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Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.

In games, a zero; a score or record of naught; -- so named in allusion to the egglike outline of the zero sign 0. Called also duck egg. [Slang]

Having the tail set low and buttocks that fall away sharply from the croup; -- said of certain horses.

A silly person; a goose cap. Goldsmith. Barbadoes gooseberry, a climbing prickly shrub (Pereskia aculeata) of the West Indies, which bears edible berries resembling gooseberries. -- Coromandel gooseberry. See Carambola. -- Gooseberry fool. See lst Fool. -- Gooseberry worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a small moth (Dakruma…

See Angler.

A genus of herbs (Chenopodium) mostly annual weeds; pigweed.

The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton.

One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.

Having a "goosewing."

A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. See Brant.

A species of grebe (Podiceps crisratus); the crested grebe.

The cormorant; -- so called from its black color.

See Coalgoose.

The loon or great northern diver. See Loon. [Written also emmer-goose and imber-goose.]

The loon. See Ember-goose.

griseus), native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose (Crossarchus fasciatus). [Written also mungoose, mungoos, mungous.]

See Mongoose.

A phalarope.

The common European sheldrake. [Prov. Eng.]

The common gannet.