gaub gaub (gâb), n. [< Hind. gab.] The Diospyros Embryopteris of the East Indies, a species of persimmon, the heart-wood of which forms some of the ebony of commerce. The large fruit con tains a viscid pulp which is used as gum in bookbinding, and in place of tar for covering the seams of boats. The juice contains a large amount of tannin, and is used medicinally as an astringent. gaub-line (gâb'lin), n. Same as gob-line. gaub-ropet (gâb'rōp), n. A rope passing inboard from each leg of a martingale to secure it. Also backrope. gauche (gōsh), a. [F., left (hand, etc.), awkward, clumsy, prob. OF. *gauc, *gale (E. dial, gaulic-hand, the left hand, gallic-handed, gauk-handed, left-handed; cf. Walloon frère wauquier, step-brother, lit. 'left-brother'), prob. <OHG. welc, welch, soft, languid, weak, G. welk, withered, faded, languid, etc.: see welk1. So in other instances the left hand is named from its relative weakness: see left1. The Sp. gaucho, slanting, seems to be derived from the F. word.] 1. Left-handed; awkward; clumsy. [Used as French.] Pardon me if I say so, but I never saw such rude, uncivil, gauche, ill-mannered men with women in my life. Aristocracy, xxi. 2. In math., skew. Specifically-(a) Not plane; twisted. (b) Not perfectly symmetrical, yet deviating from symmetry only by a regular reversal of certain parts. Gauche curve, a curve not lying in a plane.- Gauche determinant. See determinant.-Gauche perspective or projection, the projection of a figure from a center upon a surface not a plane.-Gauche polygon, a figure formed by a cycle of right lines each intersecting the next, but not all in one plane. Thus, a gauche hexagon would be formed by the following 6 edges of a cube, where the numbers denote the faces as those of a die are numbered: (1-2) (2-3) (3-6) (6−5) (5-4) (4-1).- Gauche surface, a surface generated by the motion of an unlimited straight line whose consecutive positions do not intersect; a skew surface; a scroll. gaucherie (gō-shė-rē'), n. [F., gauche, left, left-handed, clumsy: see gauche.] An awkward action; awkwardness; bungling; clumsiness. We are enabled, by a comparison of the contemporary coins of Agrigentum, Kamarina, Katana, and the other cities we have named, to trace the steps by which this art passed out of archaic constraint and gaucherie into noble simplicity and grace. C. T. Newton, Art and Archeol., p. 417. Gaucho (gou'chō), n. [S. Amer. Sp. form of what appears to be a native name.] A native of the pampas of South America, of Spanish descent. The Gauchos are noted for their spirit of wild independence, for daring horsemanship, and for skilful uncivilized, and they depend for subsistence chiefly on cattle-rearing. They have been very prominent in the numerous South American revolutions, but are gradually disappearing as a distinct class. 3. Same as gaudy, 3. Cut lectures, go to chapel as little as possible, dine in What gaudyng and foolyng is this afore my doore? Balls set off with all the glittering gaudy of silk and silver are far more transporting than country wakes. Gentleman Instructed, p. 553. 3. One of the beads in the rosary marking the five joyful mysteries, or five joys of the Virgin. See rosary. Also gaud. Upon the gaudees al without Gower. 4t. One of the tapers burnt, in commemoration of the five joyful mysteries, by the image, on the altar, or in a chapel of the Virgin, during masses, antiphons, and hymns in her honor. gaud2 (gâd), n. A Scotch form of goad1 and of dyes from the Latin worde gaude, which begins the hymn gad1, 5. gaud-day (gâd ́dā), n. Same as gaudy-day. gaude (god), n. [< F. gaude Sp. gualda, dyer's weed, E. weld, dial. wald, wold, dyer's weed: see weld1.] A yellow dye obtained from Reseda luteola. gaude-lake (gōd′lāk), n. A yellow pigment made from gaude. gaudery (gâ'der-i), n. [Formerly also gaudry; <gaud +-ery.] Finery; fine things; show. Triumph amongst the Romans was not pageants, or gaudery, but one of the wisest and noblest institutions that ever was. Bacon, True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates (ed. 1887). There is a good deal more about gaudery, frisking it in tropes, fine conceits and airy fancies. Whipple, Ess. and Rev., II. 82. [< gaud1 + -ful.] JoyIn a gaudy manner; gaudful (gâd'fül), a. ful; gay. [Rare.] gaudily (gâ'di-li), adv. showily; with ostentation. gaudiness (gâ'di-nes), n. The quality or condition of being gaudy; showiness; ostentatious ness. It is not the richness of the price, but the gaudiness of the colour, which exposes to censure. South, Works, IV. i. gaudish (gâ ́dish), a. [< gaud1 + -ish1.] Gaudy. [Rare.] Supersticion, hipocrisy, and vaine-glorye, were afore that time such vices as men wer glad to hide, but now in their gaudishe ceremonies they were taken for God's deuine seruice. Bp. Bale, English Votaries, i. We find that the tapers themselves, from being meant to commemorate the Virgin's five joys, were called gawin memory of these five joys. Blomefield, Norfolk, I. 303. gaudy (gâ'di), v. t. ; pret. and pp. gaudied, ppr. gaudying. [gaudy, a.] To deck with ostentatious finery; bedizen. [Rare.] Not half so gaudied, for their May-day mirth gaudy-day (gâ'di-dā), n. A festival day; a holiday; especially, an English university festival; a gaudy. Also gaud-day. Never passing beyond the confines of a farthing, nor once munching commons but only upon gaudy-days. Middleton, The Black Book. A foolish utensil of state, Which, like old plate upon a gaudy day, 'S brought forth to make a show, and that is all. Suckling, The Goblins, iii. A shop for the All the gaudy-shops In Gresham's Burse. Middleton, Chaste Maid, i. 2. gaudy-shopt (gâ ́di-shop), n. sale of cheap finery. gauffer (gâ'fer), v. t. Same as goffer. gauffre (gō'fr), n. [F.: see gopher.] Same as gopher, 1. The name was applied by G. Cuvier, and is still in use in Canadian French. Gaull (gâl), n. [OF. Gaule (F. Gaulois), < L. gauge, gaugeable, etc. See gage2, etc. Gallus, Gr. Fáλλoç, a Gaul (> L. Gallia, Gr. Ta?ía, Gaul, now called France); prob. of OTeut. origin, repr. by AS. Wealh, foreign, Wealas (E. Wales), the Britons, lit. strangers, foreigners use of the lasso and bolas. Their mode of life is rude and gaudless (gâd ́les), a. [< gaudi +-less.] Des- prob. Ir. and Gael. gall, a stranger, a for Farther out on the frontiers, where the art of the cob. bler has not yet "found a local habitation," it is very customary to see the camp men and gauchos luxuriating in what are called "botes de potro;" that is to say, boots made of untanned horse hide. U. S. Cons. Rep., No. lix. (1885), p. 323. The road lies through the town past the race-course crowded with Gauchos, getting up scratch races amongst themselves. Lady Brassey, Voyage of Sunbeam, I. vi. gaucie, gaucy (gâ ́si), a. [Also gausie, gawsie, gawsy; origin obscure.] Big and lusty; portly; plump; jolly. [Scotch.] The Lawland lads think they are fine, But the hieland lads are brisk and gaucy. Glasgow Peggy (Child's Ballads, IV. 76). In comes a gaucie gash guidwife, An' sits down by the fire. Burns, Holy Fair. gaud1 (gâd), n. [< ME. gaude, gawde, also gaudi, gaudye (cf. Sc. gowdy), jewel, ornament, bead on a rosary, gaude, gaude, a trick, jest, L. gaudium, gladness, joy (> ult. E. joy), ML., in pl. gaudia, beads on a rosary, dim. gaudeolum (for *gaudiolum), a jewel (> ult. E. jewel), < L. gaudere, pp. gavisus, rejoice, akin to Gr. yaiɛi, rejoice. Gaud and joy are thus doublets, and jewel is the same word in a dim. form.] 1+. Jest; joke; sport; pastime; trick; artifice. The gaudes of an ape. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. By this gaude have I wonne yere by yere 2. A piece of showy finery; a gay trapping, trinket, or the like; any object of ostentation or exultation. And euery gairde that glads the minde of man. Drayton, Idea, xxii. 1266. (Nares.) A nut-shell, or a bag of cherry-stones, a gaud to entertain the fancy of a few minutes. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 260. Grand houses and splendid parks, all those gauds and vanities with which a sumptuous aristocracy surrounds itself. The Century, XXIII. 736. titute of ornament. [Rare.] gaudronné (gō-dro-nā'), a. See godronné. gaudry+, n. An obsolete variant of gaudery. gaudsman (gâdz'man), n.; pl. gaudsmen (-men). [Sc., = gadsman, q. v.] Same as gadsman. gaudy (gâ'di), a. [< gaud1 + -y1.] 1t. Joyful; merry; festive. I have good cause to set the cocke on the hope, and make gaudye chere. Palsgrave, Acolastus (1540). 2. Let's have one other gaudy night; call to me Let's mock the midnight bell. Shak., A. and C., iii. 11. But gaudy plumage, sprightly strain, Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy. Shak., Hamlet, i. 3. The service of our sanctuary... is neither on the one side so very plain and simple as not to be able to rouse, nor on the other so splendid and gaudy as to be apt to distract the mind. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, II. xx. eigner, esp. an Englishman): see Welsh.] 1. An inhabitant of ancient Gaul, a country divided by the Alps into Cisalpine Gaul (northFrance, with Belgium and parts of Germany, ern Italy) and Transalpine Gaul (modern of Switzerland, and of the Netherlands); specifically, a member of the Gallic or Celtic race, in distinction from other races settled in the same regions.-2. In modern use, a Frenchman: as, the lively Gaul. [Allusive and humorous.] An obsolete or occasional spelling gaul2, etc. of gall1, gall2, etc. gault, v. i. See gowl, youl. gaul4 (gâl), n. A wooden pole or bar used as a lever. [Prov. Eng.] gaulin (gâ ́lin), n. [Jamaica.] A name given by the negroes of Jamaica to more than one species of snow-white herons of the egret kind. Gaulish1 (gâ'lish), a. [< Gaul1 + -ish1.] Pertaining to Gaul or the Gauls; Gallic. [Rare.] gaulish (gâ'lish), a. [See gauche.] Lefthanded: same as gauche. [Prov. Eng.] gault (gâlt), n. Another spelling of galt. Gaultheria (gâl-the'ri-ä), n. [NL., after Dr. Gaultier, a Canadian physician.] A large ericaceous genus of evergreen aromatic shrubs or almost herbaceous plants, with axillary nodding flowers and red or blackish fruit consisting of a fleshy calyx inclosing a capsule. There are about 90 species, mostly of North America and the Andes, but with representatives in the mountains of India and in the Malay archipelago, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. The wintergreen or checkerberry, G. procumbens, of eastern North America, is a small creeping plant with red, aromatic, edible berries. (See wintergreen.) The shrub bearing dark-purple berries which have an agreeable flavor. I call on a lady to talk of the dear departed, and I've nothing about me but a cursed gaudy, flaunting, red, yellow, and blue abomination from India which it's even indecent for a disconsolate widower to exhibit. Bulwer, Money, iii. 5. =Syn. 3. Flaunting, glittering; garish, flashy, dressy, finical. See tawdry. gaudy (gâ'di), n.; pl. gaudies (-diz). [For- salal, G. Shallon, of Oregon and California, is a small merly also gawdy; in def. 3, < ME. gaudee,< OF. gaudé, m., gaudee, f., a bead, prayer, equiv. to gaude, a gaud, bead; in other senses like gaudy, a., but in part < OF. gandie, < L. gaudium, joy: see gaud1, n.] 1. A feast or festival; an entertainment; a treat. [Eng. university slang.] His [Edmund Riche's] day in the calendar, 16 Nov., was formerly kept as a gaudy by the members of the hall. Oxford Guide (ed. 1847), p. 121. gaum1, gawm (gâm), v. t. [E. dial. (North.) var. of (ME.) yeme, AS, gÿman, gīman, giéman, geman (= Goth. gaumjan, etc.), care for, heed, observe: see yeme.] To understand; consider; distinguish. gaum2 (gâm), v. t. [Perhaps a var. of gum2.] 1. To smear, as with anything sticky. gaum Every artist will expect that proceedings of unparalleled stupidity, such as gauming the interior... with a solution of shell-lac, . ... will never occur again. Athenæum, March 31, 1888, p. 412. 2. To handle clumsily; paw. Fletcher. Don't be mauming and gauming a body so. Can't you keep your filthy hands to yourself? Swift, Polite Conversation, ii. gaumless (gâm'les), a. [< gaum1+-less.] Without understanding; foolish. Also spelled gawmless. [Prov. Eng.] Did I ever look so stupid? so gaumless, as Joseph calls it? E. Bronte, Wuthering Heights, xxi. gaum-like (gâm‘lik), a. [< gaum1 + like2.] Sensible; understanding. [Prov. Eng.] She were a poor friendless wench, a parish prentice, but honest and gaum-like. Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, xv. gaumy (gâ'mi), a. [< gaum2 + -y1.] Smeary; dauby. It shows Wilkie designing with admirable vigour, but the execution is vicious and gaumy. Athenæum, Feb. 25, 1888, p. 250. gaun1 (gân), ppr. A dialectal (Scotch) variant of goin' for going. gaun2, gawn (gân), n. [E. dial., an old contr. of gallon, q.v.] 1. A gallon; especially, 12 pounds of butter. [Prov. Eng.]-2. A small tub or lading-vessel. [Local, Eng.] gaunch1, gaunch2, v. and n. See ganch1, ganch2. gaunt1 (gänt or gánt), a. [Also E. dial. gant; <ME. gawnt, gawnte, lean, slender; prob. of Scand. origin; the nearest form appears to be Norw. gand, a thin pointed stick, a tall and thin man. Cf. Sw. dial. gank, a lean and nearly starved horse.] 1. Shrunken, as with fasting or suffering; emaciated; lean; thin; haggard. Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as a grave. Shak., Rich. II., ii. 1. The gaunt, haggard forms of famine and nakedness. Burke, A Regicide Peace, i. I behold him in my dreams Gaunt as it were the skeleton of himself, Death-pale, for lack of gentle maiden's aid. Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 2. Characterized by or producing emaciation; famishing; attenuating: as, gaunt poverty. The metropolis of the Republic was captured, while gaunt distress raged everywhere within our borders. Sumner, Orations, I. 133. gaunt1t, v. t. [< gaunt1, a.] To make lean. Lyke rauening woolfdams vpsoackt and gaunted. Stanihurst, Eneid, ii. 366. gaunt2, v. i. See gant2. gaunts (gänt or gânt), n. The great crested grebe or cargoose, Podiceps cristatus. gauntert, n. [ME., OF. gantier, a glover, < gant, a glove: see gauntlet1.] A glover. York Plays, Index, p. lxxvi. = gauntlet1 (gänt let or gânt let), n. [Also gantlet; OF. gantelet, dim. of gant, F. gant, a glove, It. guanto, a glove, ML. wantus, the long sleeve of a tunic, a gauntlet, glove, D. want, a mitten, Dan. vante, a mitten, = OSw. wante, a glove,= Icel. vöttr (for *vantr), a glove.] 1. A glove; specifically, in medieval armor, a glove of defense, either attached to the defensive ar mor of the arm or separate from it. A Throughout the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the sleeve of the hauberk was long, and closed at the end covering the hands in the form of mittens; a glove of leather was worn beneath the mail to protect the hand from the chafing of the metal rings. Toward the end of the thirteenth century a slit was made at the palm, through which the hand could be passed, allowing the mail mitten to hang A, Gauntlet of plate, early 14th century. B, Gauntlet of plate, later 14th century. C, Gauntlet of mail forming part of the hauberk, 13th century. (From Viollet-le-Duc's "Dict. du Mobilier français.") from the wrist. A few instances of mail gauntlets with separated fingers appear in English monuments of the same period. In the fourteenth century the separate armed glove appears, consisting at first of leather upon which roundels and other plates of steel are sewed; and about 1350 is found the completely articulated glove of hammered steel, each finger separate and each joint free to bend. The changes after this are merely in the direction of greater delicacy of execution, allowing still freer movement. In tourneys and justs the left hand was sometimes guarded by a heavy steel glove without joints. See main de-fer. Also called glove-of-mail. View his [a knight's] two Gantlets; these declare 2471 The hands, the spear that lately grasped, Still in the mailed gauntlet clasped, Were interchanged in greeting dear. Scott, L. of L. M., v. 6. 2. A long stout glove, usually for use in riding or driving. As ordinarily worn, it covers loosely the lower part of the arm. I, in fur cap, gantlets, and overcoat, took my station a The Century, XXXVI. 47. .3. In a restricted sense, the wrist-cover or cuff alone of a glove. little way back in the circle of firelight. Thick white wash-leather gloves with gauntlets are worn by the Life Guards. Dict. of Needlework. 4. A mitt.-5. In surg., a form of bandage which envelops the hand and fingers like a glove.- Closed gauntlet. See close1, v. t.-To cast or throw down the gauntlet. (a) To cast one's glove upon the ground in token of challenge or defiance: a custom of medieval times. At the seconde course came into the hall Sir Richard Democke the kynge his champion, makynge a proclamacion, that whosoever would saie that kynge Richard was not lawfully kynge, he woulde fighte with hym at the vtteraunce, and threwe doune his gauntlet; and then al the hal cried Kynge Richard. Hall, Rich. III., an. 2. As if of purpose he [Ctesias] had in challenge of the World cast downe the Gantlet for the Whetstone. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 456. Hence, in general-(b) To challenge; invite opposition with the view of overcoming it. The duke had by this assertion of his intentions thrown down the gauntlet. Stubbs, Const. Hist., § 337. To take up the gauntlet. (a) To accept a challenge by lifting from the ground another's gauntlet thrown down in defiance. Hence, in general-(6) To assume the defensive; take up the defense of a person, opinion, etc., that has been attacked or impugned. I shall make no scruple to take up (for it seemes to be the challenge both of him and all his party) to take up this Gauntlet, though a Kings, in the behalfe of Libertie and the Common-wealth. Milton, Eikonoklastes, Pref. Every man is not a proper champion for truth, nor fit to take up the gauntlet in the cause of verity. Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, i. 6. gauntlet2 (gänt'let), n. Same as gantlet2, 1. gauntleted, gauntletted (gänt'- or gânt leted), a. 1. Wearing a gauntlet. 46 Beware, madam," said Lindesay; and snatching hold of the Queen's arm with his own gauntletted hand, he pressed it, in the rudeness of his passion, more closely perhaps than he was himself aware of. Scott, Abbot, xxii. The two Giant Brothers began to feel for their swords and shake their gauntleted fists at one another. Lowe, Bismarck, I. 373. 2. Provided with a gauntlet: as, a gauntleted glove. gauntlet-guard (gänt'let-gärd), n. A guard of hand very completely or in an unusual way. a sword or dagger, so formed as to protect the See patah. A tobacco gauntlet-pipe (gänt'let-pip), n. gauntlet-sword (gänt'let-sōrd), n. Same as A sword See patah. Leanly; The con I know him by his gauntness, his thin chitterlings. Middleton, Inner-Temple Masque. gauntree, gauntry (gân'tre, -tri), n.; pl. gauntrees, gauntries (-trēz, -triz). [Also gantry, gantree; gaun2, a tub, a gallon measure, tree, a wooden support: see gaun2 and tree. The F. chantier, a wood-yard, stocks, gauntree, stillingstool (L. cantherius, a trellis), is a different word.] 1. A frame made to support a barrel or cask in a horizontal position with the bung uppermost. Syne the blyth carles tooth and nail 2. A frame or scaffolding which supports a crane or other structure. E. H. Knight. Upon the top of all comes the main deck, furnished with gantries, cranes, oil-heated rivet-furnaces, etc. Nature, XXXVI. 355. Also spelled gawntree. Traveling gauntree, a movable platform. gaup, v. 1. See gawpl. gaupus (gâ'pus), n. [A dial. var. of gawby, gaby.] A gaby; a simpleton. [Prov. Eng.] The great gaupus never seed that I were pipeclaying the same places twice over. Mrs. Gaskell, Ruth, xvi, gauze gaur1t, v. i. [ME. gauren, regarded as repr. mod. E. gare: see gare1.] Same as gare1. gaur2 (gour), n. [The native E. Ind. name, < Skt. gaura.] A large wild ox of India, Bibos gaurus, the wild stock of the domesticated gayal, and related to the zebu. It inhabits the jungles of Assam, of Cuttack in the Madras Presidency, and of the Central Provinces. It has a broad protuberant forehead, short conical horns very thick at the base, high shoulders, and a long tail brushy at the end. The color is dark, without the white legs which characterize the gayal. The hide is very thick, and is valued as a material for shields. The gaur is not known in the domesticated state, the animal which has been reclaimed being a modified variety. See gayal. Also written gour. The Major has stuck many a pig, shot many a gaur, rhinoceros, and elephant. Kingsley, Two Years Ago, xviii. To a casual observer there may appear no difference between Bos gaurus (the gaur) and Bos frontalis (the gayal); but a careful inspection shows the formation of the skull and horns to differ, besides which the gaur is the larger animal. Proc. Zool. Soc., London, 1883, p. 143. Gaura (gâ'rä), n. [NL.] An onagraceous genus of erect herbs of the United States and northern Mexico, bearing wand-like spikes or racemes of white or pink flowers. There are 15 or 20 species, of which the Texan, G. Lindheimeri, is frequent in cultivation. gausie, a. See gaucie. gauss (gous), n. [Named after Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), a German mathematician, noted especially for his magnetic researches and inventions.] A unit used to measure the intensity of a magnetic field. It is the intensity produced by a magnetic pole of unit strength (sometimes called a weber) at a distance of one centimeter. Gaussian (gou'si-an), a. [ Gauss (see gauss) +-ian.] Pertaining to the mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss, or to his discoveries.Gaussian logarithms, logarithms so arranged as to give the logarithms of the sum and difference of numbers whose logarithms are given. Gaussian logarithms are intended to facilitate the finding of the logarithms of the sum and difference of two numbers whose logarithms are known, the numbers them selves being unknown; and on this account they are frequently called addition and subtraction logarithms. Encyc. Brit., XIV. 777. Gaussian method of approximate integration, a method of integration in which the values of the variable for which those of the function are given are supposed to be chosen at the most advantageous intervals.-Gaussian period, a period of congruent roots in the division of the circle.-Gaussian series, a series studied by Gauss, in which the quotient of the (n+2)th term by the (n+1)th (n + a) (n + B) (n + 1)(n+y) is x, logarithm of which is the square of the ordinal number of the term multiplied by 2πy-1 times a rational constant, the same for all the terms.-Gaussian or Gauss's anal while the first term is unity: commonly called the hypergeometric series.-Gaussian sum, a sum of terms the ogies or equations, the following formula of spherical trigonometry, where the capitals are the angles of a spherical triangle and the corresponding small letters the opposite sides: sin(A+B)/cos C = cos(a-b)/ cosc Gaussian or Gauss's formula, function, theorem, etc. See the nouns.-Gaussian or Gauss's rule for finding the date of Easter. See Easter1. gaut (gât), n. Same as ghat. gautch (gâch), n. [Origin obscure.] The offal resulting from culling and opening scallops. [Local, U. S.] gauton (gâ'ton), n. [Origin obscure.] In coalmining, a narrow channel cut in the floor of an underground roadway for purposes of drainage. [Staffordshire, Eng.] gauze (gâz), n. and a. [Formerly also gawz, gawse; F. gaze, cushion-canvas, tiffany (Cotgrave), gauze, = Sp. gasa = NGr. yála, gauze; cf. ML. gazzatum, gauze. Said to be so called from Gaza in Syria (cf. ML. gazetum, wine from Gaza), but the statement arose from a mere conjecture of Du Cange, and rests on no evidence except the similarity of the words and the fact that some other fabrics are named from the places of their origin, as calico, camhowever, perhaps of Eastern origin; cf. Hind. bric, damask, holland, muslin, etc. The word is, gazi, thin, coarse cotton cloth. The Hind. gachh, gach, gauze, is from the E. word.] I. n. 1. A very thin, slight, transparent stuff made of silk, silk and cotton, or silk and hemp or linen. It is either plain or brocaded with patterns in silk, or, in the case of gauzes from the east of Asia, with flowers in gold or silver. Compare gossamer. Brocados, and damasks, and tabbies, and gawses, Swift, An Excellent New Song. gauze A veil, that seemed no more than gilded air, With seeds of gold. Tennyson, Lover's Tale, iv. Perhaps there are people who do see their own lives, even in moments of excitement, through this embroidered gauze of literature and art. A. Lang, Contemporary Rev., LIV. 817. 2. Any slight open material resembling this fabric: as, wire gauze.-Empress gauze. See empress. Lister's gauze, gauze impregnated with carbolic acid, resin, and paraffin, used as an antiseptic dressing. Wire gauze, wire cloth in which the wire is fine and the meshes are very small. In another case, we see a white, smooth, soft worm wings. II. a. Of or like gauze; gauzy. turned into a black, hard crustaceous beetle with gauze Paley, Nat. Theol., xix. Gauze flannel. See flannel.- Gauze point-lace, lace which has a ground of plain net, especially of machinemade net, of perfectly regular pattern.-Gauze ribbon, a ribbon made of fine silk muslin. gauze-dresser (gâz'dres" ér), n. One whose appearance. In drawing any stuffs, bindings of books or other finely textured substances, do not trouble yourself, as yet, much about the woolliness or gauziness of the thing; but get it gauzy (gâʼzi), a. being outward. The food consists of a semi-fluid paste 2472 2. A small mallet used by the presiding officer A handsome gavel, consisting of the bust of Hippocrates, = gaveler, gaveller (gav'el-ér), n. [< gavell + = ga Miss Rossetti comes commended to our interest, not only as one of a family which seems to hold genius by the Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 47. Hence-2. In general use, land in Great Brit- different senses, of which only the first and second are viving members of the sept. The landholders held their estates by ... an extraor dinary tenure, that of Irish garelkind. On the decease gawk as Pagophila (Boie, 1822). The ivory gull, P. eburnea, is now often called Gavia alba. (d) [cap.] A genus of noddy terns: a synonym of Anous. Swainson, 1837. (e) [cap.] A genus of lapwing-plovers: a synonym of Vanellus. Gloger, 1842. (ƒ) The specific name of sundry water-birds. Also gavian, gavina, yabian, gabina, gaviotas. gavial (gā'vi-al), n. [An adapted form (NL. gavialis) of what is otherwise written gharrial, ghurial, Hind. ghariyāl, a crocodile.] The Gangetic crocodile, Gavialis gangeticus, having Head of Gavial, or Gangetic Crocodile (Gavialts gangeticus). long, slender, subcylindric jaws with a protuberance at the end of the upper one. It is one of the largest living crocodiles, sometimes attaining a length of 20 feet. The peculiar shape of the snout is a result of gradual modification, since it is broad and flattened in the young, and attains its highest development only in old males. The gavials swarm in some of the rivers of India, where they are objects of superstitious veneration. Also called nakoo. gavialid (ga-vi-al′id), n. A crocodilian of the family Gavialidæ. Gavialidæ (ga-vi-al′i-dē), n. pl. [NL., < Gavialis ida.] The family of crocodiles of which the genus Gavialis is the type. It belongs to the group Procalia or Eusuchia of the order Crocodilia. It is characterized by the combination of a continuous series of plates on the head and back, and by lower teeth which are not included within the margin of the upper jaw when the mouth is closed. Gavialis (ga-vi-ä'lis), n. [NL. (Oppel, 1811): see gavial.] The genus of crocodiles of which the gavial, Gavialis gangeticus, is the type. The snout is very long, cylindric, and knobbed at the end, where the nostrils open; the lateral teeth are oblique, and the feet are webbed. The genus dates back in geologic time to the Upper Cretaceous. gavot, gavotte (ga-vot'), n. [F. garotte, fem., Gavot, an inhabitant of Gap, a town in the department of Hautes-Alpes, France, where the dance originated, or of the Alpine departments in general.] 1. A dance of French origin, somewhat resembling the minuet, remarkable for its combination of vivacity and dignity. It was introduced in the latter half of the seventeenth century, but was seldom performed after the middle of the eighteenth. 2. Music for such a dance, or in its rhythm, which is duple and quick. Gavots are frequent in old-fashioned suites, and have recently come again into favor. The little French chevalier opposite. . . might be heard in his apartment of nights playing tremulous old gavottes and minuets on a wheezy old fiddle. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xxxviii. [Italianized form of = Hallam, Const. Hist., III. 329, gavotta (ga-vot'tä), n. Thanks to the couveuse and garage, the time when the fœtus becomes viable may now be placed in the seventh month. Medical News, LII. 651. gave (gāv). Preterit of give1. gavellt (gav'el), n. [< ME. gavel, AS. gafol, gafel, tribute, tax, appar. connected with gifan (pret. geaf), give, but prob. adapted from Celtic: cf. W. gafael: Corn. gavel, a hold, tenure, = Ir. gabhail, a taking, spoil, conquest, = Gael. gabhail, a taking, booty, conquest, < gabh, take, receive. Cf. gavelkind. The same word appears in Rom. languages, F. gabelle, etc., > E. gabel, gavella, n. See gabella. q. v. Contr. gale, q. v.] 1. In old Eng. law, gaveller, n. See gaveler. rent; tribute; toll; custom; more specifically, gavelman (gav'el-man), n.; pl. gavelmen (-men). rent payable otherwise than in feudal military [< gavel1 + man.] "A tenant holding land in service.-2. The tenure by which, according to either the ancient Saxon or Welsh custom, land on the death of the tenant did not go to the eldest son, but was partitioned in equal shares among all the sons, or among several members of the family in equal degree, or by which, according to the Irish custom, the death of a holder involved a general redistribution of the tribal lands. Compare gavelkind. gavel2 (gav'el), n. [< OF. gavelle, later javelle Chapman, Iliad, xxi. gavelkind. gaw2 (gâ), n. [Sc., prob. a particular use of gaw1.] A drain; a little ditch or trench; a grip. Care should be taken to have plenty of channels or gaus or grips, as they are usually termed in Scotland. Stephens. [A var. of gaul4.] A boat-pole. gaw3 (gâ), n. gavelmedt (gav'el-med), n. [AS. gafol-mad, I saugh hem launche at hym kuyves and gavelokkes and gaverick (gā'vėr-ik), n. [Origin obscure.] = cloth to give it the appearance and feeling of an apple of superior quality. [Eng.] gawk (gâk), n. anda. [Also gauk; a var. of gowk, gouk, a cuckoo, a fool (see gowk); < ME. gowke, a cuckoo, hence (spelled goke) a fool, Icel. gaukr = Sw. gök = Dan. gjög, a cuckoo, = AS. geác, a cuckoo (which gave ME. zek, zeke, a cuckoo), OHG. gouh, a cuckoo, MHG. gouch, G. gauch, a cuckoo, a fool, simpleton. A different word from cuckoo, but perhaps, like that, ult. of imitative origin. For the transition of sense from 'cuckoo' to 'fool' or 'simpleton,' ef. booby, gull1, goose.] I. n. 1. A cuckoo. [Scotch and North. Eng.]-2. A stupid, awkward fellow; a fool; a simpleton; a booby. Also gawky. A certain gawk, named Chevalier de Gassaud, accustomed to visit in the house at Manosque, sees good to gawk commence a kind of theoretic flirtation with the little brown wife. Carlyle, Misc., IV. 98. Gawk's errand. See errand1. II. a. Foolish. [Scotch and North. Eng.] gawk (gâk), v. i. [ gawk, n.] To act like a gawk; go about awkwardly; look like a fool. [Colloq. and rare.] We gawked around, a-lookin' at all the outside shows. Stockton, Rudder Grange, p. 230. gawkiness (gâ'ki-nes), n. The quality of being gawky. I... determined to revolt against the dominion of gawkiness and be sprightly. R. Broughton, Cometh up as a Flower, vii. gawky (gâ'ki), a. and n. [< gawk + -y1. Cf. equiv. gawk, a., Sc. gawkit, gowkit.] I. a. Awkward in manner or bearing; inapt in behavior; clumsy; clownish. A large half-length of Henry Darnley represents him tall, awkward, and gawky. Pennant, Tour in Scotland. II. n.; pl. gawkies (-kiz). Same as gawk, 2. While the great gawky, admiration, Parent of stupid imitation, Intrinsic, proper worth neglects, And copies errours and defects. Lloyd, Familiar Epistle. An awkward gawky, without any one good point under heaven. Sheridan, School for Scandal, ii. 2. gawllt, v. i. See gowll. gawl2 (gâl), n. [Prob. a particular use of gall2, n.] In coal-mining, an unevenness in a wall. Gresley. [Leicestershire, Eng.] gawm, v. t. See gaum1. gawn, n. See gaun2. gawntree, n. See gauntree. 2473 6. Quick; fast. [Prov. Eng.]-7. Pretty long; considerable: as, a gay while. Compare gay, adv. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.]-The gay sciencet, literature and poetry, especially amorous poetry, in the middle ages. Syn. 1. Gleeful, blithe, lively, sprightly, light-hearted, jolly, hilarious.-3. Bright, brilliant, dash ing. II. n. 1. Anything showily fine or ornamental; a gaud. How the gayes han y-gon god wotte the sothe O how I grieue, deer Earth, that (given to gays) Hit come to Cassandra, that was the kynges doughter, Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2679. 4. The noon or morning, as the brighter part of the day. [Prov. Eng.] gay1 (ga; Sc. pron. gi), adv. [Sc. also gae, gey; coal-gay, a. For the use, cf. the adverb pretty.] Pretty; moderately: as, gay gude. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] gawpl (gap), v. i. [Also gaup, a var. of gape, q. v. 1. To gape; yawn. [Prov. Eng., Scotch, and U. S.1-2. To stare with the mouth open in a stupid and dazed manner. [U.S.] gawp2 (gap), v. t. [Sc., also goup = E. gulp, q. v.] To devour; eat greedily; swallow voraciously. = = gawset, n. An obsolete spelling of gauze. gawsy, gawsie, a. See gaucie. gay1 (gā), a. and n. [< ME. gay, < OF. gai, later gay, F. gai Pr. gai, guay, jai = OSp. gayo = Pg. gaio It. gajo, gay, merry, OHG. gahi, MHG. gahe (cf. equiv. gach), G. gähe (= MLG. ga), usually, with irreg. initial j (in imitation of jagen, hunt?), jähe, quick, sudden, rash, headlong, steep; not connected with gehen E. go. Hence, with assibilation, jay2, q. v.] I. a. 1. Disposed to or excited with merriment or delight; demonstratively cheerful; merry; jovial; sportive; frolicsome. Alle the grete of Grece and other gaie pepul, 2. Such as to excite or indicate mirth or pleasure; hence, cheering; enlivening. The concord of brethren, and agreeing of brethren, is a gay thing. Latimer, 2d Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1550. He [Arlington] had two aspects, a busy and serious one for the public, . . . and a gay one for Charles. Macaulay, Sir William Temple. 3. Bright or lively, especially in color; gaudy; showy: as, a gay dress; a gay flower. And lonely ladies y-wrougt. In many gay garmentes that weren gold-beten. The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' heads. The houses [of Genoa] are most of them painted on the outside, so that they look extremely gay and lively. Addison, Remarks on Italy (ed. Bohn), I. 362. 4. Richly or showily dressed; adorned with fine clothing; highly ornamented. Aboute that temple daunseden alway Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls, 1. 234. Prince Robert has wedded a gay ladye, He has wedded her with a ring. Prince Robert (Child's Ballads, III. 22). Seeing one so gay in purple silks. Tennyson, Geraint. 5. Given to pleasure; lively; in a bad sense, given to vicious pleasure; loose; dissipated. All grauntid the gome to the gay qwene [Helen], Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 584. I ken I'm gay thick in the head. Scott, Old Mortality, vii. [Origin obscure.] A small rut in gay2 (gā), n. gayal, gyal (gi'al), n. a path. [Prov. Eng.] [East Indian name.] gaze Gaylussacia (ga-lu-sā ́si-ä), n. [NL., named after Gay-Lussac, a distinguished French chemist and physicist (1778-1850).] A genus of ericaceous shrubs of eastern North and South America, of about 40 species, differing from Vaccinium chiefly in the 10-celled and 10-seeded berry. The foliage is commonly glandular, in the South American species evergreen, in those of the United States for the most part deciduous. The fruit of the northern species is edible, and usually known as the huckleberry, distinguished as the common or black huckleberry (G. resinosa), the blue huckleberry or bluetangle (G. frondosa), and the more insipid dwarf huckleberry (G. dumosa), bearhuckleberry (G. ursina), and box-huckleberry (G. brachycera). See huckleberry and Vaccinium. Gay-Lussac's law. See law1. gaylussite (gā ́lu-sīt), n. [Named after the A mineral occurring in monoclinic crystals, and French chemist Gay-Lussac: see Gaylussacia.] consisting of the carbonates of calcium and sodium, in nearly equal quantities, with water. It is found in Peru, and is also abundant in a saline lake near Ragtown in Nevada. gayly, adv. See gaily. gayness (ga'nes), n. [< ME. gaynesse; ‹ gay1 +-ness.] The state or quality of being gay, in any sense; gaiety; fineness. Oh, ye English ladies, learn rather your gearish gayness. to make your Aylmer, in Strype, xiii. Queen rich for your defence, than your husbands poor for A kind of East Indian ox long since domesticated from the wild stock of the gaur, and gay-you (gi'u), n. [An E. spelling of the narecognized by some naturalists as a different tive name.] A narrow flat-bottomed fishingspecies called Bibos frontalis. It has a moderate hump, no dewlap, but wrinkled skin on the neck, a short tail, and comparatively slender horns. The color is brownish, with white "stockings" on all the legs. It crosses boat having an outrigger, much used in Annam. It has two and sometimes three masts, and is usually covered in the middle by a movable roof. The helm is peculiar, resembling that used in China. Gazania (ga-zā ́ni-ä), n. [NL., named after Theodorus Gaza, a learned Greek scholar in Italy in the 15th century.] A genus of South African herbaceous composites, with large solitary heads of showy flowers, the rays expanding only in bright weather. Of the 25 species, several are cultivated in conservatories and for bedding purposes, especially G. rigens, which has orange rays with a dark spot at the base and the leaves white-cottony beneath. gaze (gāz), v.; pret. and pp. gazed, ppr. gazing. [<ME. gasen, prob. of Scand. origin, Sw. dial. gasa, gaze, stare (gasa åkring se, gaze or stare about one). Connection with the root of gast2, gay beseent, a. Gay-looking; in brave or gal- frighten, Goth. us-gaisjan, make afraid, us-geislant dress. Now lykewyse what saie you to courtiers? Chaloner, tr. of Moriæ Encomium, sig. Q, 2 b. gaybine (gā ́bin), n. [< gay1 + bine for bind2.] A name of several showy twining plants of the genus Ipomea. gaydiang (gi'dyang), n. [Native name.] A vessel of Annam, generally rigged with two masts, but in fine weather with three, carrying lofty triangular sails. It has a curved deck, and in construction somewhat resembles a Chinese junk. These vessels carry heavy cargoes between Cambodia and the gulf of Tonquin. gayety, n. See gaiety. gay-feather (gā ́feтн èr), n. The button snakeroot, Liatris spicata. gaylardt, a. gaylet, gaylert, n. A variant of galliard. Chaucer. Middle English forms of jail, jailer. gaylies, gailies (ga'liz; Sc. pron. gi'liz), adv. [Sc., also geylies, var. (with adv. suffix -s) of gaily, 3.] Pretty well; fairly. "How do the people of the country treat you?" "Ow! gailies; particularly that we are Scotch." Scott, Paris Revisited in 1815, p. 253. nan, be amazed, is uncertain. For the supposed relation to garel, see gare1.] I. intrans. To look steadily or intently; look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or anxiety. Gaase nat aboute, tournyng ouer alle; Make nat thi myrrour also of the walle. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 26. Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? Acts i. 11. All this long eve, so balmy and serene, Have I been gazing on the western sky And its peculiar tint of yellow green. Coleridge. The good Peter took his pipe from his mouth, and gazed at them for a moment in mute astonishment. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 298. =Syn. Gape, etc. See starel. II. trans. To look at intently or with fixed attention. Straight toward heaven my wondering eyes I turn'd, And gazed awhile the ample sky. Milton, P. L., viii. 258. Why doth my mistress credit so her glass. Gazing her beauty, deigned her by the skies? Daniel (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 583). gaze (gāz), n. [< gaze, v.] 1. A fixed or intent look, as of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention. With secret gaze Or open admiration him behold. gaze This blank stare is quickly succeeded by an intellectual gaze, which recognizes the thing by connecting it with others. G. H. Lewes, Probs. of Life and Mind, II. ii. § 23. 2474 this rime a new one must be found in the second line of each succeeding couplet, the alternate line being free. The Germans have 2. The object gazed on; a gazing-stock. [Po- imitated this form, and there have been a few etical.] The Spaniard stands at a gaze all this while, hoping that we may do the Work. Howell, Letters, I. v. 6. The truth is this, in the reign of King Henry the eighth, after the destruction of monasteries, learning was at a loss, and the University. . . stood at a gaze what would become of her. Ray, Proverbs (2d ed., 1678), p. 301. I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze, like Joshua's moon in Ajalon. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. (b) In her., standing and turning the head so as to look out from the shield: said only of the hart: equivalent to statant affronté, which is applied to other beasts used as charges. gazebot (ga-zē bō), n. [Humorously formed from gaze, simulating the form of a L. verb of the 2d conjugation, in the fut. ind. 1st pers. sing. (like videbo, 'I shall see'), as if meaning 'I shall gaze.'] A summer-house commanding an extensive prospect. Also written gazeebo. gazefult (gaz'fül), a. [< gaze + -ful.] Looking with a gaze; looking intently; given to gazing. Hart at Gaze. (From Berry's "Her aldry.") The ravisht harts of gazefull men might reare From whence proceeds such soule-enchaunting might. Spenser, In Honour of Beautie, I. 12. gazehound (gaz'hound), n. [Formerly also gasehound; gaze + hound.] A hound that pursues by sight rather than by scent: commonly applied to the greyhound. See'st thou the gaze-hound? how with glance severe From the close herd he marks the destin'd deer? Tickell, Fragment of a Poem on Hunting. The Agasacus or Gase-hound chased indifferently_the fox, hare, or buck. Pennant, Brit. Zool., The Dog. The swift gazehounds, by sheer speed, run down antelope, jack-rabbit, coyotes, and foxes. T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXVI. 200. gazel1, gazelle (ga-zel'), n. [= D. G. gazelle Dan. gazel Sw. gazell, < OF. gazel, gazelle, F. gazelle Sp. gazela Pg. gazella = It. gazzella (NL. gazella), a gazel, Ar. ghazal, ghazel (Pers. ghazal), a gazel.] A small graceful antelope of delicate form, with large liquid eyes and short cylindric horns, and of a yellowish color, with a dark band along the flanks. It has a tuft of hair at the knee. The name is specially applicable to a North African animal often celebrated in Arabian = = = = Gazel (Gazella dorcas). poetry, formerly called Antilope dorcas, now Gazella dorcas or Dorcas gazella; but it is indiscriminately applied to a number of related antelopes. Among others may be mentioned the Persian gazel, G. subgutturosa; the Indian gazel, G. bennetti; the muscat, G. muscatensis; the Arabian ariel, G. arabica; the korin of Senegal, G. rufifrons; the dama, G. dama; the Abyssinian gazel, G. sommerringi; the East African gazel, G. granti, etc. gazel2 (gaz'el), n. [Also ghazal; G. gasel, ghasel, Pers. ghazal, Ar. ghazel, ghazal, a love-poem.] 1. In Persian poetry, a form of verse in which the first two lines rime and for = English attempts. During all these periods of literary activity, lyric poetry, 2. In music, a piece in which a short theme or Desire lies dead upon the gazeless eye. Gazella (ga-zel'), n. [NL. (De Blainville): See gazel1. gazement (gāz'ment), n. [< gaze +-ment.] Then forth he brought his snowy Florimele, Some brawl, which in that chamber high zetta. = A gazet: this is almost a penny. = = gazzetta promotions in all branches of the public service, and of public honors awarded, and also lists of persons declared bankrupt. [Written either as a specific or a descriptive name, with or without a capital.] The next gazette mentioned that the King had pardoned him [the Duke of Monmouth] upon his confessing the late plot. Bp. Burnet, Hist. Own Times, an. 1684. The court gazette accomplished what the abettors of independence had attempted in vain. Burke, To the Sheriffs of Bristol. Hence-3. An official or authoritative report or announcement in or as if in the Gazette. [Eng.] If we were to read the gazette of a naval victory from the pulpit, we should be dazzled with the eager eyes of our audience-they would sit through an earthquake to hear us. Sydney Smith, in Lady Holland, iii. To appear in the Gazette, to have one's name in ticular way in one of the British official Gazettes; spethe Gazette, to have one's name mentioned in any parcifically, in com., to have one's bankruptcy so announced, after a judicial decision. gazette (ga-zet'), v. t.; pret. and pp. gazetted, ppr. gazetting. [< gazette, n.] To insert in a gazette; announce or publish in a gazettespecifically, in one of the three official Gazettes of Great Britain. The appointment of Sir John Hawley Glover to the gov gazetteer (gaz-e-ter'), n. [= F. gazetier = Sp. Thy very gazetteers themselves give o'er, Ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions. Heb. x. 33. Let the small remnant of my life be to me an inward and outward desolation, and to the world a gazing-stock of wretched misery. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, v. gazles, n. The black currant, Ribes nigrum. [Sussex and Kent, Eng.] gazogene (gaz'o-jen), n. [ F. gazogène, ‹ gaz, < = It is too little yet, Since you have said the word, I am content; But will not go a gazet less. Massinger, Maid of Honour, iii. 1. Coryat, Crudities, II. 68 (ed. 1776). gazette (ga-zet'), n. [Formerly also gazet and E. gas,+Gr.-yevis, producing: see-gen, -gene.] gazetta; F. gazette Sp. gaceta Pg. gazeta, An apparatus used for manufacturing aërated It. gazzetta, a gazette, "a bill of news, or a water on a small scale for domestic use, by the short relation of the generall occurrences of the action of an acid on an alkali carbonate. It genertime, forged most commonly at Venice, and ally consists of two globes, one above the other, connected thence dispersed every month, into most parts by a tube, the lower containing water, and the upper the of Christendom" (Cotgrave) (first published is gently introduced into the upper globe from the lower, ingredients for producing the aërated liquid. When water about 1536), a particular use of either (1) It. by inclining the vessel so as to about half fill it, chemical gazzetta, a magpie (dim. of gazza, a magpie), action takes place, and the carbonic acid descends and taken as equiv. to 'chatterer' or 'tattler" (cf. gradually saturates the water in the lower globe. When E. Tatler, Chatterbox, Town Talk, and similar this has taken place, the aërated water can be drawn off by opening a stop-cock at the top. Also spelled gasogene. names of periodicals); or (2) It. gazzetta, a gazolite (gaz'o-lit), n. [< F. gazolite, gaz, = small coin (see gazet); so called because this E. gas, + Gr. ioc, a stone.] An aërolite. coin was paid either for the newspaper itself gazolyte (gaz'o-lit), n. [< F. gazolyte, gaz, (the usual explanation) or for the privilege of E. gas, + Gr. 2vrós, verbal adj. of ew, disreading it; cf. Picayune, as the name of a newspaper in New Orleans, named from picayune, a small coin.] 1. A newspaper; a sheet of paper containing an account of current events and transactions: often used as the specific name of a newspaper. The freight of the gazetti, ship-boys' tale; latest news of the empire. Addison, Ancient Medals, iii. = = solve.] In chem., in Berzelius's classification, an element which exists, as supposed, only in the form of a gas. Gazolytes, in this classification, form one of the four sections into which the simple elements were divided by Berzelius, the other three being metals, metalloids, and halogens. gazon (F. pron. ga-zôn', corrupted ga-zön'), n. [F., grass, sod, turf, < OHG. waso, MHG. wase, turf, sod, moist ground, G. wesen, turf, sod, dial. steam, AS. wase, E. ooze: see ooze.] In fort., turf or sod used to line parapets and the traverses of galleries. gazzatumt, n. [ML.: see gauze.] A fine silk or linen stuff of the gauze kind, mentioned by writers in the thirteenth century. gazzetta (gåt-set'tà), n. [It.: see gazet.] A small copper coin, worth about 3 farthings, formerly issued by the Venetian republic; also, a similar coin, with Greek inscriptions, made in |