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   game room
         n 1: a recreation room for noisy activities (parties or
               children's play etc) [syn: {rumpus room}, {playroom}, {game
               room}]

English Dictionary: Gonorhynchidae by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gamma iron
n
  1. a nonmagnetic allotrope of iron that is the basis of austenite; stable between 906 and 1403 degrees centigrade
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gin rummy
n
  1. a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points
    Synonym(s): gin, gin rummy, knock rummy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gonorhynchidae
n
  1. coextensive with the genus Gonorhynchus [syn: Gonorhynchidae, family Gonorhynchidae]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gonorhynchus
n
  1. slender cylindrical marine fishes lacking air bladders and teeth
    Synonym(s): Gonorhynchus, genus Gonorhynchus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus
n
  1. fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand
    Synonym(s): beaked salmon, sandfish, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Guinea worm
n
  1. a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin
    Synonym(s): Guinea worm disease, Guinea worm, dracunculiasis
  2. parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates
    Synonym(s): Guinea worm, Dracunculus medinensis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Guinea worm disease
n
  1. a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin
    Synonym(s): Guinea worm disease, Guinea worm, dracunculiasis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gun room
n
  1. military quarters of midshipmen and junior officers on a British warship
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gunnar Myrdal
n
  1. Swedish economist (1898-1987) [syn: Myrdal, {Gunnar Myrdal}, Karl Gunnar Myrdal]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gunrunner
n
  1. a smuggler of guns
    Synonym(s): gunrunner, arms-runner
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gunrunning
n
  1. the smuggling of guns and ammunition into a country secretly and illegally
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gymnorhina
n
  1. in some classifications placed in the family Laniidae: Australian piping crows
    Synonym(s): Gymnorhina, genus Gymnorhina
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gymnorhina tibicen
n
  1. crow-sized black-and-white bird; a good mimic often caged
    Synonym(s): piping crow, piping crow-shrike, Gymnorhina tibicen
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Galago \Ga*la"go\, n.; pl. {Galagos}. [Native name.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A genus of African lemurs, including numerous species.
  
      Note: The {grand galago} ({Galago crassicaudata}) is about
               the size of a cat; the {mouse galago} ({G. murinus})is
               about the size of a mouse.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Generant \Gen"er*ant\, a. [L. generans, p. pr. of generare.]
      Generative; producing; esp. (Geom.), acting as a generant.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Generant \Gen"er*ant\, n.
      1. That which generates. --Glanvill.
  
      2. (Geom.) A generatrix.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gin \Gin\, n. [A contraction of engine.]
      1. Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare. --Chaucer.
            Spenser.
  
      2.
            (a) A machine for raising or moving heavy weights,
                  consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the
                  top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
            (b) (Mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
  
      3. A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton
            gin.
  
      Note: The name is also given to an instrument of torture
               worked with screws, and to a pump moved by rotary
               sails.
  
      {Gin block}, a simple form of tackle block, having one wheel,
            over which a rope runs; -- called also {whip gin},
            {rubbish pulley}, and {monkey wheel}.
  
      {Gin power}, a form of horse power for driving a cotton gin.
           
  
      {Gin race}, [or] {Gin ring}, the path of the horse when
            putting a gin in motion. --Halliwell.
  
      {Gin saw}, a saw used in a cotton gin for drawing the fibers
            through the grid, leaving the seed in the hopper.
  
      {Gin wheel}.
            (a) In a cotton gin, a wheel for drawing the fiber through
                  the grid; a brush wheel to clean away the lint.
            (b) (Mining) the drum of a whim.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gnar \Gnar\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gnarred}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Gnarring}.] [See {Gnarl}.]
      To gnarl; to snarl; to growl; -- written also gnarr.
      [Archaic]
  
               At them he gan to rear his bristles strong, And felly
               gnarre.                                                   --Spenser.
  
               A thousand wants Gnarr at the heels of men. --Tennison.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Guinea plum} (Bot.), the fruit of {Parinarium excelsum}, a
            large West African tree of the order {Chrysobalane[91]},
            having a scarcely edible fruit somewhat resembling a plum,
            which is also called {gray plum} and {rough-skin plum}.
  
      {Guinea worm} (Zo[94]l.), a long and slender African nematoid
            worm ({Filaria Medinensis}) of a white color. It lives in
            the cellular tissue of man, beneath the skin, and produces
            painful sores.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gunroom \Gun"room`\, n. (Naut.)
      An apartment on the after end of the lower gun deck of a ship
      of war, usually occupied as a messroom by the commissioned
      officers, except the captain; -- called wardroom in the
      United States navy.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Organ \Or"gan\, n. [L. organum, Gr. [?]; akin to [?] work, and
      E. work: cf. F. organe. See {Work}, and cf. {Orgue}, {Orgy}.]
      1. An instrument or medium by which some important action is
            performed, or an important end accomplished; as,
            legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, etc., are
            organs of government.
  
      2. (Biol.) A natural part or structure in an animal or a
            plant, capable of performing some special action (termed
            its function), which is essential to the life or
            well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are
            organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are
            organs of plants.
  
      Note: In animals the organs are generally made up of several
               tissues, one of which usually predominates, and
               determines the principal function of the organ. Groups
               of organs constitute a system. See {System}.
  
      3. A component part performing an essential office in the
            working of any complex machine; as, the cylinder, valves,
            crank, etc., are organs of the steam engine.
  
      4. A medium of communication between one person or body and
            another; as, the secretary of state is the organ of
            communication between the government and a foreign power;
            a newspaper is the organ of its editor, or of a party,
            sect, etc.
  
      5. [Cf. AS. organ, fr. L. organum.] (Mus.) A wind instrument
            containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds,
            which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon
            by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and
            sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the
            plural, each pipe being considired an organ.
  
                     The deep, majestic, solemn organs blow. --Pope.
  
      Note: Chaucer used the form orgon as a plural.
  
                        The merry orgon . . . that in the church goon
                        [go].
  
      {Barrel organ}, {Choir organ}, {Great organ}, etc. See under
            {Barrel}, {Choir}, etc.
  
      {Cabinet organ} (Mus.), an organ of small size, as for a
            chapel or for domestic use; a reed organ.
  
      {Organ bird} (Zo[94]l.), a Tasmanian crow shrike ({Gymnorhina
            organicum}). It utters discordant notes like those of a
            hand organ out of tune.
  
      {Organ fish} (Zo[94]l.), the drumfish.
  
      {Organ gun}. (Mil.) Same as {Orgue}
            (b) .
  
      {Organ harmonium} (Mus.), an harmonium of large capacity and
            power.
  
      {Organ of Gorti} (Anat.), a complicated structure in the
            cochlea of the ear, including the auditory hair cells, the
            rods or fibers of Corti, the membrane of Corti, etc. See
            Note under {Ear}.
  
      {Organ pipe}. See {Pipe}, n., 1.
  
      {Organ-pipe coral}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Tubipora}.
  
      {Organ point} (Mus.), a passage in which the tonic or
            dominant is sustained continuously by one part, while the
            other parts move.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Magpie \Mag"pie\, n. [OE. & Prov. E. magot pie, maggoty pie, fr.
      Mag, Maggot, equiv. to Margaret, and fr. F. Marquerite, and
      common name of the magpie. Marguerite is fr. L. margarita
      pearl, Gr. [?], prob. of Eastern origin. See {Pie} magpie,
      and cf. the analogous names {Tomtit}, and {Jackdaw}.]
      (Zo[94]l.)
      Any one of numerous species of the genus {Pica} and related
      genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail.
  
      Note: The common European magpie ({Pica pica}, or {P.
               caudata}) is a black and white noisy and mischievous
               bird. It can be taught to speak. The American magpie
               ({P. Hudsonica}) is very similar. The yellow-belled
               magpie ({P. Nuttalli}) inhabits California. The blue
               magpie ({Cyanopolius Cooki}) inhabits Spain. Other
               allied species are found in Asia. The Tasmanian and
               Australian magpies are crow shrikes, as the white
               magpie ({Gymnorhina organicum}), the black magpie
               ({Strepera fuliginosa}), and the Australian magpie
               ({Cracticus picatus}).
  
      {Magpie lark} (Zo[94]l.), a common Australian bird ({Grallina
            picata}), conspicuously marked with black and white; --
            called also {little magpie}.
  
      {Magpie moth} (Zo[94]l.), a black and white European
            geometrid moth ({Abraxas grossulariata}); the harlequin
            moth. Its larva feeds on currant and gooseberry bushes.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gymnorhinal \Gym"no*rhi`nal\, a. [Gr. gymno`s naked + [?], [?],
      the nose.] (Zo[94]l.)
      Having unfeathered nostrils, as certain birds.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pampas \Pam"pas\, n. pl. [Sp., fr. Peruv. pampa a field, plain.]
      Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine
      Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a
      wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern
      Patagonia.
  
      {Pampas cat} (Zo[94]l.), a South American wild cat ({Felis
            pajeros}). It has oblique transverse bands of yellow or
            brown. It is about three and a half feet long. Called also
            {straw cat}.
  
      {Pampas deer} (Zo[94]l.), a small, reddish-brown, South
            American deer ({Cervus, [or] Blastocerus, campestris}).
  
      {Pampas grass} (Bot.), a very tall ornamental grass
            ({Gynerium argenteum}) with a silvery-white silky panicle.
            It is a native of the pampas of South America.
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