The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor.
Milton.
Goose"wing` (?), n. (Naut.) One of the clews or lower corners of a
course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is
furled.
Goose"winged` (?), a. (Naut.) (a) Having a "goosewing." (b) Said of a
fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail
on the other; wing and wing.
Goos"ish, a. Like a goose; foolish. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Goost (?), n. Ghost; spirit. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Goot (?), n. A goat. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Go"-out` (?), n. A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting
out the land waters, when the tide is out. [Written also gowt.]
Go"pher (?), n. [F. gaufre waffle, honeycomb. See Gauffer.] (Zoˆl.) 1.
One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys
and Thomomys, of the family GeomyidÊ; -- called also pocket gopher and
pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.
The name was originally given by French settlers to many burrowing
rodents, from their honeycombing the earth.
2. One of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus,
of the family SciuridÊ; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini)
and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also striped
prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See
Spermophile.
3. A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern United
States, which makes extensive burrows.
4. A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United
States.
Gopher drift (Mining), an irregular prospecting drift, following or
seeking the ore without regard to regular grade or section. Raymond.
Go"pher wood` (?). [Heb. gpher.] A species of wood used in the
construction of Noah's ark. Gen. vi. 14.
||Go*rac"co (?), n. A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in
||hookahs in Western India.
Go"ral (?), n. (Zoˆl.) An Indian goat antelope (Nemorhedus goral),
resembling the chamois.
Go"ra*my (?), n. (Zoˆl.) Same as Gourami.