Word Meanings - ROUNDABOUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech.

• Gonoblastid
  A reproductive bud of a hydroid; a simple gonophore.
• Gossaniferous
  Containing or producing gossan.
• GOBSTICK
  A stick or device for removing the hook from a fish's gullet. He . . . wrenched out the hook with the short wooden stick he called a "gobstick." Kipling. 2. A spoon. [Prov. Eng. or Slang]
• Godlily
  Righteously.
• Gonydial
  Pertaining to the gonys of a bird's beak.
• Gothamite
  A gothamist.
• GOLIATHBEETLE
  Any species of Goliathus, a genus of very large and handsome African beetles.
• Goeland
  A white tropical tern (Cygis candida).
• Goodly
  Excellently.
• Goujere
  The venereal disease.
• GOODNOW
  An exclamation of wonder, surprise, or entreaty. [Obs.] Shak.
• Goglet
  See Gurglet.
• Goodyship
  The state or quality of a goody or goodwife
• Goutily
  In a gouty manner.
• GOURDGOURDE
  A silver dollar; -- so called in Cuba, Hayti, etc. Simmonds.
• Goden ly
  In golden terms or a golden manner; splendidly; delightfully.
• Gopher
  One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidae; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.
• Governess
  A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes.
• Goldylocks
  A plant of several species of the genus Chrysocoma; -- so called from the tufts of yellow flowers which terminate the stems; also, the Ranunculus auricomus, a kind of buttercup.
• Goring
  of Gore

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