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tatic machine, induction coil, or condenser), through which the discharge passes; the air gap of a jump spark.

That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient. Moral prejudices are the stop-gaps of virtue. Hare.

The angler; -- called also widegab, and widegut.

One of the articular processes of a vertebra, of which there are usually four, two anterior and two posterior. See under Vertebra. -- Zyg`ap*o*phys"i*al, a.

J. H. Newman. Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague.

An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall. An aperture between the mountains. Gilpin. The back aperture of the nostrils. Owen.

Pertaining to Rome and papal power. [Obs.] The . . . injurious nickname of Babylonish. Gape.

od morning, farewell, etc. Neither bid him God speed. 2. John 10. He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. Granrille.

of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament. The bovine gaze of gaping rustics. W. Black.

A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. Shak.

A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidæ. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea.

A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed. Knight.

To gape. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.

A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men. Memory . . . fills up the chasms of thought. Addison.

Having gaps or a chasm. [R.]

A gap. [Obs.] Colgrave.

To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.

A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall. Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. Macaulay.

Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. Dryden.