Gascon (gaskon)

[F. Gascon, Gascons as a race for extreme boastfulne . IMG:content-2123.png:[blocks in formation] His great volubility and inimitable manner of speaking, as well as the great courage he showed on those oсcasions, did sometimes betray him into that figure of speech which is commonly distinguished by the name of gasconade. Tatler, No. 115. These brilliant expeditions too often evaporated in a mere border fray, or in an empty gasconade under the walls of Granada. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 3. gasconade (gas-ko-nād'), v. i.; pret. and pp. gasconaded , ppr. gasconading . [ gasconade , n.] To boast; brag; vaunt; bluster. Or let the reader represent to himself the miserable charlatanerie of a gasconading secretary affecting to place himself upon a level with Cæsar, by dictating to three amanuenses at once. De Quincey , Plato. gasconader (gas-ko-nā'der), n. A great boaster. gas-condenser (gas'kon-denser), n. An apparatus through which coal-gas for illuminating purposes is pa ed as it comes from the retorts, to free it from tar. The hot gas is made to traverse a series of convoluted pipes in a chamber filled with cold water, causing the precipitation of the tar, which can then be drawn off by suitable devices. The gas pa es from the condenser to the washer. gascoynest, n. pl. Same as galligaskins. Beau. gascromh (gas'krom), n. caschrom.] See caschrom. [A bad spelling of Even the savage Highland men, in Caithne and Sutherland, can make more work, and better, with their gas cromh , or whatever they call it. Scott , Pirate, ii.