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1,504 words match “ANIMAL”

GROSS a.
Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure. The terms which are delicate in one age become gross in the next. Macaulay.
GROUP n.
A variously limited assemblage of animals or planta, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.
GROW v.
se in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs.
GROWTH n.
The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the grow…
GUM n.
-- Gum Acaroidea, the resinous gum of the Australian grass tree (Xanlhorrhoea). -- Gum animal (Zoöl.), the galago of West Africa; -- so called because it feeds on gums. See Galago. -- Gum animi or animé. See Animé. -- Gum arabic, a gum yielded mostly by several species of Acacia (chiefly A. vera and A. Arabica) gr…
GUT n.
One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut.
GYNANDROMORPH n.
An animal affected with gynandromorphism,
GYNANDROMORPHISM n.
An abnormal condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female.
HABITAT n.
The natural abode, locality or region of an animal or plant.
HACIENDA n.
tate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions. 1.
HACKAMORE n.
sting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall, -- used for leading or tieing a pack animal. [Western U.S.]
HAEMAPOD n.
An hæmapodous animal. G. Rolleston.
HAGGIS n.
with suet, onions, oatmeal, etc., highly seasoned, and boiled in the stomach of the same animal; minced head and pluck. [Written also haggiss, haggess, and haggies.]
HAIR n. 3 definitions
The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.
HALLOO n.
A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention or to incite a person or an animal; a shout. List! List! I hear Some far off halloo break the silent air. Milton.
HALLSTATT; HALLSTATTIAN a.
It was characterized by expert use of bronze, a knowledge of iron, possession of domestic animals, agriculture, and artistic skill and sentiment in manufacturing pottery, ornaments, etc.
HAM n.
The thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking. A plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak ham. Shak.
HAMSHACKLE v.
To fasten (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the fore legs; as, to hamshackle a horse or cow; hence, to bind or restrain; to curb.
HAND n. 2 definitions
b below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.
HANDSOMENESS n.
The quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.
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