Gad"bee` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The gadfly.
Gad"der (?), n. One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.
Gad"ding, a. & n. Going about much, needlessly or without purpose.
Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets.
Bacon.
The good nuns would check her gadding tongue.
Tennyson.
Gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so
arranged as to drill a line of holes.
Gad"ding*ly (?), adv. In a roving, idle manner.
Gad"dish (?), a. Disposed to gad. -- Gad"dish*nes, n. "Gaddishness and
folly." Abp. Leighton.
Gade (?), n. [Cf. Cod the fish.] (Zoˆl.) (a) A small British fish
(Motella argenteola) of the Cod family. (b) A pike, so called at Moray
Firth; -- called also gead. [Prov. Eng.]
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Gad"er*e (?), Gad"re (&?;), v. t. & i. To gather. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Gad"fly` (?), n.; pl. Gadflies (#). [Gad + fly.] (Zoˆl.) Any dipterous
insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.
The sheep gadfly (Oestrus ovis) deposits its young in the nostrils of
sheep, and the larvÊ develop in the frontal sinuses. The common species
which infests cattle (Hypoderma bovis) deposits its eggs upon or in the
skin where the larvÊ or bots live and produce sores called wormels. The
gadflies of the horse produce the intestinal parasites called bots. See
Botfly, and Bots. The true horseflies are often erroneously called
gadflies, and the true gadflies are sometimes incorrectly called breeze
flies.
Gadfly petrel (Zoˆl.), one of several small petrels of the genus
Oestrelata.
Gadhel"ic (gl"k), a. [See Gaelic.] Of or pertaining to that division of
the Celtic languages, which includes the Irish, Gaelic, and Manx. J.
Peile.
Gad"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the cod (Gadus);
-- applied to an acid obtained from cod-liver oil, viz., gadic acid.
Gad`i*ta`ni*an (?), a. [L. Gaditanus, fr. Gades Cadiz.] Of or relating
to Cadiz, in Spain. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Cadiz.
Gad"ling (?), n. [Gad, n. + - ling.] (MediÊval Armor) [R.] See Gad, n.,
4.