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One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." Tit. i. 9.

The dogwood tree. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; -- called also garran, and garron.

Very penetrating rays not appreciably deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances. The prevailing view is that they are non-periodic ether pulses differing from Röntgen rays only in being more penetrating.

A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp., a temporary way of access formed of planks.

A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.

See Gaudy, a feast.

ness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry. Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay. Pope. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed. Gray.

A Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle (Bibos frontalis).

A vessel of Anam, with two or three masts, lofty triangular sails, and in construction somewhat resembling a Chinese junk.

The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season.

The process of removing moisture from the blast of an iron blast furnace by reducing its temperature so far that it will not remain suspended as vapor in the blast current, but will be deposited as snow in the cooling apparatus. The resultant uniformly dehydrated blast effects great economy in fuel consumption, and pro…

A yellowish white, translucent mineral, consisting of the carbonates of lime and soda, with water.

Finely; splendidly; showily; as, ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming. Pope.

To avail. [Obs.]

Gayety; finery. [R.]

Full of gayety. Mir. for Mag.

The dogwood tree. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A claymore. Johnson.

t, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove. These gray and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks. Sir I. Newton.