Goose

gōōs, n. ( pl. Geese ) a web-footed animal like a duck, but larger and stronger: a tailor's smoothing-iron, from the likene of the handle to the neck of a goose: a stupid, silly person: a game of chance once common in England, in which the players moved counters forward from one compartment on a board to another, the right to a double move being secured when the card bearing the picture of a goose was reached.— v.t. ( slang ) to hi off the stage.— ns. Goose′-cap , a silly person; Goose′-corn , a coarse rush; Goose′-egg , a zero, denoting a mi or failure to score at an athletic or other contest; Goose′-fish , a common name in America for the angler-fish (see Angler ); Goose′-flesh , a puckered condition of the skin, like that of a plucked goose, through cold, fear, .; Goose′-foot , pigweed; Goose′-gra , a species of Bedstraw (q.v.), a common weed in hedges and bushy places in Britain, Europe, and America; Goose′-neck , an iron swivel forming the fastening between a boom and a mast: a bent pipe or tube with a swivel-joint; Goose′-quill , one of the quills or large wing-feathers of a goose, used as pens; Goos′ery , a place for keeping geese: stupidity; Goose′-skin , a kind of thin soft leather; Goose′-step ( mil. ), the marking of time by raising the feet alternately without making progre ; Goose′-wing , one of the clews or lower corners of a ship's mainsail or foresail when the middle part is furled or tied up to the yard.— adj. Goose′-winged , having only one clew set: in fore-and-aft rigged ve els, having the mainsail on one side and the foresail on the other, so as to sail wing-and-wing.— n. Goos′ey , a goose: a blockhead. [A.S. gós ; Ice. gás , Ger. gans , L. anser , Gr. chēn , Sans. hams a .]