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<hw>Gouache</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., It. <ets>guazzo</ets>.]</ety> <def>A method of painting with opaque colors, which have been ground in water and mingled with a preparation of gum; also, a picture thus painted.</def>

<h1>Goud</h1> <Xpage=640>

<hw>Goud</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>gaide</ets>, F. <ets>gu\'8ade</ets>, fr. OHG. <ets>weit</ets>; or cf. F. <ets>gaude</ets> weld. Cf. <er>Woad</er>.]</ety> <def>Woad.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Goudron</h1> <Xpage=640>

<hw>Gou`dron"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., tar.]</ety> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>a small fascine or fagot, steeped in wax, pitch, and glue, used in various ways, as for igniting buildings or works, or to light ditches and ramparts.</def>

<i>Farrow.</i>

<h1>Gouge</h1> <Xpage=640>

<hw>Gouge</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>gouge</ets>. LL. <ets>gubia</ets>, <ets>guvia</ets>, <ets>gulbia</ets>, <ets>gulvia</ets>, <ets>gulvium</ets>; cf. Bisc. <ets>gubia</ets> bow, <ets>gubioa</ets> throat.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.</def>

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<p><b>3.</b> <def>An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <def>Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.</def>

<i>Raymond.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.</def> <mark>[Slang, U. S.]</mark>

<cs><col>Gouge bit</col>, <cd>a boring bit, shaped like a gouge.</cd></cs>

<h1>Bouge</h1> <Xpage=641>

<hw>Bouge</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Gouged</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Gouging</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To scoop out with a gouge.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb.</def> <mark>[K S.]</mark>

<note>&hand; A barbarity mentioned by some travelers as formerly practiced in the brutal frays of desperadoes in some parts of the United States.</note>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To cheat in a bargain; to chouse.</def> <mark>[Slang, U. S.]</mark>

<h1>Gouger</h1> <Xpage=641>

<hw>Gou"ger</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>See <er>Plum Gouger</er>.</def>

<h1>Gougeshell</h1> <Xpage=641>

<hw>Gouge"shell`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A sharp-edged, tubular, marine shell, of the genus <spn>Vermetus</spn>; also, the pinna. See <er>Vermetus</er>.</def>

<h1>Goujere</h1> <Xpage=641>

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