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<cs><col>Ganoid scale</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>one kind of scales of the ganoid fishes, composed of an inner layer of bone, and an outer layer of shining enamel. They are often so arranged as to form a coat of mail.</cd></cs>

<h1>Ganoidal</h1> <Xpage=611>

<hw>Ga*noid"al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Ganoid.</def>

<h1>Ganoidei</h1> <Xpage=611>

<hw>Ga*noi"de*i</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[NL. See <er>Ganoid</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales.</def>

<note>&hand; They were numerous, and some of them of large size, in early geological periods; but they are represented by comparatively few living species, most of which inhabit fresh waters, as the bowfin, gar pike, bichir, Ceratodus, paddle fish, and sturgeon.</note>

<h1>Ganoidian</h1> <Xpage=611>

<hw>Ga*noid"i*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a. & n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Ganoid.</def>

<h1>Ganoine</h1> <Xpage=611>

<hw>Ga"no*ine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A peculiar bony tissue beneath the enamel of a ganoid scale.</def>

<h1>Gansa</h1> <Xpage=611>

<hw>Gan"sa</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Ganza</er>.</def>

<i>Bp. Hall.</i>

<h1>Gantlet</h1> <Xpage=611>

<hw>Gant"let</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <wordforms>[<it>Gantlet</it> is corrupted fr. <ets>gantlope</ets>; <ets>gantlope</ets> is for <ets>gatelope</ets>, Sw. <ets>gatlopp</ets>, orig., a running down a lane; gata street, lane + lopp course, career, akin to l\'94pa to run. See</tt> <er>Gate</er> a way, and <er>Leap</er>.]</wordforms> <def>A military punishment formerly in use, wherein the offender was made to run between two files of men facing one another, who struck him as he passed.</def>

<cs><col>To run the gantlet</col>, <cd>to suffer the punishment of the gantlet; hence, to go through the ordeal of severe criticism or controversy, or ill-treatment at many hands.</cd></cs>

<blockquote>Winthrop ran the <b>gantlet</b> of daily slights. <i>Palfrey.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; Written also, but less properly, <i>gauntlet</i>.</note>

<h1>Gantlet</h1> <Xpage=611>

<hw>Gant"let</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A glove. See <er>Gauntlet</er>.</def>

<h1>Gantline</h1> <Xpage=611>

<hw>Gant"line`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A line rigged to a mast; -- used in hoisting rigging; a girtline.</def>

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<h1>Gantlope</h1> <Xpage=612>

<hw>Gant"lope`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Gantlet</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Gantry</h1> <Xpage=612>

<hw>Gan"try</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Gauntree</er>.</def>

<h1>Ganza</h1> <Xpage=612>