GARLAND 365 GARRISON to plait round about. Wedgwood derives grene, grain; L. granaria, a place where Garnishing (gär'nish-ing), n. That which it from gala, through the old or provincial corn is kept, from granum, a grain. See garnishes; ornament. Fr. forms gallende, gallande, which are found GRANARY.) A granary; a building or place Garnishment (gär'nish-ment), n. 1. Ornain the sense of garland.] 1. A royal crown; where grain is stored for preservation. ment; embellishment. a diadem. Earth's increase, foison plenty, Satan's cleanliness is pollution, and his garnish. In whose (Edward the Fourth's) time, and by Barns and garners never empty. Shak. ment disorder and wickedness. Bp. Hall. whose occasion, what about the getting of the gar. land, keeping it, losing and winning again, it hath Garner (gär'nėr), v.t. To store in, or as in, 2. In law, (a) warning; legal notice to the cost more English blood than hath twice the winning a granary. agent or attorney of an absconding debtor of France. Sir T. More. But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, for him to appear in court or give informa2. A wreath or chaplet made of branches, Where either I must live, or bear no life. Shak. tion. (b) Warning not to pay money, &c., flowers, feathers, and sometimes of precious Garnet (gärnet), n. (Fr. grenat, It. granato, to a defendant, but to appear and answer stones, usually intended to be worn on the granata, from L. granum, grain, seed, and to a plaintiff-creditor's suit.-3. A fee. See head like a crown.-3. The top; the principal in later times the cochineal insect and the GARNISH, n. 4. thing, or thing most prized. scarlet dye obtained from it--cochineal in- Garnison, t Garneson,t n. [Fr.) A guard Call him noble that was now your hate, sects being once supposed to be seeds of or garrison. Him vile that was your garland, Shak. a species of oak. Comp. Sp. grana, the For thus sayth Tullius, that ther is a maner gar. 4. A collection of little printed pieces; a cochineal insect; It. granato (fino), fine neson, that no man may vanquish ne discomfite, and that is a Lord to be beloved of his citizeins and of book of extracts; a book of ballads; an an- scarlet; and see GRAIN. The name would his peple. chancer. thology. therefore probably be given to the stone on Garniture (gär'ni - tūr), n. Ornamental These (ballads) came forth in such abundance, account of its fine crimson colour.] 1. The appendages; furniture; dress; embellishthat in the reign of James I, they began to be col- name common to a group or family of ments. lected into little miscellanies, under the name of gar. minerals varying considerably in compo * The pomp of groves and garniture lands, and at length to be written purposely for such of fields.' Beattie. Bp. Percy. Her education in youth was not much attended to; 5. In arch. a band of ornamental work round and she happily missed all that train of female garniwhich composes about half the mineral. ture which passeth by the name of accomplishments. the top of a tower.-6. A sort of bag of netGarnets occur generally in mica-slate, horn Lamb. work, having the mouth extended by a hoop, blende-slate, gneiss, and granite, usually in Garookuh (ga-rö'ka), n. A vessel met with used by sailors instead of a locker or cup crystals more or less regular. The crystals in the Persian Gulf, and trading often as far board to hold provisions in.-7. Naut. a have numerous sides, from twelve to sixty as the Malabar coast. In length it varies name given to a band, collar, or grommet of or even eighty-four. The prevailing colour from 50 to 100 feet, and is remarkable for ropes, used for various purposes; as, (a) a is red of various shades, but often brown, the keel being only one-third the length of large rope, strap, or grommet lashed to a spar and sometimes green, yellow, or black. the boat. Though well formed it does not when hoisting it on board. (b) A collar of They sometimes resemble the hyacinth, equal the baggala; it sails well, but carries ropes wound round the head of a mast to the leucite, and the idocrase. The colour only a small cargo, and is more suitable for keep the shrouds from chafing. (c) A large is due to the presence of oxide of iron, of fishing than for trading purposes. rope-grommet for retaining shot in its pro manganese, or of chrome. In addition to Garotte (ga-rot), n. Same as Garrote. per place on deck. The name is also given the coarse or common garnet there are the Garotte (ga-rot'), v. t. Same as Garrote. to a band of iron or stone, used in land bat noble, precious, or oriental garnet, of crim- Garotter (ga-rot'er), n. Same as Garroter. teries for a like purpose. son-red colour, the most prized of all the Garous (gārsus), a. (L. garum, pickle.) PerGarland (gär'land), v. t. To deck with a gar- varieties, of which the finest specimens are taining to or resembling garum; resembling land or garlands. 'A troop of little chil imported from Syriam in Pegu, the grossu- pickle made of fish. dren garlanded.' Keats. lar or olive-green garnet from Siberia, the Gar-pike (går’pīk), n. (Gar (which see) and Again and again they have seen their noblest de- pyrope, the topazolite, the succinite, the pike.) The common garfish (Belone vulgaris). scend into the grave, and have thought it enough to melanite, the pyrenite, the allochroite, the See GARFISH. garland the tombstone when they had not crowned the brow. Ruskin. aplome, and the colophonite.-2. Naut. a Garran, Garron (ga'ran, ga'ron), n. [Ir. Garlic (gärlik), n. [A. Sax. gårléc or garleac, sort of tackle fixed to the main-stay, and garran, Sc. garron, a work-horse, a hack. used to hoist in and out the cargo. Akin G. and Sw. gurre, a jade, a mare of from går, a dart or lance-from the spear Zincshaped leaves-and leûc, a pot-herb, a leek, Garnet-blende (gär'net-blend), n. mean value.! A small horse; a Highland which appears as a frequent termination in blende, a sulphide of zinc. See ZINC. horse; a hack; a jade; a galloway. A species names of plants, as hemlock, charlock, &c.] Garnet-hinge (går'net-hinj), n. By my description he in short is Allium sativum, a hardy bulbous perennial, of hinge resembling the letter T laid hori. A pack and a garran, a top and a tortoise. Swift. indigenous to the south of France, Sicily, zontally; thus, F. Called in Scotland a Garret (gär), v.t. (See GAR.) To force; to and the south of Europe, which forms a Cross-tailed Hinge. cause. favourite condiment among the people of Garnetiferous (gär-net-if'er-us), a. Con So matter did she make of nought, Southern Europe. It has a very strong, and taining garnets, as a rock matrix. To stirre up strise, and garre them disagree. Spenser. to many unpleasant odour, and an acrid Garnish (gär'nish), v.t. (Fr. garnir, to pro- Garret (ga'ret), n. (O. Fr. garite, a place of pungent taste. Each bulb is composed of vide or equip with things necessary; It. refuge, an elevated lodge for a sentinel, several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, guarnire, guernire, 0.Sp. guarnir; from the from garer, to beware, to take heed of; inclosed in a common membranous coat German--comp. O.H.G. warnôn, G. warnen, 0.H.G. werjan, G. wehren, Goth. varjan, to and easily separable. Used as a medicine A. Sax, warnian, to take care, to warn. As defend. Akin ward, guard, ware, warn.] garlic is stimulant, tonic, and promotes regards the term. -ish in verbs, see ABASH. 1. A turret or battlement. digestion; it has also diuretic and sudorific The root is seen also in wary, beware, guard, He saw men go up and down on the garrets of the properties, and is a good expectorant. ward.] 1. To adorn; to decorate with ap- gates and walls. Lord Berners, Garlic (gärlik), n. A jig or farce popular pendages; to set off. 2. That part of a house which is on the upper at the beginning of the seventeenth cen Al within with flowers was garnished. Spenser. floor, immediately under the roof. tury. Goodrich. 2. To fit with fetters: a cant term. Johnson. My Lord St. Albans said that nature did never put Garlic-eater (gärlik-ēt-ér), n. Used by 3. To furnish; to supply; as, a fort garnished her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and Shakspere in Coriolanus in the sense of a with troops. —4. In cookery, to ornament, as therefore that exceeding tallinen had ever very empty heads. Bacon. low fellow, from the fact that garlic was a a dish, with something laid round it. favourite viand in Greece and Rome among Garrett (ga'ret), n. The colour of rotten No man lards salt pork with orange-peel, wood. Bacon. the lower orders. Or garnishes his lamb with spitchcock'd eel. King. Garlickwort (går lik-wert), n. A plant, Garret (gaéret), v.t. To insert, as small pieces 5. In law, to warı; to give notice. "To gar- of stone, in the joints of coarse masonry. Sisymbrium Alliaria. WhiGarlicky (gärlik-i), a. nish the heir, i.e. to warn the heir.' Like or containing Protected by or Garreted (ga'ret-ed), a. shaw. garlic. Fenced provided with garrets or turrets. Garnish (går'nish), n. 1. Ornament; some Carew. Garlic-pear Tree (gärlik-pār trē), n. The with a garreted wall.' thing added for embellishment; decoration; English name of Cratæva gymandra, a tree Garreteer (ga-ret-er'), n. An inhabitant of dress; array. of the West Indies, nat, order Capparidaceæ, a garret: applied to a poor author. the bark of which blisters like cantharides, Matter and figure they produce; To pen with garreteers obscure and shabby, For garnish this, and that for use. Prior. Inscriptive nonsense in a fancied abbey. Mathias. and the fruit of which has a strong scent of So are you, sweet, garlic. Garreting, Garretting (ga'ret-ing), n. Even in the lovely garnish of a boy. Shak. Garment (gär'ment), n. (Fr. garnement; Small pieces of stone inserted in the joints 2. In cookery, something round a dish as an of coarse masonry. 0. Fr. garniment, from garnir, to provide or embellishment.-3. Fetters. (Cant.]4. A fee, supply with, to furnish, to deck. See GAR Garret-master(ga'ret-mas-tér), n. A maker NISH.) Any article of clothing, as a coat, a as to a servant; specifically, money paid by of household furniture on his own account a prisoner on his going to prison as a fee to gown, &c.; anything which covers, as cloth who sells his goods to the furniture-dealers. fellow-prisoners: now illegal. ing; a vestment. These garret-masters are a class of small 'tradeThe sheriffs of London have ordered, that no No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old working masters,'the same as the chamber-masters' Mat. ix, 16. debtor, in going into any of the gaols of London garment, in the shoe trade, supplying both capital and labour. and Middlesex, shall for the future pay any garnish. Mayhew. Grief fills the room up of my absent ild, Gent. Mag. 1752. Garret-story (ga'ret-sto-ri), n. The upperStuffs out his vacant garments with his form. Shak. 5. The act of warning an heir: abolished by most story of a house; the story on which Through the rent veil of mortal flesh a diviner 6 Geo. IV. cv. light has streamed on Christian thought than when the garrets are situated. it was only a seamless garment which the spirit wore. Garnish - bolt (gär'nish-bolt), n. A bolt Garrison (ga'ri-sn), n. (Fr. garnison, from Dr. Caird. having a chamfered or faceted' head. garnir, to provide, to furnish. See GARGarmented (går'ment-ed), a. Covered with Garnished (gär'nisht), pp. In her. an epi- NISH. Akin garret, garment, &c.) 1. A body a garment. Edin. Rev. (Rare.) thet for a charge provided with any orna- of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town Garmenture (gárment-ur), n. Clothes; ment. to defend it against an enemy or to keep the dress; garments. Garnishee (gär-nish-ē), n. In law, a person inhabitants in subjection.--2. A fort, castle, Imagination robes it in her own garmenture of light. warned not to pay money which he owes to or fortified town furnished with troops to G. P. R. James. another person who is indebted to the per- defend it.-3. The state of being placed in a Garnement, + n. (See GARMENT.) A gar- son warning or giving notice. fortification for its defence; the act of doing ment. Chaucer. Garnisher (gär'nish-ėr), n. One who gar- duty in a fort or as forming part of a garrison; Garner (gär'ner), n. (Fr. grenier, a corn-loft, nishes or decorates. as, troops laid in garrison. GARRISON 366 GAS-BURNER Garrison (gaʼri-sn), v.t. 1. To place troops of shrubs consisting of only one genus, Garter-snake (gär'tėr-snák), n. An American in, as in a fortress, for defence; to furnish Garrya, which is now usually regarded as a serpent, the Coluber sirtalis. with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town. tribe of Cornaceæ. See GARRYĂ. Garth (gärth), n. [See GARDEN, YARD. 2. To secure or defend by fortresses manned Garter (gär'tér), n. [From an old or dialectal W. gardd, an inclosure, yard, garth, and with troops; as, to garrison a conquered Fr. word, gartier = Fr. jarretière, from jar. gardden, a garden, are borrowed from Eng. territory. ret, o. Fr. garret, ham, hough, from a Celt. lish.] 1. A close; a yard; a croft; a garden. Garron (ga'ron), n. See GARRAN. word, gar, leg; comp. W. gardas, gardys, Caught his hand and wrung it passionately, Garrot (ga'rot), n. The common name given from gar, the leg; Gael gartan, a garter; And past into the little garth beyond. Tennysor. to the ducks of the genus Clangula, of Armor. går or garr, the leg.) 1. A string 2. The greensward or grass area between, or the oceanic section of the duck family, hav- or band used to tie a stocking to the leg: within the cloisters of a religious house. ing the bill shorter than the head, widely 2. The badge of the highest order of knight- 3. A dam or weir for catching fish.-4. A distributed over the temperate regions of hood in Great Britain, called the order of hoop or band. [Provincial.] Europe and America. The golden-eyed the Garter; hence, also, the order itself. This Garthman (garth'man), n. The proprietor garrot (C. chrysophthalmus) is a common order is one of of an open weir for taking fish, species in Britain. the most illus Garum (ga'rum), n. [L.) A fish sauce much Garrot (ga'rot), n. (Fr., from garrotter, to trious of the prized by the ancients, made of small fish tie fast.) In surg. a compressing bandage, military orders preserved in a certain kind of pickle; also, tightened by twisting a small cylinder of of knighthood a pickle made of the gills or blood of the wood, by which the arteries of a limb are in Europe. It tunny. compressed for the purpose of suspending is said to have Garvie, Garvie-herring (gär vi, gär'vi-hethe flow of blood in cases of hemorrhage, been founded ring), n. The name in Scotland for the aneurism, amputation, &c. Dunglison. by Edward IIL sprat, Harengula (Clupea) sprattus. Garrote (ga-rot'), n. [Sp. garrote, a cudgel, in memory of Gas (gas), n. (Fr. gaz, a word formed by Van a post or stake-from the post to which the the following Helmont to signify, in general, a spirit not collar that strangulates the criminal is at- circumstance. capable of being coagulated: probably in tached; probably from a root garr, gar, seen The Countess connection with D. geest, spirit, A. Sax. gast, in Pr. and Catal. garrig, an oak, Pr. garra, of Salisbury G. geist.) 1. In chem, an elastic aeriform a leg; Armor. and W. gar, shank, shin.] having drop fluid, a term originally synonymous with 1. A mode of punishment in Spain by stran- ped her garter air, but afterwards restricted to such bodies gulation, the victim being placed on a stool while dancing, as were supposed to be incapable of being with a post or stake behind, to which is the king pick reduced to a liquid or solid state. Under affixed an iron collar with a screw; this ed it up and this supposition gas was defined to be 'a collar is made to clasp the neck of the cri- tied it round term applied to all permanently elastic minal, and drawn tighter by means of the his own leg: fluids or airs differing from common air.' screw till life becomes extinct. -2. The in- but, observing Since the liquefaction of gases by Faraday, strument by means of which this punish- the jealous effected by combining the condensing powers ment is inflicted. glances of the of mechanical compression with that of very Garrote (ga-rot'), v.t. pret. & pp. garroted; queen, he re considerable depression of temperature, the ppr. garroting. 1. To strangle by means of stored it to its distinction between gas and vapour, viz. the garrote. – 2. To rob by compressing a owner with the that the latter could be reduced to a liquid person's windpipe and otherwise maltreat- exclamation : or solid condition by reduction of temperaing him till he become insensible, or at least Honi soit qui helpless. ture and increase of pressure, while gas mal y pense Insignia of the Garter. could not be so altered, is no longer tenable, Garrote (ga-rot'), v.i. To cheat in card- (Shamed be he so that the term has resumed nearly its oriplaying by concealing certain cards at the who thinks evil of it). The peculiar emblem ginal signification, and designates any subback of the neck: a mode of cheating prac- of the order is a dark blue ribbon, edged stance in an elastic aeriform state. Gas tised amongst card-sharpers. with gold, bearing the motto, and with a may now be defined to be a substance posGarroter (ga-rot'er), n. One who commits buckle and pendant of gold (fig. 5). It is sessing the condition of perfect fluid elasthe act of garroting. worn on the left leg below the knee. The ticity, and presenting, under a constant Garrote-robbery (ga-rot'rob-e-ri), n. A rob- mantle is of blue velvet, lined with white pressure, a uniform state of expansion for bery committed by means of garroting or taffeta; the hood and surcoat are of crimson equal increments of temperature, being discompressing the victim's windpipe till he velvet, and the hat is of black velvet with tinguished by this last property from va. becomes insensible. This crime is usually a plume of white ostrich feathers, with a pour, which does not present such a rate of effected by three accomplices — the fore- tuft of black heron's feathers in the centre. uniform expansion. Gases are distinguished stall or man who walks before the intended The collar of gold (fig. 3) consists of twenty from liquids by the name of elastic fluids; victim, the back-stall who walks behind the six pieces, each in the form of a garter; and while liquids are termed non-elastic, because operator and his victim, and the nasty-man, the badge of the order (fig. 4), consisting of they have, comparatively, no elasticity. But the actual perpetrator of the crime. The a figure of St. George on horseback fighting the most prominent distinction is the folpurpose of the stalls is to conceal the crime, the dragon, depends from it. The lesser lowing:- Liquids are compressible to a cergive alarm of danger, carry off the booty, George (fig. 2) is worn on a broad blue rib tain degree, and expand into their former and facilitate the escape of the nasty-man. bon over the left shoulder. The star (fig. 1), state when the pressure is removed; and in Garrulinæ (gär-ry-li' nē), n. pl. A sub-fa- formerly only a cross, is of silver, and con- so far they are elastic, but gases appear to mily of conirostral birds of the order Pas- sists of eight points, with the cross of St. be in a continued state of compression, for seres and family Corvidæ, of which the genus George in the centre, encircled by the gar- when left unconfined they expand in every Garrulus is the type. See GARRULUS. ter. Until the reign of Edward VI, the title direction to an extent which has not hitherto Garrulity (ga-rurli-ti), n. The quality of of the order was the Order of St. George, been determined. Gases retain their elasbeing garrulous; talkativeness; loquacity. which name it is still known by. The ori ticity in all ordinary temperatures, and in Garrulous (ga'ru-lus), a. (L. garrulus, from ginal number of knights was twenty-six, and this they differ from vapours. The number garrio, to prate, to chatter; Gr. gēryo, Doric this is still the nominal number, although of gaseous bodies is great, and they differ garyo, to speak, to cry. Akin Ir. gairim, the princes of the blood are admitted as su greatly in their chemical properties. They to bawl, to shout; also E. to call.] Talk- pernumerary members. —3. A king-of-arms, are all, however, susceptible of forming comative; prating; characterized by long prosy instituted by Henry V. for the service of the binations with fluid and solid substances. talk, with minuteness and frequent repeti- order of the Garter. His duties are to attend Many of them are of great importance in the tion in recording details; as, garrulous old upon the knights at their solemnities, to arts and manufactures, and one, viz. coal. age. intimate their election, to call them to be gas, has contributed immensely to the comHis (Leigh Hunt's) style is well suited for light, installed at Windsor, to cause their arms to fort and convenience of our cities and towns. garrulous, desultory ana. Macaulay. be suspended above their stalls, to marshal Gases are invisible except when coloured, - Talkative, Loquacious, Garrulous. See their funeral processions, &c. He is also which happens in two or three instances. under TALKATIVE. principal king-of-arms in England, and as 2. In popular lan. coal-gas (which see), the Garrulously (ga'ry-lus-li), adv. In a garru such grants and confirms arms under the common gas used for illuminating purposes. lous or talkative manner; chatteringly. “To authority of the earl-marshal, to whom, Gas (gas), v.t. To singe, as loose filaments whom the little novice garrulously." Tenny however, he is not subject as garter-king- from net, lace, &c., by passing the material son. of-arms. 4. In her, the half of a bend. between two rollers, and exposing it to the Garrulousness (ga’ry-lus-nes), n. Talka5. pl. In a circus, the tapes that are held up action of a large number of minute jets of tiveness. for a performer to leap over. gas. Garrulus (ga'rų-lus), n. A genus of inses- (The clown) offered at the garters four times last Gasalier (gas-a-ler), n. Same as Gaselier, sorial birds of the crow family, containing night, and never done 'em once. Dickens. Gas-bath (gas'bäth), n. A bath heated by the jays. Various species are found in Garter (gär'tėr), v.t. 1. To bind with a gas. North America and the mountainous parts garter. Gas-bracket (gas'brak-et), n. A pipe, freof Asia. Our common jay is the Garrulus glandarius. He being in love could not see to garter his hose, quently curved or jointed, projecting from and you being in love cannot see to put on your hose. the wall of a room, the body of a gaselier, Garrya (ga'ri-a), n. [Named after Mr. Garry, Shak. &c., which gives out the gas, and into which of the Hudson's Bay Company, who facili- 2. To invest with the order of the Garter. the burner is fitted. tated Douglas's botanical researches in 'A circle of gartered peers.' Macaulay. Gas-burner (gas bērn-ér), n. That part of a North-west America.) A genus of opposite- Garter-fish (garter-fish), n. A name some- gas lamp or bracket which gives out and leaved evergreen shrubs, natives of Cali- times given to Lepidopus argyreus, a teleos- regulates the light. Gas-burners have a great fornia, Mexico, Cuba, and Jamaica. G. tean fish, now better known as the Scabbard- many different forms, some being either elliptica is a very handsome shrub, which is fish, having a long depressed body like the simple beaks perforated with a small round not unfrequent in our gardens, having been blade of a sword, which reaches 6 feet in hole, or with a series of holes in the form of introduced in 1828. It is a diecious plant, length. a circle, to produce an argand flame, or two only the male of which is in cultivation; Garter-king, Garter-king-of-arms, Gar- holes drilled obliquely, to make the flame this produces long drooping necklace-like ter-king-at-arms (gär’-tér-king, går'ter- cross like a swallow's tail, or with a slit catkins of pale yellow flowers. king-ov-armz, gär'tėr-king-at-ärmz), n. See producing a sheet of flame called a bat's Garryaceæ (ga-ri-a'sé-ė), n. pl. A small group GARTER, 3. wing. Sometimes several radiating jets are GAS-CHECK 367 GAST into gas. made to issue from the same burner. The shrewd; sagacious; having the appearance (6) An instrument for measuring the quanbude-burner has two or three concentric of sagacity joined with that of self-import- tity of gas employed in any chemical experiargand rings. ance; trim; well-dressed. [Scotch.] ment. — 2. A reservoir or storehouse for gas, Gas-check (gas' chek), n. In gunnery, a He was a gash an' faithfu' tyke especially for the ordinary illuminating gas ring or plate behind the charge-chamber of As ever lap a sheugh or dyke. Burns. produced in gas-works, and which supplies certain breech-loading ordnance, designed Here farmers gash, in ridin' graith, Burns. to prevent the escape of gas to the rear. Gaed hoddin by their cotters. Gas-coal (gas' kõl) n. A coal, as cannel- Gash (gash), v.i. To gossip; to converse; to coal, employed for making gas. chatter. (Scotch.] Gas-company (gas kum-pa-ni), n. A joint- She lea'es them gashin' at their cracks, stock company formed to supply gas to a An' slips out by herself, Burns. Gashful (gash'fyl), a. Ghastly; hideous; Nor prodigal upbanding of thine eyes, Gasconade (gas-kon-ād'), n. (Fr. from Gas- Whose gashful balls do seem to pelt the skies. con, an inhabitant of Gascony, the people Quarles. of which are noted for boasting.) A boast Gashliness (gashli-nes), n. The condition or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging. or quality of being gashly or ghastly; hor ribleness; dreadfulness; dismalness. "The I tell you, without any gasconade, that I had rather be banished for my whole life, because I have helped general dulness (gashliness was Mrs. Wickto make the peace, than be raised to the highest am's strong expression) of her present life.' honour for having contributed to obstruct it. Dickens. Bolingbroke. Gashly (gash'li), a. Calculated to inspire gasconaded; ppr. gasconading. To boast; Sterne. Gasometer. Gasification (gas'i-fi - kā"shon), n. [See the various pipes employed in lighting Gas-condenser (gas kon-den-sër), n. A part GASIFY.] The act or process of converting streets and houses; usually, a cylinder closed of the apparatus used in the manufacture at one end and having the other end imof illuminating gas, consisting of a series of Gasiform (gā'zi - form), a. Gaseous; aeri- mersed in water, in which it rises or falls, convoluted pipes surrounded by water, in form. according to the volume of gas it contains. passing through which the gas is freed from Gasify (gas'i-fi), v.t. pret. & pp. gasified; [Gasholder or gas-tank is a preferable term the tar it brings with it from the retort. ppr. gasifying." [E. gas, and L. facio, to to gasometer in this sense, as the structure Gascoynes (gas koinz), n. pl. Same as Gas- make.] To convert into gas or an aeriform is simply a reservoir and has nothing to do kins. Beau & Fl. fluid, as by the application of heat, or by with measuring the gas.) Gascromh (gas krõm), n. [Gael. cas, a foot, chemical processes. Gasometric (gaz-o-met'rik), n. Of or perand crom, crooked-crooked foot.] A long Gas-indicator (gas'in-di-kāt-ér), n. An in taining to gasometry or the measurement pick, with a cross-handle and projecting strument for indicating the pressure of gas of gases.--Gasometric analysis, in chem, the foot-piece, used in the Highlands for digging in a pipe. process of separating and estimating the in stony ground, when no other instrument Gas-jet (gas'jet), n. 1. A spout of flame relative proportions of the constituents of can be introduced ; a foot-pick. Sir W. issuing from a gas-burner.-2. A gas-burner. a gaseous body. This is effected either by Scott. Gasket (gas'ket), n. (Fr. garcette, a gasket, the action of absorbents, as on gas contained Gasefy (gas'e-fí), v.t. Same as Gasify. cat-o'-nine-tails; Sp. garceta, a gasket, also in a eudiometer (which see), or by exploding Gaseity (gas-ē'i-ti), n. The state of being hair which falls in locks on the temples, the gas with oxygen and observing the volgaseous. It. gaschette. Origin unknown.) 1. Naut. a umes before and after explosion. Gaselier (gas'e-lēr), n. [Formed from gas plaited cord fastened to the sail-yard of a Gasometry (gaz-om'et-ri), n. The science, by a kind of erroneous imitation of chand- ship, and used to furl or tie the sail to the art, or practice of measuring gases; that deelier.] A frame with brackets or branches yard.-2. In mach, a strip of leather, tow, partment of chemical science which treats adapted for burning gas, as a chandelier for platted hemp, or similar material, used for of the nature and properties of gases. burning candles. packing a piston, as of the steam-engine Gasoscope (ga'zo-skop), n. [Gas, and Gr. Gas-engine (gas'en-jin), n. An engine for and its pumps. skopeo, to see.) An instrument for indicatutilizing coal-gas as a motive power. There Gaskins (gas'kinz), n. pl. (See GALLIGAS- ing the pressure of gas in buildings, mines, are several varieties, the main features of all KINS.] Galligaskins; wide open breeches. or other places. being the admission of gas largely diluted If one point break, the other will hold; or, if both Gasp (gasp), v.i. [Icel. geispa, to yawn; Dan. with common air into the cylinder till it is break, your gaskins fall. Shak. gispe, to gasp; L. G. japen, japeen, the former half full, and then exploding the mixture by Gas-lamp (gas'lamp), n. A lamp, the light of which recalls the E. gape.] 1. To open an electric spark or a gas-jet. in which is supplied by gas, as a street- the mouth wide in laborious respiration; to Gaseous (gā zē-us), a. 1. In the form of gas lamp. labour for breath; to respire convulsively; or an aeriform fluid; of the nature of gas. Gas-lantern (gas lan-térn), n. A frame of to pant violently. 2. Wanting substance or solidity; flimsy. glass for inclosing one or more gas-burners She gasps and struggles hard for life. Lloyd. Cnconnected, gaseous information. Sir J. in streets, at street doors, &c. Stephens 2. To pant with eagerness; to crave veheGaslight (gas’līt), n. Light produced by the Gaseousness (gā'zē-us-nes), n. State or mently. "Quenching the gasping furrows combustion of coal-gas; a gas-jet. quality of being gaseous. thirst for rain.' Spenser.– To gasp after, to Gas-main (gas'mān), n. One of the prinGas-fitter (gas'fit-ér), n. A workman who vehemently long for. cipal pipes which convey the gas from the lays pipes and fits burners for gas; one who The Castilian seeing how dearly they loved one gasworks to the places where it is to be con another, and gasped after liberty, demanded a most puts up gas-fixtures. sumed. exorbitant price for their ransom. Spectator. Gas-fixture (gas’fiks-tūr), n. A bracket or Gas-meter (gas’mēt-er), n. An instrument Gasp (gasp), v.t. To emit or utter with gaselier for gas, including burner and stop- through which the gas is made to pass, in cock gaspings or pantings: with away, forth, out, order to ascertain the number of cubic feet &c. Gas-furnace (gas' fer-nās), n. A furnace which are consumed in a given time at a And with short sobs he gasps away his breath. of which the fuel is gas from burners so particular place. Of this instrument there Dryden. disposed in the chambers as to give the are two classes, the wet and the dry. The She couldn't see even her children's faces, though maximum heating power. wet meter is composed of an outer box about we heard her gasping out their names. Dickens Gas-gauge (gas'gāj), n. An instrument for three-fifths filled with water. Within this Gasp (gasp), n. The act of opening the ascertaining the pressure of gas, generally is a revolving four-chambered drum, each mouth to catch the breath; laboured respirconsisting of a bent graduated tube con chamber being capable of containing a de- ation; a short painful catching of the breath. taining water or mercury, open at one end, finite quantity of gas, which is admitted and with the other screwed into the vessel Cheating the sick of a few last gasps, through a pipe in the centre of the meter, To pestle a poison'd poison behind his crimson lights. containing the gas. and, owing to the arrangement of the par Tennyson. Gas-governor (gas'guv-ér-nér), n. titions of the chambers, causes the drum to Gaspereaux (gas' pėr - o), n. A North paratus for equalizing the pressure of gas maintain a constant revolution. This sets American name for the fish called Alewife. previous to its issuing from the gasometer in motion a train of wheels carrying the See ALEWIFE. for the supply of light, and for preventing hands over the dials which mark the quan- Gaspingly (gasp'ing-li), adv. In a gasping inequalities of pressure arising from putting tity of gas consumed. The dry meter con- manner; with a gasp or with gasps. out lights at different periods of the night. sists of two or three chambers, each divided Gas-pipe (gas'pīp), n. A pipe for the conGash (gash) n. (According to Skeat a cor by a flexible partition or diaphragm, by the veyance of gas. ruption of an older form garsh or garse, motion of which the capacity on one side is Gas-regulator (gas're-gü-lāt-ér), n. Same from O.Fr. garser, to scarify, pierce with a diminished while that on the other is in- as Gas-governor. lancet; garscher, to chap, as the hands; L.L. creased. By means of slide - valves, like Gas-retort (gas'rē-tort), n. The chamber garsa, scarification.) A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length, particu those of a steam-engine, worked by the in which carbonaceous matter is distilled to movement of the diaphragms, the gas to be produce illuminating gas. larly in flesh. Gash (gash), v.t. Gas fittings or measured passes alternately in and out of Gas-service (gas'sér-vis), n. The contractions and expan- fixtures; pipes, jets, &c., for burning gas. deep incision in: applied chiefly to incisions sions set in motion the clockwork which. Gassoul (gas-söl), n. The native name for in flesh. marks the rate of consumption. The dia- a mineral soap exported in considerable Gashed with honourable scars, Low in Glory's lap they lay. Montgomery. phragms in all the chambers are so connected quantities from Morocco. Gas-stove (gas'stov), n. A stove heated by Gash (gash), a. ('The same conjecture has Gasometer (gaz-om'et-ér), n. (Gas, and Gr. gas for cooking and other purposes. occurred to me which Sibbald mentions, metron, a measure.] 1. In chem. (a) an in- Gassy (gas'i), a. Relating to or containing that it may be an abbreviation of Fr. sagace, strument or apparatus intended to measure, gas; gaseous; inflated; exhilarated. L. sagax,' sagacious. Jamieson. ] Sharp; collect, preserve, or mix different gases. Gast, Gastert (gäst, gäst'er), v.t. (Probably An ap GAS-TANK 368 GATE of same origin as agast; comp. Sc. gast, a dodermal layer of cells, incloses a space- large genus of leguminous plants occurring fright, and flabbergast.] To make aghast; the primitive stomach. in South-western Australia, characterized to frighten. Gastralgia, Gastralgy (gas-tral’ji-a, gas- mainly by the stalked two-seeded ventricose Or whether gasted by the noise I made, tralji), n (Gr. gastër, gastros, the belly, or intiated pods, which are seldom larger Full suddenly he fled. Shak. and algos, pain.) In pathol. pain in the than a pea. Several of the species often Either the sight of the lady has gaster'd him, or stomach or in the belly. prove fatal to cattle who eat of their foliage, else he's drunk, or else he walks in his sleep. Gastric (gas'trik), a. (From Gr. gastēr, the and they are hence known as poison-plants. Beau & FI. belly or stomach.] Of or pertaining to the Gastrology (gas-trol'o-ji), n. (Gr. gastër, Gas-tank (gas'tangk), n. A gasometer or belly or stomach. --Gastric juice, a thin pel- gastros, the belly, and logos, discourse.] A gasholder. lucid liquor, separated by a peculiar set of treatise on the stomach. Maunder. Gas-tar (gas'tär), n. The tar which condenses secretories in the mucous membrane of the Gastromalacia (gas'tro-ma-la"si-a), n. (Gr. in the tubes when gas is distilled from coal. stomach, which open upon its internal tunic. gastēr, the belly, and malakox, soft.) In Although itself offensive and of little direct It is the principal agent in digestion, and con- med. softening of the stomach, a disease use, it yields many valuable products, as tains pepsin as its characteristic compound. occurring in infants. naphtha, naphthaline, creasote, benzole, and In the empty stomach it is neutral, but Gastromancy (gas'tro-man-si), n. [Gr. gasmany most beautiful dyes, as aniline purple, during digestion it becomes acid, from the tēr, belly, and manteia, divination.] In roseine, violine, magenta, aniline green, &c. separation of free hydrochloric acid. Lie- antiq. (a) a kind of divination among the Gasteromycetes (gas'tér-o-mi-se"tēz), n. pl. big ascribes the solvent power of the gastric ancients by means of words seeming to be (Gr. gastër, gasteros, belly, and mykës, my- juice to the gradual decomposition of a uttered from the belly. (6) A species of kētos, a mushroom.) One of the six great matter dissolved from the lining membrane divination by means of large-bellied glasses divisions of the fungi, comprising those of the stomach, aided by the oxygen in- or other round transparent vessels, in the genera with naked spores in which the hy. troduced in the saliva. See DIGESTION. centre of which figures are supposed to apmenium or fruit-bearing surface is inclosed Gastric system, the name given to all those pear by magic art. in a peridium or outer coat. It includes parts of the body which contribute to di- Gastromyth (gas'tro-mith), n. {Gr. gastēr, the puff-balls. gestion.-Gastric fever, a popular name for gastros, the belly, and mytheomai, to speak ) Gasteromycetous (gas'tèr--mi-sē'tus), a. typhoid or enteric fever, from the manner One whose voice appears to come from the Of or belonging to the Gasteromycetes. in which it affects the intestines. See under stomach; a ventriloquist. Blount. Gasterophilus (gas-tér-of'i-lus), n. (Gr. TYPHOID. The name is sometimes applied Gastronome, Gastronomer (gas’tro-nom, gastër, the belly, and philos, loving.) A ge- in England to acute inflammatory dyspepsia. gas-tron'om-ér), n. (See GASTRONOMY.] One nus of parasitic insects inhabiting the sto- Gastricism (gas'tri-sizm), n. [Gr. gastër, who is partial to good living; an epicure. mach of horses, the grubs or larvæ of which gastros, the belly.) In pathol. a term for The happy gastronome may wash it down with a are ordinarily termed bots. gastric affections in general; specifically selection of thirty wines from Burgundy to Tokay. Gasteropod (gas'tér-7-pod), n. One of the applied to that theory by which almost all LF. Simpson, Gasteropoda. diseases are attributed to the accumulation Gastronomic, Gastronomical (gas-troGasteropoda (gas-tér-op'o-da), n. pl. [Gr. of impurities in the stomach and bowels, nom’ik, gas-tro-nom'ik-al), a. Pertaining gastēr, the belly, and pous, podos, a foot, ] suggesting their removal by causing vomit to gastronomy. A class of molluscs, consisting of animals ing and purging. Dr. Mayme. Gastronomist (gas-tron'om- ist), n. One inhabiting a univalve shell, although some Gastridium (gas-tri'di-um), n. (Gr. gastri versed in gastronomy; one who likes good of the group are wholly destitute of a shell, dion, a little swelling, dim. of gastër, gas living; a judge of the art of cookery; a gasThe shell is either a small internal plate, as tros, the belly) Nit-grass, a genus of plants tronome. in slugs; or cone-shaped and spiral, as in of the nat. order Graminaceæ. The G. lendi I was glad to have an opportunity of dining with so renowned a gastronomist, Lord Lytton. the majority; or multiv the pieces fol- gerum, or awned nit-grass, is foun in some parts of England where water has stagnated Gastronomy (gas-tron'o-mi), n. (Gr. gastër, near the sea-shore, but is rare. gastros, the belly, and nomos, a rule, law.) Gastriloquism (gas-trilo-kwizm), n. (Gr. The art or science of good living; the pleagastër, gastros, the belly, and L. loquor, to sures of the table; epicurism. speak.) Ventriloquism. Those incomparable men, who retiring from a sin ful world, give themselves with undivided zeal to Gastriloquism (is) a hybrid term synonymous with ventriloquism. Hooper. the profound science of gastronomy. Lord Lytton. Gastriloquist (gas-trilo-kwist), n. (Gr. gas Gastropod (gas'tro-pod), n. Same as GasGasteropoda. tër, belly, and L. loquor, to speak One Gastropoda (gas-trop'o-da), n. pl. Same as teropod. Common Garden-snail (Helix aspersa). f. Foot who appears to speak from his belly or Gasteropoda. extending the whole length of the under side of the stomach; a ventriloquist. body. Same as Gastriloquous (gas-trilo-kwus), a. Ven. Gastropodous (gas-trop'od-us), a. Gasteropodous. lowing each other along the middle line, as triloquous. (Rare.) in the chitons. A voice or Gastroraphe (gas-tro'ra-fē), n. [Gr. gastër, The distinguishing charac Gastriloquy (gas-trilo-kwi), n. teristic is the foot, which is broad, muscular, utterance which appears to proceed from gastros, the belly, and rhaphē, a suture.] and disk-like, and attached to the ventral the belly or stomach; ventriloquism. In surg, a suture uniting a wound of the belly or of some of its contents. surface. The garden-snail may be regarded Gastritis (gas-tri'tis), n. [Gr. gastër, gastros, as a typical example. The class comprises the belly, and term. -itis, denoting inflam: Gastroraphy (gas-troʻra-fi), n. [Gr. gastër, mation.) In med. chronic inflammation of the belly, and rhaphia, a sewing or suture.) also whelks, periwinkles, limpets, cowries. the stomach. In surg. the operation of sewing up wounds No known gasteropod has a bivalve shell. of the abdomen. Gasteropodous (gas-tér-op'od-us), a. Be Gastrobranchus (gas-trõ-rangkus,. [Gr. longing to the order Gasteropoda. gaster, gastros, the belly, and branchia, gills.] Gastroscopy (gas-tros’ko-pi), n. [Gr. gastër, Gasterosteidæ (gas'tér-os-te'i-dē), n. pl. The The hag, a genus of marsipobranchiate fishes gastros, the belly, and skopeo, to view.] In med. an examination of the abdomen in sticklebacks, a family of spine-finned acan belonging to the lamprey family. Called also order to detect disease. Gastrocele (gas'tro-sel), n. (Gr. gastēr, the Gastrostomy (gas-tros'tő-mi), n. [Gr. gastër, dorsal, anal, and ventral fins are formed stomach, and kēlē, a tumour.] In pathol. a gastros, the belly, and stoma, mouth.) In surg. hernia of the stomach. å term applied to the operation of forming into spines. They are remarkable among Gastrochæna (gas-tro-kē'na), n. (Gr. gastēr, an artificial opening into the stomach with fish for building nests for their young. Gasterosteus (gas-tér-os'tė-us), n. (Gr. the belly, and chaină, to gape.) A genus of the view of introducing food when it cannot lamellibranchiate molluscs found on the be received naturally on account of obstrucgastër, and osteon, a bone.) A genus of fishes, tion or stricture of the gullet. The operaconsts of Great Britain and America. They co-extensive with the family Gasterosteidæ inhabit an equivalve inequilateral shell, tion has not yet been succ (which see). sfully performed Gastful, Gastly (gast'ful, gast'li), a. united by a ligament, and having in the in on the human subject. Same as Ghastful, Ghastly. terior a small spoon-shaped curvature. They Gastrotomy (gas-trot’o-mi), n. [Gr. gastër, often burrow in cavities or in sand, calcare gastros, the belly, and tomē, a cutting, from Gas-tight (gas'tit), a. Sufficiently close to prevent the escape of gas: frequently applied ous rocks, &c., lining their hole with a shelly temno, to cut.] In surg, the operation of to stopples or other appliances for closing layer, so as to form a sort of tube. G. mo cutting into or opening the abdomen. diolina, common in the Mediterranean, per Gastrula (gas'trū-la), n. (Gr. gastēr, a phials, bottles, &c. Gastness † (gäst'nes), n. Amazement; fright. forates shells and limestones, making holes stomach.) In zool. an organism of which the 2 inches deep by } inch in diameter. stomachal cavity is the most prominent Look you pale, mistress? Gastrochænidæ (gas-tro-kē'ni-dē), n. pl. Gas-water (gas'wa-tër), n. feature. Do you perceive the gastness of her eye! Shak. Water through (Gr. gastër, gastros, the belly, chaino, to Gastornis (gast-or’nis), n. [Gaston, the Chris- gape, and eidos, resemblance.] A family of which coal-gas has been passed to purify it. tian name of M. Plante, the discoverer, and bivalve molluscs, of which the genus Gas It is impregnated with sulphides and am moniacal salts. Gr. ornis, a bird.] A large fossil bird dis- trochana is the type. See GASTROCHÆNA. covered in the lower eocene deposits of Gastrochene (gas'tro-kēn), n. A member Gas-work (gas'werk), n. A manufactory at Meudon, near Paris. Though the leg and of the genus Gastrochana (which see). which coal-gas is made for illuminating purthigh bones--the only portions yet disco- Gastrocnemius (gas-trok-nē'mi-us), n. (Gr. poses, including the buildings, whole mavered-indicate a bird as tall and more bulky gastër, the belly, and knēmë, the leg.) In chinery, and apparatus. than the ostrich, its structural peculiarities anat. one of the muscles (especially the Gat (gat), old pret. of get. point to affinities with the Grallatores or most external) which form the calf of the He gat his people great honour. i Maccab. iii. 3. wading-birds. leg. Gatchers (gach'érz), n. pl. In mining, Gastræa (gas-trē'a), n. [Gr. gastēr, the Gastrodynia (gas-tro-din'i-a), n. [Gr. gastër, after-leavings of tin. Weale. stomach.) În zool. a name given by Haeckel the belly, and odynē, pain.] In med. pain Gate (gāt), 10. (A. Sax. geat, a gate or door; to a hypothetical animal form long extinct, in the stomach. Icel. gat, D. gat, a hole, an opening, from which, according to what is known as the Gastroenteritis (gas'tro-en-tér-i'tis), n, [Gr. same root as get, Gr. chad, to contain. In gastroa theory, he supposes to have been gastër, the belly, and enteron, intestine.] In senses 4 and 5 same word as gait, Icel. and the ancestral form of the whole animal king- med. inflammation of the stomach and in- Sw. gata, a street, a path; Dan. gade, Goth. dom. The gastræa is regarded as a simple testines. gatvo, G. ga88e, a street; probably from stem sac-like organism whose body-wall, consist. Gastrolobium (gas-tro-lobi-um), n. [Gr. of go.) 1. A large door such as gives ening simply of an ectodermal and an en- gastër, gastros, belly, and lobos, a lobe.] A trance into a castle, a temple, palace, or GATE 369 GAUD other large edifice; the opening leading into gate at the entrance to any mansion, in- dome of St. Mark's had uttered in the dead ear of such an edifice. It differs from a door chiefly stitution, &c.; () the person in charge of Venice, Know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.' Ruskin. in being larger.-2. A frame of timber or the gates at a level crossing on a railway.metal which opens or closes a passage into 2. The lessee or collector at a tollgate. 3. To come to a head, as a sore, and generate an inclosure of some kind, as a walled city, Gate-saw (gāt'sa), n. A saw extended in a pus; hence, to ripen; to become fit to proa courtyard, garden, public park, field, &c.; gate. See GATE, 7. duce the intended effect. such a frame giving admission to or extend Gate-vein (gāt'ván), n. In anat. a large vein Now does my project gather to a head. Shak. ing across a roadway, as at a level crossing which conveys the blood from the abdominal Gather (gaTH'ér), n. A plait or fold in cloth on a railway; also the opening itself.-3. The viscera into the liver. held in position by a thread drawn through frame which shuts or stops a passage for Gate-ward (gāt'ward), n. The keeper of a it; a pucker. The length of breeches and water, as at the entrance to a dock; a kind gate. the gathers.' Hudibras. of sluice.-4. [Old English and Scotch.) Gateward (gāt'werd), adv. Toward a gate. Gatherable (gaTH'er-a-bl), a. That may be Avenue; way; path; road; journey; direc- Gateway (gåt'wā), n. 1. An opening which collected; that may be deduced from pretion. [In this sense it is common in names is or may be closed with a gate; a passage mises. Godwin. (Rare.] of streets; as, Highgate; Bishopgate; Gallow- through a fence or wall. — 2. A frame, arch, Gatherer (garh'ér-ér), n. One who or that gate; Kirkgate. ] or the like, in which a gate is hung, or a which gathers or collects, as one gets in a I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen, structure at an entrance or gate designed for crop; one who collects the printed sheets A gate, I fear, I'll dearly rue. Burns. ornament or defence.-3. A means of ingress of a book and puts them into book form; a I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has or egress generally-more frequently of in- sempstress who makes plaits or folds in a this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, gress; an avenue; a passage. The five gate- garment; a contrivance in a sewing-machine in my gate. Sir W. Scott. ways of knowledge." Prof. Geo. Wilson. for effecting this. 5. [Old English and Scotch.) Mode of proce It seemed that some obstruction in the gateways Gathering (gath'ér-ing), n. 1. The act of dure; plan of operation; as, What'na gate's outward prevented her, in her waking hours, from collecting or assembling.–2. That which is that ye're handlin' the laddie? [Comp. way being able at all to utter herself. Cornhill Mag. gathered together; as, (a) a crowd; an asin same use.)-6. In founding, (a) the gutter Gatewise (gåt'wiz), adv. So as to resemble sembly; specifically, applied to a number of or hole through which the molten metal is a gate or gateway. persons assembled to witness a competition poured. (6) The waste piece of metal cast Three circles of stones set up gatewise. Fuller. in feats of strength, agility, and the like; in the gate. (c) A founder's name for a ridge as, a Highland gathering. in a casting which has to be sawn off.—7. A Gather (garu'èr), v.t. [A. Sax. gaderian, gadsash or frame in which a saw is extended, rian, gathrian, 0. E. gadere, gedere, gedre, A grand political dinner To the men of many acres, to prevent buckling or bending.–8. A proA. Sax. gador, gædor, togædere, E. together. A gathering of the Tory. Tennyson. cession. Spenser. – To stand in the gate or Comp. Ď. gadern, to gather, te gader, L.G. gates, in Scrip. to occupy a position of ad- to gader, together.] 1. To bring together; () A charitable contribution. 1 Cor. xvi. 2. (c) A tumour suppurated or maturated; a vantage or defence. – To break gates, in to collect, as a number of separate things, universities, as Cambridge and Oxford, to into one place or into one aggregate body; collection of pus; an abscess. --Gathering of enter college after the hour to which a stu- to assemble; to congregate. the wings, the lower part of the funnel of a chimney. See CHIMNEY. dent has been restricted-a serious offence. Gather stones: and they took stones, and made a Gathering - coal (gath'er - ing - kõl), n. See GATE, v. heap. Gen. xxxi. 46. Gate (gåt), v.t. 1. To supply with a gate. And Belgium's capital had gathered then [Scotch.) A large piece of coal used for the See 2. In universities, as Cambridge and Oxford, to Her beauty and her chivalry. same purpose as a gathering-peat. Byron, GATHERING-PEAT, 2. restrict the liberty of a student by compelling 2. To bring together by selecting, as things Gathering-hoop (gaTH'er-ing-hop), n. A him to be within the gates of his college by that have been picked out from others of hoop used by coopers for drawing in the a certain hour earlier than ordinary. See less value; to harvest; to pick; to pluck. 'A ends of the staves of a barrel or cask so as extract. rose just gathered from the stalk.” Dryden. to admit of the permanent hoop being Gating, being restricted liberty, is a heavier visita Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from slipped on. tion. If you are gated for ten o'clock, you must be in thistles? Mat. vii. 16. college before ten; that is, your privilege of being out Gathering - peat (gath'ér - ing - pēt), n. till twelve or one is taken away. If you are gatet for six Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among o'clock, you must be in and not go out after six o'clock, [Scotch.) 1. A fiery peat which was sent the heathen. Ps. cvi. 47: round by the Borderers to alarm the counand so on. Chambers's Fournal. 3. To accumulate by saving and bringing try in time of danger, as the fiery cross was Gatet (gāt), n. [A. Sax. gat.] A goat. Spen- together piece by piece, or coin by coin; to by the Highlanders.—2. A peat put into the ser. amass: often with up. kitchen-fire at night, with the hot embers Gate, Gatte, t pret. of get. Got, begot, or I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar gathered round about it, to preserve the fire begat. Chaucer. treasure of kings. Eccl. ii. 8. till the morning. Gate-chamber (gāt'chām-bér), n. A recess, To pay the creditor, ... he must gather up money Gatling-gun (gatling-gun), n. An American Locke. as in a wall, into which a gate folds. by degrees. form of the mitrailleuse, so named from the Gate-channel (gāt'chan-nel), n. Same as 4. To bring together the component parts of; inventor. See MITRAILLEUSE. Gate, 6. (a). to make compact; to draw together from Gatten-tree (gat'tn-trē), n. A provincial Gated (găt'ed), a. Having gates. a state of expansion or diffusion; to bring name for dogwood. Gate-house (gāthous), n. A house at a gate, together in folds or plaits, as a garment. Gatter, Gatter-tree (gat'tér, gat'tėr-trē), n. as a porter's lodge or house at the entrance Gathering his flowing robe he seemed to stand, A provincial name for dogwood (which see) to the grounds of any mansion, institution, In act to speak, and graceful stretch'd his hand. Gattie (gat'ti), n. An East Indian soluble &c.; the house of the person who attends the Pope. gate at a level crossing on a railway; espeEspecially, to draw together, as a piece of gum, much like the African gum-arabic, cloth, by a thread passing through; hence, Gat-tothed, t a. A word which occurs twice derived from Acacia arabica. to plait; to pucker; to contract. in Chaucer, in both cases applied to the wife Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, of Bath,' and which has given rise to much Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. Burns. speculation. The most probable suggestion is that it is equivalent to goat-toothed (gât 5. To acquire, win, or gain, with or without being the A. Sax. form of goat), and thereeffort. fore means having a goatish or lickerish He gathers ground upon her in the chase. Dryden. tooth; wanton; lustful. The maidens gathered strength and grace. Tennyson. Gaub (gab), n. An Indian name for the as6. To deduce by inference; to collect or learn tringent medicinal fruit of Diospyros Em bryopteris, which, when pressed, exudes a by reasoning; to infer; to conclude. juice yielding 60 per cent. of pure tannic Let me say no more: acid. The juice, in addition to its use in Gather the sequel by that went before. Shak. medicine as an astringent and styptic, is After he had seen the vision, immediately we en employed in Bengal for paying the bottoms deavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gather. ing that the Lord had called us for to preach the of boats. gospel unto them. Acts xvi. Io. Gaub-line (gąblin), n. Same as Gob-line. -To gather one's self together, to collect all Gauche (gosh), a. (Fr.] Left; left-handed; one's powers for a strong effort: from the awkward; clumsy. fact that a person, when about to make a Gaucherie (gosh-rē), n. (Fr.) An awkward violent effort, as a leap, crouches somewhat action; awkwardness; bungling; behaviour so as to give the greatest elasticity to his not in accordance with the received forms muscles. of society I gather myself together as a man doth when he Gaucho (gä-ö'cho) n. A native of the Pamintendeth to show his strength. Palsgrave. pas of La Plata of Spanish descent. The ---To be gathered to one's fathers, in Scrip. race is noted for their spirit of wild indeGate-house at Sens, Villeneuve-sur-Yonne. to be interred along with one's ancestors; pendence, for horsemanship and the use of hence, to die. – To gather breath, to take the lasso. Their mode of life is rude and cially, in arch. a house over the gate giving breath; to respire freely; to have respite. uncivilized, and they depend for subsistence entrance to a city, castle, abbey, college, or - To gather aft a sheet (naut.), to haul in chiefly on cattle-rearing. mansion, and forming the residence of the the slack of it. Gaucie, Gawsy (ga'si), a. Big and lusty; gate-keeper. In ancient times these houses Gather (gaTH'ér), v.i. 1. To collect; to unite; plump; jolly; stately; portly. Spelled also were often large and imposing structures, to become assembled; to congregate; as, the Gaucy, Gawsie. [Scotch.) and not rarely ornamented with niches, clouds gather in the west. In comes a gaucie, gash guidwife, statues, pinnacles, &c., and sometimes of An' sits down by the fire. Burns Tears from the depth of some divine despair great strength and well adapted for defence. Gaudt (gad), v.i. [L. gaudeo, to rejoice.) To Rise in the heart and gather to the eyes. Such gate-houses were sometimes used as Tennyson. exult; to rejoice. Gauding with his familprisons. 2. To increase; to grow larger by accretion iars.' North. Gate-man (gāt'man), n. 1. The person who of like matter. Go to a gossip's feast and gaud with me. Shak. has charge of the opening or shutting of a For amidst them all, through century after century Gaud, Gawd (gad), n. (L. gaudium, joy, gate, as (a) the porter who attends to the of gathering vanity and festering guilt, that white gladness; in later times, something showy.) ch, chain; ch, Sc. loch; 8. go; j, job; 8, Fr. ton; ng, sing; TH, then; th, thin; w, wig; wh, whig; zh, azure. -See KEY. |