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A very largo East Indian freshwater fish (Osphromenus gorami), extensively reared in artificial ponds in tropical countries, and highly valued as a food fish. Many unsuccessful efforts have been made to introduce it into Southern Europe. [Written also goramy.]

the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order Cucurbitaceæ; and especially the bottle gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris) which occurs in a great variety of forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes.

A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America.

A silver dollar; -- so called in Cuba, Hayti, etc. Simmonds.

The state of being gourdy.

The fluke of sheep. See Fluke.

Swelled in the legs.

A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand. That great gourmand, fat Apicius B. Jonson.

A connoisseur in eating and drinking; an epicure.

A fish. See Gurnet.

A drop; a clot or coagulation. On thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood. Shak.

In a gouty manner.

The state of being gouty; gout.

A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Ægopodium Podagraria); -- called also bishop's weed, ashweed, and herb gerard.

Diseased with, or subject to, the gout; as, a gouty person; a gouty joint.

A mow; a rick for hay. [Obs.] Tusser.

f men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority. "Fit to govern and rule multitudes." Shak.

Governableness.

Capable of being governed, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient. Locke.

The quality of being governable; manageableness.