Word Meanings - FOREGOER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor. 2. A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household.
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- GOAL
Fries. walu staff, stick, rod, Goth. walus, Icel. völr a round stick; 1. The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end. - GOROON SHELL
A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell . - GOOD-HUMORED
Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured. - CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - GOOSEFOOT
A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed. - GOLD; GOLDE; GOOLDE
An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold , according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - 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. - GORGONIACEA
One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c Note: The axis is commonly horny, but it may be solid and stony , as in the red coral of commerce, - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - GOLDFINNY
One of two or more species of European labroid fishes ; -- called also goldsinny, and goldney. - GODCHILD
One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather. - GONOCALYX
The bell of a sessile gonozooid. - GOPHER
1. One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidæ; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan. Note: The name was originally given by French settlers to - GOAF
That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also gob . To work the goaf or gob, to remove the pillars of mineral matter previously left to support the roof, and replace - GORGEOUS
Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff, - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - GONIMOUS
Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells. - GONOPHORE
A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome. - GONGORISM
An affected elegance or euphuism of style, for which the Spanish poet Gongora y Argote , among others of his time, was noted. Gongorism, that curious disease of euphuism, that broke out simultaneously in Italy, England, and Spain. The Critic. The - MYSTAGOGY
The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries. - RUBIGO
same as Rust, n., 2. - ISAGOGE
An introduction. Harris. - SYRINGOCOELE
The central canal of the spinal cord. B. G. Wilder. - STEATOPYGOUS
Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton. - AGOUARA
The crab-eating raccoon , found in the tropical parts of America. - BERGOMASK
A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness. - FULGOR
Dazzling brightness; splendor. Sir T. Browne. - OSTROGOTHIC
Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths. - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner.