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.

C/sarean section. See under C/sarean.

Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric.

See Crab's eyes, under Crab.

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

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

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.

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

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

One fond of good living; an epicure.

Pertaining to gastromony.

A gastromomer.

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

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

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

One of the 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.

Of or pertaining to the Gastropoda.

The operation of sewing up wounds of the abdomen.

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

Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

See Stomatopoda.

Pertaining to the Gastrura.

imp. of Get.

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

Plaster as used in Persian architecture and decorative art.

A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).

entering a gathering uninvited; as, gate-crashing guests disrupted the party.

Any of various rich and elaborate cakes, particularly a light sponge cake having a rich filling or rich icing, such as gateau foret noire (Black Forest Cake).

To enter uninvited into a party or other social event.

A person who enters into a party or other social event without an invitation, or into a theater or other public performance without a ticket.

Having gates.

A house connected or associated with a gate.

Having no gate.

A gate keeper; a gate tender.

A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging post or hinging post.

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.

In the manner of a gate.

A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.

Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises.

One who gathers or collects.

Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.

a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.

Left handed; awkward; clumsy.

an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement.

An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.

One of the native inhabitants of the South American pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle. Hence, a South American cowboy, especially on the pampas.

To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint.

See Gaudy, a feast.

The name of a Latin song originating in the thirteenth century, celebrating the joy of youth as students in a university, and suggesting that they take advantage of youth before they succomb to inevitable old age and death. It is still sung by students, often with verses altered to include themes pertinent to particular schools.

Finery; ornaments; ostentatious display.