GNATFLOWER
GNAT'FLOWER, noun A flower, called also bee-flower.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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GNATSNAPPER
GNAT'SNAPPER, noun A bird that catches gnats.
GNATWORM
GNAT'WORM, noun A small water insect produced by a gnat, and which after its several changes is transformed into a gnat; the larva of a gnat.
GNAW
GNAW, verb transitive naw. [Gr. to scrape.]1. To bite off by little and little; to bite or scrape off with the fore teeth; to wear away by biting. The rats gnaw a board or plank...
GNAWED
GNAW'ED, participle passive naw'ed. Bit; corroded.
GNAWER
GNAW'ER, noun naw'er. He or that which gnaws or corrodes.
GNAWING
GNAW'ING, participle present tense naw'ing. Biting off by little and little; corroding; eating by slow degrees.
GNEISS
GNE'ISS, noun ne'is. In mineralogy, a species of aggregated rock, composed of quartz, feldspar and mica, of a structure more or less distinctly slaty. The layers, whether straig...
GNOFF
GNOFF, noun nof. A miser. [Not in use.]
GNOME
GNOME, noun nome. An imaginary being, supposed by the cabalists, to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries. etc.1. A brief reflection or...
GNOMICAL
GNO'MICAL, adjective nomical. Sententious; containing maxims. [Little used.]
GNOMIOMETRICAL
GNOMIOMET'RICAL, adjective [Gr. an index, and to measure.]The gnomiometrical telescope and microscope is an instrument for measuring the angles of crystals by reflection, and fo...
GNOMOLOGIC
GNOMOLOG'ICGNOMOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to gnomology.
GNOMOLOGICAL
GNOMOLOG'ICAL, a. Pertaining to gnomology.
GNOMOLOGY
GNOMOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a maxim or sentence, and discourse.]A collection of maxims, grave sentences or reflections. [Little used.]
GNOMON
GNO'MON, noun no'mon. [Gr. an index, to know.]1. In dialling, the style or pin, which by its shadow shows the hour of the day. It represents the axis of the earth.2. In astronom...
GNOMONIC
GNOMON'ICGNOMON'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the art of dialling.
GNOMONICS
GNOMON'ICS, noun The art or science of dialling, or of constructing the dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon.
GNOSTIC
GNOS'TIC, noun nostic. [Latin gnosticus; Gr. to know.]The Gnostics were a sect of philosophers that arose in the first ages of christianity, who pretended they were the only men...
GNOSTICISM
GNOS'TICISM, noun nos'ticism. The doctrines, principles or systems of philosophy taught by the Gnostics.
GNU
GNU, noun A species of Antelope, in Southern Africa, whose form partakes of that of the horse, the ox, and the deer.
GO
GO, verb intransitivepreterit tense went; participle passive gone.1. In a general sense, to move; to pass; to proceed from one place, state or station to another; opposed to res...
GOAD
GOAD, noun A pointed instrument used to stimulate a beast to move faster.GOAD, verb transitive To prick; to drive with a goad1. To incite; to stimulate; to instigate; to urge fo...
GOADED
GOADED, participle passive Pricked; pushed on by a goad; instigated.
GOADING
GOADING, participle present tense Pricking; driving with a goad; inciting; urging on; rousing.
GOAL
GOAL, noun1. The point set to bound a race, and to which they run; the mark.Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goalWith rapid wheels.2. Any starting post.3. The end or fi...
GOAR
GOAR, noun More usually gore, which see.