Brand goose () A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. See Brant. |
Ember-goose (n.) The loon or great northern diver. See Loon. |
Goose (n.) Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres. |
Goose (n.) Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose. |
Goose (n.) A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose. |
Goose (n.) A silly creature |
Goose (n.) A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted. |
Imber-goose (n.) The loon. See Ember-goose. |
Lock step () A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him. |
Sea goose () A phalarope. |
Solan goose () The common gannet. |
Step (a.) To move the foot in walking |
Step (a.) To walk |
Step (a.) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely. |
Step (a.) Fig.: To move mentally |
Step (v. t.) To set, as the foot. |
Step (v. t.) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step |
Step (v. i.) An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot |
Step (v. i.) A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder. |
Step (v. i.) The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running |
Step (v. i.) A small space or distance |
Step (v. i.) A print of the foot |
Step (v. i.) Gait |
Step (v. i.) Proceeding |
Step (v. i.) Walk |
Step (v. i.) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position. |
Step (v. i.) In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft |
Step (v. i.) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs. |
Step (v. i.) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves. |
Step (v. i.) The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale. |
Step (v. i.) A change of position effected by a motion of translation. |
Step- () A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent |
Way-goose (n.) See Wayz-goose, n., 2. |
Wayz-goose (n.) A stubble goose. |
Wayz-goose (n.) An annual feast of the persons employed in a printing office. |
measure step | any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal, the situation called for strong measures, the police took steps to reduce crime |
first step initiative opening move opening | the first of a series of actions |
step | the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down, he walked with unsteady steps |
goose step | a manner of marching with legs straight and swinging high |
wild-goose chase | the fruitless pursuit of something unattainable |
decrease diminution reduction step-down | the act of decreasing or reducing something |
increase step-up | the act of increasing something, he gave me an increase in salary |
step dancing hoofing | dancing in which the steps are more important than gestures or postures |
dance step step | a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance, he taught them the waltz step |
one-step | an early ballroom dance, precursor to the fox-trot |
two-step | a ballroom dance in duple meter, marked by sliding steps |
pilomotor reflex gooseflesh goose bump goosebump goose pimple goose skin horripilation | reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation |
goose | web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks |
Chinese goose Anser cygnoides | very large wild goose of northeast Asia, interbreeds freely with the greylag |
greylag graylag greylag goose graylag goose Anser anser | common grey wild goose of Europe, ancestor of many domestic breeds |
blue goose Chen caerulescens | North American wild goose having dark plumage in summer but white in winter |
snow goose | blue goose in the white color phase |
brant brant goose brent brent goose | small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward |
common brant goose Branta bernicla | the best known variety of brant goose |
honker Canada goose Canadian goose Branta canadensis | common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call |
barnacle goose barnacle Branta leucopsis | European goose smaller than the brant, breeds in the far north |
goose down | down of the goose |
goose barnacle gooseneck barnacle Lepas fascicularis | stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers |
solan solan goose solant goose Sula bassana | very large white gannet with black wing tips |
corbel step corbie-step corbiestep crow step | (architecture) a step on the top of a gable wall |
multistage rocket step rocket | a rocket having two or more rocket engines (each with its own fuel) that are fired in succession and jettisoned when the fuel is exhausted |
pantie panty scanty step-in | short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural) |
step stair | support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway, he paused on the bottom step |
step | a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed |
step-down transformer | a transformer that reduces voltage |
step ladder stepladder | a folding portable ladder hinged at the top |
step stool | a stool that has one or two steps that fold under the seat |
step-up transformer | a transformer that increases voltage |
footprint footmark step | a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface, the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window |
tone whole tone step whole step | a musical interval of two semitones |
semitone half step | the musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument |
footfall footstep step | the sound of a step of someone walking, he heard footsteps on the porch |
triple jump hop-step-and-jump | an athletic contest in which a competitor must perform successively a hop and a step and a jump in continuous movement |
goose | flesh of a goose (domestic or wild) |
goose liver | liver of a goose used as meat |
Mother Goose | the imaginary author of a collection of nursery rhymes |
fathead goof goofball bozo jackass goose cuckoo twat zany | a man who is a stupid incompetent fool |
yardgrass yard grass wire grass goose grass Eleusine indica | coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers, native to Old World tropics, a naturalized weed elsewhere |
goose grass Texas millet Panicum Texanum | annual weedy grass used for hay |
silverweed goose-tansy goose grass Potentilla anserina | low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath, northern United States, Europe, Asia |
American red plum August plum goose plum Prunus americana | wild plum trees of eastern and central North America having red-orange fruit with yellow flesh |
cleavers clivers goose grass catchweed spring cleavers Galium aparine | annual having the stem beset with curved prickles, North America and Europe and Asia |
e nothing nil nix nada null aught cipher cypher goose egg naught zero zilch zip zippob | a quantity of no importance, it looked like nothing I had ever seen before, reduced to nil all the work we had done, we racked up a pathetic goose egg, it was all for naught, I didn't hear zilch about it |
footstep pace step stride | the distance covered by a step, he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig |
step stone's throw | a short distance, it's only a step to the drugstore |