Goose /(go͡os)/
Goose
n.
pl. Geese ((gēs))
- Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinæ, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.
- Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.
- A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.
- A silly creature; a simpleton.
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A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.
The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
Phrases & Compounds
- A wild goose chase
- an attempt to accomplish something impossible or unlikely of attainment.
- Fen goose
- See under Fen.
- Goose barnacle
- any pedunculated barnacle of the genus Anatifa or Lepas; -- called also duck barnacle. See Barnacle, and Cirripedia.
- Goose cap
- a silly person.
- Goose corn
- a coarse kind of rush (Juncus squarrosus).
- Goose feast
- Michaelmas.
- Goose grass
- A plant of the genus Galium (G. Aparine), a favorite food of geese; -- called also catchweed and cleavers.
- Goose neck
- anything, as a rod of iron or a pipe, curved like the neck of a goose;
- Goose quill
- a large feather or quill of a goose; also, a pen made from it.
- Goose skin
- See Goose flesh, above.
- Goose tongue
- a composite plant (Achillea ptarmica), growing wild in the British islands.
- Sea goose
- See Phalarope.
- Solan goose
- See Gannet.