Gather (v. t.) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like.
Gather (v. t.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
Gather (v. i.) To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
Gather (v. i.) To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
Gather (v. i.) To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
Gather (v. i.) To collect or bring things together.
Gather (n.) A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
Gather (n.) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
Gather (n.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.
Gatherable (a.) Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises.
Gatherer (n.) One who gathers or collects.
Gatherer (n.) An attachment for making gathers in the cloth.
Gathering (n.) The act of collecting or bringing together.
Gathering (n.) That which is gathered, collected, or brought together
Gathering (n.) A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.
Gathering (n.) A charitable contribution; a collection.
Gathering (n.) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
Gathering (a.) Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.
Gatling gun () An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired.
Gatten tree () A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europaeus).
Gat-toothed (a.) Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton.
Gauche (n.) Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.
Gauche (n.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.
Gaucherie (n.) An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.
Gauchos (pl. ) of Gaucho
Gaucho (n.) One of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle.
Gaud (n.) Trick; jest; sport.
Gaud (n.) Deceit; fraud; artifice; device.
Gaud (n.) An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket.
Gaud (n.) To sport or keep festival.
Gauded (imp. & p. p.) of Gaud
Gauding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gaud
Gaud (v. t.) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint.
Gaud-day (n.) See Gaudy, a feast.
Gaudery (n.) Finery; ornaments; ostentatious display.
Gaudful (a.) Joyful; showy.
Gaudily (adv.) In a gaudy manner.
Gaudiness (n.) The quality of being gaudy.
Gaudish (a.) Gaudy.
Gaudless (a.) Destitute of ornament.
Gaudy (superl.) Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.
Gaudy (superl.) Gay; merry; festal.
Gaudies (pl. ) of Gaudy
Gaudy (n.) One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
Gaudy (n.) A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.
Gaudygreen (a. / n.) Light green.
Gauffer (v. t.) To plait, crimp, or flute; to goffer, as lace. See Goffer.
Gauffering (n.) A mode of plaiting or fluting.
Gauffre (n.) A gopher, esp. the pocket gopher.
Gauged (imp. & p. p.) of Gauge
Gauging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gauge
Gauge (v. t.) To measure or determine with a gauge.
Gauge (v. t.) To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg.
Gauge (v. t.) To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock.
Gauge (v. t.) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment.
Gauge (v. t.) To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of.
Gauge (n.) A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.
Gauge (n.) Measure; dimensions; estimate.
Gauge (n.) Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.
Gauge (n.) Any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; -- usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.
Gauge (n.) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind; as, a vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.
Gauge (n.) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
Gauge (n.) The distance between the rails of a railway.
Gauge (n.) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.
Gauge (n.) That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
Gaugeable (a.) Capable of being gauged.
Gauged (p. a.) Tested or measured by, or conformed to, a gauge.
Gauger (n.) One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
Gauger-ship (n.) The office of a gauger.
Gauging rod () See Gauge rod, under Gauge, n.
Gaul (n.) The Anglicized form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul).
Gaul (n.) A native or inhabitant of Gaul.
Gaulish (a.) Pertaining to ancient France, or Gaul; Gallic.
Gault (n.) A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period.
Gaultheria (n.) A genus of ericaceous shrubs with evergreen foliage, and, often, edible berries. It includes the American winter-green (Gaultheria procumbens), and the larger-fruited salal of Northwestern America (Gaultheria Shallon).
Gaunt (a.) Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
Gauntlet (n.) See Gantlet.
Gauntlet (n.) A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds.
Gauntlet (n.) A long glove, covering the wrist.
Gauntlet (n.) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
Gauntletted (a.) Wearing a gauntlet.
Gauntly (adv.) In a gaunt manner; meagerly.
Gauntree (n.) Alt. of Gauntry
Gauntry (n.) A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere.
Gauntry (n.) A scaffolding or frame carrying a crane or other structure.
Gaur (n.) An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bibos gauris), of large size and an untamable disposition.
Gaure (v. i.) To gaze; to stare.
Gauze (n.) A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.
Gauze (a.) Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing.
Gauziness (n.) The quality of being gauzy; flimsiness.
Gauzy (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.
Gave () imp. of Give.
Gavel (n.) A gable.
Gavel (n.) A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
Gavel (n.) The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc.
Gavel (n.) A mason's setting maul.
Gavel (n.) Tribute; toll; custom. [Obs.] See Gabel.
Gavelet (n.) An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent.
Gavelkind (n.) A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent.
Gaveloche (n.) Same as Gavelock.