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A young or unfledged goose.

Glad tidings; especially, the good news concerning Christ, the Kingdom of God, and salvation. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom. Matt. iv. 23. The steadfast belief of the promises of the gospel. Bentley.

One of the four evangelists. Rom. of R. Mark the gospeler was the ghostly son of Peter in baptism. Wyclif.

To form according to the gospel; as, a command gospelized to us. Milton.

Gorse. [Obs.] Shak.

An outer garment, made of waterproof gossamer. Gossamer spider (Zoöl.), any small or young spider which spins webs by which to sail in the air. See Ballooning spider.

Like gossamer; flimsy. The greatest master of gossamery affectation. De Quincey.

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

Containing or producing gossan.

A small British marine fish (Motella tricirrata); -- called also whistler and three-bearded rockling. [Prov. Eng.]

A gossip. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother. Should a great lady that was invited to be a gossip, in her place send her kitchen maid, 't would be ill taken. Selden.

One given to gossip. Beaconsfield.

The relationship between a person and his sponsors. [Obs.]

Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy. Bale.

Full of, or given to, gossip.

A boy; a servant. [Ireland]

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.

imp. & p. p. of Get. See Get.

A channel for water. [Prov. Eng.] Crose.