A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike. One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T. Caribb/us, a very large species, and T. crassus, are more southern; -- called also needlefish. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species.
To gargle; to rinse.
A small European duck (Anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal.
Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.
A gargle.
To gargle; to rinse or wash, as the mouth and throat.
The throat.
A distemper in geese, affecting the head.
A liquid, as water or some medicated preparation, used to cleanse the mouth and throat, especially for a medical effect.
A distemper in swine; garget.
A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet.
A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely.
See Gargoyle.
A jacket worn by women; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi.
Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention.
tasteless showiness.
To deck with a garland.
Destitute of a garland.
A plant of the genus Allium (A. sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable.
Like or containing garlic.
Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc.
Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment.
Clothing; dress.
To gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure.
A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.
Containing garnets.
An amorphous mineral of apple-green color; a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesia. It is an important ore of nickel.
Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.
To make (a person) a garnishee; to warn by garnishment; to garnish. To attach (the fund or property sought to be secured by garnishment); to trustee.
One who, or that which, garnishes.
Ornament; embellishment; decoration.
That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress.
A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.
Pertaining to, or resembling, garum.
See Galloway.
A turret; a watchtower.
Protected by turrets.
One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack.
Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.
To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town. To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory.
Same as Garran.
The European golden-eye.
To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.
One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.
A subfamily of the crow family, including the jays.
Talkativeness; loquacity.
Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious.
The type genus of the Garrulinae, conmprising the Old World jays.
One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See Rockfish.
To bind with a garter.
A hoop or band.
supernatural half-man and half-bird vehicle or bearer of Vishnu.
A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.
The sprat; -- called also garvie herring, and garvock.
To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers; as, to gas thread.
The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
A chandelier arranged to burn gas.
a person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
A region of southwestern France; Gascony.
See Gaskins, 1.
Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering. A native of Gascony; a boaster; a bully. See Gasconade.
To boast; to brag; to bluster.
A great boaster; a blusterer.
Gaskins.
State of being gaseous.
A chandelier arranged to burn gas.
In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an a/riform fluid.
A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.
A mountain in Kashmir, 26,470 feet high.
Full of gashes; hideous; frightful.
The act or process of converting into gas.
Having a form of gas; gaseous.
To become gas; to pass from a liquid to a gaseous state.
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.
Loose hose or breeches; galligaskins.
The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.
a mask with a filter which protects the face and lungs against poisonous gases. It is used in warfare, and also by police to allow them to effectively use tear gas or other disabling gas to disperse a crowd or force fugitives to leave a building.
An apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid.
See Gasoline.
A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained mostly from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used as a fuel for most automobiles and for many other vehicles with internal combustion engines. The gasoline of commerce is typically blended with additives to improve its performance in internal combustion engines. Gasoline was also used in the early 1900's in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. See Carburetor.
Same as Gasalier.
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.
Of or pertaining to the measurement of gases; as, gasometric analysis.
The art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids.
An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.
The act of opening the mouth convulsively to catch the breath; a labored respiration; a painful catching of the breath.
The alewife.
Relating to Casserio (L. Gasserius), the discover of the Gasserian ganglion.
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.
Full of gas; like gas. Inflated; full of boastful or insincere talk.
To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See Aghast.
To gast.
An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.
The type genus of the Gasterophilidae, comprising the horse botflies.
Same as Gastropod.
Same as Gastropoda.
Same as Gastropodous.
So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.
See Ghastful, Ghastly.
See Ghastness.
A genus of large eocene birds from the Paris basin.
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 Gastr/a theory of Haeckel. See Gastrula.
Pain in the stomach or epigastrium, as in gastric disorders.
Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the gastric artery.
One who appears to speak from his stomach; a ventriloquist.
Ventriloquous.
A voice or utterance which appears to proceed from the stomach; ventriloquy.
Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane.
The muscle which makes the greater part of the calf of the leg.
Pertaining to both the stomach and the colon; as, the gastrocolic, or great, omentum.
That part of blastoderm where the hypoblast appears like a small disk on the inner face of the epibladst.
Pertaining to the stomach and duodenum; as, the gastroduodenal artery.
Inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. It is one of the most frequent causes of jaundice.
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 C/sarean operation, and less dangerous.
Gastrointestinal.
Inflammation of the lining membrane of the stomach and the intestines.
Of or pertaining to the stomach and omentum.
Pertaining to the stomach and liver; hepatogastric; as, the gastrohepatic, or lesser, omentum.
C/sarean section. See under C/sarean.
Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric.
See Crab's eyes, under Crab.