Word Meanings - SOLAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A solan 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.
• SOLANDER
  See SALLENDERS
• 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.
• SOLAN GOOSE
  The common gannet.
• SOLAND
  A solan goose.
• 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.
• SOLANACEOUS
  Of or pertaining to plants of the natural order Solanaceæ, of which the nightshade is the type. The order includes also the tobacco, ground cherry, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, and many more.
• SOLANUM
  A genus of plants comprehending the potato , the eggplant (S. melongena, and several hundred other species; nightshade.
• SOLANIA
  Solanine.
• SOLANOID
  Resembling a potato; -- said of a kind of cancer.
• SOLANINE
  A poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of common nightshade , and of bittersweet, and from potato sprouts, as a white crystalline substance having an acrid, burning taste; -- called also solonia, and solanina.
• 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
• SOLANIDINE
  An alkaloid produced by the decomposition of solanine, as a white crystalline substance having a harsh bitter taste.
• SOLANICINE
  An alkaloid produced by the action of hydrochloric acid on solanidine, as a tasteless yellow crystalline substance.
• SOLANO
  A hot, oppressive wind which sometimes blows in the Mediterranean, particularly on the eastern coast of Spain.
• 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.
• MUNGOOSE; MUNGOOS
  See MONGOOSE
• COLEGOOSE
  See COALGOOSE