Chapter 53

Gas"con (?; F. ?), a. [F.] Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering. -- n. A native of Gascony; a boaster; a bully. See Gasconade.

Gas`con*ade" (?), n. [F. gasconnade, from Gascon an inhabitant of Gascony, the people of which were noted for boasting.] A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio. Swift.

Gas`con*ade", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gasconaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Gasconading.] To boast; to brag; to bluster.

Gas`con*ad"er (?), n. A great boaster; a blusterer.

Gas"coynes (?), n. pl. Gaskins. Beau. & Fl.

Gas*e"i*ty (? or ?), n. State of being gaseous. [R] Eng. Cyc.

Gas"e*ous (? or ?; 277), a. [From Gas. Cf. F. gazeux.] 1. In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aÎriform fluid.

2. Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous. "Unconnected, gaseous information." Sir J. Stephen.

Gash (gsh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gashed (gsht); p. pr. & vb. n. Gashing.] [For older garth or garse, OF. garser to scarify, F. gercer to chap, perh. from an assumed LL. carptiare, fr. L. carpere, carptum, to pluck, separate into parts; cf. LL. carptare to wound. Cf. Carpet.] To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.

Grievously gashed or gored to death.

Hayward.

Gash, n. A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.

Gash"ful (?), a. Full of gashes; hideous; frightful. [Obs.] "A gashful, horrid, ugly shape." Gayton.

Gas`i*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [See Gasify.] The act or process of converting into gas.

Gas"i*form, a. Having a form of gas; gaseous.

Gas"i*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gasified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gasifying.] [Gas + -fy.] To convert into gas, or an aÎriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.

Gas"i*fy (?), v. i. To become gas; to pass from a liquid to a gaseous state. Scientific American.

Gas"ket (?), n. [Cf. F. garcette, It. gaschetta, Sp. cajeta caburn, garceta reef point.] 1. (Naut.) A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket.

2. (Mech.) (a) The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps. (b) Any ring or washer of packing.

Gas"kins (?), n. pl. [Cf. Galligaskins.] 1. Loose hose or breeches; galligaskins. [Obs.] Shak.

2. Packing of hemp. Simmonds.

3. A horse's thighs. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

Gas"light` (?), n. 1. The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.

2. A gas jet or burner.

Gas"o*gen (?), n. [Gas + - gen.] 1. An apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid.

2. A volatile hydrocarbon, used as an illuminant, or for charging illuminating gas.

Gas`o*lene (?), n. See Gasoline.

Gas`o*lier" (?), n. Same as Gasalier.

Gas"o*line (? or ?; 104), n. A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. See Carburetor.

Gas*om"e*ter (? or ?), n. [Gas + -meter. Cf. F. gazomËtre.] An apparatus for holding and measuring of gas; in gas works, a huge iron cylinder closed at one end and having the other end immersed in water, in which it is made to rise or fall, according to the volume of gas it contains, or the pressure required.

{ Gas`o*met"ric (? or ?), Gas`o*met"ric*al (?), } a. Of or pertaining to the measurement of gases; as, gasometric analysis.

Gas*om"e*try (? or ?), n. The art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids. Coxe.

Gas"o*scope (?), n. [Gas + - scope.] An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.

Gasp (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gasped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gasping.] [OE. gaspen, gaispen, to yawn, gasp, Icel. geispa to yawn; akin to Sw. g‰spa, Dan. gispe to gasp.] 1. To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently.

She gasps and struggles hard for life.

Lloyd.

2. To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.

Quenching the gasping furrows' thirst with rain.

Spenser.

Gasp, v. t. To emit or utter with gasps; -- with forth, out, away, etc.

And with short sobs he gasps away his breath.

Dryden.

Gasp, n. The act of opening the mouth convulsively to catch the breath; a labored respiration; a painful catching of the breath.

At the last gasp, at the point of death. Addison.

Gas"per*eau (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The alewife. [Local, Canada]

Gas*se"ri*an (?), a. Relating to Casserio (L. Gasserius), the discover of the Gasserian ganglion.

Gasserian ganglion (Anat.), a large ganglion, at the root of the trigeminal, or fifth cranial, nerve.

Gas"sing (?), n. 1. (Manuf.) The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing.

2. Boasting; insincere or empty talk. [Slang]

Gas"sy (?), a. Full of gas; like gas. Hence: [Colloq.] Inflated; full of boastful or insincere talk.

Gast (?), v. t. [OE. gasten, g&?;sten to frighten, akin to Goth. usgaisjan. See Aghast, Ghastly, and cf. Gaze.] To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See Aghast. [Obs.] Chaucer. Shak.

Gast"er (?), v. t. To gast. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

||Gas`te*ro*my*ce"tes (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. &?; stomach + &?; a ||mushroom.] (Bot.) An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne ||inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.

Gas"ter*o*pod (?), n. (Zoˆl.) Same as Gastropod.

||Gas`te*rop`o*da (?), n. pl. (Zoˆl.) Same as Gastropoda.

Gas`ter*op"o*dous (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Same as Gastropodous.

Gast"ful, Gast"ly (&?;), a. [Obs.] See Ghastful, Ghastly.

Gas"tight` (?), a. So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.

Gast"ness (?), n. See Ghastness. [Obs.]

||Gas*tor"nis (?), n. [NL., from Gaston M. Plante, the discover + Gr. ||&?; bird.] (Paleon.) A genus of large eocene birds from the Paris ||basin.

||Gas*trÊ"a (?), n. [NL., from Gr. &?;, &?;, the stomach.] (Biol.) A ||primeval larval form; a double-walled sac from which, according to ||the hypothesis of Haeckel, man and all other animals, that in the ||first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two-layered ||structural stage, or gastrula form, must have descended. This idea ||constitutes the GastrÊa theory of Haeckel. See Gastrula.

||Gas*tral"gi*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, &?;, stomach + &?; pain.] ||(Med.) Pain in the stomach or epigastrium, as in gastric disorders.

Gas"tric (?), a. [Gr. &?;, &?;, stomach: cf. F. gastrique.] Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the gastric artery.

Gastric digestion (Physiol.), the conversion of the albuminous portion of food in the stomach into soluble and diffusible products by the solvent action of gastric juice. -- Gastric fever (Med.), a fever attended with prominent gastric symptoms; -- a name applied to certain forms of typhoid fever; also, to catarrhal inflammation of the stomach attended with fever. -- Gastric juice (Physiol.), a thin, watery fluid, with an acid reaction, secreted by a peculiar set of glands contained in the mucous membrane of the stomach. It consists mainly of dilute hydrochloric acid and the ferment pepsin. It is the most important digestive fluid in the body, but acts only on proteid foods. -- Gastric remittent fever (Med.), a form of remittent fever with pronounced stomach symptoms.

Gas*tril"o*quist (?), n. [Gr. gasth`r, gastro`s, stomach + L. loqui to speak.] One who appears to speak from his stomach; a ventriloquist.

Gas*tril"o*quous (?), a. Ventriloquous. [R.]

Gas*tril"o*quy (?), n. A voice or utterance which appears to proceed from the stomach; ventriloquy.

||Gas*tri"tis (?), n. [NL., from. Gr. &?;, &?;, stomach + -itis.] ||(Med.) Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane.

Gas"tro- (?). A combining form from the Gr. &?;, &?;, the stomach, or belly; as in gastrocolic, gastrocele, gastrotomy.

Gas`troc*ne"mi*us (?), n. [NL., from Gr. &?; the calf of the leg.] (Anat.) The muscle which makes the greater part of the calf of the leg.

Gas`tro*col"ic (?), a. [Gastro- + colic.] (Anat.) Pertaining to both the stomach and the colon; as, the gastrocolic, or great, omentum.

Gas`tro*disc (?), n. [Gastro- + disc.] (Biol.) That part of blastoderm where the hypoblast appears like a small disk on the inner face of the epibladst.

Gas`tro*du"o*de"nal (?), a. [Gastro- + -duodenal.] (Anat.) Pertaining to the stomach and duodenum; as, the gastroduodenal artery.

Gas`tro*du`o*de*ni"tis (?), n. [NL. See Gastroduodenal, and -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. It is one of the most frequent causes of jaundice.

Gas`tro*el`y*trot"o*my (?), n. [Gastro- + Gr &?; sheath + &?; a cutting] (Surg.) The operation of cutting into the upper part of the vagina, through the abdomen (without opening the peritoneum), for the purpose of removing a fetus. It is a substitute for the CÊsarean operation, and less dangerous.

Gas`tro*en*te"ric (?), a. [Gastro- + -enteric.] (Anat. & Med.) Gastrointestinal.

||Gas`tro*en`te*ri"tis (?), n. [NL. See Gastroenrteric, and -itis.] ||(Med.) Inflammation of the lining membrane of the stomach and the ||intestines.

Gas`tro*ep`i*plo"ic (?), a. [Gastro- + -epiploic.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the stomach and omentum.

Gas`tro*he*pat"ic (?), a. [Gastro- + -hepatic.] (Med.) Pertaining to the stomach and liver; hepatogastric; as, the gastrohepatic, or lesser, omentum.

Gas`tro*hys`ter*ot"o*my (?), n. [Gastro- + Gr. &?; womb + &?; to cut.] (Surg.) CÊsarean section. See under CÊsarean.

Gas`tro*in*tes"ti*nal (?), a. [Gastro- + -intestinal.] (Anat. & Med.) Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric.

Gas`tro*lith (?), n. [Gastro- + -lith.] (Zoˆl.) See Crab's eyes, under Crab.

Gas*trol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr &?;; &?;, &?;, stomach + &?; discourse: cf. F. gastrologie.] The science which treats of the structure and functions of the stomach; a treatise of the stomach.

||Gas`tro*ma*la"ci*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, &?;, stomach + &?; ||softness, fr. &?; soft.] (Med.) A softening of the coats of the ||stomach; -- usually a post- morten change.

Gas`tro*man"cy (?), n. [Gastro- + -mancy: cf. F. gastromancy.] (Antiq.) (a) A kind of divination, by means of words seemingly uttered from the stomach. (b) A species of divination, by means of glasses or other round, transparent vessels, in the center of which figures are supposed to appear by magic art.

||Gas`tro*my"ces (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, &?;, stomach + &?;, &?;, a ||fungus.] (Biol.) The fungoid growths sometimes found in the stomach; ||such as Torula, etc.

Gas"tro*myth (?), n. [Gastro- + Gr. &?; to say, speak.] One whose voice appears to proceed from the stomach; a ventriloquist. [Obs.]

{ Gas"tro*nome (?), Gas*tron"o*mer (?), } n. [F. gastronome, fr. Gr. &?;, &?;, stomach + &?; law, &?; to distribute.] One fond of good living; an epicure. Sir W. Scott.

Gas`tro*nom"ic (?), Gas`tro*nom"ic*al (&?;), a. [Cf. F. gastronomique.] Pertaining to gastromony.

Gas*tron"o*mist (?), n. A gastromomer.

Gas*tron"o*my (?), n. [Gr. &?;: cf. F. gastronomie.] The art or science of good eating; epicurism; the art of good cheer.

Gas`tro*phren"ic (?), a. [Gastro- + -phrenic.] (Anat.) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm; as, the gastrophrenic ligament.

Gas`tro*pneu*mat"ic (?), a. [Gastro- + pneumatic.] (Anat.) Pertaining to the alimentary canal and air passages, and to the cavities connected with them; as, the gastropneumatic mucuos membranes.

Gas"tro*pod (?), n. (Zoˆl.) One of the Gastropoda. [Written also gasteropod.]

||Gas*trop"o*da (?), n. pl., [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, &?;, stomach + -poda.] ||(Zoˆl.) One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes ||most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water ||snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or ||foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or ||two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca. [Written also Gasteropoda.]

The Gastropoda are divided into three subclasses; viz.: (a) The Streptoneura or Dioecia, including the Pectinibranchiata, Rhipidoglossa, Docoglossa, and Heteropoda. (b) The Euthyneura, including the Pulmonata and Opisthobranchia. (c) The Amphineura, including the Polyplacophora and Aplacophora.

Gas*trop"o*dous (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to the Gastropoda.

Gas*tror"a*phy (?), n. [Gr.&?;; &?;, &?;, stomach + &?; a sewing, fr. &?; to sew: cf. F. gastrorrhaphie.] (Surg.) The operation of sewing up wounds of the abdomen. Quincy.

Gas"tro*scope (?), n. [Gastro- + -scope.] (Med.) An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach.

Gas`tro*scop"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.

Gas*tros"co*py (?), n. (Med.) Examination of the abdomen or stomach, as with the gastroscope.

Gas`tro*splen"ic (?), n. [Gastro- + splenic.] (Anat.) Pertaining to the stomach and spleen; as, the gastrosplenic ligament.

Gas*tros"tege (?), n. [Gastro- + Gr. &?; roof.] (Zoˆl.) One of the large scales on the belly of a serpent.

Gas*tros"to*my (?), n. [Gastro- + Gr. &?; mouth.] (Surg.) The operation of making a permanent opening into the stomach, for the introduction of food.

Gas*trot"o*my (?), n. [Gastro + Gr. &?; to cut: cf. F. gastrotomie.] (Surg.) A cutting into, or opening of, the abdomen or the stomach.

||Gas*trot"ri*cha (?), n. pl., [NL., fr. Gr. &?; belly + &?;, &?;, ||hair.] (Zoˆl.) A group of small wormlike animals, having cilia on the ||ventral side. The group is regarded as an ancestral or synthetic one, ||related to rotifers and annelids.

||Gas*trot"ro*cha (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, &?;, stomach + &?; a ||wheel.] (Zoˆl.) A form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral ||side.

Gas`tro*vas"cu*lar (?), a. [Gastro- + -vascular.] (Zoˆl.) Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of cúlenterates.

||Gas"tru*la (?), n.; pl. GastrulÊ (#) [NL., dim. fr. Gr. &?; the ||stomach.] (Biol.) An embryonic form having its origin in the ||invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula ||(the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double- walled ||sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the ||cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). See ||Illust. under Invagination. In a more general sense, an ideal stage ||in embryonic development. See GastrÊa. -- a. Of or pertaining to a ||gastrula.

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Gas`tru*la"tion (gs`tr*l"shn), n. (Biol.) The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.

||Gas*tru"ra (gs*tr"r), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. gasth`r belly + o'yra` ||tail.] (Zoˆl.) See Stomatopoda.

Gas*tru"rous (-rs), a. (Zoˆl.) Pertaining to the Gastrura.

Gat (gt), imp. of Get. [Obs.]

Gate (gt), n. [OE. et, eat, giat, gate, door, AS. geat, gat, gate, door; akin to OS., D., & Icel. gat opening, hole, and perh. to E. gate a way, gait, and get, v. Cf. Gate a way, 3d Get.] 1. A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.

2. An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.

Knowest thou the way to Dover? Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath.

Shak.

Opening a gate for a long war.

Knolles.

3. A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.

4. (Script.) The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.

The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Matt. xvi. 18.

5. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

6. (Founding) (a) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate. (b) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. [Written also geat and git.]

Gate chamber, a recess in the side wall of a canal lock, which receives the opened gate. -- Gate channel. See Gate, 5. -- Gate hook, the hook-formed piece of a gate hinge. -- Gate money, entrance money for admission to an inclosure. -- Gate tender, one in charge of a gate, as at a railroad crossing. -- Gate valva, a stop valve for a pipe, having a sliding gate which affords a straight passageway when open. -- Gate vein (Anat.), the portal vein. -- To break gates (Eng. Univ.), to enter a college inclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted. -- To stand in the gate, or gates, to occupy places or advantage, power, or defense.

Gate, v. t. 1. To supply with a gate.

2. (Eng. Univ.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.

Gate, n. [Icel. gata; akin to SW. gata street, lane, Dan. gade, Goth. gatwˆ, G. gasse. Cf. Gate a door, Gait.] 1. A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate). [O. Eng. & Scot.]

I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate.

Sir W. Scott.

2. Manner; gait. [O. Eng. & Scot.]

Gat"ed (?), a. Having gates. Young.

Gate"house` (?), n. A house connected or associated with a gate.

Gate"less, a. Having no gate.

Gate"man (?), n. A gate keeper; a gate tender.

Gate"post` (?), n. 1. A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging or hinging post.

2. A post against which a gate closes; -- called also shutting post.

Gate"way` (?), n. A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.

Gate"wise` (?), adv. In the manner of a gate.

Three circles of stones set up gatewise.

Fuller.

Gath"er (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gathered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gathering.] [OE. gaderen, AS. gaderian, gadrian, fr. gador, geador, together, fr. gÊd fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband, MHG. gate, also companion, Goth. gadiliggs a sister's son. &radic;29. See Good, and cf. Together.]

1. To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

And Belgium's capital had gathered them Her beauty and her chivalry.

Byron.

When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together.

Matt. ii. 4.

2. To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck.

A rose just gathered from the stalk.

Dryden.

Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Matt. vii. 16.

Gather us from among the heathen.

Ps. cvi. 47.

3. To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.

He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

Prov. xxviii. 8.

To pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by degrees.

Locke.

4. To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle.

Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand.

Pope.

5. To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.

Let me say no more! Gather the sequel by that went before.

Shak.

6. To gain; to win. [Obs.]

He gathers ground upon her in the chase.

Dryden.

7. (Arch.) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like.

8. (Naut.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.

To be gathered to one's people, or to one's fathers to die. Gen. xxv. 8. -- To gather breath, to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get breath; to rest. Spenser. -- To gather one's self together, to collect and dispose one's powers for a great effort, as a beast crouches preparatory to a leap. -- To gather way (Naut.), to begin to move; to move with increasing speed.

Gath"er (?), v. i. 1. To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.

When small humors gather to a gout.

Pope.

Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes.

Tennyson.

2. To grow larger by accretion; to increase.

Their snowball did not gather as it went.

Bacon.

3. To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.

4. To collect or bring things together.

Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed.

Matt. xxv. 26.

Gath"er, n. 1. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.

2. (Carriage Making) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.

3. (Arch.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.

Gath"er*a*ble (?), a. Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. [R.] Godwin.

Gath"er*er (?), n. 1. One who gathers or collects.

2. (Sewing Machine) An attachment for making gathers in the cloth.

Gath"er*ing, n. 1. The act of collecting or bringing together.

2. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together; as: (a) A crowd; an assembly; a congregation. (b) A charitable contribution; a collection. (c) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.

Gath"er*ing, a. Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.

Gathering board (Bookbinding), a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book. Knight. -- Gathering coal, a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning. -- Gathering hoop, a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them. -- Gathering peat. (a) A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire. (b) In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the Highlanders.

Gat"ling gun` (&?;). [From the inventor, R.J. Gatling.] An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired.

The improved Gatling gun can be fired at the rate of 1,200 shots per minute. Farrow.

Gat"ten tree` (?). [Cf. Prov. E. gatter bush.] (Bot.) A name given to the small trees called guelder- rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus EuropÊus).

Gat"-toothed` (?), a. [OE. gat goat + tooth. See Goat the animal.] Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton. [Obs.]

||Gauche (gsh), n. [F.] 1. Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.

2. (Geom.) Winding; twisted; warped; - - applied to curves and surfaces.

||Gauche`rie" (?), n. [F.] An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.

||Gau"cho (gou"ch), n., pl. Gauchos (-chz) [Sp.] One of the native ||inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live ||mostly by rearing cattle.

Gaud (?), n. [OE. gaude jest, trick, gaudi bead of a rosary, fr. L. gaudium joy, gladness. See Joy.] 1. Trick; jest; sport. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. Deceit; fraud; artifice; device. [Obs.] Chaucer.

3. An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. "An idle gaud." Shak.