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A warehouse. [East Indies]

An ornament produced by notching or carving a rounded molding.

Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune.

The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god or goddess. O'er hills and dales their godships came. Prior.

A gossip. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather.

Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, "God speed you." [Written also as two separate words.] Receive him not into house, neither bid him God speed. 2 John 10.

Toward God. 2 Cor. iii. 4.

-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringidæ. The European black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit (L. fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit (L. hæmastica), and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin.

To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify. [Obs.] "Begodded saints." South.

One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.

A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.

A female demigod.

The negative pole or cathode. [R.]

Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words. [R.] Coleridge.

A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs.

A pagoda. [R.] "Or some queer pagod." Pope.

or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees.

A funnel-shaped sleeve arranged to show the sleeve lining and an inner sleeve.

Agalmatolite; -- so called because sometimes carved by the Chinese into the form of pagodas. See Agalmatolite.