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Gauge
() To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock.
Gauge
() To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment.
Gauge
() To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of.
Gauge
() A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.
Gauge
() Measure; dimensions; estimate.
Gauge
() Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.
Gauge
() 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
() 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
() The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
Gauge
() The distance between the rails of a railway.
Gauge
() The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.
Gauge
() 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.
Gaugeable
() Capable of being gauged.
Gauged
() Tested or measured by, or conformed to, a gauge.
Gauger
() One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
Gauger-ship
() The office of a gauger.
Gauging rod
() See Gauge rod, under Gauge, n.
Gaul
() The Anglicized form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul).
Gaul
() A native or inhabitant of Gaul.
Gaulish
() Pertaining to ancient France, or Gaul; Gallic.
Gault
() A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period.
Gaultheria
() 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
() Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
Gauntlet
() See Gantlet.
Gauntlet
() A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds.
Gauntlet
() A long glove, covering the wrist.
Gauntlet
() A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
Gauntletted
() Wearing a gauntlet.
Gauntly
() In a gaunt manner; meagerly.
Gauntree
() Alt. of Gauntry
Gauntry
() A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere.
Gauntry
() A scaffolding or frame carrying a crane or other structure.
Gaur
() An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bibos gauris), of large size and an untamable disposition.
Gaure
() To gaze; to stare.
Gauze
() A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.
Gauze
() Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing.
Gauziness
() The quality of being gauzy; flimsiness.
Gauzy
() Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.
Gave
() imp. of Give.
Gavel
() A gable.
Gavel
() A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
Gavel
() The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc.
Gavel
() A mason's setting maul.
Gavel
() Tribute; toll; custom. [Obs.] See Gabel.
Gavelet
() An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent.
Gavelkind
() 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.
Gaveloche
() Same as Gavelock.
Gavelock
() A spear or dart.
Gavelock
() An iron crow or lever.
Gaverick
() The European red gurnard (Trigla cuculus).