Part 4727

<h1>Gatherable</h1> <Xpage=615>

<hw>Gath"er*a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Godwin.</i>

<h1>Gatherer</h1> <Xpage=615>

<hw>Gath"er*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who gathers or collects.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Sewing Machine)</fld> <def>An attachment for making gathers in the cloth.</def>

<h1>Gathering</h1> <Xpage=615>

<hw>Gath"er*ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of collecting or bringing together.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which is gathered, collected, or brought together</def>; as: <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A charitable contribution; a collection.</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.</def>

<h1>Gathering</h1> <Xpage=615>

<hw>Gath"er*ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.</def>

<cs><col>Gathering board</col> <fld>(Bookbinding)</fld>, <cd>a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book.</cd> <i>Knight</i>. -- <col>Gathering coal</col>, <cd>a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning.</cd> -- <col>Gathering hoop</col>, <cd>a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them.</cd> -- <col>Gathering peat</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the Highlanders.</cd></cs>

<h1>Gatling gun</h1> <Xpage=615>

<hw>Gat"ling gun`</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>. <ety>[From the inventor, R.J. <ets>Gatling</ets>.]</ety> <def>An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired.</def>

<note>&hand; The improved <i>Gatling gun</i> can be fired at the rate of 1,200 shots per minute.</note>

<i>Farrow.</i>

<h1>Gatten tree</h1> <Xpage=615>

<hw>Gat"ten tree`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[Cf. Prov. E. <ets>gatter bush</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (<spn>Viburnum Opulus</spn>), cornel (<spn>Cornus sanguinea</spn>), and spindle tree (<spn>Euonymus Europ\'91us</spn>).</def>

<h1>Gat-toothed</h1> <Xpage=615>

<hw>Gat"-toothed`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>gat</ets> goat + <ets>tooth</ets>. See <er>Goat</er> the animal.]</ety> <def>Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Gauche</h1> <Xpage=615>

<hw>Gauche</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Geom.)</fld> <def>Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.</def>

<h1>Gaucherie</h1> <Xpage=615>

<hw>Gauche`rie"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <def>An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.</def>

<h1>Gaucho</h1> <Xpage=615>

<hw>Gau"cho</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>, <plu>pl. <plw>Gauchos</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt> <ety>[Sp.]</ety> <def>On of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle.</def>

<h1>Gaud</h1> <Xpage=615>