Part 4668

<i>Halliwell. Bartlett.</i>

<cs><col>Upon the gad</col>, <cd>upon the spur of the moment; hastily. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "All this done <i>upon the gad!<i>"</cd></cs>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Gad</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Gad</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Gadded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Gadding</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Prob. fr. <ets>gad</ets>, <tt>n.</tt>, and orig. meaning <ets>to drive about</ets>.]</ety> <def>To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled.</def> "The <i>gadding</i> vine."

<i>Milton.</i>

<blockquote>Why <b>gaddest</b> thou about so much to change thy way? <i>Jer. ii. 36.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Gadabout</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Gad"a*bout`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A gadder</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<h1>Gadbee</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Gad"bee`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The gadfly.</def>

<h1>Gadder</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Gad"der</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.</def>

<h1>Gadding</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Gad"ding</hw>, <tt>a. & n.</tt> <def>Going about much, needlessly or without purpose.</def>

<blockquote>Envy is a <b>gadding</b> passion, and walketh the streets. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The good nuns would check her <b>gadding</b> tongue. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Gadding car</col>, <cd>in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.</cd></cs>

<h1>Gaddingly</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Gad"ding*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a roving, idle manner.</def>

<h1>Gaddish</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Gad"dish</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Disposed to gad.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Gad"dish*nes</wf>, <tt>n.</tt> "Gaddishness and folly."

<i>Abp. Leighton.</i></wordforms>

<h1>Gade</h1> <Xpage=606>

<hw>Gade</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Cod the fish.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A small British fish (<spn>Motella argenteola</spn>) of the Cod family.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A pike, so called at Moray Firth; -- called also <altname>gead</altname>.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

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<mhw><h1>Gadere, Gadre</h1> <Xpage=607>

<hw>Gad"er*e</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Gad"re</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt></mhw>, <tt>v. t. & i.</tt> <def>To gather.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>