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A kind of internal-combustion engine; -- in British countries called usually petrol engine.

An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired.

e earth's crust, resulting in the formation of a class of mountain elevations called anticlinoria; -- opposed to geosynclinal.

The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners.

t, and hence forms the first step in the making of a mountain range; -- opposed to geanticlinal.

A salmon returning from the sea the second time. [Prov. Eng.]

A gosling. [Prov. Eng.]

The state of being ghastly; a deathlike look.

One of a faction in Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses. Brande & C.

The quality of being ghostly.

A term variously employed by early writers on art, though commonly designating the yellow oxide of lead, or massicot. Fairholt.

A gantline. Hammock girtline, a line rigged for hanging out hammocks to dry.

A glimpse, glance, or gleam. [Scot.] "He saw a glint of light." Ramsay.

d blood corpuscles united with hæmatin to form hæmoglobin. It is also found in the crystalline lens of the eye, and in blood serum, and is sometimes called crystallin. In the plural the word is applied to a group of proteid substances such as vitellin, myosin, fibrinogen, etc., all insoluble in water, but soluble in di…

A white, crystalline, organic base, C3H4N2, produced by the action of ammonia on glyoxal, and forming the origin of a large class of derivatives hence, any one of the series of which glyoxaline is a type; -- called also oxaline.

A rhombohedral zeolitic mineral, related in form and composition to chabazite.

A small gnat.

Pertaining to tapestry produced in the so-called Gobelin works, which have been maintained by the French Government since 1667.

chievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome. To whom the goblin, full of wrath, replied. Milton.

serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit; -- called also gobrope and gaubline.