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A fossil coral resembling Fungia.

Pertaining to a funiculus; made up of, or resembling, a funiculus, or funiculi; as, a funicular ligament. Funicular action (Mech.), the force or action exerted by a rope in drawing together the supports to which its ends are Fastened, when acted upon by forces applied in a direction transverse to the rope, as in the ar…

Resembling a cord in toughness and flexibility, as the roots of some endogenous trees.

Any coating considered as resembling fur; as:

Resembling fur.

An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate resembling gelose, found in the seeds of leguminous plants, and yielding on decomposition several sugars, including galactose.

A plant of the genus Myrica, growing in wet places, and strongly resembling the bayberry. The sweet gale (Myrica Gale) is found both in Europe and in America.

Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae.

A rare metallic element, found in certain zinc ores. It is white, hard, and malleable, resembling aluminium, and remarcable for its low melting point (86

Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, gamboge.

Pertaining to, or resembling, garum. Sir T. Browne.

Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating. Gathering board (Bookbinding), a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book. Knight. -- Gathering coal, a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning. -- Gathering…

A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze. Gauze dresser, one employed in stiffening gauze.

Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.

of Anam, with two or three masts, lofty triangular sails, and in construction somewhat resembling a Chinese junk.

To convert into gelatin, or into a substance resembling jelly.

Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.

ow jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens); as, gelseminic acid, a white crystalline substance resembling esculin.

Of or pertaining to gems or to gemmæ; of the nature of, or resembling, gems or gemmæ.

Pertaining to gems; of the nature of gems; resembling gems. Pennant.