gourd

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The name at the repeating of which the hot drop of liquor remains adhering to the spout of the gourd is the name selected for the child.

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  1. noun Any of several trailing or climbing plants related to the pumpkin, squash, and cucumber and bearing fruits with a hard rind.
  2. noun The fruit of such a plant, often of irregular and unusual shape.
  3. noun The dried and hollowed-out shell of one of these fruits, often used as a drinking utensil.

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  • The gourd is a feminine aspect, the stick is a male. —  Wade Davis on the worldwide web of belief and ritual
  • First the gourd: it's known as the hypno-gourd, and it looks like an ordinary garden-variety gourd, but there's a little peephole in the end, and if you look in that, you freeze. —  Up In A Heaval
  • "Watch out for Gaara's gourd, there's something weird about it." —  Anime Nano!
  • They grow and spread, like the gourd along the ground; but, like the gourd, they give no shade to the traveller, and when they are ripe death gathers them, and they go down unloved into hell, and their name vanishes out of the land. —  Never Yet Melted
  • It makes me flare up all at once and say such nasty things; and you are always as cool as a gourd, and get the best of me Well, you should be more careful," said Glyn. —  Glyn Severn's Schooldays
 

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  1. Middle English gourde, from Anglo-Norman, ultimately from Latin cucurbita.

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  1. from Middle English gourd, gourde, goord, from Old French gourde, contr. of gouhourde, cougourde (later D. kauwoerde), French gourde and courge = Provencal cougourdo = Italian cucuzza (Middle Latin prob. abbreviation *curbita, later Old High German churbiz, Middle High German kürbiz, kürbez, German kürbiss, later Swedish kurbis, kurbits = Anglo-Saxon cyrfet), from Latin cucurbita, a gourd: see Cucurbita.
 

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