Goa
an antelope found in the vicinity point or mark set to bound a race.
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Single-source entries: G (51)
These 17 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Goa Powder, Goal, Goalanda.
Goa Powder
a powder deriving its name from the island of Goa, on the Malabar coast; it is very bitter and is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained. GOAR. See ST. GOAR.
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Goal
the winning post in a race ; the FOOTBALL (q. v.), the space marked by goal posts and a cross bar to define the In required path of the ball in order that a "goal" may be scored. According to Rugby rules, the ball must be kicked over the cross bar; according to association rules, it must go under. Also the act of kicking the ball through or over the goal posts.
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Goalanda
a markettown of Bengal, on tongue of land the confluence of the main streams of the Ganges and Brahmaputra, an important entrepôt for the river trade, the terminus of the Eastern Bengal railway, and the starting point of the Assam steamers. Busy markets are held daily, and the river is crowded with native craft, in which most of the trade is carried on, and fishing boats.
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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 lines, but less distinct. It feeds on the wood of willows, poplars, and oaks, sometimes perforating the wood in all directions.
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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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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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Godfrey
EDWARD SETTLE, an American soldier, born in Kalida, O., in 1843. He was educated in the public schools and at Vermilion Institute. He served throughout the Civil War as a priited vate and at the close entered the United States Military ry Academy from which he graduated in 1867. In the same year he was appointed 2d lieutenant. He rose through the various grades, becoming colonel of the 9th Cavalry in 1901, and brigadier-general in 1907. He saw much service against the Indians in the West and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1877. He took part in all the campaigns under General Custer until the later's death. From 1879 to 1883 he was instructor of cavalry tactics at the United States Military Academy. He saw service in Cuba and in the Philippine Islands and was retired by operation of the law, in 1907. He wrote "Custer's Last Battle" (1892). He was a member of many military societies.
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