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- English Word Gannister Definition A refractory material consisting of crushed or ground siliceous stone, mixed with fire clay; -- used for lining Bessemer converters; also used for macadamizing roads.
- English Word Ganocephala Definition A group of fossil amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fishes.
- English Word Ganocephalous Definition Of or pertaining to the Ganocephala.
- English Word Ganoid Definition Of or pertaining to Ganoidei. -- n. One of the Ganoidei.
- English Word Ganoidal Definition Ganoid.
- English Word Ganoidei Definition One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales.
- English Word Ganoidian Definition Ganoid.
- English Word Ganoine Definition A peculiar bony tissue beneath the enamel of a ganoid scale.
- English Word Gansa Definition Same as Ganza.
- English Word Gantlet Definition A military punishment formerly in use, wherein the offender was made to run between two files of men facing one another, who struck him as he passed.
- English Word Gantlet Definition A glove. See Gauntlet.
- English Word Gantline Definition A line rigged to a mast; -- used in hoisting rigging; a girtline.
- English Word Gantlope Definition See Gantlet.
- English Word Gantry Definition See Gauntree.
- English Word Ganza Definition A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world.
- English Word Gaol Definition A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.
- English Word Gaoler Definition The keeper of a jail. See Jailer.
- English Word Gap Definition An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.
- English Word Gap Definition To notch, as a sword or knife.
- English Word Gap Definition To make an opening in; to breach.