GÂTEAU, gat-[=o]', _n._ cake.--VEAL GATEAU, minced veal made up like a
pudding, and boiled in a shape or mould. [Fr.]
GATHER, ga_th_'[.e]r, _v.t._ to collect: to acquire: in sewing, to plait:
to learn by inference.--_v.i._ to assemble or muster: to increase: to
suppurate.--_n._ a plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing the thread
through (_pl._ that part of the dress which is gathered or drawn
in).--_ns._ GATH'ERER, one who collects: a gleaner: in glass manufacturing,
a workman who collects molten glass on the end of a rod preparatory to
blowing; GATH'ERING, a crowd or assembly: a tumour or collection of matter;
GATH'ERING-COAL, -PEAT, a coal, peat, put into a fire at night, with the
hot embers gathered about it, to keep the fire alive till morning;
GATH'ERING-CRY, a summons to assemble for war.--GATHER BREATH, to recover
wind; GATHER GROUND, to gain ground; GATHER ONE'S SELF TOGETHER, to collect
all one's powers, like one about to leap; GATHER TO A HEAD, to ripen: to
come into a state of preparation for action or effect; GATHER WAY, to get
headway by sail or steam so as to answer the helm. [A.S. _gaderian_,
_gæderian_, _(tó)gædere_, together; cf. _geador_, together, _g['æ]d_,
company.]
GATLING-GUN. See GUN.
GAUCHE, g[=o]sh, _adj._ left-handed: clumsy.--_n._ GAUCHE'RIE (-r[=e]),
clumsiness: awkwardness. [Fr.]
GAUCHO, gow'ch[=o], _n._ a native of the La Plata pampas of Spanish
descent, noted for marvellous horsemanship.--Less correctly GUA'CHO.
GAUCIE, GAUCY, GAWCY, GAWSY, gä'si, _adj._ _(Scot.)_ portly, jolly.
GAUD, gawd, _n._ an ornament: a piece of finery:--_pl._ showy ceremonies,
gaieties.--_v.i._ (_Shak._) make merry.--_v.t._ (_Shak._) to adorn with
gauds: to paint, as the cheeks.--_ns._ GAUDE[=A]'MUS, a rejoicing,
students' merrymaking; GAUD'ERY, finery.--_adv._ GAUD'ILY.--_ns._
GAUD'INESS, showiness; GAUD'Y, an English university feast or
festival.--_adj._ showy: gay.--_n._ GAUD'Y-DAY. [L. _gaudium_,
delight--_gaud[=e]re_, to rejoice.]
GAUGE, GAGE, g[=a]j, _n._ a measuring-rod: a standard of measure:
estimate.--_v.t._ to measure the contents of any vessel: to estimate
ability.--_adj._ GAUGE'ABLE, capable of being gauged.--_ns._ GAUG'ER, an
excise officer whose business is to gauge or measure the contents of casks;
GAUG'ING, the art of measuring casks containing excisable liquors;
GAUG'ING-ROD, an instrument for measuring the contents of casks; BROAD'-,
NARR'OW-GAUGE, in railroad construction, a distance between the rails
greater or less than 56½ inches, called _standard gauge_. [O. Fr. _gauge_
(Fr. _jauge_), _gauger_; prob. related to _jale_, bowl, to _galon_, gallon,
or to _jalon_, measuring stake.]
GAUL, gawl, _n._ a name of ancient France: an inhabitant of Gaul.--_adj._
GAUL'ISH. [Fr.,--L. _Gallus_; perh. conn. with A.S. _wealh_, foreign.]
GAULT, gawlt, _n._ a series of beds of clay and marl, between the Upper and
the Lower Greensand: brick earth--also GALT.--_n._ GAULT'ER, one who digs
gault.
GAULTHERIA, gal-t[=e]'ri-a, _n._ a genus of evergreen aromatic plants--one
species, the U.S. _winter-green_, yielding a valued volatile oil. [From the
Canadian botanist M. _Gaultier_.]
GAUM, gawm, _v.t._ to smear: (_obs._) to handle clumsily.--_adj._ GAUM'Y,
dauby.
GAUN, gän, Scotch for going.
GAUNT, gänt, _adj._ thin: of a pinched appearance: causing
emaciation.--_adv._ GAUNT'LY.--_n._ GAUNT'NESS. [Skeat compares Norw.
_gand_, pointed stick, and Sw. prov. _gank_, a lean horse.]
GAUNTLET, gänt'let, _n._ the iron glove of armour, formerly thrown down in
challenge: a long glove covering the wrist.--_p.adj._ GAUNT'LETED, wearing
a gauntlet or gauntlets.--_n._ GAUNT'LET-GUARD, a guard of a sword or
dagger, protecting the hand very thoroughly.--RUN THE GAUNTLET (see
GANTLET).--THROW DOWN, TAKE UP, THE GAUNTLET, to give, to accept a
challenge. [Fr. _gantelet_, double dim. of _gant_, a glove, of Scand.
origin; cf. Old Sw. _vante_, a glove, Ice. _vöttr_, a glove, Dan. _vante_.]
GAUNTRY. See GANTRY.
GAUP, GAWP, gawp, _v.i._ (prov.) to gape in astonishment.--_ns._ GAUP'US,
GAWP'US, a silly person.
GAUR, gowr, _n._ a species of ox inhabiting some of the mountain jungles of
India. [Hindustani.]
GAUZE, gawz, _n._ a thin, transparent fabric, originally of silk, now of
any fine hard-spun fibre: material slight and open like gauze.--_adj._
GAUZE'-WINGED, having gauzy wings.--_n._ GAUZ'INESS.--_adj._ GAUZ'Y.--_n._
WIRE'-GAUZE (see WIRE). [Fr. _gaze_, dubiously referred to _Gaza_ in
Palestine.]
GAVAGE, ga-väzh', _n._ a process of fattening poultry by forcing them to
swallow food at fixed intervals: (_med._) a similar method of forced
feeding. [Fr. _gaver_--_gave_, the crop of a bird.]
GAVE, g[=a]v, _pa.t._ of _give_.
GAVEL, g[=a]'vel, a prov. form of _gable_.
GAVEL, gav'el, _n._ an old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an
estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally.--_v.t._ to
divide or distribute in this way.--_ns._ GAV'ELKIND, a tenure now peculiar
to Kent by which the tenant at fifteen can sell the estate or devise it by
will, the estate cannot escheat, and on an intestacy the lands descend from
the father to all sons in equal portions; GAV'ELMAN, a tenant holding land
in gavelkind. [A.S. _gafol_, tribute; cog. with _giefan_, to give.]
GAVIAL, g[=a]'vi-al, _n._ the East Indian species of crocodile, with very
long slender muzzle. [Adapted from Hindustani _ghariy[=a]l_, a crocodile.]
GAVOTTE, ga-vot', n. a lively kind of dance, somewhat like a country-dance,
originally a dance of the _Gavotes_, the people of Gap, in the Upper Alps:
the music for such a dance.
GAWD, gawd, _n._ (_Shak._). Same as GAUD.
GAWK, gawk, _adj._ left, as in _gawk-handed_.--_ns._ GAWK'IHOOD,
GAWK'INESS, quality of being gawky.--_adj._ GAWK'Y, awkward, stupid,
ungainly.--_n._ a lout. [Prob. a contr. of _gaulick_-, _galloc_-,
_gallish_-(_handed_); most prob. not related to Fr. _gauche_.]
GAY, g[=a], _adj._ lively: bright: sportive, merry: wanton, dissipated, of
loose life: showy: (_prov._) spotted.--adv. (_Scot._) fairly,
considerably.--_ns._ GAI'ETY, GAY'ETY, GAY'NESS.--_advs._ GAI'LY, GAY'LY;
GAY'SOME, gladsome.--GAY SCIENCE, a rendering of _gai saber_, the Provençal
name for the art of poetry. [O. Fr. _gai_--Old High Ger. _wâhi_, pretty,
not _gâhi_, swift (Diez).]
GAYAL, GYAL, g[=i]'al, _n._ a kind of East Indian ox, long domesticated,
dark brown in colour, with short curved horns. [Hindi.]
GAY-YOU, g[=i]'-[=u], _n._ a narrow, flat-bottomed fishing-boat, of two or
three masts, used in Annam.
GAZE, g[=a]z, _v.i_, to look fixedly.--_n._ a fixed look: the object gazed
at--(_Spens._) GAZE'MENT.--_adj._ GAZE'FUL (_Spens._), looking
intently.--_ns._ GAZE'-HOUND, a hound that pursues by sight rather than
scent; GAZ'ER, one who gazes; GAZ'ING-STOCK, a person exposed to public
view, generally in a bad sense.--AT GAZE, in the attitude of gazing. [Prob.
cog. with obs. _gaw_, to stare, Ice. _gá_, to heed. Some compare the Sw.
_gasa_, to stare.]
GAZEBO, g[=a]-z[=e]'b[=o], _n._ a summer-house with a wide prospect.
[Humorously formed from _gaze_.]
GAZEL, gaz'el, _n._ a form of GHAZAL (q.v.).
GAZELLE, GAZEL, ga-zel', _n._ a small species of antelope with beautiful
dark eyes, found in Arabia and North Africa. [Fr.,--Ar. _ghaz[=a]l_, a
wild-goat.]
GAZETTE, ga-zet', _n._ a newspaper: one of the three official newspapers of
the United Kingdom, published in Edinburgh, London, and Dublin, with record
of every appointment in the public service.--_v.t._ to publish in a
gazette:--_pr.p._ gazett'ing; _pa.p._ gazett'ed.--_n._ GAZETTEER', a
geographical dictionary: (_orig._) a writer for a gazette, official
journalist.--_v.t._ to describe in gazetteers.--_adj._ GAZETTEE'RISH, like
a gazetteer in style.--APPEAR, HAVE ONE'S NAME, IN THE GAZETTE, to be
mentioned in one of the three official newspapers, esp. of bankrupts.
[Fr.,--It. _gazzetta_, a small coin; or from It. _gazzetta_, in the sense
of a magpie=a chatterer.]
GAZOGENE, gaz'o-j[=e]n, _n._ an instrument for manufacturing aerated
waters, usually for domestic use, by the action of an acid on an alkali
carbonate. [Fr., _gaz_, gas, Gr. _gen[=e]s_--_gignesthai_, to become.]
GAZON, ga-zon', _n._ a sod or piece of turf, used in fortification.--_n._
GAZOON', used erroneously by Hogg for a compact body of men. [Fr.,
_grass_.]
GAZY, g[=a]'zi, _adj._ affording a wide prospect: given to gazing.
GEACH, g[=e]ch, _n._ (_slang_) a thief.--_v.t._ to steal.
GEAL, j[=e]'al, adj. pertaining to the earth regarded as a planet. [Gr.
_g[=e]_, earth.]
GEAL, j[=e]l, _v.i._ to congeal.