Word Meanings - ANSERINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to the Anseres. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose.
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- GOOSEFOOT
A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed. - GOOSERY
1. A place for keeping geese. 2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton. - ANSERES
A Linnæan order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc. - GOOSEWINGED
Having a "goosewing." Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing. - GOOSEFISH
See ANGLER - GOOSEWING
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. - RESEMBLINGLY
So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness. - GOOSE EGG
In games, a zero; a score or record of naught; -- so named in allusion to the egglike outline of the zero sign 0. Called also duck egg. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - GOOSEBERRY
Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated. 2. A silly person; a goose cap. Goldsmith. Barbadoes gooseberry, a climbing prickly - RESEMBLANT
Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower. - GOOSE-RUMPED
Having the tail set low and buttocks that fall away sharply from the croup; -- said of certain horses. - RESEMBLE
sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak. - RESEMBLABLE
Admitting of being compared; like. Gower. - GOOSE
gans, Icel. gas, Dan. gaas, Sw. g, Russ. guse. OIr. geiss, L. anser, for hanser, Gr. hamsa. sq. root233. Cf. Gander, Gannet, Ganza, 1. Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinæ, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied - RESEMBLER
One who resembles. - RESEMBLANCE
1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness. - WAY-GOOSE
See 2 - SKEELDUCK; SKEELGOOSE
The common European sheldrake. - MONGOOSE; MONGOOS
A species of ichneumon , native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose - CARGOOSE
A species of grebe ; the crested grebe. - SOLAN GOOSE
The common gannet. - MUNGOOSE; MUNGOOS
See MONGOOSE