<B>Gotham, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a nickname for New York City. <BR><I>expr. <B>wise man of Gotham,</B> </I>a fool; simpleton. <BR> <I>Ex. The wise men of Gotham are risen again (Alois Brandl).</I> </DL>
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<B>Gothamite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a resident of New York City; a New Yorker. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who takes after the men of Gotham, England; blunderer; simpleton. </DL>
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<B>Gothic, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a style of architecture using pointed arches, flying buttresses, and high, steep roofs. It was developed in western Europe during the Middle Ages from about 1150 to 1550. <DD><B> 2. </B>the East Germanic language of the Goths. It is known chiefly from the translations of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas in the 300's. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Printing.) <DD><B> a. </B>Often, <B>gothic.</B> (U.S.) a square-cut style of type without serifs or hairlines. <DD><B> b. </B>(British.) black letter. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1a. </B>of or having to do with Gothic architecture. <BR> <I>Ex. a Gothic cathedral.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>of or having to do with the period during which Gothic architecture flourished. <BR> <I>Ex. Gothic art, a Gothic manuscript.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of the Goths or their language. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) uncivilized; crude; barbarous. <BR> <I>Ex. O! more than Gothic ignorance (Henry Fielding).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>having to do with or characteristic of a style of fiction using grotesque and supernatural elements and often medieval settings or details to produce horror and romance. <BR> <I>Ex. a Gothic story. The Grecian splendor of the old novels and the Gothic horror of the new ones are products of the same psychology (Saturday Review).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Obsolete.) Germanic. adv. <B>Gothically.</B> </DL>
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<B>Gothic arch,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a pointed arch. </DL>
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<B>Gothicism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>conformity or adherence to the Gothic style of architecture, Gothic ideas, and the like: <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) Also, <B>gothicism.</B> rudeness; barbarism. <DD><B> 3. </B>a Gothic idiom. </DL>
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<B>Gothicize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-cized,</B> <B>-cizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to make Gothic; make medieval. <BR> <I>Ex. Horace Walpole began to Gothicize the little house he had bought (New York Times Book Review).</I> </DL>
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<B>Gothick, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) <DD><B> 1. </B>in the sham Gothic style of the 1800's. <BR> <I>Ex. And for scenery what more fitting than the Gothick of the period? (E. Croft-Murray).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>Also, <B>gothick.</B> in the style of Gothic literature; grotesque; gruesome. <BR> <I>Ex. The tales ... are full of Gothick horrors, ghosts, demons, hanged men who rise at night (Punch).</I> </DL>
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<B>Gothicness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the quality or condition of being Gothic. <DD><B> 2. </B>a piece of Gothic ornamentation. </DL>
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<B>Gothic Revival,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an architectural style of the 1700's and 1800's, consciously imitating. </DL>
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<B>gothite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a mineral consisting of a hydrous oxide of iron, of reddish or dark brown color, occurring massive or in orthorhombic crystals. </DL>
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<B>gotra, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the large, folded cloth of the Arab headdress or kaffiyeh. It is held in place by a band of twisted cord wrapped around the head. </DL>
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<B>gotten, </B>verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>verb </I> a past participle of <B>get.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. It has gotten to be quite late.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> obtained; acquired; won. <BR> <I>Ex. ill-gotten wealth.</I> </DL>
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<B>Gotterdammerung, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Germanic Mythology.) the day of the great battle between the gods and the forces of evil, signaling the end of the world. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) total destruction; holocaust. <BR> <I>Ex. the Nazi Gotterdammerung.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>an opera (1876) by Richard Wagner, the last of his tetralogy of <I>The Ring of the Nibelung.</I> </DL>
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<B>Gott mit uns,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (German.) God with us (the motto of the former Prussian rulers of Germany). </DL>
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<B>gouache, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a method of painting with opaque water colors, prepared by mixing pigments with water and gum. <DD><B> 2. </B>a color made in this way. <DD><B> 3. </B>a painting made by this method. <BR> <I>Ex. The trustees have bought a gouache by the contemporary Italian artist Afro (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>Gouda, </B>noun, or <B>Gouda cheese,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a flat, round, mild cheese made from whole milk. </DL>
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<B>Goudy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any of various styles of printing type designed by Frederic William Goudy, 1865-1947, an American designer of printing types. </DL>
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<B>gouge, </B>noun, verb, <B>gouged,</B> <B>gouging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a chisel with a curved blade. Gouges are used for cutting round grooves or holes in wood. <DD><B> 2. </B>a cutting with or as if with a gouge. <DD><B> 3. </B>a groove or hole made by gouging. <BR> <I>Ex. Clumsy movers made several gouges in the table by forcing it through the doorway.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(U.S. Informal.) <DD><B> a. </B>a trick; cheat; swindle. <DD><B> b. </B>a swindler; impostor. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to cut with a gouge or as if with a gouge. <BR> <I>Ex. The cabinetmaker gouged fine curving lines in the molding about the door.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to dig out; tear out; force out. <BR> <I>Ex. to gouge an eye.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) to trick; cheat; swindle. </DL>
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<B>gouger, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who gouges. </DL>
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<B>goulash, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a stew made of beef or veal and vegetables, usually highly seasoned. <DD><B> 2. </B>a redeal in contract bridge intended to produce freak hands, before which each player arranges his cards by suits and order of value. The cards are dealt without shuffling in blocks of five, five, and three. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) a hodgepodge. <BR> <I>Ex. What we get is a goulash of Gilbert and Sullivan, the Princeton Triangle Club, a girls' choir, and some genuine romantic melody (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>goum, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an Arab tribal contingent in the French military service. <DD><B> 2. </B>a member of the Moroccan native militia. </DL>
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<B>goumier, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a goum. </DL>
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<B>goupen, </B>noun. <B>=gowpen.</B></DL>
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<B>goura, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of large pigeons of New Guinea, with immense, erect, umbrellalike crests. </DL>
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<B>gourami, </B>noun, pl. <B>-mis.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a large freshwater Asiatic fish. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of various related but much smaller fish, bred for tropical-fish hobbyists. </DL>
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<B>gourd, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the fruit of certain vines, with hard rinds and many flat seeds. It belongs to the gourd family. One kind, the bottle gourd, is dried and hollowed out and used for cups, bowls, bottles, and other utensils. <DD><B> 2. </B>the vine that it grows on. <DD><B> 3. </B>a cup, bowl, bottle, or other utensil, made from the dried shell of a gourd. <BR> <I>Ex. a pebble rattled in a dry gourd (Robinson Jeffers).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>any plant of the gourd family. <DD><B> 5. </B>(U.S. Slang.) the head; mind. <BR> <I>Ex. "Why would anyone want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane? You must be out of your gourd!" he exclaimed seven or eight times (New Yorker).</I> adj. <B>gourdlike.</B> </DL>
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<B>gourde, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the unit of money of Haiti, a coin equal to 100 centimes. <DD><B> 2. </B>(formerly in Louisiana, Cuba, and Haiti) a dollar. </DL>
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<B>gourd family,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of dicotyledonous, climbing herbs with hairy or prickly, branched tendrils and fruits which usually have rinds and spongy, seedy interiors. The family includes the cucumber, squash, melon, pumpkin, and bryony. </DL>
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<B>gourdful, </B>noun, pl. <B>-fuls.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> as much as a gourd can hold. </DL>
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<B>gourd-shaped, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having the shape of a gourd; having a globular body and a long, slender neck. <BR> <I>Ex. a gourd-shaped bottle.</I> </DL>
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<B>gourmand, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who is fond of good eating. A gourmand is not so particular as an epicure nor so greedy as a glutton gourmand (Lord Chesterfield). <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who eats to excess; glutton. Also, <B>gormand.</B> </DL>
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<B>gourmandise</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the tastes or practices of a gourmand. <BR> <I>Ex. For the culinary expatriate there is no end of books on global gourmandise (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<B>gourmandism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the tastes or practices of a gourmand; love of good eating. </DL>
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<B>gourmandize, </B>intransitive verb, transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to eat like a gourmand. <BR> <I>Ex. The Vintners' annual swan banquet, when dignity demands that they gourmandize on their own birds ... (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to indulge in good eating. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=gormandize.</B> noun <B>gourmandizer.</B> </DL>
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<B>gourmet, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person who is expert in judging and choosing fine foods or wines; epicure. <DD><I>adj. </I> by or for a gourmet; epicurean. <BR> <I>Ex. America's famous basic cookbook teaches gourmet cooking, too--with hundreds of gourmet recipes (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>gousty, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) large and empty; dreary; desolate. </DL>
