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844 words match “JOHN”

GLORIFY v.
on; to elevate to power or happiness, or to celestial glory. Jesus was not yet glorified. John vii. 39.
GO v.
[Colloq.] -- To go in and out, to do the business of life; to live; to have free access. John x. 9. -- To go in for. [Colloq.] (a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a measure, etc.). (b) To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor, preferment, etc.) (c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.). (d) T…
GOD n.
ovah. God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. John iv. 24.
GODSPEED n.
ten also as two separate words.] Receive him not into house, neither bid him God speed. 2 John 10.
GORGE v.
allow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities. The fish has gorged the hook. Johnson.
GOSPEL n.
our narratives of the life and death of Jesus Christ, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
GRAFF n.
servant, overseer, or graff, and not the head, which is a title belonging only to Christ. John Knox.
GRAND a.
ich are observed as holidays in the inns of court and chancery (Candlemas, Ascension, St. John Baptist's, and All Saints' Days); called also Dies non juridici. -- Grand duchess. (a) The wife or widow of a grand duke. (b) A lady having the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right. (c) In Russia, a daughter of the Czar.…
GRASS n.
an grass. Same as Wood grass (below). Italian rye grass, forage and hay. Lolium Italicum. Johnson grass, grazing aud hay. South and Southwest. Sorghum Halepense. Kentucky blue grass, pasture. Poa pratensis. Lyme grass, coarse hay. South. Elymus, several species. Manna grass, pasture and hay. Glyceria, several species.…
GRAVE n.
ment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction. He bad lain in the grave four days. John xi. 17. Grave wax, adipocere.
GRINDLE n.
The bowfin; -- called also Johnny Grindle. [Local, U. S.]
GRUB n.
marble. -- Grub Street, a street in London (now called Milton Street), described by Dr. Johnson as "much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems, whence any mean production is called grubstreet." As an adjective, suitable to, or resembling the production of, Grub Street. I 'd sooner…
GUIDON n.
One who carries a flag. Johnson.
GUILE n.
ice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery. Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John i. 47. To wage by force or guile eternal war. Milton.
GULLY v.
To flow noisily. [Obs.] Johnson.
GYROSCOPE n.
of rotating bodies, the composition of rotations, etc. It was devised by Professor W. R. Johnson, in 1832, by whom it was called the rotascope.
HABILITATE v.
To fit out; to equip; to qualify; to entitle. Johnson.
HAIRINESS n.
The state of abounding, or being covered, with hair. Johnson.
HALLOO v.
To encourage with shouts. Old John hallooes his hounds again. Prior.
HAMITIC a.
he Sahara, Egypt, Galla, and Somâli Land, and supposed to be allied to the Semitic. Keith Johnson.
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