Goose
- n. A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.
- n. Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.
- n. Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.
- n. A tailor’s smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.
- n. A silly creature; a simpleton.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.