GEAR

Clothing; garments; ornaments. Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. Spenser.

Goods; property; household stuff. Chaucer. Homely gear and common ware. Robynson (More's Utopia)

Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material. Clad in a vesture of unknown gear. Spenser.

The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.

Warlike accouterments. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Manner; custom; behavior. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Business matters; affairs; concern. [Obs.] Thus go they both together to their gear. Spenser.

A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.

An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.

Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.

See 1st Jeer (b).

Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wright. That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man. Latimer. Bever gear. See Bevel gear. -- Core gear, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See Mortise wheel, under Mortise. -- Expansion gear (Steam Engine), the arrangement of parts for cutting off steam at a certain part of the stroke, so as to leave it to act upon the piston expansively; the cut-off. See under Expansion. -- Feed gear. See Feed motion, under Feed, n. -- Gear cutter, a machine or tool for forming the teeth of gear wheels by cutting. -- Gear wheel, any cogwheel. -- Running gear. See under Running. -- To throw in, or out of, gear (Mach.), to connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or out of, working relation.

To dress; to put gear on; to harness.

To provide with gearing. Double geared, driven through twofold compound gearing, to increase the force or speed; -- said of a machine.

To be in, or come into, gear.