Part 4869

<blockquote>They <b>gnawed</b> their tongues for pain. <i>Rev. xvi. 10.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To corrode; to fret away; to waste.</def>

<h1>Gnaw</h1> <Xpage=634>

<hw>Gnaw</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teethsomething hard, unwiedly, or unmanageable.</def>

<blockquote>I might well, like the spaniel, <b>gnaw</b> upon the chain that ties me. <i>Sir P. Sidney.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Gnawer</h1> <Xpage=634>

<hw>Gnaw"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who, or that which, gnaws.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A rodent.</def>

<h1>Gneiss</h1> <Xpage=634>

<hw>Gneiss</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[G.]</ety> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called <stype>hornblendic &or; syenitic gneiss</stype>. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss.</def>

<h1>Gneissic</h1> <Xpage=634>

<hw>Gneis"sic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Relating to, or resembling, gneiss; consisting of gneiss.</def>

<h1>Gneissoid</h1> <Xpage=634>

<hw>Gneis"soid</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Gneiss</ets>+ <ets>-old</ets>.]</ety> <def>Resembling gneiss; having some of the characteristics of gneiss; -- applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and gneiss, or mica slate and gneiss.</def>

<h1>Gneissose</h1> <Xpage=634>

<hw>Gneis"sose`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having the structure of gneiss.</def>

<h1>Gnew</h1> <Xpage=634>

<hw>Gnew</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <mark>obs.</mark> <def><tt>imp.</tt> of <er>Gnaw</er>.</def>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Gnide</h1> <Xpage=634>

<hw>Gnide</hw> <tt>(n&imac;d)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>gn&imac;dan</ets>.]</ety> <def>To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<note>&hand; This word is found in Tyrwhitt's Chaucer, but improperly. The woed, though common in Old English, does not occur in Chaucer.</note>

<i>T. R. Lounsbury.</i>

<h1>Gnof</h1> <Xpage=634>

<hw>Gnof</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Churl; curmudgeon.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Gnome</h1> <Xpage=634>

<hw>Gnome</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>gnome</ets>, prob. fr. Gr. <?/ one that knows, a guardian, <ets>i</ets>. <ets>e</ets>., of the treasures in the inner parts of the earth, or fr. <?/ intelligence, both fr. <?/, <?/, to know. See <er>Know</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc.</def>