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Pertaining too, or resembling, a gooseberry; as, grossular garnet.

A vegetable jelly, resembling pectin, found in gooseberries (Ribes Grossularia) and other fruits.

cots Law), an estate created in land by a vassal who instead of selling his land outright reserves an annual ground rent, which becomes a perpetual charge upon the land. -- Ground ash. (Bot.) See Groutweed. -- Ground bailiff (Mining), a superintendent of mines. Simmonds. -- Ground bait, bits of bread, boiled barley…

An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a grove; situated in, or frequenting, groves. Dampier.

poems, whence any mean production is called grubstreet." As an adjective, suitable to, or resembling the production of, Grub Street. I 'd sooner ballads write, and grubstreet lays. Gap.

Resembling or containing grume; thick; concreted; clotted; as, grumous blood.

Pertaining to, or resembling, guaiacum. -- n. Guaiacum.

A colorless liquid, C6H4,OCH3.OH, resembling the phenols, found as a constituent of woodtar creosote, aud produced by the dry distillation of guaiac resin.

Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.

A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut, -- played upon with the fingers.

Belonging to, or resembling, gumma.

g of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum. Kindles the gummy bark of fir or pine. Milton. Then rubs his gummy eyes. Dryden. Gummy tumor (Med.), a gumma.

Anything resembling a gusset in a garment; as:

ew shape. It dissolves in oils and ethers, but not in water. In many of its properties it resembles caoutchouc, and it is extensively used for many economical purposes. The Mimusops globosa of Guiana also yields this material.

Resembling or containing gypsum; partaking of the qualities of gypsum.

Pertaining to the gyroscope; resembling the motion of the gyroscope.

Combining forms indicating relation or resemblance to blood, association with blood; as, hæmapod, hæmatogenesis, hæmoscope.

Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.

A nematoid worm of the genus Gordius, resembling a hair. See Gordius.