GAD

  1. (acronym) .  eneralized Anxiety Disorder.
  2. Proper noun.  (biblical) Seventh son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.
  3. Proper noun.  (biblical) One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Gad.
  4. Proper noun.  (given name, male) .
  5. Interjection.  An exclamatory interjection roughly equivalent to 'by God', 'goodness gracious', 'for goodness' sake'.
  6. Verb.  (intransitive) To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
  7. Noun.  A sharp-pointed object; a goad.
  8. Noun.  (obsolete) A metal bar.
  9. Noun.  A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock, especially in mining.
  10. Noun.  (dated, metallurgy) An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, perhaps equivalent to the bloom, perhaps weighing around 100 pounds.

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