Gastropoda () One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca.

Gastropodous () Of or pertaining to the Gastropoda.

Gastroraphy () The operation of sewing up wounds of the abdomen.

Gastroscope () An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach.

Gastroscopic () Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.

Gastroscopy () Examination of the abdomen or stomach, as with the gastroscope.

Gastrosplenic () Pertaining to the stomach and spleen; as, the gastrosplenic ligament.

Gastrostege () One of the large scales on the belly of a serpent.

Gastrostomy () The operation of making a permanent opening into the stomach, for the introduction of food.

Gastrotomy () A cutting into, or opening of, the abdomen or the stomach.

Gastrotricha () A group of small wormlike animals, having cilia on the ventral side. The group is regarded as an ancestral or synthetic one, related to rotifers and annelids.

Gastrotrocha () A form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral side.

Gastrovascular () Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of c/lenterates.

Gastrulae () of Gastrula

Gastrula () An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). See Illust. under Invagination. In a more general sense, an ideal stage in embryonic development. See Gastraea.

Gastrula () Of or pertaining to a gastrula.

Gastrulation () The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.

Gastrura () See Stomatopoda.

Gastrurous () Pertaining to the Gastrura.

Gat () imp. of Get.

Gate () A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.

Gate () An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.

Gate () A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.

Gate () The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.

Gate () In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

Gate () The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.

Gate () The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.

Gate () To supply with a gate.

Gate () To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.

Gate () A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).

Gate () Manner; gait.

Gated () Having gates.

Gatehouse () A house connected or associated with a gate.

Gateless () Having no gate.

Gateman () A gate keeper; a gate tender.

Gatepost () A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging / hinging post.

Gatepost () A post against which a gate closes; -- called also shutting post.

Gateway () A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.

Gatewise () In the manner of a gate.

Gathered () of Gather

Gathering () of Gather

Gather () To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

Gather () To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck.

Gather () To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.

Gather () To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle.

Gather () To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.

Gather () To gain; to win.

Gather () To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like.

Gather () To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.

Gather () To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.

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