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A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.

Cautery effected by a knife or needle heated by the passage of a galvanic current.

gle through which the needle is deflected, is proportional to the strength of the current passed through the instrument.

A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp., a temporary way of access formed of planks.

ffender 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 ran the gantlet of daily slights. Palfrey.…

n opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass. Miseries ensued by the opening of that gap. Knolles. It would make a great gap in your own honor. Shak. Gap lathe…

A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.

To become gas; to pass from a liquid to a gaseous state. Scientific American.

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.

aeckel, man and all other animals, that in the first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two-layered structural stage, or gastrula form, must have descended. This idea constitutes the Gastræa theory of Haeckel. See Gastrula.

Pertaining to the alimentary canal and air passages, and to the cavities connected with them; as, the gastropneumatic mucuos membranes.

A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.

A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.

Forced feeding (as of poultry or infants) by means of a tube passed through the mouth down to the stomach.

g some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plücker tube, from the German physicist who devised it.

sed 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.

f portions of the Wolffian and Müllerian ducts and giving rise to parts of the urogenital passages in both sexes.

The future passive participle; as, amandus, i. e., to be loved.

ne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise. Dunglison.

The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to express passion or enforce sentiments.