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GATHER v. 15 definitions
To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate. And Belgium's capital had gathered them Her beauty and her chivalry. Byron. When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together. Matt. ii. 4.…
GATHERABLE a.
Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. [R.] Godwin.
GATHERER n. 2 definitions
One who gathers or collects.
GATHERING n. 6 definitions
The act of collecting or bringing together.
GAULTHERIA n.
enus of ericaceous shrubs with evergreen foliage, and, often, edible berries. It includes the American winter-green (Gaultheria procumbens), and the larger-fruited salal of Northwestern America (Gaultheria Shallon).
GEOTHERMOMETER n.
A thermometer specially constructed for measuring temperetures at a depth below the surface of the ground.
GERM THEORY n. 2 definitions
The theory that living organisms can be produced only by the development of living germs. Cf. Biogenesis, Abiogenesis.
GILTHEAD n. 3 definitions
A marine fish. The name is applied to two species:
GLYPTOTHECA n.
A building or room devoted to works of sculpture.
GNATHOTHECA n.
The horney covering of the lower mandible of a bird.
GOATHERD n.
One who tends goats. Spenser.
GODFATHER n. 2 definitions
child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction. There shall be for every Male-child to be baptized, when they can be had, two Godfathers and one Godmother; and for every Female, one Godfather and two Godmothers; and Parents shall be admitted as Sponsors, if it is desired. Book…
GODMOTHER n.
A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See Godfather
GONOTHECA n.
A capsule developed on certain hydroids (Thecaphora), inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; -- called also gonangium, and teleophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.
GRANDFATHER n.
A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent. Grandfather longlegs. (Zoöl.) See Dady longlegs.
GRANDFATHERLY a.
Like a grandfather in age or manner; kind; benignant; indulgent. He was a grandfatherly sort of personage. Hawthorne.
GRANDMOTHER n.
The mother of one's father or mother.
GRANDMOTHERLY a.
Like a grandmother in age or manner; kind; indulgent.
GRAVECLOTHES n.
The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.
GREAT-GRANDFATHER n.
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
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