Dictionary: GAT'-TOOTH-ED – GAUZE

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GAT'-TOOTH-ED, a.

Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

GAUD, n. [L. gaudium.]

An ornament; something worn for adorning the person; a fine thing. [Obs.] Shak.

GAUD, v.i. [L. gaudeo, to rejoice.]

To exult; to rejoice. [Obs.] Shak.

GAUD'ED, a.

Adorned with trinkets; colored. [Obs.] Chaucer. Shak.

GAUD'ER-Y, n.

Finery; fine things; ornaments. Bacon. Dryden.

GAUD'FUL, 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'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.

GAUD'Y, n.

A feast or festival; a word in the university. Cheyne.

GAUGE, n. [gage.]

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

GAUGE, v.t. [gage; Fr. jauger, to gage; jauge, a measuring rod; Arm. jauja, or jauchi, to gage; jauch, a rod. Igrayisht 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, as a 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, ppr.

Meastiring a cask; ascertaining dimensions or proportions of quantity.

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 inhabitant of Gaul.

GAUL'ISH, a.

Pertaining to ancient France or Gaul.

GAUNT, or GANT, a. [gant; The origin is uncertain. Qu. Sax. gewanian, wanian, to wane. In W. gwan, is weak, poor.]

Vacant; hollow; empty, as an animal after long fasting; hence, lean; meager; thin; slender. Shak. Dryden,

GAUNT'LET, n. [See GANTLET.]

GAUNT'LET-ED, a.

Wearing a gauntlet.

GAUNT'LY, adv. [gant'ly.]

Leanly; meagerly.

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

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