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   g-force
         n 1: a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used
               to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it
               is accelerated [syn: {g}, {gee}, {g-force}]

English Dictionary: Gopher State by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Geoffrey Chaucer
n
  1. English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)
    Synonym(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey Chaucer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gibberish
n
  1. unintelligible talking
    Synonym(s): gibberish, gibber
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
give rise
v
  1. cause to happen, occur or exist; "This procedure produces a curious effect"; "The new law gave rise to many complaints"; "These chemicals produce a noxious vapor"; "the new President must bring about a change in the health care system"
    Synonym(s): produce, bring about, give rise
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gopher snake
n
  1. large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico
    Synonym(s): indigo snake, gopher snake, Drymarchon corais
  2. bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows
    Synonym(s): gopher snake, Pituophis melanoleucus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gopher State
n
  1. a midwestern state [syn: Minnesota, Gopher State, North Star State, MN]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gopherus
n
  1. gopher tortoises
    Synonym(s): Gopherus, genus Gopherus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gopherus agassizii
n
  1. burrowing tortoise of the arid western United States and northern Mexico; may be reclassified as a member of genus Xerobates
    Synonym(s): desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gopherus polypemus
n
  1. burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
    Synonym(s): gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, gopher, Gopherus polypemus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Guy of Burgundy
n
  1. pope who in 1122 forced the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V to sign a concordat that recognized the right of the church to choose its own leadership (died in 1124)
    Synonym(s): Calixtus II, Guy of Burgundy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
            The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other
            palms, very difficult to penetrate.            -- Balfour
                                                                              (Cyc. of
                                                                              India).
  
      {Jungle bear} (Zo[94]l.), the aswail or sloth bear.
  
      {Jungle cat} (Zo[94]l.), the chaus.
  
      {Jungle cock} (Zo[94]l.), the male of a jungle fowl.
  
      {Jungle fowl}. (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) Any wild species of the genus {Gallus}, of which several
            species inhabit India and the adjacent islands; as, the
            fork-tailed jungle fowl ({G. varius}) of Java, {G.
            Stanleyi} of Ceylon, and {G. Bankiva} of India.
  
      Note: The latter, which resembles the domestic gamecock, is
               supposed to be one of the original species from which
               the domestic fowl was derived.
      (b) An Australian grallatorial bird ({Megapodius tumulus})
            which is allied to the brush turkey, and, like the
            latter, lays its eggs in mounds of vegetable matter,
            where they are hatched by the heat produced by
            decomposition.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gabarage \Gab"ar*age\, n.
      A kind of coarse cloth for packing goods. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gaper \Gap"er\, n.
      1. One who gapes.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A European fish. See 4th {Comber}.
            (b) A large edible clam ({Schizoth[91]rus Nuttalli}), of
                  the Pacific coast; -- called also {gaper clam}.
            (c) An East Indian bird of the genus {Cymbirhynchus},
                  related to the broadbills.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gaverick \Ga"ver*ick\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      The European red gurnard ({Trigla cuculus}). [Prov. Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gheber Ghebre \Ghe"ber Ghe"bre\, n. [Pers. ghebr: cf. F.
      Gu[8a]bre. Cf. {Giaour}.]
      A worshiper of fire; a Zoroastrian; a Parsee.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gibaro \Gi"ba*ro\, n.; pl. {Gibaros}. [Amer. Sp. j[a1]baro
      wild.] (Ethnol.)
      The offspring of a Spaniard and an Indian; a Spanish-Indian
      mestizo. [Sp. Amer.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gibberish \Gib"ber*ish\, n. [From {Gibber}, v. i.]
      Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language;
      unmeaning words; jargon.
  
               He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go; All kinds of
               gibberish he had learnt to known.            --Drayton.
  
               Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing
               themselves with.                                    --Hawthorne.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gibberish \Gib"ber*ish\, a.
      Unmeaning; as, gibberish language.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gopher State \Go"pher State\
      Minnesota; -- a nickname alluding to the abundance of
      gophers.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vulturine \Vul"tur*ine\ (?; 277), a. [L. vulturinus.]
      Of or pertaining to a vulture; resembling a vulture in
      qualities or looks; as, the vulturine sea eagle ({Gypohierax
      Angolensis}); vulturine rapacity.
  
               The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but
               corruption, is no credit to its possessor. --C.
                                                                              Kingsley.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Eagle \Ea"gle\, n. [OE. egle, F. aigle, fr. L. aquila; prob.
      named from its color, fr. aquilus dark-colored, brown; cf.
      Lith. aklas blind. Cf. {Aquiline}.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family,
            esp. of the genera {Aquila} and {Hali[91]etus}. The eagle
            is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure,
            keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight. The most
            noted species are the golden eagle ({Aquila
            chrysa[89]tus}); the imperial eagle of Europe ({A.
            mogilnik [or] imperialis}); the American bald eagle
            ({Hali[91]etus leucocephalus}); the European sea eagle
            ({H. albicilla}); and the great harpy eagle ({Thrasaetus
            harpyia}). The figure of the eagle, as the king of birds,
            is commonly used as an heraldic emblem, and also for
            standards and emblematic devices. See {Bald eagle},
            {Harpy}, and {Golden eagle}.
  
      2. A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten
            dollars.
  
      3. (Astron.) A northern constellation, containing Altair, a
            star of the first magnitude. See {Aquila}.
  
      4. The figure of an eagle borne as an emblem on the standard
            of the ancient Romans, or so used upon the seal or
            standard of any people.
  
                     Though the Roman eagle shadow thee.   --Tennyson.
  
      Note: Some modern nations, as the United States, and France
               under the Bonapartes, have adopted the eagle as their
               national emblem. Russia, Austria, and Prussia have for
               an emblem a double-headed eagle.
  
      {Bald eagle}. See {Bald eagle}.
  
      {Bold eagle}. See under {Bold}.
  
      {Double eagle}, a gold coin of the United States worth twenty
            dollars.
  
      {Eagle hawk} (Zo[94]l.), a large, crested, South American
            hawk of the genus {Morphnus}.
  
      {Eagle owl} (Zo[94]l.), any large owl of the genus {Bubo},
            and allied genera; as the American great horned owl ({Bubo
            Virginianus}), and the allied European species ({B.
            maximus}). See {Horned owl}.
  
      {Eagle ray} (Zo[94]l.), any large species of ray of the genus
            {Myliobatis} (esp. {M. aquila}).
  
      {Eagle vulture} (Zo[94]l.), a large West African bid
            ({Gypohierax Angolensis}), intermediate, in several
            respects, between the eagles and vultures.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   GEPURS
  
      An early system on the {IBM 701}.
  
      [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
  
      (1995-01-21)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Gopher client
  
      A program which runs on your local computer and
      provides a {user interface} to the {Gopher} {protocol} and to
      gopher servers.   {Web browsers} can act as Gopher clients and
      simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary
      terminals, the {X Window System}, {GNU Emacs}, and other
      systems.
  
      {(ftp://boombox.micro.umn.edu/)}.
  
      (2001-03-31)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   GPRS
  
      {General Packet Radio Service}
  
  
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