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A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance. "There I throw my gage." Shak.

A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows.

A European fish. See 4th Comber.

A kind of internal-combustion engine (which see) using fixed gas; also, broadly, any internal-combustion engine.

The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.

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

A combining form from the Gr. gastrocolic, gastrocele, gastrotomy.

A meeting; -- used in combination, as, Witenagemote, an assembly of the wise men.

er; especially, superior power of invention or origination of any kind, or of forming new combinations; as, a man of genius. Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifyng power. Coleridge.

General composition or structure; manner in which the parts of a thing are combined; make-up; style of dress, etc. [Colloq.] H. Kingsley.

One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments. Etym: [Prob. so called from F. aiguilles, needles. Ure.] Gill arches, Gill bars. (Anat.) Same as Branchial arches. -- Gill clefts. (Anat.) Same as Branchial clefts. See under Branchial. -- Gill…

ellowish white color, with a sweetness in the taste somewhat resembling that of licorice, combined with a slight aromatic bitterness.

One who engages in any fierce combat or controversy.

Of or pertaining to gladiators, or to contests or combatants in general.

e, to accept a challenge or adopt a quarrel. -- To throw down the glove, to challenge to combat.

y (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally in the free state, but is always combined, usually with silica or alumina, or both; as in the minerals phenacite, chrysoberyl, beryl or emerald, euclase, and danalite. It was named from its oxide glucina, which was known long before the element was isolated. Symb…

rless, and with a hot, sweetish taste, existing in the natural fats and oils as the base, combined with various acids, as oleic, margaric, stearic, and palmitic. It is a triatomic alcohol, and hence is also called glycerol. See Note under Gelatin.

, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons.…

ord made good and true. Shak. Of no power to make his wishes good. Shak. I . . . would by combat make her good. Shak. Convenient numbers to make good the city. Shak. -- To think good, to approve; to be pleased or satisfied with; to consider expedient or proper. If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. Z…

ate the amount of the contents at the several levels. -- Graduated spring (Railroads), a combination of metallic and rubber springs.