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To measure or determine with a gauge.

Capable of being gauged.

Tested or measured by, or conformed to, a gauge. Gauged brick, brick molded, rubbed, or cut to an exact size and shape, for arches or ornamental work. -- Gauged mortar. See Gauge stuff, under Gauge, n.

One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.

The office of a gauger.

A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge.

See under Gauge, n.

ter, or for indicating the height of its surface, as in the boiler of a steam engine. See Gauge.

A wedge with a graduated edge, to measure the width of a space into which it is thrust.

r strike loudly at a prearranged hour, to wake from sleep, or excite attention. -- Alarm gauge, a contrivance attached to a steam boiler for showing when the pressure of steam is too high, or the water in the boiler too low. -- Alarm post, a place to which troops are to repair in case of an alarm.

An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of the wind; a wind gauge.

An instrument by which the power of hearing can be gauged and recorded on a scale.

To except; to exclude by exception. Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me By what we do to- night. Shak.

genus Ephydra, the larvæ of which live in artificial brines and in salt lakes. -- Brine gauge, an instrument for measuring the saltness of a liquid. -- Brine pan, a pit or pan of salt water, where salt is formed by cristallization. -- Brine pit, a salt spring or well, from which water is taken to be boiled or evapo…

Any lath laid without actual measurement between two gauged laths.

from which the cream has not been taken off, or to which cream has been added. -- Cream gauge, an instrument to test milk, being usually a graduated glass tube in which the milk is placed for the cream to rise. -- Cream nut, the Brazil nut. -- Cream of lime. (a) A scum of calcium carbonate which forms on a solution…

One who, or that which, crushes. Crusher gauge, an instrument for measuring the explosive force of gunpowder, etc., by its effect in compressing a piece of metal.

A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.

The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly. Fit rod (Shipbuilding), a gauge rod used to try the depth of a bolt hole in order to determine the length of the bolt required. Knight.

An instrument for measuring the height of water in a river; a river gauge.