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hings together. Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed. Matt. xxv. 26.

r gauging the commonly accepted dimensions or shape of certain parts in general use, as screws, railway-car axles, etc. (b) A gauge used only for testing other similar gauges, and preserved as a reference, to detect wear of the working gauges. (c) (Railroads) See Note under Gauge, n., 5. -- Star gauge (Ordnance), an i…

A kind of ornamental firework. Farrow.

o procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire; to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by purchase, etc.…

r to afford a bearing surface; -- usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw. Gib and key, or Gib and cotter (Steam Engine), the fixed wedge or gib, and the driving wedge,key, or cotter, used for tightening the strap which holds the brasses at the end of a connecting rod.

A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle. Gimlet eye, a squint-eye. [Colloq.] Wright.

A kind of revolving firework.

or apply (one's self). The Babylonians had given themselves over to all manner of vice. Grew. -- To give place, to withdraw; to yield one's claim. -- To give points. (a) In games of skill, to equalize chances by conceding a certain advantage; to allow a handicap. (b) To give useful suggestions. [Colloq.] -- To give…

ver. (a) A tip or gratuity to servants, professedly to buy gloves with. (b) (Eng. Law.) A reward given to officers of courts; also, a fee given by the sheriff of a country to the clerk of assize and judge's officers, when there are no offenders to be executed. -- Glove sponge (Zoöl.), a fine and soft variety of commer…

Knowing; wise; shrewd. [Old Slang] I said you were a gnostic fellow. Sir W. Scott.

f man enough. Arbuthnot. Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you must pay me the reward. I Watts.

A corruption of God yield, i. e., God reward or bless. Shak.

Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing. Crew.

A Hebrew measure. See Homer.

Farewell; a form of address used at parting. See the last Note under By, prep. Shak.

The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain. Spenser. Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it. Shak.

aving established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. Encyc. Brit. -- Grace hoop, a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13. -- Grace note (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above. -- Grace stroke, a finishing stoke or touch; a cou…

n doth not only gradually, but specifically, differ from the fantastic reason of brutes. Grew.

lar steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.

The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.