5. [Cf. Gangue.] (Mining) The mineral substance which incloses a vein;
a matrix; a gangue.
Gang board, or Gang plank. (Naut.) (a) A board or plank, with cleats
for steps, forming a bridge by which to enter or leave a vessel. (b) A
plank within or without the bulwarks of a vessel's waist, for the
sentinel to walk on. -- Gang cask, a small cask in which to bring water
aboard ships or in which it is kept on deck. -- Gang cultivator, Gang
plow, a cultivator or plow in which several shares are attached to one
frame, so as to make two or more furrows at the same time. -- Gang
days, Rogation days; the time of perambulating parishes. See Gang week
(below). -- Gang drill, a drilling machine having a number of drills
driven from a common shaft. -- Gang master, a master or employer of a
gang of workmen. -- Gang plank. See Gang board (above). -- Gang plow.
See Gang cultivator (above). -- Gang press, a press for operating upon
a pile or row of objects separated by intervening plates. -- Gang saw,
a saw fitted to be one of a combination or gang of saws hung together
in a frame or sash, and set at fixed distances apart. -- Gang tide. See
Gang week (below). -- Gang tooth, a projecting tooth. [Obs.] Halliwell.
-- Gang week, Rogation week, when formerly processions were made to
survey the bounds of parishes. Halliwell. -- Live gang, or Round gang,
the Western and the Eastern names, respectively, for a gang of saws for
cutting the round log into boards at one operation. Knight. -- Slabbing
gang, an arrangement of saws which cuts slabs from two sides of a log,
leaving the middle part as a thick beam.
Gang"er (?), n. One who oversees a gang of workmen. [R.] Mayhew.
Gan*get"ic (?), a. Pertaining to, or inhabiting, the Ganges; as, the
Gangetic shark.
Gang"-flow`er (?), n. (Bot.) The common English milkwort (Polygala
vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week. Dr. Prior.
Gan"gion (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A short line attached to a trawl.
See Trawl, n.
{ Gan"gli*ac (?), Gan"gli*al (?), } a. (Anat.) Relating to a ganglion;
ganglionic.
{ Gan"gli*ate (?), Gan"gli*a`ted (?), } a. (Anat.) Furnished with
ganglia; as, the gangliated cords of the sympathetic nervous system.
{ Gan"gli*form` (?), Gan"gli*o*form` (?), } a. [Ganglion + -form.]
(Anat.) Having the form of a ganglion.
Gan"gli*on (?), n.; pl. L. Ganglia (#), E. Ganglions (#). [L. ganglion
a sort of swelling or excrescence, a tumor under the skin, Gr. &?;: cf.
F. ganglion.] 1. (Anat.) (a) A mass or knot of nervous matter,
including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of
a nerve. (b) A node, or gland in the lymphatic system; as, a lymphatic
ganglion.
2. (Med.) A globular, hard, indolent tumor, situated somewhere on a
tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it;
-- called also weeping sinew.
Ganglion cell, a nerve cell. See Illust. under Bipolar.
Gan"gli*on*a*ry (?), a. [Cf. F. ganglionnarie.] (Anat.) Ganglionic.
Gan`gli*on"ic (?), a. [Cf. F. ganglionique.] (Anat.) Pertaining to,
containing, or consisting of, ganglia or ganglion cells; as, a
ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord.
Gan"grel (?), a. [Cf. Gang, v. i.] Wandering; vagrant. [Scot.] Sir W.
Scott.