2. Boasting; insincere or empty talk. [Slang]

Gas"sy (?), a. Full of gas; like gas. Hence: [Colloq.] Inflated; full

of boastful or insincere talk.

Gast (?), v. t. [OE. gasten, g&?;sten to frighten, akin to Goth.

usgaisjan. See Aghast, Ghastly, and cf. Gaze.] To make aghast; to

frighten; to terrify. See Aghast. [Obs.] Chaucer. Shak.

Gast"er (?), v. t. To gast. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

||Gas`te*ro*my*ce"tes (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. &?; stomach + &?; a

||mushroom.] (Bot.) An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne

||inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.

Gas"ter*o*pod (?), n. (Zoˆl.) Same as Gastropod.

||Gas`te*rop`o*da (?), n. pl. (Zoˆl.) Same as Gastropoda.

Gas`ter*op"o*dous (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Same as Gastropodous.

Gast"ful, Gast"ly (&?;), a. [Obs.] See Ghastful, Ghastly.

Gas"tight` (?), a. So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas;

impervious to gas.

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