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Gleam
  • (n.) A shoot of light
  • (v. i.) To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
  • (v. t.) To shine

    Glean
  • (n.) A collection made by gleaning.
  • (v. i.) To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
  • (v. t.) To collect with patient and minute labor

    Gleba
  • (n.) The chambered sporogenous tissue forming the central mass of the sporophore in puff balls, stinkhorns, etc

    Glebe
  • (n.) A lump

    Glee
  • (n.) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. It is not necessarily gleesome.

    Glen
  • (n.) A secluded and narrow valley

    Gley
  • (adv.) Asquint
  • (v. i.) To squint

    Gliadin
  • (n.) Vegetable glue or gelatin

    Glib
  • (n.) A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.
  • (superl.) Smooth
  • (v. t.) To castrate

    Glide
  • (n.) A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases
  • (v. i.) To move gently and smoothly

    Glim
  • (n.) A light or candle.

    Glint
  • (n.) A glimpse, glance, or gleam.
  • (v. i.) To glance
  • (v. t.) To glance

    Glioma
  • (n.) A tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system

    Glissade
  • (n.) A dance step consisting of a glide or slide to one side.

    Glissando
  • (n. & a.) A gliding effect

    Glisten
  • (v. i.) To sparkle or shine

    Glister
  • (n.) Glitter
  • (v. i.) To be bright

    Glitter
  • (n.) A bright, sparkling light
  • (v. i.) To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive

    Gloaming
  • (n.) Sullenness

    Gloat
  • (v. i.) To look steadfastly

    Globe
  • (n.) A body of troops, or of men or animals, drawn up in a circle
  • (v. t.) To gather or form into a globe.

    Globigerina
  • (n.) A genus of small Foraminifera, which live abundantly at or near the surface of the sea

    Globose
  • (a.) Having a rounded form resembling that of a globe

    Globular
  • (a.) Globe-shaped

    Globule
  • (n.) A little globe

    Globuliferous
  • (a.) Bearing globules

    Globulin
  • (n.) An albuminous body, insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute solutions of salt. It is present in the red blood corpuscles united with haematin to form haemoglobin

    Glochidium
  • (n.) The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills

    Glockenspiel
  • (n.) An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet

    Glomerate
  • (a.) Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster
  • (v. t. & i.) To gather or wind into a ball

    Glomerule
  • (n.) A glomerulus.

    Glomerulus
  • (n.) The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.

    Gloom
  • (n.) A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
  • (v. i.) To become dark or dim
  • (v. t.) To fill with gloom

    Gloria
  • (n.) A doxology (beginning Gloria Patri, Glory be to the Father), sung or said at the end of the Psalms in the service of the Roman Catholic and other churches

    Glorify
  • (v. t.) To make glorious by bestowing glory upon

    Gloriole
  • (n.) An aureole.

    Gloriosa
  • (n.) A genus of climbing plants with very showy lilylike blossoms, natives of India.

    Glorious
  • (n.) Eager for glory or distinction

    Glory
  • (n.) An emanation of light supposed to proceed from beings of peculiar sanctity. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line

    Gloss
  • (n.) A false or specious explanation.
  • (v. i.) To make comments
  • (v. t.) To give a specious appearance to

    Glottal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to, or produced by, the glottis

    Glottis
  • (n.) The opening from the pharynx into the larynx or into the trachea.

    Glove
  • (n.) A boxing glove.
  • (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a glove.

    Glow
  • (n.) Brightness or warmth of color
  • (v. i.) To exhibit a strong, bright color
  • (v. t.) To make hot

    Gloxinia
  • (n.) American genus of herbaceous plants with very handsome bell-shaped blossoms

    Gloze
  • (n.) Flattery
  • (v. i.) To flatter
  • (v. t.) To smooth over

    Glucose
  • (n.) Any one of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc

    Glucoside
  • (n.) One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars

    Glucosuria
  • (n.) A condition in which glucose is discharged in the urine

    Glue
  • (n.) A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals

    Glum
  • (a.) Moody
  • (n.) Sullenness.
  • (v. i.) To look sullen

    Glut
  • (n.) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
  • (v. i.) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
  • (v. t.) To fill to satiety

    Glyceride
  • (n.) A compound ether (formed from glycerin). Some glycerides exist ready formed as natural fats, others are produced artificially

    Glyceryl
  • (n.) A compound radical, C3H5, regarded as the essential radical of glycerin. It is metameric with allyl

    Glycogen
  • (n.) A white, amorphous, tasteless substance resembling starch, soluble in water to an opalescent fluid

    Glycol
  • (n.) Any one of the large class of diacid alcohols, of which glycol proper is the type.

    Glyph
  • (n.) A carved figure or character, incised or in relief

    Glyptic
  • (a.) Figured

    Glyptography
  • (n.) The art or process of engraving on precious stones.

    Gnarl
  • (n.) a knot in wood
  • (v. i.) To growl

    Gnash
  • (v. i.) To grind or strike the teeth together.
  • (v. t.) To strike together, as in anger or pain

    Gnat
  • (n.) A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals

    Gnaw
  • (v. i.) To use the teeth in biting
  • (v. t.) To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily separated or crushed

    Gneiss
  • (n.) A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags

    Gnome
  • (n.) A brief reflection or maxim.

    Gnomon
  • (n.) A style or column erected perpendicularly to the horizon, formerly used in astronomocal observations

    Gnosis
  • (n.) The deeper wisdom

    Gnostic
  • (a.) Knowing
  • (n.) One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion

    Gnu
  • (n.) One of two species of large South African antelopes of the genus Catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes

    Go
  • (n.) A circumstance or occurrence
  • (p. p.) Gone.
  • (v. i.) To apply one's self
  • (v. t.) To bet or wager

    Goa
  • (n.) A species of antelope (Procapra picticauda), inhabiting Thibet.

    Goad
  • (v. t.) A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast

    Goal
  • (n.) A base, station, or bound used in various games

    Goat
  • (n.) A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (C

    Gob
  • (n.) A little mass or collection

    Gobbet
  • (n.) A mouthful
  • (v. t.) To swallow greedily

    Gobble
  • (n.) A noise made in the throat.
  • (v. i.) To eat greedily.
  • (v. t.) To swallow or eat greedily or hastily

    Gobelin
  • (a.) Pertaining to tapestry produced in the so-called Gobelin works, which have been maintained by the French Government since 1667

    Goblet
  • (n.) A kind of cup or drinking vessel having a foot or standard, but without a handle.

    Goblin
  • (n.) An evil or mischievous spirit

    Goby
  • (n.) One of several species of small marine fishes of the genus Gobius and allied genera.

    God
  • (a. & n.) Good.
  • (n.) A being conceived of as possessing supernatural power, and to be propitiated by sacrifice, worship, etc
  • (v. t.) To treat as a god

    Godchild
  • (n.) One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian

    Goddaughter
  • (n.) A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism.

    Goddess
  • (n.) A female god

    Godfather
  • (n.) A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction
  • (v. t.) To act as godfather to

    Godhead
  • (n.) A god or goddess

    Godhood
  • (n.) Divine nature or essence

    Godless
  • (a.) Having, or acknowledging, no God

    Godlike
  • (a.) Resembling or befitting a god or God

    Godly
  • (adv.) Piously
  • (n.) Pious

    Godmother
  • (n.) A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism.

    Godown
  • (n.) A warehouse.

    Godroon
  • (n.) An ornament produced by notching or carving a rounded molding.

    Godsend
  • (n.) Something sent by God

    Godson
  • (n.) A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism.

    Godspeed
  • (n.) Success

    Godwit
  • (n.) One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringidae

    Goer
  • (n.) A foot.

    Goethite
  • (n.) A hydrous oxide of iron, occurring in prismatic crystals, also massive, with a fibrous, reniform, or stalactitic structure

    Goffer
  • (v. t.) To plait, flute, or crimp.

    Goggle
  • (a.) Full and rolling, or staring
  • (v. i.) A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting.

    Going
  • (n.) Course of life
  • (p. pr.) Carrying on its ordinary business

    Goitre
  • (n.) An enlargement of the thyroid gland, on the anterior part of the neck

    Gold
  • (v. t.) A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange

    Golf
  • (n.) A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner
  • (v. i.) To play at golf.

    Golgotha
  • (n.) Calvary.

    Goliard
  • (n.) A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs

    Gonad
  • (n.) One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis

    Gondola
  • (n.) A flat-bottomed boat for freight.

    Gondolier
  • (n.) A man who rows a gondola.

    Gone
  • (p. p.) of Go

    Gonfalonier
  • (n.) An officer at Rome who bears the standard of the Church.

    Gong
  • (n.) A flat saucerlike bell, rung by striking it with a small hammer which is connected with it by various mechanical devices

    Gonidium
  • (n.) A component cell of the yellowish green layer in certain lichens.

    Goniometer
  • (n.) An instrument for measuring angles, especially the angles of crystals, or the inclination of planes

    Gonococcus
  • (n.) A vegetable microorganism of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea

    Goober
  • (n.) A peanut.

    Good
  • (adv.) Well
  • (n.) Advancement of interest or happiness
  • (superl.) Adequate
  • (v. t.) To make good

    Goosander
  • (n.) A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America

    Goose
  • (n.) A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted

    Gopher
  • (n.) A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States.

    Goral
  • (n.) An Indian goat antelope (Nemorhedus goral), resembling the chamois.

    Gore
  • (n.) Blood
  • (v.) A small traingular piece of land.
  • (v. t.) To cut in a traingular form

    Gorge
  • (n.) A concave molding
  • (v. i.) To eat greedily and to satiety.

    Gorgon
  • (a.) Like a Gorgon
  • (n.) Anything very ugly or horrid.

    Gorilla
  • (n.) A large, arboreal, anthropoid ape of West Africa. It is larger than a man, and is remarkable for its massive skeleton and powerful muscles, which give it enormous strength

    Gormandize
  • (v. i. & t.) To eat greedily

    Gorse
  • (n.) Furze.

    Gory
  • (a.) Bloody

    Goshawk
  • (n.) Any large hawk of the genus Astur, of which many species and varieties are known. The European (Astur palumbarius) and the American (A

    Gosling
  • (n.) A catkin on nut trees and pines.

    Gospel
  • (a.) Accordant with, or relating to, the gospel
  • (v.) Any system of religious doctrine
  • (v. t.) To instruct in the gospel.

    Gossamer
  • (n.) A fine, filmy substance, like cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm, clear weather, especially in autumn

    Gossan
  • (n.) Decomposed rock, usually reddish or ferruginous (owing to oxidized pyrites), forming the upper part of a metallic vein

    Gossip
  • (n.) A friend or comrade
  • (v. i.) To make merry.
  • (v. t.) To stand sponsor to.

    Got
  • (imp.) of Get
  • (p. p.) of Get

    Goth
  • (n.) One of an ancient Teutonic race, who dwelt between the Elbe and the Vistula in the early part of the Christian era, and who overran and took an important part in subverting the Roman empire

    Gouache
  • (n.) A method of painting with opaque colors, which have been ground in water and mingled with a preparation of gum

    Gouge
  • (n.) A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.

    Gourami
  • (n.) A very largo East Indian freshwater fish (Osphromenus gorami), extensively reared in artificial ponds in tropical countries, and highly valued as a food fish

    Gourd
  • (n.) A dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd

    Gourmand
  • (n.) A greedy or ravenous eater

    Gourmet
  • (n.) A connoisseur in eating and drinking

    Gout
  • (n.) A constitutional disease, occurring by paroxysms. It consists in an inflammation of the fibrous and ligamentous parts of the joints, and almost always attacks first the great toe, next the smaller joints, after which it may attack the greater articulations

    Govern
  • (v. i.) To exercise authority
  • (v. t.) To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will

    Gown
  • (n.) A loose, flowing upper garment

    Grab
  • (n.) An instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of raising them
  • (v. t. & i.) To gripe suddenly

    Grace
  • (n.) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution
  • (v. t.) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.

    Gracious
  • (a.) Abounding in beauty, loveliness, or amiability

    Grackle
  • (n.) An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula.

    Gradate
  • (v. t.) To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration

    Gradation
  • (n.) A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.
  • (v. t.) To form with gradations.

    Grade
  • (n.) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road
  • (v. t.) To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc.

    Gradient
  • (a.) Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.
  • (n.) A part of a road which slopes upward or downward

    Gradual
  • (n.) An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps

    Graduate
  • (n.) A graduated cup, tube, or flask
  • (n. & v.) Arranged by successive steps or degrees
  • (v. i.) To pass by degrees

    Graduation
  • (n.) The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated

    Graffiti
  • (n. pl.) Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii

    Graffito
  • (n.) Production of decorative designs by scratching them through a surface of layer plaster, glazing, etc

    Graft
  • (n.) A "soft thing" or "easy thing
  • (v. i.) To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another

    Grail
  • (n.) A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church

    Grain
  • (a.) A sort of spice, the grain of paradise.
  • (n.) A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
  • (v. t.) To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains.

    Gram
  • (a.) Angry.

    Granadilla
  • (n.) The fruit of certain species of passion flower (esp. Passiflora quadrangularis) found in Brazil and the West Indies

    Granary
  • (n.) A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked

    Grand
  • (superl.) Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression

    Grange
  • (n.) A building for storing grain

    Granite
  • (n.) A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color

    Granivorous
  • (a.) Eating grain

    Granny
  • (n.) A grandmother

    Grant
  • (v. i.) To assent
  • (v. t.) A transfer of property by deed or writing

    Granular
  • (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, grains

    Granulate
  • (v. i.) To collect or be formed into grains
  • (v. t.) To form into grains or small masses

    Granulation
  • (n.) One of the small, red, grainlike prominences which form on a raw surface (that of wounds or ulcers), and are the efficient agents in the process of healing

    Granule
  • (n.) A little grain a small particle

    Granulite
  • (n.) A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed

    Granulose
  • (n.) The main constituent of the starch grain or granule, in distinction from the framework of cellulose

    Grape
  • (n.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.

    Graph
  • (n.) A curve or surface, the locus of a point whose coordinates are the variables in the equation of the locus

    Grapnel
  • (n.) A small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels

    Grapple
  • (v. i.) To use a grapple
  • (v. t.) A grappling iron.

    Grappling
  • (n.) A grapple

    Graptolite
  • (n.) One of numerous species of slender and delicate fossils, of the genus Graptolites and allied genera, found in the Silurian rocks

    Grapy
  • (a.) Composed of, or resembling, grapes.

    Grasp
  • (n.) A gripe or seizure of the hand
  • (v. i.) To effect a grasp
  • (v. t.) To lay hold of with the mind

    Grass
  • (n.) An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single
  • (v. i.) To produce grass.
  • (v. t.) To bring to the grass or ground

    Grate
  • (a.) Serving to gratify
  • (n.) A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
  • (v. i.) To make a harsh sound by friction.
  • (v. t.) To fret

    Graticule
  • (n.) A design or draught which has been divided into squares, in order to reproduce it in other dimensions

    Gratification
  • (n.) A reward

    Gratify
  • (v. t.) To please

    Gratin
  • (n.) The brown crust formed upon a gratinated dish

    Gratis
  • (adv.) For nothing

    Gratitude
  • (a.) The state of being grateful

    Gratuitous
  • (a.) Given without an equivalent or recompense

    Gratuity
  • (n.) Something given freely or without recompense

    Gratulatory
  • (a.) Expressing gratulation or joy

    Gravamen
  • (a.) The grievance complained of

    Grave
  • (n.) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial
  • (superl.) Not acute or sharp
  • (v. i.) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines
  • (v. t.) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch

    Gravid
  • (a.) Being with child

    Gravimeter
  • (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of bodies.

    Gravimetric
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to measurement by weight

    Gravitate
  • (v. i.) To obey the law of gravitation

    Gravitation
  • (n.) That species of attraction or force by which all bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend toward each other

    Gravity
  • (a.) Importance, significance, dignity, etc

    Gravy
  • (n.) Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc.

    Gray
  • (n.) A gray color
  • (superl.) Gray-haired

    Graze
  • (n.) A light touch
  • (v. i.) To eat grass
  • (v. t.) To feed on

    Grazing
  • (n.) A pasture

    Grazioso
  • (adv.) Gracefully

    Grease
  • (n.) Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state
  • (v. t.) To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.

    Greasy
  • (superl.) Affected with the disease called grease

    Great
  • (n.) The whole
  • (superl.) Endowed with extraordinary powers

    Greave
  • (n.) A grove.
  • (v. t.) To clean (a ship's bottom)

    Grebe
  • (n.) One of several swimming birds or divers, of the genus Colymbus (formerly Podiceps), and allied genera, found in the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia

    Grecian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Greece
  • (n.) A jew who spoke Greek

    Grecism
  • (n.) An idiom of the Greek language

    Grecize
  • (v. t.) To render Grecian

    Greed
  • (n.) An eager desire or longing

    Greegree
  • (n.) An African talisman or Gri'gri' charm.

    Greek
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks
  • (n.) A native, or one of the people, of Greece

    Green
  • (n.) A grassy plain or plat
  • (superl.) Full of life aud vigor
  • (v. i.) To become or grow green.
  • (v. t.) To make green.

    Greet
  • (a.) Great.
  • (n.) Greeting.
  • (v. i.) To meet and give salutations.
  • (v. t.) To accost

    Gregarine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Gregarinae.
  • (n.) One of the Gregarinae.

    Gregarious
  • (a.) Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds

    Greisen
  • (n.) A crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of Cornwall and Saxony

    Grenade
  • (n.) A hollow ball or shell of iron filled with powder of other explosive, ignited by means of a fuse, and thrown from the hand among enemies

    Grenadier
  • (n.) A bright-colored South African grosbeak (Pyromelana orix), having the back red and the lower parts black

    Grenadine
  • (n.) A thin gauzelike fabric of silk or wool, for women's wear.

    Grew
  • (imp.) of Grow

    Greyhound
  • (n.) A slender, graceful breed of dogs, remarkable for keen sight and swiftness. It is one of the oldest varieties known, and is figured on the Egyptian monuments

    Gribble
  • (n.) A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America

    Grid
  • (n.) A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.

    Grief
  • (a.) Cause of sorrow or pain

    Grievance
  • (v. t.) A cause of uneasiness and complaint

    Grieve
  • (v. i.) To feel grief
  • (v. t.) To occasion grief to

    Grievous
  • (a.) Causing grief or sorrow

    Griffon
  • (n.) A fabulous monster, half lion and half eagle. It is often represented in Grecian and Roman works of art

    Grill
  • (n.) A figure of crossed bars with interstices, such as those sometimes impressed upon postage stamps
  • (v. i.) To undergo the process of being grilled, or broiled
  • (v. t.) A gridiron.

    Grilse
  • (n.) A young salmon after its first return from the sea.

    Grim
  • (Compar.) Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect

    Grin
  • (n.) A snare
  • (v. i.) To set the teeth together and open the lips, or to open the mouth and withdraw the lips from the teeth, so as to show them, as in laughter, scorn, or pain
  • (v. t.) To express by grinning.

    Grip
  • (n.) A gripsack
  • (v. t.) A device for grasping or holding fast to something.

    Grisaille
  • (n.) A kind of French fancy dress goods.

    Grisette
  • (n.) A French girl or young married woman of the lower class

    Grisly
  • (a.) Frightful

    Grison
  • (n.) A South American animal of the family Mustelidae (Galictis vittata). It is about two feet long, exclusive of the tail

    Grist
  • (n.) Ground corn

    Grit
  • (n.) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone
  • (v. i.) To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet
  • (v. t.) To grind

    Grizzle
  • (n.) Gray
  • (v. i. & t.) To worry
  • (v. t. & i.) To make or become grizzly, or grayish.

    Groan
  • (n.) A low, moaning sound
  • (v. i.) To give forth a low, moaning sound in breathing
  • (v. t.) To affect by groans.

    Groats
  • (n. pl.) Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed

    Grocer
  • (n.) A trader who deals in tea, sugar, spices, coffee, fruits, and various other commodities.

    Grog
  • (n.) A mixture of spirit and water not sweetened

    Groin
  • (n.) A frame of woodwork across a beach to accumulate and retain shingle.
  • (v. i.) To grunt to growl
  • (v. t.) To fashion into groins

    Grommet
  • (n.) A ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope

    Gromwell
  • (n.) A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel

    Groom
  • (n.) A boy or young man
  • (v. i.) To tend or care for, or to curry or clean, as a, horse.

    Groove
  • (n.) A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel
  • (v. t.) To cut a groove or channel in

    Grope
  • (v. i.) To feel with or use the hands
  • (v. t.) To examine

    Grosbeak
  • (n.) One of various species of finches having a large, stout beak. The common European grosbeak or hawfinch is Coccothraustes vulgaris

    Groschen
  • (n.) A small silver coin and money of account of Germany, worth about two cents. It is not included in the new monetary system of the empire

    Grosgrain
  • (a.) Of a coarse texture

    Gross
  • (a.) The main body
  • (sing. & pl.) The number of twelve dozen
  • (superl.) Coarse

    Grot
  • (n.) A grotto.

    Ground
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Grind
  • (n.) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody
  • (v. i.) To run aground
  • (v. t.) To connect with the ground so as to make the earth a part of an electrical circuit.

    Group
  • (n.) A cluster, crowd, or throng

    Grouse
  • (n. sing. & pl.) Any of the numerous species of gallinaceous birds of the family Tetraonidae, and subfamily Tetraoninae, inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North America
  • (v. i.) To complain or grumble.

    Grout
  • (n.) A thin, coarse mortar, used for pouring into the joints of masonry and brickwork
  • (v. t.) To fill up or finish with grout, as the joints between stones.

    Grove
  • (v.) A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art

    Grow
  • (v. i.) To become attached of fixed
  • (v. t.) To cause to grow

    Grub
  • (n.) A short, thick man
  • (v. i.) To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate
  • (v. t.) To dig

    Grudge
  • (n.) Slight symptom of disease.
  • (v. i.) To be covetous or envious
  • (v. t.) To hold or harbor with malicioua disposition or purpose

    Gruel
  • (n.) A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk

    Gruff
  • (superl.) Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance

    Grumble
  • (n.) A grumbling, discontented disposition.
  • (v. i.) To growl
  • (v. t.) To express or utter with grumbling.

    Grumpy
  • (a.) Surly

    Grundyism
  • (n.) Narrow and unintelligent conventionalism.

    Grunt
  • (n.) A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.
  • (v. t.) To make a deep, short noise, as a hog


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