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aracter, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of. You shall not gauge me By what we do to-night. Shak.

the gauntlet, to offer or send a challenge. The gauntlet or glove was thrown down by the knight challenging, and was taken up by the one who accepted the challenge; -- hence the phrases.

A scaffolding or frame carrying a crane or other structure. Knight.

A mason's setting maul. Knight.

A portable apparatus for making soda water or aërated liquids on a small scale. Knight.

Gentle; noble; of gentle birth. [Obs.] All of a knight [who] was fair and gent. Chaucer.

by birth. [Obs.] "Pride of gentrie." Chaucer. She conquers him by high almighty Jove, By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath. Shak.

; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials. "True, genuine night." Dryden.

The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder. Meyrick (Ancient Armor).

ll head (Flax Manuf.), a spreader; a machine for subjecting flax to the action of gills. Knight. -- Gill net, a flat net so suspended in the water that its meshes allow the heads of fish to pass, but catch in the gills when they seek to extricate themselves. -- Gill opening, or Gill slit (Anat.), an opening behind an…

Against; near by; towards; as, gin night. [Scot.] A. Ross (1778).

posite directions so as to divide the space between the bars into a series of triangles. Knight. -- Sandwich girder, a girder consisting of two parallel wooden beams, between which is an iron plate, the whole clamped together by iron bolts.

brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant. Knight.

ift of fascination peculiar to women. It had much of glamour might To make a lady seem a knight. Sir W. Scott.

Echinops. -- Globe valve. (a) A ball valve. (b) A valve inclosed in a globular chamber. Knight.

Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.

plendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments. Like a glowworm in the night, The which hath fire in darkness, none in light. Shak.

eat gluttonously or to satiety. Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn. Tennyson.

on; to have course; to come to an issue or result; to succeed; to turn out. How goes the night, boy Shak. I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of man enough. Arbuthnot. Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you must pay me the reward. I Watts.

sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk .