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GEE v. 3 definitions
To turn to the off side, or from the driver (i.e., in the United States, to the right side); -- said of cattle, or a team; used most frequently in the imperative, often with off, by drivers of oxen, in directing their teams, and opposed to haw, or hoi. [Written also jee.]
GENERALITY n. 3 definitions
generalities to particulars. Landor. The glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. R. Choate.
GEOMETRY n. 2 definitions
rcles, plane surface, solids bounded by plane surfaces, the sphere, the cylinder, and the right cone. -- Higher geometry, that pert of geometry which treats of those properties of straight lines, circles, etc., which are less simple in their relations, and of curves and surfaces of the second and higher degrees.…
GHOST DANCE n.
ted friends. The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost-dance, or Messiah, religion, which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka, the Indian Messiah, who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race, the dead with the living, should be reunited to live a life of millennial happine…
GIFT n. 6 definitions
The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the President.
GIMBAL; GIMBALS n.
, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first. Gimbal joint (Mach.), a universal joint embodying the principle of the gimbal. -- Gimbal ring, a single gimbal, as that by which the cockeye of the upper millstone is supported on the spindle.…
GIRTLINE n.
A gantline. Hammock girtline, a line rigged for hanging out hammocks to dry.
GIVE v. 22 definitions
the bag. J. Webster. -- To give birth to. (a) To bear or bring forth, as a child. (b) To originate; to give existence to, as an enterprise, idea. -- To give chase, to pursue. -- To give ear to. See under Ear. -- To give forth, to give out; to publish; to tell. Hayward. -- To give ground. See under Ground, n. -- To…
GO v. 32 definitions
il; to apply; to contribute; -- often with the infinitive; as, this goes to show. Against right reason all your counsels go. Dryden. To master the foul flend there goeth some complement knowledge of theology. Sir W. Scott.
GODLILY adv.
Righteously. H. Wharton.
GODLY a. 2 definitions
ds of God from love for, and reverence of, his character; conformed to God's law; devout; righteous; as, a godly life. For godly sorrow worketh repentance. 2 Cor. vii. 10.
GOOSEWINGED a. 2 definitions
Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.
GORGONIAN a. 3 definitions
mbling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific. The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move. Milton.
GOSPEL a. 7 definitions
Accordant with, or relating to, the gospel; evangelical; as, gospel righteousness. Bp. Warburton.
GOVERNMENT n. 7 definitions
The right or power of governing; authority. I here resign my goverment to thee. Shak.
GRADUATOR n. 3 definitions
An instrument for dividing any line, right or curve, into small, regular intervals.
GRAMMAR n. 6 definitions
study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use aud application of the rules of a language, in speaking or writing.
GRAND a. 4 definitions
he 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. -- Grand duke. (a) A sovereign duke, inferior in rank to a king; as, the Grand Duke of Tuscany. (b) In Russia, a son of the Czar. (c) (Zoöl.) The European great horned owl or eagle ow…
GRAPPLE n. 6 definitions
fe-saving Service), a projectile, to which are attached hinged claws to catch in a ship's rigging or to hold in the ground; -- called also anchor shot.
GRENADIER n. 3 definitions
Originaly, a soldier who carried and threw grenades; afterward, one of a company attached to each regiment or battalion, taking post on the right of the line, and wearing a peculiar uniform. In modern times, a member of a special regiment or corps; as, a grenadier of the guard of Napoleon I. one of the regiment of Gren…
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