Vocabulary : Gartered to Gascoines

Gartered : of Garter
Gartering : of Garter
Garth : A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth. ;; A dam or weir for catching fish. ;; A hoop or band.
Garum : A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.
Garvie : The sprat; -- called also garvie herring, and garvock.

Gas : 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. ;; 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. ;; Laughing gas. ;; Any irrespirable aeriform fluid. ;; To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers; as, to gas thread. ;; To impregnate with gas; as, to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of blea
Gas engine : A kind of internal-combustion engine (which see) using fixed gas; also, broadly, any internal-combustion engine.
Gasalier : A chandelier arranged to burn gas.
Gas-burner : The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
Gascoines : See Gaskins, 1.

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