2. Gay; merry; festal. Tennyson.

Let's have one other gaudy night.

Shak.

Gaud"y, n.; pl. Gaudies (#) [See Gaud, n.] One of the large beads in

the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. [Obs.] Gower.

Gaud"y, n. A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.

[Oxford Univ.] Conybeare.

Gaud"y*green` (?), a. or n. [OE. gaude grene.] Light green. [Obs.]

Chaucer. Spenser.

Gauf"fer (?), v. t. [F. gaufrer to figure cloth, velvet, and other

stuffs, fr. gaufre honeycomb, waffle; of German origin. See Waffle,

Wafer, and cf. Goffer, Gopher an animal.] To plait, crimp, or flute; to

goffer, as lace. See Goffer.

Gauf"fer*ing (?), n. A mode of plaiting or fluting.

Gauffering iron, a kind of fluting iron for fabrics. -- Gauffering

press (Flower Manuf.), a press for crimping the leaves and petals into

shape.

||Gauf"fre (?), n. [See Gopher.] (Zoˆl.) A gopher, esp. the pocket

||gopher.

Gauge (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gauged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gauging (?)]

[OF. gaugier, F. jauger, cf. OF. gauge gauge, measuring rod, F. jauge;

of uncertain origin; perh. fr. an assumed L. qualificare to determine

the qualities of a thing (see Qualify); but cf. also F. jalon a

measuring stake in surveying, and E. gallon.] [Written also gage.]

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