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Gastrulation (găstrụlāshŭn), n. (Biol.) The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.
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Gastrura (găstrṳrȧ), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. gasthr belly + o'yra tail.] (Zoöl.) See .
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Gastrurous (găstrṳrŭs), a. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the Gastrura.
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Gat (găt), imp. of . [Obs.]
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Gatch (găch), n. [Per. gach mortar.] Plaster as used in Persian architecture and decorative art.

Coloq. Gatch decoration , decoration in plaster often producing design of great beauty. -- Coloq. Gatch work , work in which gatch is employed; also, articles of gatch ornamentation collectively.
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Gate (gāt), n. [OE. ȝet, ȝeat, giat, gate, door, AS. geat, gat, gate, door; akin to OS., D., & Icel. gat opening, hole, and perh. to E. gate a way, gait, and get, v. Cf. a way, 3d .] 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.
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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.
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Knowest thou the way to Dover?
Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath. Shak.
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Opening a gate for a long war. Knolles.
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3. A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
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4. (Script.) The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
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The gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Matt. xvi. 18.
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5. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
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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.]
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Coloq. Gate chamber , a recess in the side wall of a canal lock, which receives the opened gate. -- Coloq. Gate channel . See , 5. -- Coloq. Gate hook , the hook-formed piece of a gate hinge. -- Coloq. Gate money , entrance money for admission to an inclosure. -- Coloq. Gate tender , one in charge of a gate, as at a railroad crossing. -- Coloq. Gate valva , a stop valve for a pipe, having a sliding gate which affords a straight passageway when open. -- Coloq. Gate vein (Anat.), the portal vein. -- Coloq. To break gates (Eng. Univ.), to enter a college inclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted. -- Coloq. To stand in the gate or Coloq. To stand in the gates , to occupy places or advantage, power, or defense.
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Gate, v. t. 1. To supply with a gate.
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2. (Eng. Univ.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
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Gate, n. [Icel. gata; akin to SW. gata street, lane, Dan. gade, Goth. gatwö, G. gasse. Cf. a door, .] 1. A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate). [O. Eng. & Scot.]
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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.
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2. Manner; gait. [O. Eng. & Scot.]
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gateau, gâteau (gȧtō), n. [F. cake.] (Cookery) Any of various rich and elaborate cakes, particularly a light sponge cake having a rich filling or rich icing, such as gateau foret noire (Black Forest Cake).
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gatecrash v. t. to enter uninvited into a party or other social event.
Syn. -- intrude, barge in, crash, gate-crash, irrupt.
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gatecrasher v. t. A person who enters into a party or other social event without an invitation, or into a theater or other public performance without a ticket.
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gate-crashing adj. entering a gathering uninvited; as, gate-crashing guests disrupted the party.
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Gated (gātĕd), a. Having gates. Young.
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Gatehouse (gāthous), n. A house connected or associated with a gate.
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Gateless, a. Having no gate.
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Gateman (gātm�n), n. A gate keeper; a gate tender.
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Gatepost (gātpōst), n. 1. A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging post or hinging post.
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2. A post against which a gate closes; -- called also shutting post.
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Gateway (gātwā), n. 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.
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Gatewise (gātwīz), adv. In the manner of a gate.
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Three circles of stones set up gatewise. Fuller.
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Gather (gă�ẽr), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gathered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gathering.] [OE. gaderen, AS. gaderian, gadrian, fr. gador, geador, together, fr. gæd fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband, MHG. gate, also companion, Goth. gadiliggs a sister's son. √29. See , and cf. .]
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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.
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And Belgium's capital had gathered them
Her beauty and her chivalry. Byron.
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When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together. Matt. ii. 4.
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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.
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A rose just gathered from the stalk. Dryden.
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Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Matt. vii. 16.
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Gather us from among the heathen. Ps. cvi. 47.
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3. To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
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He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. Prov. xxviii. 8.
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To pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by degrees. Locke.
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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.
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Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand
In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand. Pope.
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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.
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Let me say no more!
Gather the sequel by that went before. Shak.
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6. To gain; to win. [Obs.]
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He gathers ground upon her in the chase. Dryden.
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7. (Arch.) 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.
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8. (Naut.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
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Coloq. To be gathered to one's people or Coloq. To be gathered to one's fathers to die. Gen. xxv. 8. -- Coloq. To gather breath , to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get one's breath; to rest. Spenser. -- Coloq. 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. -- Coloq. To gather way (Naut.), to begin to move; to move with increasing speed.
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Gather (?), v. i. 1. To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
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When small humors gather to a gout. Pope.
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Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes. Tennyson.
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2. To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
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Their snowball did not gather as it went. Bacon.
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3. To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
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4. To collect or bring things together.
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Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed. Matt. xxv. 26.
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Gather, n. 1. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
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2. (Carriage Making) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
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3. (Arch.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See , v. t., 7.
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Gatherable (?), a. Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. [R.] Godwin.
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Gatherer (?), n. 1. One who gathers or collects.
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2. (Sewing Machine) An attachment for making gathers in the cloth.
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Gathering, n. 1. The act of collecting or bringing together.
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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.
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Gathering, a. Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.
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Coloq. Gathering board (Bookbinding), a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book. Knight. -- Coloq. Gathering coal , a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning. -- Coloq. Gathering hoop , a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them. -- Coloq. 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.
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Gatling 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.
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☞ The improved Gatling gun can be fired at the rate of 1,200 shots per minute. Farrow.
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GATT prop. n. [General Agreement on Tarriffs and Trade.] a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas. [acronym]
Syn. -- General Agreement on Tarriffs and Trade.
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Gatten tree (?). [Cf. Prov. E. gatter bush.] (Bot.) A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europæus).
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Gat-toothed (?), a. [OE. gat goat + tooth. See the animal.] Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton. [Obs.]
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Gauche (gōsh), n. [F.] 1. Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.
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2. (Geom.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.
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3. Lacking grace and perceptivity in social situations; crude; tactless; socially inept.
Syn. -- graceless; unsophisticated.
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4. (Chem.) Not planar; -- of molecules or molecular conformations.
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gaucheness n. an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement.
Syn. -- crudeness, crudity.
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Gaucherie (?), n. [F.] An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.
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Gaucho (gouch�), n., pl. Gauchos (gouch�z) [Sp.] One of the native inhabitants of the South American pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle. Hence, a South American cowboy, especially on the pampas.
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2. A member of an Indian population, somewhat affected by Spanish blood, in the archipelagoes off the Chilean coast.
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Gaud (?), n. [OE. gaude jest, trick, gaudi bead of a rosary, fr. L. gaudium joy, gladness. See .] 1. Trick; jest; sport. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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2. Deceit; fraud; artifice; device. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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3. An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. “An idle gaud.” Shak.
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Gaud, v. i. [Cf. F. se gaudir to rejoice, fr. L. gaudere. See , n.] To sport or keep festival. [Obs.] “Gauding with his familiars. ” [Obs.] Sir T. North.
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Gaud, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gauded; p. pr. & vb. n. Gauding.] To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint. [Obs.] “Nicely gauded cheeks.” Shak.
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Gaud-day (?), n. See , a feast.
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Gaudery (?), n. Finery; ornaments; ostentatious display. [R.] “Tarnished gaudery.” Dryden.
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Gaudful (?), a. Joyful; showy. [Obs.]
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Gaudily (?), adv. In a gaudy manner. Guthrie.
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Gaudiness, n. The quality of being gaudy. Whitlock.
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Gaudish, a. Gaudy. “Gaudish ceremonies.” Bale.
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Gaudless, a. Destitute of ornament. [R.]
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Gaudy (?), a. [Compar. Gaudier (?); superl. Gauidiest.] 1. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.
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Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. Shak.
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2. Gay; merry; festal. Tennyson.
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Let's have one other gaudy night. Shak.
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Gaudy, n.; pl. Gaudies (#) [See , n.] One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. [Obs.] Gower.
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Gaudy, n. A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day. [Oxford Univ.] Conybeare.
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Gaudygreen (?), a. or n. [OE. gaude grene.] Light green. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.
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Gauffer (?), v. t. [F. gaufrer to figure cloth, velvet, and other stuffs, fr. gaufre honeycomb, waffle; of German origin. See , , and cf. , an animal.] To plait, crimp, or flute; to goffer, as lace. See .
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Gauffering (?), n. A mode of plaiting or fluting.
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Coloq. Gauffering iron , a kind of fluting iron for fabrics. -- Coloq. Gauffering press (Flower Manuf.), a press for crimping the leaves and petals into shape.
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Gauffre (?), n. [See .] (Zoöl.) A gopher, esp. the pocket gopher.
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Gauge (gāj), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gauged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gauging (?)] [OF. gaugier, F. jauger, cf. OF. gauge gauge, measuring rod, F. jauge; of uncertain origin; perh. fr. an assumed L. qualificare to determine the qualities of a thing (see ); but cf. also F. jalon a measuring stake in surveying, and E. gallon.] [Written also gage.]
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1. To measure or determine with a gauge.
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2. To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg.
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3. (Mech.) To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock.
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The vanes nicely gauged on each side. Derham.
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4. To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment.
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5. To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of.
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You shall not gauge me
By what we do to-night. Shak.
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Gauge, n. [Written also gage.] 1. A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.
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This plate must be a gauge to file your worm and groove to equal breadth by. Moxon.
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There is not in our hands any fixed gauge of minds. I. Taylor.
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2. Measure; dimensions; estimate.
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The gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt. Burke.
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3. (Mach. & Manuf.) Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.
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4. (Physics) 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.
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5. (Naut.) (a) 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. (b) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water. Totten.
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6. The distance between the rails of a railway.
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☞ The standard gauge of railroads in most countries is four feet, eight and one half inches. Wide, or broad, gauge, in the United States, is six feet; in England, seven feet, and generally any gauge exceeding standard gauge. Any gauge less than standard gauge is now called narrow gauge. It varies from two feet to three feet six inches.
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7. (Plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.
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8. (Building) 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.
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Coloq. Gauge of a carriage , Coloq. car , etc., the distance between the wheels; -- ordinarily called the track. -- Coloq. Gauge cock , a stop cock used as a try cock for ascertaining the height of the water level in a steam boiler. -- Coloq. Gauge concussion (Railroads), the jar caused by a car-wheel flange striking the edge of the rail. -- Coloq. Gauge glass , a glass tube for a water gauge. -- Coloq. Gauge lathe , an automatic lathe for turning a round object having an irregular profile, as a baluster or chair round, to a templet or gauge. -- Coloq. Gauge point , the diameter of a cylinder whose altitude is one inch, and contents equal to that of a unit of a given measure; -- a term used in gauging casks, etc. -- Coloq. Gauge rod , a graduated rod, for measuring the capacity of barrels, casks, etc. -- Coloq. Gauge saw , a handsaw, with a gauge to regulate the depth of cut. Knight. -- Coloq. Gauge stuff , a stiff and compact plaster, used in making cornices, moldings, etc., by means of a templet. -- Coloq. Gauge wheel , a wheel at the forward end of a plow beam, to determine the depth of the furrow. -- Coloq. Joiner's gauge , an instrument used to strike a line parallel to the straight side of a board, etc. -- Coloq. Printer's gauge , an instrument to regulate the length of the page. -- Coloq. Rain gauge , an instrument for measuring the quantity of rain at any given place. -- Coloq. Salt gauge , or Coloq. Brine gauge , an instrument or contrivance for indicating the degree of saltness of water from its specific gravity, as in the boilers of ocean steamers. -- Coloq. Sea gauge , an instrument for finding the depth of the sea. -- Coloq. Siphon gauge , a glass siphon tube, partly filled with mercury, -- used to indicate pressure, as of steam, or the degree of rarefaction produced in the receiver of an air pump or other vacuum; a manometer. -- Coloq. Sliding gauge . (Mach.) (a) A templet or pattern for gauging the commonly accepted dimensions or shape of certain parts in general use, as screws, railway-car axles, etc. (b) A gauge used only for testing other similar gauges, and preserved as a reference, to detect wear of the working gauges. (c) (Railroads) See Note under , n., 5. -- Coloq. Star gauge (Ordnance), an instrument for measuring the diameter of the bore of a cannon at any point of its length. -- Coloq. Steam gauge , an instrument for measuring the pressure of steam, as in a boiler. -- Coloq. Tide gauge , an instrument for determining the height of the tides. -- Coloq. Vacuum gauge , a species of barometer for determining the relative elasticities of the vapor in the condenser of a steam engine and the air. -- Coloq. Water gauge . (a) A contrivance for indicating the height of a water surface, as in a steam boiler; as by a gauge cock or glass. (b) The height of the water in the boiler. -- Coloq. Wind gauge , an instrument for measuring the force of the wind on any given surface; an anemometer. -- Coloq. Wire gauge , a gauge for determining the diameter of wire or the thickness of sheet metal; also, a standard of size. See under .
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