Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GAM'MON-ING, ppr. [See the verb.]

GAM'MUT, n. [Sp. gamma; Port. id.; Fr. gamme; from the Greek letter so named.]

1. A scale on which notes in music are written or printed, consisting of lines and spaces, which are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet.
2. The first or gravest note in Guide's scale of music, the modern scale.

GAM-O-PET'AL-OUS, a.

When the petals of a flower are united toward the base.

GAM-O-SEP'AL-OUS, a.

When the parts of that envelop of a flower, called perianth by Linnæus, are united at the base.

GAN, v.

A contraction of began, or rather the original simple word, Sax. gynnan, to begin.

GANCH, v.t. [It. gancio, a hook.]

To drop from a high place on hooks, as the Turks do malefactors, by way of punishment.

GAN'DER, n. [Sax. gandra, ganra; Ir. ganra. In Ger. and D. gans is a goose; D. ganserick, a gander; Gr. χην, and probably L. anser. Pliny says, that in Germany the small white geese were called ganzæ. Lib. 10. 22.]

The male of fowls of the goose kind.

GANG, n. [Sax. gang; D. Dan. G. gang; Sw. gång, a going, a pace or gait, a way, a passage, an alley, an avenue, a porch, portico or gallery; G. erzreicher gang, and Dan. mineralisk gang, a metallic vein, a streak in a mine; Goth. gagg, a way or street; gaggan, to go, to walk.]

1. Properly, a going; hence, a number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; as, a gang of thieves.
2. In seamen's language, a select number of a ship's crew appointed on a particular service, under a suitable officer. Mar. Dict.
3. In mining, literally a course or vein, but appropriately the earthy, stony, saline or combustible substance, which contains the ore of metals, or is only mingled with it, without being chimically combined. This is called the gang or matrix of the ore. It differs from a mineralizer, in not being combined with the metal. Cleaveland. [This word, in the latter sense, is most unwarrantably and erroneously written gangue.]

GANG, v.i. [Sax. gangan; Goth. gaggan.]

To go; to walk. [Local or used only in ludicrous language.]

GANG'BOARD, n.

A board or plank with cleats for steps, used for walking into or out of a boat.

GANG'DAYS, n.

Days of perambulation.

GANG'HON, n.

A flower. Ainsworth.

GANG'LI-AC, a.

Relating to a ganglion. [GAN'GLI-AC, accent in 1841 Addenda.]

GANG'LI-ON, n. [Gr. γαγγλιον.]

1. In anatomy, a small circumscribed tumor, found in certain parts of the nervous system. Wistar. Cyc.
2. In surgery, a movable tumor formed on the tendons, generally about the wrist. Parr.

GANG'LI-ON-A-RY, a.

Composed of ganglions. [GAN'GLI-ON-A-RY, accent in 1841 Addenda.]

GANG-LI-ON'IC, a.

Pertaining to a ganglion; as, the ganglionic nerves of the digestive organs; or the ganglionic nerves of common sensation. Prout.

GAN-GLI-ON'IC, a.

Relating to a ganglion. [1841 Addenda only.]

GAN'GRE-NATE, v.t.

To produce a gangrene. Brown.

GAN'GRE-NA-TED, pp.

Mortified.

GAN'GRE-NA-TING, ppr.

Mortifying.

GAN'GRENE, n. [Fr. from L. gangræna; Gr. γαγγραινα; Syr. gangar.]

A mortification of living flesh, or of some part of a living animal body.

GAN'GRENE, v.i.

To become mortified.

GAN'GRENE, v.t.

To mortify.

GAN'GREN-ED, pp.

Mortified.

GAN-GRE-NES'CENT, a.

Tending to mortification.