Word Meanings - GEESE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
pl. of Goose.
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- GOOSEFOOT
A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed. - GOOSERY
1. A place for keeping geese. 2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton. - GOOSEWINGED
Having a "goosewing." Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing. - GOOSEFISH
See ANGLER - GOOSEWING
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. - GOOSE EGG
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. - GOOSEBERRY
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. 2. A silly person; a goose cap. Goldsmith. Barbadoes gooseberry, a climbing prickly - GOOSE-RUMPED
Having the tail set low and buttocks that fall away sharply from the croup; -- said of certain horses. - GOOSE
gans, Icel. gas, Dan. gaas, Sw. g, Russ. guse. OIr. geiss, L. anser, for hanser, Gr. hamsa. sq. root233. Cf. Gander, Gannet, Ganza, 1. Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinæ, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied - WAY-GOOSE
See 2 - SKEELDUCK; SKEELGOOSE
The common European sheldrake. - MONGOOSE; MONGOOS
A species of ichneumon , native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose - CARGOOSE
A species of grebe ; the crested grebe. - SOLAN GOOSE
The common gannet. - MUNGOOSE; MUNGOOS
See MONGOOSE - COLEGOOSE
See COALGOOSE - SEA GOOSE
A phalarope. - BRAND GOOSE
A species of wild goose usually called in America brant. See Brant. - IMBER-GOOSE
The loon. See Ember-goose.