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- English Word Garrulous Definition Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds; as, the garrulous roller.
- English Word Garrupa Definition One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See Rockfish.
- English Word Garter Definition A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.
- English Word Garter Definition The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself.
- English Word Garter Definition Same as Bendlet.
- English Word Garter Definition To bind with a garter.
- English Word Garter Definition To invest with the Order of the Garter.
- English Word Gartered Definition of Garter
- English Word Gartering Definition of Garter
- English Word Garth Definition A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth.
- English Word Garth Definition A dam or weir for catching fish.
- English Word Garth Definition A hoop or band.
- English Word Garum Definition A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.
- English Word Garvie Definition The sprat; -- called also garvie herring, and garvock.
- English Word Gas Definition An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction from vapors, as steam, which become liquid on a reduction of temperature. In present usage, since all of the supposed permanent gases have been liquified by cold and pressure, the term has resumed nearly its original signification, and is applied to any substance in the elastic or aeriform state.
- English Word Gas Definition A complex mixture of gases, of which the most important constituents are marsh gas, olefiant gas, and hydrogen, artificially produced by the destructive distillation of gas coal, or sometimes of peat, wood, oil, resin, etc. It gives a brilliant light when burned, and is the common gas used for illuminating purposes.
- English Word Gas Definition Laughing gas.
- English Word Gas Definition Any irrespirable aeriform fluid.
- English Word Gas-burner Definition The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
- English Word Gasalier Definition A chandelier arranged to burn gas.