Word Meanings - ROUNDABOUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

• 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
• Gownsman
  Alt. of Gownman
• Goaves
  of Goaf
• Gomarite
  One of the followers of Francis Gomar or Gomarus, a Dutch disciple of Calvin in the 17th century, who strongly opposed the Arminians.
• Gorgonia
  A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis.
• Roundelay
  See Rondeau, and Rondel.
• Gobbetly
  In pieces.
• Gondolier
  A man who rows a gondola.
• Goroon shell
  A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell (Triton femorale).
• Roundure
  Roundness; a round or circle.
• Goby
  One of several species of small marine fishes of the genus Gobius and allied genera.
• 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.

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