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Garookuh

A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.

Garous

Pertaining to, or resembling, garum.

Garreteer

One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack.

Garreting

Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry.

Garrison

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.

Garrot

The European golden-eye.

Garrote

To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob.

garroter

One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.

Garrulinae

A subfamily of the crow family, including the jays.

Garrulous

Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious.

Garrulus

The type genus of the Garrulinae, conmprising the Old World jays.

Garrupa

One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See Rockfish.

Garuda

supernatural half-man and half-bird vehicle or bearer of Vishnu.

Garum

A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.

Garvie

The sprat; -- called also garvie herring, and garvock.

Gas

To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers; as, to gas thread.

Gas-burner

The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.

Gasalier

A chandelier arranged to burn gas.

gasbag

a person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.

Gascogne

A region of southwestern France; Gascony.

Gascon

Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering. A native of Gascony; a boaster; a bully. See Gasconade.

Gaselier

A chandelier arranged to burn gas.

Gaseous

In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an a/riform fluid.

Gash

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

Gasherbrum

A mountain in Kashmir, 26,470 feet high.

Gashful

Full of gashes; hideous; frightful.

Gasify

To become gas; to pass from a liquid to a gaseous state.

Gasket

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.

Gaskins

Loose hose or breeches; galligaskins.

Gaslight

The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.

gasmask

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.

Gasogen

An apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid.

Gasolene 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.

Gasometer

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.

Gasometry

The art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids.

Gasoscope

An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.

Gasp

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

Gasserian

Relating to Casserio (L. Gasserius), the discover of the Gasserian ganglion.

Gassing

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.

Gassy

Full of gas; like gas. Inflated; full of boastful or insincere talk.

Gast

To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See Aghast.

Gasteromycetes

An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.

Gasterophilus

The type genus of the Gasterophilidae, comprising the horse botflies.

Gastight

So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.

Gastornis

A genus of large eocene birds from the Paris basin.

Gastraea

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.

Gastralgia

Pain in the stomach or epigastrium, as in gastric disorders.

Gastric

Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the gastric artery.

Gastriloquist

One who appears to speak from his stomach; a ventriloquist.

Gastriloquy

A voice or utterance which appears to proceed from the stomach; ventriloquy.

Gastritis

Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane.

Gastrocnemius

The muscle which makes the greater part of the calf of the leg.

Gastrocolic

Pertaining to both the stomach and the colon; as, the gastrocolic, or great, omentum.

Gastrodisc

That part of blastoderm where the hypoblast appears like a small disk on the inner face of the epibladst.

Gastroduodenal

Pertaining to the stomach and duodenum; as, the gastroduodenal artery.

Gastroduodenitis

Inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. It is one of the most frequent causes of jaundice.

Gastroelytrotomy

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.

Gastroenteritis

Inflammation of the lining membrane of the stomach and the intestines.

Gastrohepatic

Pertaining to the stomach and liver; hepatogastric; as, the gastrohepatic, or lesser, omentum.

Gastrology

The science which treats of the structure and functions of the stomach; a treatise of the stomach.

Gastromalacia

A softening of the coats of the stomach; -- usually a post-morten change.

Gastromancy

A kind of divination, by means of words seemingly uttered from the stomach. 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.

Gastromyces

The fungoid growths sometimes found in the stomach; such as Torula, etc.

Gastromyth

One whose voice appears to proceed from the stomach; a ventriloquist.

Gastronomy

The art or science of good eating; epicurism; the art of good cheer.

Gastrophrenic

Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm; as, the gastrophrenic ligament.

Gastropneumatic

Pertaining to the alimentary canal and air passages, and to the cavities connected with them; as, the gastropneumatic mucuos membranes.

Gastropoda

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.

Gastroraphy

The operation of sewing up wounds of the abdomen.

Gastroscope

An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach.

Gastroscopy

Examination of the abdomen or stomach, as with the gastroscope.

Gastrosplenic

Pertaining to the stomach and spleen; as, the gastrosplenic ligament.

Gastrostege

One of the large scales on the belly of a serpent.

Gastrostomy

The operation of making a permanent opening into the stomach, for the introduction of food.

Gastrotomy

A cutting into, or opening of, the abdomen or the stomach.

Gastrotricha

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.

Gastrotrocha

A form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral side.

Gastrovascular

Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of c/lenterates.

Gastrula

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 Gastr/a. Of or pertaining to a gastrula.

Gastrulation

The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.

Gat

imp. of Get.

Gat-toothed

Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton.

Gatch

Plaster as used in Persian architecture and decorative art.

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