English Dictionary: growl | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gear \Gear\, n. [OE. gere, ger, AS. gearwe clothing, adornment, armor, fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG. garaw[c6], garw[c6] ornament, dress. See {Yare}, and cf. {Garb} dress.] 1. Clothing; garments; ornaments. Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. --Spenser. 2. Goods; property; household stuff. --Chaucer. Homely gear and common ware. --Robynson (More's Utopia). 3. Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material. Clad in a vesture of unknown gear. --Spenser. 4. The harness of horses or cattle; trapping. 5. Warlike accouterments. [Scot.] --Jamieson. 6. Manner; custom; behavior. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 7. Business matters; affairs; concern. [Obs.] Thus go they both together to their gear. --Spenser. 8. (Mech.) (a) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively. (b) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe. (c) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear. 9. pl. (Naut.) See 1st {Jeer} (b) . 10. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Wright. That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man. --Latimer. {Bever gear}. See {Bevel gear}. {Core gear}, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See {Mortise wheel}, under {Mortise}. {Expansion gear} (Steam Engine), the arrangement of parts for cutting off steam at a certain part of the stroke, so as to leave it to act upon the piston expansively; the cut-off. See under {Expansion}. {Feed gear}. See {Feed motion}, under {Feed}, n. {Gear cutter}, a machine or tool for forming the teeth of gear wheels by cutting. {Gear wheel}, any cogwheel. {Running gear}. See under {Running}. {To throw} {in, [or] out of}, {gear} (Mach.), to connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or out of, working relation. | |
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Girl \Girl\, n. [OE. girle, gerle, gurle, a girl (in sense 1): cf. LG. g[94]r child.] 1. A young person of either sex; a child. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden. 3. A female servant; a maidservant. [U. S.] 4. (Zo[94]l.) A roebuck two years old. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Goral \Go"ral\, n. (Zo[94]l.) An Indian goat antelope ({Nemorhedus goral}), resembling the chamois. | |
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Gorilla \Go*ril"la\, n. [An African word; found in a Greek translation of a treatise in Punic by Hanno, a Carthaginian.] (Zo[94]l.) A large, arboreal, anthropoid ape of West Africa. It is larger than a man, and is remarkable for its massive skeleton and powerful muscles, which give it enormous strength. In some respects its anatomy, more than that of any other ape, except the chimpanzee, resembles that of man. | |
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Graal \Graal\, n. See Grail., a dish. | |
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Grail \Grail\, n. [Cf. OF. graite slender, F. gr[ecir]te.] One of the small feathers of a hawk. | |
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Grail \Grail\, n. [OF. greel, LL. gradale. See {Gradual}, n.] A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual. [Obs.] --T. Warton. Such as antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc. --Strype. | |
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Grail \Grail\, n. [OF. graal, greal, greet, F. graal, gr?al, LL. gradalis, gradale, prob. derived fr. L. crater bowl, mixing vessel, Gr. krath`r. See {Crater.}] A broad, open dish; a chalice; -- only used of the Holy Grail. Note: The Holy Grail, according to some legends of the Middle Ages, was the cup used by our Savior in dispensing the wine at the last supper; and according to others, the platter on which the paschal lamb was served at the last Passover observed by our Lord. This cup, according to the legend, if appoached by any but a perfectly pure and holy person, would be borne away and vanish from the sight. The quest of the Holy Grail was to be undertaken only by a knight who was perfectly chaste in thought, word, and act. | |
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Grail \Grail\, n. [F. gr[ecir]le hail, from gr[90]s grit, OHG. griex, grioz, G. gries, gravel, grit. See {Grit.}] Small particles of earth; gravel. [Obs.] Lying down upon the sandy grail. --Spenser. | |
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Graille \Graille\, n. [Cf. F. gr[ecir]le a sort of file.] A halfround single-cut file or fioat, having one curved face and one straight face, -- used by comb makers. --Knight. | |
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Gray \Gray\, a. [Compar. {Grayer}; superl. {Grayest}.] [OE. gray, grey, AS. gr[aemac]g, gr[emac]g; akin to D. graauw, OHG. gr[amac]o, G. grau, Dan. graa, Sw. gr[aring], Icel. gr[amac]r.] [Written also {grey}.] 1. White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove. These gray and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks. --Sir I. Newton. 2. Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary. 3. Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames. {Gray antimony} (Min.), stibnite. {Gray buck} (Zo[94]l.), the chickara. {Gray cobalt} (Min.), smaltite. {Gray copper} (Min.), tetrahedrite. {Gray duck} (Zo[94]l.), the gadwall; also applied to the female mallard. {Gray falcon} (Zo[94]l.) the peregrine falcon. {Gray Friar}. See {Franciscan}, and {Friar}. {Gray hen} (Zo[94]l.), the female of the blackcock or black grouse. See {Heath grouse}. {Gray mill or millet} (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus {Lithospermum}; gromwell. {Gray mullet} (Zo[94]l.) any one of the numerous species of the genus {Mugil}, or family {Mugilid[ae]}, found both in the Old World and America; as the European species ({M. capito}, and {M. auratus}), the American striped mullet ({M. albula}), and the white or silver mullet ({M. Braziliensis}). See {Mullet}. {Gray owl} (Zo[94]l.), the European tawny or brown owl ({Syrnium aluco}). The great gray owl ({Ulula cinerea}) inhabits arctic America. {Gray parrot} (Zo[94]l.), a parrot ({Psittacus erithacus}), very commonly domesticated, and noted for its aptness in learning to talk. {Gray pike}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Sauger}. {Gray snapper} (Zo[94]l.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer. See {Snapper}. {Gray snipe} (Zo[94]l.), the dowitcher in winter plumage. {Gray whale} (Zo[94]l.), a rather large and swift California whale ({Rhachianectes glaucus}), formerly taken in large numbers in the bays; -- called also {grayback}, {devilfish}, and {hardhead}. | |
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Gray \Gray\, a. [Compar. {Grayer}; superl. {Grayest}.] [OE. gray, grey, AS. gr[aemac]g, gr[emac]g; akin to D. graauw, OHG. gr[amac]o, G. grau, Dan. graa, Sw. gr[aring], Icel. gr[amac]r.] [Written also {grey}.] 1. White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove. These gray and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks. --Sir I. Newton. 2. Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary. 3. Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames. {Gray antimony} (Min.), stibnite. {Gray buck} (Zo[94]l.), the chickara. {Gray cobalt} (Min.), smaltite. {Gray copper} (Min.), tetrahedrite. {Gray duck} (Zo[94]l.), the gadwall; also applied to the female mallard. {Gray falcon} (Zo[94]l.) the peregrine falcon. {Gray Friar}. See {Franciscan}, and {Friar}. {Gray hen} (Zo[94]l.), the female of the blackcock or black grouse. See {Heath grouse}. {Gray mill or millet} (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus {Lithospermum}; gromwell. {Gray mullet} (Zo[94]l.) any one of the numerous species of the genus {Mugil}, or family {Mugilid[ae]}, found both in the Old World and America; as the European species ({M. capito}, and {M. auratus}), the American striped mullet ({M. albula}), and the white or silver mullet ({M. Braziliensis}). See {Mullet}. {Gray owl} (Zo[94]l.), the European tawny or brown owl ({Syrnium aluco}). The great gray owl ({Ulula cinerea}) inhabits arctic America. {Gray parrot} (Zo[94]l.), a parrot ({Psittacus erithacus}), very commonly domesticated, and noted for its aptness in learning to talk. {Gray pike}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Sauger}. {Gray snapper} (Zo[94]l.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer. See {Snapper}. {Gray snipe} (Zo[94]l.), the dowitcher in winter plumage. {Gray whale} (Zo[94]l.), a rather large and swift California whale ({Rhachianectes glaucus}), formerly taken in large numbers in the bays; -- called also {grayback}, {devilfish}, and {hardhead}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gril \Gril\ (gr[icr]l), a. [OE. gril harsh; akin to G. grell offending the ear or eye, shrill, dazzling, MHG. grel angry; cf. AS. gallan to provoke.] Harsh; hard; severe; stern; rough. [Obs.] --Rom. of R. | |
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Grill \Grill\, n. 1. A figure of crossed bars with interstices, such as those sometimes impressed upon postage stamps. 2. A grillroom. | |
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Grill \Grill\, v. t. To stamp or mark with a grill. | |
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Grill \Grill\, v. i. To undergo the process of being grilled, or broiled; to broil. He had grilled in the heat, sweated in the rains. --Kipling. | |
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Grill \Grill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Grilled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Grilling}.] [F. griller, fr. gril gridiron, OF. gra[8b]l, L. craticulum for craticula fine hurdlework, a small gridiron, dim. of crates hurdle. See {Grate}, n.] 1. To broil on a grill or gridiron. [1913 Webster] Boiling of men in caldrons, grilling them on gridirons. --Marvell. 2. To torment, as if by broiling. --Dickens. | |
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Grill \Grill\, n. [F. gril. See {Grill}, v. t.] 1. A gridiron. [They] make grills of [wood] to broil their meat. --Cotton. 2. That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc. | |
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Grilly \Gril"ly\, v. t. [See {Grill}, v. t.] To broil; to grill; hence, To harass. [Obs.] --Hudibras. | |
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Growl \Growl\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Growled}; p. pr. & vb. e. {Growling}.] [D. grollen to grunt, murmur, be angry; akin to G. grollen to be angry.] To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. --Gay. | |
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Growl \Growl\, v. t. To express by growling. --Thomson. | |
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Growl \Growl\, n. The deep, threatening sound made by a surly dog; a grumbling sound. | |
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Gruel \Gru"el\, n. [OF. gruel, F. gruau; of German origin; cf. OHG. gruzzi groats, G. gr[81]tze, As. grut. See {Grout}.] A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge. | |
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Gruelly \Gru"el*ly\, a. Like gruel; of the consistence of gruel. | |
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Guerilla \Gue*ril"la\, a. See {Guerrilla}. | |
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Guerrilla \Guer*ril"la\, a. Pertaining to, or engaged in, warfare carried on irregularly and by independent bands; as, a guerrilla party; guerrilla warfare. | |
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Guerrilla \Guer*ril"la\, n. [Sp., lit., a little war, skirmish, dim. of guerra war, fr. OHG. werra discord, strife. See {War}.] 1. An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war. 2. One who carries on, or assists in carrying on, irregular warfare; especially, a member of an independent band engaged in predatory excursions in war time. Note: The term guerrilla is the diminutive of the Spanish word guerra, war, and means petty war, that is, war carried on by detached parties; generally in the mountains. . . . A guerrilla party means, an irregular band of armed men, carrying on an irregular war, not being able, according to their character as a guerrilla party, to carry on what the law terms a regular war. --F. Lieder. | |
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Gurl \Gurl\, n. A young person of either sex. [Obs.] See {Girl}. --Chaucer. | |
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Gyral \Gy"ral\, a. [See {Gyre}.] 1. Moving in a circular path or way; whirling; gyratory. 2. (Anat.) Pertaining to a gyrus, or convolution. | |
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Gerlaw, IL Zip code(s): 61435 | |
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Greeley, CO (city, FIPS 32155) Location: 40.42132 N, 104.74387 W Population (1990): 60536 (23991 housing units) Area: 73.6 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 80634 Greeley, IA (city, FIPS 32610) Location: 42.58513 N, 91.34194 W Population (1990): 263 (105 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52050 Greeley, KS (city, FIPS 28350) Location: 38.36742 N, 95.12712 W Population (1990): 339 (147 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66033 Greeley, NE Zip code(s): 68842 Greeley, PA Zip code(s): 18425 | |
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Grulla, TX Zip code(s): 78548 | |
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Gurley, AL (town, FIPS 32440) Location: 34.70314 N, 86.37306 W Population (1990): 1007 (393 housing units) Area: 7.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 35748 Gurley, NE (village, FIPS 20435) Location: 41.32055 N, 102.97388 W Population (1990): 198 (95 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 69141 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
GIRL Graph Information Retrieval Language. A language for handling {directed graph}s. ["Graph Information Retrieval Language", S. Berkowitz, Report 76-0085, Naval Ship Res Dev Center, (Feb 1976)]. (1994-11-02) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
GRAAL ("Grail") General Recursive Applicative and Algorithmic Language. FP with polyadic combinators. "Graal: A Functional Programming System with Uncurryfied Combinators and its Reduction Machine", P. Bellot in ESOP 86, G. Goos ed, LNCS 213, Springer 1986. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
GRAIL Graphical Input Language. A {flow chart} language entered on a graphics tablet. The graphical follow-on to {JOSS}. ["The GRAIL Language and Operations", T.O. Ellis et al, RM-6001-ARPA, RAND, Sept 1969]. (1995-01-23) |