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I am told it is a not uncommon term for a servant who a ists, equally, both housemaid and cook. N. and Q., 7th ser., VI. 37. In coal - mining , a sponta gob-fire (gob'fir), n . neo us combustion of the gob or refuse. Gobiesocidæ (gō'bi-e-sos'i-dē), n . pl . [NL., Gobiesox (-esoc-) + -ida.] A family of teleo IMG:content-2466.png:[blocks in formation] Go bio idea (gō-bi-oi'de-a), n . pl . [NL., Gobius + -oidea .] A superfamily of fishes, containing the gobies and goby-like fishes. It includes the families Gobiid a, Call i ony mid a, Platypteri- dæ , and Oxydercida . Gobioides (gō-bi-oi'dēz), n. [NL., Lacépède , 1800. - 2. pl . In Cuvier's system of cla ification, the twelfth family of Acanthopterygii , charae- terized by the length and tenuity of the dorsal alone representing the superfamily Gobiesoci formes or the suborder Xenopterygii . They have spinele fins and a complicated suctorial apparatus, devel. oped chiefly from the skin of the pectoral region and only partly formed by the ventral fins. They are chiefly small fishes of oblong or elongated conical figure, have no scales, a depre ed head, one posterior dorsal fin, with an anal opposite it, and pectorals extended around the front of the sucking-disk. gobiesociform (gō"bi-e-sos'i-fôrm), a . [ biesox + L. form a , form.] Having the characters of the Gobiesocide or the Gobiesociformes, Gobiesociformes (gō"bi-e-sos-i-fôr'mēz), n. pl. [NL., Gobiesox (-esoc-) + form a , shape.] In Günther's system of cla ification, the fourteenth division of Acanthopterygii . Gobiesox (gō-bi'e-soks), n. [NL., gobio , gobi us , a gudgeon, a goby, + esox , a kind of pike.] The typical genus of Gobiesocide : so Gobiesox reticulatus. called from combining the extended snout of a pike and the ventral sucker of a goby. The commonest American species is G. reticulatus of California, about 6 inches long. gobiid (gō'bi-id), a. and n. I. a . Pertaining to the family Gobiid a .