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   gatepost
         n 1: either of two posts that bound a gate

English Dictionary: Good Book by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
get back
v
  1. recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost; "We got back the money after we threatened to sue the company"; "He got back his son from the kidnappers"
    Synonym(s): win back, get back
  2. take revenge or even out a score; "I cannot accept the defeat --I want to get even"
    Synonym(s): get even, get back
  3. get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury; "I finally settled with my old enemy"
    Synonym(s): settle, get back
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
get the best
v
  1. overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us"
    Synonym(s): get the best, have the best, overcome
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
get the picture
v
  1. get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
    Synonym(s): grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
go to pieces
v
  1. lose one's emotional or mental composure; "She fell apart when her only child died"
    Synonym(s): fall apart, go to pieces
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
goatfish
n
  1. brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels [syn: goatfish, red mullet, surmullet, Mullus surmuletus]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Good Book
n
  1. the sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen"
    Synonym(s): Bible, Christian Bible, Book, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word of God, Word
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
guide fossil
n
  1. a fossil known to have lived in a particular geologic age that can be used to date the rock layer in which it is found
    Synonym(s): index fossil, guide fossil
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
guidebook
n
  1. something that offers basic information or instruction
    Synonym(s): guidebook, guide
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
guidepost
n
  1. a rule or principle that provides guidance to appropriate behavior
    Synonym(s): guidepost, guideline, rule of thumb
  2. a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way
    Synonym(s): signpost, guidepost
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Piping \Pip"ing\ (p[imac]p"[icr]ng), a. [From {Pipe}, v.]
      1. Playing on a musical pipe. [bd]Lowing herds and piping
            swains.[b8] --Swift.
  
      2. Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of
            the pipe rather than of the drum and fife. --Shak.
  
      3. Emitting a high, shrill sound.
  
      4. Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound
            of boiling fluids.
  
      {Piping crow}, {Piping crow shrike}, {Piping roller}
            (Zo[94]l.), any Australian bird of the genus {Gymnorhina},
            esp. {G. tibicen}, which is black and white, and the size
            of a small crow. Called also {caruck}.
  
      {Piping frog} (Zo[94]l.), a small American tree frog ({Hyla
            Pickeringii}) which utters a high, shrill note in early
            spring.
  
      {Piping hot}, boiling hot; hissing hot; very hot. [Colloq.]
            --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gatepost \Gate"post`\, n.
      1. A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also {swinging
            [or] hinging post}.
  
      2. A post against which a gate closes; -- called also
            {shutting post}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Geodephagous \Ge`o*deph"a*gous\
      (j[emac]`[osl]*d[ecr]f"[adot]*g[ucr]s), a. [Gr. ge`a, gh^,
      earth + 'adhfa`gos eating one's fill; gluttonous.] (Zo[94]l.)
      Living in the earth; -- applied to the ground beetles.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Giddy-paced \Gid"dy-paced`\, a.
      Moving irregularly; flighty; fickle. [R.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Goat \Goat\, n. [OE goot, got, gat, AS. g[be]t; akin to D. geit,
      OHG. geiz, G. geiss, Icel. geit, Sw. get, Dan. ged, Goth.
      gaits, L. haedus a young goat, kid.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus {Capra}, of several
      species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat ({C. hircus}),
      which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin.
  
      Note: The Cashmere and Angora varieties of the goat have
               long, silky hair, used in the manufacture of textile
               fabrics. The wild or bezoar goat ({Capra [91]gagrus}),
               of Asia Minor, noted for the bezoar stones found in its
               stomach, is supposed to be one of the ancestral species
               ofthe domestic goat. The Rocky Montain goat
               ({Haplocercus montanus}) is more nearly related to the
               antelopes. See {Mazame}.
  
      {Goat antelope} (Zo[94]l), one of several species of
            antelopes, which in some respects resemble a goat, having
            recurved horns, a stout body, large hoofs, and a short,
            flat tail, as the goral, thar, mazame, and chikara.
  
      {Goat fig} (Bot.), the wild fig.
  
      {Goat house}.
      (a) A place for keeping goats.
      (b) A brothel. [Obs.]
  
      {Goat moth} (Zo[94]l.), any moth of the genus {Cossus}, esp.
            the large European species ({C. ligniperda}), the larva of
            which burrows in oak and willow trees, and requires three
            years to mature. It exhales an odor like that of the
            he-goat.
  
      {Goat weed} (Bot.), a scrophulariaceous plant, of the genus
            {Capraria} ({C. biflora}).
  
      {Goat's bane} (Bot.), a poisonous plant ({Aconitum
            Lucoctonum}), bearing pale yellow flowers, introduced from
            Switzerland into England; wolfsbane.
  
      {Goat's beard} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Tragopogon}; --
            so named from the long silky beard of the seeds. One
            species is the salsify or oyster plant.
  
      {Goat's foot} (Bot.), a kind of wood sorrel ({Oxalis
            caprina}) growing at the Cape of Good Hope.
  
      {Goat's rue} (Bot.), a leguminous plant ({Galega officinalis}
            of Europe, or {Tephrosia Virginiana} in the United
            States).
  
      {Goat's thorn} (Bot.), a thorny leguminous plant ({Astragalus
            Tragacanthus}), found in the Levant.
  
      {Goat's wheat} (Bot.), the genus {Tragopyrum} (now referred
            to {Atraphaxis}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Goatfish \Goat"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      A fish of the genus {Upeneus}, inhabiting the Gulf of Mexico.
      It is allied to the surmullet.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Guidebook \Guide"book`\, n.
      A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists,
      etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Guidepost \Guide"post`\, n.
      A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to
      direct travelers.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   GDBPSK
  
      {Gaussian Differential Binary Phase Shift Keying}
  
  
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