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Began; commenced.

Designating, pertaining to, or held under, the Spanish system of law (called ganancial system) which controls the title and disposition of the property acquired during marriage by the husband or wife.

place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment. Ganching, which is to let fall from on high upon hooks, and there to hang until they die. Sandys.

The male of any species of goose.

To yawn; to gape. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The Hindoo god of wisdom or prudence.

ssociated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves.

The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week. Dr. Prior.

To protect (the part of a line next a fishhook, or the hook itself) by winding it with wire.

One who oversees a gang of workmen. [R.] Mayhew.

Pertaining to, or inhabiting, the Ganges; as, the Gangetic shark.

A short line attached to a trawl. See Trawl, n.

Relating to a ganglion; ganglionic.

Furnished with ganglia; as, the gangliated cords of the sympathetic nervous system.

Having the form of a ganglion.

A node, or gland in the lymphatic system; as, a lymphatic ganglion.

Ganglionic.

Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, ganglia or ganglion cells; as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord.

Wandering; vagrant. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

To gangrene. [Obs.]