Glyceria – Goil
Glyceria
in botany, manna grass, genus of grasses, tribe Festuca, family Bromide. The glumes are convex, five to seven nerved, the tip acute or obtuse. a
Gmund
a city of Württemberg, Ger-
Goa
an antelope found in the vicinity point or mark set to bound a race.
Goatfish
Balistes capriscus, a fish of a brownish-gray color, spotted with blue, or greenish. Its flesh is little esteemed. Its appropriate habitat is the Mediterranean.
Goat Moth
Cossus ligniperda, a large moth belonging to the family Zenzeridæ. The fore wings are pale brown, clouded with whitish, and marked with numerous short, irregular transverse wavy black lines; hind wings palesmoky, with similar transverse dark GOATSUCKER lines, but less distinct. It feeds on the wood of willows, poplars, and oaks, sometimes perforating the wood in all directions.
Gobonated
in heraldry, an epithet charge divided into equal parts forming applied to a border, pale, bend, or other squares, gobbets, or checkers. Called also goboné, or gobony. god is used for any superior or imagin-
Goderich
a port of entry of Ontario, on Lake Huron, Huron, 160 miles W. N. W. of Buffalo by rail, with a good harbor protected by a pier, also several factories and mills, and eight salt wells.
Godless Month
in comparative mytholgy, the 10th month of the Japanese year, so called because then the lesser divinities were considered to be absent from their temples, for the purpose of paying the annual homage due to the celestial Dairi.
God's Acre
a burying-ground attached to a church or place of worship.
Godwin-Austen
MOUNT, a peak of the W. Himalayas supposed to be the second highest in the world. Its height is 28,250 feet.
Goerius
a genus of beetles, family times called the Devil's coach-horse, is now Ocypus olens.
Goil
LOCH, a small but highly picturesque loch in Argyllshire, Scotland, a branch of Loch Long, ng, 6 miles in length and less than 1 mile in breadth. Its shores are for the most part wild and rugged. The mountains in the neighborhood rise to the height of more than 2,000 feet. Lochgoilhead is a favorite watering-place.