Gastrosplenic Gas`tro·splen"ic noun [ Gastro- + splenic .] (Anat.) Pertaining to the stomach and spleen; as, the gastrosplenic ligament.

Gastrostege Gas·tros"tege noun [ Gastro- + Greek ... roof.] (Zoology) One of the large scales on the belly of a serpent.

Gastrostomy Gas·tros"to·my noun [ Gastro- + Greek ... mouth.] (Surg.) The operation of making a permanent opening into the stomach, for the introduction of food.

Gastrotomy Gas·trot"o·my noun [ Gastro + Greek ... to cut: confer French gastrotomie .] (Surg.) A cutting into, or opening of, the abdomen or the stomach.

Gastrotricha Gas·trot"ri·cha noun plural , [ New Latin , from Greek ... belly + ..., ..., hair.] (Zoology) A group of small wormlike animals, having cilia on the ventral side. The group is regarded as an ancestral or synthetic one, related to rotifers and annelids.

Gastrotrocha Gas·trot"ro·cha noun [ New Latin , from Greek ..., ..., stomach + ... a wheel.] (Zoology) A form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral side.

Gastrovascular Gas`tro·vas"cu·lar adjective [ Gastro- + -vascular .] (Zoology) Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of cœlenterates.

Gastrula Gas"tru·la noun ; plural Gastrulĉ [ New Latin , dim. from Greek ... the stomach.] (Biol.) An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere ) on one side, thus giving rise to a double- walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore ) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron ) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast ). See Illust. under Invagination . In a more general sense, an ideal stage in embryonic development. See Gastrĉa . -- adjective Of or pertaining to a gastrula.

Gastrulation Gas`tru·la"tion (găs`tru*lā"shŭn) noun (Biol.) The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.

Gastrura Gas·tru"ra (găs*tru"rȧ) noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek gasth`r belly + o'yra` tail.] (Zoology) See Stomatopoda .

Gastrurous Gas·tru"rous (-rŭs) adjective (Zoology) Pertaining to the Gastrura.

Gastrĉa Gas·trĉ"a 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 Gastrĉa theory of Haeckel. See Gastrula .

Gat Gat (găt), imperfect of Get . [ Obsolete]

Gat-toothed Gat"-toothed` adjective [ Middle English gat goat + tooth . See Goat the animal.] Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton. [ Obsolete]

Gatch Gatch noun [ Persian gach mortar.] Plaster as used in Persian architecture and decorative art.

Gatch decoration , decoration in plaster often producing design of great beauty. -- Gatch work , work in which gatch is employed; also, articles of gatch ornamentation collectively.

Gate Gate (gāt) noun [ Middle English ʒet , ʒeat , giat , gate, door, Anglo-Saxon geat , gat , gate, door; akin to Old Saxon , D., & Icelandic gat opening, hole, and perhaps to English gate a way, gait , and get , v. Confer Gate a way, 3d Get .] 1. A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.

2. An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.

Knowest thou the way to Dover?
Both stile and gate , horse way and footpath.

Shak.

Opening a gate for a long war.

Knolles.

3. A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.

4. (Script.) The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.

The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Matt. xvi. 18.

5. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

6. (Founding) (a) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate. (b) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. [ Written also geat and git .]

Gate chamber , a recess in the side wall of a canal lock, which receives the opened gate. -- Gate channel . See Gate , 5. -- Gate hook , the hook-formed piece of a gate hinge. -- Gate money , entrance money for admission to an inclosure. -- Gate tender , one in charge of a gate, as at a railroad crossing. -- Gate valva , a stop valve for a pipe, having a sliding gate which affords a straight passageway when open. -- Gate vein (Anat.) , the portal vein. -- To break gates (Eng. Univ.) , to enter a college inclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted. -- To stand in the gate, or gates , to occupy places or advantage, power, or defense.

Gate Gate transitive verb 1. To supply with a gate.

2. (Eng. Univ.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.

Gate Gate noun [ Icelandic gata ; akin to SW. gata street, lane, Danish gade , Goth. gatwö , German gasse . Confer Gate a door, Gait .] 1. A way; a path; a road; a street (as in High gate ). [ O. Eng. & Scot.]

I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate .

Sir W. Scott.

2. Manner; gait. [ O. Eng. & Scot.]

Gated Gat"ed adjective Having gates. Young.

Gatehouse Gate"house` noun A house connected or associated with a gate.

Gateless Gate"less adjective Having no gate.

Gateman Gate"man noun A gate keeper; a gate tender.

Gatepost Gate"post` noun 1. A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging or hinging post .

2. A post against which a gate closes; -- called also shutting post .

Gateway Gate"way` noun A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.

Gatewise Gate"wise` adverb In the manner of a gate.

Three circles of stones set up gatewise .

Fuller.

Gather Gath"er transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Gathered ; present participle & verbal noun Gathering .] [ Middle English gaderen , Anglo-Saxon gaderian , gadrian , from gador , geador , together, from gĉd fellowship; akin to English good , Dutch gaderen to collect, German gatte husband, Middle High German gate , also companion, Goth. gadiliggs a sister's son. √29. See Good , and confer Together .]

1. To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

And Belgium's capital had gathered them
Her beauty and her chivalry.

Byron.

When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together.

Matt. ii. 4.

2. To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck.

A rose just gathered from the stalk.

Dryden.

Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Matt. vii. 16.

Gather us from among the heathen.

Ps. cvi. 47.

3. To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.

He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

Prov. xxviii. 8.

To pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by degrees.

Locke.

4. To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle.

Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand
In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand.

Pope.

5. To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.

Let me say no more!
Gather the sequel by that went before.

Shak.

6. To gain; to win. [ Obsolete]

He gathers ground upon her in the chase.

Dryden.

7. (Architecture) 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.

8. (Nautical) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.

To be gathered to one's people, or to one's fathers to die. Gen. xxv. 8. -- To gather breath , to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get breath; to rest. Spenser. -- To gather one's self together , to collect and dispose one's powers for a great effort, as a beast crouches preparatory to a leap. -- To gather way (Nautical) , to begin to move; to move with increasing speed.

Gather Gath"er intransitive verb 1. To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.

When small humors gather to a gout.

Pope.

Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes.

Tennyson.

2. To grow larger by accretion; to increase.

Their snowball did not gather as it went.

Bacon.

3. To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered .

4. To collect or bring things together.

Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed.

Matt. xxv. 26.

Gather Gath"er noun 1. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.

2. (Carriage Making) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.

3. (Architecture) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering . See Gather , transitive verb , 7.

Gatherable Gath"er·a·ble adjective Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. [ R.] Godwin.

Gatherer Gath"er·er noun 1. One who gathers or collects.

2. (Sewing Machine) An attachment for making gathers in the cloth.

Gathering Gath"er·ing noun 1. The act of collecting or bringing together.

2. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together ; as: (a) A crowd; an assembly; a congregation. (b) A charitable contribution; a collection. (c) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.

Gathering Gath"er·ing adjective Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.

Gathering board (Bookbinding) , a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book. Knight. -- Gathering coal , a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning. -- Gathering hoop , a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them. -- Gathering peat . (a) A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire. (b) In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the Highlanders.

Gatling gun Gat"ling gun` [ From the inventor, R.J. Gatling .] An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired.

» The improved Gatling gun can be fired at the rate of 1,200 shots per minute. Farrow.

Gatten tree Gat"ten tree` [ Confer Prov. English gatter bush .] (Botany) A name given to the small trees called guelder- rose ( Viburnum Opulus ), cornel ( Cornus sanguinea ), and spindle tree ( Euonymus Europĉus ).

Gauche Gauche (gōsh) noun [ French] 1. Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.

2. (Geom.) Winding; twisted; warped; - - applied to curves and surfaces.

Gaucherie Gauche`rie" noun [ French] An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.

Gaucho Gau"cho (gou"cho) noun , plural Gauchos (-choz) [ Spanish ] One of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle.

Gaucho Gau"cho noun A member of an Indian population, somewhat affected by Spanish blood, in the archipelagoes off the Chilean coast.

Gaud Gaud noun [ Middle English gaude jest, trick, gaudi bead of a rosary, from Latin gaudium joy, gladness. See Joy .] 1. Trick; jest; sport. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

2. Deceit; fraud; artifice; device. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

3. An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. "An idle gaud ." Shak.

Gaud Gaud intransitive verb [ Confer F. se gaudir to rejoice, from Latin gaudere . See Gaud , noun ] To sport or keep festival. [ Obsolete] " Gauding with his familiars. " [ Obsolete] Sir T. North.

Gaud Gaud transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Gauded ; present participle & verbal noun Gauding .] To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint. [ Obsolete] "Nicely gauded cheeks." Shak.

Gaud-day Gaud"-day` noun See Gaudy , a feast.

Gaudery Gaud"er·y noun Finery; ornaments; ostentatious display. [ R.] "Tarnished gaudery ." Dryden.

Gaudful Gaud"ful adjective Joyful; showy. [ Obsolete]

Gaudily Gaud"i·ly adverb In a gaudy manner. Guthrie.

Gaudiness Gaud"i·ness noun The quality of being gaudy. Whitlock.

Gaudish Gaud"ish adjective Gaudy. " Gaudish ceremonies." Bale.

Gaudless Gaud"less adjective Destitute of ornament. [ R.]

Gaudy Gaud"y adjective [ Compar. Gaudier ; superl. Gauidiest .] 1. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy .

Shak.

2. Gay; merry; festal. Tennyson.

Let's have one other gaudy night.

Shak.

Gaudy Gaud"y noun ; plural Gaudies [ See Gaud , noun ] One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. [ Obsolete] Gower.

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