Brand goose () A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. See Brant. |
Eagle-winged (a.) Having the wings of an eagle |
Ember-goose (n.) The loon or great northern diver. See Loon. |
Full-winged (a.) Having large and strong or complete wings. |
Full-winged (a.) Beady for flight |
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. |
Hand-winged (a.) Having wings that are like hands in the structure and arrangement of their bones |
Imber-goose (n.) The loon. See Ember-goose. |
Lace-winged (a.) Having thin, transparent, reticulated wings |
Light-winged (a.) Having light and active wings |
Sack-winged (a.) Having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the wing |
Scale-winged (a.) Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera |
Scaly-winged (a.) Scale-winged. |
Sea goose () A phalarope. |
Sheath-winged (a.) Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle. |
Solan goose () The common gannet. |
Spur (n.) A sparrow. |
Spur (n.) A tern. |
Spur (n.) An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood. |
Spur (n.) That which goads to action |
Spur (n.) Something that projects |
Spur (n.) One of the large or principal roots of a tree. |
Spur (n.) Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc. |
Spur (n.) A mountain that shoots from any other mountain, or range of mountains, and extends to some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles. |
Spur (n.) A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber. |
Spur (n.) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam |
Spur (n.) The short wooden buttress of a post. |
Spur (n.) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage. |
Spur (n.) Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur. |
Spur (n.) Ergotized rye or other grain. |
Spur (n.) A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall. |
Spur (n.) A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side. |
Spur (n.) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed. |
Spur (v. t.) To prick with spurs |
Spur (v. t.) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object |
Spur (v. t.) To put spurs on |
Spur (v. i.) To spur on one' horse |
Spur-royal (n.) A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings. |
Spur-shell (n.) Any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur. |
Spur-winged (a.) Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings. |
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. |
Winged (imp. & p. p.) of Wing |
Winged (a.) Furnished with wings |
Winged (a.) Soaring with wings, or as if with wings |
goose step | a manner of marching with legs straight and swinging high |
wild-goose chase | the fruitless pursuit of something unattainable |
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 |
red-winged blackbird redwing Agelaius phoeniceus | North American blackbird with scarlet patches on the wings |
greenwing green-winged teal Anas crecca | common teal of Eurasia and North America |
bluewing blue-winged teal Anas discors | American teal |
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 |
black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus | stilt of Europe and Africa and Asia having mostly white plumage but with black wings |
solan solan goose solant goose Sula bassana | very large white gannet with black wing tips |
dipterous insect two-winged insects dipteran dipteron | insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing |
branch line spur track spur | a railway line connected to a trunk line |
spur gad | a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward, cowboys know not to squat with their spurs on |
spur gear spur wheel | gear wheels that mesh in the same plane |
goad goading prod prodding urging spur spurring | a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something, the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves |
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 |
winged pigweed tumbleweed Cycloloma atriplicifolium | bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds |
winged everlasting Ammobium alatum | Australian plant widely cultivated for its beautiful silvery-white blooms with bright yellow centers on long winged stems |
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 |
winged elm wing elm Ulmus alata | North American elm having twigs and young branches with prominent corky projections |
winged pea asparagus pea Lotus tetragonolobus | sprawling European annual having a -winged edible pod |
winged bean winged pea goa bean goa bean vine Manila bean Psophocarpus tetragonolobus | a tuberous twining annual vine bearing clusters of purplish flowers and pods with four jagged wings, Old World tropics |
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 |
winged spindle tree Euonymous alatus | bushy deciduous shrub with branches having thin wide corky longitudinal wings, brilliant red in autumn, northeastern Asia to central China |
spur | tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers |
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 |
spur spine acantha | any sharply pointed projection |
spur blight | a disease of raspberries |
goose grease | grease derived from geese |
goose | give a spurt of fuel to, goose the car |
goose | prod into action |
spur | goad with spurs, the rider spurred his horse |
spur | equip with spurs, spur horses |
spur | strike with a spur |
goose | pinch in the buttocks, he goosed the unsuspecting girl |