GOOSE
\ɡˈuːs], \ɡˈuːs], \ɡ_ˈuː_s]\
Definitions of GOOSE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks
By Princeton University
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web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.
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Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.
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A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.
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A silly creature; a simpleton.
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A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.
By Oddity Software
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Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.
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Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.
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A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.
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A silly creature; a simpleton.
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A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.
By Noah Webster.
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A web-footed animal like a duck, but larger and stronger: a tailor's smoothing-iron, from the likeness of the handle to the neck of a goose: a stupid silly person:-pl. GEESE.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A well-known web-footed bird, larger than a duck; a tailor's smoothing iron; a stupid, silly creature A green goose, one under four months old.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic, Latin] A well-known aquatic fowl of the genus Anus—its feathers are used for beds and its quills for pens;—a tailor's smoothing iron;—a simpleton;—a game of chance formerly common in England.
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A large waterfowl proverbially noted for foolishness; a taylor’s smoothing-iron.
By Thomas Sheridan
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