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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…

A small gondola. T. Moore.

A man who rows a gondola.

p. p. of Go.

A state of exhaustion; faintness, especially as resulting from hunger. [Colloq. U. S.]

gs from a crosspiece or frame instead of from the staff or the mast itself. Standards and gonfalons, 'twixt van and rear, Stream in the air. Milton.

He who bears the gonfalon; a standard bearer; as:

A privy or jakes. [Obs.] Chaucer. Gong farmer, Gong man, a cleaner of privies. [Obs.]

An affected elegance or euphuism of style, for which the Spanish poet Gongora y Argote (1561-1627), among others of his time, was noted.

One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the latest, in the Triassic.

Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia.

A special groove or furrow at one or both angles of the mouth of many Anthozoa.

h occur in certain lichens, as Collema, Peltigera, etc., and which replace the more usual gonidia.

Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells.

ngles, especially the angles of crystals, or the inclination of planes. Contact, or Hand, goniometer, a goniometer having two movable arms (ab, cd), between which (at ab) the faces of the crystals are placed. These arms turn about a fixed point, which is the center of the graduated circle or semicircle upon which the a…

Pertaining to, or determined by means of, a goniometer; trigonometric.