Garth

garth, n. A close; yard; croft: garden; green- sward within aeloister; a dam or wei for catching fish. [W. gardd, inclosure; garden.] Gas, gas or gaz, n. An aeriform elastic fluid illuminating gas, — a mixture of carbureted hydrogen and defiant gas or bi-earbureted hydrogen, obtained by destructive distillation of coal. [D., a word invented by the chemist Van Helmont, who died in 1644 perh. D. geest, ghost (q. v.), spirit, volatile fluid.] — Laughing gas. Nitrous oxide, — used as an anaes- — thetic by dentists, etc. Gaseous, gaz'e-us or ga'- zhus, a. In the form of gas, or an aeriform fluid; lacking substance or solidity tenuous.— Ga y, gas'- sT, a. Full of gas; inflated; full of ambitious or deceitful talk.— Gas'ify, v. [-fied (-ild), -eying.] To convert into gas. [L.facere, to make.] — Gas'ifica'- tion, n. Act or proee of, etc. — Gas'-burn'er, n. That part of a gas-fixture—where the gas escapes from orifices, to be burned. fix'ture, n. A bracket or chandelier— for gas, including a stop-cock, burner, etc. hold'er, n. A ve el to hold gas gasometer.— -main, n. One of the principal pipes conveying gag from the works. — -me'ter, n. An instrument to measure the quantitv of gas consumed. [Gr. metron, a measure.] — Gas'olene, -len, -line, -lin, n. A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, also by distillation o1 bituminous coal. — Gasolier', -ler', n. A chandelier fitted for illumination by gas. [Formed in imitation of chandelier.] — Gasom'eter, gaz-, n. A gas-holder or reservoir.— Gasom'etry, -trT, n. Measurement of gases.