Gassing noun
1. (Manuf.) The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing.

2. Boasting; insincere or empty talk. [ Slang]

Gassy adjective Full of gas; like gas. Hence: [ Colloq.] Inflated; full of boastful or insincere talk.

Gast transitive verb [ Middle English gasten , g...sten to frighten, akin to Goth. usgaisjan . See Aghast , Ghastly , and confer Gaze .] To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See Aghast . [ Obsolete] Chaucer. Shak.

Gaster transitive verb To gast. [ Obsolete] Beau. & Fl.

Gasteromycetes noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek ... stomach + ... a mushroom.] (Botany) An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.

Gasteropod noun (Zoology) Same as Gastropod .

Gasteropoda noun plural (Zoology) Same as Gastropoda .

Gasteropodous adjective (Zoology) Same as Gastropodous .

Gastful, Gastly adjective [ Obsolete] See Ghastful , Ghastly .

Gastight adjective So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.

Gastness noun See Ghastness . [ Obsolete]

Gastornis noun [ New Latin , from Gaston M. Plante, the discover + Greek ... bird.] (Paleon.) A genus of large eocene birds from the Paris basin.

Gastralgia noun [ New Latin , from Greek ..., ..., stomach + ... pain.] (Medicine) Pain in the stomach or epigastrium, as in gastric disorders.

Gastric adjective [ Greek ..., ..., stomach: confer French gastrique .] Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the gastric artery.

Gastric digestion (Physiol.) , the conversion of the albuminous portion of food in the stomach into soluble and diffusible products by the solvent action of gastric juice. -- Gastric fever (Medicine) , a fever attended with prominent gastric symptoms; -- a name applied to certain forms of typhoid fever; also, to catarrhal inflammation of the stomach attended with fever. -- Gastric juice (Physiol.) , a thin, watery fluid, with an acid reaction, secreted by a peculiar set of glands contained in the mucous membrane of the stomach. It consists mainly of dilute hydrochloric acid and the ferment pepsin. It is the most important digestive fluid in the body, but acts only on proteid foods. -- Gastric remittent fever (Medicine) , a form of remittent fever with pronounced stomach symptoms.

Gastriloquist noun [ Greek gasth`r , gastro`s , stomach + Latin loqui to speak.] One who appears to speak from his stomach; a ventriloquist.

Gastriloquous adjective Ventriloquous. [ R.]

Gastriloquy noun A voice or utterance which appears to proceed from the stomach; ventriloquy.

Gastritis noun [ New Latin , from. Greek ..., ..., stomach + -itis .] (Medicine) Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane.

Gastro- A combining form from the Greek ..., ..., the stomach, or belly; as in gastro colic, gastro cele, gastro tomy.

Gastrocnemius noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... the calf of the leg.] (Anat.) The muscle which makes the greater part of the calf of the leg.

Gastrocolic adjective [ Gastro- + colic .] (Anat.) Pertaining to both the stomach and the colon; as, the gastrocolic , or great, omentum.

Gastrodisc noun [ Gastro- + disc .] (Biol.) That part of blastoderm where the hypoblast appears like a small disk on the inner face of the epibladst.

Gastroduodenal adjective [ Gastro- + -duodenal .] (Anat.) Pertaining to the stomach and duodenum; as, the gastroduodenal artery.

Gastroduodenitis noun [ New Latin See Gastroduodenal , and -itis .] (Medicine) Inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. It is one of the most frequent causes of jaundice.

Gastroelytrotomy noun [ Gastro- + Gr ... sheath + ... a cutting] (Surg.) The operation of cutting into the upper part of the vagina, through the abdomen (without opening the peritoneum), for the purpose of removing a fetus. It is a substitute for the Cæsarean operation, and less dangerous.

Gastroenteric adjective [ Gastro- + -enteric .] (Anat. & Med.) Gastrointestinal.

Gastroenteritis noun [ New Latin See Gastroenrteric , and -itis .] (Medicine) Inflammation of the lining membrane of the stomach and the intestines.

Gastroepiploic adjective [ Gastro- + -epiploic .] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the stomach and omentum.

Gastrohepatic adjective [ Gastro- + -hepatic .] (Medicine) Pertaining to the stomach and liver; hepatogastric; as, the gastrohepatic , or lesser, omentum.

Gastrohysterotomy noun [ Gastro- + Greek ... womb + ... to cut.] (Surg.) Cæsarean section. See under Cæsarean .

Gastrointestinal adjective [ Gastro- + -intestinal .] (Anat. & Med.) Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric.

Gastrolith noun [ Gastro- + -lith .] (Zoology) See Crab's eyes , under Crab .

Gastrology noun [ Gr ...; ..., ..., stomach + ... discourse: confer French gastrologie .] The science which treats of the structure and functions of the stomach; a treatise of the stomach.

Gastromalacia noun [ New Latin , from Greek ..., ..., stomach + ... softness, from ... soft.] (Medicine) A softening of the coats of the stomach; -- usually a post- morten change.

Gastromancy noun [ Gastro- + -mancy : confer French gastromancy .] (Antiq.) (a) A kind of divination, by means of words seemingly uttered from the stomach. (b) A species of divination, by means of glasses or other round, transparent vessels, in the center of which figures are supposed to appear by magic art.

Gastromyces noun [ New Latin , from Greek ..., ..., stomach + ..., ..., a fungus.] (Biol.) The fungoid growths sometimes found in the stomach; such as Torula, etc.

Gastromyth noun [ Gastro- + Greek ... to say, speak.] One whose voice appears to proceed from the stomach; a ventriloquist. [ Obsolete]

Gastronome, Gastronomer noun [ French gastronome , from Greek ..., ..., stomach + ... law, ... to distribute.] One fond of good living; an epicure. Sir W. Scott.

Gastronomic, Gastronomical adjective [ Confer French gastronomique .] Pertaining to gastromony.

Gastronomist noun A gastromomer.

Gastronomy noun [ Greek ...: confer French gastronomie .] The art or science of good eating; epicurism; the art of good cheer.

Gastrophrenic adjective [ Gastro- + -phrenic .] (Anat.) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm; as, the gastrophrenic ligament.

Gastropneumatic adjective [ Gastro- + pneumatic .] (Anat.) Pertaining to the alimentary canal and air passages, and to the cavities connected with them; as, the gastropneumatic mucuos membranes.

Gastropod noun (Zoology) One of the Gastropoda. [ Written also gasteropod .]

Gastropoda noun plural , [ New Latin , from Greek ..., ..., stomach + -poda .] (Zoology) One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca . [ Written also Gasteropoda .]

» The Gastropoda are divided into three subclasses; viz.: ( a ) The Streptoneura or Dioecia, including the Pectinibranchiata, Rhipidoglossa, Docoglossa, and Heteropoda. ( b ) The Euthyneura, including the Pulmonata and Opisthobranchia. ( c ) The Amphineura, including the Polyplacophora and Aplacophora.

Gastropodous adjective (Zoology) Of or pertaining to the Gastropoda.

Gastroraphy noun [ Greek ...; ..., ..., stomach + ... a sewing, from ... to sew: confer French gastrorrhaphie .] (Surg.) The operation of sewing up wounds of the abdomen. Quincy.

Gastroscope noun [ Gastro- + -scope .] (Medicine) An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach.

Gastroscopic adjective Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.

Gastræa noun [ New Latin , from Greek ..., ..., the stomach.] (Biol.) A primeval larval form; a double-walled sac from which, according to the hypothesis of Haeckel, man and all other animals, that in the first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two-layered structural stage, or gastrula form, must have descended. This idea constitutes the Gastræa theory of Haeckel. See Gastrula .