goose

1. Goose
   A silly creature; a simpleton.
2. Goose
   A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.
3. Goose
   Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.

1. (n) goose
   Any bird of the family Anatidæ and subfamily Anserinæ, of which there are about 40 species of several genera, as well as different varieties of the domesticated bird. See phrases below. Geese are technically distinguished from swans and from ducks by the combination of feathered lores, reticulate tarsi, stout bill high at the base, and simple hind toe. The neck is shorter than in swans, and usually longer than in ducks; the sexes are usually similar, contrary to the rule among ducks. Geese stand higher and walk better than ducks; as a rule they are less decidedly aquatic and more herbivorous, the cæca being more highly developed in consequence. Geese have a peculiar cry or call known as honking, and also utter a hissing sound. The flesh of most geese is highly esteemed. The tame goose in all its varieties is supposed to be descended from the graylag or common wild goose of Europe, A. ferus; but some other related species may have contributed to the domestic stock. The pure-white variety is entirely artificial, and not related to the snow-geese of the genus Chen. The male of the goose is called gander, and the young of either sex gosling.
2. (n) goose
   A silly, foolish person; a simpleton: in allusion to the supposed stupidity of the domestic goose, inferred from its somewhat clumsy appearance and motions.
3. (n) goose
   A tailors' smoothing-iron: so called from the resemblance of its handle to the neck of a goose.
4. (n) goose
   A game of chance formerly common in England. It was played on a card divided into small compartments numbered from 1 to 62, arranged in a spiral figure around a central open space, on which, at the beginning of the game, the stakes were laid, and during the game any forfeits paid. It was played by two or more persons with two dice, and the numbers that turned up to each designated the number of the compartment by which he might advance his mark or counter. It was called the game of goose because at every fourth and fifth compartment in succession a goose was depicted on the card, and, if the throw of the dice carried the counter of the player on a goose, he might move forward double the actual number thrown. Strutt.
5. (n) goose
   A piece used in the game of fox and geese.
6. (n) goose
   The European graylaggoose.
7. goose
   To hiss at; hiss down; condemn by hissing.
8. (n) goose
   In keno, the globe from which the numbered balls are withdrawn.

1. (n) Goose
   gōōs (pl. Geese) a web-footed animal like a duck, but larger and stronger: a tailor's smoothing-iron, from the likeness 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
2. (v.t) Goose
   (slang) to hiss off the stage

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