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pl. of Goose.

cing ducks; -- applied to Anatifæ, under the absurd notion of their turning into ducks or geese. See Barnacle.

webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.

A division of birds including the geese, ducks, and closely allied forms.

Fat; grease; esp. the fat of pigs or geese; usually (Pharm.), lard prepared for medical use.

That which is bred or produced; breed; species. Flocks of the airy brood, (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans). Chapman.

An order of birds, including the swans, ducks, geese, flamingoes and screamers.

he emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese. [Written also corvorant.]

A substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of geese and turkeys.

rmerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also Outagamies. Fox and geese. (a) A boy's game, in which one boy tries to catch others as they run one goal to another. (b) A game with sixteen checkers, or some substitute for them, one of which is called the fox, and the rest the geese; the fox, whose…

A flock of wild geese. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A distemper in geese, affecting the head.

A noise made in the throat. Ducks and geese . . . set up a discordant gobble. Mrs. Gore.

A plant of the genus Galium (G. Aparine), a favorite food of geese; -- called also catchweed and cleavers. (b) A species of knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare). (c) The annual spear grass (Poa annua). -- Goose neck, anything, as a rod of iron or a pipe, curved like the neck of a goose; specially (Naut.), an iron hook conn…

A place for keeping geese.

One who takes care of geese.

One of several species of pygmy geese, of the genus Nettepus. They are about the size of a teal, and inhabit Africa, India, and Australia.

To utter with a hissing sound. The long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise. Tennyson.

ve as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt. "The jumping chariots." Nahum iii. 2. A flock of geese jump down together. Dryden.

mble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called also horned screamer. The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja. See Chaja, and Screamer.