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-goes
(gcide) | Archipelago \Ar`chi*pel"a*go\, n.; pl. -goes or -gos. [It.
arcipelago, properly, chief sea; Gr. pref ? + ? sea, perh.
akin to ? blow, and expressing the beating of the waves. See
Plague.]
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1. The Grecian Archipelago, or [AE]gean Sea, separating
Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number
of small islands.
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2. Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with
many islands or with a group of islands.
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Arangoes
(gcide) | Arango \A*ran"go\ ([.a]*r[a^][ng]"g[-o]), n.; pl. Arangoes
(-g[=o]z). [The native name.]
A bead of rough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported
from Bombay for use in the African slave trade. --McCulloch.
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Cargoes
(gcide) | Cargo \Car"go\, n.; pl. Cargoes. [Sp. cargo, carga, burden,
load, from cargar to load, from cargar to load, charge, See
Charge.]
The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods,
merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat;
load; freight.
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Cargoes of food or clothing. --E. Everett.
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Note: The term cargo, in law, is usually applied to goods
only, and not to live animals or persons. --Burill.
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Contangoes
(gcide) | Contango \Con*tan"go\ (k[o^]n*t[a^][ng]"g[-o]), n.; pl.
Contangoes. [Prob. a corruption of contingent.]
1. (Stock Exchange) The premium or interest paid by the buyer
to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock
purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day.
[Eng.]
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2. (Law) The postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on
the payment of a premium to the seller. See
Backwardation. --N. Biddle.
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Embargoes
(gcide) | Embargo \Em*bar"go\, n.; pl. Embargoes. [Sp., fr. embargar to
arrest, restrain; pref. em- (L. in) + Sp. barra bar, akin to
F. barre bar. See Bar.]
An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure
of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its
dominions; a prohibition to sail.
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Note: If the embargo is laid on an enemy's ships, it is
called a hostile embargo; if on the ships belonging to
citizens of the embargoing state, it is called a civil
embargo.
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Fandangoes
(gcide) | Fandango \Fan*dan"go\, n.; pl. Fandangoes. [Sp. A name
brought, together with the dance, from the West Indies to
Spain.]
1. A lively dance, in 3-8 or 6-8 time, much practiced in
Spain and Spanish America. Also, the tune to which it is
danced.
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2. A ball or general dance, as in Mexico. [Colloq.]
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Flamingoes
(gcide) | Flamingo \Fla*min"go\, n.; pl. Flamingoes. [Sp. flamenco, cf.
Pg. flamingo, Prov. flammant, F. flamant; prop. a p. pr.
meaning flaming. So called in allusion to its color. See
Flame.] (Zool.)
Any bird of the genus Ph[oe]nicopterus. The flamingoes have
webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if
broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American
flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum.
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Ginkgoes
(gcide) | Ginkgo \Gink"go\, n.; pl. Ginkgoes. [Chin., silver fruit.]
(Bot.)
A large ornamental tree (Ginkgo biloba) from China and
Japan, belonging to the Yew suborder of Conifer[ae]. Its
leaves are so like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is
also called the maidenhair tree.
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Hugoesque
(gcide) | Hugoesque \Hugoesque\ adj.
of, pertaining to, or in the style of Victor Hugo.
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Imagoes
(gcide) | Imago \I*ma"go\, n.; pl. Imagoes. [L. See Image.]
1. An image.
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2. (Zool.) The final adult, and usually winged, state of an
insect. See Illust. of Ant-lion, and Army worm. Iman
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Indigoes
(gcide) | Indigo \In"di*go\, n.; pl. Indigoes. [F. indigo, Sp. indigo,
indico, L. indicum indigo, fr. Indicus Indian. See Indian.]
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1. A kind of deep blue, one of the seven prismatic colors.
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2. (Chem.) A blue dyestuff obtained from several plants
belonging to very different genera and orders, such as,
the woad, Isatis tinctoria (family Cruciferae),
Indigofera suffroticosa, Indigofera tinctoria (family
Leguminosae), Indigofera Anil, Nereum tinctorium,
Polygonum tinctorium Ait. (family Polygonaceae), etc.;
called also natural indigo. It is a dark blue earthy
substance, tasteless and odorless, with a copper-violet
luster when rubbed. Indigo does not exist in the plants as
such, but is obtained by decomposition of the glycoside
indican.
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Note: Commercial indigo contains the essential coloring
principle indigo blue or indigotine, with several other
dyes; as, indigo red, indigo brown, etc., and various
impurities. Indigo is insoluble in ordinary reagents,
with the exception of strong sulphuric acid.
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Chinese indigo (Bot.), Isatis indigotica, a kind of woad.
Wild indigo (Bot.), the American herb Baptisia tinctoria
which yields a poor quality of indigo, as do several other
species of the same genus.
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Jingoes
(gcide) | Jingo \Jin"go\, n.; pl. Jingoes. [Said to be a corruption of
St. Gingoulph.]
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1. A word used as a jocular oath. "By the living jingo."
--Goldsmith.
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2. A statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive,
domineering policy in foreign affairs; a bellicose
superpatriot or chavinist. [Cant, Eng.]
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Note: This sense arose from a doggerel song which was popular
during the Turco-Russian war of 1877 and 1878. The
first two lines were as follows:
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We don't want to fight, but by Jingo if we do,
We 've got the ships, we 've got the men, we 've
got the money too.
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Mangoes
(gcide) | Mango \Man"go\, n.; pl. Mangoes. [Pg. manga, fr. Tamil
m[=a]nk[=a]y.]
1. The fruit of the mango tree. It is rather larger than an
apple, and of an ovoid shape. Some varieties are fleshy
and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine.
The green fruit is pickled for market.
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2. A green muskmelon stuffed and pickled.
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Mango bird (Zool.), an oriole (Oriolus kundoo), native of
India.
Mango fish (Zool.), a fish of the Ganges ({Polynemus
risua}), highly esteemed for food. It has several long,
slender filaments below the pectoral fins. It appears
about the same time with the mango fruit, in April and
May, whence the name.
Mango tree (Bot.), an .
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Outgoes
(gcide) | Outgo \Out"go`\, n.; pl. Outgoes.
That which goes out, or is paid out; outlay; expenditure; --
the opposite of income; as, when one's outgo exceeds one's
income, distress follows quickly. --Lowell.
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Vertigoes
(gcide) | Vertigo \Ver"ti*go\ (?; 277), n.; pl. E. Vertigoes, L.
Vertigines. [L., fr. vertere to turn. See Verse.]
1. (Med.) Dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of
the head in which objects, though stationary, appear to
move in various directions, and the person affected finds
it difficult to maintain an erect posture; giddiness.
--Quain.
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2. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small land snails
belonging to the genus Vertigo, having an elongated or
conical spiral shell and usually teeth in the aperture.
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Viragoes
(gcide) | Virago \Vi*ra"go\ (?; 277), n.; pl. Viragoes. [L. virago,
-intis, from vir a man. See Virile.]
1. A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a
woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man;
a female warrior.
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To arms! to arms! the fierce virago cries. --Pope.
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2. Hence, a mannish woman; a bold, turbulent woman; a
termagant; a vixen.
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Virago . . . serpent under femininity. --Chaucer.
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Winnebagoes
(gcide) | Winnebagoes \Win`ne*ba"goes\, n.; sing. Winnebago. (Ethnol.)
A tribe of North American Indians who originally occupied the
region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven back
from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the
IIlinnois.
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