Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 10
Gather (v. t.) (Arch.) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like.
Gather (v. t.) (Naut.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
To be gathered to one's people or To be gathered to one's fathers. To die. -- Gen. xxv. 8.
To gather breath, To recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get one's breath; to rest. -- Spenser.
To gather one's self together, To collect and dispose one's powers for a great effort, as a beast crouches preparatory to a leap.
To gather way (Naut.), To begin to move; to move with increasing speed.
Gather (v. i.) To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
When small humors gather to a gout. -- Pope.
Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes. -- Tennyson.
Gather (v. i.) To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
Their snowball did not gather as it went. -- Bacon.
Gather (v. i.) To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
Gather (v. i.) To collect or bring things together.
Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed. -- Matt. xxv. 26.
Gather (n.) A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
Gather (n.) (Carriage Making) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
Gather (n.) (Arch.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.
Gather (n.) Sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching [syn: gather, gathering].
Gather (n.) The act of gathering something [syn: gather, gathering].
Gather (v.) Assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" [syn: gather, garner, collect, pull together] [ant: distribute, spread].
Gather (v.) Collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" [syn: meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather].
Gather (v.) Collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" [syn: accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass].
Gather (v.) Conclude from evidence; "I gather you have not done your homework."
Gather (v.) Draw together into folds or puckers [syn: gather, pucker, tuck].
Gather (v.) Get people together; "assemble your colleagues"; "get together all those who are interested in the project"; "gather the close family members" [syn: assemble, gather, get together].
Gather (v.) Draw and bring closer; "she gathered her shawl around her shoulders."
Gather (v.) Look for (food) in nature; "Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall."
Gather (v.) Increase or develop; "the peace movement gained momentum"; "the car gathers speed" [syn: gain, gather].
Gatherable (a.) Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. [R.] -- Godwin.
Gatherer (n.) One who gathers or collects.
Gatherer (n.) (Sewing Machine) An attachment for making gathers in the cloth.
Gatherer (n.) A person who gathers; "they were a society of hunters and gatherers."
Gatherer (n.) A person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) [syn: collector, gatherer, accumulator].
Gathering (n.) The act of collecting or bringing together.
Gathering (n.) That which is gathered, collected, or brought together; as:
Gathering (n.) A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.
Gathering (n.) A charitable contribution; a collection.
Gathering (n.) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
Gathering (a.) Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.
Gathering board (Bookbinding), A table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book. -- Knight.
Gathering coal, A lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning.
Gathering hoop, A hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them.
Gathering peat. A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire.
Gathering peat. In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the Highlanders.
Gathering (n.) A group of persons together in one place [syn: gathering, assemblage].
Gathering (n.) The social act of assembling; "they demanded the right of assembly" [syn: assembly, assemblage, gathering] [ant: disassembly, dismantlement, dismantling].
Gathering (n.) The act of gathering something [syn: gather, gathering].
Gathering (n.) Sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching [syn: gather, gathering].
Gatling gun () An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired.
Note: The improved Gatling gun can be fired at the rate of 1,200 shots per minute. -- Farrow.
Gatling gun (n.) An early form of machine gun having several barrels that fire in sequence as they are rotated.
Gatten tree () A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europaeus).
Gat-toothed (a.) Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton.
Gauche (n.) [F.] Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.
Gauche (n.) (Geom.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.
Gauche (n.) Lacking grace and perceptivity in social situations; crude; tactless; socially inept.
Syn: graceless; unsophisticated.
Gauche (n.) (Chem.) Not planar; -- of molecules or molecular conformations.
Gauche (n.) 左邊 The left, the left-hand side.
Gauche (a.) Awkward; clumsy; gawky; left.
Gauche (a.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.
Gauche (a.) 笨拙的，粗魯的，無禮的 Lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche" [syn: {gauche}, {graceless}, {unpolished}].
Gauche (a.) （尤指因年輕且經驗不足而）笨拙的，不善社交的，不老練的 Awkward and uncomfortable with other people, especially because young and without experience.
// She had grown from a gauche teenager to a self-assured young woman.
Gaucherie (n.) [F.] An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.
Gaucherie (n.) The quality of being rustic or gauche [syn: rusticity, gaucherie] [ant: urbanity].
Gaucherie (n.) A socially awkward or tactless act [syn: faux pas, gaffe, solecism, slip, gaucherie].
Gauchos (n. pl. ) of Gaucho.
Gaucho (n.) [Sp.] One of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle. Hence, a South American cowboy, especially on the pampas.
Gaucho (n.) A member of an Indian population, somewhat affected by Spanish blood, in the archipelagoes off the Chilean coast.
Gaucho (n.) A cowboy of the South American pampas.
Gaud (n.) Trick; jest; sport. [Obs.] -- Chaucer
Gaud (n.) Deceit; fraud; artifice; device. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Gaud (n.) An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. "An idle gaud." -- Shak.
Gaud (v. i.) To sport or keep festival. [Obs.] "Gauding with his familiars. " [Obs.] -- Sir T. North.
Gauded (imp. & p. p.) of Gaud.
Gauding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gaud.
Gaud (v. t.) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint. [Obs.] "Nicely gauded cheeks." -- Shak.
Gaud (n.) Cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing [syn: bangle, bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, fallal, trinket].
Gaud-day (n.) See Gaudy, a feast.
Gaudery (n.) Finery; ornaments; ostentatious display.
Gaudful (a.) Joyful; showy.
Gaudily (adv.) In a gaudy manner.
Gaudiness (n.) The quality of being gaudy.
Gaudish (a.) Gaudy.
Gaudless (a.) Destitute of ornament.
Gaudy (a.) （文風、服飾等）華麗而俗氣的 Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. -- Shak.
Gaudy (a.) Gay; merry; festal. -- Tennyson.
Let's have one other gaudy night. -- Shak.
Gaudies (n. pl. ) of Gaudy.
Gaudy (n.) One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. [Obs.] -- Gower.
Gaudy (n.) A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day. [Oxford Univ.] -- Conybeare.
Gaudy (a.) Tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy].
Gaudy (a.) (Used especially of clothes) Marked by conspicuous display [syn: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sporty].
Gaudy (n.) (Britain) A celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college.
Gaudygreen (a. or n.) Light green. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Spenser.
Gauffer (v. t.) To plait, crimp, or flute; to goffer, as lace. See Goffer.
Gauffer (n.) An iron used to press pleats and ridges [syn: goffer, gauffer, goffering iron, gauffering iron].
Gauffer (n.) An ornamental frill made by pressing pleats [syn: goffer, gauffer].
Gauffer (v.) Make wavy with a heated goffering iron; "goffer the trim of the dress" [syn: gauffer, goffer].
Gauffering (n.) A mode of plaiting or fluting.
Gauffering iron, A kind of fluting iron for fabrics.
Gauffering press (Flower Manuf.), A press for crimping the leaves and petals into shape.
Gauffre (n.) (Zool.) A gopher, esp. the pocket gopher.
Gauge (n.) A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.
This plate must be a gauge to file your worm and groove to equal breadth by. -- Moxon.
There is not in our hands any fixed gauge of minds. -- I. Taylor.
Gauge (n.) Measure; dimensions; estimate.
The gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt. -- Burke.
Gauge (n.) (Mach. & Manuf.) Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.
Gauge (n.) (Physics) 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.
Gauge (n.) (Naut.) 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.
Gauge (n.) (Naut.) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water. -- Totten.
Gauge (n.) The distance between the rails of a railway.
Note: The standard gauge of railroads in most countries is four feet, eight and one half inches. Wide, or broad, gauge, in the United States, is six feet; in England, seven feet, and generally any gauge exceeding standard gauge. Any gauge less than standard gauge is now called narrow gauge. It varies from two feet to three feet six inches.
Gauge (n.) (Plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.
Gauge (n.) (Building) 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.
Gauge of a carriage, car, etc., The distance between the wheels; -- ordinarily called the track.
Gauge cock, A stop cock used as a try cock for ascertaining the height of the water level in a steam boiler.
Gauge concussion (Railroads), The jar caused by a car-wheel flange striking the edge of the rail.
Gauge glass, A glass tube for a water gauge.
Gauge lathe, An automatic lathe for turning a round object having an irregular profile, as a baluster or chair round, to a templet or gauge.
Gauge point, The diameter of a cylinder whose altitude is one inch, and contents equal to that of a unit of a given measure; -- a term used in gauging casks, etc.
Gauge rod, A graduated rod, for measuring the capacity of barrels, casks, etc.
Gauge saw, A handsaw, with a gauge to regulate the depth of cut. -- Knight.
Gauge stuff, A stiff and compact plaster, used in making cornices, moldings, etc., by means of a templet.
Gauge wheel, A wheel at the forward end of a plow beam, to determine the depth of the furrow.
Joiner's gauge, An instrument used to strike a line parallel to the straight side of a board, etc.
Printer's gauge, An instrument to regulate the length of the page.
Rain gauge, An instrument for measuring the quantity of rain at any given place.
Salt gauge, or Brine gauge, An instrument or contrivance for indicating the degree of saltness of water from its specific gravity, as in the boilers of ocean steamers.
Sea gauge, An instrument for finding the depth of the sea.
Siphon gauge, A glass siphon tube, partly filled with mercury, -- used to indicate pressure, as of steam, or the degree of rarefaction produced in the receiver of an air pump or other vacuum; a manometer.
Sliding gauge. (Mach.) (a) A templet or pattern for gauging the commonly accepted dimensions or shape of certain parts in general use, as screws, railway-car axles, etc.
Sliding gauge. (Mach.) (b) A gauge used only for testing other similar gauges, and preserved as a reference, to detect wear of the working gauges.
Sliding gauge. (Mach.) (c) (Railroads) See Note under Gauge, n., 5.
Star gauge (Ordnance), An instrument for measuring the diameter of the bore of a cannon at any point of its length.
Steam gauge, An instrument for measuring the pressure of steam, as in a boiler.
Tide gauge, An instrument for determining the height of the tides.
Vacuum gauge, A species of barometer for determining the relative elasticities of the vapor in the condenser of a steam engine and the air.
Water gauge. (a) A contrivance for indicating the height of a water surface, as in a steam boiler; as by a gauge cock or glass.
Water gauge. (b) The height of the water in the boiler.
Wind gauge, An instrument for measuring the force of the wind on any given surface; an anemometer.
Wire gauge, A gauge for determining the diameter of wire or the thickness of sheet metal; also, a standard of size. See under Wire.
Gauged (imp. & p. p.) of Gauge.
Gauging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gauge.
Gauge (v. t.) To measure or determine with a gauge.
Gauge (v. t.) To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg.
Gauge (v. t.) (Mech.) To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock.
The vanes nicely gauged on each side. -- Derham.
Gauge (v. t.) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment.
Gauge (v. t.) To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of.
You shall not gauge me By what we do to-night. -- Shak.
Gauge (n.) A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. [syn: gauge, gage]
Gauge (n.) Accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared [syn: gauge, standard of measurement].
Gauge (n.) The distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train.
Gauge (n.) The thickness of wire.
Gauge (n.) Diameter of a tube or gun barrel [syn: bore, gauge, caliber, calibre].
Gauge (v.) Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds" [syn: estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge].
Gauge (v.) Rub to a uniform size; "gauge bricks."
Gauge (v.) Determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation; "gauge the wine barrels."
Gauge (v.) Measure precisely and against a standard; "the wire is gauged."
Gauge (v.) Adapt to a specified measurement; "gauge the instruments."
Gauge (v.) Mix in specific proportions; "gauge plaster."
Gaugeable (a.) Capable of being gauged.
Gauged (p. a.) Tested or measured by, or conformed to, a gauge.
Gauged brick, Brick molded, rubbed, or cut to an exact size and shape, for arches or ornamental work.
Gauged mortar. See Gauge stuff, under Gauge, n.
Gauger (n.) One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
Gauger. () An officer appointed to examine all tuns, pipes, hogsheads, barrels, and tierces of wine, oil, and other liquids, and to give them a mark of allowance, as containing lawful measure.
Gauger-ship (n.) The office of a gauger.
Gauging rod () See Gauge rod, under Gauge, n.
Gaul (n.) The Anglicized form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul).
Gaul (n.) A native or inhabitant of Gaul.
Gaul (n.) A person of French descent [syn: frog, Gaul].
Gaul (n.) A Celt of ancient Gaul.
Gaul (n.) An ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the Netherlands [syn: Gaul, Gallia].
Gaulish (a.) Pertaining to ancient France, or Gaul; Gallic. [R.]
Gault (n.) (Geol.) A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period.
Gaultheria (n.) [NL.] (Bot.) 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).
Gaunt (a.) Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim. "The gaunt mastiff." -- Pope.
A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and fleshless across our land. -- Nichols.
Gauntlet (n.) (Mil.) See Gantlet.
Gauntlet (n.) A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds.
Note: The gauntlet of the Middle Ages was sometimes of chain mail, sometimes of leather partly covered with plates, scales, etc., of metal sewed to it, and, in the 14th century, became a glove of small steel plates, carefully articulated and covering the whole hand except the palm and the inside of the fingers.
Gauntlet (n.) A long glove, covering the wrist.
Gauntlet (n.) (Naut.) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
To take up the gauntlet, To accept a challenge.
To throw down the gauntlet, To offer or send a challenge.
The gauntlet or glove was thrown down by the knight challenging, and was taken up by the one who accepted the challenge; -- hence the phrases.
Gauntletted (a.) Wearing a gauntlet.
Gauntly (adv.) In a gaunt manner; meagerly. Gauntree
Gauntree (n.) Alt. of Gauntry.
Gauntry (n.) A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere. -- Sir W. Scott.
Gauntry (n.) (Engin.) A scaffolding or frame carrying a crane or other structure. -- Knight.
Gaur (n.) (Zool.) An East Indian species of wild cattle ({Bibos gauris), of large size and an untamable disposition. [Spelt also gour.]
Gaure (v. i.) To gaze; to stare. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Gauze (n.) A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.
Gauze dresser, One employed in stiffening gauze.
Gauze (a.) Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing.
Gauze (n.) [ U ] 薄紗，紗羅；（包紮傷口或過濾用的）紗布 A very thin, light cloth, used to make clothing, to cover cuts and to separate solids from liquids, etc.
// A gauze skirt.
// A piece of sterile gauze.
Gauze (n.) [ C or U ] （金屬絲製的）網 A material like a net formed by wires crossing over each other.
// Wire gauze.
Gauziness (n.) The quality of being gauzy; flimsiness. -- Ruskin.
Gauzy (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.
Gave () imp. of Give.
Gavel (n.) A gable. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Gavel (n.) A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle. -- Wright.
Gavel (n.) The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc.
Gavel (n.) A mason's setting maul. -- Knight.
Gavel (n.) Tribute; toll; custom. [Obs.] See Gabel. -- Cowell.
Gavel (n.) A small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge.
Gavel. () A tax, imposition or tribute; the same as gabel. (q. v.)
Gavelet (n.) (O. Eng. Law) An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent. [Obs.]
Gavelkind (n.) (O. Eng. Law) A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent. --Cowell.
Gavelkind. () Given to all the kindred, or the hold or tenure of a family, not the kind of tenure. Eng. law. A tenure or custom annexed or belonging to land in Kent, by which the lands of the father are equally divided among all his sons, or the land of the brother among all his brothers, if he have no issue of his own. Litt. s. 210.
Gaveloche (n.) Same as Gavelock.