gardiner
- n British historian remembered for his ten-volume history of England (1829-1902)
gardner
- n United States collector and patron of art who built a museum in Boston to house her collection and opened it to the public in 1903 (1840-1924)
- n writer of detective novels featuring Perry Mason (1889-1970)
garfield
- n 20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881)
garfish
- n primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth
gargantua
- n a voracious giant in Francois Rabelais' book of the same name
garget
- n tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
gargle
- n a medicated solution used for gargling and rinsing the mouth
- n the sound produced while gargling
- v utter with gargling or burbling sounds
- v rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash
gargle with this liquid
gargoyle
- n a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal
- n an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal
gargoylism
- n hereditary disease (autosomal recessive) consisting of an error is mucopolysaccharide metabolism; characterized by severe abnormalities in development of skeletal cartilage and bone and mental retardation