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   Gabonese
         adj 1: of or relating to Gabon or its inhabitants; "Gabonese
                  hills"; "Gabonese writers"
         n 1: a native or inhabitant of Gabon

English Dictionary: gubbins by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gabonese Republic
n
  1. a republic on the west coast of Africa [syn: Gabon, Gabonese Republic, Gabun]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gaping
adj
  1. with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe; "the gaping audience"; "we stood there agape with wonder"; "with mouth agape"
    Synonym(s): agape(p), gaping
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gebang palm
n
  1. large-leaved palm of Malay to Philippines and northern Australia; leaves used for thatching or plaiting into containers
    Synonym(s): gebang palm, Corypha utan, Corypha gebanga
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
geebung
n
  1. any of numerous shrubs and small trees having hard narrow leaves and long-lasting yellow or white flowers followed by small edible but insipid fruits
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gibingly
adv
  1. in a disrespectful jeering manner [syn: jeeringly, mockingly, gibingly]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Giovanni Cabato
n
  1. Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498)
    Synonym(s): Cabot, John Cabot, Giovanni Cabato
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Giovanni Cimabue
n
  1. painter of the Florentine school; anticipated the move from Byzantine to naturalistic art (1240-1302)
    Synonym(s): Cimabue, Giovanni Cimabue
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
n
  1. an Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters (1725-1798)
    Synonym(s): Casanova, Giovanni Jacopo Casanova, Casanova de Seingalt, Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt
n
  1. an Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters (1725-1798)
    Synonym(s): Casanova, Giovanni Jacopo Casanova, Casanova de Seingalt, Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
give a hang
v
  1. 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 one's best
v
  1. perform a task as well as possible; "The cast gives full measure every night"
    Synonym(s): go all out, give one's best, do one's best, give full measure
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
givenness
n
  1. the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
giving
adj
  1. given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"
    Synonym(s): big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded
n
  1. the act of giving
    Synonym(s): giving, gift
  2. the imparting of news or promises etc.; "he gave us the news and made a great show of the giving"; "giving his word of honor seemed to come too easily"
  3. disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return; "the alumni followed a program of annual giving"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
giving birth
n
  1. the process of giving birth [syn: parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
giving medication
n
  1. the act of administering medication [syn: administration, giving medication]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
giving up
n
  1. a verbal act of admitting defeat [syn: giving up, yielding, surrender]
  2. the act of forsaking
    Synonym(s): forsaking, giving up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
goofing off
n
  1. the evasion of work or duty [syn: shirking, slacking, soldiering, goofing off, goldbricking]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gubbins
n
  1. something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known; "she eased the ball-shaped doodad back into its socket"; "there may be some great new gizmo around the corner that you will want to use"
    Synonym(s): doodad, doohickey, doojigger, gimmick, gizmo, gismo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingumabob, thingmabob, thingamajig, thingumajig, thingmajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget
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]:
   Gabionage \Ga"bi*on*age\, n. [F. gabionnage.] (Mil.)
      The part of a fortification built of gabions.

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]:
   Gapingstock \Gap"ing*stock`\ (? [or] ?), n.
      One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder.
  
               I was to be a gapingstock and a scorn to the young
               volunteers.                                             --Godwin.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Geoponic \Ge`o*pon"ic\, Geoponical \Ge`o*pon"ic*al\, a. [Gr.
      [?]; ge`a, gh^, earth + [?] toilsome, fr. [?] labor: cf. F.
      g[82]oponique.]
      Pertaining to tillage of the earth, or agriculture.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Geoponic \Ge`o*pon"ic\, Geoponical \Ge`o*pon"ic*al\, a. [Gr.
      [?]; ge`a, gh^, earth + [?] toilsome, fr. [?] labor: cf. F.
      g[82]oponique.]
      Pertaining to tillage of the earth, or agriculture.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Geoponics \Ge`o*pon"ics\, n. [Gr. [?]: cf. F. g[82]oponique.]
      The art or science of cultivating the earth; agriculture.
      --Evelin.

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]:
   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]:
   Gibingly \Gib"ing*ly\, adv.
      In a gibing manner; scornfully.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Give \Give\ (g[icr]v), v. t. [imp. {Gave} (g[amac]v); p. p.
      {Given} (g[icr]v"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Giving}.] [OE. given,
      yiven, yeven, AS. gifan, giefan; akin to D. geven, OS.
      ge[edh]an, OHG. geban, G. geben, Icel. gefa, Sw. gifva, Dan.
      give, Goth. giban. Cf. {Gift}, n.]
      1. To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without
            compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as
            authority or permission; to yield up or allow.
  
                     For generous lords had rather give than pay.
                                                                              --Young.
  
      2. To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in
            exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of
            what we buy.
  
                     What shall a man give in exchange for his soul ?
                                                                              --Matt. xvi.
                                                                              26.
  
      3. To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and
            steel give sparks.
  
      4. To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to
            pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment,
            a sentence, a shout, etc.
  
      5. To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to
            license; to commission.
  
                     It is given me once again to behold my friend.
                                                                              --Rowe.
  
                     Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.
                                                                              --Pope.
  
      6. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show;
            as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships,
            gives four hundred to each ship.
  
      7. To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply
            one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder;
            also in this sense used very frequently in the past
            participle; as, the people are given to luxury and
            pleasure; the youth is given to study.
  
      8. (Logic & Math.) To set forth as a known quantity or a
            known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; --
            used principally in the passive form given.
  
      9. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
  
                     I give not heaven for lost.               --Mlton.
  
      10. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
  
                     I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a
                     lover.                                             --Sheridan.
  
      11. To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give
            offense; to give pleasure or pain.
  
      12. To pledge; as, to give one's word.
  
      13. To cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give
            one to understand, to know, etc.
  
                     But there the duke was given to understand That in
                     a gondola were seen together Lorenzo and his
                     amorous Jessica.                              --Shak.
  
      {To give away}, to make over to another; to transfer.
  
                     Whatsoever we employ in charitable uses during our
                     lives, is given away from ourselves.   --Atterbury.
  
      {To give back}, to return; to restore. --Atterbury.
  
      {To give the bag}, to cheat. [Obs.]
  
                     I fear our ears have given us the bag. --J. Webster.
  
      {To give birth to}.
            (a) To bear or bring forth, as a child.
            (b) To originate; to give existence to, as an enterprise,
                  idea.
  
      {To give chase}, to pursue.
  
      {To give ear to}. See under {Ear}.
  
      {To give forth}, to give out; to publish; to tell. --Hayward.
  
      {To give ground}. See under {Ground}, n.
  
      {To give the hand}, to pledge friendship or faith.
  
      {To give the hand of}, to espouse; to bestow in marriage.
  
      {To give the head}. See under {Head}, n.
  
      {To give in}.
            (a) To abate; to deduct.
            (b) To declare; to make known; to announce; to tender;
                  as, to give in one's adhesion to a party.
  
      {To give the lie to} (a person), to tell (him) that he lies.
           
  
      {To give line}. See under {Line}.
  
      {To give off}, to emit, as steam, vapor, odor, etc.
  
      {To give one's self away}, to make an inconsiderate surrender
            of one's cause, an unintentional disclosure of one's
            purposes, or the like. [Colloq.]
  
      {To give out}.
            (a) To utter publicly; to report; to announce or declare.
  
                           One that gives out himself Prince Florizel.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                           Give out you are of Epidamnum.   --Shak.
            (b) To send out; to emit; to distribute; as, a substance
                  gives out steam or odors.
  
      {To give over}.
            (a) To yield completely; to quit; to abandon.
            (b) To despair of.
            (c) To addict, resign, or apply (one's self).
  
                           The Babylonians had given themselves over to
                           all manner of vice.                     --Grew.
  
      {To give place}, to withdraw; to yield one's claim.
  
      {To give points}.
            (a) In games of skill, to equalize chances by conceding a
                  certain advantage; to allow a handicap.
            (b) To give useful suggestions. [Colloq.]
  
      {To give rein}. See under {Rein}, n.
  
      {To give the sack}. Same as {To give the bag}.
  
      {To give and take}.
            (a) To average gains and losses.
            (b) To exchange freely, as blows, sarcasms, etc.
  
      {To give time}
            (Law), to accord extension or forbearance to a debtor.
                     --Abbott.
  
      {To give the time of day}, to salute one with the compliment
            appropriate to the hour, as [bd]good morning.[b8] [bd]good
            evening[b8], etc.
  
      {To give tongue}, in hunter's phrase, to bark; -- said of
            dogs.
  
      {To give up}.
            (a) To abandon; to surrender. [bd]Don't give up the
                  ship.[b8]
  
                           He has . . . given up For certain drops of
                           salt, your city Rome.                  --Shak.
            (b) To make public; to reveal.
  
                           I'll not state them By giving up their
                           characters.                                 --Beau. & Fl.
            (c) (Used also reflexively.)
  
      {To give up the ghost}. See under {Ghost}.
  
      {To give one's self up}, to abandon hope; to despair; to
            surrender one's self.
  
      {To give way}.
            (a) To withdraw; to give place.
            (b) To yield to force or pressure; as, the scaffolding
                  gave way.
            (c) (Naut.) To begin to row; or to row with increased
                  energy.
            (d) (Stock Exchange). To depreciate or decline in value;
                  as, railroad securities gave way two per cent.
  
      {To give way together}, to row in time; to keep stroke.
  
      Syn: To {Give}, {Confer}, {Grant}.
  
      Usage: To give is the generic word, embracing all the rest.
                  To confer was originally used of persons in power, who
                  gave permanent grants or privileges; as, to confer the
                  order of knighthood; and hence it still denotes the
                  giving of something which might have been withheld;
                  as, to confer a favor. To grant is to give in answer
                  to a petition or request, or to one who is in some way
                  dependent or inferior.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Giving \Giv"ing\, n.
      1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.
  
      2. A gift; a benefaction. [R.] --Pope.
  
      3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. [bd]Upon the
            first giving of the weather.[b8] --Addison.
  
      {Giving in}, a falling inwards; a collapse.
  
      {Giving out}, anything uttered or asserted; an outgiving.
  
                     His givings out were of an infinite distance From
                     his true meant design.                        --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Giving \Giv"ing\, n.
      1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.
  
      2. A gift; a benefaction. [R.] --Pope.
  
      3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. [bd]Upon the
            first giving of the weather.[b8] --Addison.
  
      {Giving in}, a falling inwards; a collapse.
  
      {Giving out}, anything uttered or asserted; an outgiving.
  
                     His givings out were of an infinite distance From
                     his true meant design.                        --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Giving \Giv"ing\, n.
      1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.
  
      2. A gift; a benefaction. [R.] --Pope.
  
      3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. [bd]Upon the
            first giving of the weather.[b8] --Addison.
  
      {Giving in}, a falling inwards; a collapse.
  
      {Giving out}, anything uttered or asserted; an outgiving.
  
                     His givings out were of an infinite distance From
                     his true meant design.                        --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gobang \Go*bang"\, n. [Written also {goban}.] [Jap. goban
      checkerboard, fr. Chino-Jap. go checker + ban board.]
      A Japanese game, played on a checkerboard, in which the
      object of the game is to be the first in placing five pieces,
      or men, in a row in any direction.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gobbing \Gob"bing\, n. [See lst {Gob}.] (Mining)
      (a) The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing
            the coal. It is called also {gob stuff}. --Brande & C.
      (b) The process of packing with waste rock; stowing.

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 U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Gibbon Glade, PA
      Zip code(s): 15440

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Gibbonsville, ID
      Zip code(s): 83463
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