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Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing.

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

The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments). [Obs.]

A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth. Gig machine, Gigging machine, Gig mill, or Napping machine. See Gig, 4. -- Gig saw. See Jig saw.

A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints.

To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.

That with which one is girded; a girdle. Instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth. Is. iii. 24.

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

ness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss. It is no part . . . to set on the face of this cause any fairer gloss than the naked truth doth afford. Hooker.

ing with gold leaf, as upon a book cover, by means of an engraved block. Knight. -- Gold cloth. See Cloth of gold, under Cloth. -- Gold Coast, a part of the coast of Guinea, in West Africa. -- Gold cradle. (Mining) See Cradle, n., 7. -- Gold diggings, the places, or region, where gold is found by digging in sand an…

A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.

To daub, as the hands or clothing, with gorm; to daub with anything sticky. [Prov. Eng.]

Gaiters reaching to the knee; leggings. Strong gramashes, or leggings of thick gray cloth. Sir W. Scott.

w). -- Grease moth (Zoöl.), a pyralid moth (Aglossa pinguinalis) whose larva eats greasy cloth, etc. -- Grease wood (Bot.), a scraggy, stunted, and somewhat prickly shrub (Sarcobatus vermiculatus) of the Spinach family, very abundant in alkaline valleys from the upper Missouri to California. The name is also applied…

A short jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant. [Written also griego.]

A cloth, often adorned with gold or silver lace, placed on the bishop's lap while he sits in celebrating mass, or in ordaining priests.

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

A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement. Seam and gusset and band. Hood.

Of or pertaining to clothing; wearing clothes. Ld. Lytton.

A garment; an article of clothing. Camden.