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of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc. I will go get a leaf of brass, And with a gad of steel will write these words. Shak.

A gadder [Colloq.]

The gadfly.

One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.

Going about much, needlessly or without purpose. Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets. Bacon. The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. Tennyson. Gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.

In a roving, idle manner.

Disposed to gad. -- Gad"dish*nes, n. "Gaddishness and folly." Abp. Leighton.

A small British fish (Motella argenteola) of the Cod family.

To gather. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies.

Of or pertaining to that division of the Celtic languages, which includes the Irish, Gaelic, and Manx. J. Peile.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the cod (Gadus); -- applied to an acid obtained from cod-liver oil, viz., gadic acid.

Of or relating to Cadiz, in Spain. -- n.

See Gad, n., 4.

A gadsman.

Of or pertaining to the family of fishes (Gadidæ) which includes the cod, haddock, and hake. -- n.

A rare earth, regarded by some as an oxide of the supposed element gadolinium, by others as only a mixture of the oxides of yttrium, erbium, ytterbium, etc.

Pertaining to or containing gadolinium.

A mineral of a nearly black color and vitreous luster, and consisting principally of the silicates of yttrium, cerium, and iron.

A supposed rare metallic element, with a characteristic spectrum, found associated with yttrium and other rare metals. Its individuality and properties have not yet been determined.