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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 spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker.

An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger.

A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin Totten.

large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.

To grapple; to engange in hand-to-hand fight. They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest. Prescott. To close on or upon, to come to a mutual agreement; to agree on or join in. "Would induce France and Holland to close upon some measures between them to our disadvantage." Sir W. Temple. -- To close with. (a) To acced…

Tributary; contributing. [R.] It was situated on the Ganges, at the place where this river received a contributary stream. D'Anville (Trans. ).

A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (as, the delta of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mississippi.

A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers; as, the doab between the Ganges and the Jumna. [India] Am. Cyc.

A large Asiatic crocodilian (Gavialis Gangeticus); -- called also nako, and Gangetic crocodile.

Of or pertaining to Indo-China (i. e., Farther India, or India beyond the Ganges).

oöl.), an oriole (Oriolus kundoo), native of India. -- Mango fish (Zoöl.), a fish of the Ganges (Polynemus risua), highly esteemed for food. It has several long, slender filaments below the pectoral fins. It appears about the same time with the mango fruit, in April and May, whence the name. -- Mango tree (Bot.), an…

A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli.

A kind of dolphin (Platanista Gangeticus) native of the river Ganges; the Gangetic dolphin. It has a long, slender, somewhat spatulate beak. [Written also susu.]