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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,270 words match “GAN”

BRIGANDINE n.
l, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages. [Written also brigantine.] Jer. xlvi. 4. Then put on all thy gorgeous arms, thy helmet, And brigandine of brass. Milton.
BRIGANDISH a.
Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.
BRIGANDISM n.
Brigandage.
BRIGANTINE n. 3 definitions
See Brigandine.
BROGAN n.
A stout, coarse shoe; a brogue.
BURGANET n.
See Burgonet.
CARDIGAN JACKET n.
A warm jacket of knit worsted with or without sleeves.
CHONDROGANOIDEA n.
An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.
COLLITIGANT a. 2 definitions
Disputing or wrangling. [Obs.] -- n.
COPROPHAGAN n.
A kind of beetle which feeds upon dung.
CORRUGANT a.
Having the power of contracting into wrinkles. Johnson.
CYCLOGANOID a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to the Cycloganoidei.
CYCLOGANOIDEI n.
An order of ganoid fishes, having cycloid scales. The bowfin (Amia calva) is a living example.
DEROGANT a.
Derogatory. [R.] T. Adams.
DISORGANIZATION n. 2 definitions
The act of disorganizing; destruction of system.
DISORGANIZE v.
To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange. Lyford . . . attempted to disorganize the church. Eliot (1809).
DISORGANIZER n.
One who disorganizes or causes disorder and confusion.
DOPPELGANGER n.
A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker.
DOUBLEGANGER n.
An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger.
DRAGANTINE n.
A mucilage obtained from, or containing, gun tragacanth.
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