Goose
a tailor's smoothing and pressing iron, from the handle being like the neck of a goose. Also a game of chance played on a card divided into small compartments, numbered from 1 to 62, and arranged in a spiral form round an open central space. It was played by two or more persons, who moved their counters over the compartments according to the numbers which they threw on dice. In ornithology, any bird of the genus Anser.
The domestic goose is believed to have descended from Anser ferus, called in books the greylag goose. It is valued for the table and on account of its quills and fine soft feathers. Geese=Anserinæ, a sub-family of Anatidæ (ducks). The body is large and heavy, the neck long, the head small, and the bill conical, D GOOSE E B A A. Head of Canadian Goose B. Snow Goose C. Half. Webbed Goose D. Rough Billed Goose E. Cape Barren Goose the wings long and powerful. In summer they inhabit mer they inhabit the polar regions, miflocks on the approach of winter.