goose

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• Goose

  ·noun A silly creature; a simpleton. II. Goose ·noun Any large bird of other related families, rese...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• goose

  n. English bird-name. The Australianspecies are – – Cape Barren Goose – – Cereopsis novae-hollandia...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• goose

  A tailor's smoothing-iron. It is a jocular saying that 'A tailor, be he ever so poor, is always sure...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Brand goose

  ·- A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. ·see <<Brant>>. ...

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• Ember-goose

  ·noun The loon or great northern diver. ·see <<Loon>>. ...

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• Goose egg

  ·add. ·- In games, a zero; a score or record of naught; — so named in allusion to the egglike outli...

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• Goose-rumped

  ·add. ·adj Having the tail set low and buttocks that fall away sharply from the croup; — said of ce...

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• Imber-goose

  ·noun The loon. ·see Ember-goose. ...

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• Sea goose

  ·- A <<Phalarope>>. ...

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• Solan goose

  ·- The common gannet. ...

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• Way-goose

  ·noun ·see Wayz-goose, ·noun, 2. ...

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• Wayz-goose

  ·noun A stubble goose. II. Wayz-goose ·noun An annual feast of the persons employed in a printing o...

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• Goose Alley

  South out of Bow Churchyard to Twelve Bell Court. In Cordwainer Ward (Boyle, 1799). First mention: ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Goose Lane

  See Goose Alley, Bow Churchyard. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• goose riding

  A goose, whose neck is greased, being suspended by the legs to a cord tied to two trees or high post...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• greenwich goose

  A pensioner of Greenwich Hospital. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• strangle goose

  A poulterer. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• taylors goose

  An iron with which, when heated, press down the seams of clothes. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• colonial goose

  n. a boned leg of muttonstuffed with sage and onions. In the early days the sheep wasalmost the sol...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• goose-teal

  n. the English name for a verysmall goose of the genus Nettapus. The Australianspecies are – – Gree...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• magpie-goose

  n. a common name for theAustralian Goose, Anseranus melanoleuca, Lath.; calledalso Swan-goose, and ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• to goose boots

  To repair them by putting on a new front half way up, and a new bottom. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• gone goose

  'It's a gone goose with him,' means that he is past recovery. The phrase is a vulgarism in New Engla...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• goose-grass

  goose-tansy, argentina, or auscrina. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• cole-goose

  A name for the cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo). ...

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• dunter-goose

  A name in the Orkneys for the Somateria mollissima, or eider-duck. ...

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• ember-goose

  (OR IMBER?) A name for the great northern diver or loon (Colymbus glacialis). ...

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• gone-goose

  A ship deserted or given up in despair (in extremis). ...

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• goose-neck

  A curved iron, fitted outside the after-chains to receive a spare spar, properly the swinging boom, ...

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• horie-goose

  A northern name for the Anser bernicla, or brent-goose. ...

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• rood-goose

  A name for the brent-goose. ...

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• sly-goose

  A northern term for the sheldrake, Tadorna vulpanser. ...

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• solan-goose

  The gannet, Sula bassana, a well-known sea fowl, frequenting the coasts of many countries in the nor...

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• Wild Goose Court

  See Wingoose Alley. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• wild-goose chase

  A tedious uncertain pursuit, like the following a flock of wild geese, who are remarkably shy. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cape-barren goose

  n. See goose. 1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. i. p. 114,[Footnote]: «The `Cape B...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• goose-man chick

  a gosling. York, and Glouc. The syllable MAN is redundant, as in FURZE-MAN PIG, a hedge-hog. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• goose without gravy

  A severe starting, so called because no blood followed its infliction. ...

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• mother cary's goose

  The name given by Captain Cook's people to an oceanic brown bird, Procellaria gigantea, which Pernet...

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• Goose Alley, Fleet Market

  See Braziers' Buildings. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Fox and Goose Inn, Yard

  On the south side of London Wall, in Cripplegate Ward Within (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799), between Col...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• goose-wings of a sail

  The situation of a course when the buntlines and lee-clue are hauled up, and the weather-clue down. ...

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• such a reason pist my goose

  or MY GOOSE PIST Said when any one offers an absurd reason. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose