Index of English words, starting with "go"

(1) - Gorget (n.) A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
(2) - Gorget (n.) A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget.
(3) - Gorget (n.) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
(4) - Gorget (n.) A ruff worn by women.
(5) - Gorget (n.) A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies.
(6) - Gorget (n.) A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor.
(7) - Gorget (n.) A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century.

(1) - Gorgon (a.) Like a Gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as, a Gorgon face.
(2) - Gorgon (n.) The brindled gnu. See Gnu.
(3) - Gorgon (n.) Anything very ugly or horrid.
(4) - Gorgon (n.) One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa.

(1) - Gorilla (n.) 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.

(1) - Gormandize (v. i. & t.) To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton.

(1) - Gormandizer (n.) A greedy, voracious eater; a gormand; a glutton.