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A hand, paw, or claw. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney. B. Jonson.

A galoche.

See Galore.

See Galoche.

A small ingot of gold.

A buffoon. See Gollard. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A husband; a master of a family. [Obs.]

One of the followers of Francis Gomar or Gomarus, a Dutch disciple of Calvin in the 17th century, who strongly opposed the Arminians.

See Gumbo.

The black grease on the axle of a cart or wagon wheel; -- called also gorm. See Gorm. [Prov. Eng.]

A Hebrew measure. See Homer.

See Dextrin.

A disease of the teeth, which causes them to loosen and fall out of their sockets.

A form of union or immovable articulation where a hard part is received into the cavity of a bone, as the teeth into the jaws.

A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two kinds of palms, Metroxylon Sagu, and Arenga saccharifera, of the Indian islands. It is used for making cordage. Called also ejoo.

imp. & p. p. of Go. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland. Wiedersheim.

An African timber tree (Acacia Adansonii).

See Gonotheca.

A long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, used in the canals of Venice. A gondola is usually propelled by one or two oarsmen who stand facing the prow, or by poling. A gondola for passengers has a small open cabin amidships, for their protection against the sun or rain. A sumptuary law of Venice required that gon…