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.
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Single-source entries: G (39)
Each of these 15 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Gobbe
or VOANDZOU (Voandzeia subterranea ), a leguminous annual of tropical Africa, sub-order Cæsalpineæ, of which the young pod is thrust into the ground in the same manner as that of Arachis hypogæa (the ground bean), thus at once protecting and planting the seeds. The rich, oily seeds (Angola peas) are wholesome and agreeable when boiled. The young pods also are used like French beans. They were
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Gobelin
a family of French tapestry-makers and dyers who became famous for the exquisite tapestries they manufactured . They descended from Jean Gobelin, who founded the establishment in Paris and died in 1476. About 1667 the manufactory was turned into a royal establishment under Louis XIV. The factory still produces the finest tapestry in the world.
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Gobiide
or GOBIOIDE ( -oi'dē), in ichthyology, gobies, a family of Acanthopteri veri. The edges of the operculum are unarmed, and its aperture small; the ventral fins, whether united or separated, constitute a funnel, and are situated on the breast; the skin is either naked or armed with large finely ctenoid scales. Most of them are small fishes, found among rocks or in tidal rivers.
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Goblin
A spirit formerly supposed to lurk in houses. They were generally of a mischievous and grotesque type. Hobgoblins, according to Junius, were so called because they were wont to hop on one leg.
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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-
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God's Acre
a burying-ground attached to a church or place of worship.
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God's Penny
a penny given and accepted to bind a bargain. An old English custom. Under our common law inherited from England, a bargain may be enforced by either party if the buyer has paid a part of the purchase price. A bargain may also be held valid if the buyer has accepted any part of the property.
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Godavari
one of the principal rivers of India, and the largest of the Deccan, rising within 50 miles of the Indian Ocean, and flowing S. E. across the peninsula into the Bay of Bengal, which it enters by seven mouths, after a course of 898 miles, its total drainage area being estimated at 112,000 square miles. It has been called the Indian Rhine. The navigation of the upper waters is impeded by three impassable rocky barriers or rapids within a space of 150 miles. The Godavari is one of the 12 sacred rivers of India, and the great bathing festival, called Pushkaram, is held on its banks once in 12 years; each of its seven mouths is esteemed holy, but especially the Gautami mouth, the larger of its two arms, which enters the sea not far from Cocanada.
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Goddard Rocket, Graupel, Grayfish, Gerry & Gompers
Goddard Rocket a recent invention designed for the exploration of conditions in the upper atmosphere. The rocket is propelled upward by means of successive explosions taking place in the course of its rise. It is intended to carry up selfregistering meteorological instruments. Graupel a term now officially used to designate the pellets of granular pheric gas whose existence is assumed snow, popularly termed soft hail, which often fall in conjunction with ordinary snow in cold weather. Grayfish a name given by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries to the edible species of dogfish. GREEK-TURKISH WAR. (See NEAR EAST.) Gerry PETER GOELET, re-elected to the Senate for the term of 1923-29. Gompers SAMUEL, elected president merican Federation of forty-first term, June 23, 1922.
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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.
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Godkin
EDWIN LAWRENCE, an American journalist and essayist; born in Moyne, Ireland, Oct. 2, 1831. He graduated from Queen's College, and came ueen's College, to the United States in early manhood. After 1865 he was prominent in journalism. In addition to a "History of Hungary," and editorial work on the New York "Nation" and "Evening Post," he produced miscellaneous essays, the most prominent of which appear in "The Problems of Modern Democracy" and "Reflections and Comments"; also "Unforeseen Tendencies of Democracy" (1898). He died in 1902.
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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.
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Godmer
a British giant, son of Albion, slain by Canutus, one of the companions of Brute. GÖDÖLLÖ (ge-del-le), a market-town of Hungary, 15 miles N. E. of Pest, with a royal castle and park presented by the Hungarians in 1867 to their king king, the Emperor of Austria-Hungary. Here, April 7, 1849, the Austrian forces were defeated by the Hungarians. Pop. about 6,000.
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Godoy
MANUEL DE (gō-doi'), a Spanish statesman; born in Badajoz, 12. at an Feb. 12, 1767. He went to Madrid early age; in 1787 entered the company of bodyguards; was called to the council of state; in 1792 succeeded Aranda as first minister, and immediately declared war on France. At the peace in 1795 he was made a grandee of Spain of the first class, and received the title of Prince of the Peace. Signing, in opposition to the general desire of the nation, the treaty of St. Ildefonso, an offensive and defensive alliance with France, in 1796, parties and classes in the he found all state his enemies and was forced to resign office in March, 1798. Soon reinstated, he married, from political motives, Donna Maria Thereza de Bourbon, though he was already secretly married to Donna Josefa Tudo. In 1800 he commanded an expedition against Portugal. He attached himself to Napoleon; the insurrection of Aranjuez, in March, 1808, prevented his escape as purposed with the royal family, and on the abdication of Charles he was imprisoned. He was present at Bayonne on the signature of the new abdication, and he accompanied the royal family to Marseilles and Rome. On his wife's death he avowed his marriage with Josefa Tudo; settled at Paris in 1835, and died there Oct. 7, 1851.
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