Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Gonfalon

{ Gon″fa‐lon (?), Gon″fa‐non (?), } n. [OE. gonfanoun, OF. gonfanon, F. gonfalon, the same word as F. confalon, name of a religious brotherhood, fr. OHG. gundfano war flag; gund...

2108

Gonfalonier

Gon′fa‐lon‐ier″ (?), n. [F. gonfalonier: cf. It. gonfaloniere.] He who bears the gonfalon; a standard bearer; as: (a) An officer at Rome who bears the standard of the Church. (b...

2109

Gong

Gong (?), n. [AS. gong, gang, a going, passage, drain. See Gang.] A privy or jakes. Chaucer.Gong farmer, Gong man, a cleaner of privies.

2110

Gong (2)

Gong, n. 1. [Malayan (Jav.) gōng.] An instrument, first used in the East, made of an alloy of copper and tin, shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a...

2111

Gongorism

Gon″go‐rism (?), n. An affected elegance or euphuism of style, for which the Spanish poet Gongora y Argote (1561-1627), among others of his time, was noted.Gongorism, that curio...

2112

Goniatite

Go″ni‐a‐tite (?), n.(Paleon.) One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the latest, in the ...

2113

Gonidial

Go‐nid″i‐al (?), a.(Bot.) Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia.

2114

Gonidial (2)

Go‐nid″i‐al, a.(Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the angles of the mouth; as, a gonidial groove of an actinian.

2115

Gonidium

‖Go‐nid″i‐um (?), n.(Zool.) A special groove or furrow at one or both angles of the mouth of many Anthozoa.

2116

Gonidium (2)

‖Go‐nid″i‐um, n.; pl.Gonidia (#). (Bot.) A component cell of the yellowish green layer in certain lichens.

2117

Gonimia

‖Go‐nim″i‐a (?), n. pl.(Bot.) Bluish green granules which occur in certain lichens, as Collema, Peltigera, etc., and which replace the more usual gonidia.

2118

Gonimous

Gon″i‐mous (?), a.(Bot.) Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells.

2119

Goniometer

Go′ni‐om″e‐ter (?), n. [Gr. � angle + -meter: cf. F. goniomètre.] An instrument for measuring angles, especially the angles of crystals, or the inclination of planes.Contact, or...

2120

Goniometric

Go′ni‐o‐met″ric (?), Go′ni‐o‐met″ric‐al (�), a. Pertaining to, or determined by means of, a goniometer; trigonometric.

2121

Goniometry

Go′ni‐om″e‐try (?), n. [Cf. F. goniométrie.] (Math.) The art of measuring angles; trigonometry.

2122

Gonoblastid

Gon′o‐blas″tid (?), n. [See Gonoblastidium.] (Zoöl.) A reproductive bud of a hydroid; a simple gonophore.

2123

Gonoblastidium

‖Gon′o‐blas‐tid″i‐um (?), n.; pl.Gonoblastidia (#). (Zoöl.) A blastostyle.

2124

Gonocalyx

Gon′o‐ca″lyx (?), n. [Gr. � offspring + E. calyx,] (Zoöl.) The bell of a sessile gonozooid.

2125

Gonochorism

Gon′o‐cho″rism (?), n. (a) Separation of the sexes in different individuals; — opposed to hermaphroditism. (b) In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from e...

2126

Gonococcus

‖Gon′o‐coc″cus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � semen, the genitals + NL. & E. coccus.] (Med.) A vegetable microörganism of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea...

2127

Gonoph

Gon″oph (?), n. [Perh. fr. Heb. gannābh thief.] A pickpocket or thief. Dickens.

2128

Gonophore

Gon″o‐phore (?), n. 1. (Zoöl.) A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and ...

2129

Gonorrhea

{ Gon′or‐rhe″a, Gon′or‐rhœ″a } (?), n. [L. gonorrhoea, Gr. �; � that which begets, semen, the genitals + � to flow: cf. F. gonorrhée.] (Med.) A contagious inflammatory disease o...

2130

Gonorrheal

{ Gon′or‐rhe″al, Gon′or‐rhœ″al } (?), a.(Med.) Of or pertaining to gonorrhea; as, gonorrheal rheumatism.

2131

Gonosome

Gon″o‐some (?), n. [Gr. � offspring + -some body.] (Zoöl.) The reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively.

2132

Gonotheca

‖Gon′o‐the″ca (?), n.; pl.Gonothec� (#). (Zoöl.) A capsule developed on certain hydroids (Thecaphora), inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are d...

2133

Gonozooid

Gon′o‐zo″oid (?), n. [Gr. � offspring + E. zooid.] (Zoöl.) A sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a gonophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.