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The jaws between which the hinder end of a carriage tongue is inserted. Knight.

o the character represented in the margin. See Clef. G# (G sharp) is a tone intermediate between G and A.

A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire.

A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.

A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.

A visit between whalers at sea; a holding of social intercourse between those on different vessels at sea, or (Local U. S.) between persons ashore.

game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards. Talk the game o'er between the deal. Lloyd.

A military punishment formerly in use, wherein the offender was made to 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…

Having interstices between the teeth. Dryden.

The process 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.

The distance between the rails of a railway.

A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period.

convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc.

ced parallel and closed to each other. Cf. Bars gemel, under Gemel, a. Two gemels silver between two griffins passant. Strype. Gemel hinge (Locksmithing), a hinge consisting of an eye or loop and a hook. -- Gemel ring, a ring with two or more links; a gimbal. See Gimbal. -- Gemel window, a window with two bays.…

A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons.

That part of a parapet which lies between the gun platform and the bottom of an embrasure.

People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry. Macaulay.

reference to the center of the earth. Geocentric latitude (of place) the angle included between the radius of the earth through the place and the plane of the equator, in distinction from geographic latitude. It is a little less than the geographic latitude.

rveying; geodetic observers. Geodetic line or curve, the shortest line that can be drawn between two points on the elipsoidal surface of the earth; a curve drawn on any given surface so that the osculating plane of the curve at every point shall contain the normal to the surface; the minimum line that can be drawn on a…

bution. See under Distribution. -- Geographic latitude (of a place), the angle included between a line perpendicular or normal to the level surface of water at rest at the place, and the plane of the equator; differing slightly from the geocentric latitude by reason of the difference between the earth's figure and a t…