Goth"i*cize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gothicized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Gothicizing (?).] To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism.
Gˆ"thite, or Goe"thite (&?;), n. [After the poet Gˆthe.] (Min.) A
hydrous oxide of iron, occurring in prismatic crystals, also massive,
with a fibrous, reniform, or stalactitic structure. The color varies
from yellowish to blackish brown.
Got"ten (?), p. p. of Get.
||Gouache (gwsh), n. [F., It. guazzo.] A method of painting with opaque
||colors, which have been ground in water and mingled with a
||preparation of gum; also, a picture thus painted.
Goud (?), n. [Cf. OF. gaide, F. guËde, fr. OHG. weit; or cf. F. gaude
weld. Cf. Woad.] Woad. [Obs.]
||Gou`dron" (?), n. [F., tar.] (Mil.) a small fascine or fagot, steeped
||in wax, pitch, and glue, used in various ways, as for igniting
||buildings or works, or to light ditches and ramparts. Farrow.
Gouge (?), n. [F. gouge. LL. gubia, guvia, gulbia, gulvia, gulvium; cf.
Bisc. gubia bow, gubioa throat.]
1. A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or
cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar
instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.
2. A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face
which forms a curve.
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3. An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes,
etc. from leather, paper, etc. Knight.
4. (Mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the
solid vein. Raymond.
5. The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove
or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
6. Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish
person. [Slang, U. S.]
Gouge bit, a boring bit, shaped like a gouge.
Gouge (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gouged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gouging
(?).] 1. To scoop out with a gouge.
2. To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye
of (a person) with the thumb. [K S.]
A barbarity mentioned by some travelers as formerly practiced in the
brutal frays of desperadoes in some parts of the United States.