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A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices.

A newspaper; a gazette. [Obs.] Burke.

ures or lines, formed by little dots or points, originally on the earth, and latterly on paper.

Having a gilt edge; as, gilt-edged paper.

s; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like. Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears. Shak.

who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like.

ich any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper.

To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering. To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps. Shak.

One who gathers after reapers.

The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning. Glenings of natural knowledge. Cook.

A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting.

An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc. Knight.

To taper, as the tail of certain birds.

Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer. Graduated tube, bottle, cap, or glass, a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the amount of the contents at the several levels. -- Graduated spring (Railroa…

granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. Often called plumbago or black lead. Graphite battery (Elec.), a voltaic battery consisting of zinc and carbon in sulphuric ac…

he acetate and arsenite of copper. It has found very extensive use as a pigment for wall paper, artificial flowers, etc., but particularly as an exterminator of insects, as the potato bug; -- called also Schweinfurth green, imperial green, Vienna green, emerald qreen, and mitis green. -- Scheele's green (Chem.), a gre…

One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments. [Colloq. U. S.]

Any marine fish of the genus Macrurus, in which the body and tail taper to a point; they mostly inhabit the deep sea; -- called also onion fish, and rat-tail fish.

To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching (see Ground, n., 5); or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.

e, elementary instruction; the act or process of applying a ground, as of color, to wall paper, cotton cloth, etc.; a basis.