Gas-burner () The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.

Gascoines () See Gaskins, 1.

Gascon () Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering.

Gascon () A native of Gascony; a boaster; a bully. See Gasconade.

Gasconade () A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio.

Gasconaded () of Gasconade

Gasconading () of Gasconade

Gasconade () To boast; to brag; to bluster.

Gasconader () A great boaster; a blusterer.

Gascoynes () Gaskins.

Gaseity () State of being gaseous.

Gaseous () In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aeriform fluid.

Gaseous () Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous.

Gashed () of Gash

Gashing () of Gash

Gash () To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.

Gash () A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.

Gashful () Full of gashes; hideous; frightful.

Gasification () The act or process of converting into gas.

Gasiform () Having a form of gas; gaseous.

Gasified () of Gasify

Gasifying () of Gasify

Gasify () To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.

Gasify () To become gas; to pass from a liquid to a gaseous state.

Gasket () 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.

Gasket () The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps.

Gasket () Any ring or washer of packing.

Gaskins () Loose hose or breeches; galligaskins.

Gaskins () Packing of hemp.

Gaskins () A horse's thighs.

Gaslight () The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.

Gaslight () A gas jet or burner.

Gasogen () An apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid.

Gasogen () A volatile hydrocarbon, used as an illuminant, or for charging illuminating gas.

Gasolene () See Gasoline.

Gasolier () Same as Gasalier.

Gasoline () 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.

Gasometer () 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.

Gasometric () Alt. of Gasometrical

Gasometrical () Of or pertaining to the measurement of gases; as, gasometric analysis.

Gasometry () The art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids.

Gasoscope () An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.

Gasped () of Gasp

Gasping () of Gasp

Gasp () To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently.

Gasp () To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.

Gasp () To emit or utter with gasps; -- with forth, out, away, etc.

Gasp () The act of opening the mouth convulsively to catch the breath; a labored respiration; a painful catching of the breath.

Gaspereau () The alewife.

Gasserian () Relating to Casserio (L. Gasserius), the discover of the Gasserian ganglion.

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