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An apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid.

See Gasoline.

Same as Gasalier.

from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. See Carburetor.

A kind of internal-combustion engine; -- in British countries called usually petrol engine.

An apparatus for holding and measuring of gas; in gas works, a huge iron cylinder closed at one end and having the other end immersed in water, in which it is made to rise or fall, according to the volume of gas it contains, or the pressure required.

Of or pertaining to the measurement of gases; as, gasometric analysis.

The art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids. Coxe.

An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.

borious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently. She gasps and struggles hard for life. Lloyd.

The alewife. [Local, Canada]

Relating to Casserio (L. Gasserius), the discover of the Gasserian ganglion. Gasserian ganglion (Anat.), a large ganglion, at the root of the trigeminal, or fifth cranial, nerve.

of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing.

Full of gas; like gas. Hence: [Colloq.] Inflated; full of boastful or insincere talk.

To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See Aghast. [Obs.] Chaucer. Shak.

To gast. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.

Same as Gastropod.

Same as Gastropoda.

Same as Gastropodous.