gnomish.html - adj.
1 of, consisting of, or using gnomes or aphorisms; sententious (see GNOME(2) )).
2 Gram. (of a tense) used without the implication of time to express a general truth, e.g. men were deceivers ever.

gnomically adv. [Gk gnomikos (as GNOME(2))]

gnomish.html - n.
1 a a dwarfish legendary creature supposed to guard the earth's treasures underground; a goblin. b a figure of a gnome, esp. as a garden ornament.
2 (esp. in pl.) colloq. a person with sinister influence, esp. financial (gnomes of Zurich).

gnomish adj. [F f. mod.L gnomus (word invented by Paracelsus)]

gnomish.html - n.
a maxim; an aphorism. [Gk gnome opinion f. gignosko know]

gnomish.html - adj.
1 of, consisting of, or using gnomes or aphorisms; sententious (see GNOME(2) )).
2 Gram. (of a tense) used without the implication of time to express a general truth, e.g. men were deceivers ever.

gnomically adv. [Gk gnomikos (as GNOME(2))]

gnomish.html - n.
1 the rod or pin etc. on a sundial that shows the time by the position of its shadow.
2 Geom. the part of a parallelogram left when a similar parallelogram has been taken from its corner.
3 Astron. a column etc. used in observing the sun's meridian altitude.

gnomonic adj. [F or L gnomon f. Gk gnomon indicator etc. f. gignosko know]

gnomish.html - n.pl. an Italian dish of small dumplings usu. made from potato, semolina flour, etc., or from spinach and cheese. [It., pl. of gnocco f. nocchio knot in wood]