[ Prob. fr. 1st brand + goose: cf. Sw. brandgås. Cf. Brant. ] (Zool.) A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America
n. [ Perh. fr. Gael. & Ir. cir, cior (pronounced kir, kior), crest, comb + E. goose. Cf. Crebe. ] (Zool.) A species of grebe (Podiceps crisratus); the crested grebe. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.) The cormorant; -- so called from its black color. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.) See Coalgoose. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. Norw. embergaas, hav-imber, hav-immer, Icel. himbrin, himbrimi. ] (Zoöl.) The loon or great northern diver. See Loon.
n.;
☞ The common domestic goose is believed to have been derived from the European graylag goose (Anser anser). The bean goose (A. segetum), the American wild or Canada goose (Branta Canadensis), and the bernicle goose (Branta leucopsis) are well known species. The American white or snow geese and the blue goose belong to the genus
☞ The Egyptian or fox goose (Alopochen Aegyptiaca) and the African spur-winged geese (
The pictures placed for ornament and use,
The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]
A wild goose chase,
Fen goose.
Goose barnacle (Zool.),
Goose cap,
Goose corn (Bot.),
Goose feast,
Goose grass. (Bot.)
Goose neck,
Goose quill,
Goose skin.
Goose tongue (Bot.),
Sea goose. (Zool.)
Solan goose. (Zool.)
n.;
Barbadoes gooseberry,
Coromandel gooseberry.
Gooseberry fool.
Gooseberry worm (Zool.),
n. Same as gooseflesh. [ PJC ]
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n. (Zool.) See Angler. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A peculiar roughness of the skin produced by cold or fear, in which the hair follicles become erect and form bumps on the skin; -- called also
n. (Bot.) A genus of herbs (
n. (Bot.), A low-growing perennial (Potentilla anserina) having leaves silvery beneath; foundin Northern U. S., Europe, and Asia.
n. Same as gooseflesh. [ PJC ]
a. (Zool.) Having the tail set low and buttocks that fall away sharply from the croup; -- said of certain horses. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n.;
The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Same as gooseflesh. [ PJC ]
n. (Bot.), Same as goose-grass.
n. (Naut.) One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Naut.)
n. (Zool.) The loon. See Ember-goose. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The supposed author of a book of nursery rhymes first published as “Mother Goose's Melodies, ” and usually called simply “Mother Goose.” The first English edition is said to have been printed in 1719 in London. The actual persons who composed the rhymes is unknown, and earlier similar rhymes in French are a likely source for some of them.
(Zool.) A phalarope. [ 1913 Webster ]
[ Icel. s&unr_;la; akin to Norw. sula. ] (Zool.) The common gannet. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. See Wayz-goose, n., 2. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Wase stubble + goose. ] [ 1913 Webster ]