gaged, 
justed; 
gaged 
(gajd), p. a. 1. Exactly ad- 
arefully proportioned or fitted. 
The vanes nicely gauged on each side, broad on one side 
and narrow on the other, both which minister to the pro- 
gressive motion of the bird. Derliam, Physico-Theology. 
2. In plastering, compounded or mixed in the 
proper proportions, especially of plaster of 
Paris: as, gaged stuff. 3. Puckered; gath- 
ered: as, a gaged skirt Gaged brick. See brick*. 
Gaged Stuff, i" pUutering, same as gage-stuff. 
gage-door (gaj'dor), . In coal-mining, a wood- 
en door fixed in an airway for the purpose of 
regulating the ventilation. 
gage-glass (gaj'glas), . In steam-engines, a 
strong glass tube serving as an index to the 
condition of the boiler by exhibiting the height 
or agitation of the water in it. See steam-gage. 
gage-knife (gaj'uif), . A knife to which a 
gage is fitted, serving to regulate the depth or 
size of the cut made. 
gage-ladder (gaj'lad"er), n. A square frame 
of timber used in excavating to lift the ends 
of wheeling-planks; a horsing-block. E. If. 
Knight. 
gage-lathe (gaj'laTH), n. A wood-turning 
lathe for turning irregular forms. It employs 
automatic cutting-tools with edges shaped to a 
pattern, and the depth of cut is gaged by a stop 
or gage. See lathe. 
gage-pin (gaj'pin), n. A pin affixed to the platen 
of a small printing-press, to keep the sheet to 
be printed within a prescribed position. 
gage-play (gaj'pla), n. On a railroad, the dif- 
ference between the gages of the rails and of 
the flanges of the wheels running on them, usu- 
ally from J to f inch. 
gage-point (gaj'point), n. In gaging, the di- 
ameter of a cylinder that is one inch in height, 
and has a content equal to a unit of a given 
measure. 
gager, ganger (ga'jer), n. [< gage*, v., + -erl.] 
1. One who gages; specifically, an officer whose 
business is to ascertain the contents of casks 
and other hollow vessels. 2. An exciseman. 
Ye men of wit and wealth, why all this sneering 
'Gainst poor excisemen ? give the cause a hearing. 
What are your landlords' rent rolls? teazing ledgers : 
What premiers what ? even monarchs' mighty gaugerg. 
Burns, Excisemen Universal. 
gage-saw (gaj'sa), K. A saw with an adjusta- 
ble clamp-frame or gage-bar, to determine the 
depth of the kerf. 
gage-Stuff (gaj'stuf), n. In plastering, stuff con- 
taining plaster of Paris, which facilitates set- 
ting, used for making cornices, moldings, etc. 
Also called gaged stuff. 
gage-wheel (gaj'hwei), . A small wheel on 
the forward end of the beam of a plow, used 
to determine the depth of the furrow. 
gagger (gag'er), TO. [< gag + -eri.] 1. One 
who gags. 2. In molding: (a) A tool used to 
lift the sand from a flask. (6) An iron so shaped 
that when placed in a mold it keeps the sand 
from breaking apart, (c) An iron used to hold 
in position the core of a mold. Also called 
chapelet and grain. 
gaggle (gag'l), v. i.; pret. and pp. gaggled, ppr. 
gaggling. [Early mod. E. also gagle, gagyll; 
< ME. gagelen, a freq. form, equiv. to the sim- 
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2. In coal-mining, a small embankment or heap 
of slack or rubbish, made at the entrance to a 
heading, as a means of fencing it off. Urenley. 
[South Staffordshire, Eng.] 3. In needlework, 
the process of puckering a fabric by means of 
gathering-threads arranged in parallel rows; 
the work so done. 
gaging-caliper (ga'jing-kal"i-per), H. A com- 
bination tool with dividers, inside and outside 
calipers, and a double scratch-gage which is 
graduated to 16ths, 32ds, or 64ths of an inch, or 
in any other way desired. 
gaging-rod (ga'jing-rod), n. An instrument 
used in measuring the contents of casks or other 
vessels ; an exciseman's measuring-staff. 
gaging-rule (ga'jing-rol), n. A graduated rule 
for simplifying the calculations of the contents 
of casks. 
gaging-thread (ga'jing-thred), n. In weaving, 
a thread introduced temporarily for the pur- 
pose of stopping the weft-thread at a desired 
point. It is drawn out when the work is done. 
gag-law (gag'la), n. A law or regulation made 
and enforced for the purpose of preventing or 
restricting discussion. The so-called gag-laws of the 
United States consisted of resolutions and rules adopted 
by the House of Representatives, beginning with 1836, 
against the reception and consideration of petitions on the 
subject of slavery, usually requiring that they be laid on 
the table without being read, printed, debated, or referred. 
in 1840 this denial of a constitutional right was embodied 
in a permanent rule of the House, which was finally re- 
pealed in 1844, chiefly through the efforts of John Quincy 
Adams, persistently continued through the whole period. 
gag-rein (gag'ran), n. In saddlery, a rein that 
passes through the gag-runners, and is intend- 
ed to draw the bit into the corners of the horse's 
mouth. 
gagroot (gag'rot), n. The Lobelia inflata, so 
called from its emetic properties : more usually 
known as Indian tobacco. 
gag-runner (gag'run'er), n. In saddlery, a loop 
attached to the throat-latch. 
gag-tootht (gag'toth), n. [< gag, prob. = jag 
(cf. gabber^ = jabber), + tooth. Cf. gat-tothed.} 
A projecting tooth. Halliwell. 
Here is a fellow judicio that carried the deadly stocke 
in his pen, whose muse was armed with a gag-tooth, and 
his pen possest with Hercules furyes. 
Return from Parnassus (1606). 
gag-toothedt(gag't6'tht),. [<.gag-tooth + -ed' 2 .~\ 
Having projecting teeth. Holland. 
Al. Read on, Vincentio. 
Vi. "The busky groves that gag tooth'd boars do shroud. " 
Chapman, Gentleman Usher, i. 1. 
If shee be gagge-toottied, tell hir some merry iest, to 
make hir laughe. Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 116. 
galmite (ga'nit), n. [Named after J. Gottlieb 
Galin, a Swedish mining engineer and chemist 
(1745-1818).] A mineral of the spinel group, 
crystallizing in the isometric system, commonly 
in regular octahedrons. It varies in color from dark 
green or gray to black. It is essentially an oxid of zinc and 
alumina, "or better an aluminate of zinc, but sometimes con- 
tains also iron and manganese. Also called zinc-spinel. 
Automolite, dynluite, and kreittonite are names of varieties. 
gaiac (ga'yak), . [F. gaiac, gayac : see guaia- 
ct.] The French form of guaiac (guaiacum'), 
sometimes used in English, and applied to other 
hard woods besides lignum-vitse, as in Europe 
to those of the ash and lobe-tree, in Guiana to 
that of the Diptera odorata, etc. 
gain 
of gao, gait, usually go, < Skt. go, a cow, bull, = 
E. cow 1 , q. v.] The title of the native ruler 
of Baroda or the Gaikwar's Dominions, a native 
state of Mahratta origin in western India, now 
under British control. 
gailardt, A Middle English form of galliard. 
Clifi/icer, 
gailert, A Middle English form of jailer. 
Oaillardia (gal-yar'di-a), n. [NL., named af- 
ter M. Gaillard, an amateur French botanist.] 
A genus of handsome annual or perennial Amer- 
ican herbaceous composites, of a dozen species, 
most of which are natives of the United States. 
The heads of the Howers are lar^e ami showy, on long pe- 
duncles, often fragrant, and with a yellow or a yellow and 
reddish-purple ray. G. aristata and G. pulchella, with sev- 
eral varieties and hybrids, are common in gardens. 
gailliardet, . See galliard. 
gaily, gayly (ga'li), adv. [< ME. gaily, gaili; < 
gay* + -ly'*.] 1. In a gay manner ; with mirth 
and frolic ; joyfully ; merrily. 
Manli on the morwe he dede his men greithe 
Gaili as gomes mijt be in alle gode armes. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3559. 
Wights, who travel that way daily, 
Jog on by his example gaili/. 
Swift. 
v., and cacMe.] To make a noise like a goose ; 
cackle. 
Gagelyn, or cryyn as gees, clingo. Prompt. Pan. , p. 184. 
Once they were like to haue surprised it by night, but 
being descried by the gagling of geese, M. Manlius did 
awaken, and keep them from entrance. 
Raleigh, Hist. World, IV. vii. % 1. 
When the priest is at seruice no man sitteth, but gagle 
and ducke like so many Geese. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 241. 
If I have company, they are a parcel of chattering mag- 
pies ; if abroad, I am zgaggling goose. Guardian, No. 132. 
gaggle (gag'l), n. [< gaggle, .] In fowling, a. 
flight or flock of geese; hence, a chattering 
company. 
A gaggle of geese. ... A gaggle of women. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 80. 
=Syn. Covey, etc. See/octi. 
gaggler (gag'ler), n. [< gaggle + -eri.] A 
goose, as that which gaggles. 
gaging, gauging (ga'jing), n. [< ME. gaw- 
gynge; verbal n. of gtigeV, v.~] 1. The art of 
measuring by the gaging-rod ; a method of as- 
certaining the capacity of a hollow receptacle, 
but especially the liquid content of a cask or 
similar vessel, by the use of a graduated scale. 
Gawgynge of depnesse, dimencionatus. 
Prompt. Parv., p. 189. 
2. Splendidly; with finery or showiness; bright- 
ly; gaudily. 
Some shew their gaily gilded trim, 
Quick glancing to the sun. Gray. 
A nobler yearning never broke her rest 
Than but to dance and sing, be gaily drest. 
Tennyson, Early Sonnets, viii. 
3. Tolerably ; pretty. Also gailie, gaylie. [Old 
Eng. and Scotch.] 
For this purpose, whereof we now write, this would have 
served gailie well. WSlion. 
gain 1 (gan), n. [< ME. gain, gein,gashen, gain, 
profit, advantage, < Icel. gagn = Sw. gagn = 
Dan. gavn, gain, profit, advantage, use. Hence 
the verb ME. gaynen, etc., profit, be of use, 
avail, mixed in later E. with the different verb 
F. gagner, gain, whence the F. noun gain, gain, 
profit : see gain 1 , v.~\ 1 . That which is acquired 
or comes as a benefit; profit; advantage: op- 
posed to loss. 
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss 
for Christ. Phil. iii. 7. 
Did wisely from expensive sins refrain, 
And never broke the Sabbath but for gain. 
Dnjden, Abs. and Achit., i. 588. 
The Carthaginians were the greatest traders in the 
world; and as gain is the chief end of such a people, they 
never pursue any other. Steele, Spectator, No. 174. 
2. The act of gaining; acquisition; accession; 
addition : as, a clear gain of so much. 
They stoocle content, with gaine of glorious fame. 
Gascoigne, Steele Glas (ed. Arber), p. 70. . 
My care is loss of care, by old care done ; 
Your care is gain of care, by new care won. 
Shak., Rich. II., iv. 1. 
Such was the miserable paiues that the poor slaves will- 
ingly undertooke ; for the gaine of that cardakew, that I 
would not have done the like for five hundred. 
Cart/at, Crudities, I. 78. 
3. Increment of amount or degree; access; in- 
crease; used absolutely, comparative excess or 
overplus in rate, as of movement : as, a grad- 
ual gain in speed or in weight; a gain in extent 
of view or range of thought. =Syn. 1. Lucre, emolu- 
ment, benefit. 
. : . < ff a *> gay: see'firai/ 1 .] 1. The 
state of being gay ; cheerful animation ; mirth- 
fulness. 
The engaging smile, the gaiety, 
That laugh'd down many a summer-sun, 
And kept you up so oft till one. 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, I. vii. 46. 
Steele had a long succession of troubles and embarrass- 
ments, but nothing could depress the elastic gaiety of his 
spirits. Chambers, Cyc. Eng. Lit., I. 620. 
2. Action or acts prompted by or inspiring 
merry delight ; a pleasure : commonly in the 
plural : as, the gaieties of the season. 
The world is new to ift our spirits are high, our pas- 
sions are strong; the gaieties of life get hold of us and 
it is happy if we can enjoy them with moderation and 
innocence. Gilpin, Works, I. viii. 
3. Finery; showiness: as, gaiety of dress. 
The roof, in gaiety and taste, corresponded perfectly 
with the magnificent finishing of the room ; it ... con- 
sisted of painted cane, split and disposed in Mosaic figures, 
which produces a gayer effect than it is possible to con- 
ceive. Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 633. 
= Syn. 1. Life, Liveliness*, etc. (see animation); cheerful- 
ness, joyousness, blitheness, glee, jollity. 
Gaikwar, (Jaekwar (glk'war), n. [Also writ- 
ten Giiicoicar, Guicwar, Gwickwar, Gdekwad, lit. 
a cowherd; < Marathi gae, gdi, Hind, gae, var. 
__ = Sw. gagna, help, avail, = . 
benefit (from the noun, Icel. gagn, etc., gain), 
mixed in later E. with OF. gaagnier, gaaignier, 
gaainnier, etc., cultivate, till, make profitable, 
gain, later gaigner, F. gagner = Pr. gazanhar = 
OSp. guadanar = It. guadagnare, gain, win, 
profit, < OHG. as if *weidaiijan, equiv. to weide- 
non, pasture (cf. OHG. u-eidon, MHG. weiden, 
pasture, hunt, Icel. veidha, catch, hunt), < weida, 
G. weide, pasture, pasture-ground, = AS. wathu, 
a wandering, journey, hunt, = Icel. reidhr, hunt- 
ing, fishing, the chase.] I. trans. 1. To ob- 
tain by effort or striving; succeed in acquiring 
or procuring; attain to; get: as, to gain favor 
or power; to gain a livelihood by hard work; 
to gain time for study. 
This Againynon, the grete, gaynit no slepe. 
Bise was the buerne all the bare night. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6046. 
"Nay, i-wisse," sede William, "i wot wel the sothe, 
That it gayneth but got!, fur God may vs help." 
Williiiui of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3109. 
"Then hear thou," quoth Leir, now all in passion, 
"what thy ingratitude hath gain'd thee." 
llillon, Hist. Eng., i. 
Help my prince to gain 
His rightful bride. Tennyson, Princess, iii. 
