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- English Word Gasiform Definition Having a form of gas; gaseous.
- English Word Gasify Definition To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.
- English Word Gasify Definition To become gas; to pass from a liquid to a gaseous state.
- English Word Gasifying Definition of Gasify
- English Word Gasket Definition 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.
- English Word Gasket Definition The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps.
- English Word Gasket Definition Any ring or washer of packing.
- English Word Gaskins Definition Loose hose or breeches; galligaskins.
- English Word Gaskins Definition Packing of hemp.
- English Word Gaskins Definition A horse's thighs.
- English Word Gaslight Definition The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.
- English Word Gaslight Definition A gas jet or burner.
- English Word Gasogen Definition An apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid.
- English Word Gasogen Definition A volatile hydrocarbon, used as an illuminant, or for charging illuminating gas.
- English Word Gasolene Definition See Gasoline.
- English Word Gasolier Definition Same as Gasalier.
- English Word Gasoline Definition 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.
- English Word Gasometer Definition 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.
- English Word Gasometric Definition Alt. of Gasometrical
- English Word Gasometrical Definition Of or pertaining to the measurement of gases; as, gasometric analysis.
- English Word Gasometry Definition The art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids.
- English Word Gasoscope Definition An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.
- English Word Gasp Definition To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently.
- English Word Gasp Definition To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.
- English Word Gasp Definition To emit or utter with gasps; -- with forth, out, away, etc.
- English Word Gasp Definition The act of opening the mouth convulsively to catch the breath; a labored respiration; a painful catching of the breath.
- English Word Gasped Definition of Gasp
- English Word Gaspereau Definition The alewife.
- English Word Gasping Definition of Gasp
- English Word Gasserian Definition Relating to Casserio (L. Gasserius), the discover of the Gasserian ganglion.