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See Gauntree.

A haulage system for canal boats, in which an electric locomotive running on a monorail has its adhesion materially increased by the pull of the tow rope on a series of inclined gripping wheels.

goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world. [Also gansa.] Johnson.

Gum tragacanth. Brande & C.

Without ganglia.

ck and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame. Argand burner, a burner for an Argand lamp, or a gas burner in which the principle of that lamp is applied.

to report for instruction, drill, or maneuvers; and (3) one or more classes of soldiers organized largely for territorial defense, living at home and having only occasional periods of drill and instraction, who are variously called home reserves (as in the table below), second, third, etc., line of defense (the regular…

; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption. I hate not you for her proud arrogance. Shak.

Arrogance. Shak.

g one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons. Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate. Shak.

In an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance.

Arrogance. [R.]

A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake.

A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.

See Bergander.

A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney.

One of the Brachioganoidei.

An order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir of Africa is a living example. See Crossopterygii.

A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter. Giving them not a little the air of brigands or banditti. Jeffery.

Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder.