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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.

 

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