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  • English Word Gauge Definition To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment.
  • English Word Gauge Definition To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of.
  • English Word Gauge Definition A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.
  • English Word Gauge Definition Measure; dimensions; estimate.
  • English Word Gauge Definition Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.
  • English Word Gauge Definition Any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; -- usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.
  • English Word Gauge Definition Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind; as, a vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.
  • English Word Gauge Definition The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
  • English Word Gauge Definition The distance between the rails of a railway.
  • English Word Gauge Definition The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.
  • English Word Gauge Definition That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
  • English Word Gaugeable Definition Capable of being gauged.
  • English Word Gauged Definition of Gauge
  • English Word Gauged Definition Tested or measured by, or conformed to, a gauge.
  • English Word Gauger Definition One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
  • English Word Gauger-ship Definition The office of a gauger.
  • English Word Gauging Definition of Gauge
  • English Word Gauging rod Definition See Gauge rod, under Gauge, n.
  • English Word Gaul Definition The Anglicized form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul).
  • English Word Gaul Definition A native or inhabitant of Gaul.
  • English Word Gaulish Definition Pertaining to ancient France, or Gaul; Gallic.
  • English Word Gault Definition A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period.
  • English Word Gaultheria Definition A genus of ericaceous shrubs with evergreen foliage, and, often, edible berries. It includes the American winter-green (Gaultheria procumbens), and the larger-fruited salal of Northwestern America (Gaultheria Shallon).
  • English Word Gaunt Definition Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
  • English Word Gauntlet Definition See Gantlet.
  • English Word Gauntlet Definition A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds.
  • English Word Gauntlet Definition A long glove, covering the wrist.
  • English Word Gauntlet Definition A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
  • English Word Gauntletted Definition Wearing a gauntlet.
  • English Word Gauntly Definition In a gaunt manner; meagerly.