Word Meanings - CIRCUITOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end.

• Gong
  A privy or jakes.
• Goslet
  One of several species of pygmy geese, of the genus Nettepus. They are about the size of a teal, and inhabit Africa, India, and Australia.
• Round-up
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• Goddaughter
  A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism.
• Gonococcus
  A vegetable microorganism of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea. It is believed by some to constitute the cause of this disease.
• Gossiping
  of Gossip
• GOLDBOUND
  Encompassed with gold.
• Godmother
  A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See Godfather
• Good-bye
  Farewell; a form of address used at parting. See the last Note under By, prep.
• Gothicize
  To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism.
• GOODFELLOWSHIP
  Agreeable companionship; companionableness.
• Goff
  A silly clown.
• Good-naturedly
  With maldness of temper.
• Gourami
  A very largo East Indian freshwater fish (Osphromenus gorami), extensively reared in artificial ponds in tropical countries, and highly valued as a food fish. Many unsuccessful efforts have been made to introduce it into Southern Europe.
• GORBELLIED
  Bog-bellied. [Obs.]
• Goitrous
  Pertaining to the goiter; affected with the goiter; of the nature of goiter or bronchocele.
• 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.
• Gove
  A mow; a rick for hay.
• Gold-hammer
  The yellow-hammer.
• Gor-bellied
  Bog-bellied.

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