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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.]

To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene.

Tending to mortification or gangrene.

Affected by, or produced by, gangrene; of the nature of gangrene.

The mineral or earthy substance associated with metallic ore.

ooms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the waist. Totten. Gangway ladder, a ladder rigged on the side of a vessel at the gangway. -- To bring to the gangway, to punish (a seaman) by flogging him at the gangway.

Without ganglia.