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the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.

Fat; grease; esp. the fat of pigs or geese; usually (Pharm.), lard prepared for medical use.

That which is bred or produced; breed; species. Flocks of the airy brood, (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans). Chapman.

An order of birds, including the swans, ducks, geese, flamingoes and screamers.

The art of process of making cloth. [R.] Instructing [refugees] in the art of clothing. Ray.

he emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese. [Written also corvorant.]

A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.

ecta, or Cyma, a cyma, hollow in its upper part and swelling below. -- Cyma reversa, or Ogee, a cyma swelling out on the upper part and hollow below.

See Perigee. [Obs.]

pia), now used only in the Abyssinian church. It is of Semitic origin, and is also called Geez.

hey all fall short in duty. -- To fall through, to come to nothing; to fail; as, the engageent has fallen through. -- To fall to, to begin. "Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food." Dryden. -- To fall under. (a) To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as, they fell under the jurisdiction of the…

A substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of geese and turkeys.

rmerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also Outagamies. Fox and geese. (a) A boy's game, in which one boy tries to catch others as they run one goal to another. (b) A game with sixteen checkers, or some substitute for them, one of which is called the fox, and the rest the geese; the fox, whose…

A flock of wild geese. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A distemper in geese, affecting the head.

Geneva Bible, a translation of the Bible into English, made and published by English refugees in Geneva (Geneva, 1560; London, 1576). It was the first English Bible printed in Roman type instead of the ancient black letter, the first which recognized the division into verses, and the first which ommited the Apocrypha.…

A noise made in the throat. Ducks and geese . . . set up a discordant gobble. Mrs. Gore.

A plant of the genus Galium (G. Aparine), a favorite food of geese; -- called also catchweed and cleavers. (b) A species of knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare). (c) The annual spear grass (Poa annua). -- Goose neck, anything, as a rod of iron or a pipe, curved like the neck of a goose; specially (Naut.), an iron hook conn…

A place for keeping geese.

One who takes care of geese.