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- English Word Garth Definition A dam or weir for catching fish.
- English Word Garth Definition A hoop or band.
- English Word Garum Definition A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.
- English Word Garvie Definition The sprat; -- called also garvie herring, and garvock.
- English Word Gas Definition An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction from vapors, as steam, which become liquid on a reduction of temperature. In present usage, since all of the supposed permanent gases have been liquified by cold and pressure, the term has resumed nearly its original signification, and is applied to any substance in the elastic or aeriform state.
- English Word Gas Definition A complex mixture of gases, of which the most important constituents are marsh gas, olefiant gas, and hydrogen, artificially produced by the destructive distillation of gas coal, or sometimes of peat, wood, oil, resin, etc. It gives a brilliant light when burned, and is the common gas used for illuminating purposes.
- English Word Gas Definition Laughing gas.
- English Word Gas Definition Any irrespirable aeriform fluid.
- English Word Gas-burner Definition The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
- English Word Gasalier Definition A chandelier arranged to burn gas.
- English Word Gascoines Definition See Gaskins, 1.
- English Word Gascon Definition Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering.
- English Word Gascon Definition A native of Gascony; a boaster; a bully. See Gasconade.
- English Word Gasconade Definition A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio.
- English Word Gasconade Definition To boast; to brag; to bluster.
- English Word Gasconaded Definition of Gasconade
- English Word Gasconader Definition A great boaster; a blusterer.
- English Word Gasconading Definition of Gasconade
- English Word Gascoynes Definition Gaskins.
- English Word Gaseity Definition State of being gaseous.
- English Word Gaseous Definition In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aeriform fluid.
- English Word Gaseous Definition Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous.
- English Word Gases Definition of Gas
- English Word Gash Definition To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.
- English Word Gash Definition A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.
- English Word Gashed Definition of Gash
- English Word Gashful Definition Full of gashes; hideous; frightful.
- English Word Gashing Definition of Gash
- English Word Gasification Definition The act or process of converting into gas.
- English Word Gasified Definition of Gasify