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☞ In the early colonial records of New England, the term goodman is frequently used as a title of designation, sometimes in a respectful manner, to denote a person whose first name was not known, or when it was not desired to use that name; in this use it was nearly equivalent to Mr. This use was doubtless brought with the first settlers from England.
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Good-natured (?), a. Naturally mild in temper; not easily provoked; amiable; cheerful; not taking offense easily; as, too good-natured to resent a little criticism; the good-natured policeman on our block; the sounds of good-natured play. Opposite of ill-natured. [Narrower terms: equable, even-tempered, good-tempered, placid ] Also See: , , , , .
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2. to one's own liking or feelings or nature; pleasing; -- of people. Opposite of disagreeable.
Syn. -- agreeable, pleasing.
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Syn. -- , , . Good-natured denotes a disposition to please and be pleased. Good-tempered denotes a habit of mind which is not easily ruffled by provocations or other disturbing influences. Good-humored is applied to a spirit full of ease and cheerfulness, as displayed in one's outward deportment and in social intercourse. A good-natured man recommends himself to all by the spirit which governs him. A good-humored man recommends himself particularly as a companion. A good-tempered man is rarely betrayed into anything which can disturb the serenity of the social circle.
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Good-naturedly, adv. With mildness of temper.
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Goodness (?), n. [AS. gōdnes.] The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of disposition, of conduct, etc.
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Good now (?). An exclamation of wonder, surprise, or entreaty. [Obs.] Shak.
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Goods (?), n. pl. See , n., 3.
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Goodship, n. Favor; grace. [Obs.] Gower.
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Good-tempered (?), a. Having a good temper; not easily vexed or irritated. See .
Syn. -- equable, even-tempered, placid.
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good-time adj. occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company; as, he was a real good-time Charlie.
Syn. -- convivial.
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Goodwife (?), n. The mistress of a house. [Archaic] Robynson (More's Utopia).
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Goody (?), n.; pl. Goodies (�). 1. A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl. [Colloq.]
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2. (Zoöl.) An American fish; the lafayette or spot.
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Goody, n.; pl. Goodies (#). [Prob. contr. from goodwife.] Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.
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Goody (?), a. Weakly or sentimentally good; affectedly good; -- often in the reduplicated form goody-goody. [Colloq.]
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Good-year (?), n. [See .] The venereal disease; -- often used as a mild oath. [Obs.] Shak.
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Goody-goody, a. Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness. [Colloq.]
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goody-goody (?), n. A person who is weakly, sentimentally, or affectedly good; a goody-goody person; -- sometimes used to refer to person who acts with good intentions but who bunglingly does more harm than good. The latter may sometimes be deprecatingly referred to as a goo-goo. [Colloq.]
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Goodyship, n. The state or quality of a goody or goodwife [Jocose] Hudibraus.

goof n. a stupid fool. [Colloq.]
Syn. -- fathead, jackass, goose, cuckoo, zany.
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goof v. i. to commit a faux pas or fault.
Syn. -- sin, commit an offence, blunder, boob.
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goof off v. i. To shirk one's duties; to avoid work by relaxing or performing idle activities. [Informal]
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goof-off n. A person who habitually shirks his duties or avoids work; an idle worthless person. [Informal]
Syn. -- goldbrick, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing, good-for-naught.
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goofproof a. such as will function properly even if treated badly or ineptly; foolproof; -- of devices, plans, recipes, etc.; as, nothing running under Windows is completely goofproof.
Syn. -- foolproof.
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goofproof v. t. To design (a device or plan of action) so that it will function properly even if treated badly or executed ineptly; foolproof.
Syn. -- foolproof.
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goofy adj. foolish and silly, or appearing silly; as, he wore a goofy hat.
Syn. -- cockamamie, cockamamy, fool(prenominal), sappy, silly, wacky, zany, unreasonable.
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googly n. (Cricket) a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way.
Syn. -- wrong 'un, bosie, bosie ball.
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goo-goo (?), n. same as , n.. [Colloq. & disparaging]
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Gooroo, Guru (g�r�), n. [Hind. gurū a spiritual parent or teacher, Skr. guru heavy, noble, venerable, teacher. Cf. .] 1. A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor among the Hindus; a guru. Malcom.
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2. (g�r�) one who has expert knowledge of a technical area and serves as an advisor to others; an expert and teacher. Usually written guru.
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3. (g�r�) an intellectual or spiritual guide or advisor; a mentor. Usually written guru.
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Goosander (?), n. [OE. gossander, a tautological word formed fr. goose + gander. Cf. .] (Zoöl.) A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See .
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Goose (g�s), n.; pl. Geese (gēs). [OE. gos, AS. gōs, pl. gēs; akin to D. & G. gans, Icel. gās, Dan. gaas, Sw. gås, Russ. guse. OIr. geiss, L. anser, for hanser, Gr. chhn, Skr. haṃsa. √233. Cf. , , , .] (Zoöl.)
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1. Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinæ, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See .
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☞ The common domestic goose is believed to have been derived from the European graylag goose (Anser anser). The bean goose (A. segetum), the American wild or Canada goose (Branta Canadensis), and the bernicle goose (Branta leucopsis) are well known species. The American white or snow geese and the blue goose belong to the genus Chen. See , Emperor goose, under , , , .
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2. Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.
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☞ The Egyptian or fox goose (Alopochen Ægyptiaca) and the African spur-winged geese (Plectropterus) belong to the family Plectropteridæ. The Australian semipalmated goose (Anseranas semipalmata) and Cape Barren goose (Cereopsis Novæ-Hollandiæ) are very different from northern geese, and each is made the type of a distinct family. Both are domesticated in Australia.
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3. A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.
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4. A silly creature; a simpleton.
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5. A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.
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The pictures placed for ornament and use,
The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. Goldsmith.
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Coloq. A wild goose chase , an attempt to accomplish something impossible or unlikely of attainment. -- Coloq. Fen goose . See under . -- Coloq. Goose barnacle (Zoöl.), any pedunculated barnacle of the genus Anatifa or Lepas; -- called also duck barnacle. See , and . -- Coloq. Goose cap , a silly person. [Obs.] Beau. & . -- Coloq. Goose corn (Bot.), a coarse kind of rush (Juncus squarrosus). -- Coloq. Goose feast , Michaelmas. [Colloq. Eng.] -- Coloq. Goose grass . (Bot.) (a) 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). -- Coloq. Goose neck , anything, as a rod of iron or a pipe, curved like the neck of a goose; specially (Naut.), an iron hook connecting a spar with a mast. -- Coloq. Goose quill , a large feather or quill of a goose; also, a pen made from it. -- Coloq. Goose skin . See Goose flesh, above. -- Coloq. Goose tongue (Bot.), a composite plant (Achillea ptarmica), growing wild in the British islands. -- Coloq. Sea goose . (Zoöl.) See . -- Coloq. Solan goose . (Zoöl.) See .
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Gooseberry (?), n.; pl. Gooseberries (#), [Corrupted for groseberry or groiseberry, fr. OF. groisele, F. groseille, -- of German origin; cf. G. krausbeere, kräuselbeere (fr. kraus crisp), D. kruisbes, kruisbezie (as if crossberry, fr. kruis cross; for kroesbes, kroesbezie, fr. kroes crisp), Sw. krusbär (fr. krus, krusing, crisp). The first part of the word is perh. akin to E. curl. Cf. , a.] 1. (Bot.) Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated.
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2. A silly person; a goose cap. Goldsmith.
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Coloq. Barbadoes gooseberry , a climbing prickly shrub (Pereskia aculeata) of the West Indies, which bears edible berries resembling gooseberries. -- Coloq. Coromandel gooseberry . See . -- Coloq. Gooseberry fool . See 1st . -- Coloq. Gooseberry worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a small moth (Dakruma convolutella). It destroys the gooseberry by eating the interior.
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goose bumps n. Same as .
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Goose egg. 1. 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]
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2. A bump on the skin caused by a blow, especially one on the head.
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Goosefish (?), n. (Zoöl.) See .
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gooseflesh n. A peculiar roughness of the skin produced by cold or fear, in which the hair follicles become erect and form bumps on the skin; -- called also goose skin, goose pimples, goose bumps.
Syn. -- goose bumps, goose pimples, goose skin.
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Goosefoot (?), n. (Bot.) A genus of herbs (Chenopodium) mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
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goose-grass n. (Bot.), A low-growing perennial (Potentilla anserina) having leaves silvery beneath; foundin Northern U. S., Europe, and Asia.
Syn. -- silverweed, goose-tansy, Potentilla anserina.
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goose pimples n. Same as .
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Goose-rumped (?), a. (Zoöl.) Having the tail set low and buttocks that fall away sharply from the croup; -- said of certain horses.
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Goosery (?), n.; pl. Gooseries (�). 1. A place for keeping geese.
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2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness.
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The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton.
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goose skin n. Same as .
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goose-tansy n. (Bot.), Same as .
Syn. -- silverweed, goose-grass, Potentilla anserina.
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Goosewing (?), n. (Naut.) 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.
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Goosewinged (?), a. (Naut.) (a) Having a “goosewing.” (b) Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.
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Goosish, a. Like a goose; foolish. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Goost (?), n. Ghost; spirit. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Goot (?), n. A goat. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Go-out (?), n. A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out. [Written also gowt.]
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GOP n. [from Grand Old Party.] The Republican Party, the younger of the two major political parties in the U. S.
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Gopher (?), n. [F. gaufre waffle, honeycomb. See .] (Zoöl.) 1. One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidæ; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See , and .
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☞ The name was originally given by French settlers to many burrowing rodents, from their honeycombing the earth.
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2. One of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridæ; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See .
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3. A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows.
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4. A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States.
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Coloq. Gopher drift (Mining), an irregular prospecting drift, following or seeking the ore without regard to regular grade or section. Raymond.
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Gopher State. Minnesota; -- a nickname alluding to the abundance of gophers.
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Gopherus n. A genus comprising the gopher tortoises, North AMerican burrowing toroises.
Syn. -- genus Gopherus.
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Gopher wood (?). [Heb. gōpher.] A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. Gen. vi. 14.
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gopherwood n. A small handsome round-headed deciduous tree (Cladrastis lutea) having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye; also called yellowwood.
Syn. -- Kentucky yellowwood, Cladrastis lutea, Cladrastis kentukea, yellowwood.
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Goracco (?), n. A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in hookahs in Western India.
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Goral (?), n. (Zoöl.) An Indian goat antelope (Nemorhedus goral), resembling the chamois.
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Goramy (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as .
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Gor-bellied (?), a. Bog-bellied. [Obs.]
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Gor-belly, n. [Gore filth, dirt + belly.] A prominent belly; a big-bellied person. [Obs.]
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Gorce (?), n. [OF. gort, nom. gorz, gulf, L. gurges whirlpool, gulf, stream. See .] A pool of water to keep fish in; a wear. [Obs.]
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Gorcock (?), n. [Prob. from gore blood.] (Zoöl.) The moor cock, or red grouse. See . [Prov. Eng.]
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Gorcrow (?), n. [AS. gor dung, dirt. See blood, dirt.] (Zoöl.) The carrion crow; -- called also gercrow. [Prov. Eng.]
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Gord (?), n. [Written also gourd.] [Perh. hollow, and so named in allusion to a gourd.] An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
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Gordiacea (?), n. pl. [NL. See , 1.] (Zoöl.) A division of nematoid worms, including the hairworms or hair eels (Gordius and Mermis). See , and Illustration in Appendix.
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Gordian (?), a. 1. Pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia, or to a knot tied by him; hence, intricate; complicated; inextricable.
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Coloq. Gordian knot , an intricate knot tied by Gordius in the thong which connected the pole of the chariot with the yoke. An oracle having declared that he who should untie it should be master of Asia, Alexander the Great averted the ill omen of his inability to loosen it by cutting it with his sword. Hence, a Gordian knot is an inextricable difficulty; and to cut the Gordian knot is to remove a difficulty by bold and energetic measures.
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2. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the Gordiacea.
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Gordian, n. (Zoöl.) One of the Gordiacea.
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Gordius (?), n. [NL. See , 1.] (Zoöl.) A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in which they deposit their eggs; -- called also hair eel, hairworm, and hair snake, from the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs.
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Gore (?), n. [AS. gor dirt, dung; akin to Icel. gor, SW. gorr, OHG. gor, and perh. to E. cord, chord, and yarn; cf. Icel. görn, garnir, guts.] 1. Dirt; mud. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.
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2. Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted. Milton.
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Gore, n. [OE. gore, gare, AS. g�ra angular point of land, fr. g�r spear; akin to D. geer gore, G. gehre gore, ger spear, Icel. geiri gore, geir spear, and prob. to E. goad. Cf. , n., , and , v.] 1. A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.
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2. A small traingular piece of land. Cowell.
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3. (Her.) One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.
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☞ It is usually on the sinister side, and of the tincture called tenné. Like the other abatements it is a modern fancy and not actually used.
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Gore, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Goring.] [OE. gar spear, AS. g�r. See 2d .] To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab.
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The low stumps shall gore
His daintly feet. Coleridge.
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Gore, v. t. To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.
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Gorebill (?), n. [2d gore + bill.] (Zoöl.) The garfish. [Prov. Eng.]
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Gorfly (?), n.; pl. Gorflies (#). [Gore (AS. gor) dung + fly.] (Zoöl.) A dung fly.
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Gorge (?), n. [F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, gṛ to devour. Cf. .] 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
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Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain. Spenser.
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Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it. Shak.
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2. A narrow passage or entrance; as: (a) A defile between mountains. (b) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of .
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3. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
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And all the way, most like a brutish beast,
e spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest. Spenser.
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4. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
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5. (Arch.) A concave molding; a cavetto. Gwilt.
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6. (Naut.) The groove of a pulley.
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7. (Angling) A primitive device used instead of a fishhook, consisting of an object easy to be swallowed but difficult to be ejected or loosened, as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
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Coloq. Gorge circle (Gearing), the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution. -- Coloq. Circle of the gorge (Math.), a minimum circle on a surface of revolution, cut out by a plane perpendicular to the axis. -- Coloq. Gorge fishing , trolling with a dead bait on a double hook which the fish is given time to swallow, or gorge. -- Coloq. Gorge hook , two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead. Knight.
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Gorge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gorged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gorging (?).] [F. gorger. See , n.] 1. To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
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The fish has gorged the hook. Johnson.
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2. To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
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The giant gorged with flesh. Addison.
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Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite. Dryden.
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Gorge, v. i. To eat greedily and to satiety. Milton.
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Gorged (?), a. 1. Having a gorge or throat.
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2. (Her.) Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck.
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3. Glutted; fed to the full.
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Gorgelet (?), n. (Zoöl.) A small gorget, as of a humming bird.
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Gorgeous (?), a. [OF. gorgias beautiful, glorious, vain, luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff, neck handkerchief, and F. gorge throat, and se pengorger to assume airs. Cf. , n.] Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent.
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Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge.
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Gorgeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak.

-- Gorgeously, adv. -- Gorgeousness, n.
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Gorgerin (?), n. [F., fr. gorge neck.] (Arch.) In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of .
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Gorget (?), n. [OF. gorgete, dim. of gorge throat. See , n.] 1. A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century.
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2. A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor.
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Unfix the gorget's iron clasp. Sir W. Scott.
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3. A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies.
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4. A ruff worn by women. [Obs.]
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5. (Surg.) (a) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy. (b) A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget. Dunglison.
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