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One who uses a gad or goad in driving.

A yellow or brown amorphous substance, of indifferent nature, found in cod-liver oil.

ound in the northern parts of Europe and America; -- called also gray duck. [Written also gaddwell.]

A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. Dryden.

llery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general.

An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier.

A half brigade.

An exclamation expressing exultation or surprise, etc.

A small mine, in the form of a well sunk from the surface of the ground, charged with explosive and projectiles. It is made in a position likely to be occupied by the enemy.

A story, anecdote, or legend in the Talmud, to explain or illustrate the text of the Old Testament. [Written also hadaga.]

Any one of several species of Old World blood-sucking bats of the genus Megaderma.

One of the larger measures of force, amounting to one million dynes.

A species of remora (Echeneis naucrates). See Remora.

te from Christianity or from any form of religious faith. James justly regarded these renegades as the most serviceable tools that he could employ. Macaulay.

See Renegade.

-- said to have been borrowed from Provence in France. W. Irving. Whose dancing dogs in rigadoons excel. Wolcott.

ng general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general. (b) (Among the Jesuits), one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care.

he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.

or body of men armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers.

Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action. A drawing up the armies in battalia. Jer. Taylor.