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   Galina Ulanova
         n 1: Russian ballet dancer (1910-1998) [syn: {Ulanova}, {Galina
               Ulanova}, {Galina Sergeevna Ulanova}]

English Dictionary: gallinule by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Galium lanceolatum
n
  1. bedstraw with sweetish roots [syn: wild licorice, {Galium lanceolatum}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Galium mollugo
n
  1. Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers; naturalized in North America
    Synonym(s): wild madder, white madder, white bedstraw, infant's-breath, false baby's breath, Galium mollugo
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gallinula
n
  1. gallinules
    Synonym(s): Gallinula, genus Gallinula
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gallinula chloropus
n
  1. black gallinule that inhabits ponds and lakes [syn: moorhen, Gallinula chloropus]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gallinula chloropus cachinnans
n
  1. North American dark bluish-grey gallinule [syn: {Florida gallinule}, Gallinula chloropus cachinnans]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gallinule
n
  1. any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens
    Synonym(s): gallinule, marsh hen, water hen, swamphen
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Glenn Miller
n
  1. United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)
    Synonym(s): Miller, Glenn Miller, Alton Glenn Miller
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gloomily
adv
  1. with gloom; "such a change is gloomily foreseen by many"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glumly
adv
  1. in a sullen manner; "he sat in his chair dourly" [syn: dourly, sullenly, glumly]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Madder \Mad"der\, n. [OE. mader, AS. m[91]dere; akin to Icel.
      ma[?]ra.] (Bot.)
      A plant of the {Rubia} ({R. tinctorum}). The root is much
      used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is
      cultivated in France and Holland. See {Rubiaceous}.
  
      Note: Madder is sometimes used in forming pigments, as lakes,
               etc., which receive their names from their colors; as.
               madder yellow.
  
      {Field madder}, an annual European weed ({Sherardia
            arvensis}) resembling madder.
  
      {Indian madder}, the East Indian {Rubia cordifolia}, used in
            the East for dyeing; -- called also {munjeet}.
  
      {Wild madder}, {Rubia peregrina} of Europe; also the {Galium
            Mollugo}, a kind of bedstraw.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Night \Night\, n. [OE. night, niht, AS. neaht, niht; akin to D.
      nacht, OS. & OHG. naht, G. nacht, Icel. n[?]tt, Sw. natt,
      Dan. nat, Goth. nachts, Lith. naktis, Russ. noche, W. nos,
      Ir. nochd, L. nox, noctis, gr. [?], [?], Skr. nakta, nakti.
      [root] 265. Cf. {Equinox}, {Nocturnal}.]
      1. That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the
            horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the
            time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the
            sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.
  
                     And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
                     called Night.                                    --Gen. i. 5.
  
      2. Hence:
            (a) Darkness; obscurity; concealment.
  
                           Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night.
                                                                              --Pope.
            (b) Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.
            (c) A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night
                  of sorrow.
            (d) The period after the close of life; death.
  
                           She closed her eyes in everlasting night.
                                                                              --Dryden.
            (e) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems
                  to sleep. [bd]Sad winter's night[b8]. --Spenser.
  
      Note: Night is sometimes used, esp. with participles, in the
               formation of self-explaining compounds; as,
               night-blooming, night-born, night-warbling, etc.
  
      {Night by night}, {Night after night}, nightly; many nights.
  
                     So help me God, as I have watched the night, Ay,
                     night by night, in studying good for England.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      {Night bird}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The moor hen ({Gallinula chloropus}).
            (b) The Manx shearwater ({Puffinus Anglorum}).
  
      {Night blindness}. (Med.) See {Hemeralopia}.
  
      {Night cart}, a cart used to remove the contents of privies
            by night.
  
      {Night churr}, (Zo[94]l.), the nightjar.
  
      {Night crow}, a bird that cries in the night.
  
      {Night dog}, a dog that hunts in the night, -- used by
            poachers.
  
      {Night fire}.
            (a) Fire burning in the night.
            (b) Ignis fatuus; Will-o'-the-wisp; Jask-with-a-lantern.
                 
  
      {Night flyer} (Zo[94]l.), any creature that flies in the
            night, as some birds and insects.
  
      {night glass}, a spyglass constructed to concentrate a large
            amount of light, so as see objects distinctly at night.
            --Totten.
  
      {Night green}, iodine green.
  
      {Night hag}, a witch supposed to wander in the night.
  
      {Night hawk} (Zo[94]l.), an American bird ({Chordeiles
            Virginianus}), allied to the goatsucker. It hunts the
            insects on which it feeds toward evening, on the wing, and
            often, diving down perpendicularly, produces a loud
            whirring sound, like that of a spinning wheel. Also
            sometimes applied to the European goatsuckers. It is
            called also {bull bat}.
  
      {Night heron} ({Zo[94]l}.), any one of several species of
            herons of the genus {Nycticorax}, found in various parts
            of the world. The best known species is {Nycticorax
            griseus}, or {N. nycticorax}, of Europe, and the American
            variety (var. n[91]vius). The yellow-crowned night heron
            ({Nycticorax violaceus}) inhabits the Southern States.
            Called also {qua-bird}, and {squawk}.
  
      {Night house}, a public house, or inn, which is open at
            night.
  
      {Night key}, a key for unfastening a night latch.
  
      {Night latch}, a kind of latch for a door, which is operated
            from the outside by a key.
  
      {Night monkey} (Zo[94]l.), an owl monkey.
  
      {night moth} (Zo[94]l.), any one of the noctuids.
  
      {Night parrot} (Zo[94]l.), the kakapo.
  
      {Night piece}, a painting representing some night scene, as a
            moonlight effect, or the like.
  
      {Night rail}, a loose robe, or garment, worn either as a
            nightgown, or over the dress at night, or in sickness.
            [Obs.]
  
      {Night raven} (Zo[94]l.), a bird of ill omen that cries in
            the night; esp., the bittern.
  
      {Night rule}.
            (a) A tumult, or frolic, in the night; -- as if a
                  corruption, of night revel. [Obs.]
            (b) Such conduct as generally rules, or prevails, at
                  night.
  
                           What night rule now about this haunted grove?
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      {Night sight}. (Med.) See {Nyctolopia}.
  
      {Night snap}, a night thief. [Cant] --Beau. & Fl.
  
      {Night soil}, human excrement; -- so called because in cities
            it is collected by night and carried away for manure.
  
      {Night spell}, a charm against accidents at night.
  
      {Night swallow} (Zo[94]l.), the nightjar.
  
      {Night walk}, a walk in the evening or night.
  
      {Night walker}.
            (a) One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist; a
                  noctambulist.
            (b) One who roves about in the night for evil purposes;
                  specifically, a prostitute who walks the streets.
  
      {Night walking}.
            (a) Walking in one's sleep; somnambulism; noctambulism.
            (b) Walking the streets at night with evil designs.
  
      {Night warbler} (Zo[94]l.), the sedge warbler ({Acrocephalus
            phragmitis}); -- called also {night singer}. [prov. Eng.]
           
  
      {Night watch}.
            (a) A period in the night, as distinguished by the change
                  of watch.
            (b) A watch, or guard, to aford protection in the night.
                 
  
      {Night watcher}, one who watches in the night; especially,
            one who watches with evil designs.
  
      {Night witch}. Same as {Night hag}, above.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gallinule \Gal"li*nule\, n. [L. gallinula chicken, dim. of
      gallina hen: cf. F. gallinule.] (Zo[94]l.)
      One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a
      frontal shield, belonging to the family {Rallidae}. They are
      remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating
      plants. The purple gallinule of America is {Ionornis
      Martinica}, that of the Old World is {Porphyrio porphyrio}.
      The common European gallinule ({Gallinula chloropus}) is also
      called {moor hen}, {water hen}, {water rail}, {moor coot},
      {night bird}, and erroneously {dabchick}. Closely related to
      it is the Florida gallinule ({Gallinula galeata}).
  
      Note: The purple gallinule of Southern Europe and Asia was
               formerly believed to be able to detect and report
               adultery, and for that reason, chiefly, it was commonly
               domesticated by the ancients.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gallinule \Gal"li*nule\, n. [L. gallinula chicken, dim. of
      gallina hen: cf. F. gallinule.] (Zo[94]l.)
      One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a
      frontal shield, belonging to the family {Rallidae}. They are
      remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating
      plants. The purple gallinule of America is {Ionornis
      Martinica}, that of the Old World is {Porphyrio porphyrio}.
      The common European gallinule ({Gallinula chloropus}) is also
      called {moor hen}, {water hen}, {water rail}, {moor coot},
      {night bird}, and erroneously {dabchick}. Closely related to
      it is the Florida gallinule ({Gallinula galeata}).
  
      Note: The purple gallinule of Southern Europe and Asia was
               formerly believed to be able to detect and report
               adultery, and for that reason, chiefly, it was commonly
               domesticated by the ancients.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gallinule \Gal"li*nule\, n. [L. gallinula chicken, dim. of
      gallina hen: cf. F. gallinule.] (Zo[94]l.)
      One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a
      frontal shield, belonging to the family {Rallidae}. They are
      remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating
      plants. The purple gallinule of America is {Ionornis
      Martinica}, that of the Old World is {Porphyrio porphyrio}.
      The common European gallinule ({Gallinula chloropus}) is also
      called {moor hen}, {water hen}, {water rail}, {moor coot},
      {night bird}, and erroneously {dabchick}. Closely related to
      it is the Florida gallinule ({Gallinula galeata}).
  
      Note: The purple gallinule of Southern Europe and Asia was
               formerly believed to be able to detect and report
               adultery, and for that reason, chiefly, it was commonly
               domesticated by the ancients.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glenlivat \Glen*liv"at\, Glenlivet \Glen*liv"et\, n.
      A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it
      was first made. --W. E. Aytoun.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glenlivat \Glen*liv"at\, Glenlivet \Glen*liv"et\, n.
      A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it
      was first made. --W. E. Aytoun.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glomuliferous \Glom`u*lif"er*ous\, a. [L. glomus a ball +
      -ferous.] (Biol.)
      Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like
      excrescences. --M. C. Cooke.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gloomily \Gloom"i*ly\, adv.
      In a gloomy manner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glumal \Glu"mal\, a. (Bot.)
      Characterized by a glume, or having the nature of a glume.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glumella \Glu*mel"la\, Glumelle \Glu"melle\, n. [F. glumelle,
      dim. of glume.] (Bot.)
      One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or
      spikelets of grasses.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glumella \Glu*mel"la\, Glumelle \Glu"melle\, n. [F. glumelle,
      dim. of glume.] (Bot.)
      One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or
      spikelets of grasses.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glumly \Glum"ly\, adv.
      In a glum manner; sullenly; moodily.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Gauley Mills, WV
      Zip code(s): 26208

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Gayle Mill, SC (CDP, FIPS 28825)
      Location: 34.70181 N, 81.24029 W
      Population (1990): 1037 (419 housing units)
      Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glen Allan, MS
      Zip code(s): 38744

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glen Allen, AL (town, FIPS 29944)
      Location: 33.88483 N, 87.74412 W
      Population (1990): 350 (130 housing units)
      Area: 10.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Glen Allen, VA (CDP, FIPS 31200)
      Location: 37.66398 N, 77.48449 W
      Population (1990): 9010 (3514 housing units)
      Area: 26.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 23060

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glen Alpine, NC (town, FIPS 26200)
      Location: 35.72933 N, 81.77863 W
      Population (1990): 563 (248 housing units)
      Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glen Elder, KS (city, FIPS 26500)
      Location: 39.49970 N, 98.30618 W
      Population (1990): 448 (255 housing units)
      Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 67446

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glen Ellen, CA (CDP, FIPS 30028)
      Location: 38.35580 N, 122.53836 W
      Population (1990): 1191 (492 housing units)
      Area: 6.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 95442

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glen Ellyn, IL (village, FIPS 29756)
      Location: 41.86655 N, 88.06260 W
      Population (1990): 24944 (9747 housing units)
      Area: 15.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 60137

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glen Lyn, VA (town, FIPS 31376)
      Location: 37.37163 N, 80.85918 W
      Population (1990): 170 (53 housing units)
      Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 24093

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glen Lyon, PA (CDP, FIPS 29680)
      Location: 41.18405 N, 76.07143 W
      Population (1990): 2082 (1041 housing units)
      Area: 9.1 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 18617

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glen Mills, PA
      Zip code(s): 19342

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glen Ullin, ND (city, FIPS 30860)
      Location: 46.81238 N, 101.83210 W
      Population (1990): 927 (437 housing units)
      Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 58631

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glen Wild, NY
      Zip code(s): 12738

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glenallen, MO (town, FIPS 27280)
      Location: 37.31682 N, 90.02814 W
      Population (1990): 96 (48 housing units)
      Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 63751

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glenelg, MD
      Zip code(s): 21737

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glennallen, AK (CDP, FIPS 28740)
      Location: 62.08486 N, 145.60352 W
      Population (1990): 451 (206 housing units)
      Area: 48.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 99588

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glenolden, PA (borough, FIPS 29720)
      Location: 39.89870 N, 75.29283 W
      Population (1990): 7260 (3055 housing units)
      Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 19036

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Glenwillow, OH (village, FIPS 30632)
      Location: 41.36077 N, 81.47240 W
      Population (1990): 455 (221 housing units)
      Area: 7.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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