gashly (gashli)

[A corruption of gastly, ghastly, appar. by vague a ociation with gash1. Cf. gashful.] Ghastly; horrible; dreadful; deadly. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] Their warm and wanton embraces of living bodies ill agreed with their offerings Diis manibus, to gashly ghosts. Fuller , Pisgah Sight, IV. vii. 27. By all that is hirsute and gashly. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, v. 215. gas-holder (gas'holder), n. A ve el for the storage of gas after purification, and for regulating its flow through street-mains, burners, etc. See cut under gasometer. gash-vein (gash'vān), n. In mining, a fi ure containing veinstone or ore, or both intermixed, which does not extend downward or upward into another formation or group of strata. A gash appears usually to be the result of a shrinkage, or of some slight tension of the rock in which it occurs which sure, as used in the term fi ure - vein, means a has a deep-seated cause, and which therefore may be expected to extend downward or upward, regardle of any change in the formation. (See fi ure - vein.) The lead-bearing crevices of the upper Mi i ippi lead region are gashveins. They do not pa out of the galeniferous dolomite into the underlying blue limestone, or into the overlying shales of the Hudson River group.