a pointed bar of steel: a tool used in mining: a graver: a rod or stick, a goad: the bar across a Scotch condemned cell, on which the iron ring ran which fastened the shackles-also Gade, Gaid.- n.
Gā′ble-win′dow, a window in the gable-end of a building, or a window with its upper part shaped like a gable. Gā′ble-end, the end-wall of a building on the side where there is a gable Gā′blet ( dim.), a small gable, as an ornament on buttresses, &c. ( archit.) the triangular part of an exterior wall of a building between the top of the side-walls and the slopes on the roof-( Scot.) Gā′vel.- adj. Gā′bionade, a work formed of gabions Gā′bionage, gabions collectively.- adj. ( fort.) a bottomless basket of wicker-work filled with earth, used for shelter from the enemy's fire while digging trenches, or in forming the foundation of a jetty.- ns. ( Scot.) a pouch carried by Scottish beggars: a strolling beggar. a loose upper garment, formerly worn by Jews. a tax, impost duty, formerly in France, esp.
Gabb′ronite, a compact variety of scapolite, resembling gabbro. a rock composed of feldspar and diallage-also Euphotide.- n. to talk inarticulately: to chatter: to cackle like geese.- ns.
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the place where Pilate sat at the trial of Jesus, a tessellated pavement outside the prætorium. a flat river vessel with a long hatchway.-Also Gabb′ard. Gab′by, garrulous.- Gift of the gab, a talent for talking. idle talk, prattling: a jest, a witticism: ( Scot.) the mouth.- n.
phil.) a symbol for acceleration of gravity, which is about 32 feet per second: in the medieval system of Roman numerals=400, or G=400,000. The seventh letter of our alphabet, and in the Roman not originally differentiated from C, but substituted there for the disused Z: ( mus.) the fifth note of the diatonic scale of C minor-also sol, the scale or key having that note for its tonic: ( nat. Fāte, fär mē, hėr mīne mōte mūte mōōn then.
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