Gone
(Gone) p. p. of Go.
Goneness
(Gone"ness), n. A state of exhaustion; faintness, especially as resulting from hunger. [Colloq.
U. S.]
Gonfalon
(Gon"fa*lon Gon"fa*non) n. [OE. gonfanoun, OF. gonfanon, F. gonfalon, the same word as
F. confalon, name of a religious brotherhood, fr. OHG. gundfano war flag; gund war (used in comp.,
and akin to AS. guð) + fano cloth, flag; akin to E. vane; cf. AS. guðfana. See Vane, and cf. Confalon.]
1. The ensign or standard in use by certain princes or states, such as the mediæval republics of Italy, and
in more recent times by the pope.
2. A name popularly given to any flag which hangs from a crosspiece or frame instead of from the staff
or the mast itself.
Standards and gonfalons, 'twixt van and rear,
Stream in the air.
Milton.
Gonfalonier
(Gon`fa*lon*ier") n. [F. gonfalonier: cf. It. gonfaloniere.] He who bears the gonfalon; a
standard bearer; as: (a) An officer at Rome who bears the standard of the Church. (b) The chief magistrate
of any one of several republics in mediæveal Italy. (c) A Turkish general, and standard keeper.
Gong
(Gong) n. [AS. gong, gang, a going, passage, drain. See Gang.] A privy or jakes. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Gong farmer, Gong man, a cleaner of privies. [Obs.]
Gong
(Gong), n.
1. [Malayan (Jav.) gong.] An instrument, first used in the East, made of an alloy of copper and tin,
shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise.
O'er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong.
Longfellow. 2. (Mach.) A flat saucerlike bell, rung by striking it with a small hammer which is connected with it by
various mechanical devices; a stationary bell, used to sound calls or alarms; — called also gong bell.
Gong metal, an alloy (78 parts of copper, 22 of tin), from which Oriental gongs are made.
Goniatite
(Go"ni*a*tite) n. (Paleon.) One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites.
The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the latest, in the Triassic.
Gonidial
(Go*nid"i*al) a. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia.
Gonidial
(Go*nid"i*al), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the angles of the mouth; as, a gonidial groove of an
actinian.
Gonidium
(||Go*nid"i*um) n. [NL., fr. Gr. dim. of angle.] (Zool.) A special groove or furrow at one or
both angles of the mouth of many Anthozoa.
Gonidium
(||Go*nid"i*um), n.; pl. Gonidia [NL., fr. Gr. that which generates.] (Bot.) A component
cell of the yellowish green layer in certain lichens.
Gonimia
(||Go*nim"i*a) n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. productive, fr. that which generates.] (Bot.) Bluish green
granules which occur in certain lichens, as Collema, Peltigera, etc., and which replace the more usual
gonidia.
Gonimous
(Gon"i*mous) a. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a
lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells.
