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Gavidae
n 1: loon family [syn: {Gavidae}, {family Gavidae}]

English Dictionary: go about	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gavotte n an old formal French dance in quadruple time music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gbit n a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits Synonym(s): gigabit, Gbit, Gb
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
geophyte n a perennial plant that propagates by underground bulbs or tubers or corms
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gibbet n alternative terms for gallows [syn: gallows tree, gallows-tree, gibbet, gallous] v hang on an execution instrument expose to ridicule or public scorn Synonym(s): pillory, gibbet
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gibit n a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibits or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bits Synonym(s): gibibit, Gibit
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gift n something acquired without compensation natural abilities or qualities Synonym(s): endowment, gift, talent, natural endowment the act of giving Synonym(s): giving, gift v give qualities or abilities to [syn: endow, indue, gift, empower, invest, endue] give as a present; make a gift of; "What will you give her for her birthday?" Synonym(s): give, gift, present
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
give a hoot v show no concern or interest; always used in the negative; "I don't give a hoot"; "She doesn't give a damn about her job" Synonym(s): care a hang, give a hoot, give a hang, give a damn
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
give out v give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.; "The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits" Synonym(s): emit, give out, give off Antonym(s): absorb, take in give to several people; "The teacher handed out the exams" Synonym(s): distribute, give out, hand out, pass out prove insufficient; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought" Synonym(s): fail, run out, give out stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" Synonym(s): fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
give the eye v look at with a critical eye; "When the movie star entered, all the women gave him the once over" Synonym(s): give the eye, give the once over
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
go about v begin to deal with; "approach a task"; "go about a difficult problem"; "approach a new project" Synonym(s): set about, go about, approach
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
go bad v stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" Synonym(s): fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down become unfit for consumption or use; "the meat must be eaten before it spoils" Synonym(s): spoil, go bad
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gobbet n a lump or chunk of raw meat
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gobiidae n gobies Synonym(s): Gobiidae, family Gobiidae
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gaff \Gaff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gaffed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gaffing}.] To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gape \Gape\ (?; in Eng, commonly ?; 277), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gaped} (? or ?); p. pr. & vb. n. {Gaping}] [OE. gapen, AS. geapan to open; akin to D. gapen to gape, G. gaffen, Icel. & Sw. gapa, Dan. gabe; cf. Skr. jabh to snap at, open the mouth. Cf. {Gaby}, {Gap}.] 1. To open the mouth wide; as: (a) Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape. --Dryden. (b) Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn. She stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes, And asks if it be time to rise. --Swift. (c) Showing self-forgetfulness in surprise, astonishment, expectation, etc. With gaping wonderment had stared aghast. --Byron. (d) Manifesting a desire to injure, devour, or overcome. They have gaped upon me with their mouth. --Job xvi. 10. 2. To pen or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus. May that ground gape and swallow me alive! --Shak. 3. To long, wait eagerly, or cry aloud for something; -- with for, after, or at. The hungry grave for her due tribute gapes. --Denham. Syn: To gaze; stare; yawn. See {Gaze}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gavot \Gav"ot\ (? [or] ?; 277), n. [F. gavotte, fr. Gavots, a people inhabiting a mountainous district in France, called Gap.] (Mus.) A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over. [Written also {gavotte}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gavot \Gav"ot\ (? [or] ?; 277), n. [F. gavotte, fr. Gavots, a people inhabiting a mountainous district in France, called Gap.] (Mus.) A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over. [Written also {gavotte}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gib \Gib\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gibbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gibbing}.] To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs. {Gibbed lathe}, an engine lathe in which the tool carriage is held down to the bed by a gib instead of by a weight.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gibbet \Gib"bet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gibbeted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gibbeting}.] 1. To hang and expose on a gibbet. 2. To expose to infamy; to blacken. I'll gibbet up his name. --Oldham.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gibbet \Gib"bet\, n. [OE. gibet, F. gibet, in OF. also club, fr. LL. gibetum;; cf. OF. gibe sort of sickle or hook, It. giubbetto gibbet, and giubbetta, dim. of giubba mane, also, an under waistcoat, doublet, Prov. It. gibba (cf. {Jupon}); so that it perhaps originally signified a halter, a rope round the neck of malefactors; or it is, perhaps, derived fr. L. gibbus hunched, humped, E. gibbous; or cf. E. jib a sail.] 1. A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning. 2. The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gibe \Gibe\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gibed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gibing}.] [Cf. Prov. F. giber, equiv. to F. jouer to play, Icel. geipa to talk nonsense, E. jabber.] To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff. Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. --Swift.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gift \Gift\, n. [OE. gift, yift, yeft, AS. gift, fr. gifan to give; akin to D. & G. gift, Icel. gift, gipt, Goth. gifts (in comp.). See {Give}, v. t.] 1. Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering. Shall I receive by gift, what of my own, . . . I can command ? --Milton. 2. The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the President. 3. A bribe; anything given to corrupt. Neither take a gift, for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise. --Deut. xvi. 19. 4. Some quality or endowment given to man by God; a pre[89]minent and special talent or aptitude; power; faculty; as, the gift of wit; a gift for speaking. 5. (Law) A voluntary transfer of real or personal property, without any consideration. It can be perfected only by deed, or in case of personal property, by an actual delivery of possession. --Bouvier. Burrill. {Gift rope} (Naut), a rope extended to a boat for towing it; a guest rope. Syn: Present; donation; grant; largess; benefaction; boon; bounty; gratuity; endowment; talent; faculty. Usage: {Gift}, {Present}, {Donation}. These words, as here compared, denote something gratuitously imparted to another out of one's property. A gift is something given whether by a superior or an inferior, and is usually designed for the relief or benefit of him who receives it. A present is ordinarly from an equal or inferior, and is always intended as a compliment or expression of kindness. Donation is a word of more dignity, denoting, properly, a gift of considerable value, and ordinarly a gift made either to some public institution, or to an individual on account of his services to the public; as, a donation to a hospital, a charitable society, or a minister.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gift \Gift\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gifted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gifting}.] To endow with some power or faculty. He was gifted . . . with philosophical sagacity. --I. Taylor.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gobbet \Gob"bet\, n. [OE. & F. gobet. See 2d {Gob}.] A mouthful; a lump; a small piece. --Spenser. [He] had broken the stocks to small gobbets. --Wyclif.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gobbet \Gob"bet\, v. t. To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets. [Low] --L'Estrange.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gobet \Gob"et\, n. See {Gobbet}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gobioid \Go"bi*oid\, a. [NL. Gobius + -oid.] (Zo[94]l.) Like, or pertaining to, the goby, or the genus {Gobius}. -- n. A gobioid fish.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gybe \Gybe\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Gybed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gybing}.] [See {Jibe}.] (Naut.) To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side. [Also {jibe}.]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Gabbatha Gab Baitha, i.e., "the ridge of the house" = "the temple-mound," on a part of which the fortress of Antonia was built. This "temple-mound" was covered with a tesselated "pavement" (Gr. lithostroton, i.e., "stone-paved"). A judgement-seat (bema) was placed on this "pavement" outside the hall of the "praetorium" (q.v.), the judgment-hall (John 18:28; 19:13).
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Gift (1.) An gratuity (Prov. 19:6) to secure favour (18:16; 21:14), a thank-offering (Num. 18:11), or a dowry (Gen. 34:12). (2.) An oblation or proppitatory gift (2Sa 8:2,6; 1Ch 18:2,6; 2Ch 26:8; Ps. 45:12; 72:10). (3.) A bribe to a judge to obtain a favourable verdict (Ex. 23:8; Deut. 16:19). (4.) Simply a thing given (Matt. 7:11; Luke 11:13; Eph. 4:8); sacrifical (Matt. 5:23, 24; 8:4); eleemosynary (Luke 21:1); a gratuity (John 4:10; Acts 8:20). In Acts 2:38 the generic word dorea is rendered "gift." It differs from the charisma (1 Cor. 12:4) as denoting not miraculous powers but the working of a new spirit in men, and that spirit from God. The giving of presents entered largely into the affairs of common life in the East. The nature of the presents was as various as were the occasions: food (1 Sam. 9:7; 16:20), sheep and cattle (Gen. 32:13-15), gold (2 Sam. 18:11), jewels (Gen. 24:53), furniture, and vessels for eating and drinking (2 Sam. 17:28); delicacies, as spices, honey, etc. (1 Kings 10:25; 2 Kings 5: 22). The mode of presentation was with as much parade as possible: the presents were conveyed by the hands of servants (Judg. 3:18), or still better, on the backs of beasts of burden (2 Kings 8:9). The refusal of a present was regarded as a high indignity; and this constituted the aggravated insult noticed in Matt. 22:11, the marriage robe having been offered and refused.
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Gabbatha, high; elevated