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A pale ubspotted variety of the wrymouth.

Without life or spirit. [R.]

Like a ghost; ghastly.

The quality of being ghostly.

Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor. Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. Book of Common Prayer [Ch. of Eng. ] One of the gostly children of St. Jerome. Jer. Taylor.

Ghost lore. [R.] It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft. Hawthorne.

The state of being gibbous or gibbose; gibbousness.

An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; -- also called glaze kiln, or glaze.

One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs.

g all that have distinct jaws, in contrast with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them. [Written also Gnathostomata.]

Knowing; wise; shrewd. [Old Slang] I said you were a gnostic fellow. Sir W. Scott.

The system of philosophy taught by the Gnostics.

Ghost; spirit. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.

A modification of the gyroscope, consisting essentially of a fly wheel fixed inside a rigid case to which is attached a thin flange of metal for supporting the instrument. It is used in studying the dynamics of rotating bodies.

Of or pertaining to the gyrostat or to gyrostatics.

The doctrine or theory of the gyrostat, or of the phenomena of rotating bodies.

Same Hemostatic.

ing but one series of stamens, and that equal in number to the proper number of petals; isostemonous.

A governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities subjugated by them.