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   gas up
         v 1: fill with gasoline; "Gas up the car"

English Dictionary: gussy up by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gasify
v
  1. turn into gas; "The substance gasified" [syn: gasify, vaporize, vaporise, aerify]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gasp
n
  1. a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open; "she gave a gasp and fainted"
    Synonym(s): gasp, pant
v
  1. breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"
    Synonym(s): pant, puff, gasp, heave
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gazebo
n
  1. a small roofed building affording shade and rest [syn: gazebo, summerhouse]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gossip
n
  1. light informal conversation for social occasions [syn: chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin wag, chin- wag, chin wagging, chin-wagging, causerie]
  2. a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip"
    Synonym(s): gossip, comment, scuttlebutt
  3. a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others
    Synonym(s): gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger
v
  1. wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies; "She won't dish the dirt"
    Synonym(s): dish the dirt, gossip
  2. talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
    Synonym(s): chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gossipy
adj
  1. prone to friendly informal communication [syn: chatty, gossipy, newsy]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gussy up
v
  1. put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"
    Synonym(s): overdress, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog out
    Antonym(s): dress down, underdress
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gasify \Gas"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gasified}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Gasifying}.] [Gas + -fy.]
      To convert into gas, or an a[89]riform fluid, as by the
      application of heat, or by chemical processes.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gasify \Gas"i*fy\, v. i.
      To become gas; to pass from a liquid to a gaseous state.
      --Scientific American.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gasp \Gasp\, n.
      The act of opening the mouth convulsively to catch the
      breath; a labored respiration; a painful catching of the
      breath.
  
      {At the last gasp}, at the point of death. --Addison.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gasp \Gasp\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gasped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Gasping}.] [OE. gaspen, gaispen, to yawn, gasp, Icel. geispa
      to yawn; akin to Sw. g[84]spa, Dan. gispe to gasp.]
      1. To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in
            laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire
            convulsively; to pant violently.
  
                     She gasps and struggles hard for life. --Lloyd.
  
      2. To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.
  
                     Quenching the gasping furrows' thirst with rain.
                                                                              --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gasp \Gasp\, v. t.
      To emit or utter with gasps; -- with forth, out, away, etc.
  
               And with short sobs he gasps away his breath. --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gazeebo \Ga*zee"bo\, n. [Humorously formed from gaze.]
      A summerhouse so situated as to command an extensive
      prospect. [Colloq.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Geoscopy \Ge*os"co*py\, n. [Gr. ge`a, gh^, the earth + -scopy:
      cf. F. g[82]oscopie.]
      Knowledge of the earth, ground, or soil, obtained by
      inspection. --Chambers.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gossib \Gos"sib\, n.
      A gossip. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gossip \Gos"sip\, v. t.
      To stand sponsor to. [Obs.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gossip \Gos"sip\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gossiped}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Gossiping}.]
      1. To make merry. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      2. To prate; to chat; to talk much. --Shak.
  
      3. To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gossip \Gos"sip\, n. [OE. gossib, godsib, a relation or sponsor
      in baptism, a relation by a religious obligation, AS.
      godsibb, fr. god + sib alliance, relation; akin to G. sippe,
      Goth. sibja, and also to Skr. sabh[be] assembly.]
      1. A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.
  
                     Should a great lady that was invited to be a gossip,
                     in her place send her kitchen maid, 't would be ill
                     taken.                                                --Selden.
  
      2. A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary
            acquaintance. [Obs.]
  
                     My noble gossips, ye have been too prodigal. --Shak.
  
      3. One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an
            idle tattler.
  
                     The common chat of gossips when they meet. --Dryden.
  
      4. The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor.
  
                     Bubbles o'er like a city with gossip, scandal, and
                     spite.                                                --Tennyson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gossipy \Gos"sip*y\, a.
      Full of, or given to, gossip.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Guessive \Guess"ive\, a.
      Conjectural. [Obs.] --Feltham.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   GASP
  
      1. {Graph Algorithm and Software Package}.
  
      2. {General Activities Simulation Program}.
  
      3. {General Aerodynamic Simulation Program}.
  
      (2003-09-27)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   GOSIP
  
      {Government OSI Profile}
  
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Gispa, coming hither
  
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