Dictionary: GAUD'ER-Y – GAV'EL

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GAUD'ER-Y, n.

Finery fine things ornaments. Bacon. Dryden.

GAUDFUL, a.

Joyful; showy.

GAUD'I-LY, adv.

Showily; with ostentation of fine dress. Guthrie.

GAUD'I-NESS, n.

Showiness; tinsel appearance ostentatious finery. Whitlock.

GAUD-ING, ppr.

Meastiring a cask; ascertaining dimensioas or proportions of quantity.

GAUD'LESS, a.

Destitute of ornament.

GAUD'Y, a.

  1. Showy; splendid; gay. A goldfinch there I saw, with gaudy pride Of painted plumes. Dryden.
  2. Ostentatiously fine; gay beyond the simplicity of nature or good taste. Costly thy habit as the purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich not gaudy. Shak.

GAUDY, n.

A feast or festival; a word in the university.

GAUGE, n. gage.

  1. A measure; a standard of measure. Moxon.
  2. Measure; dimensions. Burke.

GAUGE, v. gage. [Fr. jauger, to gage; jaugr, a mess ring rod; Arm. jauja, or jauchi, to gage;.jauch, a rod. it is supposed by J. Thomson, that this is contracted from jaulge, from gaule, a rod or pole. But qu.]

  1. To measure or to ascertain the contents of a cask or vessel, asa pipe, puncheon, hogshead, barrel, tierce or keg.
  2. To measure in respect to proportion. The veins nicely gauged on each side. Derham.

GAUG-ED, pp.

Measured.

GAUG-ER, n.

One who gauges; an officer whose business is to ascertain the contents of casks.

GAUG-ING, n.

The art of measuing the contents or capacities of vessels of any form Ed. Encyc

GAUG-ING-ROD, n.

An instrument to be used in measuring the contents of casks or vessels.

GAUL, n. [L. Gallia.]

A name of ancient France; also, an inhahitant of Gaul.

GAUL'ISH, a.

Pertaining to ancient France or Gaul.

GAUNT, or GANT, a. gant.

[The origin is uncertain. Qu. Sax. geweniae, wanian, to wane. In W. gwan, is weak, Vacant; hollow; empty, as an animal after long fasting; hence, lean; meager; thin slender. Shak. Dryden,

GAUNTLET,

See GANTLET.

GAUNTLET-ED, a.

Wearing a gauntlet.

GAUNT'LY, adv. gant'ly.

Leanly; meagerly.

GAUZE, n. [Sp. gasa; Fr. gaze; Arm. gazen. Qu. L. gassape, or gossipéum.]

A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, of silk or linen. Encyc

GAUZE'LOOM, n.

A loom in which gauze is wove.

GAUZY, a.

Like gauze; thin as gauze. GAVE pret. of give.

GAVEL,

fur gable or gable-end. [See Gable.]

GAV'EL, n.

In law, tribute; toll; custom. [See Gabel.]