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.