in the throat; guttural; rumbling; as, |
| guaiacum | noun (n.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America. |
| noun (n.) The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum offinale or lignum-vitae, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It is much used in medicine. |
| guardroom | noun (n.) The room occupied by the guard during its term of duty; also, a room where prisoners are confined. |
| guiacum | noun (n.) Same as Guaiacum. |
| gum | noun (n.) The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws. |
| noun (n.) A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins. | |
| noun (n.) See Gum tree, below. | |
| noun (n.) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive; also, a vessel or bin made of a hollow log. | |
| noun (n.) A rubber overshoe. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer. | |
| verb (v. t.) To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance. | |
| verb (v. i.) To exude or from gum; to become gummy. | |
| () Alt. of copal |
| gunroom | noun (n.) An apartment on the after end of the lower gun deck of a ship of war, usually occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers, except the captain; -- called wardroom in the United States navy. |
| guttiform | adjective (a.) Drop-shaped, as a spot of color. |
| gutturalism | noun (n.) The quality of being guttural; as, the gutturalism of A [in the 16th cent.] |
| gymnasium | noun (n.) A place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics. |
| noun (n.) A school for the higher branches of literature and science; a preparatory school for the university; -- used esp. of German schools of this kind. |
| gymnosperm | noun (n.) A plant that bears naked seeds (i. e., seeds not inclosed in an ovary), as the common pine and hemlock. Cf. Angiosperm. |
| gynaeceum | noun (n.) Alt. of Gynaecium |
| gynaecium | noun (n.) The part of a large house, among the ancients, exclusively appropriated to women. |
| gynandromorphism | noun (n.) An abnormal condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female. |
| gyneceum | noun (n.) See Gynaeceum. |
| gynoecium | noun (n.) The pistils of a flower, taken collectively. See Illust. of Carpophore. |
| gypsum | noun (n.) A mineral consisting of the hydrous sulphate of lime (calcium). When calcined, it forms plaster of Paris. Selenite is a transparent, crystalline variety; alabaster, a fine, white, massive variety. |
| gypsyism | noun (n.) The arts and practices or habits of gypsies; deception; cheating; flattery. |
| noun (n.) The state of a gypsy. |
| gam | noun (n.) A herd, or school, of whales. |
| noun (n.) A visit between whalers at sea; a holding of social intercourse between those on different vessels at sea, or (Local U. S.) between persons ashore. | |
| verb (v. i.) To gather in a gam; -- said of whales. | |
| verb (v. i.) To engage in a gam, or (Local, U. S.) in social intercourse anywhere. | |
| verb (v. t.) To have a gam with; to pay a visit to, esp. among whalers at sea. |
| geusdism | noun (n.) The Marxian socialism and programme of reform through revolution as advocated by the French political leader Jules Basile Guesde (pron. g/d) (1845- ). |
| gongorism | noun (n.) An affected elegance or euphuism of style, for which the Spanish poet Gongora y Argote (1561-1627), among others of his time, was noted. |
| grillroom | noun (n.) A room specially fitted for broiling food, esp. one in a restaurant, hotel, or club/house, arranged for prompt service. |
| grundyism | noun (n.) Narrow and unintelligent conventionalism. |
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