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In games, a zero; a score or record of naught; -- so named in allusion to the egglike outline of the zero sign 0. Called also duck egg. [Slang]

Having the tail set low and buttocks that fall away sharply from the croup; -- said of certain horses.

A silly person; a goose cap. Goldsmith. Barbadoes gooseberry, a climbing prickly shrub (Pereskia aculeata) of the West Indies, which bears edible berries resembling gooseberries. -- Coromandel gooseberry. See Carambola. -- Gooseberry fool. See lst Fool. -- Gooseberry worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a small moth (Dakruma…

See Angler.

A genus of herbs (Chenopodium) mostly annual weeds; pigweed.

The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton.

One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.

Having a "goosewing."

Like a goose; foolish. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ghost; spirit. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A goat. [Obs.] Chaucer.

rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidæ; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.

Minnesota; -- a nickname alluding to the abundance of gophers.

A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. Gen. vi. 14.

Bog-bellied. [Obs.]

A prominent belly; a big-bellied person. [Obs.]

A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in hookahs in Western India.

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

Same as Gourami.

A pool of water to keep fish in; a wear. [Obs.]