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To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene.

Tending to mortification or gangrene.

Affected by, or produced by, gangrene; of the nature of gangrene.

The mineral or earthy substance associated with metallic ore.

ooms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the waist. Totten. Gangway ladder, a ladder rigged on the side of a vessel at the gangway. -- To bring to the gangway, to punish (a seaman) by flogging him at the gangway.

A kind of brittle limestone. [Prov. Eng.] Kirwan.

A refractory material consisting of crushed or ground siliceous stone, mixed with fire clay; -- used for lining Bessemer converters; also used for macadamizing roads.

The dried hemp plant, used in India for smoking. It is extremely narcotic and intoxicating.

One of several species of sea birds of the genus Sula, allied to the pelicans.

d to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fishes.

Of or pertaining to the Ganocephala.

Of or pertaining to Ganoidei. -- n. One of the Ganoidei. Ganoid scale (Zoöl.), one kind of scales of the ganoid fishes, composed of an inner layer of bone, and an outer layer of shining enamel. They are often so arranged as to form a coat of mail.

Ganoid.

tic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales.

Ganoid.

A peculiar bony tissue beneath the enamel of a ganoid scale.

Same as Ganza. Bp. Hall.

run between two files of men facing one another, who struck him as he passed. To run the gantlet, to suffer the punishment of the gantlet; hence, to go through the ordeal of severe criticism or controversy, or ill-treatment at many hands. Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights. Palfrey.

A line rigged to a mast; -- used in hoisting rigging; a girtline.

See Gantlet. [Obs.]