gaub 
gaub (gab), . [< Hind, gab.'] The Diospyros 
Kmbnjopteris 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 iti bookbinding, 
and in place of tar for covering the seams of boats. The 
juice contains a large amount of tannin, and is used me- 
dicinally as an astringent. 
gaub-line (gab'lin), n. Same as gob-line. 
gaub-ropet (gab'rop), . A rope passing in- 
board from each leg of a martingale to secure 
it. Also backrorte. 
gauche (gosh), a. [F., left (hand, etc.), awk- 
ward, clumsy, prob. < OF. "gauc, "gale (> E. 
dial, gaulic-hand, the left hand, gallic-handed, 
gauk-handed, left-handed; cf. Walloon frere 
wanquier, step-brother, lit. 'left-brother'), prob. 
< OHG. wele, welch, soft, languid, weak, G. welk, 
withered, faded, languid, etc. : see welk 1 . So in 
other instances the left hand is named from its 
relative weakness : see left 1 . The Sp. gaucho, 
slanting, seems to be derived from the F. word.] 
1. heft-handed; awkward; clumsy. [Used as 
French.] 
Pardon me if I say so, but I never saw such rude, un- 
civil, gauche, ill-mannered men with women in my life. 
Aristocracy, xxi. 
2. In math., skew. Specifically (a) Not plane; 
twisted. (6) 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-l). 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 (go-she-re'), 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 Archnol., p. 417. 
Gaucho (gou'cho), 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 
use of the lasso and Iwlas. Their mode of life is rude and 
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. 
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 gauchon luxuriating 
in what are called " botes de potro ; " that is to say, boots 
made of untanned horse hide. 
U. S. Com. Rep., No. lix. (1885), p. 323. 
The road lies through the town past the race-course 
crowded with Gattchus, getting up scratch races amongst 
themselves. Lady Bransey, Voyage of Sunbeam, I. vi. 
gaucie, gaucy (ga'si), a. [Also gausie, gaicgit, 
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 Pegijy (Child's Ballads, IV. 76). 
In comes a gaude gash guidwife, 
An' sits down by the fire. Burn, Holy Fair. 
gaud 1 (gad), n. [< ME. gaude, gawde, also gaudi, 
gaudye (cf. So. gowdy), jewel, ornament, bead 
on a rosary, gaude, gawde, a trick, jest, < L. 
gaudium, gladness, joy (> ult. E. joy), ML., in 
pi. gaudia, beads on a rosary, dim. gaudeolum 
(for *gaudiolum), a jewel (> ult. E. jewel), < L. 
gaudere, pp. gavisus, rejoice, akin to Gr. yaie.iv, 
rejoice. Gaud and joy are thus doublets, and 
jewel is the same word in a dim. form.] If. 
Jest; joke; sport; pastime; trick; artifice. 
The gaudes of an ape. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
By this gaude have I wonne yere by yere 
An hundred mark, sith I was pardonere. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Pardoner's Tale, 1. 103. 
2. A piece of showy finery; a gay trapping, 
trinket, or the like; any object of ostentation 
or exultation. 
And euery gawde that glads the niiude of man. 
Gascoigne, Steele Glas (ed. Arber), p. 59. 
Love, still a baby, plays with gawdes and toys. 
Drayton, Idea, xxii. 1266. (tfares.) 
A nut-shell, or a bag of cherry-stones, a gaud to enter- 
tain 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. 
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3. Same as gaudy, 3. 
gaud't (gad), c. [< ME. gauden, in pp. gauded; 
< gaud 1 , n., with some ref. also to the orig. L. 
gaudere, rejoice : see gaud 1 , .] I. intrans. To 
sport ; jest ; make merry. 
What gaudyng and foolyng is this afore my doore ? 
Ifdall, Roister Uoister, iii. 4. 
Go to a gossip's feast and gaude with me. 
Shak., C. of E. (ed. Warburton), v. 1. 
For he was sporting in gauding with his familiars. 
S urtli, tr. of Plutarch, p. 562. 
II. trans. To adorn with gauds or trinkets; 
decorate meretriciously; paint, as the cheeks. 
A peire of bedes gauded al with grene. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 159. 
Our veil'd dames 
Commit the war of white and damask, in 
Their nicely gawded cheeks, to the wanton spoil 
Of Phoebus' burning kisses. Shak., Cor., ii. 1. 
gaud 2 (gad), n. A Scotch form of goad 1 and of 
gad 1 , 5. 
gaud-day (gad'da), n. Same as gaudy-day. 
gaude (god), n. [< F. gaude = Sp. gualda, 
dyer's weed, < E. weld, dial, wold, wold, dyer's 
weed : see weld 1 .] A yellow dye obtained from 
Reseda luteola. 
gaude-lake (god'lak), H. A yellow pigment 
made from gaude. 
gaudery (ga'der-i), n. [Formerly also gaudry; 
< gaud 1 + -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, flue conceits and airy fancies. 
Wkipple, Ess. and Rev., II. 82. 
gaudful (gad'ful), a. [< gaud 1 + -//.] Joy- 
ful; gay. [Rare.] 
gaudily (ga'di-li), adv. In a gaudy manner; 
showily; with ostentation. 
gaudiness (ga'di-nes), n. The quality or con- 
dition of being gaudy ; showiness ; ostentatious- 
ness. 
It is not the richness of the price, but the gaudine&i of 
the colour, which exposes t censure. South, Works, IV". i. 
gaudish(ga'dish),a. [< gaud 1 + -ish 1 .] Gaudy. 
[Kare.] 
Supersticion, hipocrisy, and vaine-glorye, were afore 
that time such vices as men wer glad to hide, but now in 
their gaudiuhe ceremonies they were taken for God s de- 
uine seruice. /,'/. Bale, English Votaries, i. 
gaudless (gad'les), a. [< gaud 1 + -less.] Des- 
titute of ornament. [Rare.] 
gaudronne (go-dro-na'), a. See godronne. 
gaudryt, . An obsolete variant of gaudery. 
gaudsman (gadz'man), . ; pi. gaudsmen (-men). 
[Sc., = gadsman, q. v.] Same as gadsman. 
gaudy (ga'di), a. [< gaud 1 + -y 1 .] If. Joyful; 
merry; festive. 
I have good cause to set the cocke on the hope, and 
make gaudye chere. Palsgrave, Acolastus (1540). 
Let's have one other gaudy night ; call to me 
All my sad captains ; fill our bowls ; once more ; 
Let's mock the midnight bell. Shak. , A. and C. , iii. 11. 
Brilliantly fine or gay; bright; garish. 
But gaudy plumage, sprightly strain, 
And genteel form, were all in vain. 
Cowper, On a Goldfinch. 
For some were hung with arras green and blue, 
Showing a gaudy summer-morn, 
Where with puff'd cheek the belted hunter blew 
His wreathed bugle-horn. 
Tennyson, Palace of Art. 
3. Showy without taste ; vulgarly gay or splen- 
did; flashy. 
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 dis- 
tract the mind. Bp. Atteroury, Sermons, II. xx. 
I call on a lady to talk of the dear departed, and I've 
nothing about me but a cursed gaudy, flaunting, red, yel- 
low, and blue abomination from India which it's even in- 
decent for a disconsolate widower to exhibit. 
Bulwer, Money, iii. 5. 
= Sjm. 3. Flaunting, glittering; garish, flashy, dressy, fini- 
cal. See tawdry. 
gaudy (ga'di), n. ; pi. gaudies (-diz). [For- 
merly also gawdy ; in def. 3, < ME. gaud.ee, < OF. 
gaude, m., gaudee, f., a bead, prayer, equiv. to 
gaude, a gaud, bead ; in other senses like gaudy, 
a., but in part < OF. gaudie, < L. gaudium, joy: 
see gaud 1 , n.] 1. A feast or festival; an enter- 
tainment ; a treat. [Eng. university slang.] 
His [Edmund Riche's] day in tile calendar, 16 Nov., was 
formerly kept as a gaudy by tile members of the hall. 
Oxford Guide (ed. 1847), p. 121. 
gaum 
Cut lectures, go to chapel as little as possible, dine in 
hall seldom more than once a week, give Gaudies and 
spreads. Gradus ad Cantab., f. 122. 
2f. Gaiety; gaudiness. Davies. 
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 Vir- 
gin. See rosary. Also gaud. 
Upon the gaudees al without 
Was write of gold pur reposer. Gotrer. 
4f. One of the tapers burnt, in commemo- 
ration of the five joyful mysteries, by the im- 
age, on the altar, or in a chapel of the Virgin, 
during masses, antiphons, and hymns in her 
honor. 
We flnd that the tapers themselves, from being meant 
to commemorate the Virgin's flve joys, were called .-/" " 
dye from the Latin worde gaude, which begins the hymn 
in memory of these five joys. Bloiitefteld, Norfolk, I. 303. 
gaudy (ga'di). v. t. ; pret. and pp. gaudied, ppr. 
gaudying. [< gaudy, a.] To deck with osten- 
tatious finery; bedizen. [Bare.] 
Not half so gaudied, for their May-day mirth 
All wreathed and ribanded, our youths and maids, 
As these stern Aztecas in war attire. Southey. 
gaudy-day (ga'di-da), n. A festival day; a 
holiday ; especially, an English university fes- 
tival ; 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. 
gaudy-shopt (ga'di-shop), n. A shop for the 
sale of cheap finery. 
All the gaudy-shopt 
In Gresham's Burse. 
Middleton, Chaste Maid, i. 2. 
gauffer (ga'fer), i: t. Same as goffer. 
gauffre (go'fr), n. [F. : see gopher.] Same as 
gopher, 1. The name was applied by G. Cuvier, and is 
still in use in Canadian French. 
Oe, gaugeable, etc. See gagei, etc. 
1 (gal), . [< OF. Gaule (F. Gatilois), < L. 
Gallus,< Gr. TdMof, a Gaul (> L. Gallia, Gr. TaX- 
/j'a, Gaul, now called France) ; prob. of OTeut. 
origin, repr. by AS. Wealh, foreign, Wealas (E. 
Wales), the Britons, lit. strangers, foreigners 
(> prob. Ir. and Gael, gall, a stranger, a for- 
eigner, esp. an Englishman) : see Welsh.] 1. 
An inhabitant of ancient Gaul, a country di- 
vided by the Alps into Cisalpine Gaul (north- 
ern Italy) and Transalpine Gaul (modern 
France, with Belgium and parts of Germany, 
of Switzerland, and of the Netherlands); spe- 
cifically, a member of the Gallic or Celtic race, 
in distinction from other races settled in the 
same regions. 2. In modern use, a French- 
man : as, the lively Gaul. [Allusive and humor- 
ous.] 
gaul 2 , etc. An obsolete or occasional spelling 
of gall 1 , galft, etc. 
gau! 3 t, " t. See gowl, yowl. 
gaul 4 (gal), . A wooden pole or bar used as a 
lever. [Prov. Eng.] 
gaulin (ga'lin), n. [Jamaica.] A name given 
by the negroes of Jamaica to more than one 
species of snow-white herons of the egret 
kind. 
Gaulish 1 (ga'lish), a. [< Gaul 1 + -ish 1 .] Per- 
taining to Gaul or the Gauls ; Gallic. [Rare.] 
gaulish- (ga'lish), a. [See gauche.] Left- 
handed: same as gauche. [Prov. Eng.] 
Slult (gait), . Another spelling of gait 1 . 
aultheria (gal-the'ri-a), n. [NL., after Dr. 
Gaultier, a Canadian physician. ] A large eri- 
caceous genus of evergreen aromatic shrubs or 
almost herbaceous plants, with axillary nod- 
ding flowers and red or blackish fruit consist- 
ing 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. procum\ten, 
of eastern North America, is a small creeping plant with 
red, aromatic, edible berries. (See wintergreen.) The 
salal, G. Shallon, of Oregon and California, is a small 
shrub bearing dark-purple berries which have an agree- 
able flavor. 
gaum ', gawm (gam), v. t. [E. dial. (North.) var. 
of (ME.) yerne, < AS. gyman, giman, gieman, 
geman (= Goth, gaumjan, etc.), care for, heed, 
observe: see yeme.] To understand ; consider ; 
distinguish. 
gaum 2 (gam), . t. [Perhaps a var. of gunft.] 
1. To smear, as with anything sticky. 
